New digital restoration: Badnam Basti (India 1971)

In 2019, a curator drew our attention to the fact that we have what is probably the last copy of Prem Kapoor's debut BADNAM BASTI in our archive. The film is considered India's first queer film. The artfully crafted musical melodrama, an adaptation of Kamleshwar's 1957 novella of the same name, revolves around a love triangle.