How Tamil cinema flourished: Author PV Gopalakrishnan’s ‘Nitrate Saga’ takes a peek into the past
[ad_1] Chimpanzee Zippy arriving at the Madras airport in 1955 PV Gopalakrishnan, now 77, speaks about the Fifties like it was yesterday. He was in Class V when he first heard about Zippy, a chimpanzee specially being flown in to Madras to shoot for the SS Vasan-backed Hindi film Isaniyat (1955). “Zippy took Madras city […]
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