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      2005., General, Home Vision Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Courtesans   Edition: Full screen version.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. The film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian society: the entertainment of paying customers - always men - by songstresses and dancers who perform in the classical Hindustani styles of the ancient "nautch" girls.
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      2012, p1968., Twentyeth Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic Guru    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar (musical instrument) from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan. Tom is taken to Zafar's home, where he gets to meet his wife and several daughters, and the maestro himself. Zafar never has had a disciple as Tom, and is clearly disappointed with his lack of respect. Nevertheless, he asks him to travel to Banares with him. Also accompanying them is a young Caucasian woman named Jenny, who Zafar has taken a liking to, much to his wife's displeasure, and who is more respectful of him than Tom. In Banaras, they get to meet Zafar's aging Guru, and his mistress, Ghazala, who is expecting a child soon. Zafar hopes that it will be a son. Zafar's Guru is quite disappointed with him for having Tom and Jenny as his disciples. An over-awed and overwrought Jenny decides to take it easy - and it is then she witnesses the murder of a courtesan. Watch as events unfold in this peaceful town of Banaras that will change the lives and thought-processes of Zafar, Tom, and Jenny, forever.
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      -- Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
      c2003., General, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Atlantis Call No: DVD Fic Mr    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: "Screen favorites Paul Newman (Road To Perdition) and Joanne Woodward (Philadelphia) star as a well-off couple who raise their children in the comfort of country club society, only to find their control over the family's fate slipping away. Daughter Ruth (Kyra Sedgwick-Behind the Red Door) leaves for the artistic bohemia of New York, more conventional Carolyn marries the 'wrong sort' of man, and brother Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard-Driven) joins the army. In an empty house, the Bridges' marriage shifts. Mr. Bridge grows more rigid. But Mrs. Bridge begins to wonder if her husband really loves her. Directed by James Ivory (A Room With A View, Howards End), Mr. & Mrs. Bridge offers a wryly emotional portrait of a marriage as it rides the tumultuous changes of 1930s and '40s America."--Container.