"to India"" as a play; and the author had charged her with preserving the spirit of the novel. However, Lean was determined to exercise input in the writing process. He met with Santha Rama Rau in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and over ten days they talked about the novel and discussed the script. The initial script by Santha Rama Rau pleased neither the producer, John Brabourne, nor David Lean. They considered it too worldly and literary, the work of a playwright, and unsuitable for a film. Most of the scenes took place indoors and in offices while Lean had in mind to"
"A Passage to India (play) A Passage to India is a stage play written by Indian-American playwright Santha Rama Rau (1923-2009), based on E.M. Forster's novel of the same name. The play begins with two English women, Mrs. Moore and Adela Quested. They travel to 1920s India, where Mrs. Moore's son, Ronny, is working. Ronny is supposed to be engaged to Adela. The women hope to experience India while they are there. Adela and Ronny are unsure if they are meant to be together. While on a hike led by Dr. Aziz, Adela is attacked in a cave. She assumes"
"Richard B Goodwin Richard B Goodwin (born 13 September 1934, Bombay, India) is a British film producer. In a career spanning 40 years, Richard Goodwin has been involved in a number of well-known British films. As a film producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for A Passage to India (1984), as well as BAFTA nominations. His filmography includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Crack'd, Evil under the Sun, A Passage to India, Little Dorrit, and Seven Years in Tibet. Born in Bombay, in 1934, Richard"
"A Passage to India A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the ""Modern Library"" and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. ""Time"" magazine included the novel in its ""All Time 100 Novels"" list. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Walt Whitman's 1870 poem ""Passage to India"" in ""Leaves of Grass""."
"adaptation became available. Lord Brabourne, (John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne), whose father had been Governor of Bombay and later Governor of Bengal, and who was married to the daughter of Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy, had sought the film rights for twenty years. He had produced Franco Zeffirelli's ""Romeo and Juliet"" and films based on Agatha Christie’s mysteries including the 1974 ""Murder on the Orient Express."" In March 1981, John Brabourne and his business partner, Richard Goodwin, obtained the rights to make a film adaptation of ""A Passage to India"". The contract stipulated that Santha Rama Rau write the screenplay"
"Zia Mohyeddin Zia Mohyeddin (; born 20 June 1933) is a Pakistani actor, producer, director and television broadcaster who has appeared in both Pakistani cinema and television as well as in British cinema and television throughout his career. Zia Mohyeddin is famous for his blockbuster Pakistan Television talk show named after him ""Zia Mohyeddin Show"" (1969 – 1973). He is also known for originating the role for Dr. Aziz in ""A Passage to India."" Zia Mohyeddin was born in Lyallpur, (now called Faisalabad), British India (now in Pakistan), in a family originally from Rohtak, East Punjab (now in Haryana), British"
"Passage to India"" opened to critical acclaim in 1984, and received 11 Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, for which Goodwin and Brabourne were nominated as producers.They lost to ""Amadeus"", but their feature film won two oscars: Best Supporting Actress for Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and best music for Maurice Jarre. Their next major project was Little Dorrit (1988). It was directed, and adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel, by Richard’s wife, Christine Edzard. With a total running time of 6 hours, the film was released in 2 parts, and was a critical success. ""Little Dorrit"" was made entirely at Sands"
"""A Passage to India""; the former is mentioned in the film, and when asked by Bragg why Sir Norbert cast himself in this role, despite public criticism, Sir Norbert replies ""well, Sir Alec Guinness simply wasn't available"". The film was made by Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4 and was first broadcast on 3 November 1989. David Morrison, in a British Film Institute essay, suggests that some of the film's humour may have been poorly received at the time because the broadcast occurred soon after Sir Laurence Olivier's death. However, Enfield insisted that the Sir Norbert character was meant to"
"a film adaptation of ""A Passage to India"" (1984), from E. M. Forster's 1924 novel of colonial conflicts in British-occupied India. Entirely shot on location in the sub-continent, this became his last completed film. He rejected a draft by Santha Rama Rau, responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself. In addition, Lean also edited the film with the result that his three roles in the production (writer, editor, director) were given equal status in the credits. Lean recruited long-time collaborators for the cast and crew, including Maurice Jarre (who won another Academy-Award for"
"by Goodwin, was published by Collins. Later, Goodwin went on to shoot and produce a collection of films, titled ""Barging Through Europe"", on his travels, on another boat, the Regina, depicting the vanishing trades of France. Richard B Goodwin Richard B Goodwin (born 13 September 1934, Bombay, India) is a British film producer. In a career spanning 40 years, Richard Goodwin has been involved in a number of well-known British films. As a film producer, he received an Academy Award nomination for A Passage to India (1984), as well as BAFTA nominations. His filmography includes: Romeo and Juliet, The Tales"
"1955, Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film ""Ryan's Daughter"" led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with ""A Passage to India"", adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct. Lean's affinity for striking visuals and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors"
"Train to Pakistan (film) Train to Pakistan is a 1998 Indian Hindi film adapted from Khushwant Singh's 1956 classic novel by the same name set in the Partition of India of 1947 and directed by Pamela Rooks. The film stars Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapur, Mohan Agashe, Smriti Mishra, Mangal Dhillon and Divya Dutta. The film is set in Mano Majra, which is a quiet village on the border of India and Pakistan, close to where the railway line crosses the Sutlej River. The film develops around the love affair of small-time dacoit Juggut Singh (Nirmal Pandey), with a local Muslim"
