Jaisalmer fort in India

ROLL A: 1200 OC SILENT FTG OF MAHARAJA'S PALACE. CS: VO BRADFORD. EXT PALACE OF MAHARAJA OF RAJASTHAN, FANTASTIC ORNATE BUILDING. SHOTS OF MAHARAJA & WIFE ARRIVING AT A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL IN AN OPEN CAR. MS OF THEM. VS HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WAITING TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THEM. SHOTS OF FORTRESS / PALACE IN JAISALMER. INTS OF MAHARAJA'S PRIVATE SALON CAR ON TRAIN. HIS FRIENDS SIT AROUND LISTENING TO MUSICIANS PLAY FOLK MUSIC. MORE OF FORTRESS. SHOT OF THREE CAMELS CROSSING DUNE, AGAINST SETTING SUN. SHOTS OF PEOPLE IN COSTUMES RIDING ELEPHANTS THROUGH STREETS OF JODHPUR. SHOTS OF MAHARAJA & WIFE BLESSING PARTICIPANTS IN RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL. MORE EXT OF PALACE JAISALMER. LS OF CITY FROM FORTRESS. SHOTS OF ANCIENT CANNONS.

New Delhi, India <br/> <br/>INDIAN REPUBLIC DAY PARADE <br/> <br/>LS Arrival of Indian President, Dr Zakir Hussain, in open carriage to take salute at march-past. Various shots of the huge march-past down Independence Avenue to celebrate Indian Republic Day. - Vijayanta tanks, marching and mounted troops, marching brass band, Gurkha Rifles, Indian Navy, Ganga Jaisalmer Grenadiers riding camels, The Winter Warfare Contingent carrying skiis, decorated elephants carrying musicians, shots of traditional costumes and saris, folk dancers and floats dipicting diffent parts of India. <br/> <br/>(Original Colour)

India celebrates Republic Day with a parade in New Delhi, 1952

Jaisalmer fort in India

Title reads - News in Colour. <br/> <br/>Technicolor. <br/> <br/>Indian Republic Day. <br/> <br/>L/S big parade down Rajpath road in New Delhi with military men on horseback. L/S and M/S Vice President Zakir Hussain taking the salute. M/S floats passing depicting Indian life and religion. M/S Grenadiers of the Ganga Jaisalmer Rasala on camels passing along. M/S lady in sari on swing and others dancing around whilst men play instruments. M/S kilted girls' national cadet corps band. M/S crowd cheering and clapping. M/S elephants in colourful silks walking in parade. Various C/U's dancers and band in the streets. L/S crowds gathered.

ROLL B: 1200 OC SILENT CONTINUATION OF FTG OF MAHARAJA'S PALACE. SHOT OF THE ROYAL TRAIN ARRIVING AT JAISALMER STATION. MORE LS OF FORTRESS. SHOTS OF MAHARAJA & WIFE RIDING IN BUICK CONVERTIBLE, LEAVING PALACE. SHOTS OF THEM ATTENDING RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL. SHOTS OF THEM BEING BLESSED BY DANCERS. SHOTS OF SPECTATORS. MORE OF CAMELS CROSSING, SETTING SUN IN DESERT. GOOD TAKE OF SUN DISAPPEARING BEHIND DUNES. (WILD MAG TRK OF MUSIC & SOME NAT SOUND TO ACCOMPANY ABOVE).

