she's fiery, restless, & extremely creative. she has lesser patience than me with inefficiency, but has the grit & guts to move to another country with her teenage sons & try to become a filmaker. she has faced opposition, brickbats, resistance & defeat time & again-& faced it all on her own. she left a succesful advertising career as a writer to join a production house in mumbai as a flunk for two years & thereon to canada.
now she revisits india.
my canadian friend has already shot half of a documentary on a renowned classical singer in canada & is coming to india to shoot the balance. both are from india but have taken canadian citizenships.
she is flummoxed at the reams of paperwork that has to be completed to be able to shoot here. india is strict, strict, strict!
the processes are still filled with pile ups & backlogs.
her lament: its so difficult to do business in india, so diffi to shoot here, & so impossible to live here...
i remind her that shooting in benares is going to be a toughie. saravana, my bright production guy just shot there & brought back sordid tales of crowd control.
however, me & dilip at the office are looking forward to this docu shoot-its been a decade since i witnessed a documentary, & the travel ought to be fun.
i will keep an update here about this venture, with photus & all.
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