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Original title

In Custody

Year

1994

Running time

126 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Ismail Merchant

Screenwriter

Anita Desai, Shahrukh Husain. Novel: Anita Desai

Cast

Music

Zakir Hussain, Ustad Sultan Khan

Cinematography

Larry Pizer

Producer

Co-production United Kingdom-India;

Merchant Ivory Production, Film4 Productions. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Cohen Media Group, The Criterion Collection, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE)

Genre

Comedy. Drama

Synopsis

An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visited by sycophants who drink his whisky and eat his food. Deven wants to record Nur for posterity and seeks funds to buy an aged tape recorder, to bribe Safiya, the elder wife, to get Nur into a room at a brothel for a week for the recording.

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In Custody

1994

Ismail Merchant