The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hindi
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 »
Mr. 420 AKA Shree 420 (1955) Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Nadira
Wearing torn Japanese sneakers, English pants, a red Russian cover 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 »
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 »
Om Dar-B-Dar (1988) Kamal Swaroop, Anita Kanwar, Gopi Desai, Lalit Tiwari
A carefully constructed nonsense about a teenage boy named Om in a small Indian village. Read More »
Two Eyes, Twelve Hands AKA Do Ankhen Barah Haath (1957) Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, Sandhya, Ulhas
Compassionate Jailer Adinath refuses to document an attack on him by an inmate Read More »
Ghashiram Kotwal (1976) K. Hariharan, Mani Kaul, Mohan Agashe, Rajani Chavan, Vandana Pandit
This was the first movie made by this group (see Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) Read More »
Miss Lovely (2012) Ashim Ahluwalia, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay’s “C” grade film industry. Read More »
Arising From The Surface (1980) Mani Kaul, Bharat Gopy, Vibhuti Jha, Satyen Kumar
Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image Read More »
The Ruins AKA Khandhar (1984) Mrinal Sen, Shabana Azmi, Annu Kapoor, Pankaj Kapur
Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Read More »
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) Manmohan Desai, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan
A ex-convict must flee his mob boss, leaving his family to fend for themselves. Read More »
Black (2005) Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Shernaz Patel
Based in Simla, the McNallys are an Anglo-Indian family consisting of Paul and his wife, Catherine. Read More »