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Indian immigrant Sushila Sen (Shabana Azmi) lives in London with her son Manek (Navin Chowdhry), who is musically gifted. She supports them both as a caterer of Indian food, while Manek studies the piano with Madame Sousatzka (Shirley MacLaine), who is a Russian -American immigrant.
Her mother pushed her too fast, to soon, and she broke down in the middle of her debut concert, and fled from the stage. That humiliation is still in her nightmares, and still shapes her attitude toward her students.
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but…
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- Universal Pictures, Cineplex-Odeon Films
- John Schlesinger
Oct 14, 1988 · John Schlesinger's ''Madame Sousatzka'' is as much of an antique as the woman herself and a long, sentimental celebration of the ''great pianist and pedagogue,'' as one of Madame's admirers...
- John Schlesinger
Jan 1, 1988 · Her latest protege is a 15-year-old Indian youth, Manek (Navin Chowdhry) whose mother (Shabana Azmi) left Calcutta years before to get away from her husband.
Sep 10, 2012 · Probably conceived as more dislikeably monomaniacal than MacLaine plays her, this teacher has to get used to the painful fact that her chicks will fly the coop. Who could blame them? Fusty...
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