A Passage to India

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.

Genre : DramaAdventureHistory

Runtime : 163 mins

Release Date : 1984-12-14

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**Although the film does justice to the colorful and rich Indian universe, it is a missed opportunity given the poor script construction.** This film is the last of director David Lean's career, a filmmaker who gave us a series of good films, being “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhivago” the b...

Sir David Lean has produced a spectacular piece of cinema in this lengthy adaptation of the E.M. Forster tale of the Raj. "Mrs. Moore" (Dame Peggy Ashcroft) is travelling to visit her son in India, accompanied by Judy Davis "Adela". They arrive to discover a society riddled with division and bigotr...

Cast

Judy Davis

(Adela Quested)

Victor Banerjee

(Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed)

Peggy Ashcroft

(Mrs. Moore)

James Fox

(Richard Fielding)

Alec Guinness

(Professor Godbole)

Nigel Havers

(Ronny Heaslop)

Richard Wilson

(Mr. Turton)

Antonia Pemberton

(Mrs. Turton)

Michael Culver

(Major McBryde)

Art Malik

(Mahmoud Ali)

Saeed Jaffrey

(Hamidullah)

Clive Swift

(Major Callendar)

Ann Firbank

(Mrs. Callendar)

Roshan Seth

(Amritrao)

Sandra Hotz

(Stella)

Rashid Karapiet

(Das)

H.S. Krishnamurthy

(Hassan)

Ishaq Bux

(Selim)

Moti Makan

(Guide)

Mohammed Ashiq

(Haq)

Phyllis Bose

(Mrs. Leslie)

Sally Kinghorn

(Ingenue)

Paul Anil

(Clerk of the Court)

Z.H. Khan

(Dr. Panna Lal)

Ashok Mandanna

(Anthony)

Dina Pathak

(Begum Hamidullah)

Adam Blackwood

(Mr. Hadley)

Mellan Mitchell

(Indian Businessman)

Peter Hughes

(P & O Manager)

Yash Agnihotri

(Court Gallery Member (Uncredited))

Duncan Preston

(Club Member (Uncredited))

Richard Winter-Stanbridge

(Train Passenger (Uncredited))