Nothing Parsi but the name
In its anxiety to be melodramatic, the movie Rustom, based
on the Nanavati murder case, sacrifices authenticity
Berjis Desai
It is strange that it took Bollywood 57 years to make a movie about this crime passionnel, even though it had every possible ingredient for success. Cdr Kawas Nanavati, a highly decorated officer of the Indian Navy, confessed that he had killed his beautiful English wife’s playboy lover, but was pardoned after barely three years in prison. His dramatic courtroom trial pitted the Parsi and Sindhi communities against each other; resulted in the abolition of the jury system in India; launched the career of several bigwig criminal lawyers; made the tabloid Blitz a national newspaper; and effectively took away the......
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