An early Merchant-Ivory production about a British writer (Jennifer Kendal) who travels to India where she romances both an actor (Shashi Kapoor) and his director (Zia Mohyeddin). Mala: Aparna Sen. Frequent Merchant-Ivory collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala cowrote the screenplay.
Two filmmakers in Bombay encounter a worldly American woman who has romantic interludes with both. This slow-paced programmer offers interest chiefly in the moviemaking techniques shown; otherwise it's pretty boring.