Reputed filmmaker Kumar Shahani, who passed away on February 24, 2024, was remembered and his contributions to the art world in general and cinema in particular were highlighted at a gathering hosted by his friends on March 31, 2024. The AIDEM presents excerpts from the function. Here senior journalist Sashi Kumar and filmmaker Shaji N Karun talk about Shahani.

Sashi Kumar, veteran journalist and Chairman of the Asian College of Journalism, and Shaji N Karun, filmmaker and Chairman of Kerala Film Development Corporation point out how Kumar Shahani represented both epic cinema as well as an inherent and consistent quest in the realm of the digital, which made him a classicist who probed the possibilities of the new age in multiple ways.