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The Mystic Masseur

Adaptation of V S Naipaul's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about an Indian schoolteacher in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who takes up his father's trade as a masseur.

Merchant Ivory production adapted from the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by V S Naipaul. Ganesh Mandvi is an Indian schoolteacher in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who dreams of becoming a writer. After learning his father has died, he travels back to his village to make burial arrangements, and decides to stay there and write, to honour his father's memory. Ganesh turns to healing to help make ends meet. After he has 'cured' a young boy, word spreads and Ganesh becomes a local legend.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Last on

Sun 11 Jan 2009 02:10

Credits

Role Contributor
Ramlogan Om Puri
Mr. Stewart James Fox
Ganesh Aasif Mandvi
Leela Ayesha Dharker
Partap Jimi Mistry
Suruj Mooma Sakina Jaffrey
Headmaster Albert Laveau
Mrs. Cooper Grace Maharaj
Beharry Sanjeev Bhaskar
Producer Richard Hawley
Writer Caryl Phillips

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