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Title: MANJI

Reference number: 7854

Date: 2001

Director: d. Rene Mohandas

Sponsor: BBC Scotland, Scottish Screen

Producer: Abigail Hawkins

Production company: Gabriel Films

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.03 mins

Description: Struggling to come to terms with the loss of his wife and his once successful car business, Manji escapes into a Bollywood fantasy world of music and dance. [synopsis from BFI database at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/725442, last accessed 27/1/2010]

Production file held by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Screened at 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2001.

Tartan Shorts: A joint short film initiative funded by BBC Scotland and Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund. Three films per year commissioned for theatrical release and broadcast.

Credits: Manji Amrik Singh
Raj Mandeep Sandhu
Rambai Durdana Bedi
Laxmi Laxmi Kathuria
Male Customer Joseph Cassidy
Female Customer Ailsa Alexandra Hamilton
1st ass. d. Bill Clark
2nd ass. d. Jill Pryde
3rd ass. d. Emma Bedford
location man. Simon Wesyon
focus puller Jaspreet Bal
grip David McAnulty
clapper loader Alysia Maciejowska
boom operator Alan MacNicol
gaffer Willie Kelly
art d. Andy Drummond
properties Emma Robens, Michael Barclay
costumes Amalie Harper Gow
make-up ass. Karen Campbell
p. accountant Ian Reid
p. co-ordinator Beverely Murray
p. team Neil McCormack, Robin Lee
d. ph. Ian Dodds
p. designer Janice Flint
costume designer Anna Lau
make-up design Karen Brotherson
choreography Francesca Jaynes
sd. rec. Rupert Castle
composers Debbie Eckman, Jim Muotune
dubbing mixer John Cobban
film ed. Diarmid Scrimshaw
exec. p. Victoria Evans, Oscar van Heek
w. Rene Mohandas