A Passage to India
1984 · 163 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 22,028 VOTES · DIR. David Lean
Overview
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,938 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:03:10 FIRST TIME IN INDIA?
00:11:39 [HONK]
00:19:09 CLUB!
00:24:58 ?? WHILE I WAS FREEWHEELING ??
00:30:53 WILL TELL YOU ABOUT REINCARNATION AND DESTINY.
00:35:49 EVERYTHING ARRANGED ON SHELVES IS WHAT I THOUGHT.
00:40:02 ORNAMENTED IN SOME WAY?
00:44:46 I DON'T WANT TO UPSET HER MORE.
00:57:04 [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:02:34 NOW PUT HER AWAY.
01:07:20 IT WILL BE A NEW EXPERIENCE.
01:15:07 [SPEAKING HINDI]
01:27:36 [HONK HONK]
01:33:41 WHAT IS THAT?
01:39:08 BUT AFTERWARDS.
01:43:37 COME IN IF YOU DON'T MIND ME CHANGING.
01:48:29 FOR GIVING THE WRETCH LEAVE.
01:55:44 COME ALONG, DEAR. WE'RE THERE.
02:02:33 ORDER!
02:05:55 AND CONSEQUENTLY, SHE CAN SAY NOTHING.
02:11:54 WHEN YOU ARRIVED, PRISONER SPOKE TO HIM?
02:19:10 I CAN'T LEAVE YOU HERE.
02:25:00 THAT AZIZ WOULD BE SAVED BY HIS ENEMY?
02:32:49 I'M GOING TO MARRY SOMEONE YOU KNOW."
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,938
Dialogue density11.9 lines / min
First line00:03:10
Final line02:32:49
Production Record
DirectorDavid Lean
LanguageEnglish
Budget$8,000,000
Revenue$27,201,487
IMDb votes22,028