Malayalam cinema buffs got a surprise late Monday night from legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. His Instagram page featured a picture of a familiar oracle and a bunch of children around him, a scene from a Malayalam film made more than four decades ago.
Near Mr. Scorsese G. Had great words to share about Aravindan Kummattiwhich was recently restored jointly by the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, a program created in 2007 by Mr Scorsese, the Film Heritage Foundation, and the Italy-based Cineteca di Bologna.
, Kummatti One is an adaptation of a central Kerala folktale that features a partly mythical and partly real magician named Kummatti. A lovely and engaging story and a visually stunning film, Kummatti It’s a must-see, especially since it has been largely unavailable outside India until now,” wrote Mr. Scorsese, producer of Hollywood classics like Brave fighter, goodfellas, gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street And Irishman,
a view of Kummatti,
The post, which has garnered 1.4 lakh likes and counting, is now flooded with comments from Malayalee film buffs, who thanked them for preserving a classic film from Kerala. original print of KummattiWhich had lost its rich colors over the years, was restored to its original glory through an international restoration project.
Filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, director of the Film Heritage Foundation, K.K. of General Pictures, produced five of Aravindan’s films. Rabindranathan went to Kollam to meet Nair. Kummatti, He agreed to seek restoration and to allow the team to access prints from the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), which gave both prints to the laboratory to examine the elements.
a view of Kummatti,
“Aravindan’s films have been at the top not only because he is a master, but also ones that I feel have not got the recognition they deserve and whose films, sadly, are not in vogue. It broke my heart when I learned that all the original camera negatives from his films were lost and we have all the prints, not in the best condition,” Mr. Dungarpur said after the restoration was completed last year.
KummattiWinner of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Children’s Film in 1979, tells the story of a Pied Piper-like character who one day mingles with the children in the village and weaves the magic of reckless abandonment. He casts magic and turns children into animals. One boy, Chandan, turns into a dog, but remembers the moment the other children return to human form and Kummatti has to wait a year for the spell to reverse.