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France, India, Sri Lanka Unite to Save Film Heritage, Sumitra Peries Classic Set for Restoration
Film Heritage Foundation is teaming with French diplomatic missions in India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a film preservation initiative.
Conserving, restoring and making films from India and Sri Lanka available to audiences is a way to preserve a part of the world’s cultural heritage for future generations.” FHF has collaborated in the past with Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project to restore Aravindan Govindan’s milestone Malayalam-language films “Kummatty” (1979) and “Thamp̄” (1978). It is currently working on restoring more Indian all-time classics, including Ramesh Sippy’s “Sholay” (1975), Shyam Benegal’s “Manthan” (1976) and Nirad Mahapatra’s “Maya Miriga” (1984).
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