In 1975 the Marguerite Duras film India Song was shown at the Cannes film festival. I had been photographing on the set that was supposed to be the French Embassy in Lahore. But Duras shot India Song in a private mansion in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. For her next film Son nom de Venice dans Calcutta Désert her idea, Duras' son Outa, told us jokingly, was to overlay the sound track from India Song, on new images, this time without actors. I remember being incredulous, but confident that she would pull it off, even though I couldn't imagine what it would be like.