City of Joy

City of Joy

132 mins | Drama | April 15, 1992

Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.

City of Joy

132 mins | Drama | April 15, 1992

City of Joy
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers TriStar Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, Pricel, Lightmotive
Original title City of Joy
Directors Roland Joffé
Writers Dominique LaPierre, Mark Medoff

Cast

Patrick Swayze

as Max Lowe

Om Puri

as Hazari Pal

Pauline Collins

as Joan Bethel

Shabana Azmi

as Kamla H. Pal

Ayesha Dharker

as Amrita H. Pal

Art Malik

as Ashok Ghatak

Nabil Shaban

as Anouar

Suneeta Sengupta

as Poomina

Shyamanand Jalan

as Ghatak - Godfather

Rudraprasad Sengupta

as Chomotkar

Debatosh Ghosh

as Ram Chander

Mansi Upadhyay

as Meeta

Shyamal Sengupta

as Gangooly - Con man