Such a Long Journey is a film based on the novel of the same name written by Rohinton Mistry. It is directed by Sturla Gunnarsson from a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala. Gustad Noble is a Parsi bank clerk who lives with his family in Bombay just before the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. At first he seems to be a self-centred, self-involved neurotic man who is so tied up in his own pain for perceived slights both past and present that he cannot seem to connect with either friends or family. He is haunted by memories of a privileged youth and his father's fortune, lost to the machinations of a... scheming, unscrupulous uncle. He is baffled by the changes wrought in his eldest son, Sohrab , who is having a difficult coming of age. A childhood friend, Jimmy Bilimoria , has become a swashbuckling, swaggering member of the military. At the beginning of the movie, Major Jimmy has abandoned a lifelong friendship with Gustad without warning or explanation, and Gustad is angry and resentful over the desertion.
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| Release date: | 1998 |
| Directed by: | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| Runtime: | 113 Minutes |
| Producer: | Paul Stephens, Simon MacCorkindale |
| Editor: | Jeff Warren |
| Music by: | Jonathan Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Jan Kiesser |
| Screenplay by: | Sooni Taraporevala |
| Adapted from: | Such a Long Journey |