Miss Beatty's Children

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Miss Beatty's Children
Directed by Pamela Rooks
Produced by NFDC
Doordarshan
Rooks AV
Screenplay by Pamela Rooks
James Killough
Based on Miss Beatty's Children
by Pamela Rooks
Starring Jenny Seagrove
Faith Brook
Protima Bedi
Music by Zakir Hussain
Cinematography Venu
Edited by Renu Saluja
Release dates
 1992
Running time
 112 min.
Country India
Language English

Miss Beatty's Children is a 1992 English drama film directed by Pamela Rooks in a directorial debut, with Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook and Protima Bedi in lead roles.[1][2] The film set in 1936 in South India, was based on Pamela Rooks own novel by the same name.[3]

At the 40th National Film Awards, the film won the award for Best First Film of a Director and the Best Cinematography for Venu.[4]

Plot

In 1936 in South India, Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an ANglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.

Cast

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