| The Householder | |
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Screenplay by | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala James Ivory |
| Based on | The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Subrata Mitra |
| Edited by | Raja Ram Khetle |
| Music by | Songs: Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Background Score: Vanraj Bhatia |
| Color process | Black & white |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Languages | English Hindi |
| Budget | $125,000 |
The Householder (Hindi title: Gharbar) is a 1963 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with direction by James Ivory (in his feature directorial debut) and a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory, and direction of James Ivory. It is based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by Jhabvala.
This was the first collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, a documentary filmmaker until then. They went on to make nearly forty films together, many of which were written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, who also wrote screenplays adapted from literary classics for them, such as Henry James' The Europeans (1979) and The Bostonians (1984), E.M. Forster's A Room with a View (1985) and Howards End (1992), and Peter Cameron's The City of Your Final Destination (2009).