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

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entertainmentApril 22, 2026

Apr 22, 2026 4:18am PT

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

Dungarpur will present six Film Heritage Foundation restorations at Spain's Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Intl. Film Festival, which kicks off April 23

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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Courtesy of the Film Heritage Foundation

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. The man told her he could never get to see films like these at a multiplex, Dungarpur recalls, but here the 6:30 show fit between his deliveries – and he wanted to contribute.

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