From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Cotton Mary"
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:52:16 PDT



Roger, I did not see Cotton Mary, but it is interesting that not long ago a 
play dealing with the Anglo-Indian community was shown in London. Written by 
Ayub Khan Din (who also wrote East is East), the play dealt with 
Anglo-Indians who had stayed on in India and were facing the BJP backlash. 
It was a crude play, not at all sophisticated, in that it tried to say too 
many things, angrily, at the same time, including an Ayodhya-type episode. 
Coincidentally, Madhur Jaffrey played the lead role here, too.

Anothe film that deals with the Anglo-Indian community, though somewhat 
marginally, is of course Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar (The Big City), I think, 
which has a minor role played by an Anglo-Indian woman, who is a secretary 
at a company. And she is not liked by her Indian colleagues, who see her as 
half-bred, belonging to neither culture. Of course, this being Ray, the 
argument was presented in a sublime, subtle manner.

Question: Was the Jennifer Kendal character in "36 Chowringhee Lane" of 
Aparna Sen an Anglo-Indian? Or was she one of those who, as Paul Scott put 
it, stayed on? I don't remember that well now.

Salil

______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com



     --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---