English, August (film)

English, August, made in 1994, is Indian film and director Dev Benegals first feature film. This film ignited the next generation of Indian cinema and is acknowledged as a landmark in contemporary Indian cinema. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won several awards at international film festivals.

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. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. He is sent off for a years training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows Augusts mother tongue is Bengali. He feels like a foreigner, but must survive.Moreover, August is surrounded by wild characters Srivastava, the pompous head bureaucrat and his wife Malti, the fashion and cultural leader of the town Sathe, a local pothead and cartoonist Kumar, the Police Superintendent and connoisseur of porn films and Vasant, the worlds worst cook. August negotiates this provincial creek with the only paddle he can find Fantasy, daydreams and selfabuse become his means of revolt and escape as he escapes from the heat into the mystery and quiet of his secret world of erotic fantasy and contemplation. ........

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