Hailed as one of the finest features films on the travails of Partition, M.S. Sathyu’s Garam Hawa is hitting the screens again across the country four decades after its first release. It will be released on November 14 on 70 screens in eight metros.
The film, made with a shoe-string budget of Rs.10 lakh, has been restored now at 10 times that cost. The restoration process took over a year and a half as the negative was badly damaged, Mr. Sathyu said. Over two lakh frames have been individually treated and the original negative restored. The sound quality has been digitally enhanced at a studio in Los Angeles.
When it was released in 1974, the film won the Nargis Dutt National Award for National Integration.
