P. K. Nair
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1933 –
Who is P. K. Nair?
P. K. Nair is an Indian film archivist and film scholar, who was the founder and director of the National Film Archive of India in 1964. He is regarded as the Henri Langlois of India because of his lifelong dedication towards the preservation of films in India. A passionate film archivist, he worked at the NFAI for over three decades, collecting films from India and from all over the world.
He was instrumental in acquiring for the archive several landmark Indian films like Dadasaheb Phalke's Raja Harishchandra and Kaliya Mardan, Bombay Talkies films such as Jeevan Naiya, Bandhan, Kangan, Achhut Kanya and Kismet, S. S. Vasan's Chandralekha and Uday Shankar's Kalpana.
In 2012, Celluloid Man, an award-winning documentary was made on his life and works, by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
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- Born
- Apr 6, 1933
Thiruvananthapuram - Also known as
- Paramesh Krishnan Nair
- Nationality
- India
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on July 23, 2013
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