Renowned film archivist PK Nair passes away

The man behind the preservation of many legendary films that our country has ever seen, Celluloid Man Paramesh Krishnan Nair, passed away at Pune on March 4. The founder director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), who was under treatment for long, succumbed to cardiac arrest. He was 86.
PK Nair has played a key role in archiving several films such as Dadasaheb Phalke's Kaliya Mardan and Raja Harishchandra, Bombay Talkies films such as Jeevan Naiya, Bandhan, Kangan and Achhut Kanya, among many others.
When he retired as the director, he had archived almost 12,000 films. He has also preserved international films such as Ingmar Bergman, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Miklos Jancso, Vittorio De Sica Akira Kurosawa and Federico Fellini.
Inspired by his life, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur had made a documentary titled Celluloid Man in the year 2012, which later went on to grab many accolades, including two National Awards.