They also reminded that the love scenes could not be played with the couple in a prone position. The censors complained there was too much emphasis on Victoria in girdle, bra, and panties, and not enough on her conflicted persona. In January 1955, a rough draft of the screenplay for “Bhowani Junction” was submitted for the approval of the PCA. Cukor’s portrait emphasizes the genuinely moving and tragic elements of his heroine’s life she’s a woman deemed immoral, or at least promiscuous by society. The exteriors of the picture were shot in Pakistan’s Lahore, and the interiors at London’s Elstree studio.Īva Gardner, then MGM’s most popular star, plays Victoria, an Anglo-Indian woman who has affairs with three men: Patrick, a young Anglo-Indian (Bill Travers) Ranjit, an Indian prince (Francis Matthews) who wants to marry her and Savage, a British Colonel (Stuart Granger). Set against India’s shifting political contexts, George Cukor’s tragic political melodrama, Bhowani Junction is one of his few grand on-location productions.
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