Re: [mpisgmedia] the architect of Chanakya Cinema

I shall be grateful if you could send me Mr Mathur's
phone numbers.



Regards

--- Gita Dewan Verma <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ToI has a report today on page-7 titled *Chanakya
> era
> ends, here front-benchers were nerds*. starts with
> telling about premiere of Mera-Naam-Joker and how
> Raj
> Kapoor nearly lamented his decision to premiere the
> film closest to his heart when he arrived at the
> *cemented Titanic waiting for take off in the middle
> of nowhere* and was relieved to find the 1000-seater
> house-ful.
>
> Actually, the 1000-seater was way more than
> house-ful
> and the view from the stage had the architect so
> worried about safety that he got off to pace around.
> by the time he had chilled my-name-joker had
> started.
> not wanting to barge in and not wanting to be
> clueless
> afterwards, he made his-made way to the projection
> room.
>
> PN (Kuki) Mathur, the architect, was on stage
> because
> it was also the premiere of his building.
>
> he told me all this today when i called him, because
> I
> was worried about how he might be feeling about the
> NDMC plan *to demolish the old structure and build a
> multiplex on the land by floating global tender*. if
> any one wants, i can check with him and give his
> numbers. 20 years ago I also sorted out his drawings
> of 20 years as his trainee, despite stiff resistance
> (to both the trainee-ing and the sorting), and
> recall
> relocating sheets and sketches and scraps from
> various
> mixed-use drawers and rolls to a Chanakya-project
> zone
> in his office furniture.
>
> (with no apologies whatsoever for a to-sir-with-love
> post; i am completely convinced we would gain
> immensely more from floating global tender for
> finding
> teachers, people, like Kuki Mathur than from
> floating
> global tender for substituting his
> *cemented-Titanic*
> with some state-of-the-art multiplex-n-mall)
>
>
>
>
>
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