Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Mandi

Timestamp:

Jul 10, 2012, 5:27:42 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Trupti

Comment:

--

Mandi

@@ +1 @@
+'''Mandi'''
+
+
+aka The Marketplace
+1983 167’ col Hindi
+d/co-sc Shyam Benegal p Freni M. Variava,
+Lalit M. Bijlani pc Blaze Film Ents
+co-sc Satyadev Dubey, Shama Zaidi lyr Mir Taqi
+Mir, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Insha, Makhdoom
+Mohiuddin, Talwar Danda, Ila Arun c Ashok
+Mehta m Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin
+Shah, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
+Saeed Jaffrey, Om Puri, Sreela Majumdar,
+Harish Patel, Neena Gupta, Soni Razdan, Ila
+Arun, Geeta Siddharth, Aditya Bhattacharya
+
+
+Apparently inspired by The Best Little
+Whorehouse in Texas (Colin Higgins, 1982),
+Benegal’s rare venture into comedy touches on
+religion and politics via the motif of
+prostitution. Brothel madam Rukmini (Azmi)
+tries to make her ‘girls’ conform to the timehonoured
+traditions of a kotha (a brothel
+where music and dance flourish). The women’s
+mischievousness forces the establishment to
+find another home. Problems arise when
+Sushil, the son of Major Agarwal (Jaffrey), a
+local notable, falls in love with the prostitute
+Zeenat (Patil), Agarwal’s illegitimate daughter.
+Instead, Sushil is supposed to marry the
+neurotic daughter of Mr Gupta (Kharbanda), a
+property developer who makes the brothel
+shift locations yet again in order to separate
+Sushil from Zeenat.
+
+[[Film]]