The Extended Canon
Mandi
मंडी · 1983
A brothel on prime city land becomes the object of a municipal moral cleanup that everyone is profiting from.
- Director
- Shyam Benegal
- Year
- 1983
- Genre
- Satire · Drama
- Cast
- Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri
Why it's in the canon
Benegal's funniest film and the greatest ensemble the parallel movement ever assembled.
A brothel on prime city land becomes the object of a municipal moral cleanup that everyone is profiting from.
Mandi sits in the 1980s alongside Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and Umrao Jaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Shyam Benegal — also responsible for Manthan, Ankur, Bhumika.
- Released in 1983, in the 1980s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Satire, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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