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A Passage to India is a 1984 epic historical drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1960 play of the same name by Santha Rama Rau, which was in turn based on the 1924 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster .
Feb 1, 1985 · A Passage to India: Directed by David Lean. With Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox. Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
- (21K)
- Adventure, Drama, History
- David Lean
- 1985-02-01
When an outing to explore scenic caves ends in English tourist Adela Quested (Judy Davis) accusing Indian doctor Aziz Ahmed (Victor Banerjee) of rape, the incident results in a major court case,...
- (28)
- David Lean
- PG
- Judy Davis
A Passage to India is a 1924 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 [2] and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. [3] .
- E. M. Forster
- 1924
Lean brings us to that point by a series of perfectly modulated, quietly tension-filled scenes in which Miss Quested ( Judy Davis) and the kindly Mrs. Moore ( Peggy Ashcroft) sail to India, where Miss Quested is engaged to marry the priggish local British magistrate in a provincial backwater.
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. It's the early 1920s.
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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.
