BIB_ID
449045
Accession number
MA 23840.514
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Display Date
Delhi, India, 1970 February 24
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2021.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.5 x 17.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope stamped, addressed to "Mr. James Ivory, Taj Mahal Hotel, Apollo Bunder, Bombay 1", postmarked "24-2-70".
Dated "Tuesday"; date inferred from postmark.
Dated "Tuesday"; date inferred from postmark.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Providing names and backgrounds of women saints for use in the script "when Gopal Ma rallies the others to join the ping-pong match"; directing him to "be quite serious and reverent" during the scenes in an ashram, adding "IT IS NOT A JOKE!"; asking him to tell "Pincho to be dynamic like Ismail"; wondering what their lives would be like if Merchant had become a swami and whether they would "at this moment be living pure lives in an ashram and be singing bhajjans instead of making dirty sex films".
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