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MUMBAI âAmitabh Bachchan will be conferred the prestigious 2021 FIAF Award by the International Federation of Film Archives, the worldwide organization of film archives and museums from across the world, at a virtual showcase scheduled to take place March 19. Â
Bachchanâs name was nominated by the FIAF affiliate Film Heritage Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, dedicated to the preservation, restoration, documentation, exhibition and study of Indiaâs film heritage.
In a landmark moment for Indian cinema, icons of world cinema and film directors Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan, who also share a long-standing relationship with India through their affiliation with Film Heritage Foundation, will bestow the award on Bachchan for his dedication and contribution to the preservation of, and access to, the worldâs film heritage for the benefit of present and future generations, at a vir
Nayak in 1966.
Through the 1970s and 1980s, Mitra conducted regular workshops at the Film and Television Institute in India. Just like Ritwik Ghatak had fired the minds of direction students in a previous generation, Mitra laid open the secrets of the camera for a new breed of technicians. They included Virendra Saini, Anil Mehta, KU Mohanan, Dilip Varma, Sunny Joseph and Anoop Jotwani, who would go on to become eminent cinematographers in their own right.
“He was like an Impressionist painter who would concentrate on different tones on the face,” Virendra Saini said. “The background was as important as the foreground.”