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Market Place( 1983)

TV-MAComedyDramaRomance
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Overview

The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Shabana Azmi

      Rukmini Bai

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      Smita Patil

      Zeenat

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      Naseeruddin Shah

      Tungrus

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      Amrish Puri

      Darvish

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      Kulbhushan Kharbanda

      Mr. Gupta

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      Saeed Jaffrey

      Major Agarwal

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      Sreela Majumdar

      Phoolmani

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      Neena Gupta

      Basanti

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      Gita Siddharth

      Shantidevi

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      Aditya Bhattacharya

      Sushil Agarwal

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      Om Puri

      Ram Gopal

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      Harish Patel

      Policeman

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      Soni Razdan

      Nadra

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      Ila Arun

      Kamli

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      Anita Kanwar

      Parweena

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      Ratna Pathak Shah

      Malti Gupta

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      Sunila Pradhan

      Mrs. Gupta

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      Pankaj Kapur

      Shantidevi's Assistant

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      K.K. Raina

      Shrikant

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      Satish Kaushik

      Councillor

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      Annu Kapoor

      The Doctor

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      Khokha Mukherji

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      Athar Nawaaz

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      Raj Narasimha Rao

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      Aslam Farshuri

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      Sita Ram

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      Swadesh Paul

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      Milena Marques

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      A. Laxmi

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      Monisha Banerjee

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      Aruna

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      Abdul Aziz

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      Azim Aziz

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      Bela

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      Lila Bai

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      G. S. Deshmukh

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      Quddus Ahmed

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      Murli

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      Ashay Chitre

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    A review by alcapoon

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    Written by alcapoon on Mon Feb 25 2013
    Based on a short story from an Urdu short story called "Anandi" by Ghulam Abbas, Mandi is presented as a black comedy about a group of prostitutes, led by Rukminibai, who struggle against the 'morality-police' forces in the city that want them thrown out, and their brothel destroyed to make room for 'development'. This film is among Shyam Benegal's best work. Benegal assembles some highly professional actors, with Shabana Azmi excelling as the crude, selfish, yet likable "Bai" (madam) of the "Khota" (brothel), Smita Patil as the beautiful, gentle-looking, but rebellious Zeenat. The movie res...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • small town
    • prostitute
    • brothel
    • mute