Which is a shame. There are many worthy Indian films that are not Western style art house cinema and not part of a Western critics canon but deserve proper restoration and presentation. What is available from Indian commercial sources is usually digitally overprocessed remasterings of classic...
No negatives and no 4K resolution. Don't see why this was prioritized for a 4K release over doing some more desperately needed restorations of Indian films where most classics are in very poor shape. The current Apu BDs are really sufficient for now.
That's interesting that they seem to finally start restoring more Indian films in India. Till now very few Indian classics have been restored on a quality level that allows the term restoration instead of more or less clueless digital remastering (one horror example is "Mughal E Azam"). There...
I got goose bumps at that moment. 99.xx % of films you start watching are by the book, variant 3a, subsection 12... Tar is not. It references greats of the past for sure, but does its own thing.