![]() ![]() He would also visit film studios- like the Famous Studios in Mahalaxmi, Kardar Studios in Dadar and Filmistaan in Goregaon among others-every day. Bakhshi made it a point to meet three or four people daily to ask for work. In the ’50s and ’60s, music composers and lyricists were a very close-knit group, and a newcomer could not easily get the attention of the composers. They pursue hits often blindly and shun people associated with flops as blindly. Film-making is expensive and film-makers, in my own experience too, are very superstitious. Writers, composers and film-makers worked in set teams they had their own favourites and did not want to ‘experiment’ with newcomers. ![]() ‘I had no other educational qualification nor family support to fall back on so I had to work at it harder than others’ The first place Bakhshi stayed at was the passengers’ waiting room at the Dadar railway station.īack in the 1950s, when he first arrived in Bombay, it had been difficult for him to make a breakthrough. He thought driving a taxi could become his part-time occupation, a means to sustain his life in Bombay till he found a job in films. But I won’t go back without a respectable livelihood.’ He already had a driving licence, as he had driven transportation trucks during his training in the army meant for military and commercial use. ‘Either I’ll become an artist or I’ll drive a taxi. In 1956, Anand Prakash Bakhshi made his second attempt at trying his luck in Bombay knowing the challenges that lay ahead. ![]()
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