![]() Along the open air corridors that link the house's courtyard are green wooden doors, leading to dark tiny rooms, home for each widow. ![]() See the widows of Vrindavan »īent over by osteoporosis, 85-year-old Promita Das meticulously and slowly sweeps the floor just outside her door and then carefully cleans her dishes. "I came here when I couldn't work anymore. "Nobody looked after me, nobody loved me. Seventy years later, she finds herself at Amar Bari. "I used to live in front of a temple, but then I came here," she says. She carries with her not only the pain of a life without love, but also the loss of her only child. ![]() She gave birth at 14 her baby lived a year.The Brahmin Widow, by James Halliday and John Mitchell, is set in an Indian village in 1961. Twenty years before, Sue had been rescued from her plight of early widowhood by a British soldier who fell in love with her.įor two years they had lived happily together until the war dragged him away.Ī lively and eventful day centres on the bungalow belonging to Mrs Sue Purohit (Maxine Audley). Since then he has made her a regular allowance through the local lawyer, Mr Ambekar (Michael Bates). The soldier, now Major-General Peter Howard (Ronald Fraser) is doing a survey on a hydro-electric scheme for the engineering firm of which he is chairman, when he comes back to see Sue. ![]() It comes as a blow to hear from Mr Ambekar that Sue has a son, Moti (Roger Carey) and that she also has other means of support. With mixed feelings Peter goes to the bungalow to see for himself what Mr Ambekar was so secretive about. Michael Bates, put on brown make-up to play the local Indian lawyer, Mr Ambekar, six years before he did the same again as the Indian Punka Waller Rangi Ram in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. ![]()
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