Palace of the Winds

This article is about the novel; for the structure see Hawa Mahal . In Warsaw there is also the Palace of the Four Winds

Palace of the Winds is a historical novel by Mary M. Kaye from 1978 . It is a rendering of 19th century Indian history, illustrated by the fictional life story of the British officer Ashton Pelham-Martyn (precisely: Ashton Hilary Akhbar Pelham-Martyn , short: Ash ). The story is a mixture of adventure novel , war epic and romance novel and has already been sold 15 million times worldwide.

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India, late 19th century. The young Englishman Ashton Pelham-Martyn grew up in northern India under the name Ashok like a Hindu . Even later as an officer in the British Army in India , he never loses ties to the country of his childhood, although he is loyal to the British colonial power. He finally finds his great love in the Indian princess Anjuli-Bai , who has already been promised to the Rana by Bhithor.

filming

Directed by Peter Duffell and with the script by Julian Bond , the miniseries Palace of the Winds (English original title: The Far Pavilions ) was filmed. The German first broadcast was on December 15, 1985 on ZDF . In addition to Ben Cross as Ashton Pelham-Martyn, the actors Amy Irving as Anjuli , Christopher Lee as Rao-Sahib and Omar Sharif as Ashok's mentor and father substitute Koda Dad .

Furthermore, there is a feature film version of the Palace of the Wind (English title of the film is Blade of Steel ), which is a greatly shortened compilation of the TV multi-part and which only relates to the love story of Ashton Pelham-Martyn and Princess Anjuli -Bai relates. This version of the feature film was released on VHS in Germany in the mid-1980s, but is only available through auction exchanges.

In 2010 the series was released in full length on DVD.

musical

From April to September 2005, the musical adaptation of the same name, The Far Pavilions, was performed in London's Shaftesbury Theater . The creative team consisted of Philip Henderson (music), Stephen Clark (text), Gale Edwards (direction) , among others . Performers included Hadley Fraser (Ashton Pelham-Martyn), Gayatri Iyer ( Anjuli-Bai ) and Kabir Bedi (Kahn Sahib).

Book versions

• Palace of the Winds , lim. Special edition, Fischer March 2005, ISBN 3-596-50821-5
• Palace of the Winds , picture bestseller library Volume 7, ISBN 3-89897-113-9

Web links

• MM Kaye , Official Homepage (English)