50 years ago…the Indian Film industry was still in a nascent stage and yet to make a global impact. It was a time of idealism tinged with realism even as a newly independent India saw the first sparks of unbridled creativity.

Spurred by a common purpose, Dr. V. Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Sohrab Modi, Mehboob Khan, Homi Wadia, S. Mukherjee, AR Kardar, Vijay Bhat, BR Chopra, Baburao K Pai and BN Sircar came together to establish what would, in the years to come, be the touchstone of the Indian Film Industry.

The Indian Film Industry had found its own leading body - a Guild that nurtured excellence, boasting of members who were simply the finest in their field. The Film & Television Producers Guild of India had come into being.

Offering serious practitioners and genuine stakeholders in the business a chance to work together the Guild was formed with manifold objectives. With the passage of time, the Guild has become a powerful body, so much so that it can now justifiably lay claim to being the body to represent the Indian Film Industry in the oeuvre of world cinema.

Today, every major film-maker, TV Producer and Entertainment Corporate is associated with the Guild. Some of the prominent names include: Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, A.P. Hinduja, B.R. Chopra, Boney Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dheeraj Kumar, Feroz Khan, G.P. Sippy, Govind Nihalani, J. Om Prakash, J.P. Dutta, Jhamu Sugandh, Jeetandra, Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Manmohan Shetty, Rakesh Roshan, Dr Ramanand Sagar, Ramesh Prasad, Ramesh Sippy, Ronnie Screwvala, Bobby Bedi, Harish Thawani, Shakti Samanta, Shekhar Kapur, Shyam Benegal, Subhash Ghai, Dr. Akash Khurana, Sushil Kumar Agarwal, Yash Chopra, Kunal Dasgupta and Karan Johar.

Star India, SET India, Raymonds (Radha Krishna Films), Sahara, Disney, TV Today, TV 18 (CNBC ), Nimbus, Adlabs, Mukta, PNC, Zee Telefilms, Crest Communications, Applause (Birla group), Miditech are some of the corporates who are a part of the Guild.

Foreign production houses like SPE Films and Warner Bros, not to mention the Motion Pictures Association of America (MPA), are also Guild members.