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Director:
Writers:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay) &
James Ivory (screenplay)
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Plot:
Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Shashi Kapoor ... Vikram
Jennifer Kendal ... Lucia Lane
Zia Mohyeddin ... Hari
Aparna Sen ... Mala
Utpal Dutt ... Bose
Nadira ... Anjana Devi
Pinchoo Kapoor ... Swamiji
Helen ... Heroine in Gold
Usha Iyer ... Cabaret Singer
Ruby Mayer ... Gopal Ma (as Sulochana)
Prayag Raj ... Director (as Prayag Raaj)
Jalal Agha ... Young Man
Anwar Ali ... Young Man
Mohan Nadkarni ... Young Man
Sukhdev ... Man at Bar
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Runtime:
112 min | UK:105 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Amitabh Bachchan had shot for a scene as an extra in a funeral scene, his scene was removed from the final print. more
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Referenced in The Darjeeling Limited (2007) more

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ex oriente lux, 21 September 2006
7/10

This movie is about the love affair of an western writer and an Indian film star. I liked it very much and the point I found most interesting is the western craving for eastern spirituality exemplified by the visit and internship of the heroine in an Indian guru. The movie presents the guru in a savage light, as a self-promoting socialite proud of his western connections. Whether it is questionable that all the exponents of eastern spirituality as such cranks the one in the movie is, thus a satirist perspective is adopted. The characters are shallow and self-absorbed and their lives hollow, the movie pointing to the emptiness of stardom.The end is tragic and the world-view exposed is close to that of Ecclesiastes. Despite that I found the couple of the protagonists very engaging since as Oscar Wilde said only shallow people refuse to judge by appearances.

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