(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: India
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Release:
- Director: Shyam Benegal
- Writers: Shama Zaidi , Satyadev Dubey , Shyam Benegal , Ghulam Abbas
- Language: Hindi
- Stars: Shabana Azmi , Smita Patil , Naseeruddin Shah , Amrish Puri (1932–2005) , Kulbhushan Kharbanda , Saeed Jaffrey , Om Puri , Sreela Majumdar , Neena Gupta , Gita Siddharth
- Runtime: 167 min
- Awards: 3 nominations
- AKA: Mandi (India) , Mandi , Market Place , Рыночная площадь
- Plot: 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.
- IMDB:tt0085896
Buy Mandi Poster
Mandi Cast · · · ALL
Shyam Benegal
Director
Shabana Azmi
Rukmini Bai
Smita Patil
Zeenat
Naseeruddin Shah
Tungrus
Amrish Puri
(1932–2005)
Darvish
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Mr. Gupta
Saeed Jaffrey
Major Agarwal
Sreela Majumdar
Phoolmani
Neena Gupta
Basanti
Gita Siddharth
Shantidevi
Aditya Bhattacharya
Sushil Agarwal
Om Puri
Ram Gopal
Harish Patel
Policeman
Soni Razdan
Nadra
Ila Arun
Kamli
Anita Kanwar
Parweena
Ratna Pathak Shah
Malti Gupta
Pankaj Kapur
Shantidevi's Assistant
K.K. Raina
Shrikant
Satish Kaushik
Councillor
Annu Kapoor
The Doctor
