The Outhouse (film)

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]

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

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. 1998. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. Thoraval, Yves (2000). The Cinemas of 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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