Washington DC, Aug. 31 -- With the 4K restoration of master Bimal Roy's 'Do Bigha Zamin' (Two Acres of Land) set for its world premiere at this year's Venice Film Festival's Classics section, India's Film Heritage Foundation director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is reflected on the efforts to restore the 1953 Indian cinema landmark and why the film remains essential viewing seven decades later, reported Variety.

"Bimal Roy made 'Do Bigha Zamin' two years before Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali. Satyajit Ray said about Bimal Roy that he was able to sweep aside the cobwebs of the old tradition and introduce a realism and subtlety that was wholly suited to the cinema," as quoted by Variety.

For Dungarpur, Roy's film represents cinema's power t...