Jennifer Kendal – MRQE

Ghare-Baire

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband’s visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

36 Chowringhee Lane

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Middle-aged Violet, an Anglo-Indian teacher, lives alone in a flat at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta. When a former student starts visiting her with her boyfriend, Violet welcomes them eagerly.

Bombay Talkie

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie’s leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.