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A Passage to India

Movie (1984)

The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers). She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed (Victor Banerj ...

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Released:	Dec 14th, 1984
Budget:	$8,000,000.00
Revenue:	$27,187,653.00

A Passage to India Main Cast

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Judy Davis
plays Adela

Victor Banerjee
plays Aziz

Peggy Ashcroft
plays Mrs. Moore

James Fox
plays Fielding

Alec Guinness
plays Godbole

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Movie Goof (revealing mistake): At the end of the film, as Dr. Aziz writes a letter, a festival with fireworks is going on outside his window. The colors red, green, and purple all appear simultaneously at two separate intervals, indicating studio lights instead of fireworks.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): In a faraway shot at the "bridge" party at the club, an all-Indian band is playing, but the conductor's beat pattern is off- the song is in common time (4/4 time), but he is beating beat 3 when the band is playing beat 1.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): Exiting the caves, Mrs. Moore sees a full moon overhead in the mid-day sky. This is an astronomical impossibility, but it is shown in the film to highlight the powerful effect that the caves have on the human mind. The caves would also deeply affect Adela a little while later, but with much more serious consequences.
The original Broadway production of "A Passage to India" by Santha Rama Rau (born in Tamil Nadu, India) opened at the Ambassador Theater in New York on January 31, 1962 and ran for 109 performances.

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