Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Asha Greyling's "The Vampire of Kings Street," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: The Vampire of Kings Street: A Mystery by Asha Greyling.

The entry begins:
When I write, I visualize everything. It helps me set up a scene if I can see it in my mind’s eye as a movie. Sometimes I’m describing what I see, not at all what I’ve planned!

My dreamcast for The Vampire of Kings Street would be the following:

Simone Ashley – Simone Ashley has just the kind of flair, style, and attitude that I would imagine for Radhika Dhingra. Radhika is the descent of South Indian immigrants and now an aspiring lawyer in 19th century New York. There is a lot of colorism in India (and the world as a whole), so I deliberately made Radhika darker skinned than most of the Indian actresses you see in film, like Simone Ashley herself. I'd...[read on]
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The Page 69 Test: The Vampire of Kings Street.

My Book, The Movie: The Vampire of Kings Street.

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