Mandi (1983)

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167 min - Comedy | Drama

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Shabana Azmi	...	Rukmini Bai
	Smita Patil	...	Zeenat
	Naseeruddin Shah	...	Tungrus
	Amrish Puri	...	Darvish
	Kulbhushan Kharbanda	...	Mr. Gupta
	Saeed Jaffrey	...	Mr. Agarwal
	Om Puri	...	Ram Gopal
	Sreela Majumdar	...	Phoolmani
	Neena Gupta	...	Vasanti
	Gita Siddharth	...	Shantidevi
	Sunila Pradhan	...	Mrs. Gupta
	Soni Razdan	...	Bordello girl
	Anita Kanwar	...	Parveena
	Ratna Pathak	...	Malti
	Pankaj Kapur	...	Shantidevi's assistant

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This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want for its prime locality. They rally up against the brothel and its inhabitants in the name of morality, and soon everyone in the area jumps on the bandwagon. The politicians offer to put up an alternative residence for the prostitutes, only this place is miles away, isolated from the city. The madam of the house has no choice but to comply, but by the end things take a (logical) turn for the better. After all, men will be men. Written by ajmal hussain <ajmalsaab@hotmail.com>

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