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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About the Artist

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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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Trailer
Credits
Director:
Anurag Kashyap
Writer:
Anurag Kashyap
Producers:
Ranjan Singh
Kabir Ahuja
Film Editor:
Tanya Chhabria
Deepak Kattar
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)