: When Lily cannot nurse the child, Mary secretly takes the infant to her own sister, Blossom—a wet nurse living in a poorhouse—to be fed.
Directed by Ismail Merchant , the film Cotton Mary is set in 1954 India, shortly after British rule ended.
: Mary insinuates herself into the household of a wealthy British family, the MacIntoshes, after helping the wife, Lily, with her premature baby.
: Mary (played by Madhur Jaffrey ) is an Anglo-Indian nurse who is fiercely proud of her European heritage. Her nickname comes from her snobbish preference for fine English cotton.