Weekend Writing Prompt #68 – Derelict

Weekend Writing Prompt #68 – Derelict

Word Prompt

Derelict

Challenge

 

Forget me not

And leave me  derelict

Forget not my

Glorious past

Wasn’t I

The launching pad for 

Many legends

Who are now

Superstars and

Directors

Wasn’t I

Their life’s

Important chaptor

How could you

Leave me

Uncared and neglected

And

Shun me like

An outcast  

 

(Photo Courtesy: Debashree Mukherjee

 

 

Friday Fictioneers- Biography of a film studio

http://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/4-april-2014/

 

Fiction

word count- 104

 

woes of a film studio

 

I am an abandoned film studio.

Once upon a time, I was well-known and full of activities. Directors on high chairs once shouted through their megaphone — Silence, Camera, Rolling, and Action!

Today as Indian film industry is celebrating its 100th anniversary, I, which was once the launching pad for many superstars and legends is thirsting for a little recognition and remembrance.

No one comes here; in fact, nobody even remembers that I was a studio that once upon a time was a major part of this industry.

Today I am nothing but the ruins of my glorious past.

 

( Heritage Studios of Mumbai Some of the biggest studios of the 1920s and 1930s now lie in ruins.)