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Cotton Mary is a 1999 film co-directed by Ismail Merchant, best known as the producer half of Merchant Ivory, and the Indian actress and writer Madhur Jaffrey, who also co-starred. It is a sensual film, shot in coastal South India.
Dec 17, 1999 · Cotton Mary: Directed by Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey. With Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Sarah Badel. A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
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- Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey
- 1999-12-17
Mar 31, 2000 · Ismail Merchant's "Cotton Mary" centers on the stories of two women: an Anglo-Indian who wants to be white, and a white British woman who wants to brood and sulk and be left alone.
Feb 11, 2000 · Set in post-colonial India of the 1950's, this is the story of Cotton Mary (Jaffrey), an Anglo-Indian (part English and part Indian) woman, and her tangled and complicated interactions with a British family.
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When Lily, a British woman living on her family's estate in post-independence India circa 1954, gives birth prematurely in a former British hospital while her journalist husband is away on assignment, she turns to Cotton Mary, an Anglo-Indian nurse who promises that "God will feed the child."
- Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey
- Captain Raju
Set in post-colonial India of the 1950's, Cotton Mary is the story of two Anglo-Indian (part English and part Indian) sisters. Cotton Mary and Blossom, their niece, Rosie and their tangled and complicated interactions with a British household.
Cotton Mary (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.