Autobiography of a Princess

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Autobiography of a Princess
Directed by	James Ivory
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	R. Prawer Jhabvala
Starring	James Mason Madhur Jaffrey Keith Varnier Diane Fletcher Timothy Bateson
Music by	Vic Flick
Cinematography	Walter Lassally
Editing by	Humphrey Dixon
Distributed by	Contemporary Films Ltd. (UK)
Release date(s)	1975
Running time	60 minutes
Language	English

Autobiography of a Princess (1975) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions (directed by James Ivory, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and produced by Ismail Merchant), starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey.

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An Indian Princess (Madhur Jaffrey), long-divorced and living in self-enforced exhile in 1970s London, spends time with her father's ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib (James Mason), watching film footage of Royal India and talking of a past world. There is a great deal of fascinating real-life footage and interviews with India's royalty: the Maharaja kings of India and the end they faced due to the 1960s socialist reforms of India's Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi.

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v t e Films by Merchant Ivory Productions

1960s	The Householder (1963) Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The Guru (1969) The Night of Counting the Years (1969)

1970s	Bombay Talkie (1970) Savages (1972) The Wild Party (1975) Autobiography of a Princess (1975) Roseland (1977) Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) The Five Forty-Eight (1978) The Europeans (1979)

1980s	Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) Quartet (1981) The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) Heat and Dust (1983) The Bostonians (1984) A Room with a View (1985) Maurice (1987) The Deceivers (1988) The Perfect Murder (1988) Slaves of New York (1989)

1990s	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) Howards End (1992) The Remains of the Day (1993) In Custody (1994) Feast of July (1995) Jefferson in Paris (1995) The Proprietor (1996) Surviving Picasso (1996) Side Streets (1998) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1999) Cotton Mary (1999)

2000s	The Golden Bowl (2001) The Mystic Masseur (2002) Le Divorce (2003) Heights (2004) The White Countess (2005) The City of Your Final Destination (2007) Before the Rains (2008)

v t e Films directed by James Ivory

1960s	The Householder (1963) The Delhi Way (1964) Shakespeare Wallah (1965) The Guru (1969)

1970s	Bombay Talkie (1970) Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972) Savages (1972) Autobiography of a Princess (1975) The Wild Party (1975) Roseland (1977) Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) The Five Forty-Eight (1978) The Europeans (1979)

1980s	Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) Quartet (1981) Heat and Dust (1983) The Bostonians (1984) A Room with a View (1985) Maurice (1987) Slaves of New York (1989)

1990s	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) Howards End (1992) The Remains of the Day (1993) Jefferson in Paris (1995) Lumière and Company (1995) Surviving Picasso (1996) A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1999)

2000s	The Golden Bowl (2001) Le Divorce (2003) The White Countess (2005) The City of Your Final Destination (2007)

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