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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 ...
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.
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 ...
He married Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, of Kashmiri Brahmin descent and a leader in the Indian women's rights movement who was the International President of Planned Parenthood and the founder of Family Planning Association of India, their younger daughter Santha Rama Rau became a travel writer, marrying and settling in the United States. [5]
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
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.
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).
Upon release, the book received positive reviews. Santha Rama Rau of The New York Times commented "Like an Indian bazaar itself, the book is filled with the smells, sights, sounds, confusion and subtle organization of ordinary Indian life". [4] Herald Tribune said that the book "has a special magic of its own".