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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.
Last on
Sun 11 Jan 2009
02:10
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two except Yorkshire
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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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 |
Broadcast
- Sun 11 Jan 2009 02:10ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two except Yorkshire