From Bishops' School Poona to BBC to Bollywood and Beyond
As a former 'Bishops' Boy' I try to keep track of ex-Bishopites
so I was delighted to put this set of links together....
'The Rising is based on an 1857 uprising by Indian soldiers.
Hindu and Muslim soldiers revolted against the British East India Company,
over fears that gun cartridges were greased with animal fat forbidden by
their religions...
The film has been scripted by writer Farrukh Dhondy,
a former commissioning editor at BBC Channel 4, and set to music by
top Indian composer AR Rahman.'
from BBC News :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4145032.stm
top Indian composer AR Rahman.'
from BBC News :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4145032.stm
Farrukh is currently in competition at the Montreal World Film Festival
with his script for 'Red Mercury' which is about three British-born Muslim
fanatics who hold a restaurant to siege with a lethal bomb. Stars include
Ron Silver, Juliet Stevenson, Stockard Channing and rising British talent
Navin Chowdhry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4146792.stm
He developed the successful films Bandit Queen and Salaam Bombay and is
also the acclaimed author of Bombay Duck and Poona Company.
Split Wide Open was his feature debut as a screenwriter.
Poona Company (1980) is a series of nine loosely-connected short stories
that together constitute a lively depiction of an Indian boyhood and early youth
in the town of Poona, about 200 kms. south-east of Bombay. The little urban
community in which the protagonist-narrator grows up is constantly in the grip
of intrigues and dramatic upheavals. A large number of characters are deftly
sketched through well-observed details and turns of speech, his subjects
being the gangs of boys in which the narrator participated when at school,
a duel with knives on the school playground, a war between two typewriting
classes, the murder of a brilliant young journalist, rowdy college elections
followed by the college students' Annual Social, and the foibles of an inveterate
gambler. Throughout these ups and downs a gentle humour is maintained,
conveying an overall sense of affection and fascination, while the tension is
adroitly defused in each tale by means of a soothing humane touch.
with his script for 'Red Mercury' which is about three British-born Muslim
fanatics who hold a restaurant to siege with a lethal bomb. Stars include
Ron Silver, Juliet Stevenson, Stockard Channing and rising British talent
Navin Chowdhry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4146792.stm
He developed the successful films Bandit Queen and Salaam Bombay and is
also the acclaimed author of Bombay Duck and Poona Company.
Split Wide Open was his feature debut as a screenwriter.
Poona Company (1980) is a series of nine loosely-connected short stories
that together constitute a lively depiction of an Indian boyhood and early youth
in the town of Poona, about 200 kms. south-east of Bombay. The little urban
community in which the protagonist-narrator grows up is constantly in the grip
of intrigues and dramatic upheavals. A large number of characters are deftly
sketched through well-observed details and turns of speech, his subjects
being the gangs of boys in which the narrator participated when at school,
a duel with knives on the school playground, a war between two typewriting
classes, the murder of a brilliant young journalist, rowdy college elections
followed by the college students' Annual Social, and the foibles of an inveterate
gambler. Throughout these ups and downs a gentle humour is maintained,
conveying an overall sense of affection and fascination, while the tension is
adroitly defused in each tale by means of a soothing humane touch.
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