After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. Read More »
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Lukochuri / Hide and Seek (1958) Kamal Majumdar, Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, Anita Guha, Comedy
Kumar leaves home for a job in Bombay. His father forbids him to meet his twin brother Shankar who wants to give music to films and is in love with an artist. Read More »
Jackpot (2009) Kaushik Ganguly, Rahul Banerjee, Hiran Chatterjee, Dev, Drama
The film is about a reality show organized by Star Ananda, where the two finalists, Arka and Dodo, are given two tasks to fulfill. Read More »
Isi Ka Naam Duniya Hai / This Is Called World (1962) Shakti Samanta, Ashok Kumar, Shyama, Mehmood, Drama, Music
Motiram, a textile mill worker, has lost his wife and he marries Radha, despite protest from his children Raja and Asha. Read More »
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla / A Detained Verdict (1986) Basu Chatterjee, Deepak Kejriwal, Amitabh Srivastava, Pankaj Kapur, Drama
Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. Read More »
Anita (1967) Raj Khosla, Sadhana, Manoj Kumar, I.S. Johar, Musical, Thriller, Mystery
Wealthy Anita and office-worker Neeraj almost elope, but her father interrupts the wedding. Neeraj tries to contact Anita, but finds that she is now engaged to Anil Sharma. Read More »
Ankahee / The Unspoken (1985) Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval, Devika Mukherjee, Drama
Renowned Indian astrologer Jyotibhaskar Pandit Satyanarayan Chaturvedi, wishes a doctor, who is about to perform surgery on a woman, good luck Read More »
Way Back Home (2003) Supriyo Sen, Documentary
In this road-movie, the filmmaker follows his parents on their way ‘back home’ to Bangladesh. After the Partition of India in 1947, East Pakistan, (today’s Bangladesh) witnessed enormous atrocities. Read More »
Pakeezah / The Pure One (1972) Kamal Amrohi, Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Musical, Romance, Drama
A girl, whose mother dies of sorrow from her husband’s family’s rejection, grows up singing and dancing like her mother. She works as a dancing girl and is courted by a prince, but can think only of a man she has never met, who left her a message on the train. She dreams of him and cannot dance, becomes frightened and runs into the night.
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Words on Water (2002) Sanjay Kak, Documentary
“Shasan valo, sun lo aaj – Hamare gaon mein hamaara raaj” (Listen to us, you who rule – our villages, we control). A boat carrying that cargo of defiance begins an urgent journey through the Narmada valley.
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