Bollywood's
megastar
Amitabh
Bachchan
will
be
restoring
one
of
Charlie
Chaplin's
rare
films
titled
The
Floorwalker
for
the
Mumbai
Film
Festival.
Bachchan
will
be
restoring
the
1916
masterpiece
for
the
15th
edition
of
Mumbai
Film
Festival
organised
by
the
Mumbai
Academy
of
Moving
Image
(MAMI).
"Restoration
is
an
important
aspect
of
cinema.
It
is
great
that
people
from
film
industry
are
restoring
films
and
Bachchan
doing
this
is
a
big
thing.
The
film
is
a
masterpiece," said
Shyam
Benegal,
filmmaker
and
Chairman
of
MAMI.
The
festival
will
be
held
from
October
17
to
24.
The
Floorwalker
stars
Chaplin,
in
his
traditional
Tramp
persona,
as
a
customer
who
creates
chaos
in
a
department
store
and
becomes
inadvertently
entangled
in
the
nefarious
scheme
of
the
store
manager,
played
by
Eric
Campbell,
and
the
store's
floorwalker,
played
by
Lloyd
Bacon,
to
embezzle
money
from
the
establishment.
Mumbai
Academy
of
Moving
Image
was
stared
in
1997
as
a
non
profit
Trust.
The
main
intention
of
this
foundation
was
to
organise
an
annual
International
Film
Festival
of
which
the
film
industry
and
the
country
can
be
proud
of.
MAMI
aims
to
foster
a
climate
of
good
cinema.
It
appreciates
cinema
be
as
an
art.
We
look
forward
to
this
film
festival
and
we
will
surely
update
you
with
more
information
on
the
festival.