A Passage to India( 1984)

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David Lean, the Director of "Doctor Zhivago", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai", invites you on . .

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Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

Top Billed Cast

Judy Davis
Adela Quested
Victor Banerjee
Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed
Peggy Ashcroft
Mrs. Moore
James Fox
Richard Fielding
Alec Guinness
Professor Godbole
Nigel Havers
Ronny Heaslop
Richard Wilson
Mr. Turton
Antonia Pemberton
Mrs. Turton
Michael Culver
Major McBryde
Art Malik
Mahmoud Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
Hamidullah
Clive Swift
Major Callendar
Ann Firbank
Mrs. Callendar
Roshan Seth
Amritrao
Sandra Hotz
Stella
Rashid Karapiet
Das
H.S. Krishnamurthy
Hassan
Ishaq Bux
Selim
Moti Makan
Guide
Mohammed Ashiq
Haq
Phyllis Bose
Mrs. Leslie
Sally Kinghorn
Ingenue
Paul Anil
Clerk of the Court
Z.H. Khan
Dr. Panna Lal
Ashok Mandanna
Anthony
Dina Pathak
Begum Hamidullah
Adam Blackwood
Mr. Hadley
Mellan Mitchell
Indian Businessman
Peter Hughes
P & O Manager
Yash Agnihotri
Court Gallery Member (Uncredited)
Duncan Preston
Club Member (Uncredited)
Richard Winter-Stanbridge
Train Passenger (Uncredited)
Barrie Holland
Train Passenger (uncredited)

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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on Tue Jan 03 2023

**Although the film does justice to the colorful and rich Indian universe, it is a missed opportunity given the poor script construction.** This film is the last of director David Lean's career, a filmmaker who gave us a series of good films, being “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhivago” the best of all, for me. Here, the filmmaker brings us an adaptation of a novel I've never read, but which must be quite good: set in India during the interwar period, the story begins with the arrival of two Englishwomen, one of whom, Miss Quested, is engaged to a local English judge. Over time, they befr...