Basic Info

First Air: July 25, 1969

Rating: ⭐ 5.2/10 (11 votes)

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Last Episode

Name: Where East Goes West

Season: 1, Episode: 7

Air Date: 1969-09-05

Runtime: 55 min

Bombay. It's the last lap of Louis Malle 's journey through India and already it smacks of the West. Bombay is a city on the move, in the middle of an economic boom. Parsee industrialists, Muslim craftsmen, and immigrant labourers from the South all meet here in this cosmopolitan city, whose slums are as poverty-stricken as those of Calcutta, but whose modern factories, oil refineries, and traffic problems all show the shadow of the West. It's where Hinduism meets Industrialisation, where East goes West, where the India of yesterday and today meets the India of tomorrow. But what kind of tomorrow?

Phantom India

1969 ⭐ 5.2/10 11 votes

Overview

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.