The most obscure of the films to come out of the Indian New Wave, Pahla Adhyay is Vishnu Mathur’s only film. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hindi
The Touch / Sparsh (1980) Sai Paranjape, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Sudha Chopra
Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. 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 »
Mr. 420 / Shree 420 (1955) Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Nadira
Wearing torn Japanese sneakers, English pants, a red Russian cover 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 / 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 »
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 »