![]() I have played Mr Fox from Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. He used to make us do stage productions based on literary works. “The credit for everything fantasy and dark goes to my English teacher in school. Saikia, who grew up in Assam, was always fascinated by the macabre and the fantastic. “It was thanks to Shernaz and Alter’s association, which went way back,” he adds. Him being on the shoot was like a masterclass in acting and cinema,” says Saikia, who adds that there was a lot of carmaderie on the sets. He had such energy and warmth on the sets and there was so much to learn from him. Instead of resting, he came for the shoot. “Before we started the shoot, Tom sir was just wrapping his theatre festival - ‘Jashn-e-Maazhi’ in Mumbai - where he had been performing incessantly for many days. The film was shot for about a week in Nainital, while some indoor scenes were done in Mumbai. The film opens to what must be a daily occurrence in Ruskin Bond’s very organised life - him walking around Mussoorie, visiting antique shops and finding restless shopkeepers who ask about his next book. He maintains that he has never seen any ghosts, and they only exist in his imagination, and also that he thinks that his ghosts are a bit too friendly to be scary,” says Saikia. But finally I met him at his house in Landour. “It was very difficult to establish contact with him. He fondly recalls his meeting with India’s favourite storyteller - a meeting that was slotted for 30 minutes, but went on for three hours, where horror, ghosts and Vishal Bhardwaj were discussed at length. How the cat, the broomstick and Miss Bellows throw the otherwise sedate life of the writer in disarray, is the rest of the story.īut before Saikia was keen on Alter, he was fixated on Bond. “The offence was so serious that only a custodial sentence is justified and I would be failing in my public duty if I did not impose one.The short film, which is doing the rounds of festivals, and was recently screened at the Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival in Guwahati, has Alter essaying Bond’s role, while the mystique-riddled Miss Bellows is played by Shernaz Patel.There is also a broomstick thrown in the mix along with the eponymous black cat, which mysteriously appears on the doorstep of Bond’s cottage. “You acted with callous disregard for a living animal. “This was an offence of cruelty of truly horrific proportions,” he told Powell. Sentencing Powell, the district judge said the cat had “suffered an agonising and lingering death”. She added: “The neighbour rushed the puss to a local vet where he was given emergency treatment but, sadly, died overnight.” “The violent attack was witnessed by two neighbours who screamed at him to stop beating the dazed and injured cat, who then fell around 10ft off his balcony and onto the pavement below.” ![]() “Powell was angry he kept defecating on his balcony and so, when he came onto his balcony once more, he hit him again and again with a broom. Lucy Chillery, an inspector for the RSPCA, said: “The cat is thought to have been a stray that was fed by neighbours. ![]() Powell was also ordered to pay £2,998 in costs and banned from keeping animals for the rest of his life. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.
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