BIB_ID
448077
Accession number
MA 23840.18
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1962 October 6
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 21.5 x 14 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to Mr. James Ivory, c/o Ismail Merchant, Gool Villa, 32, Motlibai Street, Bombay 8, and postmarked October 5, 1962
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Commenting on the re-shoots for "The Householder" (1963) after a telephone call with Ivory and Merchant; expressing amazement that they have finished a scene with Shashi Kapoor on the first day, though Subrata Mitra is "disgruntled"; discussing Satyajit Ray's activities; her own short stories; some Bengali literature she recently read; a Ramlila ballet scored by Moitra that she and her family attended; the release of Ray's "Kanchenjungha"; and Merchant's recent meeting with Romesh Thapar; elaborating on why she "loathed" the film Goodbye Again (1961).
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