A Passage to India (film)

A Passage to India is a 1984 drama film written and directed by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1924 novel of the same title by E. M. Forster and the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau that was inspired by the novel.

The film is set in the 1920s during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. Adela Quested Judy Davis and Mrs Moore Peggy Ashcroft sail from England to India, where Ronny Heaslop Nigel Havers, the Mrs Moores son and Ms Questeds fianc, is the magistrate in the provincial town of Chandrapore.Through school superintendent Richard Fielding James Fox, the two visitors meet eccentric elderly Hindu Brahmin scholar Professor Narayan Godbole Alec Guinness, and they befriend Dr Aziz Ahmed Victor Banerjee, an impoverished widower who initially meets Mrs Moore in a moonlit mosque overlooking the Ganges River. Their sensitivity and unprejudiced attitude toward native Indians endears them to him. When Mrs Moore and Adela express an interest in seeing the real India, as opposed to the Anglicised environment of cricket, polo, and afternoon tea the British expatriates created for themselves, Aziz offers to host an excursion to the remote Marabar Caves. ........

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