{"id":37656,"date":"2021-10-04T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/oct\/04\/romantic-road-review-upper-class-boomers-on-a-polite-bollywood-adventure"},"modified":"2021-10-04T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:00:06","slug":"romantic-road-review-upper-class-boomers-on-a-polite-bollywood-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37656","title":{"rendered":"Romantic Road review \u2013 upper-class boomers on a polite Bollywood adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

An elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this gentle travel documentary<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a gentle, low-stakes travel documentary about a couple\u2019s 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in a vintage car. Jan and Rupert Grey loaded up their 1930s Rolls-Royce and set off from Mumbai. In interviews, Jan has described them as \u201can elderly English couple driving an elderly English motor\u201d. But in all honesty, these two are a pair of ageless evergreen boomers, recreating a backpacking adventure on the hippy trail they did in the 60s.<\/p>\n

There are some mildly hairy moments along the way: mechanical trouble inevitably; and a spot of bother with anti-government rebels. Rupert gets roped into acting in a Bollywood movie, a small part playing a detestable colonial-era governor. The nastiness doesn\u2019t come naturally to him but the aristocratic vowels do. Rupert, a prominent media lawyer, is the great-grandson of 19th-century prime minister Earl Grey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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An elderly English couple take a 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in their Rolls-Royce in this gentle travel documentaryHere\u2019s a gentle, low-stakes travel documentary about a couple\u2019s 5,000-mile road trip across India and Bangladesh in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,707,69,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-documentary-films","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37657,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37656\/revisions\/37657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}