A pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan stars as an East India Company administrator who infiltrates the ranks of bloodthirsty cult the Thugees (infamous as the origins of the term "thug"), with the help of close friend and local noble Chandra Singh (Shashi Kapoor) and captured Thugee Hussein (Saeed Jaffrey). Roger Ebert called its portrait of Victorian India "a triumph.
A pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan stars as an East India Company administrator who infiltrates the ranks of bloodthirsty cult the Thugees (infamous as the origins of the term "thug"), with the help of close friend and local noble Chandra Singh (Shashi Kapoor) and captured Thugee Hussein (Saeed Jaffrey). Roger Ebert called its portrait of Victorian India "a triumph.
