“National Museum of Indian Cinema is a must-visit for those interested in films, especially Indian films; your visit to Mumbai will be incomplete if you don’t visit NMIC when you are in Mumbai,” said Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Anurag Thakur who visited the NMIC (National Museum of Indian Cinema) located at the Films Division Complex on Pedder Road, Mumbai.
The Museum is housed in two buildings – the 19th-century heritage structure the Gulshan Mahal and the custom-built New Museum Building. While displays at Gulshan Mahal heritage building, spread over eight different halls of various sizes, trace the history of Indian Cinema from the silent era to the new wave, the New Museum Building houses mostly interactive displays. Film properties, vintage equipment, posters, copies of important films, promotional leaflets, soundtracks, trailers, transparencies, old cinema magazines, statistics covering filmmaking & distribution etc. are displayed in a systematic manner depicting the history of Indian cinema in chronological order.
So, urging the film buffs and film enthusiasts across the country to visit the NMIC, the Minister said: “Spend some time here in NMIC and the Museum will take you back 100 years when cinema was made without any modern-day technology or equipment. Today we talk about Animation, Visual Effects, Graphics and Gaming, technology, but here we will get to see how films were made in those days in the absence of these and what progress has been made until today.”
The Minister also remarked about the pain taken by the filmmakers and technicians of those times in carrying such big cameras on rough terrain to shoot films.
