Barry John (theatre director)Dr. Barry John (born 1944) is an English-Indian theatre director, actor, and acting coach. Some of his students became Bollywood actors including Shah Rukh Khan, , Manoj Bajpayee, Varun Dhawan, Dulquer Salmaan, Kunal Kapoor, Rana Daggubati, Samir Soni and Shiney Ahuja, and actresses, such as Jacqueline Fernandez, Richa Chadha, Dia Mirza, and Plabita Borthakur, as well as Hollywood actors including Freida Pinto and one of the top 10 US media companies CEO Samir Arora.
Train to Pakistan (film)Train to Pakistan is a 1998 Indian Hindi film adapted from Khushwant Singh's 1956 novel by the same name set in the Partition of India of 1947 and directed by Pamela Rooks. The film stars Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapur, Mohan Agashe, Smriti Mishra, Mangal Dhillon and Divya Dutta. PlotThe film is set in Mano Majra, which is a quiet fictional village on the border of India and Pakistan, close to where the railway line crosses the Sutlej River.Train to PakistanTrain to Pakistan is a historical novel by writer Khushwant Singh, published in 1956. It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947 through the perspective of Mano Majra, a fictional border village. Instead of depicting the Partition in terms of only the political events surrounding it, Khushwant Singh digs into a deep local focus, providing a human dimension which brings to the event a sense of reality, horror, and believability.
Miss Beatty's ChildrenMiss 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. The film set in 1936 in South India, was based on Rooks' own novel of the same name. At the 40th National Film Awards, the film won the award for Best Debut Film of a Director and the Best Cinematography.
Roshan SethRoshan SethOBE (born 2 April 1942) is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India. He began his acting career in the early 1960s in the UK, but left acting the following decade and moved to India to work as a journalist.
Khushwant SinghKhushwant SinghFKC (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel. Born in Punjab, Khushwant Singh was educated in Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen's College, and graduated from Government College, Lahore.Conrad RooksConrad Rooks (December 15, 1934 in Kansas City, Missouri – December 27, 2011 in Massachusetts) was an American writer, director and producer most well known for his 1972 filmed adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha. Early lifeRooks was an heir to the Avon Products cosmetics fortune, where his father, Russell Rooks, was one of the founding Presidents, who came up with the now famous phrase "Ding Dong Avon calling".
Partition of IndiaThe partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Pakistan is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The partition involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wide non-Muslim (mostly Hindu and Sikh) or Muslim majorities.NainitalNainital (Kumaoni: Naintāl; pronounced), formerly anglicized as Naini Tal, is a town and headquarters of Nainital district of Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India. It is the judicial capital of Uttarakhand, the High Court of the state being located there and is the headquarters of an eponymous district. It also houses the Governor of Uttarakhand, who resides in the Raj Bhavan. Nainital was the summer capital of the United Provinces.Dance Like a ManDance Like a Man is a 2004 Indian English-language dance drama film directed by Pamela Rooks based on the play of the same name by Mahesh Dattani. The film stars Shobana, Arif Zakaria and Anoushka Shankar in her acting debut. The film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English.
ShimlaCapital of Himachal Pradesh, IndiaState capital in Himachal Pradesh, IndiaChrist Church of Shimla captured with a scenic view of the surroundingsGovernment College, Sanjauli during wintersShimla, also known as Simla (the official name until 1972), (Hindi:) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In 1864, Shimla was declared the summer capital of British India.
Siddhartha BasuSiddhartha "Babu" Basu (born 1954), is an Indian actor, director, producer and quiz show host. Regarded as a pioneer of Indian television quizzing, Basu rose to prominence with the show Quiz Time, and later on with the shows Mastermind India, University Challenge India and Quizzer of the Year. He has produced and directed a number of Indian television shows including Kaun Banega Crorepati, Dus Ka Dum, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, and India's Got Talent.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.