Miss Beatty's Children

Miss Beatty's Children
Poster
Directed by Pamela Rooks
Produced by NFDC
Doordarshan
Rooks AV
Screenplay by Pamela Rooks
James Killough
Based on Miss Beatty's Children
by Pamela Rooks
Starring Jenny Seagrove
Faith Brook
Protima Bedi
Music by Zakir Hussain
Cinematography Venu
Edited by Renu Saluja
Release date
 1992
Running time
 112 min.
Country India
Language English

Miss Beatty's Children is a 1992 English-language Indian drama film directed by Pamela Rooks in a directorial debut, with Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook and Protima Bedi in lead roles.[1][2] The film set in 1936 in South India, was based on Pamela Rooks own novel by the same name.[3]

At the 40th National Film Awards, the film won the award for Best Debut Film of a Director and the Best Cinematography.[4]

Plot

In 1936 in South India, Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an ANglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.

Cast

Bibliography

  • Pamela Rooks (1989). Miss Beatty's Children. Clarion Books. ISBN 8185120358.

References

  1. ↑ "Pamela Rooks". Chaosmag Database. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  2. ↑ "Miss Beatty's Children (1992)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  3. ↑ "Found in translation". The Hindu. 13 September 2004. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  4. ↑ "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
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