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Tag Archives: India
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla / A Detained Verdict (1986) Basu Chatterjee, Deepak Kejriwal, Amitabh Srivastava, Pankaj Kapur

Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision Read More »
Gharaonda / The Nest (1977) Bhimsain

This film is about a young working couple, who strive to build a home for themselves in the city of Bombay, so that they can get married. Read More »
The Adversary (1970) Satyajit Ray, Asgar Ali

A young man, newly graduated from college is unable to find meaningful employment. Read More »
Dheepan (2015) Jacques Audiard, Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby

Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Read More »
Komal Gandhar / A Soft Note on a Sharp Scale (1961) Ritwik Ghatak, Supriya Choudhury, Abanish Banerjee, Anil Chatterjee

Set in the contentious 1950s, the film’s plot is structured around the rivalry of two radical theatre groups. Read More »
Letter from the Wife / Streer Patra (1972) Purnendu Pattrea, Nimu Bhowmick, Ashim Chakarbarti, Santosh Dutta

A worthy companion to Ray’s Charulata, the film is based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore Read More »
Mr. Shome / 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 »
Antaheen / The Endless Wait (2009) Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Rahul Bose, Aparna Sen, Radhika Apte

Abhik Chowdhury is an IPS officer with a heart — honest, upright, yet laid-back. 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 »
The Chain / Zanjeer (1973) Prakash Mehra, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Pran

A police officer (Amitabh Bachchan) after the brutal murder of his family seeks some answers from life. Read More »
Red Door / Lal Darja (1997) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Champa, Raisul Islam Asad, Sunetra Banerjee

Dr. Nabin Datta is a prominent dentist in Calcutta, 47, disengaged, with little affect Read More »
The Golden Thread / Subarnarekha (1965) Ritwik Ghatak, Madhabi Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Abhi Bhattacharya

A man (Abhi Bhattacharya) opposes the love between his sister Read More »
Jinnah (1998) Jamil Dehlavi, Christopher Lee, Shireen Shah, James Curran

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through Read More »
The Ritual / Ghatashraddha (1977) Girish Kasaravalli, Narayan Bhatt, Ramaswamy Iyengar, Janganath

A young Brahmin Vedic school student, who is from an aristocratic family Read More »