The ever-ambitious Ganesh begins as a failed school teacher, finds success as an untrained masseur and self-published author, and then starts raking in the cash as a mystic healer, taxi-fleet owner, ...
THE MYSTIC MASSEUR (215 pp.)—V.S. Naipaul—Vanguard ($3.50). In his two-story concrete mansion in Fuente Grove, Trinidad, Mystic Ganesh Ramsumair, B.A., sat in the lavatory pondering his future. When ...
Buffalo News: ISLAND PEOPLE COLORFUL CHARACTERS BUT LOTS OF QUESTIONS IN 'THE MYSTIC MASSEUR'
ISLAND PEOPLE COLORFUL CHARACTERS BUT LOTS OF QUESTIONS IN 'THE MYSTIC MASSEUR'
Review: "The Mystic Masseur" with Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Ayesha Dharker. Directed by Ismail Merchant. Written by Caryl Phillips. Based on the novel by V.S. Naipaul. Rated PG, contains mild language.
"The Mystic Masseur" is as beautiful as we've come to expect any Merchant Ivory film to be. Why the film has such an abrupt ending is a mystery, but that final fizzle doesn't undo what comes before.
Charming, leisurely social comedy. Running time: 118 minutes. Rated PG (nothing offensive). At the Angelika and the Cinemas 1,2,3. THIS latest Merchant-Ivory production, “The Mystic Masseur,” is a ...
A leap forward from vet producer Ismail Merchant's prior directorial exercises, "The Mystic Masseur" adapts an early V.S. Naipaul story to diverting and handsome, if uneven, results. Lushly mounted ...
Los Angeles Times: In ‘Mystic Masseur,’ Love of Books Is the Root of All Achievement
Adapted from the first novel by eventual Nobel winner V.S. Naipaul, “The Mystic Masseur” is not only based on a book, it is also a love note to the impressive power of the printed word, a charming ...