Wake up and act: Rakeysh Mehra on FTII
Updated On: 21 September, 2015 08:10 AM IST | IANS
With the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) logjam hitting a dead end, filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra says it's time for the government to 'wake up and act'.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
With the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) logjam hitting a dead end, filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra says it's time for the government to 'wake up and act'.

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
"#FTII wake up government of India and act For a government that’s impervious to FTII protest a warning from 1968 France,” Mehra tweeted along with a link to a story which drew comparison of FTII stir with
an 1968 agitation of Paris over abrupt removal of the director of the Cinémathèque Française.
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