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...plot revolves around Dr. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze), who goes to India in search of "enlightenment" at an Ashram near Calcutta. Frustrated by his career in America, he yearns to "find himself." Instead he finds himself stranded in Calcutta, robbed of his money and passport, where he accidentally encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story...
...Max meets the Irish doctor, Joan (Pauline Collins), and he uses her as the supporting beam of his life in the village. Her selfless devotion to the cause of the diseased in the slum lures Max into the realm of the Calcuttan poor. He treats the lepers in the adjacent village, much to the horror of the paranoid denizens of his own village. The storyline takes twist after twist, placing a story within a story. The internal rivalry between the destitute lepers and the village of rickshaw-puller tenants is juxtaposed against the larger framework of animosity between the poor...
...relationships between the characters burgeon, and despite the gravity of the subject matter, the movie takes a light twist every now and then, filling the beautifully cinetematographed scenes with a distinct sense of warmth. Azmi, as Hazari's wife and Max's clinical assistant, displays her prowess as a performer. She carries the role as the subservient wife and the sensual and strong woman with ease. Om Puri, as the frustrated Hazari, a man who is fighting for a living and defying the odds to collect a dowry for his daughter Amrita (Ayesha Dharker), is superb. He establishes his character...
...many measures of wealth and social progress. Under Clinton, however, the state has begun inching ahead of some others too and acquiring a new self-confidence that it can be something more than a poverty-stricken backwater. "The state is far better off than before he came along," says Max Howell, who is retiring after 42 years in the Arkansas senate. "He has negotiated the most meaningful gains that anyone could have." Political scientist David England at Arkansas State University agrees: "He has been as effective as any Governor could be in Arkansas," partly because Clinton has shown a shrewd...
...experiences there led him to clinical AIDS care, and eventually to the Harvard lab of Max E. Essex, Lasker professor of health sciences at the School of Public Health and chair of the AIDS Institute. There, Marlink and Essex began researching a new strain of HIV known as HIV-II, which also causes AIDS-like symptoms...