Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust is a 1983 romantic drama film with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based upon her novel, Heat and Dust. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. Ivory performed tanpura for score music with Zakir Hussain's tabla. According to the Museum of Broadcast Communications there was "a cycle of film and television productions which emerged during the first half of the 1980s, which seemed to indicate Britain's grow... More

Initial release date:

  • Jan 1983

Directed by:

Rating:

R (USA)

Runtime:

  • 2 h 10 min

Produced by:

Also known as:

  • Heat And Dust

Film

Directed by

James Ivory

James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. Ivory...

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Release date(s):

Release Date Film release distribution medium
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • Nov 11, 2003
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Runtime:

  • 2 h 10 min
  • 2 h 13 min
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Awards

BAFTA Award for Best Direction Nominees

Appears in ranked lists:

List Rank Year Note
  • 1,473
  • Apr 25, 2010
  • 6.5

The Movie List: the first 9200 of 2010-04-25

Awards Won:

Year Award Award Winner
  • 1983

BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, Adapted Winners

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Adapted From

Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which won the Booker Prize in 1975. It is said to be based on an idea by another writer, but this writer is unnamed. The initial stages of the novel are told in the first person, from the narrative voice of a woman who travels to India, to...

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