Thanks a lot for correcting me Neil sir, I assume most of Ritwik's movies were shot in Calcutta... Regards Pankaj
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Dr. Oudhia, > Obviously an avenue of Rain trees. A few of these still exist in Santa > Cruz, Bombay. > Regards, > Neil Soares. > > --- On *Fri, 1/14/11, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> > Subject: [efloraofindia:60306] Old trees in Ritwik Ghatak Movie > (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960) > To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, January 14, 2011, 7:01 PM > > Dear Group Members, > > I received an interesting query. Please go through it and share your > comments. > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > -=-= > Dear Mr. Oudhia, > I was watching an older Ritwik Ghatak movie (Cloud-Capped Star; 1960), and > a > couple of scenes included views of a road flanked by large trees (see > attached > screenshot). As you likely know, Ghatak was a Bengali director, and this > move > was filmed in West Bengal. I wrote to Dorrie Rosen at the New York > Botanical > Garden to see if she could identify the tree from this distant view (and > w/o > closeup images of the leaves, etc.). As can be read from the thread of > comments, she was guessing Banyan, but also suggested it could be a Devil > tree > (Alstonia scholaris) or Ficus religiosa syn. Urostigma religiosum (sacred > Bodhi > tree). Because we don't have close-ups of the foliage, she suggested > contacting > an Indian expert. So ... any idea what this tree is? This is mostly out of > curiosity, rather than any scientific need. > > Thanks much, > Jim Borowiec > > > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
