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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Celluloid Man<br />
| image = Celluloid Man Poster.jpg<br />
| director = [[Shivendra Singh Dungarpur]]<br />
| producer =<br />
| starring = <br />
| music = [[Ram Sampath]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Santosh Thundiyil]]<br/>K. U. Mohanan<br/>[[Abhik Mukhopadhyay]]<br/>[[P. S. Vinod]]<br/>H. M. Ramachandra<br/>R. V. Ramani<br/>Vikas Sivaraman<br/>[[Mahesh Aney]]<br/>Kiran Deohans<br/>Ranjan Palit<br/>V. Gopinath <br />
| editing = Irene Dhar Malik<br />
| studio = Dungarpur Films<br />
| released = {{Film date|df=y|2012|06|26|IL Cinema Ritrovato|2013|05|03|India}}<br />
| runtime = 150 min<br />
| country = [[India]]<br />
| language = English<br/>Hindi<br/>Kannada<br/>Bengali<br />
}}<br />
'''''Celluloid Man''''' is a 2012 [[documentary film]] directed by [[Shivendra Singh Dungarpur]] that explores the life and work of legendary Indian archivist [[P. K. Nair]], founder of the [[National Film Archive of India]] and guardian of Indian cinema.<br />
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''Celluloid Man'' has been screened at 50 film festivals – one of the few Indian films to have been selected for such a high number of festivals. The film has won two National Awards at the [[60th National Film Awards]], including [[National Film Award for Best Biographical Film|Best Biographical Film]] and [[National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Editing|Best Editing]] for Irene Dhar Malik.<ref name="60thaward">{{cite press release|title=60th National Film Awards Announced|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|accessdate=18 March 2013}}</ref> The film was released in India on 3 May 2013 to coincide with the centenary of [[Indian cinema]].<ref>{{cite web |title=PK Nair, the reel historian|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/pk-nair-the-reel-historian-celluloid-man/1/269134.html |date=3 May 2013l |work=India Today|accessdate=5 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Celluloid Man: PK Nair & the future of our cinematic past |url=http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/the-celluloid-man-pk-nair-a-the-future-of-our-cinematic-past |work=Sunday Guardian|date=May 2013 |accessdate=5 May 2013}}</ref><br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
P. K. Nair's fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films.<br />
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1,700 films were made in India during the silent film era, of which only nine survive thanks to the efforts of Nair. He travelled to remote parts of India to collect and save cans of rare films. The fact that [[Dadasaheb Phalke]] is recognized today as the father of Indian cinema is Nair's doing. He tried to save any film that he could get his hands on, be it world cinema, Hindi popular films or regional Indian cinema. He even took world cinema to the villages of India.<br />
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He has influenced generations of Indian film students especially the Indian New Wave filmmakers such as [[Mani Kaul]], [[Kumar Shahani]], [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]], [[Ketan Mehta]], [[Saeed Akhtar Mirza]], [[Jahnu Barua]], [[Girish Kasaravalli]], [[John Abraham (director)]], [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] and [[Kundan Shah]].<br />
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The film is woven with interviews of several filmmakers and film personalities who have been influenced directly and indirectly by P. K. Nair, among them [[Krzysztof Zanussi]], [[Lester James Peries]], [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]], [[Saeed Akhtar Mirza]], [[Gulzar]], [[Basu Chatterjee]], [[Naseeruddin Shah]], [[Kamal Haasan]], [[Girish Kasaravalli]], [[Jahnu Barua]], [[Jaya Bachchan]], [[Dilip Kumar]], [[Saira Banu]], [[Sitara Devi]], [[Santosh Sivan]], [[Rajkumar Hirani]], [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Mahesh Bhatt]], [[Yash Chopra]], [[Ramesh Sippy]], [[Mrinal Sen]] and Surama Ghatak.<br />
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Besides the interviews, the film has rare footage from early Indian masterpieces like ''[[Raja Harishchandra]]'', ''Kaliya Mardan'', ''Gallant Hearts'', ''Marthanda Verma'', ''Jamai Babu'', ''[[Fearless Nadia]]'', ''[[Sant Tukaram]]'', ''[[Achut Kanya]]'', ''[[Kismat (1968 film)|Kismat]]'', ''[[Chandralekha (1948 film)|Chandralekha]]'' and ''[[Kalpana (1948 film)|Kalpana]]'' - all films that were archived and thus saved by Nair.<br />
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==Production==<br />
The production started at the end of 2010 and the film was completed in June 2012.<br />
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The film has been shot in Warsaw, Colombo, Pune, Nasik, Mumbai, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Heggodu, Bengaluru and Kolkata, and eleven cinematographers worked on it: [[Santosh Thundiyil]], K. U. Mohanan, [[Abhik Mukhopadhyay]], [[P. S. Vinod]], H. M. Ramachandra, R. V. Ramani, Vikas Sivaraman, [[Mahesh Aney]] and Kiran Deohans.<ref>[http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Publications/InCamera/Celluloid_Man.htm InCamera, 29 August 2012: ''Celluloid Man''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120910143026/http://motion.kodak.com/motion/Publications/InCamera/Celluloid_Man.htm |date=10 September 2012 }} Linked 2013-11-01</ref><br />
