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The Far Pavilions [1984]
from Acorn Media
starring Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Benedict Taylor, Rossano Brazzi
directed by Peter Duffell

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Too many departures from the book for my taste
  When I first saw this adaptation for TV in the 1980s, I thought it was a fantastic recreation of M M Kaye's epic story of Anjuli and Ash which I had read some years previously. However, having recently reread the book, and followed it up with this DVD, I have to admit that this time round it fell well short of my expectations.
  My first gripe is that the story has been changed quite a lot, so that first quarter of the book, dealing with Ash's early life, is covered in the opening credits plus a couple... more info

• A must watch
  Indeed a classic of its own kind which would give a crash course of Indian culture and its customs during the times of British Raj in 19th century. It is an excellent effort to picture the all time best seller of M.M Kay, which is a romantic tale of a child who was born to an English aristocratic family and raised by an Indian foster mother who saved his life during the 1857 mutiny. The boy who considered himself an Indian spent a few days of his life in Gulkote, an Indian Imperial State, as a servant to... more info

• A TALE OF ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE IN BRITISH COLONIAL INDIA...
  Based upon M. M. Kaye's best selling novel of the same name, this film is well acted and absorbing. It is a story set during the time of the British Raj in India. The two characters central to the film are Ash (Ben Cross), an Englishman who spent the formative years of his life believing that he was Indian, and Anjuli (Amy Irving), a half-caste Indian princess. Ash and Anjuli spent a portion of their childhood growing up together, until palace intrigues forced Ash and his Indian foster mother to flee. As a... more info

• A TALE OF ROMANCE AND ADVENTURE IN BRITISH COLONIAL INDIA...
  Based upon M. M. Kaye's best selling novel of the same name, this film is well acted and absorbing. It is a story set during the time of the British Raj in India. The two characters central to the film are Ash (Ben Cross), an Englishman who spent the formative years of his life believing that he was Indian, and Anjuli (Amy Irving), a half caste Indian princess. Ash and Anjuli spent a portion of their childhood growing up together, until palace intrigues forced Ash and his Indian foster mother to flee. As a... more info

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