This Billionaire Industrialist Was Once An Aspiring Filmmaker. Any Guesses?
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"Easy to answer this. I wanted to be a filmmaker and studied film in college."
Anand Mahindra is a name to reckon with in the world of business today - but not many know that the Chairman of Mahindra Group once aspired to be a filmmaker. Anand Mahindra, 66, took to Twitter this afternoon to share a rare throwback photo while revealing that he studied filmmaking in college. The black-and-white photo shows a young Anand Mahindra with a hand-held 16mm camera. It was taken many years ago at a remote village near Indore, Madhya Pradesh, the industrialist revealed. Easy to answer this. I wanted to be a filmmaker & was studied film in college. My thesis was a film I made at the ‘77 Kumbh Mela. But this pic was while shooting a documentary in a remote village near Indore. Anyone old enough to guess which handheld 16mm camera I was using? https://t.co/xmLuuLrv3Apic.twitter.com/oKCddQFyGf You certainly had an epic hairstyle sir. Keeping with the times ???? Looks like a Bolex... my friend had one in the college days did Mira Nair click this picture????? As a student of filmmaking in college, my thesis film was shot at the Mahakumbh in Allahabad, 1977. It was a seminal experience that made me understand that being Indian was being part of a universal confluence. So appropriate that it has been recognised as a treasure of Humanity https://t.co/mTuQVNNatV
The subject of filmmaking came up when a Twitter user asked Mr Mahindra what his "ambition during school/college days" had been.
"Easy to answer this. I wanted to be a filmmaker and studied film in college," Mr Mahindra replied. "My thesis was a film I made at the '77 Kumbh Mela," he further revealed.