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  1. Sep 16, 1994 · English, August: Directed by Dev Benegal. With Tanvi Azmi, Rahul Bose, Rupen Bose, Shivaji Satam. Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock, and jazz, and reads Marcus Aurelius.

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    • Drama, Comedy
    • Dev Benegal
    • 1994-09-16
  2. English, August is a 1994 Indian English-language black comedy film and director Dev Benegal's first feature film. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won several awards at international film festivals.

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  4. Agastya Sen is a young, free-minded, city-bred man that gets transferred to the province to work as a bureaucrat. Being confronted with the complexity and Kafkaesque nature of the Indian bureaucratic hierarchy, he sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and depression. Synopsis.

  5. English, August: An Indian Story is a novel by Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee. It is written in English and first published in 1988. The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1994.

    • Upamanyu Chatterjee
    • 1988
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