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Celluloid Man

A tribute to film archivist and obsessive cinephile P.K. Nair, and his long, hard fight to preserve India's precious film heritage.

Documentary 2012 156 mins Not rated

Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

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Overview

Celluloid Man is a tribute to film archivist and obsessive cinephile P.K. Nair, a man whose childhood fascination with cinema finally led to the creation of the National Film Archive of India. In a country where film preservation was once regarded as irrelevant, Nair's has been a long, hard fight to preserve precious fragments of India's film heritage that would otherwise be lost forever.

Comparable to France's late, great 'man of cinema', the noted film archivist Henri Langlois, Nair has also influenced generations of Indian filmmakers by introducing them to new worlds through the prism of cinema. Featuring wonderful clips and interviews with many Indian and international filmmakers, this award-winning documentary is both a portrait of a man's passion with film and a love letter to cinema itself.

Director
Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Featuring
P.K NairKrzysztof ZanussiLester James Peries
Genres
Documentary
Certificate
Not rated
Released
2012
Country
India
Language
Hindi with English subtitles