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1) The big city
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Bengali
Formats
Description
Set in mid-1950s Calcutta and directed by Satyajit Ray, this story follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working-class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a hopeful morality tale and a commentary on the identity of the contemporary...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Hindi
Formats
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) Dor
Publisher
Eros International Ltd
Pub. Date
[c2006?]
Language
Hindi
Description
Tells the moving story of love, loss, friendship, hope and redemption. It is a tale of two women from two different worlds. The emphasis is on spirit and emotions.
5) Maya
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Hindi
Description
For Maya and her cousin Sanjay, life is simple in rural India. However, their fraternal love is shattered when Maya's journey to becoming a woman results in her being the victim of an ancient and brutal ritual, tragically ending her childhood innocence and scarring her for life.
6) Mother India
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
Hindi
Description
Depicts, through one woman's life from marriage to old age, the joys and tragedies of village life in rural India.
7) Parineeta
Publisher
UTV Communications
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Hindi
Description
"The lifelong romance between Lolita (Balan) and Shekar (Khan) is upset by the arrival of another man."--Imdb.com.
10) Mahanagar
Series
Publisher
Bollywood Films Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
Bengali
Description
When financial liabilities force a traditionally-minded, homebound Indian matriarch to seek work downtown as a saleswoman, she comes to appreciate the opportunity to earn her own money and develop an identity of her own.
12) Charulata
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the...
13) Devi
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Bengali
Description
Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India₂s feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore)...
Publisher
YRF Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
Hindi
Description
After nearly a decade away from home, Dia returns to see her former dance teacher before he dies. What she finds is disturbing. The school he nurtured and cherished is in decay and under threat of demolition. In order to save the theater and school from destruction, Dia agrees to create a show using only members of the town. Can she succeed?
Series
Criterion collection volume 1102
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Bengali
Description
Master filmmaker Satyajit Ray explores the conflict between fanaticism and free will in Devi (The Goddess), issuing a subversively modern challenge to religious orthodoxy and patriarchal power structures. In the waning days of mid-nineteenth-century India's feudal system, after his son leaves for Kolkata to complete his studies, a wealthy rural landowner is seized by the notion that his beloved daughter-in-law (a hauntingly sad-eyed Sharmila Tagore)...
17) Charulata
Series
Criterion collection volume 669
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Bengali
Description
Set in late 19th-century, pre-independence India, this film is about a woman's artistic and romantic yearning. It is about the lonely wife of a workaholic newspaper editor, Charulata, whose beautiful face masks a burning creativity. When her husband's poet cousin comes to stay with them, Charulata finds herself both inspired by him creatively and dangerously drawn to him physically. A delicate tale of a marriage in jeopardy and a woman taking the...
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