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Release Date: 2001

Cast: Sakina Jaffrey, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rez Kempton, Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Albert Laveau, Pip Torrens, Zohra Sehgal, Jimi Mistry, James Fox

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Political drama, Period piece, Film adaptation

The Mystic Masseur is a Merchant Ivory film based on the novel of the same title by V. S. Naipaul. It is one of relatively few films directed by Ismail Merchant who is better known as the producer in the Merchant Ivory partnership. The movie was the first film adaptation of a novel by Naipaul. It was filmed in Trinidad and was released in 2001, to lukewarm response. The screenplay is by Caryl Phillips. The film features performances by Om Puri and Aasif Mandvi, and original music by Zakir Hussain. The comic novel by V. S. Naipaul moves between farce and acerbic social commentary on... MORE

The Mystic Masseur is a Merchant Ivory film based on the novel of the same title by V. S. Naipaul. It is one of relatively few films directed by Ismail Merchant who is better known as the producer in the Merchant Ivory partnership. The movie was the first film adaptation of a novel by Naipaul. It was filmed in Trinidad and was released in 2001, to lukewarm response. The screenplay is by Caryl Phillips. The film features performances by Om Puri and Aasif Mandvi, and original music by Zakir Hussain. The comic novel by V. S. Naipaul moves between farce and acerbic social commentary on Trinidad, the country of his birth. The characters are mainly members of Trinidad's South Asian community. The protagonist is a frustrated writer of Indian descent (Ganesh Ramsumair) who rises from poverty on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic' masseur - a masseur (Pundit Ganesh) who can cure illnesses. In the end he become a successful colonial politician (G. Ramsay Muir). LESS