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Top 10 Stars Who Studied In Film And Television Institute Of India

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The most well-known film school in India is the government-run Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). It is situated in Pune on the erstwhile Prabhat Film Company's campus. The International Liaison Centre of Schools of Cinema and Television (CILECT), an association of the best cinema and television schools in the world, includes FTII as a member. The Institute offers two-year acting and art direction programmes, a one-and-a-half year computer graphics and animation school, and three-year post-graduate diploma programmes in film directing, editing, cinematography, and audiography. The Indian film industry has received hundreds of outstanding film professionals and innovators from this Institute. These are the ten finest, in order.

1. Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More...

On July 20, 1950, Naseeruddin Shah was born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, India. The grandfather of them all, he attended FTII to study acting and was a member of the group of actors-directors responsible for the 1970s and 1980s Indian new wave. Everyone is aware of Shah's body of work and shelves of honours and awards. He is an actor who has been noticed in movies including A Wednesday (2008), Monsoon Wedding (2001), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

2. Om Puri Om Rajesh Puri is one of the widely noted senior a >> Read More...

Indian actor Om Puri is well-known and has appeared in commercial and indie films. According to his filmography, he has appeared in British and American movies. An honorary OBE has been bestowed on him. Ambala, a town in Haryana, is where Puri was born. His father was in the Indian Army and worked for the railroads. The Film and Television Institute of India awarded Puri a diploma. He graduated from FTII in 1973 as well.

3. Jaya Bachchan Born on 9th April 1948 Jaya Bachchan is an Indian >> Read More...

At 15, she made her acting debut in the Bengali movie Mahanagar. After starring in three Bengali films, one of which Satyajit Ray Biographies reveal bare details about the maverick >> Read More... directed, Bachchan enrolled in the FTII's acting programme, where she earned an honours degree. In 1971, Hrishikesh Mukherjee's film Guddi, in which she starred, marked her Bollywood debut. She established herself as a stand-alone actor in Bollywood after the release of Guddi. She later made appearances in other Hindi-language movies.

4. Shabana Azmi Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin an >> Read More...

Jaya Bachchan urged Azmi, a gold medalist and acting prodigy, to attend film school. She had the privilege of witnessing Jaya Bhaduri in a (Diploma) movie called Suman. Her performance enthralled her since it was unlike any other version she had seen. She said, "My God if I can achieve that by attending the Film Institute, that's what I want to do, I thought as I watched in awe."

5. Adoor Gopalakrishnan Born into a family in Kerala, Adoor Gopalakrishnan >> Read More...

In India, Adoor Gopalakrishnan is the most well-known contemporary filmmaker. His family has strong links to the performing arts, notably Kathakali, a highly stylized type of dance theatre. He was born in 1941 in Kerala, a state in southern India. At the age of eight, Adoor started acting on the stage. He later produced and directed more than twenty plays, some of which he wrote.

6. Rajkumar Hirani Rajkumar Hirani is one of the ace director, screen >> Read More...

The renowned director experimented with acting in college but could not finish the acting or directing courses at FTII, instead choosing to attend the editing programme. Before going on to produce some of the best movies of the preceding decade, he started in the film industry as an editor.

7. Sanjay Leela Bhansali Born on 24th February 1963, Sanjay Leela Bhansali >> Read More...

Bhansali, Hirani, and Sriram Raghavan Sriram Raghavan is an estimable film director and >> Read More... were classmates at FTII. It's possible that his film school experience was the most dramatic. Bhansali was not allowed to finish his graduation film and was expelled from the Institute due to conflicts with coworkers and the previous institute head. Even though he lost, he filed a case against the film school.

8. Shaji N Karun

The Golden Camera winner at the Cannes Film Festival. The eldest child of Mr N. Karunakaran and Mrs Chandramati, Shaji Neelakantan Karun, was born on January 1, 1950, in Kerala, India. The family moved to the state capital of Thiruvananthapuram in 1963. He graduated from University College in Thiruvananthapuram with a bachelor's degree after attending Palkulangara High School.

9. Resul Pookutty Resul Pookutty has climbed up the ladder with a lo >> Read More...

The father of an Oscar winner wanted to make him a lawyer. Pookutty started his legal studies after receiving a physics degree, but he left midway through. His father's determination forced him to finish his law degree after enrolling at FTII to study sound editing and design.

10. Girish Kasaravalli Girish Kasaravalli took birth on December 3, 1950. >> Read More...

On December 3, 1950, Girish Kasaravalli was born in Kesalur, Karnataka, India. His writing and directing are best known for the films The Ritual (2008), Gulabi Talkies (2008), and Dweepa (2003). (1977). He was formerly wed to Vaishali Kasaravalli Vaishali Kasaravalli was born on 12 April 1952 in >> Read More... . He left a position in the pharmaceutical industry to pursue film directing at FTII, where he earned an honours degree.

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