The Outhouse
Official poster
Directed byLeslie Carvalho
StarringPriscilla Corner
Ratan Thakore Grant
CinematographyS.Ramachandra
Music byGerard Machado
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish

The Outhouse is a 1997 Indian English-language family drama film directed by Leslie Carvalho and starring Priscilla Corner and Ratan Thakore Grant.[1] In 1998, the film competed in the International Film Festival of India and won the first Gollapudi Srinivas Award.[2][3][4]

Cast

  • Priscilla Corner as Priscilla
  • Ratan Thakore Grant as Ben
  • Judith Roby Bidapa as Claire
  • Chippy Gange and Poile Sengupta as a Bengali couple

Production

The film marked the directorial debut of Carvalho, who did a course at the New York Film Academy.[5] The film was shot in thirteen days.[6]

Reception

A critic from The Hindu wrote that "'The Outhouse' is an example of what intelligent cinema ought to be. The note of authenticity, the sensitive handling of a theme as delicate as marital violence and the extraordinary eye for detail (which one saw so easily in Satyajit Ray’s work) place "The Outhouse" in a class by itself".[7] A critic from Deccan Herald opined that "The Outhouse`s accomplishment lies in its complex character portrayal of its heroine, Priscilla, and its finely observed details of the everyday, the commonplace, that other movies usually take for granted".[8]

References

  1. ↑ "'I'm doffing my hat to Bollywood'". The Times of India. 14 January 2001.
  2. ↑ "Gollapudi Srinivas awardfor [sic] Kannada director". The Hindu. 17 March 2017.
  3. ↑ Skehar, Arunkumar (9 May 2019). "In memory of a brother". The New Indian Express.
  4. ↑ Chopra, Anupama (22 December 1997). "International Film Festival of India '98: Panorama section a Writers' Special". India Today.
  5. ↑ Indian Cinema. Directorate of Film Festivals, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. 1998. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ Thoraval, Yves (2000). The Cinemas of India. Macmillan India. ISBN 9780333934104. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  7. ↑ Bhaskaran, Gautaman (14 November 1997). "A great first work". The Hindu.
  8. ↑ Sebastian, Pradeep (22 November 1998). "THE OUTHOUSE (English)". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 20 April 1999.
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