BIB_ID
449035
Accession number
MA 23840.506
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1970 January 22
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.4 x 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Written at top of sheet: "Please acknowledge receipt".
Dated January 22; year inferred from contents.
Envelope stamped, addressed to "Mr. James Ivory, Taj Mahal Hotel, Apollo Bunder, Bombay-1", postmarked.
Dated January 22; year inferred from contents.
Envelope stamped, addressed to "Mr. James Ivory, Taj Mahal Hotel, Apollo Bunder, Bombay-1", postmarked.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Noting that she has sent three copies of new dialogue for scene 42; acceding to Ivory and Merchant's decision to keep scene 2 over her objections and despite that, she writes, "Jhab and Shashi" agree that Lucia should not sleep with Hari; sharing her perspective about the emotions the film's characters should be experiencing during "the pān-wala scene", particularly that Hari should be "happy, not humiliated"; discussing her concerns about the presence of cars in a scene featuring a movie's premiere party.
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