Cotton Mary (1999)

Directors

Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey

Cast

Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Riju Bajaj, Sarah Badel, Neena Gupta, Laura Lumley, Gerson Da Cunha, Joanna David, Sakina Jaffrey, Gemma Jones, Firdausi Jussawalla, Surekha Sikri, Virendra Saxena, Prayag Raj

The story

Set in the post-colonial era of 1950s India, Lily MacIntosh, an upper-class British woman living in India, has struggled since the birth of her second child and is unable to breastfeed her baby. In the old British military hospital where the child was born, a nurse known as Cotton Mary takes the post as nanny; she is an ambitious woman who is eager to be part of British society. She seems kind at first, but her true nature gradually reveals itself as she manipulates everyone around her to get what she wants.

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