New Delhi, Jan. 18 -- From old-time silent movies to recent blockbusters, all will feature in the state-of-the-art National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) in Mumbai, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.

Conceived in 1997, the first-of-its-kind project pulled through multiple hurdles over the last two decades and missed several deadlines. The last deadline was missed in the middle of 2018. The museum has been built at a cost of Rs 140.61 crore by the NBCC of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).

The museum is housed in two buildings - the New Museum Building and the 19th century historic palace Gulshan Mahal - on the Films Division campus in Mumbai. Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan and Aksha...