A young stage actress (Felicity Kendal), who's spent her entire lifetime roaming the Indian landscape with her parents' declining touring company, finds herself falling into a passionate affair with a kindly playboy (Shashi Kapoor) bearing Bollywood production aspirations. Ismail Merchant and James Ivory's acclaimed allegory about the post-colonial decline of British influence also stars Madhur Jaffrey, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell, Utpal Dutt. 122 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.