Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Editing/Song Recording
Post production edit of rough cut in on.
Songs being recorded. "Dhande pe lag ja papoo" already recorded.
Songs being recorded. "Dhande pe lag ja papoo" already recorded.
Papoo Photowalah
Papoo Photowalah detailed synopsis 35mm Cinemascope
Shot in Old Delhi,Agra and Jaipur.
Indo European Cast.
Nina Edwards ,the great grand daughter of Edwardes ,Governor
of North West Provinces in 1845-57 ,East India Company comes to Old Delhi in search of the diary
of John Nicholson, the British East
India company hero of 1857 and one of
the bravest soldiers of the British armed forces in Afghanistan during the
1850s.
Nicholson and Edwardes were the best of friends and his
diary contained the secrets of the British times in the pre 1857 times with
treasures of the Mughals, the dagger of Babar ,the paintings of Metcalf and
historical writings which contained authentic writing of the British and their
dealing and observations about Hindus and Muslims. The diary is a great
mystery. The diary was handed over in time via priests of the St James Church
and guarded jealously until the maverick and mysterious photowalah unearthed
its whereabouts and murdered the Anglo Indian priest in 1947.He kept the
negatives of the pages of the book and the diary was stolen by his trusted
servant Abdul. Papoo is the son of the famous photographer of his dancer
concubine from GB road Delhi .
Nina meets Papoo by coincidence and they start the search of
the diary. Papoo is a half con who starts falling in love with Nina in spite of
of having many girls and women in Old Delhi as his friends and sexual partners.
He is a con, guide, robber, sex addict, a dopy , a photographer and entrapper
who mesmerized women from all over the world with his charms, guile and
calculations. Nina trusts him but looses
faith after she finds her money stolen by papoo’s gang. By now papoo loves her
madly.
Nina is followed from England by Peter to Old Delhi by her fiancé, financier, her tormentor and the
person with whom all her properties are mortgaged .
The battle begins with intrigues and drama in the search of
the diary which is worth 10 millions dollars in the international market. Peter
has to get Nina,Nicholsons diary and papoo killed to rule the whole of the
wealth and treasures of the East India company. Thw diary and Nina have the
clues.
He has the priest,hiralal the antique dealer and the
historian Raghavan killed to get the dairy. Finally he follows Nina to Agra and
in the process a fight takes place with Papoo in the caves of the Agra fort,
Taj Mahal and the other forts to get the dairy.
Papoo get the diary, takes out all the maps with treasure
clues and hands over all the literal work to Nina. He cannot hand over the maps
to her as he feels it is the national treasure of India and certain pages of
the diary which could cause upheavel amonst the Hindus and Muslims and the
Indians and the British. Nicholson had been a cruel and brave soldier but he
was honest in his diary.
Papoo is imprisoned for life and Nina leaves for England to
publish the book.
Papoos mom Nagma cannot forgive the world for papoos
misfortune and hates Nina for everything she has done to Papoo.
Finally Nina comes back to meet Papoo who has become a Baba
of sorts.
Papoo photowalah is about Nina and Papoo and their obsession
with each other and the dairy. A film about history,about love between two
people of different cultures,about the cultures of Old world northern India and
the feeling of nationality and loyalty by a half con towards our country India.
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