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Autobiography of a Princess is a 1975 film directed by James Ivory and starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey. It was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and produced by Ismail Merchant.
Autobiography of a Princess, with its dutifully appended closing-credit thanks to the deposed potentates of Jodhpur, Jaipur and Bikaner (all in what is now the largest state in India, Rajasthan) is an altogether lesser, slighter effort. Still, Jaffrey and Mason are superb, and one needn't be a Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala completist to find it worth ...
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Autobiography of a Princess is a 1975 hour long drama-documentary written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala whose novel Heat and Dust Merchant Ivory would go on to adapt for the big screen eight years later. Madhur Jaffrey stars as an Indian princess exiled in 1970s London following Indira Gandhi's socialist reforms of the previous decade.
Autobiography of a princess, also being the adventures of an American film director in the land of the Maharajas : Ivory, James : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Ivory, James. Publication date. 1975. Topics.
An Indian princess (Madhur Jaffrey) long divorced and living in self-enforced exile in London, invites her father's ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib (James Mason), to an annual tea party, intended to celebrate a happier past, where the two watch old movie footage of Royal India.
An Indian princess, long divorced and living in self-enforced exile in London, invites the tutor of her late Maharaja father to an annual tea party, intended to celebrate a happier past. The two watch documentaries that show the beauty of her native country in the time prior to independence.
