There is something inherently busy in the tone of filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur. On a Monday morning, the filmmaker is in the middle of a hectic schedule. A National Award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder-director of the Film Heritage Foundation, he is a prominent name in film conservation in India and his next lecture promises to be one for the connoisseurs of Indian cinema history.

“It is an attempt to give an insight into the crucial facet of cinematography, which is essential to capturing every essence of light, expression and storytelling,” he explains. Titled The Evolution of Cinematography in Early Indian Cinema, it is an in-depth retelling of the journey of artists and auteurs who shaped the visual grammar of film in India.