In a small Latin Quarter arthouse cinema in Paris, Jaya Ganga opened as a modest release. It then kept running... Week after week, for 49 weeks with very little publicity apart from good press. The story continues. With the Paris earnings, they opened at the Westend in London at the prestigious ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) cinema and until now, it has played in about 75 cinemas all over the UK. And is still playing. Vijay Singh, the narrator and director, tells us how the story happened in his head, and journeyed into a book and film that captured the imagination of a world audience.

Why did I choose to come to Paris, is a question I have often been asked. I have tried to answer it to the extent possible, for there is no real reason why we are in a given place at a given time. We think we have an explanation for it, but that’s perhaps just an illusion. We are another accident in the larger interplay of cosmic coincidences.