The Householder

The Householder (1963)

Prem, a young school teacher, is arranged married and begins the journey of learning the roles and responsibilities required of him.

Date of release
1963-10-20
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama
Director
James Ivory

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Delhi

The Householder is a 1963 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with direction by James Ivory and a screenplay by Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by Jhabvala.

Production

Ivory had shot the documentary The Delhi Way and was editing it in New York, when he met anthropologist Gitel Steed, who was developing a project based on her screenplay, Devgar about a village in Gujarat. Ismail Merchant was producing the film and had started getting together the finances for the film. Sidney Meyers was the director, while Ivory agreed to shoot the film, whose cast included Shashi Kapoor, Durga Khote and Leela Naidu.

Shooting for the film started in 1961 and was completed in 1963. The film was shot entirely on location in Delhi, Mehrauli and Ghaziabad. Satyajit Ray exerted an important influence both on Ivory and Merchant, as well as on this film. In an uncredited assist, he supervised the film's music production and re-cut the film for Merchant and Ivory.

An interesting feature of this film was the use of background music which included Hindi/Urdu songs such as "Chahe koi mujhe junglee kahe" (singer Mohammed Rafi from the film Junglee), "Jiya ho Jiya kuch bol do" (Lata Mangeshkar from the film Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai, 1961) and also movement IV from Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), with only one on screen spiritual song (bhajan) "Ram dar se jab paeyo".

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