Adi Pocha

eBook, ePUB

Behram's Boat (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

"Behram's Boat" is a funny, whimsical story of one eccentric, cranky old Parsi's struggle to build a boat that will save his people. And bring meaning to his life. Not a modern ship, but a traditional boat of wood and sail, that will retrace the historic voyage of the Parsis when they first came to India. But this time, the other way around: from Sanjan in India all the way to Iran. Behram's grand plan involves filling his boat not with refugees, but with young Parsi couples, who he hopes will fall in love during the voyage, and... well, contribute to the growth of their tribe. In a scheme that is both mad and hopeless, yet strangely heroic and moving, Behram Rustomjee battles all odds: from the challenges of hard labour under a relentless sun, on a black swamp of a beach to threats to his very life from people who say he is building a filthy ""Sex Boat"". For a man who has achieved not very much, Behram Rustomjee, for once, is determined to make his life mean something. But. Will the world allow him to build and sail his dream? "An enchanting pen-portrait - at once hilariously funny and painfully poignant - of not just an engagingly eccentric individual - a tragi-comic latter-day Noah - but of an entire community, and a way of life which is fast disappearing." - Jug Suraiya

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.5MB
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Born in 1962, Adi Pocha is a writer, film-maker, based in Mumbai who has been writing professionally for advertising and television for the last thirty-eight years.

Born into a show-biz family, (his father was a comedian, his mother a doctor and a singer, and his aunt is Usha Uthup) he started his writing career in 1984 as a copywriter in an advertising agency called Shilpi, after which he was hired by Lintas in 1985, and was made Creative Head of Lintas' Calcutta office in 1987.

After six and a half years at Lintas, during which he worked on a variety of campaigns, including the infamous Kamasutra campaign, he left the agency to start his own scriptwriting company.

However, to make ends meet (he left Lintas with just Rs 5000/-), he started directing TV commercials for UTV.

When satellite TV was launched in India in 1992, he conceptualized and directed the immensely popular (and immensely irritating) game show, "Saanp Seedi".

Then went on to create, write, direct and executive produce India's first daily soap, "Shanti".

While he now runs his own corporate and documentary film making company, he has always thought of writing as his first love.

His fortnightly column "Rebel Without A Clue" in The Indian Express (Mumbai Newsline) ran for almost ten years and achieved a modest fan following of its own.

He writes a weekly blog (adipocha.blogspot.in).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leadstart
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789354382222
• Artikelnr.: 72800178