Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Mirch Masala

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Jul 17, 2012, 6:10:32 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Mirch Masala'''
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+aka Spices
+1985 128’ col Hindi
+d Ketan Mehta pc NFDC st Chunilal Madia
+sc Hriday Lani, Tripurari Sharma lyr Babubhai
+Ranpura c Jehangir Choudhury m Rajat
+Dholakia
+lp Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
+Suresh Oberoi, Deepti Naval, Benjamin Gilani,
+Raj Babbar, Mohan Gokhale, Supriya Pathak,
+Dina Pathak, Ratna Pathak, Ram Gopal
+
+
+Following its commercial release in New York
+this became Mehta’s best-known film outside
+India. Intended as an allegory of colonial
+oppression but presented as a sex-and-violence
+drama, the film is set in pre-Independence
+Saurashtra. The despotic tax collector Subedar
+(Shah), dressed in a way that evokes British
+19th C. catchpenny prints and Daumier’s
+cartoons, imposes his rule on a village. All the
+villagers try to satisfy his every whim, except
+for the protesting schoolteacher (Gilani). The
+drama starts when the beautiful Sonbai (Patil)
+is to be surrendered to the lecherous Subedar.
+She takes refuge in the courtyard of a spice
+factory run entirely by women and is protected
+by an aged watchman (Om Puri) who closes
+the gates to Subedar’s men. Although made in
+Hindi, the film draws on Gujarati verbal and
+performative idioms. Mehta explicitly deployed
+stock literary melodrama characters, but these
+cliches from contemporary popular culture lack
+the historical resonance achieved by the more
+complex figures Mehta used in his
+extraordinary Bhavni Bhavai (1980).
+
+[[Film]]