The Federation of Film Societies of India was formed in December 1959.[1] This was an association of film societies of Calcutta (now Kolkata), Delhi, Bombay (now Mumbai), Madras (now Chennai) and Patna.
Satyajit Ray was elected President at a meeting held under the aegis of the Sahitya Akademi Secretary, Sri Krishna Kripalani. There were three Vice Presidents (Ammu Swaminathan, Robert E Hawkins & S Gopalan); Joint Secretaries were Vijaya Mulay and Chidananda Dasgupta and the Joint Treasurers were Diptendu Pramanick and Abul Hasan.
Sudhir Nandgaonkar is the current Secretary and Shyam Benegal the current President.[2] The federation has links to several international film societies.[3]