Cotton Mary 2000  R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ismail Merchant
Cast: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, Sakina Jaffrey, Prayag Raj, James Wilby, Laura Lumley, Gemma Jones, Sarah Badel, Joanna David, Olivia Caesar
Race and class determine lifestyles of a white British woman, Lily MacIntosh (Greta Scacchi), and an Anglo-Indian, Cotton Mary (Madhur Jaffrey). Mary wheedles herself into a position of authority in the MacIntosh household after she finds a wet nurse for Lily's baby and assumes the position of a powerful nanny.
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In Custody 1994  PG, 123 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Ismail Merchant
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta, Tinnu Anand, Prayag Raj, Parikshat Sahni, Sagar Arya, Alakh Nandan
Professor Deven (Om Puri) is given the opportunity to interview his hero of Urdo poetry, Nur (Shashi Kapoor). When they meet, Deven is surprised to find that Nur is now an ailing alcoholic, and his condition affects the quality of the interviews.
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The Mystic Masseur 2001  PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ismail Merchant
Cast: Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Ayesha Dharker, James Fox, Sakina Jaffrey, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jimi Mistry, Zohra Sehgal, Grace Maharaj, Danesh Khan
Set in 1940s' and 1950s' Trinidad, this story revolves around a schoolteacher (Aasif Mandvi), who returns to his rural home and sets out to become a writer and a mystic.
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| 1. Cotton Mary (2000)
2. In Custody (1994)
3. The Mystic Masseur (2001)
4. The Proprietor (1996)
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