India is a country of diversity. From east to west and north to south, we can see the diversity. Since independence Indian cinema has gone through a lot of changes and challenges. But making an ethnographic film is really challenging. For such films makers of ethnographic films has to adopt the participant observation method and fieldwork technique which demands living with the native people that only the real ethnographic picture can be depicted in Anthropology this is a very famous technique 'Participant Observation' or 'From the Native's Point of View' by famous Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. India which is home to 705 tribal communities through its ethnographic film can help to combat ethnocentrism. The knowledge, culture, local dialects, language, dress, food habits and ethnomedicine system of tribal communities can be understood scientifically, catering to the need and importance of the Universal Declaration of Cultural Diversity by UNESCO. The paper delves deep into the reason for less production of quality ethnographic films and documentaries in India, though it produces the highest number of movies in the world. Through ethnographic films, we make documentation of a different cultural way of life. In Ethnographic films, visual culture plays a very important role to understand the day-to-day life lived experiences of the native people, their shared culture which transforms from generation to generation. The ethnographic film unites the art and skills of the film-makers with the trained intellectual and insight of the Ethnographers. It is a mechanical joining of cinematography and ethnography. Filmmakers should think ethnographically or scientifically; Ethnographers must think cinematographically.
