The Courtesans of Bombay / Street Musician of Bombay [The Merchant Ivory Collection]
by Richard Robbins, Ismail Merchant
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Actor: Kareem Samar, Richard Robbins, Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra SegalDirector: Ismail Merchant, Richard Robbins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Hindi (Original Language); Punjabi (Original Language); Urdu (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Mono, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment (Merchant Ivory)
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Movie Review: A Look at, a past time, in India.
Summary: 3 Stars
The whole Merchant of Ivory series is good for its education value, as far as entertainment, I find them slow.
Summary of The Courtesans of Bombay / Street Musician of Bombay [The Merchant Ivory Collection]
Intriguing, colorful, and revealing, The Courtesans of Bombay is Merchant Ivory's docu-drama about Pavan Pool, the enclosed area where Bombay's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. It presents a portrait of the unique location, both exotic and tawdry: crammed tenements housing thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures-and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex-workers. Neither sensationalist nor prurient, the film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian society: the entertainment of paying customers-always men-by songstresses and dancers who perform in the classical Hindustani styles of the ancient "nautch" girls, India's version of the Japanese geisha.Art House & International DVD Video
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