BIB_ID
451098
Accession number
MA 23840.435
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
Mumbai, India, 1968 August 15
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.7 x 21.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Year derived from postmark, contents, and perpetual calendar.
Typed on MIP Bombay letterhead.
Envelope is "Guru" letterhead with the film title scratched out, stamped, addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked August 17, 1968.
Typed on MIP Bombay letterhead.
Envelope is "Guru" letterhead with the film title scratched out, stamped, addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked August 17, 1968.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Enclosing "something I wrote once for Shashi and Jennifer's film" ["Bombay Talkie"]; describing the reactions when they showed the film to Vilayat Khan and his assistant "Arwin Parekh" [i.e. Arvind Parikh]; describing some of the changes he has made in the film and how he feels about them; admitting "I don't see how we can leave here on the 23rd. I predict we won't, and that we'll take the Moscow plane on the following Thursday instead"; telling her he has decided to make a short film from the footage he shot in Afghanistan in 1960; throwing out a couple of possible titles; describing how he sees the film looking; reminiscing about the sights and sounds and smells and impressions he remembers from that trip; saying she just telephoned so he now has nothing more to add to this letter.
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