Chanakya theatre is an important building of Delhi. In fact the entire
Yashwwant Place Complex. It represents a reasonably good culmination of
modern architectural ideas. This is part of our Delhi recent development.
I'm sorry that the NDMC does not know how to appreciate its own endeavours.
Any ideas what we should do.
Nalini Thakur
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Subject: [mpisgmedia] the architect of Chanakya Cinema
> 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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Yashwwant Place Complex. It represents a reasonably good culmination of
modern architectural ideas. This is part of our Delhi recent development.
I'm sorry that the NDMC does not know how to appreciate its own endeavours.
Any ideas what we should do.
Nalini Thakur
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gita Dewan Verma" <mpisgplanner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mpisgmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 11:42 PM
Subject: [mpisgmedia] the architect of Chanakya Cinema
> 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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