TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merchant, Ismail.
AU  - Cunha,Gerson Da
AU  - James Wilby
AU  - Joanna David
AU  - Madhur Jaffrey
AU  - Riju Bajaj
AU  - Sarah Badel
AU  - Greta Scacchi
TI  - Cotton Mary
AV  - DVD 002976 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - France, UK, USA
PB  - Merchant Ivory Productions
KW  - Drama
N1  - A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past; Alexandra Viets
N2  - 1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Cotton Mary, a hospital aide and moralizing Anglophile who claims her father was a British officer, takes over the infant's care and, without a word to the mother, takes the baby daily to her sister to nurse. Mary moves into the English household, taking over more and more duties as she plays on the mother's fatigue and lack of spousal counsel: in effect, Mary colonizes the English household while she pilfers its stores and tells tall tales to her own family. For how long can Mary sustain her rule before the Englishwoman stands on her own feet?
UR  - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0159373/
ER  -