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ah, nostalgia!
Jul. 14th, 2012 01:25 pmI'm watching "The Far Pavilions": what a blast from the past! Ben Cross, Amy Irving, a delightfully wicked Saaed Jaffrey (really, one of my all-time favourite actors), Omar Sharif, Art Malikm, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy, and small parts for a very young Rupert Everett, Jeremy Sinden (from Brideshead Revisited) and Michael Cochrane (the horrid colonel from Sharpe's Eagle). And a star-turn cameo for Sir John Gilegud as the fussy Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari.
I loved the book very much, and the series quite a bit. I've always had a thing for Amy Iriving, who is still gorgeous at just short of 60. But the most beautiful character of all has got to be the amazing mountains in the background of the intro shots and which are visible from time to time, providing the very image that the story is named for.
I know that a lot of my interest in India and South/Central Asia in general comes from my dad's few stories and his greater unspoken fondness for the subcontinent. But a lot comes too from this very book, the series made from it, and the other stories like it that I then sought out (Kipling and his imitators, Indian writers and filmmakers, and eventually all things Desi).
I loved the book very much, and the series quite a bit. I've always had a thing for Amy Iriving, who is still gorgeous at just short of 60. But the most beautiful character of all has got to be the amazing mountains in the background of the intro shots and which are visible from time to time, providing the very image that the story is named for.
I know that a lot of my interest in India and South/Central Asia in general comes from my dad's few stories and his greater unspoken fondness for the subcontinent. But a lot comes too from this very book, the series made from it, and the other stories like it that I then sought out (Kipling and his imitators, Indian writers and filmmakers, and eventually all things Desi).
