Looking back at Shyam Benegal’s mesmerising Mandi
Shyam Benegal’s mesmeric Mandi chronicles life through a woman running a brothel house in the crammed backstreets of Hyderabad. As is the nature of a marketplace, the establishment is marked by rumpus and range but Benegal views the matriarch’s lifestyle … Continue reading
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Tagged 1983, aditya bhattacharya, amrish puri, anita kanwar, classic, gita sidharth, kulbushan kharbanda, mandi, naseeruddin shah, neena gupta, om puri, pankaj kapoor, ratna pathak shah, saeed jaffrey, shabana azmi, shyam benegal, smita patil, soni razdan
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