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The Painter and the Pest is a 1985 documentary film produced by Bandung Productions and released by the British Channel 4 Television on June 2, 1985. It details how 60-year-old abstract impressionist painter Harold Shapinsky was discovered the previous year by Akumal Ramachander, an Indian professor of English.
The documentary was directed by Greg Lanning and narrated by Salman Rushdie, who opined that it was one of those happy instances in which the East has repaid the West by discovering something the West had forgotten.
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- The Painter and the Pest, IMDB
- Discovery of an obscure American artist by an Indian schoolteacher sparks off a storm, India Today, June 30, 1985
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