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While Santha's father was a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin from Canara whose mother-tongue was Konkani, her mother was a Kashmiri Brahmin from the far north of India, who had however grown up in Hubli. [2] In her early years, Rama Rau lived in an India under British rule. When aged 5 and a half, with her 8-year-old sister Premila, she briefly ...
In the early 1950s, the play's creator, Santha Rama Rau, had dinner one evening with producer Cheryl Crawford. Crawford remarked to Rau that there had never been a distinguished play on Broadway before that dealt with India. This conversation brought up the E.M. Forster novel that was first published in 1924, titled A Passage to India. Rau ...
A Passage to India is a 1984 epic period drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean.The screenplay is based on the 1924 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster and the 1960 play adaptation by Santha Rama Rau.
The book was first adapted in 1960 by Indian-American playwright Santha Rama Rau into a play by the same name. In it, the caves are presented during the second act. This play inspired the film. [16] American playwright Martin Sherman also made an adaption of the novel for the stage. In an interview, he stresses the importance of the caves.
By Any Other Name may also refer to: By Any Other Name, a short story collection by Spider Robinson. A novella by the same author, expanded into the novel Telempath "By Any Other Name", a short story by Santha Rama Rau "By Any Other Name", an episode of the British television series Holby City; By Any Other Name, a Future Sound of London ...
A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th-century English literature by the Modern Library [2] and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. [3]
He rejected a draft by Santha Rama Rau, responsible for the stage adaptation and Forster's preferred screenwriter, and wrote the script himself. [26] In addition, Lean also edited the film with the result that his three roles in the production (writer, editor, director) were given equal status in the credits.
Santha Rama Rau (play); John Maynard (adaptation) Peter Luke: Waris Hussein: Sybil Thorndike, Virginia McKenna, Zia Mohyeddin, Cyril Cusack Ishaq Bux, Saeed Jaffrey, John Bryans, Doreen Mantle: Adapted from the play of the novel. [3] Repeated on BBC2 29 Jun 1992. 14 Dec 1965: The Joel Brand Story