The authentic digital camera negatives of Rajkumar Hirani’s comedy-drama PK are the most recent addition to the gathering within the National Film Collection of India (NFAI). The filmmaker on Tuesday handed over the detrimental roles of the 2014 celluloid movie to NFAI director Prakash Magdum in Mumbai.
“Preserving the negative was important and I am very happy that it will be preserved at NFAI in Pune. It is the duty of a filmmaker to ensure that films are preserved and I appeal to all filmmakers to support NFAI in this important cause,” Hirani mentioned in an official assertion.
At least 300 cans of PK and outtakes of the 2009 movie 3 Idiots in addition to large promotional materials consisting of posters, foyer playing cards and images of the movies have been additionally handed over for cover. As of now, authentic negatives of notable Hirani movies like Munnabhai MBBS (2003), Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006) and three Idiots are already being preserved in NFAI.
“It is our endeavor to source and acquire genuine celluloid material for conservation. FTII alumnus, Rajkumar Hirani, has always been very cooperative in the matter of preserving film material. The handover was supposed to happen before the pandemic, but it got delayed,” Magdam mentioned.
PK, written, edited and directed by Hirani and co-produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, is among the previous few movies to be shot on celluloid in India. “There was a transition from celluloid to digital in India between 2013 and 2014 as far as filmmaking is concerned,” Magdum mentioned.
He mentioned that aside from movie manufacturing, there has additionally been a change from analog projection system to digital projection system within the context of movie exhibition. “Hirani sir told me that around 95 to 97 per cent of the film was shot on celluloid while the rest was on digital. When the film was to release, first the film was adapted and then released on digital, by then the exhibition in India had gone digital,” Magdam mentioned.
Thereafter, a digital copy of the 2018 biographical movie Sanju, based mostly on the lifetime of actor Sanjay Dutt, will likely be handed over to the NFAI, Magadum mentioned.
Magdum mentioned it’s essential to search for celluloid movie materials for assortment, which deteriorates if not saved in time and can thus pose additional challenges in conservation.
“Preserving the unique digital camera detrimental is important as it’s the finest supply for any use of movie. Secondly, preservation requires an optimum dry and funky situation in order that the pure parts don’t harm it. For well timed intervention, our outreach with the stakeholders i.e. filmmakers and manufacturing homes is important, in order that these movies are preserved on the proper time. Technology is altering quickly and on this context it’s the want of the hour to protect movie on movie.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
