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The Touch / Sparsh (1980) Sai Paranjape, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Sudha Chopra

Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. Read More »
Runaway / Bari Theke Paliye (1958) Ritwik Ghatak, Param Bharak Lahiri, Padmadevi, Gyanesh Mukherjee

Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. Read More »
Panchavadi Palam (1984) K.G. George, Bharat Gopy, Nedumudi Venu, Srividya

A henpecked politician wants his name attached to a new bridge Read More »
Mother India (1957) Mehboob Khan, Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar

The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Read More »
A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) Payal Kapadia, Bhumisuta Das

L writes letters to her estranged lover. Through these letters, we get a glimpse Read More »
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 »