Big B announces Christopher Nolan's next month India visit

The maverick director will attend opening of a celluloid film facility in Mumbai.

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Big B announces Christopher Nolan's next month India visit
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Hollywood mogul Christopher Nolan will be in India around March, Amitabh Bachchan announced on his blog on Wednesday.

"In a month or so the man himself Mr Nolan is coming to India to inaugurate or at least lend support to a few matters.. (sic)," Big B wrote on his official blog.

This is Nolan's second visit to India. In 2012, the filmmaker quietly arrived in Jaipur to film a climactic prison scene for The Dark Knight Rises at Mehrangarh Fort.

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Nolan, creator of the Oscar nominated 'Inception' and blockbuster 'The Dark Knight' series among other unforgettable cinematic works, will be here for the grand opening of a celluloid film facility in Mumbai that is scheduled to take place in March.

Nolan's presence should make the function special because the writer-director shot his 2017 blockbuster Dunkirk entirely on celluloid, departing from the contemporary trend of shooting cinema digitally.

Bachchan's blog confirmed Nolan's preference for old-fashioned celluloid filming over digital technology. "..Many in the world of direction and production are finding values in the product done on film to be the more liked subject.. so (much) like Dunkirk, the film by that renowned Christopher Nolan, uses only film for his pictures.. Dunkirk was not digital, it was film.. (sic)," wrote Big B. The actor seemed excited that celluloid was returning.

"Celluloid film is back.. Kodak is to open its facility again fresh and productive in Mumbai soon...by March 2018..!! Hollywood is apparently switching back to film (sic)," Big B tweeted. Nolan apart,

Martin Scorsese is another Hollywood titan who has traditionally preferred celluloid over digital technology.

Christopher Nolan has been redefining cinematic entertainment right from his first feature film, the noir drama Following that released in 1998.

-with input from Ahana Bhattacharya