Malayalam actor Jalaja will walk the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for the premiere of late auteur G. Aravindan’s restored film Thampu (1978), now rechristened as Thamp .
Accompanying her will be Prakash R. Nair, son of Thamp’s producer K. Raveendranathan Nair and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, archivist and film director who took the initiative to restore the film under the Film Heritage Foundation, founded by him. It is the only Indian film to be screened in the Cannes Classic Section.
Thamp tells the story of a circus camping in a village for three days and the interplay of relations between the circus artistes and the villagers.