'Roadside Vinyls' | short film | Royal Record Shop, Kolkata (Calcutta), India
Channel: Jit
Date: 09/06/2012

I met Md. Azim Shamsi in his shop on Free School Street purely by chance, when I was contracted for a culture promotion group from Europe for a docu feature. He was the custodian of the fifty year old shop that was started by his late father. 
He used to sell English, Hindi and Bengali records at throwaway prices and sells and repairs turntables. 

after this video gone live, music lovers from the world started to throng his shop frequently.

Last year, 2017, poor Azim left for more melodious world, where he won't have to sell records :(
I just keeping his memory alive, as a music lover, but, more as a close friend.

The business card thumbnail you see on video overlay, was designed by me, for him.

I've disabled commenting on this particular video, because, some local people were just bothering me, you know this country ;)

For any queries, comment on any of my other videos, ( I mentioned my email here earlier, now I see a fb account was opened using that id,whoa! )

Responses might be late, to mimic the old times of vinyl, when it was, slow !)

 

It was shot on a samsung digimax i6, a 6mp point n shoot, I was low on gears back then )

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