{"id":4029,"date":"2009-12-04T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2009-12-04T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T04:48:00","slug":"the-silver-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-silver-peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news para of the day comes from a Times of India<\/i> report<\/a> on the International Film Festival of India:<\/p>\n

\n

Korean director Ounie Lecomte walked away with the Silver Peacock for ‘A Brand New Life’, which translated her own experiences as a child into a collective film. She also received a cash prize of Rs 15.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a part of me that wants that to be a typo, so that the prize is Rs 15 lakh. (That’s actually quite likely.) But there’s another part of me that wants the director to actually have received Rs 15, in three tattered five-rupee notes, the kind your auto driver tries to pass on to you when you’re in an absent-minded haze. I can imagine the baffled director hold up one of them and ask a festival volunteer, “How much is this in my currency?”<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure, ma’am, I don’t know anything about your currency.”<\/p>\n

“Ok then: How far can it go in India? I mean, what can you spend it on?”<\/p>\n

“You can buy a wada pav.”<\/p>\n

‘What’s that?”<\/p>\n

“It’s a building in Worli.”<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Luv<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news para of the day comes from a Times of India<\/i> report<\/a> on the International Film Festival of India:<\/p>\n

\n

Korean director Ounie Lecomte walked away with the Silver Peacock for ‘A Brand New Life’, which translated her own experiences as a child into a collective film. She also received a cash prize of Rs 15.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There’s a part of me that wants that to be a typo, so that the prize is Rs 15 lakh. (That’s actually quite likely.) But there’s another part of me that wants the director to actually have received Rs 15, in three tattered five-rupee notes, the kind your auto driver tries to pass on to you when you’re in an absent-minded haze. I can imagine the baffled director hold up one of them and ask a festival volunteer, “How much is this in my currency?”<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure, ma’am, I don’t know anything about your currency.”<\/p>\n

“Ok then: How far can it go in India? I mean, what can you spend it on?”<\/p>\n

“You can buy a wada pav.”<\/p>\n

‘What’s that?”<\/p>\n

“It’s a building in Worli.”<\/p>\n

(Link via email from Luv<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33,15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Silver Peacock - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-silver-peacock\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Silver Peacock - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The news para of the day comes from a Times of India report on the International Film Festival of India: Korean director Ounie Lecomte walked away with the Silver Peacock for ‘A Brand New Life’, which translated her own experiences as a child into a collective film. 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