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Arriving in 1961 in India, they persuaded Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to write their scripts, and Jhabvala, 59, an English-educated German married to an Indian, has worked on almost all their pictures, Maurice being a rare exception. The team's reputation was established with their second film, Shakespeare Wallah. The story of a troupe of English actors traveling across India, the film was made on a budget of $80,000, small even by Indian standards. The modest renown established by that film was nearly lost by a subsequent series of almost perversely maladroit efforts, including The Guru, Bombay Talkie...
...India." She was not, in short, a do-gooder, a foreign-service careerist or a spiritual pilgrim. But her European background and natural desire to sympathize with her adopted land made her an acute observer. She began turning out novels, stories and a string of screenplays (including Shakespeare Wallah), creating piecemeal a territory that became increasingly familiar to a growing audience as Jhabvala's India...
Jhabvala, a talented novelist (Heat and Dust) and scenarist (Shakespeare Wallah), knows better than this. She and Director Ivory should also be aware that audiences distrust booming epiphanies of the cruel demands made by human affections. Still, Roseland is probably immortal. It has survived much in its long history, and it will doubtless survive the film that bears its name...
...eventually seduced by a brilliantined matinee idol named Dale Sword (Perry King). From jealousy and an encroaching sense of failure, Jolly goes to pieces, and the party follows right along. There is all manner of period decadence festooning the screen, rendered too campily by Director James Ivory (Shakespeare Wallah) to have much force...
Your review wallah has gone and pulled a howler. When one has knocked about the federated Malay States for donkeys' years, as one has, one learns that "stengah" means a small whisky and water, nothing more, nothing less. Any chappie askin' for a "gin stengah" at the Yellow Dog in K.L. would be hooted off the verandah before you could say knife...