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English, August is a 1994 Indian English-language black comedy film and director Dev Benegal's first feature film. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won several awards at international film festivals.
Sep 16, 1994 · English, August: Directed by Dev Benegal. With Tanvi Azmi, Rahul Bose, Rupen Bose, Shivaji Satam. Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock, and jazz, and reads Marcus Aurelius.
English, August: An Indian Story is a novel by Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee. It is written in English and first published in 1988. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1994.
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy.
Shedding light upon the "middling" corruption of low-level government bureaucrats in India's boondocks, a wry comedy which focuses on a well-educated Bengali who joins the public service and is sent to work as an assistant to the collector in a tiny village where he doesn't speak the language.
Agastya Sen is a young, free-minded, city-bred man that gets transferred to the province to work as a bureaucrat. Being confronted with the complexity and Kafkaesque nature of the Indian bureaucratic hierarchy, he sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and depression.
Directed by Dev Benegal. An Indian Story. Agasyta, an urban bengali who seamlessly shuttles between Ella Fitzgerald and Rabindra Sangeet, joins the Indian administration service and gets posted in the lap of India’s hinterland - a dingy little town called Madna. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases. Rahul Bose Tanvi Azmi Mita Vashisht.
He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He feels like a foreigner, but must survive.
Oct 10, 1994 · Popular on Variety. Benegal’s convincing depiction of the little village, with its absurd ceremonies and meetings and its deeply ingrained poverty, is the principal attraction...
English, August. A well-educated civil servant experiences culture shock in a small South Indian township.
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