Electric Moon

Screenplay written by Arundhati Roy. This film swims against the current of two centuries of stereotyping. It deals with the marketing of a culture sold to whites by blacks who do not really believe themselves to be black. The story takes place in a jungle lodge which serves foreign tourists. The lodge is run by an impoverished royal family who are reduced to selling themselves, their past and their privacy to the tourists who come to India in search of oriental mystique and an easy-to-digest dose of India’s poverty. Trouble looms when a middle-class upstart takes over as director of the park. The faded royals are outraged by his fake English accent and pretentious safari suits. The family are pushed to the brink of despair as they realise they are trapped in a myth of their own creation.