| Mandi (1983) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1983 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description For years an aging Rukmini Bai (Shabana Azmi) has been the Madame of a brothel in Hyderabad, India. One day she gets the news that she now has a new landlord in Mr. Gupta (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), whose daughter is to marry the mayor's son Sushil, shortly. Lead by City Councillor, Shantidevi, the people in this town demand that this bordello be moved elsewhere, preferably on the outskirts of the town, and they do succeed, compelling Rukmini to move with her women to their new location, which happens to be near the Dargah of Baba Karak Shah. Ironically, this attracts a lot of people, and the patronage to Rukmini's bordello increases. Then complications set in when Sushil refuses to marry his father's choice, child-like Malti, and wants to marry Zeenat (Smita Patil) - a prostitute, not entirely by choice and seeking for a better existence, who resides with Rukmini.
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, Saeed Jaffery, Om Puri, Neena Gupta, Ratna Pathak, Pankaj Kapur, Soni Razdan, Ila Arun, Gita Siddharth, Sreela Majumdar, Khokha Mukherjee |
