A carefully constructed nonsense about a teenage boy named Om in a small Indian village. Read More »
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Zapatlela (1993) Mahesh Kothare, Laxmikant Berde, Kishori Ambiye
Inspector Mahesh Jadhav kills a wanted gangster only to be unaware that his spirit has possessed a doll lying in a box nearby. Read More »
The Guru (1969) James Ivory, Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt
Britain’s top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar Read More »
Tobacco Embers AKA Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (1982) Yugantar
Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements 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 »
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) Aparna Sen, Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhisham Sahni
Meenakshi Iyer comes from a devout Hindu Brahmin family, purely vegetarian 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 »
Distance AKA Dooratwa (1979) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Mamata Shankar, Pradip Mukherjee, Ajoy Banerjee
Mandar (Pradip Mukherjee) is an ex-revolutionary turned college lecturer. 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 »
The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha AKA Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969) Satyajit Ray, Tapan Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. Read More »
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie’s Pictures (1978) James Ivory, Peggy Ashcroft, Larry Pine, Saeed Jaffrey
This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects Read More »
Court (2014) Chaitanya Tamhane, Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
A sewerage worker’s dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. 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 »