Take one Indian film bureaucrat, ask him to contemplate the attempts by Australian agencies to explore the Indian film market, and you might get some alarming insights. Or so David Tiley hoped… And he was right, but in unexpected ways.
Sunit Tandon, the current director-general of the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, has been in Australia on an international fellowship through the City of Melbourne and the International Specialised Skills institute. As the former general manager of the tiny Indian National Film Development Corporation, who also set up a Parliamentary television channel, he seems to be almost the entire Indian screen support system in a single pair of shoes.