"to raise money for the London Library; selling for the then record sum of £6,500 for a modern English manuscript. A Passage to India A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the ""Modern Library"" and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. ""Time"" magazine included the novel in its ""All Time 100 Novels"" list. The novel is based"
"A Ship Bound for India A Ship Bound for India () is a 1947 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally released as A Ship to India in the United Kingdom and Frustration in the United States. The screenplay was written by Bergman, based on the play by Martin Söderhjelm. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of the past of the character Johannes, and his relationships with his cruel father, his mother, and his father's mistress with whom Johannes falls in love. The movie contains sequences of despair and"
"The Bypass The Bypass (2003) is a short silent Bollywood film with actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irfan Khan and Sundar Dan Detha. The film was written and directed by Amit Kumar. The Bypass was filmed on a stranded road somewhere in Rajasthan, India. The film was shown at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Aubagne Film Festival. The film is about two friends who stay by the stranded road ""Bypass"" and a corrupt police officer. The two friends frequently mug and ultimately kill the people who travel by the road. Amit Kumar starts the film by showing a couple traveling by"
"for certain television productions, mostly based on war-related themes. He graduated to the role of production manager by the early 1950s, and finally became a producer in his own right in 1958, with ""Harry Black"" a romantic story set in India, with war as the distant context. This was followed by ""Sink the Bismarck!"" in 1960. War, Empire and India were recurrent themes in his work, and ""A Passage to India"" (1984) is among his most acclaimed works. His filmography also includes ""Murder on the Orient Express"" (1974), ""Death on the Nile"" (1978), and ""Little Dorrit"" (1988). In 1970, he"
"Passage to Marseille Passage to Marseille, also known as Message to Marseille, is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel ""Sans Patrie"" (""Men Without Country"") by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography was by James Wong Howe. ""Passage to Marseille"" is one of the few films to use a flashback within a flashback, within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an"
"Indigo Grey: The Passage Indigo Grey: The Passage is a 2015 American science fiction film directed by Sean Robinson and written and produced by Jason Oremus and Garrett Coleman. It features Aidan Lok, neo-Irish dance troupe Hammerstep, and has received international attention for its soundtrack composed by Amy Lee, Dave Eggar and Chuck Palmer. ABC News announced the release of the film on September 15, 2015: ""Evanescence's Amy Lee Composes Score to Short Film, 'Indigo Grey: The Passage.'"" Robinson told ""Billboard"" on November 4, 2015: ""Amy's involvement is what really catapulted the project, lending it more visibility than we expected."
"China Passage China Passage is a 1937 American mystery film directed by Edward Killy from a screenplay by Edmund L. Hartmann and J. Robert Bren, based on a story by Taylor Caven. RKO Radio Pictures produced the film, which stars Constance Worth, Vinton Haworth, Leslie Fenton and Gordon Jones. After a delay during production due to Haworth getting injured in a car accident in January 1937, the film was released on March 12, 1937. Tom Baldwin and Joe Dugan are two American adventurers who are hired to escort the wife of a Chinese general to Shanghai. She is carrying a"
"Pi"" and ""Jurassic World"". The film has got overwhelming responses from all over the world. DVD_Connoisseur from England on IMDB says """"The Bypass"" is a beautifully shot short from India based on a simple premise. This dark tale of life in the desert takes no prisoners - life is shown as cheap and the director delivers an uncompromising story in a stylish manner."" The Bypass The Bypass (2003) is a short silent Bollywood film with actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irfan Khan and Sundar Dan Detha. The film was written and directed by Amit Kumar. The Bypass was filmed on a stranded"
"Passage (2009 film) Passage is a 2009 American-Swiss drama short film, the first to be directed by Shekhar Kapur, starring Haley Bennett, Lily Cole and Julia Stiles. Three estranged sisters reunite one night when the oldest comes back for her two younger sisters after leaving them years before in mysterious circumstances. The music for ""Passage"" was composed by A.R. Rahman, and the project was shot in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. The film was financed by the Austrian company Swarovski and was screened in their ""Swarovski Crystal Worlds"". In noting Shekhar Kapur was already known for """", toward ""Passage"" ""Quiet"
"instructor in the English faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, in 1971, also working as a freelance writer. She adapted the novel ""A Passage to India"", with author E. M. Forster’s approval, for the theater. The play of the same name was produced for the Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, United Kingdom, moved to the West End in London, United Kingdom, in 1960 for 261 performances, and then on to Broadway in New York City where it was staged 109 times. It was adapted by John Maynard and directed by Waris Hussein for BBC television's ""Play of the Month"" in"
"praise worldwide. Vincent Canby of ""The New York Times"" called Lean's film ""his best work since ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" and ""Lawrence of Arabia"" and perhaps his most humane and moving film since ""Brief Encounter"". Though vast in physical scale and set against a tumultuous Indian background, it is also intimate, funny and moving in the manner of a film maker completely in control of his material . . . Though [Lean] has made ""A Passage to India"" both less mysterious and more cryptic than the book, the film remains a wonderfully provocative tale, full of vivid characters,"
"Emma Goes to Bollywood Emma Goes to Bollywood is a 2005 British documentary film produced and broadcast by BBC Two. It was directed by Louis Theroux and released on 12 June 2005. It stars Emma Bunton on her travel to Bollywood. Emma Bunton goes to Mumbai, India, where she will record two films – ""Pyaar Mein Twist"" and ""Chocolate"". For four weeks, Bunton assimilates into Indian culture and she was interviewed by several Asia's radios and TV to promote her debut in Bollywood. Meanwhile, the Indian actress Sameera Reddy goes to United Kingdom to record the medical drama series ""Casualty""."
