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Prasad Film Laboratories has issued a public discover in the June 20, 2026 issue of Complete Cinema magazine asking rightful house owners to acquire movie negatives and other celluloid supplies mendacity unclaimed at its premises in Chennai, Trivandrum, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
According to the discover, the involved supplies must be claimed within 30 days of the date of publication. The company has cautioned that any negatives or celluloid property left uncollected after the stipulated period could also be completely destroyed in accordance with prevailing pollution-control norms.
The announcement is important for producers, studios, distributors, financiers and legal heirs who could have deposited unique negatives, prints or associated movie materials with the laboratories over the years. Since many older movies had been preserved primarily on bodily stock, failure to retrieve such materials may doubtlessly end result in the irreversible loss of beneficial cinematic property.
Stakeholders have therefore been suggested to confirm their information and immediately contact the related Prasad Film Laboratories facility if they imagine any materials belonging to them stays saved there. Ownership documentation and other supporting information could also be required before the fabric is launched.
A source told Bollywood Hungama, “Prasad Lab shut down a few years ago. However, they preserved the negatives in their cold storages and charged a rental for it. Now they are doing away with the cold storage facility as well. Hence, it is important that the message reaches the rightful owners in the industry. In the past, negatives of certain films were destroyed. Now, there’s no copy available of those films at all.”
One well-known and unlucky instance is the Manoj Bajpayee-Tabu starrer Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar (2000). In an exclusive interview with Bollywood Hungama on the twenty fifth anniversary of the movie, in October 2025, Hansal Mehta said, “The film’s negatives are destroyed. My producing partners had sent the negatives to Adlabs. When Adlabs was shutting down, it sent a notice to the producing partners informing them that ‘all the negatives are with us. Claim them within a month. Or else, we’ll destroy them’. They were given a notice of one month. But either nobody received the notice, or they did but didn’t pay heed to it. Eventually, the negatives were destroyed. So, rather than celebrate the film, I am very sad about the development.”
Hansal Mehta continued, “I asked my producers the other day about the negatives. They had no clue and later, they realized that the negatives were destroyed. So, there’s no record of the film.”
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