Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. Read More »
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Panchavadi Palam (1984) K.G. George, Bharat Gopy, Nedumudi Venu, Srividya
A henpecked politician wants his name attached to a new bridge Read More »
Mr. Shome AKA Bhuvan Shome (1969) Mrinal Sen, Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay, Shekhar Chatterjee
Bhuvan Shome is a lonely widower, a proud old man and a strict disciplinarian. Read More »
Mother India (1957) Mehboob Khan, Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar
The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Read More »
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) Payal Kapadia, Bhumisuta Das
L writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse Read More »
Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo AKA Reason, Debate and a Story (1974) Ritwik Ghatak, Tripti Mitra, Shaonli Mitra, Sugata Burman
Nilkantha, an alcoholic frustrated intellectual, suddenly finds himself out of the street. Read More »
Lady of the Lake AKA Loktak Lairembee (2016) Haobam Paban Kumar, Ningthoujam Sanatomba
A fishing community living on floating biomass in Loktak Lake in Manipur Read More »
Man of the Story AKA Kathapurushan (1996) Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Vishwanathan, Mini Nair, Aranmulla Ponnamma
Against the history of Kerala, we see a young man grow up without a father Read More »
Mr. 420 AKA Shree 420 (1955) Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Nadira
Wearing torn Japanese sneakers, English pants, a red Russian cover Read More »
Sant Tukaram (1936) Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal, Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar
This classic film chronicles the life of Tukaram (17th C.), one of Maharashtra’s most popular saint poets Read More »
Shikari (1963) Mohammed Hussain, Ajit Khan, Ragini, Helen
The owners of a circus set out to capture King Kong. Read More »
Jewel Thief (1967) Vijay Anand, Ashok Kumar, Dev Anand, Vyjayanthimala
Vinay, an ordinary young man who finds himself constantly mistaken for a look-alike jewel thief named Amar. Read More »
The Cloud-Capped Star AKA Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960) Ritwik Ghatak, Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee
“Meghe Dhaka Tara” tells the tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class Read More »
Life Sentence AKA Kala Pani (1958) Raj Khosla, Dev Anand, Madhubala, Nalini Jaywant
Based on A.J.Cronin’s ‘Beyond This Place’, this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. Read More »
C.I.D. (1956) Raj Khosla, Dev Anand, Shakila, Johnny Walker
A newspaper editor, Shrivastav, is killed when he was about to expose the underworld links Read More »