Why Indian Film industry shits at film preservation?

 So, first  and foremost ,even I don't have an answer the the above mentioned question. But examining the scenario, it is quite obvious that most of the Indian films released in 1980's  and before are not preserved correctly. I, as a cinephile from Mollywood, would like to define the case of south Indian film industry. Films, which were shot before 2000 or near after 2000 are so grainy and blurred and has whatever distortions in the world. There are a few teams that remaster the print into 1080p or 4K,and that makes us realize about the difference between the remastered version and the print that we saw all these years. There are a few directors, like Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who has a nice quality print, maybe because of the only reason that his films never go so long for theatrical release. Premiering in award was their first concern, and in order to do the same, they cared a lot about preserving the print.

Preserving films is a very important thing, that often our distributor seems to forget. They see it as a money making thing, and when they get their investment back, they tend to forget about the film, which is the hard work of many artists. Generation Z kiddies(me included) care a lot about color grading, cinematography, and editing , a lot more than they care about the script(unpopular opinion, but yeah, it's true). But the case of mollywood is even terrible. Films released in 2010s are not available in good quality prints. 

Artists die, Art remains forever. So preservation of a film is as important as it's making.

Let art flourish,
good day folks.

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