Release, runtime and language

1994 · 118 mins · English

Directed by

Dev Benegal

Starring

Tanvi Azmi, Veerendra Saxena, Rahul Bose, Yogendra Tiku, Mita Vashisht, Shivaji Satham

Agasyta, an urbane Bengali who moves effortlessly from Ella Fitzgerald’s jazz to Rabindra Sangeet, joins the Indian Administrative Service and is assigned to the remote, dust‑laden town of Madna, a stark outpost in the nation’s hinterland where his city sensibilities clash with provincial life.