Hindustan Photo Films


Hindustan Photo Films Manufacturing Company Limited is an Indian-based public sector manufacturer of photographic films, cine films, X-ray films, graphic arts films, photographic paper, and chemistry. It is based at Udhagamandalam, a hill station in Tamil Nadu. Their photographic films are sold under the name "Indu", which means "silver" in Sanskrit.
Hindustan Photo Films Ltd, which employed over 714 employees as of 31 March 2012, was declared bankrupt by the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction in 1996. In March 2013, a Rs 181 crore VRS package for employees of the ailing PSU Hindustan Photo Films based on notional pay scales of 2007.
HINDUSTAN PHOTO FILMS MANUFACTURING CO. LTD. had losses of Rs2,885.75 crores in 2016-17; Rs 2,496.50 in 2015-16; Rs 2,132.95 in 2014-15