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A week later, I had met and chosen the
best fifteen of our local 'extras' and in the terrific heat,
appraised them not only of Napoleonic arms-drill (due to some
props difficulties, we initially had no arms to drill with) and
as usual including some advice on the vagaries of film-work on-set.
As is my usual they called me by my first
name and I by theirs : any interim problems came to me first
of which - as usual - there later transpired to be many, including
a punch-up requiring a 'diplomatic' resolution. After three days
of 'fun and games' in Khajuraho, we departed for our first filming-location
fifty miles to the east - Orchha, a small town surrounded by
'semi-dense jungle' (for map-reading fans, lying on the River
Betwa west of a town named Jhansi in the province of Madya Prakesh). |
