| The actor has visited various places across the city, speaking to Dundonians who moved to India to work in Calcutta’s jute industry in the 1940s and 1950s.
Hopscotch Films is making a documentary for BBC Scotland and recently appealed in The Tele for people with specialist knowledge of the jute industry to contact them.
The response to that has also helped the producers trace Asian Dundonians who left home to work in the Dundee jute mills, or to train at the Dundee Technical College.
Hopscotch researcher Dhivya Kate Chetty said they had previously met with the President of the Calcutta and Mofussil Scots Society, Tom Shepherd, and were gripped by his colourful stories of life in the mills in 1950s Calcutta.
The team visited Baxter Park today before lunching at DCA.
The filming continues tonight and tomorrow before the team heads off to Calcutta on Friday.
It will be broadcast later this year.
The producers are also appealing for anyone who has cine footage of their time in India during the Jute era to get in touch with them.
If you have any films, or Calcutta jute stories for Hopscotch, please contact Dhivya Kate Chetty by phoning 0141 440 6740 or by emailing dhivya@hopscotchfilms.co.uk |
