Firoz Rangoonwalla passed away on Aug 4, 2015 at the age of 82. He is the first Indian cinema historian, and a film scholar. He played an important role in setting up the National Film Archive of India ( NFAI ) in Pune. He has to his credit an array of 15 well-researched books an cinema, and a huge body of reviews of films. He created the Indian Film Index ( 1970 ) which traces the journey of Indian cinema from 1913 to 1967. He wrote Indian Filmography ( 1972 ) and Bhartiya Chalchitraka Itihas in Hindi which chronicles the history of Indian cinema. He wrote two monographs — one on Guru Dutt and the other on Bimal Roy — for the NFAI. He was passionate about both Indian and foreign cinema. He loved every aspect of film making.