Movies by Ismail Merchant
As part of the cast:
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The Song of The Little Road (2003)
Cast: Martin Scorsese, Ismail Merchant, Ravi Shankar …
Directed by: Priyanka Kumar
The films of Satyajit Ray were profoundly influential yet little seen, their originals only recently found disintegrating in Bengal. This quiet documentary restores to light the auteur's…
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Lumière and Company (1995)
Cast: Bigas Luna, Theo Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda …
Directed by: Merzak Allouache, John Boorman, David Lynch …
To honor the 100th anniversary of motion pictures, 40 international directors create their own mini-movies in this French documentary. The weapon of choice for each is a replica of the camera…
As a director:
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The Mystic Masseur (2001)
Cast: Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Ayesha Dharkar …
Directed by: Ismail Merchant
In 1945 Trinidad, Ganesh is an ineffectual teacher among the Indians in the capital city. After learning that his father has died, Ganesh returns to his rural village and soon discovers some…
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Cotton Mary (1999)
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Nina Gupta, Madhur Jaffrey …
Directed by: Ismail Merchant
Directed by Ismail Merchant (of the famed Merchant-Ivory team) and set in 1950s India, this film tells the story of a British woman (Greta Scacchi) who gives birth but can't nurse the…
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In Custody (1993)
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri …
Directed by: Ismail Merchant
In director Ismail Merchant's homage to a nearly extinct language, milquetoast professor Deven (Om Puri) is elated to land an assignment profiling the great Urdu poet Nur (Shashi Kapoor)…
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The Courtesans of Bombay (1983)
Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Kareem Samar …
Directed by: Ismail Merchant
Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal and Kareem Samar star in director Ismail Merchant's documentary-style drama about Pavan Pool, the workplace of Bombay's performing courtesans. By day,…