[Reader-list] First Post

Vivek Narayanan vivek at sarai.net
Tue Mar 6 16:29:48 IST 2007


PS-- this is the second post from this year's independent fellows; the 
first was MS Harilal on the Ayurvedic medicine industry.

V

anuja ghosalkar wrote:

> Hi all, This is my first post for the Sarai I- Fellowship and so far I 
> don't see any other post. So I guess I am the first one posting. I am 
> really nervous as I do this but anyway I thought I will get on with it 
> as there is no escaping it. So here goes: I am Anuja Ghosalkar, I have 
> been a lecturer and researcher in film in Bombay for the last five 
> years. I have also been involved with an experimental theatre group in 
> Mumbai for over half a decade, called The Company Theatre. All of last 
> year I was a research associate with Rosie Thomas who was writing a 
> book on early Indian Cinema and the Stunt film. I have also been a 
> co-curator of /Made By Women/, an international women's film festival. 
> I am currently working with Breakthrough – a globally active human 
> rights organization. My research project is on my grand father who I 
> call *P/apa Ajoba/*/,/ which is also the project title. This project 
> will chronicle the life of my grand father, as a make up artist in the 
> Hindi film industry from 1941 to 2000: from his early years at Raj 
> Kamal studio with V. Shantaram (when they literally made their own 
> make-up) to his 17 years spent at the Filmistan studio. There will be 
> a sharper focus on the 1960’s - when he predominantly worked with 
> Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Sadhana & Saira Banu. It will also 
> document film history from the point of view of a technician who might 
> lacquer it with his own stories. It is finally, a tribute to a 
> grandfather who narrated stories of his everyday life, not knowing 
> that stories often become history. The research will primarily be 
> through interviews, previously published books on the history of 
> Indian cinema and material from magazines like Film India, 
> Rangabhoomi, Screen, etc. The presentation will be in an audio-visual 
> form with a written thesis. *Update on the Research*: I have just 
> finished recording one, one hour audio tape with my grand father with 
> some basic information of him and industry. I just realized that even 
> though I have lived with him all my life, there are so many things 
> that I did not know, I now need to transcribe the tape and do some 
> more recording. So that’s where I am at right now… getting started 
> hesitantly but also with a sense of great excitement. I hope it goes 
> all well for all of us. Cheers Anu
>
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