From director Ismail Merchant of the famed Merchant Ivory team comes this fascinating and unique tale, set in a 1954 India still going through its growing pains several years after winning its independence from Great Britain. In a culture that still feelsuncomfortably class-conscious, Madhur Jaffrey plays a Anglo-Indian nurse desperate to be accepted by the uppercrust. When she ingratiates herself into the home of a new mother played by Greta Scacchi, it isn't long before conflicts arise in "Cotton Mary"(1999).
