Imagine that the director Satyajit Ray maintains a daily notebook of his experience of shooting the flim in Rajasthan.Use information given in text to write on - a)when he meets the maharaja and- b)the first day of shooting. the contents should around 2 paragraph. you are free to add more detail of your own
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Dated :- April 10th
We reached the fort where the guards asked for our ID Cards and the reason of meeting Maharaja. We showed them our documents and told them that we are here to shoot for our Bengali Film. He went inside and came back with the permission of letting us in the Fort. He took us to a room which had many dull and unpleasant looking sofas which lined the four walls of the Maharaja's sitting room. There were fluorescent tubes near the four corners of the ceiling and around half a dozen of paintings of the calendar variety hung from various positions on the wall. Also there was a Kashmiri table with a brass top which placed in the center of the room. Maharaja entered the room and asked me if we have come from Bombay. I told him no and that we are from Calcutta, Then he asked me if it we are here to shoot a Bengali film. I told him yes. I could see the disappointment on his face. He came towards me and took the vacant seat next to me. It was really hard for me to believe it that I am sitting next to the Maharaja of Jaisalmer for a conference. He then asked me the reason of choosing Jaisalmer for the shooting. I told him that it is because this fort provides the perfect backdrop for the story of my film and also this fort hasn't used before by any of the feature film makers. He corrected me that a movie has already been shot here called Sassi-Punnu and it was by * Punjabi company. On hearing it I was a bit embarrassed as I was quite confident of being the first filmmaker to shoot in the fort of Jaisalmer. He also asked me if there would be any dance sequence in the film. I told him that there is only one and that too a Demon dance which we have already shot in the Forests of Bengal. He asked me to take the pictures of the fort so that we can prepare for our shoor.
We have already completed shooting in the villages of Bengal, Shimla and in a desert and now were here to turn this 800 year old fortress town into a mythical kingdom called Halla, of the "bad king' in our story. He asked me if I wanted any permission about anything. I told him that we want to use the roof of the old Palace and would like to hoist some flags with special emblems on them. On hearing it he asked me if his flags will be displaced. I told him no. He agreed to it and then asked me if there is anything else I might need. I told him that we would also like to use the old drum for a war scene. He said it is fine until we are taking it out of the for and we really didn't need to do that. At last I asked him if we can get a few hundred camels with men to ride them. He spoke to his cousin the Kumar Bahadur and told me that Ramdulal will take care of it. I told him that that is all I needed and thanked him for the same. It was a pleasure to meet him and I am really thankful for him for his generosity We have to start our shooting tomorrow and I hope everything goes as per our plans. We have everything ready and we just need to shoot now.
Dated: April 11
Today we started setting up the location for the shooting The crew set up the base at the fort and I was busy at my work behind the camera. Soon I saw that Maharaja was also there to inspect on us. He was pleased on seeing the set up but went to his jeep as it was the day time in summers and the sun was really hot. I also focused on the camels but suddenly I heard a lot of chatter and noise in the background and found out that a crowd had gathered to watch the shooting and to meet the Maharaja. My crew then shuffled them off They seemed to be unhappy about it.
Maharaja also left after that. But we shot till 6:30 in the evening as it was a long day of summer. We were able to complete our first day of shooting and we were satisfied that everything went well. We have to start early tomorrow make sure we finish our schedule on time.