Shabana Azmi
Rukmini Bai
Smita Patil
Zeenat
Naseeruddin Shah
Tungrus
Amrish Puri
Darvish
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Mr. Gupta
Saeed Jaffrey
Major Agarwal
Sreela Majumdar
Phoolmani
Neena Gupta
Basanti
Gita Siddharth
Shantidevi
Om Puri
Ram Gopal
Harish Patel
Policeman
Soni Razdan
Nadra
Ila Arun
Kamli
Anita Kanwar
Parweena
Ratna Pathak Shah
Malti GuptaSunila Pradhan
Mrs. Gupta
Pankaj Kapur
Shantidevi's Assistant
K.K. Raina
Shrikant
Satish Kaushik
Councillor
Annu Kapoor
The DoctorKhokha Mukherji
Athar Nawaaz
Raj Narasimha Rao
Aslam Farshuri
Sita Ram
Swadesh Paul
Milena Marques
A. Laxmi
Monisha Banerjee
Aruna
Abdul Aziz
Azim Aziz
Bela
Lila Bai
G. S. Deshmukh
Quddus Ahmed
Murli
Ashay Chitre
Released
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- #brothel
- #mute
Reviews
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 profe