A Passage to India

It took me a while to get down to write something about this movie as I felt at loss to jot down my own thoughts about it for some time. A Passage to India is based on the novel with the same title written by E.M.Forster. One of the reviews about this movie said that its a literary riddle that every viewer is challenged to decipher in light of his or her own perception of human passion and prejudice. I couldn't agree more.

At several instances in the movie India along with the Indian villagers are shown to be massively chaotic which for a moment irked me (or probably to the indianess in me) but the truth is that India is chaotic or rather to make it complete as Rushdie says in Shalimar the Clown, India is a chaos that makes sense.

The movie has really good cast. Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee), Mrs Moore (Peggy Ashcroft), the beautiful Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Richard Fielding (James Fox) all do their job to perfection.