Taglines: He was a man who couldn’t care less… until he met a man who couldn’t care more.
City of Joy movie storyline. Hazari Pal lives in a small village in Bihar, India, with his dad, mom, wife, Kamla, daughter, Amrita, and two sons, Shambhu and Manooj. As the Pal are unable to repay the loan they had taken years ago from a moneylender, their land and property are auctioned, and they are rendered homeless. Hazari and his family re-locate to Calcutta with hopes of starting life anew, save some money and go back to Bihar, as well as get Amrita married.
Things do not go as planned, as they lose their entire savings to a con-man, Gangooly, who took their money as rent by pretending to be a landlord. Then Hazari gets an opportunity to take up driving a rickshaw manually through a local godfather, Ghatak. He gets to meet a American, Dr. Max Lowe, and together they strike up a friendship along with a local social worker, Joan Bethel. Misunderstandings crop up between Joan and the Godfather, resulting in the shutting down of their shanty medical clinic.
City of Joy is a 1992 French-British drama film directed by Roland Joffé, with a screenplay by Mark Medoff. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Dominique Lapierre, which looks at poverty in then-modern India, specifically life in the slums. The film stars Patrick Swayze, Om Puri and Shabana Azmi.
City of Joy (1992)
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Art Malik, Nabil Shaban, Debatosh Ghosh, Suneeta Sengupta, Mansi Upadhyay, Shyamanand Jalan
Screenplay by: Mark Medoff
Production Design by: Roy Walker
Cinematography by: Peter Biziou
Film Editing by: Gerry Hambling
Costume Design by: Judy Moorcroft
Set Decoration by: Rosalind Shingleton
Art Direction by: Ashoke Bose, John Fenner
Music by: Ennio Morricone
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for scenes of brief strong violence.
Distributed by: TriStar Pictures (United States), Warner Bros. Pictures (International)
Release Date: April 15, 1992
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