Prasad Film Laboratories has issued a public notice within the June 20, 2026 issue of Complete Cinema magazine asking rightful owners to gather film negatives and other celluloid materials lying unclaimed at its premises in Chennai, Trivandrum, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
Dear filmmakers, don’t let one other Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar occur: Prasad Film Laboratories gives owners 30 days to gather negatives before PERMANENT destruction
In keeping with the notice, the concerned materials have to be claimed inside 30 days of the date of publication. The corporate has cautioned that any negatives or celluloid assets left uncollected after the stipulated period could also be permanently destroyed in accordance with prevailing pollution-control norms.
The announcement is critical for producers, studios, distributors, financiers and legal heirs who can have deposited original negatives, prints or related film material with the laboratories over time. Since many older movies were preserved totally on physical stock, failure to retrieve such material could potentially lead to the irreversible lack of priceless cinematic assets.
Stakeholders have subsequently been advised to confirm their records and immediately contact the relevant Prasad Film Laboratories facility in the event that they imagine any material belonging to them stays stored there. Ownership documentation and other supporting records could also be required before the fabric is released.
A source told Bollywood Hungama, “Prasad Lab shut down a couple of years ago. Nonetheless, they preserved the negatives of their cold storages and charged a rental for it. Now they’re eliminating the cold storage facility as well. Hence, it can be crucial that the message reaches the rightful owners within the industry. Prior to now, negatives of certain movies were destroyed. Now, there’s no copy available of those movies in any respect.”
One famous and unlucky example 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 film, 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 manufacturing partners informing them that ‘all of the negatives are with us. Claim them inside a month. Or else, we’ll destroy them’. They got a notice of 1 month. But either no one received the notice, or they did but didn’t pay heed to it. Eventually, the negatives were destroyed. So, reasonably than rejoice the film, I’m very sad concerning the development.”
Hansal Mehta continued, “I asked my producers the opposite day concerning the negatives. That 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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