Jaisalmer fort in India

oc 925 sof / mag / sil VS JAISALMER FORT, ELABORATELY DESIGNED PARAPETS, TOWERS AND RAMPARTS OF FORT. VS BAZAAR (MARKET) SCENES. HA'S MEN LEADING AND RIDING CAMELS THROUGH BAZAAR. VS CU MAN PLAYING HIS FLUTE. VS WOMEN SELLING VEGETABLES IN BAZAAR. VS WOMEN SQUATTING BEFORE VEGETABLES AND SCALES, HIDING FACES FROM CAMERA. CU'S BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL. VS WOMAN, WITH ARMS FULL OF BRACELETS, WASHING. VS WOMAN PUMPING FIRE BLOWERS, OTHER WOMAN HAMMERING OUT RED HOT METAL OBJECTS. VS CU'S WOMENS FACES WITH JEWELRY. VS HERD OF CAMELS. HA'S CITY OF JAISALMER CU'S OLD MAN. HA'S TEMPLES VS MAN PLAYING TRADITIONAL STRINGED INSTRUMENT TO ACCOMPANIMENT OF SINGERS. CU'S WOMEN'S FACES, WOMEN WITH NOSE RINGS AND MEDALS. CU'S MAN STAMPING HIS FOOT INTO GROUND TO BEAT OF MUSIC. VS WOMEN WITH VEILED FACES. VS MEN PLAYING STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. VS WOMAN AND MAN PERFORMING STRANGE DANCE; LYING ON GROUND, FANNING THE AIR WITH METAL, PAN-LIKE DISCS, RISING, THRASHING ABOUT, TWIRLING AROUND. VS CU'S WOMEN'S FACES AS THEY WATCH DANCE CEREMONY. VS BEAUTIFUL SHOTS OF DESERT DUNES WITH SUN IN BG (SOME SCRATCHED). VS MEN LEADING CAMELS OVER DUNES, SOME SHOTS WITH SUN SETTING IN BG. CI: GEOGRAPHICS: INDIA, JAISALMER. FESTIVALS: DESERT. ANIMALS: CAMELS. MUSIC: INSTRUMENTS, FLUTE. MUSIC: DANCING. MANKIND: NATIONALITIES, INDIAN. GEOLOGY: DUNES, DESERT.

Jaisalmer fort in India

TAPE: EF01/0893 IN_TIME: 00:19:19 DURATION: 3:16 SOURCES: APTN/ZEE TV RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various, 28/29 Dec 2001 SHOTLIST: APTN New Delhi - 29 December 2001 1. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee walking in for meeting 2. Cutaway cameras 3.Vajpayee greeting party leaders 4. Mid shot Indian Home Minister Lal Krishan Advani 5. Mid shot Vajpayee, pan to Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh 6. Wide shot meeting 7. Wide shot Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) press briefing 8. Reporters 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sunil Shastri , BJP spokesman: " We believe that the United States and other western nations can and must do much more to put effective pressure on Pakistan to stop its sponsorship of terrorism against India." 10. Vajpayee being welcomed with garlands of flowers at meeting 11. BJP leaders at meeting 12. Mid shot Vajpayee 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sunil Shastri, BJP spokesman: "Pakistan's stand on terrorism has been exposed to be opportunistic. General Musharraf has hinted that he chose to join the international coalition against Taliban with the sole purpose of getting Kashmir. We accept this challenge." 14. Cameras 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nirupama Rao, Indian Foreign Ministry spokesperson "However for the dialogue to begin again, the government of Pakistan must take credible, firm, substantive and visible action against terrorist groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India, from its soil and the territories it controls today. Until that happens, the government of India will maintain the heightened vigilance on the line of control and the international border and also keep in place the other measures which have been taken in the last few days." ZEE TV Near Jaisalmer border, Rajasthan State - 28 December 2001 16. Wide shot Indian military convoy moving towards forward posts on Jaisalmer border 17. Tank being carried to border 18. Various of military convoy 19. Tracking shot along military vehicles and tanks 20. Military truck carrying artillery gun 21. Road sign for Jaisalmer 22. Various of troops walking 23. Wide shot desert 24. Army jeep passing through desert Near Kutch border, Gujarat - 28 December 26. Pan over area near Kutch border 12. Various of military convoy carrying artillery 13. Various of police 14. Various of train carrying military supplies and artillery guns STORYLINE : India said on Saturday it would do its best to avert war with Pakistan, yet still rejected a call by Pakistan's president for talks during next week's summit of South Asian leaders. New Delhi also continued to send tens of thousands of troops to the border with its nuclear rival, saying Pakistan had to show further evidence of its efforts to stop terrorist groups operating from its soil. As the standoff at the border separating the two south Asian neighbors continued, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee warned his nation to be prepared for the possibility that peace efforts might fail. He told senior officials of his Bharatiya Janata Party that India did not want a war, but said a war in the form of cross-border terrorism had already been thrust of India. A BJP spokesman said his party noted that support for India among western governments has been growing. Tanks, artillery and soldiers have been streaming into the western desert state of Rajasthan, as well as neighbouring Gujarat. India's border with Pakistan has been on a state of high alert and there has been a massive build up of troops on both sides since the December 13 attack on the Indian parliament by five armed gunmen. Jaisalmer, the last of the Indian Rajput states to become a part of the Indian union under the British Raj, was also at the centre of India's three wars with Pakistan. In Gujrat, the Kutch border with Pakistan has been sealed. Special trains are being run to transport weapons and military supplies to the border posts. The military deployment is not without risks. At least 12 soldiers from engineering regiments were killed in explosions on Friday afternoon as they were laying land mines along the Pakistani border.

