Foreword by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
A Note by Shyam Benegal
From the Desk of FFSI President—Gautam Kaul
Preface
A Nation Awaits a Pather Panchali
The Growth Path: From Calcutta Film Society to the Federation of
Film Societies of India
Visionaries of the Film Society Movement and the New Film
Culture
The Networks of Films and Film Buffs
The Driving Forces behind the Film Society Movement
The Great Fall and Resurgence through Digital Mode
The Star Film Societies and the Survivors
The Policy Shift and Waning Political Patronage
Towards a New Film Culture: From Crass to Class!
Annexure 1: Genesis of Indian Films
Annexure 2: The Memorandum of Association:FFSI
Annexure 3: Presidents of FFSI (1959–2016)
Index
VK Cherian grew up as a film society member and activist with the
celebrated film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Chitralekha Film
Society from 1976 to 1980 at Thiruvananthapuram. He organised film
study and theatre groups at Mar Ivanios College and University
Centre, Trivandrum, and also at his hometown in Kayamkulam in
Kerala. Mr Cherian writes occasionally about films in English and
Malayalam. A regular visitor to the various international film
festivals for over 35 years, he is an ardent film enthusiast who
has been engaged with the film fraternity as a writer and promoter
of good cinema. Maker of several video documentaries, he has
authored and edited three books, as well as promoted the
Indo-Afrikhadi Foundation. An alumina of the Indian Institute of
Mass Communication, New Delhi, Cherian is a
journalistturned-communications professional residing in New Delhi
for the last 35 years.
His published books include The Scam and the Rajas of the Money
Market (1993), Satyagraha—Indian and South African artist’s tribute
to the spirit of 9-11-1906—Collection of Essays and Catalogue
(2006) and Crisis of Corporate Communism—Politics of Murder in
Kerala (2013). He also wrote numerous articles in English and
Malayalam in mainline media and journals across India and abroad.
Produced many television series as independent content editor for
Doordarshan, Asianet and Jain TV. Made video documentaries, Khadi,
The Metaphor of Hope (2003) and Afri-khadi—a thread that binds
(2005).
Widely travelled, he plans to cover all continents. Interested in
politics, social trends and technologies, he is passionate about
art and films and networking with right-thinking people across the
world.
Cherian faithfully follows the progress of the movement with utmost care ... [he] seems to have achieved the impossible. -- Adoor Gopalakrishnan [This] book is a valuable addition ... and certainly among the very rare ones written about the Film Society Movement. -- Shyam Benegal Cherian has meticulously documented evolution of films in India... The amount of effort that has gone into this work is colossal. -- Vijaya Mulay Founding Joint Secretary, Federation of Film Societies of India [FFSI]
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