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Tag Archives: India
Bloodstone (1988) Dwight H. Little, Brett Stimely, Rajinikanth, Anna Nicholas

When an newlywed American couple goes to India on their honeymoon Read More »
Parashuram / The Man with the Axe (1979) Mrinal Sen, Arun Mukherjee, Bibhas Chakraborty, Sreela Majumdar

Carrying an Axe on his shoulder and preserving the strange memory of his encounter with a tiger Read More »
The Hero (1966) Satyajit Ray, Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen

A matinee idol Arindam Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is going by train to collect an acting award. Read More »
Interview (1971) Mrinal Sen, Karuna Bannerjee, Ranjit Mallick

A dawn to dusk account of a young man in search of a job. Read More »
Calcutta 71 (1971) Mrinal Sen, Madhabi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy

A young man, eternally 20, walks through history, through poverty, squalor and death. Read More »
Outrages of the Orient (1948) Carlos Vander Tolosa, William H. Jansen, Linda Estrella, Fernando Royo, Mona Lisa

A docu-drama recreating the rape and plundering conducted by WWII Japanese troops against the Filipino people. Read More »
The Citizen (1952) Ritwik Ghatak, Ajit Banerjee, Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu

Ramu,a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. Read More »
The Descent/Ascent (1963) Agradoot, Sabitri Chatterjee, Supriya Choudhury, Asha Devi

Uttarayan is a film depicting the effects of the second world war on a man’s life and in family. Read More »
The Big City (1963) Satyajit Ray, Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri

Calcutta in the early 1960’s. Bhambal supports his wife Arati, his parents, and two children. Read More »
Soni (2018) Ivan Ayr, Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, Vikas Shukla

Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent, Kalpana Read More »
Shelter of the Wings (1994) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Shankar Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rajit Kapoor

Lakha comes from a family of bird catchers, but questions the value of catching birds. Read More »
Mahal (1949) Kamal Amrohi, Ashok Kumar, Madhubala, M. Kumar

Hari Shankar (Ashok Kumar) comes to claim his inheritance – a palatial building known as Shabnam Mahal. Read More »
Khubsoorat (1980) Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Rekha, Rakesh Roshan

Nirmala Gupta runs her household and family in a very strict and authoritarian manner. Read More »
My Name Is Joker (1970) Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal, Achala Sachdev

Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. Read More »