TAPE: EF02/0138 IN_TIME: 06:55:44 / 14:20:22 DURATION: 3:59 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Bombay, India February 2002 SHOTLIST 1. Various of set of film 'Escape from Taliban' at Film City studio 2. Lights being set up 3. Various of lead actress Manisha Koirala doing make-up 4. Mid shot camera 5. Clapboard, shot being taken, showing Manisha talking to Afghan women 6. Close shot character artist 7. Manisha Koirala giving shot 8. Wide shot camera shooting 9. Mid shot artists 10. Make up man with Manisha 12. SOT (English) Manisha Koirala, actress: "All that she sees is the oppression of women you know, how women were not given equal status and then how she fights it. And when she is fighting it also, she decides she cannot fight it alone, so decides to run away back to where she came from - which is Calcutta. And this film is her struggle in Afghanistan to adjust to the environment - and when she can't adjust, then, her journey of trying to run away." 13. scene with armed Taliban threatening women 11. Mid shot director with assistant 14. SOT (English) Ujjal Chattopadhyaya, film director: "After 11th September I think this is the burning issue in the world. And it is my hope that everybody throughout the world to see this film. I want to show through the film how the Taliban tortured the women, how Taliban tortured the general public in Afghanistan." 15. Various of Manisha Koirala shooting scene with Afghan women, teaching them English and asking them to fight against the Taliban oppression 16. SOT (English) Manisha Koirala, actress: "Yes I spoke to Sushmita ji whose life this story is based on. So I got the picture of the whole thing - and whenever there is some kind of documentary shown in Afghanistan , whenever I could see articles , I would pick them up and read them, or I would switch on that channel to see. So yes, research work has definitely been done, but I think more so from the director's side because he had to tackle the ambience and everything." 17. Photographer taking pictures 18. Manisha reading script, preparing for shot 19. close shot Manisha BOLLYWOOD ATTEMPTS 'ESCAPE FROM TALIBAN' The film 'Escape from Taliban,' currently being shot at the Film City studios in Bombay, is based on the true story of Sushmita Bandopadhyaya who lived in Afghanistan and subsequently secretly fled the oppressive Taliban regime. Calcutta-born Sushmita fell in love with an Afghani man, whom she married and accompanied back to his homeland. However, once she arrived, she discovered that he was already married. Adding insult to injury, she was then confined to their home, ill-treated by his family and banned from leaving the country. Sushmita soon incurred the wrath of the fanatical Taliban regime by working as a nurse and teaching local women until finally she managed to escape. Once safely back home in India she wrote her autobiography, on which Bengali director Ujjal Bandopadhyaya has based 'Escape from Taliban.' The film is being produced in English with famous Bollywood star Manisha Koirala taking the lead. Bandopadhyaya used the Leh region of Laddakh and the the Jaisalmer desert state in Rajasthan to re-create the rugged landscape of Afghanistan. The director says he hopes to portray the condition of Afghani women under the Taliban regime. The film will be ready for release in May this year (2002). For Manisha Koirala this is one of the most challenging roles of her career in Bollywood. She has met Sushmita several times and has also researched the lives of Afghani women. The film makers are hoping the current interest in Afghanistan will help market their film internationally.

Jaisalmer fort in India

Artillery at Jaisalmer fort in India

Demoiselle cranes (Grus virgo) standing at 76cm a smallish gray crane with black head and conspicuous white ear tufts behind eye. Desert of Rajasthan between Bikaner and Jaisalmer. India.

Demoiselle cranes (Grus virgo) standing at 76cm a smallish gray crane with black head and conspicuous white ear tufts behind eye. Desert of Rajasthan between Bikaner and Jaisalmer. India.