Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of English August

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Jul 3, 2012, 12:19:07 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''English, August'''
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+1994 116’ col English
+d/co-sc Dev Benegal pc Tropicfilm p Anuradha
+Parikh st/co-sc Upamanyu Chatterjee, based on
+his novel c Anoop Jotwani m Vikram Joglekar,
+D. Wood
+lp Rahul Bose, Salim Shah, Tanvi Azmi, Meeta
+Vasisth
+
+
+Agastya, aka August (Bose), a member of
+India’s urban English-speaking elite, fan of Bob
+Dylan and Marcus Aurelius, arrives in the small
+town of Madna, A.P., as a newly-commissioned
+Indian Administrative Service bureaucrat. Much
+of the largely comic film shows life in the
+Indian heartland through his eyes, including
+bureaucratic corruption, swaggering officials
+and people such as the cynical cartoonist
+Govind Sathe. This is interwoven with his own
+voyeuristic fantasies and memories of life in the
+big city. In the end, transferred to a Naxalitedominated
+area where radicals have killed a
+similarly Westernised colleague, he takes time
+off to write his novel. The film begins with his
+unsuccessful effort to sell the novel to
+publishers. Mainly an ode to multiculturalism,
+presented as generational problem. The
+original novel, of the same title, was one of the
+better-received items of the post-Rushdie boom
+in Indo-Anglican fiction.
+
+[[Film]]