Thursday, March 23, 2006

wu's sunday

ok guys last sunday when oreet, angelia and i were out havin fun and shooting in the city, Wu was having an alternative adventure of his own. out for a vdo shoot with two of his new found chinese friends, Wu went the the khirkee mosque and was doing a naked shoot on the terrace....oblivious to the huge crowd of women who had gathered in the balcony to watch him..........obviously their men were not in a mood to take see the women watching a naked chinese man. before Wu and his friends realised it a group of around thirty men had surrounded them.......and had begun to issue threats. none of these guys understand hindi.....and by then all of them were shit scared. thankfully one of them could speak english and called up hemant at office. reaching there with a small group of friends hemant saw Wu shivering and scared .....bowing his head and saying sorry....and the crowd sensing that they could make money out 'hapless tourists'. having spent loads of time in the streets of delhi and various cities across india......hemant knows what urban crowds are all about......giving them a spree about colonialism and the body hemant managed to hit their sense of context....the crowd did not get the tamasha they had set out to create. wu was safely back...not before a one of his chinese friends had hurt him terribly by running away form the spot. under the pressure of the moment wu had erased all his footage....and the next day Paulo and i went back to the mosque with him. the ASI gate keeper was dead suprised to see us there....never thought that Wu would come back.....after a small round of chatting up a bit of talk about 'public spaces' ...i managed to get Wu the permission to shoot again .....this time with a robe on. .....what do you guys think. ..........?

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