It was 1985. The
wheels of the generator van turned into a small lane called Arisikaran Street
(rice vendor street), in the heart of Mylapore Agraharam, where we lived then.
The Agraharam (a Brahmin settlement) exists even today, but multi-storeyed
apartments have taken the place of what were called “mottai maadi veeduâ€,
open-terraced individual homes. That day in 1985, these terraces saw a
jump-on-jump-off “parkour†chase sequence for the first “Bond filmâ€
an entertainment entrepreneur, curates art and writes on cinema
when she is not shooting, sometimes even when she is.
