FTII – India

The Institute has indeed come a long way from its humble beginnings. The Government of India purchased the land where the well-known Prabhat film company made films such as KUNKU, MANOOS, SHEJARI etc. when it was offered for sale and established the Film and Television Institute in the year 1960.

Today, the studios from the Prabhat era still continue to be used by the students for their various exercises. These studios have been declared heritage sites by the Pune Municipal Corporation.

During 1974, the scope of the Institute was enlarged to include the then rapidly developing field of television. The Television Wing, earlier located at the Mandi House, New Delhi, shifted to the Institute campus at Pune during the early seventies in an effort to merge training in film and television under a common roof, thereby justifying the name of the Institute – the Film and Television Institute of India. This wing of the institute has been primarily concerned with conducting in-service training to personnel from Doordarshan.