My Passage from India - A filmmaker's journey from Bombay to Hollywood and Beyond

Author: Ismail MerchantPublisher: Roli BooksYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 149ISBN/UPC (if available): 0670031631 DescriptionMy Passage from India describes Ismail Merchant's extraordinary journey from his start as an aspiring filmmaker in Bombay, scraping together a meager production budget for his first short film, to his triumphant arrival at the Oscar podium. Internationally celebrated for such cinematic masterpieces as Heat and Dust, A Room with a View, Howards End and Remains of the Day, Ismail Merchant is today regarded as one of the world's leading producers of independent films. His story, however, begins not in the English countryside or along the Arno in Florence, but in India where he grew up. At the age of thirteen, sharing a triumphal gala entrance with Nimmi, a family friend and Indian film star, he had his first taste of cinema's allure and realized that he would spend his life making movies. In 1958, the young Indian filmmaker arrived in New York to pursue a