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April 11, 2025 at 10:00:00 PM

AFS Cinema

Kennedy

India | Narrative Feature

2023 | 144 mins | Hindi

Live Q&A with Writer-Director Anurag Kashyap

1. Festival de Cannes - France
2. Sydney Film Festival - Australia
3. Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival - South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Kennedy is an insomniac ex-cop, long though to be dead... still operating for the corrupt system, while looking for redemption.

Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

Film Heritage Foundation used the best surviving elements for the restoration – the original camera negative and the 35 mm print preserved at the NFDC – NFAI. Unfortunately, the sound negative was not available. We digitized the sound from the 35 mm print preserved at Film Heritage Foundation. The film elements were repaired by the Film Heritage Foundation conservators and the scanning was done in Prasad Lab in Chennai We found that due to the deterioration of the print, there were vertical green lines on many parts of the film. While the scanning and digital clean-up was done at Prasad under the supervision of L’Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, the grading, sound restoration and mastering was done at the lab in Bologna. Both Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, the cinematographer of the film, have been involved in the restoration of the film.

Restoration Process

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Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

About the Artist

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Photo courtesy: 

Film Heritage Foundation

The most influential Indian filmmaker of recent times with a superlative career including more than 50 films as a Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor and Actor. He was awarded the Knight of the order of Arts and Letter by the French government, in 2013, when India was the guest country at Cannes Film Festival, to commemorate 100 years of Indian Cinema.

He is also one of the Directors of Netflix's first India show called Sacred Games, and also various films like Choked, and short films for the anthologies - Lust Stories & Ghost Stories, for them. He was voted as one of the top 50 influential Indians by India Today, a leading Indian current affairs magazine, and continues to bring change to the Indian Film Industry.

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Photo courtesy: Film Heritage Foundation

Trailer

Credits

Crew:

Director:   

Anurag Kashyap

Writer:

Anurag Kashyap

Producers:

Ranjan Singh

Kabir Ahuja

Film Editor:

Tanya Chhabria

Deepak Kattar

Featured Cast:

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Rahul Bhat

Sunny Leone

Mohit Takalkar

Abhilash Thapliyal

Megha Burman

Restoration Effort Led By: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director, Film Heritage Foundation

 

Restoration Credit:

Restored by Film Heritage Foundation in association with Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul), the cinematographer Govind Nihalani and the director Shyam Benegal. Funding supported by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.(Amul)

Thank you to our community partners for this screening!

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