The Householder

The Householder
DVD cover art
Directed byJames Ivory
Screenplay byRuth Prawer Jhabvala
James Ivory
Based onThe Householder
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Produced byIsmail Merchant
Starring
CinematographySubrata Mitra
Edited byRaja Ram Khetle
Music bySongs:
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Background Score:
Vanraj Bhatia
Color processBlack & white
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
101 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesEnglish
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).