The Householder

The Householder Hindi title Gharbar is a 1963 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory, and direction of James Ivory. It is based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by Jhabvala.

Prem Sagar Shashi Kapoor, a teacher at a private college in Delhi, is married to Indu Leela Naidu in an arranged marriage recently and is still learning ropes of relationships, when the arrival of Prems mother Durga Khote spells doom to their budding relationship. Indu, unable to handle her interference in the marriage, leaves Prem to return to her family. Prem searches for answers from a variety of people, including a Swami Pahari Sanyal, who reveals the secret of a successful marriage, as a result, he finally gains the maturity to love his wife.Ivory had shot documentary, The Delhi Way was editing it in New York, when he met anthropologist Gitel Steed, who was developing a project based on her screenplay, Devgar about a village in Gujarat. Ismail Merchant was producing the film and had started getting together the finances for the film. Sidney Meyers was the director, while Ivory agreed to shoot the film, whose cast included Shashi Kapoor, Durga Khote and Leela Naidu. When the film fell through due to lack of complete financing, Merchant suggested the idea of The Householder, and same cast was used. The film cost 125,000, with some of the money Ivory had borrowed from his father. It was made in two versions, Hindi and English, the latter was picked by Columbia Pictures. ........

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