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     1'''English, August''' 
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     41994 116’ col English 
     5d/co-sc Dev Benegal pc Tropicfilm p Anuradha 
     6Parikh st/co-sc Upamanyu Chatterjee, based on 
     7his novel c Anoop Jotwani m Vikram Joglekar, 
     8D. Wood 
     9lp Rahul Bose, Salim Shah, Tanvi Azmi, Meeta 
     10Vasisth 
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     12 
     13Agastya, aka August (Bose), a member of 
     14India’s urban English-speaking elite, fan of Bob 
     15Dylan and Marcus Aurelius, arrives in the small 
     16town of Madna, A.P., as a newly-commissioned 
     17Indian Administrative Service bureaucrat. Much 
     18of the largely comic film shows life in the 
     19Indian heartland through his eyes, including 
     20bureaucratic corruption, swaggering officials 
     21and people such as the cynical cartoonist 
     22Govind Sathe. This is interwoven with his own 
     23voyeuristic fantasies and memories of life in the 
     24big city. In the end, transferred to a Naxalitedominated 
     25area where radicals have killed a 
     26similarly Westernised colleague, he takes time 
     27off to write his novel. The film begins with his 
     28unsuccessful effort to sell the novel to 
     29publishers. Mainly an ode to multiculturalism, 
     30presented as generational problem. The 
     31original novel, of the same title, was one of the 
     32better-received items of the post-Rushdie boom 
     33in Indo-Anglican fiction. 
     34 
     35[[Film]]