To streamline the film industry, a committee was constituted only two years after India got independence. It was headed by former Mumbai mayor SK Patil. One of its five members was V. Shantaram.

In 1951, the Committee made several recommendations. It proposed a new Film Finance Corporation and an Institute of Film Technique. A year later, the country’s first international film festival films from abroad. In the years, that followed, many institutions such as Children’s Film Institute (1955), Film Finance Corporation and Film Institute of India (1960) and National Film Archive of India (1964) were set up to allow making and watching of movies with nation building.