Market Place
Original Title
Mandi- Director: Shyam Benegal
- Writer: Shama Zaidi, Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Ghulam Abbas, Satyadev Dubey
- Producer: Bhisham M. Bijlani, Lalit M. Bijlani, Freni Variava, Silloo F. Variava
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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.
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Cast & Characters
Shabana Azmi (as Rukmini Bai)
Smita Patil (as Zeenat)
Naseeruddin Shah (as Tungrus)
Amrish Puri (as Darvish)
Kulbhushan Kharbanda (as Mr. Gupta)
Saeed Jaffrey (as Mr. Agarwal)
Om Puri (as Ram Gopal)
Sreela Majumdar (as Phoolmani)
Neena Gupta (as Vasanti)
Geeta Kak (as Shantidevi (as Gita Siddharth))
Sunila Pradhan (as Mrs. Gupta)
Soni Razdan (as Bordello girl)
Anita Kanwar (as Parveena)
Ratna Pathak Shah (as Malti (as Ratna Pathak))
Pankaj Kapur (as Shantidevi's assistant)
K.K. Raina
Satish Kaushik (as Councillor)
Khokha Mukherji
Athar Nawaaz (as (as Athar Nawaz))
Raj Narasimha Rao
Aslam Farshuri
Sita Ram
Swadesh Pal
Milena Marques
A. Lakshmi