#DirectorsDiaries' Rawalpindi journey. My father, #AnandBakshi, born in Rawalpindi, could never return to his place of birth. Yet....

#DirectorsDiaries' Rawalpindi journey. Such love!

My father, #AnandBakshi, born in Rawalpindi, migrated to Delhi post the partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Alas, he could never return to his place of birth.

However, his songs did. 

And now, thanks to Pakistan national #EmadAleeAslam, our little book did too. THANK YOU! 

Emad traced our ancestral house, thanks to my Pakistan national friend Waseem Altaf (Islamabad), actually the first person to trace my family's roots in Rawalpindi a few years ago, and send us pictures too of the house. I wished my father were around then, to have seen the pictures of the home he missed all his life. 

Emad posed with our book outside my father's still existing two floors house in Rawalpindi. The house now belongs to Pakistani nationals. In the black and white picture below is my father atop the terrace of their ancestral house back in the early 1930s. 

(Emad is a journalist by profession and a writer by passion He has worked with Rawalpindi Historic Urban Landscape project. he is a translator and a member of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). He is working on Pothohar's history, art & culture. #AmmadAli - the Rationalist. :)  )

First article to be published in Pakistan:

The Express Tribune, Islamabad. Reviews #DirectorsDiaries 

by #HumayWaseem 

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2015.

How Bollywood bigwigs made it.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/942945/how-bollywood-bigwigs-made-it-big/

#RakeshAnandBakshi

The directors’ on Cinema & Filmmaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8bnPI95HCs

The directors’ Beginnings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgbvst-mhOw