City of Joy is a 1992-French-British drama film directed by Roland Joffà ©, with a screenplay by Mark Medoff. It is based on a novel of the same name by Dominique Lapierre, who sees poverty in modern India, especially life in slums. Movie stars Patrick Swayze, Om Puri and Shabana Azmi.
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Plot
Hasari Pal (Om Puri) is a rural farmer who moved to Calcutta with his wife Kamla (Shabana Azmi) and three children looking for a better life. The Pals did not get off to a great start: They were deceived from their rent and dumped on the streets, and it was difficult for Hasari to find a job to support them. But the determined family refused to surrender and eventually found its place in the poverty-stricken city.
Meanwhile, at the other end of Calcutta, Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze), a doctor disappointed with the easy work at a Houston hospital, has arrived to seek spiritual enlightenment after the loss of a patient there. However, he encounters bad luck as soon as he arrives. After being deceived by a young prostitute, he was beaten by criminals and left bleeding in the street without valuable documents and possessions.
Hasari came to the aid of Max and brought the wounded doctor to the "City of Joy," a slum inhabited by lepers and the poor who became the new home of Pals and a home away from home. Max spends a lot of time in the neighborhood, but he does not want to get too involved with the people because he's afraid of being emotionally bonded to them. She was immediately, however, persuaded to help her new friends discovered by a strong-willed Irish woman (Pauline Collins), who runs a local clinic.
Finally, Max started with fellow slum dwellers and became more optimistic. There are many people around him whose lives are too bad, but they are
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Cast
- Patrick Swayze as Max Lowe
- Om Castle as Hasari Pal
- Pauline Collins as Joan Bethel
- Vishal Slathia as Joey Barton
- Shabana Azmi as Kamla H. Pal
- Ayesha Dharker as Amrita H. Pal
- Santu Chowdhury as Shambu H. Pal
- Imran Badsah Khan as Manooj H. Pal
- Shyamanand Road as Mr. Ghatak, father of baptism
- Anjan Dutt as Dr. Sunil
- Art Malik as Ashok Ghatak
- Nabil Shaban as Anouar
- Sanjay Pathak as Shoba
- Debatosh Ghosh as Ram Chande
- Sunita Sengupta as Pormina
- Loveleen Mishra as Shanta
- Pavan Malhotra as Ashish
- Iftekhar as Hasari's father
- Chitra Sen as a furious woman
Acceptance
In contrast to some of Joffe's previous successes ( The Killing Fields ), the film was not a success at the box office, even on its simple budget; According to Internet Movie Database and Box Office Mojo, the film grossed $ 14.7 million in the United States. Critically, the film received mixed reviews, with a 53% 'rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes' aggregate review.
In 2003, Herna Vera and Andrew M. Gordon argued that the film used the White Rescue narrative, summarizing it as "An American white doctor (played by Patrick Swayze) travels to India to find enlightenment, establishing a free clinic to serve the poor , and although reluctantly at first, he decided to stay with the people. "
References
External links
- City of Joy
- City of Joy in Rotten Tomatoes
- City of Joy in Box Office Mojo
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