Over the next two days of the festival, I learnt more about the dynamic team of film historians, researchers, writers, film students that put their best foot forward to create a reliable digital, freely accessible encyclopedia of all languages of Indian cinema.
Supported by Kyari, Kashmir’s Yumberzal Research Institute that believes that academic research paves the way for deliberations and this was apparent in the topics chosen for the two-day festival.
There were sessions on cinema books, on pulp fiction,on making movies and on the heritage of Kashmir. A session on Kishore Kumar and also the Prime Minister. Film criticism, film documentation and film romance were discussed with expert panelists and in between was bonding over luncheons and group pictures before departures.