Alexandra Viets
Ismail Merchant’s remarkable film about cultural identity starring Madhur Jaffrey and Greta Scacchi was released to great acclaim in 2000. Penguin India is proud to publish the superb screenplay of the film, along with a selection of colour stills. The setting is Kerala, the time the 1950s. Lily MacIntosh, wife of BBC correspondent John MacIntosh, gives premature birth to their second child during one of John’s many absences. Lily cannot produce milk, so ...