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P.K. Nair (1933-2016)

P. K. Nair being presented with a Lifetime Achivement Award by Amitabh Bachchan during the 2015 Film Preservation & Restoration School India.


It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of PK Nair, former director of the National Film Archive of India until his retirement in 1991, and a member of the FIAF Executive Committee in the 1980s. This sad news reaches on the 8th day of the 2016 Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India, co-organized by the NFAI, the Film Heritage Foundation and FIAF and taking place in Pune until Sunday 6 March 2016.

P. K. Nair in the NFAI projection room.

P.K. Nair inspecting the vault at the NFAI.

PK Nair screening a film at NFAI.

(Photos courtesy of Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and the Film Heritage Foundation)