Ellipathayam.
Cecilia Cenciarelli, who as a part of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna has been working with the World Cinema Project since its inception in 2007, explained how the restoration of
Kummatty worked.
Since there is no surviving negative of the film, “we used the best known surviving elements, two positive 35mm prints (one of which with printed subtitles)”, Cenciarelli said. “They certainly both showed signs of time and fragility, they were scratched and extremely dirty. Some portions were affected by mould. The one print we used as the main element has a vertical green line throughout three reels of the film that took hundreds of hours in manual work to remove.”
Kerala Assembly elections | Residents of Pullampara in Thiruvananthapuram repose trust in democracy for their dreams
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April 06, 2021 20:55 IST
Residents miffed at the failure of the authorities in realising decades-long demand for a bridge across the Vamanapuram river that connected Pullampara and Kallara grama panchayats
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Residents miffed at the failure of the authorities in realising decades-long demand for a bridge across the Vamanapuram river that connected Pullampara and Kallara grama panchayats
For 65-year old Kumaran, Tuesday’s elections presented him and his neighbours at the Poyikyam colony in the Vamanapuram constituency in Thiruvananthapuram district an opportunity to display their unwavering trust towards the democratic process despite facing neglect in the pursuit of development.
Rewinding to the Times When Malayalam Cult Film Lal Salam Swayed the Masses
The acclaimed film is based on the love story of a legendary political couple of Kerala, and delves deep into the life of a forgotten communist leader. Lal Salam poster
This code phrase from
Lal Salam (1990), along with many other dialogues from the film involving lead character âNettooranâ (Stephen Nettoor, played by Mohanlal) would reverberate across the length and breadth of Kerala during the Christmas season 30 years ago, beginning this week.
Lal Salam was released in the backdrop of the district council election, the precursor to the local body elections, in which the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) government led by E.K. Nayanar won a landslide 12 of the 14 districts, heightening expectations that the Left would win a second term.