Celluloid Man (2012)
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
- Date of release
- 2012-06-26
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Casting
- P. K. Nair — Self
- Krzysztof Zanussi — Self
- Lester James Peries — Self
- Saeed Akhtar Mirza — Self
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra — Self
- Gulzar — Self
- Naseeruddin Shah — Self
- Mrinal Sen — Self
- Kamal Haasan — Self
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan — Self
- Basu Chatterjee — Self
- Girish Kasaravalli — Self
Interesting facts
Celluloid Man is a 2012 documentary film directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur that explores the life and work of legendary Indian archivist P. K. Nair, founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema.
Production
The production started at the end of 2010 and the film was completed in June 2012.
The film has been shot in Warsaw, Colombo, Pune, Nasik, Mumbai, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Heggodu, Bengaluru and Kolkata, and eleven cinematographers worked on it: Santosh Thundiyil, K. U. Mohanan, Abhik Mukhopadhyay, P. S. Vinod, H. M. Ramachandra, R. V. Ramani, Vikas Sivaraman, Mahesh Aney and Kiran Deohans.
The film was shot on 16mm film and then converted to 35mm, with an aspect ratio of 1.85: 1.
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