Julie Christie

Greta Scacchi

Shashi Kapoor

Nickolas Grace

Christopher Cazenove

Zakir Hussain

Julian Glover

Susan Fleetwood

Patrick Godfrey

Jennifer Kendal

Charles McCaughan

Madhur Jaffrey

Barry Foster

Ratna Pathak Shah

Tarla Mehta

Sajid Khan

Amanda Walker

Praveen Paul

Jayant Kripalani

Sudha Chopra

Daniel Chatto

Ismail Merchant

James Ivory

Walter Lassally

Susie Figgis

Peter Manley

Maurice Fowler

Ram Yedekar

Wilfred Shingleton

Richard Robbins

Barbara Lane

Kevan Barker

Connie Kaiserman

Ray Beckett

Gordon Kay

Carol Hemming

Jane Buck

Zakiya Powell

Mary Ellis

Christopher Cormack

Steve O'Brien

Deepak Nayar

Agnes Fernandez

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Mohammed Amir

Brian Blamey

Tony Garrett

Jeffrey Haines

Richard King

David Nichols

Tony Bray

Jayant Paranji

Manilal

Janardhan Rumde

Mark Potter Jr.

Gyanchand Rikki

Tom Freeman

Rajesh Joshi

Rita Mangat

A. Natarajan

J. Rathore

Lovleen Bains

Rambali Mishra

Shama Habibullah

Sheik Juddin

Harry Rabinowitz

Riaz Hafizka

Jean Walter

Mulchand Dedhia

Humphrey Dixon

Drama

Romance

Heat and Dust

Merchant Ivory Productions

United Kingdom

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It's not really too surprising that it was only Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation of her own novel that garnered any attention on the awards circuit from this film. Otherwise, it's a rather sterile story of mischief amongst the Raj that rather left me cold. The plot centres around the investigations of "Anne" (Julie Christie) into the goings-on in the 1920s that involved her lively great-aunt "Olive" (Greta Scacchi). Now this lady had only recently arrived to be with her new husband "Douglas" (Christopher Cazenove) and is swiftly immersed in the upper-class colonial lifestyle that sees her hobnobbing with the British establishment and with the local Nawab (Shashi Kapoor) who plays the game, subtly, for all it's worth. Meantime, we are aware of the precariousness of all of this as bandits maraud the countryside and anti-British sentiment is never far away. As "Anne" learns more about her relative, she begins to ask herself a few questions about her own life - and those imponderables lead her to begin to reevaluate who she is. It's a great looking film to watch, but somehow nobody ever manages to inject any passion or soul into their characters. Even the sex scenes come across strangely unemotional - in any sense. Christie worked far better for me in an earthier, more visceral, role and with the possible expception of Susan Fleetwood's "Mrs. Crawford", most of the cast were just too comfortable with there allocated persona. They came across as if they really could be the fatuous, entitled, cheating individuals - and I found that a little bit dull. There's plenty of dust, but heat? See what you think....

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