Who said filmmakers are meant to be just behind the camera? Breaking norms and setting new standards in global cinema, directors have faced the cameras to give their films a fun arc. Be it Atlee dancing to Zinda Banda with Shah Rukh Khan in Jawan or SS Rajamouli making a cameo in his blockbuster film, Bahubali, directors have excelled in the art of filmmaking and acting. Let's take a look at the directors who featured in their own films
11 September,2023 02:55 PM IST | Tanmayi Savadi_d.jpg "Why Film Heritage Foundation restored G Aravindan's 1979 film ‘Kummatty'")
Three decades after director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur was first introduced to Malayalam director G Aravindan's films, his Mumbai-based archive Film Heritage Foundation -- set up in 2014 -- has restored one of his best-known works. Dungarpur met with K. Ravindranathan Nair, the producer of Aravindan's films and the filmmaker's son Ramu Aravindan to help revive the 1979 Malayalam film ‘Kummatty’ using two remaining 35 mm prints. The global partners in this effort were filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation, which runs the World Cinema Project, and Italy-based film archive Cineteca di Bologna.
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