How a septuagenarian American man keeps classic Indian films alive (THE CARAVAN)

Excerpt: “A YouTube channel with almost eighty thousand subscribers, tommydan55, is particularly popular among connoisseurs of Indian films. Thomas Daniel, a 74-year-old living in Hawaii, owns it, along with a couple of other channels, all dedicated to classic cinema of the Indian subcontinent. There are mostly Hindi and Urdu films from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s on his channel, but Bengali films have recently appeared as well. Daniel does not speak any of these languages. …Daniel, who developed an interest in film restoration while approaching retirement as a commercial fisherman, procures these films from varied sources and restores them to bring them as close as possible to their original print. … Daniel has no connection with India beyond two visits in his youth, in the 1970s.”

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