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Follows the fortunes of a young teacher, Prem, who isn't ready to take on the responsibilities of his arranged marriage.
The Householder
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Gharbar, Хозяин дома, 房主
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01 Feb 1966
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01 Feb 1966
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20 Oct 1963
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Re-edited by Satyajit Ray in a record time of three days after its completion, Ivory's introduction to feature-length celluloid is a multi-themed essay on the modern rural married couple. Shashi Kapoor carries the weight of the argument of the film on his shoulders splendidly, and Leela Naidu's subtle performance adds power to the film.
There are full character transformations and that is perhaps the aspect that makes the film more potent than it already is. It deals openly with the cultural clashes that would become the centerpiece of Edward Yang's thoughts, and makes effective contrasts between the pros and cons of the East and the West: the Western materialism drowning spiritual fulfillment, and the Eastern fundamentalisms of family and tradition…
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“She wondered whether all marriages started out this way. Whether this initial stress and adjustment, push and pull and tremors and shakes were common to all relationships…. She wondered why all those relatives who had sat on her head asking her to get married had never mentioned this particular phase.” ― Shweta Ganesh Kumar, A Newlywed’s Adventures in Married Land
Merchant-Ivory’s first production is a tender story about the growing pains of a newlywed couple in Delhi.
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A very rich and engaging film about a college professor dealing with his life as a newlywed as well as the interference of his mother in the debut film of the Merchant-Ivory production team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
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Sometimes he still thinks of the light. He knows it is there. It will always be there. One day perhaps he will go back and search for it again. But for now, his wife is waiting for him at home.
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"No one cares. You think people are going to help you if you're young and have only just started out in life, but no one cares."
When James Ivory and Ismail Merchant were just starting out as film producers, they turned to novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to adapt her fourth book for their first feature. This film was the result, and it led to an ongoing collaboration between them that spanned five decades. That's pretty impressive when you think about it, no matter what you may think of Merchant Ivory's later films.
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"When a girl is married, she thinks and thinks of her father's house and tears come to her eyes."
A wonderful feature debut by James Ivory. Gharbar (The Householder) talks a lot about our stereotype society and women are held back from doing anything. There are more than 2 POV shown by Ivory but the Shashi Kapoor's character and Leela Naidu's characters POVs are the most important.
Prem Sagar (Shashi Kapoor)- A newly-wed young man who is working as a Sanskrit teacher in a college where he earns 180 rupee/month. He dislikes his wife. Every day after coming back home from college, he curses his wife for not doing household work like tidying up the house, etc. The food his…
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the smile on his face when he sees her after his mom is gone… im blushing so hard 🤭🤭
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Ivory-Merchant-Jhabvala üçlüsünün ilk feature filmi
modern kırsal hayatta yeni evli bir çiftin karşılaştıklarını zorlukları zarif bir şekilde anlatıyor -
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If you were to see this film but miss the opening credits, the chances are you would never guess who the director was. Probably think it was an independent parallel Indian film made on the cheap. But you would be puzzled that the nearly all-Indian cast spoke only in English throughout the film (there is a Hindi version as well somewhere). This is though the directorial feature debut of James Ivory who would go on to make all these glossy much acclaimed period films. It didn't start out that way and that his first film was shot in India with the help of the great Satyajit Ray and with a future huge star in Bollywood as the main actor is…
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5x5: Indian Actors & Actresses, Kapoor Khandan: Shashi Kapoor
Prem (Shashi Kapoor) transitions from disillusioned, sulky newly-wed trying to make sense of the world to a semi-happy householder, albeit he continues to have a lot of indignation and frustration about the state of the world because no one really listens to him. Prem on the other hand variously seems entirely oblivious to other people's concerns while at other times he listens intently with the earnestness of youth and ready to live out the words. Prem's constant rambles are, on the one hand, the occasionally tone deaf grumbling of someone used to privilege or fairly self-centred, but it is also the very real concerns of a young man trying to make sense…