Phantom India

Name: Phantom India
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1969-07-25
Rating: 5.375
Cast: Louis Malle

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Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

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Original TitleL'Inde fantôme

StatusEnded

First AiredJuly 25, 1969

Last AiredSeptember 5, 1969

Episode Runtime6sa 3dk

Seasons1

Episodes7

TypeMiniseries

Origin CountryFrance

Original LanguageFrench

Spoken LanguagesFrançais

Keywords

yoga india communism caste system

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Last Episode

S1 E7 • 9/5/1969

Where East Goes West

Bombay. It's the last lap of Louis Malle 's journey through India and already it smacks of the West. Bombay is a city on the move, in the middle of an economic boom. Parsee industrialists, Muslim craftsmen, and immigrant labourers from the South all meet here in this cosmopolitan city, whose slums are as poverty-stricken as those of Calcutta, but whose modern factories, oil refineries, and traffic problems all show the shadow of the West. It's where Hinduism meets Industrialisation, where East goes West, where the India of yesterday and today meets the India of tomorrow. But what kind of tomorrow?