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{{Infobox film
| name = Electric Moon
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| director = [[Pradip Krishen]]
| producer = Bobby Bedi ([[Kaleidoscope Entertainment]])
| writer =
| screenplay = [[Arundhati Roy]]
| story =
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| starring = [[Roshan Seth]]<br />Alice Spivak<br>[[Tigmanshu Dhulia]]
| music = Simeon Venkov
| cinematography = [[Giles Nuttgens]]
| editing = Pradip Krishen
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| released = {{start date|df=yes|1992|12|04}} (UK)
| runtime = 102.5 mins
| country = United Kingdom/India<ref>{{cite book|last=McFarlane|first=Brian|author2=Anthony Slide|title=The encyclopedia of British film|year=2003|publisher=Methuen|isbn=0-413-77301-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbr0000unse/page/226 226]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbr0000unse/page/226}}</ref>
| language = English
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'''''Electric Moon''''' is a 1992 [[India]]n film directed by [[Pradip Krishen]] and written by [[Arundhati Roy]].<ref>{{cite news | title = Arundhati Roy: A 'small hero' | publisher = BBC News Online | date = 2002-03-06 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1857495.stm}}</ref> The film was produced by Grapevine Media for [[Channel 4]] Television and Bobby Bedi's [[Kaleidoscope Entertainment]] and was reviewed at the [[International Film Festival of India]] (IFFI) and the 36th [[London Film Festival]] (1992).<ref name=bf>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478032|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090117170136/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478032|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-17|title=Electric Moon (1992)|publisher=British Film Institute Database}}</ref>

At the [[40th National Film Awards]], the film won the award for [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English|Best Feature Film in English]].<ref name="40thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx|title=40th National Film Awards|publisher=[[International Film Festival of India]]|access-date=2 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602174839/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm40thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=2 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="40thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf|title=40th National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=2 March 2012}}</ref>

Set in an expensive tourist lodge in the forests of [[central India]] run by former royalty, Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles', the film is a [[satire|satirical]] [[parody]] on Westerners visiting India, in search for their stereotypical notions of the country, replete with images of former Indian royalty, and relics of the [[British Raj]]. In turn the film was a commentary on social pretense and ecology. The issue was previously taken up by the [[Merchant-Ivory]] film ''[[The Guru (1969 film)|The Guru]]'' (1969), and in time the film acquired a cult following.<ref name="in">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/goddess-of-small-things-1266017.html|title=Goddess of Small Things|date=9 April 1997|work=The Independent | location=London | first=Jan | last=McGirk}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Norton |first=James H. K. |title=India and South Asia|year=2001|publisher=Dushkin/McGraw-Hill|isbn=0-07-243298-5|page=172}}</ref>

In a 2005 interview, Roy said, "The movie I had in my head and different from the one we shot. I wanted it to have a more anarchic quality, but I didn't know enough about cinema to make that come through on screen."<ref>{{cite web |title='I think from a very early age, I was determined to negotiate with the world on my own' |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/apr/05roy2.htm |author=Vir Singhvi|date=April 2005 |work= Rediff.com}}</ref>

==Cast==
* [[Roshan Seth]] - Ranveer
* [[Naseeruddin Shah]] - Rambuhj Goswami
* [[Leela Naidu]] - Sukanya 'Socks'
* [[Gerson Da Cunha]] - Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles'
* [[Raghuvir Yadav]] - Boltu
* Alice Spivak - Louise Robinson
* Frances Helm - Emma Lane
* [[James Fleet]] - Simon Lidell
* Gareth Forwood - Ian
* Malcolm Jamieson - Thierry<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478032?view=cast|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201081158/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/478032?view=cast|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-02-01|title=Cast|publisher=BFI Film database}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0104176}}

{{National Film Award Best Feature Film English}}

[[Category:1992 films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:English-language Indian films]]
[[Category:British films]]
[[Category:British Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian satirical films]]
[[Category:Films set in India]]
[[Category:Best English Feature Film National Film Award winners]]
[[Category:British television films]]

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