"Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of our indomitable trifecta that included director JamesIvory and the late producer Ismail Merchant, " said the company's director of development, Neil Jesuele.
Her career as a screenwriter developed after Ismail Merchant and JamesIvory asked her to develop a script based on her 1960 novel "The Householder, " published when she was living as an expatriate in Delhi.
The movie contemplates sex, as well as abortion, suicide, and mental instability, but the director, JamesIvory, seems fatally undecided as to whether such matters are worthy of solemn consideration or mere backdrops to a bit of fun.