Poets and Pancakes About the author Asokamitran ( – ), a Tamil writer, recounts his years at Gemini Studios in his book My Years with Boss which talks of the influence of movies on every aspect of life in India. The Gemini Studios, located in Chennai, was set up in . It was one of the most influential film-producing organisations of India in the early days of Indian film-making. Its founder was S.S.
Vasan. The duty of Asokamitran in Gemini Studios was to cut out newspaper clippings on a wide variety of subjects and store them in files. Many of these had to be written out by hand. Although he performed an insignificant function he was the most well- informed of all the members of the Gemini family.
The following is an excerpt from his book My Years with Boss. Notice these words and expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context. blew over was struck dumb catapulted into a coat of mail played into their hands the favourite haunt heard a bell ringing Pancake was the brand name of the make-up material that Gemini Studios bought in truck-loads.
Greta Garbo must have used it, Miss Gohar must have used it, Vyjayantimala must also have used it but Rati Agnihotri may not have even heard of it. The make-up department of the Gemini Studios was in the upstairs of a building that was believed to have been Robert Clive’s stables. A dozen other buildings in the city are said to have been his residence. For his .
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