'Thamp' screening at Cannes highlights Indian film preservation, heritage

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One of two Indian films at this year's Cannes Classics selection.

was painstakingly restored by India's Film Heritage Foundation , an organisation founded by filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur in 2014. Dungarpur facilitated the restoration of Uday Shankar's landmark film by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation, the restored version of which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.

"It was shot with such a low budget, they worked on an indigenous stock called Indu. It's not a great stock unlike Orwo or Kodak and unfortunately the negatives melted," adds Dungarpur. "They seem to have absolutely no knowledge now, how important it is to preserve celluloid heritage, because celluloid is something which is the only form of long term preservation. Also, the resolution of a celluloid film is nearly up to 24K."

"Which one needs actual restoration? How are we going to restore it? Who are the people going to be involved in it - it requires a lot of work."

 

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