Cotton Mary
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Ismail Merchant
Captain Raju
Ranjini Haridas
Riju Bajaj
Maggie Arthasery
Laura Lumley
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
When Lily, a British woman living on her family's estate in post-independence India circa 1954, gives birth prematurely in a former British hospital while her journalist husband is away on assignment, she turns to Cotton Mary, an Anglo-Indian nurse who promises that "God will feed the child." "God," as it turns out, is Mary's crippled sister, Blossom, a wet nurse who lives in a nearby alms-house. Mary brings her the baby for secret feedings, and introduces her niece into Lily's household as her obsession with whiteness and the lives of her masters threatens to spin out of control.
Cast
Captain Raju
Ranjini Haridas
Riju Bajaj
Maggie Arthasery
Laura Lumley
Greta Scacchi
Nadira
Madhur Jaffrey
Gerson Da Cunha
Poornima Mohan
Virendra Saxena
Txuku Iriarte Solana
Shobha Vijay
Gemma Jones
Prayag Raaj
Susan Malick
Gayatri Krishnan
Jaya George
Surekha Sikri
Sakina Jaffrey
Cuckoo Parameswaran
Neena Gupta
Luke Jones
James Wilby
Mahabanoo Mody-kotwal
Sarah Badel
Caroline Charlety
Harshiya Rafiq
Shirly Somasundaram
Philip Tabor
Vinnie D'souza
Joanna David
Firdausi Jussawalla
Matteo Piero Mantegazza
Beena Manoj
Olivia Caesar
Ashok Koshy
Crew
Pierre Abraham
Charmian Adams
Geoffrey Alexander
Maqsood Ali
John David Allen
Giri Anchan
Flora Avery
Toufique Baig
Lori Baker
Natalie Bayford
Siraj Bharapurwala
Sadanand Bhikaji
Rahila Bootwala
Paul Bradley
Vinaya Chandran
Caroline Charlety
Rizwan Chowhan
Paul Clegg
Giorgio Devincenzo
Gillean Dickie
Giovanni Disimone
Amar Dogra
Gil Donaldson
Alexis Fernandez
Celestia Fox
Amitabh Ghosh
Jamie Graham
Nayeem Hafizka
Nick Harris
Nina Hartstone
Richard Hawley
John Hayward
Barbara Herman-skelding
Peter Holt
Robert Ireland
Abdul Jabbar
Luke Jones
P J Josey
Mandar Karmarkar
Karim Kazi
Faiza Khan
Sunil Kirparam
Martina Kohl
Simon V Kurian
Anant Ladge
Pierre Lhomme
Mahadev Mhaske
Nigel Mills
Rambali Mishra
Sanjay Mishra
Zoe Morgan
Urmilla Lal Motwani
Sheena Napier
Satya Narayan
A Natarajan
Joseph Nellickal
Balkrishna Palkar
Ashok Panchal
Gajanand Panchal
R D Pawar
Ravi Pawar
Jake Polonsky
Richard Pryke
Robin Quinn
Harry Rabinowitz
Jayalakshmy Ramachandran
Vishnu Rao
Ashok Raut
Gyanchand Rikhi
Gyanchand Rikhi
Raj Rikhi
Alison Riva
Richard Robbins
Seth Rubin
Janardhan Rumde
V P Sajimon
Bhagwat Satkar
Dinkar Sawant
Suresh Sawant
Suresh Sawant
John Scholz
Marla Shelton
Steve Sollars
L Subramaniam
Jean Pierre Supe
Kevin Tayler
Maruti Thakur
Rony Thomas
Jack Tucker
Shahnaz Vahanvaty
Abdul Vaid
Suraj Varma
Alexandra Viets
Manilal Waghela
Mukesh Waghela
Kirsty Whalley
Debbie R Wilson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States March 15, 2000
Released in United States November 1999
Released in United States on Video January 30, 2001
Released in United States Spring March 15, 2000
Shown at London Film Festival November 3-18, 1999.
Natasha Richardson was previously attached to star but was replaced by Greta Scacchi.
Began shooting December 14, 1998.
Completed shooting February 15, 1999.
Released in United States on Video January 30, 2001
Limited Release in United States March 15, 2000
Released in United States Spring March 15, 2000
Released in United States November 1999 (Shown at London Film Festival November 3-18, 1999.)
