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Synopsis: Hazari Pal lives in a small village in Bihar, India, with his dad, mom, wife, Kamla, daughter, Amrita, and two sons, Shambhu and Manooj. As the Pal are unable to repay the loan they had taken years ago from a moneylender, their land and property are auctioned, and they are rendered homeless. Hazari and his family re-locate to Calcutta with hopes of starting life anew, save some money and go back to Bihar, as well as get Amrita married. Things do not go as planned, as they lose their entire savings to a con-man, Gangooly, who took their money as rent by pretending to be a landlord. Then Hazari gets an opportunity to take up driving a rickshaw manually through a local godfather, Ghatak. He gets to meet a American, Dr. Max Lowe, and together they strike up a friendship along with a local social worker, Joan Bethel. Misunderstandings crop up between Joan and the Godfather, resulting in the shutting down of their shanty medical clinic. When Hazari sides with Joan, his rickshaw is taken away
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Roland Joffé
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
PG-13
Year:
1992
132 min
783 Views


She can't help herself; she cares. We STAY WITH her

a moment as we -DISSOLVE

TO:

EXT. COUNTRY AIRPORT (ASSAM) - WINDING ROAD - DAY

Cool, lush hills. A little pack of single-engine two-

and four-seaters. Max, in shorts and University ofMiami T-shirt, hot, sweaty, appears around a bend in theapproach road.

INT. AIRPORT - WAITING ROOM

A small service desk. A CLERK, who doubles as Ground

Control on the microphone, passing on the prevailing windand the active runway. We hear the STATIC-BACKED VOICE

of a PILOT, giving his call numbers, then announcinghe's clear for immediate takeoff on the active runway.

The Clerk CLICKS off and finds Max.

(CONTINUED)

5.

CONTINUED:

MAX:

How you doin'?

The Clerk gives Max a warm smile.

CLERK:

Hello.

MAX:

I've always wanted to walk into alittle airport just about likethis one and ask the guy at thecounter the following question.

Ready?

The Clerk nods; he's at Max's ervice.

MAX:

When's the next flight to anywhere?

CLERK:

To Bombay. Tomorrow, at one

o'clock in the afternoon.

A beat --- the Clerk with his smile, Max with his, one

simply warm, the other giving off simmering heat.

EXT. AIRPORT - LOW ANGLE - DAY

Max sits on the ground, up against the building, playinga jazz line quietly and rather well on his trumpet. A

pair of well-shod feet ENTER the FRAME. Max looks up.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

The rubicund face of VEEJAY CHATTERGEE, 50, and more

British than Churchill. Behind him, his cherubic wife,

RAVI... and making her way toward the enclave of smallplanes, their daughter, MANUBAI, 26.

VEEJAY:

I say, are you looking for a wayout of here? We have an extra

seat. Where are you wanting togo?

Max's eyes flick from Veejay to the back view of Manubaias she continues on and back to Veejay.

MAX:

I'm wanting to go wherever you'rewanting to take me.

6.

INT. 180 FOUR-SEATER - DAY

Max is crammed into the back seat with the plump Ravi.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

We see now that, contrary to our assumption that Veejaywould be in the left seat, it's Manubai who's flying theplane. The NOISE of the ENGINE forces them to speaksomewhat loudly.

VEEJAY:

We were among the fortunate backin '48. We got out of East Bengalbefore partition destroyed so many.

We make mattresses. The RajahDouble Spring.

Veejay has an old flask out.

VEEJAY:

We don't have a flight attendanton this flight...

(passing the flask)

Are you a musician, Mr. Loeb?

MAX:

Unattached trumpet player andrecently-certified associate guru.

As he takes a hit on the flask, Max's eye focuses on thelittle mirror on the dash. In it he can see Manubai's

eyes. If we were to judge by what he sees in them, shedoesn't find him the least bit amusing. He smiles his

smile at her.

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Mark Medoff

Mark Medoff is an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor. His play Children of a Lesser God received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award. more…

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