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The film was shot on 16mm film and then converted to 35mm, with an [[aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]] of 1.85: 1.<br />
[[File:The Director of the film ‘Celluliod Man’ Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Actor Om Puri, the Ex Director of National Film Archive of India, Shri P.K. Nair and Shri Shyam Benegal at the inauguration of the Indian panorama.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Director Shivendra Singh (second from left), at [[International Film Festival of India|IFFI]] ([[43rd International Film Festival of India|2012]]) ]]<br />
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==Awards==<br />
''Celluloid Man'' has won two National Awards in India at the [[60th National Film Awards]] for the Best Historical / Biographical Reconstruction and for Best Editing in 2013. It has also won the "Nestor The Chronicler" award for the best archival film for ''Celluloid Man'' at the XII Kyiv International Documentary Film Festival 2013, Ukraine.<br />
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Shivendra Singh was given the Bimal Roy Memorial Emerging Talent Award for his film ''Celluloid Man'' at a ceremony on 18 October 2013<br />
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Shivendra Singh Dungarpur was awarded the Special Jury Award for Celluloid Man at the 13th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) 2014 on 9 February 2014.<br />
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==Festivals==<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+ FILM FESTIVAL LIST<br />
! No<br />
! Film Festival Name<br />
! Place<br />
! Screening Date<br />
|-<br />
! 1<br />
| IL Cinema Ritrovato 2012 || Bologna || 25–26 June 2012<br />
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! 2<br />
| 39th [[Telluride Film Festival]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130415010634/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-31/pune/33520170_1_film-prints-silent-films-national-film-archive "Film on National Film Archive of India director to be screened at US"], ''[[The Times of India]]'', 31 August 2012.</ref> || Telluride || 1 September 2012<br />
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! 3<br />
| 50th [[New York Film Festival]]<ref>[http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2012/films/celluloid-man "Celluloid Man"], [[New York Film Festival]] (accessed 2012-09-04).</ref> || New York || 4 October 2012<br />
|-<br />
! 4<br />
| 14th [[Mumbai Film Festival]]<ref>http://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/2012/sep/020912-Watchdog-of-Indian-cinema.htm</ref> || Mumbai || 22 October 2012<br />
|-<br />
! 5<br />
| 43rd [[International Film Festival of India]] || Goa || 21 & 27 November 2012<br />
|-<br />
! 6<br />
| 17th [[International Film Festival of Kerala]] || Trivandrum || 12 & 14 December 2012<br />
|-<br />
! 7<br />
| 42nd [[International Film Festival Rotterdam]] || Rotterdam || 28 & 31 January 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 8<br />
| 36th [[Goteborg International Film Festival]] || Goteborg || 26–29 January 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 9<br />
| 37th The [[Hong Kong International Film Festival]] || Kowloon || 24 March & 2 April 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 10<br />
| 2nd Sierra Leone International Film Festival || Sierra Leone || 13 April 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 11<br />
| 1st Scarborough Film Festival || Toronto || 8 June 2013 <br />
|-<br />
! 12<br />
| XII Kyiv International Documentary Film Festival || Kyiv || 21 May 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 13<br />
| [[Seattle International Film Festival]] || Seattle || 30 May & 1 April 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 14<br />
| 16th [[Shanghai International Film Festival]] || Shanghai || 15 June 2013<br />
|-<br />
! 15<br />
| 2nd International Film Festival of Fiji || Suva Fiji || 12–26 July 2013<br />
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! 16<br />
| Vladivostok International Film Festival || Vladivostok || 10 September 2013<br />
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! 17<br />
| Film South Asia 2013 || Kathmandu || 3–6 October 2013<br />
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|}<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|2190196}}<br />
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[[Category:2012 films]]<br />
[[Category:2012 documentary films]]<br />
[[Category:Documentary films about the cinema of India]]<br />
[[Category:Film archives]]<br />
[[Category:Indian biographical films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian documentary films]]<br />
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