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Indian immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her son Manek (Navin Chowdhry), who is musically gifted. She supports them both as a caterer of Indian food, while Manek studies the piano with Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine), who is a Russian -American immigrant.
Her mother pushed her too fast, to soon, and she broke down in the middle of her debut concert, and fled from the stage. That humiliation is still in her nightmares, and still shapes her attitude toward her students.
She began writing at the age of 35, when her children started nursery school. Her second novel, Madame Sousatzka (1962), was filmed by John Schlesinger filmed with Shirley MacLaine in the leading role in 1988. Her fourth novel, The Elected Member, won the 1970 Booker prize.
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Sep 3, 2021 · Like her, the boy has non-British origins, the son of a Bengali woman who does everything to support her child and his potential as a future concert pianist. These specificities were invented for the film. In the original 1962 novel, both Sousatzka and her pupil share Jewish heritage instead.
Her newest student, Navin Chowdhry, is a very talented teenager, but she consumes his life with more than just piano lessons, basically trying to replace his mother and make her the child she never had.
Aug 6, 2024 · ["Madame Sousatzka" is a] strange little story, set in London, about an eccentric piano teacher (famous for her Method) who polishes an amiable eleven-year-old prodigy's technique (he spends...
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Oct 14, 1988 · John Schlesinger's ''Madame Sousatzka'' is as much of an antique as the woman herself and a long, sentimental celebration of the ''great pianist and pedagogue,'' as one of Madame's admirers...
