Some time next week, Kiran Rao will escape to Panchgani so she can focus on writing her next one based in Kolkata, the city she grew up in. But your diarist has learned she will be back on October 1 to keep a date with her roommates from Sophia College hostel on Bhulabhai Desai Road.
Kiran, who spent her first three years in Mumbai there, is being felicitated by the Sophia College Ex Students Association. We hear she's thrilled at the prospect of revisiting the premises and the rooms she lived in - even the bathrooms, which have apparently been renovated since.
The director, who made the city her subject in Dhobhi Ghat and is now on a MAMI jury for short films by Mumbai residents under 25, has come a long way since her college days.
Your diarist has learnt that back then, she saved pennies for a five-buck pack of lemon-flavoured potato chips from the store outside and shared it, rather grudgingly, with others. She also made Maggi noodles with a trickle of water from an instant geyser and on a hot plate. Her roommates, who waited hungrily and patiently for it to get done with her, still swear by her culinary skills.
Kiran, who spent her first three years in Mumbai there, is being felicitated by the Sophia College Ex Students Association. We hear she's thrilled at the prospect of revisiting the premises and the rooms she lived in - even the bathrooms, which have apparently been renovated since.
The director, who made the city her subject in Dhobhi Ghat and is now on a MAMI jury for short films by Mumbai residents under 25, has come a long way since her college days.
Your diarist has learnt that back then, she saved pennies for a five-buck pack of lemon-flavoured potato chips from the store outside and shared it, rather grudgingly, with others. She also made Maggi noodles with a trickle of water from an instant geyser and on a hot plate. Her roommates, who waited hungrily and patiently for it to get done with her, still swear by her culinary skills.
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