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Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo / Reason, Debate and a Story (1974) Ritwik Ghatak, Tripti Mitra, Shaonli Mitra, Sugata Burman

Nilkantha, an alcoholic frustrated intellectual, suddenly finds himself out of the street. Read More »
Lady of the Lake / Loktak Lairembee (2016) Haobam Paban Kumar, Ningthoujam Sanatomba

A fishing community living on floating biomass in Loktak Lake in Manipur Read More »
Man of the Story / Kathapurushan (1996) Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Vishwanathan, Mini Nair, Aranmulla Ponnamma

Against the history of Kerala, we see a young man grow up without a father 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 »
The Cloud-Capped Star / Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960) Ritwik Ghatak, Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee

“Meghe Dhaka Tara” tells the tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class 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 »
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 / Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali (1982) Yugantar

Tambaku Chaakila Oob Ali documents, re-enacts, and takes forward one of the largest movements 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 »