India-funded hitchcock classic at London Olympics

An Indian ad filmmaker, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is a co-sponsor in restoring Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, which will be the inaugural film at the upcoming London Olympics.

An Indian ad filmmaker, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, is a co-sponsor in restoring Hollywood legend Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, which will be the inaugural film at the upcoming London Olympics.

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“I’m one of the sponsors in the funding for the restoration of the film (along with the British Film Institute.) We will be screening on July 21. (London-based composer of Indian origin) Nitin Sawhney has composed a new score for the silent film,” Dungarpur told us.