Bringing back the magic: on the "Cinemas of India" restorations

In the new issue of The Caravan, I celebrate the NFDC “Cinemas of India” DVDS and do a composite review of four films in the series: Sudhir Mishra’s Dharavi, Saeed Mirza’s Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, Shyam Benegal’s Suraj ka Satvan Ghoda and Govind Nihalani’s Party (which I also wrote about here). Full piece here.

(Also see: this post about Mirza’s Arvind Desai ki Ajeeb Dastan. I’ll be writing more on some of these films in the coming weeks.)