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    Poster for The Lunchbox
    Movie
    2013•
    7.4

    The Lunchbox

    A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

    Poster for Salaam Bombay!
    Movie
    1988•
    7.3

    Salaam Bombay!

    After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.

    Poster for Gandhi
    Movie
    1982•
    7.6

    Gandhi

    In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

    Poster for Manjhi: The Mountain Man
    Movie
    2015•
    7.4

    Manjhi: The Mountain Man

    After his wife passes away trying to cross a mountain, Manjhi, out of sheer rage, sets on a quest to carve a road through the treacherous mountain.

    Poster for Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost
    Movie
    2013•
    5.8

    Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost

    Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.

    Poster for Amodini
    Movie
    1994•
    5.5

    Amodini

    Amodini is a rich landowner's daughter. Unable to face social stigma, her father arranges her marriage to a much older person, who fails to turn up on the wedding day. To save the situation, she is forced to marry a 15-year-old boy.

    Poster for Thodu
    Movie
    1997•
    8.0

    Thodu

    A man and woman bond over their common fate. Both in their fifties, have lost their spouses and are struggling to cope. Gangadharam remains miserable with the loss of his wife, Vijaylakshmi immerses herself in music lessons. With monumental effort he summons the courage and asks Vijaylakshmi to consider marriage. Though she laughs the idea off initially circumstances soon reveal to her how lonely she feels in his absence and the value of companionship.

    Poster for Ooruku Nooruper
    Movie
    2001

    Ooruku Nooruper

    Balan, a young artist, becomes a part of "Ooruku Nooruper", a revolutionary organisation. To promote the ideals of the group, he becomes a modern-day Robinhood, as looting becomes an integral part of his life. Anandan, a leftist freelance writer, supports Balan and runs a campaign against capital punishment.

    Poster for Gangoobai
    Movie
    2013•
    7.5

    Gangoobai

    Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, has lived her whole life in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran, set in the spectacularly beautiful Sahyadri mountain range about 4 hours' drive from Mumbai.

    Poster for Trishagni
    Movie
    1988•
    6.8

    Trishagni

    The film, which won the 1988 National Film Award for Best First Film of a Director for its "excellent exploration of complex philosophical theme for the first time in Indian cinema," is set in the Buddhist town of Sariput in the desert of Central Asia in the 1st century B.C. The town is struck by a devastating sand storm that leaves behind only four survivors: two monks and two children taking refuge in the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have become old, while the boy and the girl have grown and fallen in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy into becoming a monk, yet the girl wins him back, as a result both are expelled from the monastery, and that is when the sandstorm strikes once again..

    Poster for Sanghat
    Movie
    1996

    Sanghat

    Rituparna's husband of six months dies due to a heart attack. When she returns to her father's home, she decides to earn money.

    Poster for Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
    Movie
    2000•
    7.8

    Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

    The movie tells the story of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in shaping the Constitution of India, as the chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Indian Constituent Assembly. He dedicated his life to fight against the evils of untouchability.

    Poster for That Girl in Yellow Boots
    Movie
    2011•
    5.8

    That Girl in Yellow Boots

    An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.

    Poster for Island City
    Movie
    2015•
    8.0

    Island City

    A collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office 'Fun Committee Award', which entitles him to a whole day full of fun. He is most reluctant to leave the safety of his cubicle but he has to. Prescribed fun modules have to be completed and non-compliance is not an option... The second story begins with a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support. Seeking some relief, his family decides to buy a TV, which Anil had banned. Now every night the family plugs into a popular soap whose hero, Purshottam, is a man ideal in every way and they are smitten. Then suddenly, comes the news that Anil is better and may be home soon. Will they have to let Purshottam go?... The third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. Deep inside ferments a disconnect and unease that she is unable to articulate to anyone.

    Poster for 1:1.6 An Ode to Lost Love
    Movie
    2005

    1:1.6 An Ode to Lost Love

    In this topsy-turvy romance, Gulshan Grover plays Prabhod, a filmmaker at work on his latest movie with director of photography M (Atul Kulkarni). When M is introduced to the project's star, Sushmitha (Masoomi), the actress is instantly smitten. But during shooting, Prabhod begins to have feelings for Sushmitha as well. To further complicate matters, Sushmitha's seductive mother (Rathi Agnihotri) also stirs things up. Who will end up with whom?

    Poster for The Fourth Direction
    Movie
    2016•
    5.7

    The Fourth Direction

    Fear and paranoia pervade life in rural Punjab of the ’80s, before and after Operation Blue Star, as separatists clash with security forces.

    Poster for Massey Sahib
    Movie
    1986

    Massey Sahib

    In a small, tribal district town of Central India in 1929, Francis Massey is the 'English Type Babu' at the Deputy Commissioner's office. Massey believes that because he is Christian and can speak English, he is a cut above other Indians and not very different from the white sahibs he serves. For a man of lowly birth, Massey has risen to a dizzying height. On the other hand, he acknowledges no realistic limits to his own free spirit. Whenever the real world fails him, he improvises - boldly, imaginatively. Alas, the unsmiling, implacable machinery of the Raj has no room for Massey Sahib, the travelling salesman, road foreman and entertainer. Right up to the bitter end, Massey believes that Deputy Commissioner Adam Sahib will step in and save him.

    Poster for Mujib: The Making of a Nation
    Movie
    2023•
    6.5

    Mujib: The Making of a Nation

    Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his growing up as a child to his standing up against all injustice in his youth to fighting for the independence of his country. How he led a country to it's independence with his inspirational presence and fight for the justice.

    Poster for Adi Shankaracharya
    Movie
    1983•
    6.4

    Adi Shankaracharya

    The first and only Indian movie to be made in Sanskrit. The movie follows the life and times of Sankara - the founder of the non-duality (Advaita) school of Indian philosophy.

    Poster for Aparoopa
    Movie
    1982

    Aparoopa

    Set in the tea plantations of Assam in northeast India, where a young woman quits her studies to marry a wealthy man whom her father owes money. The monotony of her days is broken by the arrival an old university acquaintance.

    Poster for Four Years Later
    TV
    2024

    Four Years Later

    Newlyweds Sridevi and Yash's marriage faces an early test when Yash's medical traineeship takes him to Australia for four years, forcing them into a long-distance relationship.

    Poster for La Nouvelle Malle des Indes
    TV
    1982•
    9.0

    La Nouvelle Malle des Indes

    A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove that the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. With his friend, French explorer and natural scientist Martial de Sassenage, Thomas Waghorn leaves London in October 1829 with the aim of reaching Bombay in India in three months. The owner of a shipping line fears for his company's future should the two adventurers succeed, so he sends his agents to delay them along their way.