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Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source...
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Moving farewell glimpse of a disappearing world
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Cast
(in credits order) | Trevor Nichols | ... | Voice-over (voice) |
| Rosemary Martin | ... | Voice-over (voice) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Richard Robbins | ... | Himself (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Richard Robbins | |||
Produced by | |||
| Wahid Chowhan | .... | producer | |
| Shahnaz Vahanvaty | .... | associate producer | |
| Ismail Merchant | .... | executive producer (uncredited) | |
Original Music by | |||
| Ustad Sultan Khan | |||
| Richard Robbins | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Jehangir Choudhary | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Amit Bose | |||
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Nayeem Hafizka | .... | assistant director | |
| Smita Kudva | .... | assistant director | |
| Shukla Shipra | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Jagmohan Anand | .... | sound recordist | |
| John Griffith | .... | sound editor | |
| Richard King | .... | dubbing mixer | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Mikki Ansin | .... | still photographer | |
| Cynthia Griffin | .... | still photographer | |
| Faroukh Mistry | .... | assistant camera | |
| Anoop Mittal | .... | clapper loader | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Jason Bylan | .... | assistant editor | |
Other crew | |||
| Mukul Abhyankar | .... | production assistant | |
| Shakeel Badan | .... | production runner | |
| Yanus Badan | .... | production runner | |
| Mohammed Ali Bahti | .... | production assistant | |
| Hemant Chaturvedi | .... | production assistant | |
| Shayamlal Gupta | .... | production runner | |
| Iqbal Hussain Bhati | .... | production controller | |
| Smita Kudva | .... | continuity | |
| Mahadev Mhaske | .... | production runner | |
| Munaf Nirban | .... | production runner | |
| Fahim Rohila | .... | production runner | |
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| James Ivory | .... | thanks | |
| Cyrus Jhabvala | .... | thanks | |
| Andrew Marcus | .... | thanks | |
| Kathryn Martin | .... | thanks | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | .... | thanks (as Ruth and Cyrus Jhabvala) | |
Production Companies
- Merchant Ivory Productions
- FilmFour (in association with)
- Channel Four Television (1994) (UK)
- Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) (2005) (USA) (DVD) (with "The Courtesans of Bombay")
- Odyssey Video (2004) (UK) (DVD)
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There is more power and meaning in the (subtitled) lyrics of songs sung by itinerant street musicians in Bombay than you will hear in U.S. Tin Pan Alley trash over a period of ten, no, forty years. These artists, driven to perform by vocation, survive on pennies thrown to them by a largely indifferent populace, and they sing their hearts out like ancient gods. Perhaps the most powerful of the acts featured in this one-hour documentary is The Eunuchs, a roaming community of freakish outcast males who perform in drag far better than any real women could. Sadly, the viewer forms the conviction that film-maker Robbins will never compensate them for his ripping off their act, but that does not detract from the overall experience of glimpsing an ancient world of native musical talent as it gradually vanishes into the creeping meatball of digital diversion. Strongly recommended.