Pavillons lointains

Original title: The Far Pavilions

TV Mini Series
1984
5h 15m

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7.0/10

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Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.

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Nominated for 4 BAFTA Awards
- 6 nominations total

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Pavillons lointains (1984) was HBO's first mini-series, the complete version runs for 300 minutes, and the parts were titled "Return to India," "The Journey to Bhithor," and "Wally and Anjuli" (The current DVD release splits each of these parts into two, creating six parts each of about 50 minutes, adding a credit section at the newly created break in each part, and removes the title card names of the original parts). It was also was the most expensive at the time, budgeted at 12 million dollars.

Goofs
Most of the prop "jezails" carried by the Afghans were modified British Martini-Henry rifles.

Alternate versions
The 1986 UK video incurred 12 seconds of BBFC cuts. The newer 1998 VHS and DVD versions required a 1 second BBFC cut to remove an illegal horse fall.

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Featured in The Many Faces of Christopher Lee (1996)

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8/10

A handsome miniseries

This miniseries is set in the 19th century British colonial India.It tells about the battles of a young man named Ashton Pelham-Martyn and his forbidden love with the princess Anjuli.The Far Pavilions (1984) is directed by Peter Duffell.It's based on M.M. Kaye's novel from 1978.The actors are all good.Ben Cross does very good job as Ash.Amy Irving is terrific as Anjuli.Christopher Lee, who turns 90 this year, is great as Kaka-ji Rao.Omar Sharif is brilliant as Koda Dad.Benedict Taylor is excellent as Wally.Great job by John Gielgud, who plays Cavagnari.I just saw this miniseries on a DVD.It looks very good.The battle scenes are very well made.I liked the love story.And you learn a little bit of India's history while you're watching it.