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1) The pool
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Hindi
Description
The story of Venkatesh, a hotel worker in India, who sees from his perch in a mango tree a luxuriant garden and shimmering pool hidden behind a wall. In making whatever efforts he can to better himself, Venkatesh offers his services to the wealthy owner of the home. Not content to simply dream about a different life, Venkatesh is inquisitive about the home's inhabitants — indeed, about the world around him — and his curiosity changes the shape...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Hindi
Description
In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety). One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from...
3) Siddharth
Language
Hindi
Description
A spellbinding and gorgeously wrought tale of one father's journey across India in search of his son. Mehendra is a chain-wallah, eking out a living fixing zippers on the bustling streets of New Delhi. To ease his financial woes, he sends twelve-year-old Siddharth to work in a distant factory. When the boy doesn't come home for the Diwali holiday, Mehendra and his wife Suman slowly begin to suspect that he was kidnapped by child traffickers. With...
4) Water
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Hindi
Description
Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
Publisher
Premium Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Hindi
Description
In a city that houses millions, Smita finds herself fighting beasts of a different kind as she discovers a strange pre-requisite to renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant - except for one glaring flaw. She is a middle-class Indian woman without a husband.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Hindi
Description
Faced with his father's untimely and bizarre demand to die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey. Winner of the Best Film Award at the **New York Indian Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Venice International Film Festival.** *"...this highly impressive debut considers mortality with a wry compassion that's rare for such a young director." - David Parkinson, **Empire...
8) Bobby
Publisher
ECHELONSTUDIOS
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
Hindi
Description
Mr. Nath lives a very wealthy lifestyle in India along with his wife, Sushma, and a 6 year old son, Raj.
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Hindi
Description
An ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives – and spectacular deaths – of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by the real-life exploits of local gangs and beginning with the bandit-like career of Shahid Khan in the 1940s, the film follows the ruthless rise of his son Sardar and his offspring, the surreally-named Danish,...
10) Om shanti om
Publisher
Eros Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Hindi
Description
A romantic saga of a boy next door, Om Prakesh Makhija, who works as a junior artiste in bollywood in the 70's. He is madly [in] love with the superstar of that time, Shantipriya. His dreams and aspirations to become a superstar and be with his lady love are thwarted as he witnesses the brutal murder of his beloved Shantipriya by a mercenary producer Mukesh Mehra. Om Prakash dies trying to save his Shanti. But destiny has something else in store when...
11) Chak de! India
Publisher
Yash Raj Films
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Hindi
Description
Kabir Khan knows what it's like to come back from the dead. The ex-Indian captain has now come back in the avatar of the coach of the Indian Women's National Hockey team. A team that exists more on paper and less in reality. The girls have never known the thrilling energy of being Team India. But Kabir, once a captain, now forgotten, does. Despite his past, he believes that if only the girls played as one, anything would be possible.
12) Dil dhadakne do
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Hindi
Description
Two adult children take a cruise vacation with their parents to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary.
13) Namastey London
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Hindi
Description
"What happens when you transplant an English rose to a countryside in Punjab and expect her to thrive in an alien environment? The rose will either die or rebel. That's exactly what Jazz, rather Jasmeet, does when her father brings her to India and marries her to a rough and though farmer who can barely speak English. But Jazz is determined to marry Charlie Brown, her British boyfriend. Caught in this emotional tug of war between father and daughter,...
14) Mom
Publisher
Reliance Big Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Hindi
Description
Devki is a biology teacher in Delhi and her family life is shattered when her daughter, Arya is physically assaulted by Jagan and gang.
15) Daṅgala
Publisher
Reliance Big Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Hindi
Description
The film traces the inspirational journey of Mahavir Singh Phogat, an amateur wrestler, who trains his daughters, Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari to become world class wrestlers.
16) Black
Publisher
Yash Raj Films Films Pvt. Ltd
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Hindi
Description
The film deals with the journey of two headstrong people, Michelle Mcnally, who cannot see, hear, nor speak and Debraj who teaches her to live and seek knowledge.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Hindi
Description
"[...] Pavan Pool [is] the enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. It presents a portrait of a unique location both exotic and tawdry : crammed tenements housing thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures--and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing and, by inference,...
Publisher
Shemaroo Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Hindi
Description
"Set in the wild wild east, the story of Phamous invites you to an odyssey that hits your heart and mind at the same time. Find love, lust, hunger for power and wisdom amidst guns and goons. In pursuit of absolute power, this story shows the rise of local ruffian Kadak Singh (Kay Kay Menon) and politician Ram Vijay Tripathi (Pankaj Tripathi) against the patriarch Shambhu (Jackie Shroff); all tied up in a saga by an innocent guy Radhe (Jimmy Sheirgill)....
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