![]() ![]() ![]() They also reminded that the love scenes could not be played with the couple in a prone position. The censors complained there was too much emphasis on Victoria in girdle, bra, and panties, and not enough on her conflicted persona. In January 1955, a rough draft of the screenplay for “Bhowani Junction” was submitted for the approval of the PCA. Cukor’s portrait emphasizes the genuinely moving and tragic elements of his heroine’s life she’s a woman deemed immoral, or at least promiscuous by society. ![]() The exteriors of the picture were shot in Pakistan’s Lahore, and the interiors at London’s Elstree studio.Īva Gardner, then MGM’s most popular star, plays Victoria, an Anglo-Indian woman who has affairs with three men: Patrick, a young Anglo-Indian (Bill Travers) Ranjit, an Indian prince (Francis Matthews) who wants to marry her and Savage, a British Colonel (Stuart Granger). Set against India’s shifting political contexts, George Cukor’s tragic political melodrama, Bhowani Junction is one of his few grand on-location productions. ![]()
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