Since the days of Shakespeare Wallah (1965), the team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have concerned themselves with the tenuous relationships between British and Indians in modern India, and have deftly linked this theme with an exploration of the artist's delicate waverings between life and art. In Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures, they take a delightfully mordant view of it all, focusing not on artists but on art collectors, and bringing the acquisitive Americans into the fray. A young maharaja, Georgie (Victor Banerjee) and his sister Bonnie (Aparna Sen) are sitting on a priceless collection of miniature paintings because Georgie, despite his sporty, western style, is deeply invested in his heritage and refuses to sell. Bonnie, who dresses in sari and nose rings, nevertheless yearns for the European lifestyle she knows the pictures can buy for her. From their palatial surroundings, they contemplate the hullabaloo created over the paintings by an indefatigable English curator (Peggy Ashcroft), a wealthy American collector and an Indian art dealer. Writing in Sight and Sound, Tom Milne calls the film “a subtle and exquisitely funny comedy of manners...stunningly well acted by the entire cast.”