CITY OF JOY (BILINGUAL)

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• Release Year: 1992
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: An American doctor, a British nurse and an illiterate Indian farmer join together to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine).; ; In the best performance of a career, Swayze stars as Max Lowe, a disillusioned surgeon who travels to India after a young patient dies on the operating table. But Lowe's determination to quit medicine is challenged when he meets a committed British nurse who runs a free clinic in Calcutta's most dangerous neighborhood. And when her clinic - and the livelihood of her neighbors - is threatened by the brutal local 'godfather,' Max teaches the impoverished Indians the strength of their own unity. Beautifully filmed by the director of The Killing Fields and The Mission, City of Joy is 'a masterpiece and a triumph! The Best Picture of the year.' (Jim Whaley, Cinema Showcase)
• Cast: Patrick Swayze, Om Puri, Pauline Collins, Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker, Santu Chowdhury, Imran Badsah Khan, Art Malik, Nabil Shaban, Debatosh Ghosh, Suneeta Sengupta, Mansi Upadhyay, Shyamanand Jalan, Shyamal Sengupta, Rudraprasad Sengupta, Baroon Chakaborty, Masood Akhtar, Loveleen Mishra, Pavan Malhotra, Anashua Mujumdar, Dipti Dave, Aloke Roychoudhury, Siv Sankar Banerjee, Aloknanda Datta, Chakradhar Jena, Sunil Mukherjee, Chetna Jalan, Ravi Jhankal, Debraj Roy, Charu Bala Chokshi, Durba Datta, Tamal Raichowdhury, Sanjay Pathak, Anjan Dutt, Debasish Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Sami Ahmad, Chhotu Bhai, Rana Mitra, Siddharth Roy, Monu Mukherjee, John Nair, Subrata Sensharma, Sujan Mukherjee, Satya Banerjee, Paresh Ghosh, Saran Chatterjee, Gouri Sankar Panda, Sudip Banerjee, Kajal Chaudhury, Iftekhar, Chitra Sen, Keira Jane Malik, Sam Wanamaker, Roland Joffé, Ennio Morricone
• Director: Roland Joffé
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
• Media Format: Movie