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Photographs of Chachaji: The Making of a Documentary Film
Recounts the filming of a documentary about the daily life of the author's second cousin, an eighty-three-year-old pharmacy clerk in New Delhi
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First published October 30, 1980
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Ved Mehta
78 books49 followersIndian-American journalist Ved Parkash Mehta
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January 13, 2008
I thought this was a really fascinating book in two major ways:
1 - it really describes how a documentary film comes into being, and
2 - even though it's almost 30 years old, it still does a great job of capturing (at least, by my reasoning) the quirkiness of life in India. I really wish I could meet chachaji, and it's too bad that the documentary this book talks about isn't available on Netflix.
1 - it really describes how a documentary film comes into being, and
2 - even though it's almost 30 years old, it still does a great job of capturing (at least, by my reasoning) the quirkiness of life in India. I really wish I could meet chachaji, and it's too bad that the documentary this book talks about isn't available on Netflix.
January 3, 2008
The New Yorker's India writer in the 60-80's travel journal of a PBS documentary he helped produce about his 87 year old uncle who weighs 83 pounds and delivers medicine by foot to homes in New Delhi.
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