Inside the Race to Restore John Abraham’s Cannes Classics Film ‘Amma Ariyan’ Before It Was Lost for Good

When Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Film Heritage Foundation first wanted to restore “Amma Ariyan,” he could not get permission. The 1986 Malayalam film directed by John Abraham was not the property of a studio or a single estate. It had been made collectively – funded village by village, produced by a movement – and so the […]

By Naman Ramachandran