Aaejay, as I already said became... Aaejay Kardar, the director, who became a very good friend, hadn't got all that much experience. In fact, he had no experience. He was... he was the scion of a Bombay film movie family, and his elder brother made many, many movies in Bombay. But he had left and settled in Lahore and he had no actual film making experience, although he'd been around films a long time. So he had certain weaknesses, one could say. So the first time... there's a sequence where the two young lovers, you could say, the man who's courting, he's courting the girl. Aaejay said when they first meet can you pan her up and down. I said, 'I don't think we'll do that'. I said, 'You've got two... you've got at least one very experienced actor here, and the boy's okay, so let's find another way for introducing them to each other without panning her up and down'. So that was cut out.

But then there was a very symbolic thing that, when they're actually ready to kiss each other, possibly, because you don't kiss in Indian films either, but when they approach each other, the camera discreetly pans off and there's a very symbolic bit where there's this... there's this inlet from the river flowing along. They'd sat down by the side of this inlet, and there are water lilies floating on the water, and there's a sort of dam that forms. All the water lilies get collected and stow up. And then suddenly something happens and the flow is released, and that was the symbolic end of that sequence. I don't think that's in the movie either. I have a feeling that that turned out to be a little bit too symbolic. Most of the time the... the acting was more than adequate. And the painter was particularly good because he had this very sad, sort of, resigned hangdog expression, that... it worked extremely well. It's not often that you can find a... what is virtually, an intellectual, and certainly a middle class person, playing a fisherman, a poor fisherman from a remote region convincingly. But he certainly managed that, very beautifully too.