Shivendra Singh Dungarpur on Saving India’s Film Past: ‘There’s Not a Single Moment When I’m Not Thinking About Cinema’

Seventy per cent of India’s films made before 1950 are gone forever.

Film Heritage Foundation founder Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is trying to save the rest.

Not long ago, a food-delivery worker turned up at Mumbai’s Regal Cinema on a Thursday evening, caught a screening between shifts, and handed INR1,000 ($10.65) to the wife of Dungarpur. […]