Why did the author appear to be doing nothing at the studios?
The author was entrusted to cut out news papers clippings on a wide variety of subjects and store them in files. Most of the people at the studios thought that he was doing next to not sitting at his desk tearing up the newspapers day in and day out. They did not think it a work worth an educated man.
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Why was the office boy frustrated? Who did he show his anger on?
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Why was the office boy frustrated? Who, according to Asoka mitran, did he show his anger on?
The office was working in the makeup department but he was frustrated. Many years ago he joined the Gemini Studios in the hope of becoming a star actor or a top screen writer, director or lyrics-writer. But he slapped with paint the players who played the crowd. This work was suitable for barbers and perverts So his talent was being wasted.
For his frustration the office boy always directed all his anger towards No. 2, Kothamangalam Subbu because he was solely responsible for all his woes, ignominy and neglect at the studios.
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What work did the ‘office boy’ do in the Gemini Studios? Why did he join the studios? Why was he disappointed?
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What made the author pray for crowd shooting all the time in Poets and Pancakes?
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Why did the ‘boy’ in the make-up department come to the author? Why was the author praying for crowd shooting all the time?
The make-up department of the Gemini Studios had an “office boy.” He had a very responsible duty. He was to do the makeup of the crowd on the crowd shooting day. For the crowd shooting he would mix his paints in a huge vessel, and slap it on the crowd players to close every pore on each face.
He joined the studios years ago in the hope of becoming a star actor, or a top screen writer or a director or a lyrics-writer. He was a little poet too. But he was disappointed that his talent was in a such a department which was fit for the barbers and perverts. So the author was praying for crowd shooting all the time.
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What is the example of national integration that the author refers to?
The people from different regions and religions working together presented a glimpse of national integration. The make-up department was first headed by a Bengali. He was succeeded by a Maharashtrian. He was assisted by a Kannadiga from Dharwar and Andhra, a Madras Indian Christian, an Anglo-Burmese and usual local Tamils. All this shows that there was a great deal of national integration in the make-up room of the Gemini Studios.
What does the writer mean by ‘the fiery misery’ of those subjected to ‘make up’?
The make up-room of Gemini Studios had the look of a hair cutting salon. It had incandescent lights at all angles around half a dozen large mirrors. They radiated much heat. The dazzling lights were so troubling that it was a fiery misery of those subjected to the make-up there.
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