In Custody - The Merchant Ivory Collection
by Ismail Merchant
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Actor: Neena Gupta, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Shashi Kapoor, Sushma SethDirector: Ismail Merchant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Hindi (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Urdu (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-19
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Merchant Ivory
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Movie Review: Beyond Laicism there must be Cooperation
Summary: 5 Stars
An extremely good Indian film adapted from Anita Desai's book. It shows how India is a real laboratory for multiculturalism and at the same time it reveals a case where one culture is more or less dying in India itself because it is a minority culture based on a minority language language. Luckily it is the official language of Pakistan and this Urdu poetry is praised and appreciated in quite a few foreign countries. The film shows quite well how this old poetry finds it difficult to survive in the modern world of technology and metropolitan living. It has to be collected and saved for future generations and yet it is eroding fast. Parodies are common and the main noble themes are giving way to trite images and situations. The film though does not show the confrontation of the Hindu and Urdu cultures. It reduces the Urdu side of things to essentially the Moslem religion and it more or less entirely erases the Hindu religion. Then the discourse is no longer a discourse of exchange and sharing but rather a discourse of tolerance for the minority culture that has to come from a dominant, but neutral point of view. That's a shame in a way because the subject of the book was a lot wider and it concerned the whole world in many ways, the necessary moving away from the laicism some states preach against any religion and the indispensable adoption of a more tolerant, open and absolutely free approach of all philosophical or religious beliefs that must be granted the right to express themselves anywhere in society. Just like a man has the right to wear his color everywhere in society, a man must have the right to wear and express his beliefs everywhere in society. All dress codes and neutral-looking regulations are nothing but severe censorship if not discrimination. Yet this film is essential because it reveals a problem that is probably the most important problem to solve in the world in the coming decades: beyond tolerance how can we build a world of complete collaboration among all the different visions of the universe and life.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Summary of In Custody - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Anita Desai, In Custody-producer Ismail Merchant's directorial debut-is a wry, lyrical drama about the contemporary Indian culture. Nur (Shashi Kapoor) is considered the greatest living Urdu poet, and Deven (Om Pore) hopes to rekindle interest in the language by recording Nut reciting the magical verse. But multiple problems block Deven's path, the greatest these being Nur's two shrewish wives, his love of drink, and the vastly bloated poet himself. Deven's monstrous task quickly becomes a central odyssey that follows humorous paths to an unexpected conclusion.Art House & International DVD Video
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