TY - ADVS AU - Mehta, Ketan AU - Mehta,Ketan AU - Patil,Smita AU - Shah,Naseeruddin AU - Babbar,Raj AU - Puri,Om ED - National Film Development Corporation of India. ED - Jorden Electronics (Firm) TI - Mirch masala U1 - 791.43 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Jorden Electronics KW - Women -- India -- Drama KW - Rape -- India -- Drama KW - Tax collection -- India -- Drama. KW - Feature films -- India KW - Motion pictures, Indic KW - Abuse of administrative power KW - Women--Violence against N1 - Catalog number: EDVD; "Pkd. 2/2005"--Container back; Title translated into English as Spices; Originally released as a motion picture in 1985; Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Om Puri, Deepti Naval N2 - In colonial India, a village woman takes refuge in a spice factory to avoid an oppressive visiting tax collector (subedar) who demands sex while her husbands is away. An aging factory guard refuses to open the doors to the tax collector's soldiers, the cowardly village men, or the subedar himself. The stage is set for a final confrontation between the woman and her would-be attacker; In Colonial India of the 1940's, a village woman takes refuge in a spice factory to avoid an oppressive visiting tax collector (subedar) who demands sex while her husbands is away. An aging factory guard refuses to open the doors to the tax collector's soldiers, the cowardly village men, or the subedar himself. The stage is set for a final confrontation between the woman and her would-be attacker ER -