"David Lean Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"" (1957), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) and ""A Passage to India"" (1984). He also directed adaptations of Charles Dickens novels ""Great Expectations"" (1946) and ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), and the romantic drama ""Brief Encounter"" (1945). Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's ""In Which We Serve"", which was the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning with ""Summertime"" in"
"Two Tickets to India Two tickets to India (, ""Dva bileta v Indiu"") is a 1985 Soviet/Russian traditionally animated feature film directed Roman Kachanov. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story of the same name by Kir Bulychov. Compared to the book the story was significantly shortened. The astronauts from the planet Geda fly to India on a symposium on animal protection of the Galaxy. As a result of a technical malfunction one of them finds himself in a scout's camp situated near Moscow, transformed into a tiger. By means of July"
"Tarzan Goes to India Tarzan Goes to India (1962) is the first film featuring Jock Mahoney as Tarzan. It was written by Robert Hardy Andrews and directed by John Guillermin, who also directed ""Tarzan's Greatest Adventure"". It was one of two Mahoney films that took Tarzan out of Africa and sent him to the Far East. It was a co-production between Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Tarzan is called to India to save three hundred elephants, that will be drowned if a dam is opened to create a man-made lake to power an electric plant. Tarzan is"
"Delhi, Jaipur, Rishikesh and Varanasi etc. Appunti per un film sull'India Appunti per un film sull'India is a 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India to do a recces for his proposed film with India as its background about a king who gives up his body to feed a starving tiger. The film was shot around post-independent India when it was facing grave challenges of poverty, population and caste system. Pasolini narrates the challenges of India and its charms amidst all the problems the country faces. The 33-minute-long documentary is composed of short interviews from"
"Appunti per un film sull'India Appunti per un film sull'India is a 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India to do a recces for his proposed film with India as its background about a king who gives up his body to feed a starving tiger. The film was shot around post-independent India when it was facing grave challenges of poverty, population and caste system. Pasolini narrates the challenges of India and its charms amidst all the problems the country faces. The 33-minute-long documentary is composed of short interviews from random people about their opinions on"
"category for ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), and ""A Passage to India"" (1984), all of which were directed by David Lean. He also won four Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, and a Grammy Award. Jarre was born in Lyon, France, in 1924, the son of Gabrielle Renée (""née"" Boullu) and André Jarre, a radio technical director. He first enrolled in the engineering school at the Sorbonne, but decided to pursue music courses instead. He left the Sorbonne against his father's will and enrolled at the ""Conservatoire de Paris"" to study composition and harmony and chose percussion as his"
"One Way Passage One Way Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros. The screenplay was by Robert Lord and earned him the Academy Award for Best Story. Dan Hardesty (William Powell) is an escaped murderer, sentenced to hang. In Hong Kong, he meets Joan Ames (Kay Francis), a terminally ill woman, in a bar. They share a drink, then Dan breaks his glass, followed by Joan. Police Sergeant Steve Burke (Warren Hymer) captures Dan when he leaves (though out of sight"
"remade it in India as the 2017 Hindi film ""Ittefaq"" starring Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha. Signpost to Murder Signpost to Murder is a 1965 American crime film directed by George Englund and written by Sally Benson based on the play by Monte Doyle. The film stars Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier, Joyce Worsley, and Leslie Denison. The film was released on May 19, 1965, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. A man, on the run after killing his wife, takes refuge in the house of a woman who is hiding dark secrets of her own. Yash Chopra remade it in"
"attempted rape within the famed Marabar Caves, the city is split between the British elite and the native underclass as the budding friendship between Aziz and Fielding is tested. The film explores themes of racism, imperialism, religion, and the nature of relationships both friendly and marital. This was the final film of Lean's prestigious career, and the first feature-film he had directed in fourteen years, since ""Ryan's Daughter"" in 1970. Receiving universal critical acclaim upon its release with many praising it as Lean's finest since ""Lawrence of Arabia"", ""A Passage to India"" received eleven nominations at the Academy Awards, including"