Heat and Dust (film)
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Heat and Dust is a 1983 romantic
Romance film
Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant...

 based upon her novel, Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which won the Booker Prize in 1975. It is said to be based on an idea by another writer, but this writer is un-named.-Plot summary:...

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It was directed by James Ivory
James Ivory (director)
James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

 and produced by Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

. Ivory performed tanpura for score music with Zakir Hussain
Zakir Hussain (musician)
Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...

's tabla
Tabla
The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...

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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 Gandhi
Gandhi (film)
Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...

(1982), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by M. M. Kaye, first published in 1978, which tells the story of an English officer during the Great Game. The novel, rooted deeply in the romantic epics of the 19th century, has been hailed as a masterpiece of storytelling...

(1984) and A Passage to India
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....

(1984). The film was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival
1983 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*William Styron *Henri Alekan *Yvonne Baby *Sergei Bondarchuk *Youssef Chahine *Souleymane Cissé *Gilbert de Goldschmidt *Mariangela Melato *Karel Reisz...

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Cast

The Nineteen Twenties in the Civil Lines at Satipur
  • Christopher Cazenove
    Christopher Cazenove
    Christopher Cazenove was an English cinema, television and stage actor.-Early life and career:He was born Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove, the son of Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove and Elizabeth Laura in Winchester, Hampshire, but was brought up in Bowlish, Somerset...

     - Douglas Rivers, the Assistant Collector
  • Greta Scacchi
    Greta Scacchi
    Greta Scacchi is an Italian-Australian actor.-Early life:Scacchi was born Greta Gracco in Milan, Italy, on 18 February 1960, the daughter of Luca Scacchi Gracco, an Italian art dealer and painter, and Pamela Carsaniga, an English dancer and antiques dealer...

     - Olivia, his wife
  • Julian Glover
    Julian Glover
    Julian Wyatt Glover is a British actor best known for such roles as General Maximilian Veers in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Bond villain Aristotle Kristatos in For Your Eyes Only, and Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.-Personal life:Glover was born in...

     - Crawford, the District Collector
  • Susan Fleetwood
    Susan Fleetwood
    Susan Maureen Fleetwood was a British stage, film and television actress, best known as a star of the classical theatre companies of England. She received popular acclaim in the television series Chandler & Co and The Buddha of Suburbia.-Personal life:Fleetwood was born in St...

     - Mrs. Crawford, the Burra Memsahib
  • Patrick Godfrey
    Patrick Godfrey
    Patrick Godfrey is a British actor of film, television and stage.Godfrey was born in the United Kingdom, the son of Lois Mary Gladys and Frederick Godfrey, who was a reverend...

     - Saunders, the Medical Officer
  • Jennifer Kendal
    Jennifer Kendal
    Jennifer Kapoor - born Jennifer Kendal - was a British actress who married Shashi Kapoor of the Kapoor family.-Childhood:Jennifer Kendal was born in Southport, England, but spent much of her youth in India...

     - Mrs. Saunders


At the Palace in Khatm
  • Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...

     - The Nawab
  • Madhur Jaffrey
    Madhur Jaffrey
    Madhur Jaffrey is an Indian actress and food writer who introduced the Western world to the many cuisines of India.- Personal life :...

     - Begum Mussarat Jahan, the Nawab's mother
  • Nickolas Grace
    Nickolas Grace
    Nickolas Grace is a British actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood...

     - Harry Hamilton-Paul
  • Barry Foster
    Barry Foster (actor)
    Barry Foster was a British actor who appeared in numerous film roles and is known for his leading role as a Dutch detective in the ITV drama series, Van der Valk, which spanned five series over 20 years from 1972....

     - Major Minnies, the Political Agent


1982. In Satipur Town
  • Julie Christie
    Julie Christie
    Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England, where she attended boarding school....

     - Anne
  • Zakir Hussain
    Zakir Hussain (musician)
    Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...

     - Inder Lal, Anne's landlord
  • Ratna Pathak
    Ratna Pathak
    Ratna Pathak Shah is an Indian actress who works in Bollywood films.-Early life:Ratna Pathak was born in Mumbai, India to Bollywood actress, Dina Pathak. Her sister is actress Supriya Pathak. She is a very fine stage actor-Career:...

     - Ritu, Inder Lal's wife
  • Tarla Mehta - Inder Lal's mother
  • Charles McCaughan
    Charles McCaughan
    -Acting:*The Cisco Kid - Haynie*V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels - Trumble Grafalk*Legal Tender - Bud Rennick*Impulse - Frank Munoff*Slaves of New York - Sherman...

     - Chid


Rest of cast
  • Sajid Khan
    Sajid Khan
    Sajid Khan is a former Indian actor. He is the adopted son of Indian film producer Mehboob Khan, founder of Mehboob Studios, in India.-Career:...

     - Dacoit Chief
  • Amanda Walker
    Amanda Walker
    Amanda Walker is a British film and television actress, notable for roles in 28 Weeks Later, Heat and Dust, Pollyanna and Churchill and the Generals.-External links:...

     - Lady Mackleworth
  • Praveen Paul - Maji
  • Jayant Kripalani
    Jayant Kripalani
    Jayant Kripalani is an Indian film, television and stage actor, director and trainer. Most known for TV series, like Khandaan, Mr. Ya Mrs and and Ji Mantriji . He also wrote the screenplay for Shyam Benegal's film, Well Done Abba...

     - Dr. Gopal
  • Sudha Chopra - Chief Princess
  • Dan Chatto
    Daniel Chatto
    Daniel St. George Chatto born Daniel Chatto St. George Sproule, is a British artist and former actor. He is best known as the husband of Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, who is the only daughter of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon and the only niece of Queen Elizabeth II .-Biography:His parents...

    - Party Guest
  • Geoff Heinrich
  • Ishtiaq Khan
  • Deep Bedi
  • Baba Ghaus
  • Leelabai - Leelavati

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