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Cannes Classics Title ‘The Churning’: Inside the Restoration of 1976 Indian Masterpiece
The restored version of Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal's 1976 masterpiece 'Manthan' ('The Churning') is screening at Cannes Classics.
The film is a fictionalized version of the beginnings of the dairy cooperative movement that transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world’s largest milk producer, inspired by Dr. Verghese Kurien. The cast includes Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Mohan Agashe and Naseeruddin Shah. And that took a while and then we began the journey,” says archivist and filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, whose Film Heritage Foundation(FHF) led the restoration.
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