P. K. Nair
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Indian film historian (1933-2016)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Plantation and Agri-Horticultural Resources of Kerala
- Glimpses in Plant Research
- Cytological Research Monographs
- Progress in Palynology
- Agroforestry Systems in the Tropics
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Film & TV
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Paramesh Krishnan Nair (6 April 1933 – 4 March 2016) was an Indian film archivist and film scholar, who was the founder and director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in 1964. He is regarded as the Henri Langlois of India because of his lifelong dedication towards the preservation of films in India. A passionate film archivist, he worked at the NFAI for over three decades, collecting…
Known for
- Bollywood and Beyond: A Century of Indian Cinema — Self2015
- An American in Madras — Self2013
- Celluloid Man — Self2012
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Place of death
- Pune
- Occupation
- archivist
- Educated at
- University of Kerala
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- date of birth
- 1933-04-06
- date of death
- 2016-03-04
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