There's something odd in the framing of this DVD. Some of the names in the credits are chopped off (it can't be intentional) and some picture compositions seems excessively tight. I believe that the OAR is 1:1.37 and the laboratory has roughly zoomed in the image to fit in 1:1.33, so that there's missing maybe 5 - 6 % in every corner. The transfer looks the same that has circulated in TV and on VHS the last ten years. The picture is unstable, making left to right movement, the contrast is too heavy, there's missing frames, many of the picture changes has a jump-cut (the last and first frame in the cut is fuzzy) and there's color bleeding. Though it's reasonably sharp overall. The cinema version run for approx. 121 minutes, so these is a genuine PAL transfer.

Normally I should say the the sound is just horrible, but in this case perhaps the original elements where as weak. There's a lot of dirt from the optical source, the narration in the beginning sounds far to boxed for a film from 1977. When there's limited sound, there's a strong hiss that is faded when someone is speaking (feels like the first wireless headphones in home-viewing). Are these limitations from a bad transfer or in the original elements? - I can't judge, presumably both.

India may not the best countries to preserve valuable material. These could easily be the best DVD transfer for the film ever, so it's inferior - take it or leave it. I should suggest that the film is worth buying, even though the source material isn't pristine.