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The Raw Mango (2000)
Directed by Amol Palekar
Overview
Kairee narrates the sweet and sour experiences of a ten year old girl brought to her maternal aunt Taani’s house due to the loss of her parents. The girl, uprooted from a secure and loving home, struggles to cope with hostilities in her new environment. Taanimausi, living a barren existence with a brute of a husband, tries single-handedly to preserve the child’s innocence and sensitivity as together they face the unpleasantness of an adult world. Taanimausi helps the girl create a world of their own… a world full of love, beauty and hope… a world full of sunshine, woods, streams, peacocks… and a world of raw mangoes.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Shilpa Navalkar | Yogita Deshmukh | Leena Bhagwat | Vasant Abaji Dahake | Nimish Kathale | Akshay Pendse | Atul Kulkarni | Mohan Gokhale | Sonali Kulkarni