Pyaasa, a classic Hindi movie directed by Guru Dutt will premiere in the competition sector of the upcoming 72nd Venice Film Festival, said a IANS report. The 1957 movie was restored by a team of 45 experts of Ultra Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Reportedly, the team worked for over four months to restore the movie to its original quality, and make it ready for a global audience.
Pyaasa is one of the 21 restored classic movies from all over the world which will be featured in the prestigious ‘Venice Classics Award section for Best Restored Film. The black-and-white cult movie, starring Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman and Mala Sinha, Rehman, Johny Walker, Mehmood and Tun Tun, will be screened on September 11 and 12 at the Sala Volpi Auditorium in Venice.
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Ultra Media & Entertainment are the negative rights owners of ‘Pyaasaa‘. According to the IANS report, the most challenging part of the restoration was sourcing the authentic material, and after lot of efforts, the company managed to recover the original camera negatives of “Pyaasa” at an archive in India. The company used as many parts as possible from the original Camera Negative and a few parts were used from 35mm prints. A new digital transfer was created in 2K resolution on the ARRISCAN film scanner, an in-house technology of the company.