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Tag Archives: India
Valley of Flowers (2006) Pan Nalin, Milind Soman, Mylène Jampanoï, Naseeruddin Shah

Along the highest mountain passes of the Himalayas, tough, intrepid Jalan (Milind Soman) Read More »
Company (2002) Ram Gopal Varma, Ajay Devgn, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala

A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik Read More »
Market Place / Mandi (1983) Shyam Benegal, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah

Forbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge Read More »
The Sand Storm / Trishagni (1988) Nabendu Ghosh, Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath

The film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes Read More »
The Warrior (2001) Asif Kapadia, Irrfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Aino Annuddin

Circa feudal India in the State of Rajasthan is a desert region that is ruled over by a cruel and sadistic Lord Read More »
Cloud Capped Star / Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) Kamaleswar Mukherjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee

To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon Read More »
Bazaar (1982) Sagar Sarhadi, Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah

Najma and Salim are in love, but theirs is a platonic relationship, as Salim is a deep thinker Read More »
The First Chapter / Pehla Adhyay (1981) Vishnu Mathur, Madan Jain, Dinesh Shakul

The most obscure of the films to come out of the Indian New Wave, Pahla Adhyay is Vishnu Mathur’s only film. Read More »
The Bogeyman / Kummatty (1979) Govindan Aravindan, Master Ashokan, Sivasankaran Divakaran, Kothara Gopalkrishnan

The film is a Pied Piper-like figment of Malabar’s folklore about a partly mythic Read More »