Documentary poetry with Jeh

Franny Armstrong
Location
Hotel room in Mumbai
Mood
Soldiering on
Soundtrack
Keane on the laptop, nightclub downstairs, horns honking
Ailments
Bruised nose from walking into glass door
Date
27.10.05
Current crisis
Lost tripod plate
Current silver lining
Jeh has decided that doc is a good idea
Next job
Call centre selling first tickets

Jeh enjoying the filming. Our hero

Photograph: Patrick Igonet

 

Had a fantastic morning filming Jeh and his supermodel wife at their house and then in the car with Jeh doing his car salesman bit. I asked him a simple question and he talked non-stop for an hour, complete with mobile calls, beggars begging, crossing himself as we passed temples and plenty of back seat driving. The subjects covered were: house-husbandry, schooling in England, trance music as spirituality, selling ice to Eskimos, cutting apron strings, how to overcome knock-backs, why his 10-day millennium festival in Goa was cancelled and how driving a different car to school every day at 17 helps one's confidence.

He is quite a brilliant character for a film. And the fact that he is starting an airline in order to eradicate poverty in India is documentary poetry.