The Householder 1963

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The Householder ★★ Gharbar 1963

An early MerchantIvory collaboration featuring a young Indian schoolteacher whose widowed mother arranges his marriage to a woman he doesn't know. The immature couple find their adjustment to marriage fraught with, sometimes amusing, complications. 101m/B VHS, DVD . IN Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote; D: James Ivory; W: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

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