MANDI (1983)

Film details

Featuring

Asha Bhosle Preeti Sagar Shabana Azmi
Director

Shyam Benegal
Country

India
Year

1983
Genre

Comedy
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

MARKET PLACE Alternative

Synopsis

Comedy. A whorehouse in a little village is forced to close down by certain forces. The girls set up camp outside the village and in no time at all the whole village shifts to the new site.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Playback Singer
    
    Asha Bhosle
  - Playback Singer
    
    Preeti Sagar
  - Rukmini Bai
    
    Shabana Azmi
  - Zeenat
    
    Smita Patil
  - Dungdoo
    
    Naseeruddin Shah
  - Ram Gopal
    
    Om Puri
  - Darvish
    
    Amrish Puri
  - Mr Gupta
    
    Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  - Vasanti
    
    Neena Gupta
  - Major Agarwal
    
    Saeed Jaffrey
  - Phoolmani
    
    Sreela Majumdar
  - policeman
    
    Harish Patel
  - bordello girl
    
    Soni Razdan
  - bordello girl
    
    Ila Arun
  - .
    
    Geeta Siddharth
  - Sushil
    
    Aditya Bhattacharya
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Shyam Benegal
  Production:
  - Production Company
    
    Blaze Film Enterprises
  - Producer
    
    Freni M. Variava
  - Producer
    
    Lalit M. Bijlani
  Writing:
  - Screenplay
    
    Shama Zaidi
  - Screenplay
    
    Satyadev Dubey
  - Screenplay
    
    Shyam Benegal
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Ashok Mehta
  Music:
  - Music
    
    Vanraj Bhatia

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