Heat and Dust (film)

Infobox Film | name = Heat and Dust


caption = original film poster
director = James Ivory
producer = Ismail Merchant
writer = Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (based on her novel)
Saeed Jaffrey (Urdu dialogue)
starring = Julie Christie
Greta Scacchi
Shashi Kapoor
Zakir Hussein
Christopher Cazenove
Jennifer Kendal
Susan Fleetwood
music = Richard Robbins
Zakir Hussein
cinematography = Walter Lassally
editing = Humphrey Dixon
distributor = Universal Pictures (US)
released = 1983
runtime = 130 min.
language = English
Urdu
Hindi
budget =
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followed_by =
imdb_id = 0084058

Heat and Dust (1983) is a Merchant Ivory Productions award winning film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based upon her novel, "Heat and Dust." It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. Ivory performed tanpura for score music with Zakir Hussein's sitar.

According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications there was "a cycle of film and television productions which emerged during the first half of the 1980s, which seemed to indicate Britain's growing preoccupation with India, Empire and a particular aspect of British cultural history" [http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/J/htmlJ/jewelinthe/jewelinthe.htm] . In addition to "Heat and Dust," this cycle also included "The Jewel in the Crown" (1984) and "A Passage to India" (1984).

Plot summary

For a full length summary see: "Heat and Dust".

Cast

The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur

* Christopher Cazenove - Douglas Rivers, the Assistant Collector
* Greta Scacchi - Olivia, his wife
*Julian Glover - Crawford, the District Collector
*Susan Fleetwood - Mrs. Crawford, the Burra Mensahib
*Patrick Godfrey - Saunders, the Medical Officer
*Jennifer Kendal - Mrs. Saunders

At the Palace in Khatm

*Shashi Kapoor - The Nawab
*Madhur Jaffrey - Begum Mussarat Jahan, the Nawab's mother
*Nickolas Grace - Harry Hamilton-Paul
*Barry Foster - Major Minnies, the Political Agent

1982. In Satipur Town

*Julie Christie - Anne
*Zakir Hussain - Inder Lal, Anne's landlord
*Ratna Pathak - Ritu, Inder Lal's wife
*Tarla Mehta - Inder Lal's mother
*Charles McCaughan - Chid

Rest of cast

*Sajid Khan - Dacoit Chief
*Amanda Walker - Lady Mackleworth
*Praveen Paul - Maji
*Jayant Kripalani - Dr. Gopal
*Sudha Chopra - Chief Princess
*Dan Chatto - Party Guest
*Geoff Heinrich
*Ishtiaq Khan
*Deep Bedi
*Baba Ghaus
*Leelabai - Leelavati

External links

* [http://www.merchantivory.com/heatanddust.html Summary from Merchant Ivory website]
* [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/476014/index.html Screen Online]