| Interviewer:
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| I’d just like to say, uh, good afternoon, Mister Banerjee
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| And take this opportunity of welcoming you and your musicians
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| To the studio
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| Banerjee:
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| I thank you very much. |
| I’m very glad to have the opportunity
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| Of coming here
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| Interviewer:
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| Tell me, um, have you found that, uh, there has been great enthusiasm
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| For George Bernard Shaw in India?
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| Banerjee:
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| Oh, my goodness, yes. |
| We, we, we have got a lot of people
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| In India, and indeed in Pakistan, who are loving to hearing the words
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| Of George Bernard Shaw. |
| We are saing to ourselves over there: «This
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| Man has got a great, white beard. |
| So, therefore, he must have great
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| Knowledge!» |
| And so we are saying to ourselves: «That is what we are
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| Wanting, that is what we are wanting, we are wanting to hear words of
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| This man so that, so that we can learn them and sing them and play
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| Them!»
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| Interviewer:
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| Uh, have you visited the shrine of GBS in Ayot St Lawrence at all?
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| Banerjee:
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| Well, indeed yes. |
| We have all been there. |
| We went on a bus
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| Coach tour to Ayr-Ayrton St Lawrence and we are saying to
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| Ourselves: «My goodness, here we are where the great man was living!»
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| And we went in the first place to look around and we are saying: «That
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| Is where he was sleeping, and this is where he was eating, and this
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| Is another room, and. |
| . |
| .». |
| Uh, all kinds of rooms in this house are very
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| Good for us to know of
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| Interviewer:
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| Have you, uh, taken the story of «My Fair Lady» and, uh, uh, as it stands
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| Or have you changed it at all? |
| What have you done with it?
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| Banerjee:
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| Well, what, what we have done with it, you see, uh, I, I am
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| Playing, uh, what is called over here Professor Higgins. |
| I am playing
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| Professor Umbelahi. |
| I’m walking through the market place one
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| Day, uh, at, near Maharatchme, which is near Bombay, you
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| Understand. |
| And I’m walking by there, and I am saying to my friend
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| Who is with me, I say: «Look, there, over there is a beautiful
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| Untouchable girl, beautiful.» |
| And he says: «Oh, yes, but we, she is
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| Untouchable. |
| We don’t want to know her.» |
| Ah, chut and cha, I am
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| Making her touchable, that is what I am doing. |
| You see, and I am
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| Saying to her: «Come with me, my dear, and I will make you a
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| Touchable!». |
| And she is saying to me: «No, I am untouchable, that’s
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| Good enough for me!»
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| Interviewer:
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| Do you have a good cast?
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| Banerjee:
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| Oh, yes indeed, I come from a very high caste. |
| Oh yes, yes, oh yes
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| I can safely say that
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| Interviewer:
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| Uh, no, no, I wasn’t referring to, what I mean is, is there a good cast
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| In the, the show?
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| Banerjee:
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| Well, yes, we have a very excellent cast. |
| I’m sorry, I misunderstood you
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| You see. |
| We have all kinds of stars from India. |
| We have two people from
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| Assam. |
| We have another woman. |
| Her has come all the way from Ceylon
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| Interviewer:
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| What, ah, what, ah, what have you called the songs? |
| I mean have you changed
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| The titles of the songs at all?
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| Banerjee:
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| Oh yes, well naturally we, we, we have had to, um, um, ah, change one or two
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| Of the main songs, um, a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah, we have featured
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| We have now called «Get Me to the Taj Mahal on Time» and, um, ah
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| «I've Grown Accustomed to Your Dhoti». |
| And I would like to sing for you
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| Now this beautiful song, uh, what we are doing on the tour, and I think
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| When you have heard it, you will say: «My goodness me, what a lovely song!»
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| Or words to that effect
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| (Sung:)
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| All I want is a room somewhere
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| Far a-way from the cold night air
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| With one enormous chair
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| Oh! |
| Would it not be lovely
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| Lots of chocolate for me to eat
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| Lots of coal making lots of heat
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| Warm feet, warm hands, warm foot
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| Oh! |
| Wouldn’t it be lovely
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| Oh! |
| So lovely sitting abso-bloomin-lutely still
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| Watcher cockie!
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| I would never budge till
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| Spring crept on the windowsill
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| Someone’s head is resting on my knee
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| Warm and tender as she can be
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| Who’ll taking good care of me
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| Oh! |
| Would it not be lovely
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| Lovely, lovely, lovely
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| (Indian Music)
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| Aahhhh!
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| Ooooooooooohhhhh!
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| So loverly sittin' abso-bloomin-lutely still
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| I would never budge till
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| Spring crept on the windowsill
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| Someone’s head resting on my knee
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| Warm and tender as she can be
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| Who’ll taking good care of me
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| Oh! |
| would it not be lovely (Lovely)
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| Lovely (Lovely), lovely
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| Would it not be lovely
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| Would it not be lovely |