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Letter from Ismail Merchant, Hyderabad, India to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1970 July 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
450832
Accession number
MA 23840.635
Creator
Merchant, Ismail, sender.
Display Date
Hyderabad, India, 1970 July 13
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.4 x 18.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala / 1-A Flagstaff Road / Delhi 6", postmarked "14 7 70".
Written on stationary with the letterhead "Chamlija / Jubilee Hills / Hyderabad".
The film being discussed may be The Courtesans of Bombay.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Stating that he has come to Hyderabad with Mohan Rakesh who has agreed to write a script from a treatment that Merchant has written; saying that the "small budget film" will star Madhur Jaffrey, Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal, and Nana Palshikar; expressing that he likes Hyderabad and that it has an unusual landscape; saying that he is staying with his friend Karamath Muffakham Jah, "the sultan of the present Nizam", and that he will be back in Bombay tomorrow.