BIB_ID
451110
Accession number
MA 23840.442a
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1968 December 1
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29.2 x 20.9 cm
Notes
Year from associated letter and envelope; letter is dated "The Next Day."
Typed on lined, legal-sized Twentieth-Century Fox letterhead.
Accompanies a letter from James Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated December 1, 1968 [see MA 23840.442]. Associated envelope stamped, addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked December 3, 1968.
Typed on lined, legal-sized Twentieth-Century Fox letterhead.
Accompanies a letter from James Ivory to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dated December 1, 1968 [see MA 23840.442]. Associated envelope stamped, addressed to Mrs. R. Prawer Jhabvala, 1-A Flagstaff Road, Delhi 6, postmarked December 3, 1968.
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Describing how Rita Tushingham "came in last night [and] went straight up to Subrata and kissed him on the cheek"; relating a story told by Edna O'Brien about Satyajit Ray and V.S. Naipaul; saying Subrata doesn't like "The Guru," and "didn't much like Shakespeare Wallah either I remember"; relating how he tried to "draw him out" on his reasons for disliking the film, how Mitra claimed, among other things, that in the film "Indians are not shown in a good light," and that Ray agrees with him; describing how, when Ivory protested that Ray liked their films, Mitra related an anecdote where Ray had disparaged "The Guru"; concluding, "When I heard this I said nothing, but pondered it in my heart all day."
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