Miss Beatty's Children Explained

Miss Beatty's Children
Director:Pamela Rooks
Producer:NFDC
Doordarshan
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Screenplay:Pamela Rooks
James Killough
Starring:Jenny Seagrove
Faith Brook
Protima Bedi
Music:Zakir Hussain
Cinematography:Venu
Editing:Renu Saluja
Runtime:112 min.
Country:India
Language:English

Miss Beatty's Children is a 1992 English-language Indian drama film directed by Pamela Rooks in her directorial debut, with Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook and Protima Bedi in lead roles.[1] [2] The film set in 1936 in South India, was based on Rooks' own novel of the same name.[3]

At the 40th National Film Awards, the film won the award for Best Debut Film of a Director and the Best Cinematography.[4]

Plot

In 1936 in South India, Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an Anglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pamela Rooks . Chaosmag Database . 2014-04-25 . 7 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200507162546/http://www.chaosmag.in/pamela.html . dead .
  2. News: Miss Beatty's Children (1992) . https://web.archive.org/web/20140426202132/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/435691/Miss-Beatty-s-Children/overview . dead . 2014-04-26 . Movies & TV Dept. . . . 2014 . 2014-04-25.
  3. Web site: 13 September 2004 . Found in translation . https://web.archive.org/web/20050509182922/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/09/13/stories/2004091301830300.htm . dead . 9 May 2005 . . 2014-04-25.
  4. Web site: 40th National Film Awards . . 2014-04-25 . 9 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160309053748/http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf . live .