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A Passage to India is a 1984 epic historical drama film written, directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1960 play by Santha Rama Rau, which was in turn based on the 1924 novel by E. M. Forster. Set in the 1920s during the period of the British Raj, the film tells the story of the interactions of several characters in ...
A Passage to India. 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 ...
Tumbbad is a 2018 Hindi-language folk horror film directed by Rahi Anil Barve. [5] Additionally, Anand Gandhi served as the creative director, [6] and Adesh Prasad served as the co-director. [6] Written by Mitesh Shah, Prasad, Barve, and Gandhi, [5] the film was produced by Sohum Shah, Aanand L. Rai, Mukesh Shah and Amita Shah.
Signature. D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (/ ˌvæsku də ˈɡɑːmə, - ˈɡæmə / VAS-koo də GA (H)M-ə; [1][2] European Portuguese: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea. [3] His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of ...
Box office. ₹240,000,000 (INR) or US$3,078,709 (INT) [1] Provoked is a 2006 British biographical drama film, directed by Jag Mundhra. It stars Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Nandita Das and Steve McFadden. The film is loosely based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who unintentionally killed her ...
D'Souza greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1988. Dinesh Joseph D'Souza [43] was born in Bombay in 1961. D'Souza grew up in a middle-class family; his parents were Roman Catholics from the state of Goa in Western India, where his father was an executive with Johnson & Johnson, and his mother was a housewife.
The Indo-Aryan migrations[ note 1 ] were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages. These are the predominant languages of today's Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, North India, Eastern Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Indo-Aryan migration into the region, from Central Asia ...
Budget. £2.2 million [1] or £1.1 million [2] Box office. $2.6 million (overseas est.) Heat and Dust is a 1983 British historical romantic drama film, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on her novel, Heat and Dust (1975). It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. It stars Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor and ...