India, Sept. 7 -- One of the Toronto International Film Festival's (TIFF) favourite Indian directors will have another classic premiering on Sunday, as the digitally-restored version of Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri or Days and Nights in the Forest gets showcased at North America's largest movie event.

The film was originally made in 1970 and remains a cult classic but the high-quality restoration process began in 2019 at the urging of director Wes Anderson who described it as a "special/particular gem".

Working with copyright holder Purnima Dutta and Satyajit Ray's son, director Sandip Ray, the restoration moved forward in 2020. Work was severely hampered by the Covid-9 pandemic, but the Film Heritage Foundation's Shivendra Singh Du...