Word: marabar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film establishes Aziz's innocence with fair amount of certainty. But something in the Marabar caves has profoundly shaken the level-headed young Adela...
...Moore and Adela long to discover what they term the "real India"--a mythical culture looming just beyond their grasp. The opportunity comes when the carrest, enthusiastic young Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) invites them on an excursion to the famous Marabar caves...
...compelling interpretation. Davis as Adela projects an intelligent, controlled exterior, but subtly betrays a last for excitement and sensuality. India, with its blazing sun and mysterious temples, has awakened new desires in Adela. As she makes her halting way over the craggy rocks to the Marabar caves. Aziz extends his hand to help...
Morning, some weeks later. Miss Quested has found her adventure, her brief and, as it will happen, terrifying glimpse of Indian reality. A young Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz, has mounted an excursion to the Marabar Caves, in the hills beyond Chandrapore, for the two English ladies. To transport them in style he has laid on a huge retinue of servants and an elephant. "An old, old animal, an ancient, ancient animal, plodding on almost back into the past," is how the man who made the film describes the creature. But even this great beast and the train of servants stretching...
...Indian opposite, Dr. Aziz. In Victor Banerjee's electrifying performance, Aziz is eager to please and quick to anger, a bundle of nerves ricocheting wildly through the film. He is just naive and self-absorbed enough not to perceive Adela's vulnerable state. He fails to understand that the Marabar Caves are more than a tourist attraction to be undertaken lightly, that they have an almost palpably oppressive symbolic weight...