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L'Inde fantôme: Reflexions sur un voyage is a 1969 French seven part television documentary miniseries about India, directed by Louis Malle. It was shown on BBC television as Phantom India.
Original Release
07/25/1969
US Release
10/07/1972
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Louis Malle | Himself - Narrator / Self - Narrator |
| Thomas Frederick Howard | Self - Peace Corps worker |
| Rajani Desai | Interviewee--economist |
| Namboodiripad | Interviewee--Kerala Prime Minister |
| Bal Thackery | Interviewee - Shiv Sena Founder |
| Gopal | Interviewee |
| Mrs. Gouri Thomas | Interviewee--Kerala Food Minister |
| Ambu | Interviewee - Ashram's Hatha Yoga Master |
| Simon Coder | Interviewee - Jewish Community Leader and Shopkeeper |
| Pashabhai Patel | Interviewee - Industrialist, Swatantra Delegate |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Impossible Camera | Friday, 25 July 1969 |
| 2 | Things Seen in Madras | Friday, 01 August 1969 |
| 3 | The Indians and the Sacred | Friday, 08 August 1969 |
| 4 | Dream and Reality | Friday, 15 August 1969 |
| 5 | A Look at Castes | Friday, 22 August 1969 |
| 6 | On the Fringes of Indian Society | Friday, 29 August 1969 |
| 7 | Bombay | Friday, 05 September 1969 |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Louis Malle | Himself - Narrator / Self - Narrator |
| Thomas Frederick Howard | Self - Peace Corps worker |
| Rajani Desai | Interviewee--economist |
| Namboodiripad | Interviewee--Kerala Prime Minister |
| Bal Thackery | Interviewee - Shiv Sena Founder |
| Gopal | Interviewee |
| Mrs. Gouri Thomas | Interviewee--Kerala Food Minister |
| Ambu | Interviewee - Ashram's Hatha Yoga Master |
| Simon Coder | Interviewee - Jewish Community Leader and Shopkeeper |
| Pashabhai Patel | Interviewee - Industrialist, Swatantra Delegate |
| Mrs. Ranjekar | Interviewee--Bombay Councilwoman |
| Jyoti Basu | Interviewee--General Secretary of Right Communist Party in Bengal |
| Mohammad Koya | Interviewee--Kerala Minister of Education |
| Vinayak Purohit | Interviewee - Left-Wing Intellectual |
| Hema Malini | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Claude Nedjar | Producer |
| Elliott Kastner | Producer |
