Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Massey Sahib

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Jul 17, 2012, 7:51:22 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Massey Sahib

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+'''Massey Sahib'''
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+
+1986 124’ col Hindi
+d/sc/co-dial Pradip Krishen p Ravi Malik
+pc NFDC co-dial Raghuvir Yadav c R.K. Bose
+m Vanraj Bhatia
+lp Raghuvir Yadav, Barry John, Arundhati Roy,
+Jacqueline Garewal, Sudhir Kulkarni, Virendra
+Saxena, Madan Lal, Francis King, Lalloo Ram,
+Hemant Mishra, Vasant Joglekar, James Ure,
+David Maurice
+
+
+Satirical comment on colonial India set in 1929
+and featuring a government clerk named
+Francis Massey (Yadav). Because of his
+constant interactions with the British, Massey
+fancies himself to be just like an Englishman.
+However, he has to deploy extreme financial
+ingenuity to keep the wolf from the door.
+When Massey’s boss Charles Adam (Barry
+John) lacks the funds to complete his dream
+project of building a road through the forest,
+Massey manages to get the scheme finished
+through financial skullduggery, persuasion and
+threats. To his surprise, an unofficial road tax
+he levies is considered to be corruption by the
+very boss who had condoned Massey’s earlier
+shenanigans. Frustrated and humiliated,
+Massey attacks and kills his old friend Banaji
+when the latter refuses to help. Massey is
+arrested for murder and Adam advises him to
+plead guilty to accidental manslaughter, but
+Massey refuses, assuming that his colonial
+associations will get him off the hook.
+Krishen’s feature debut reveals many technical
+inadequacies, but Yadav’s fine performance
+inaugurated a screen image he has maintained
+ever since.
+
+[[Film]]