It took two nurses from Kerala to end a devastatingly long spell of absence from Palme d'Or contention for Indian cinema. Prabha and Anu, the central characters of Mumbai-born director Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light, have helped India return to the prestigious competition section of the Cannes film festival, frequented for decades by masters like Satyajit Ray and …
The month of May has brought not one, but two notable developments in the field of film restoration in India. On a more human scale, the 75th Cannes Film Festival revealed that it will show two restored Indian films in its Classics section: Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi, restored by the NFAI, and Aravindan’s Thamp̄, restored by the Film Heritage Foundation under …
