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  • Mira Nair – Monsoon Wedding (2001) (HD)

    Mira Nair2001-2010DramaIndia

    Cultures and families clash in Mira Nair’s exuberant Monsoon Wedding, a mix of comedy and chaotic melodrama concerning the preparations for the arranged marriage of a modern upper-middle-class Indian family’s only daughter, Aditi. Of course there are hitches—Aditi has been having an affair with a married TV host; she’s never met her husband to be, who lives in Houston; the wedding has worsened her father’s hidden financial troubles; even the wedding planner has become a nervous wreck—as well as buried family secrets. But Nair’s celebration is ultimately joyful and cathartic: a love song to her home city of Delhi and her own Punjabi family.Read More »

  • Anup Singh – The Song of Scorpions (2017) (HD)

    2021-2030ArthouseDramaIndiaWaheeda Rehman

    While Nooran, learns the ancient art of healing with music from her mother, Aadam a camel trader listens to her sing and falls in love with her and they marry. But soon, Nooran discovers treachery and must avenge herself and rediscover her lost song.Read More »

  • Sooraj R. Barjatya – Maine Pyar Kiya (1989)

    1981-1990DramaIndiaMusicalSooraj R. Barjatya

    After Suman’s father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman’s father that he is not the same as his own dad.Read More »

  • Yash Chopra – Deewaar AKA Wall (1975)

    1971-1980ClassicsDramaIndiaYash Chopra

    Synopsis:
    Vijay struggles as a dockworker and eventually becomes a leading figure of the underworld, while his younger brother Ravi is an educated, upright policeman. This divide causes problems in their relationship.Read More »

  • Shyam Ramsay & Tulsi Ramsay – Purana Mandir AKA The Old Temple (1984)

    Shyam Ramsay1981-1990CultHorrorIndiaTulsi Ramsay

    Purana Mandir tells of the ancient curse visited on an Indian king 200 years ago – all female members of his family will turn into hideous monsters and die in childbirth. The daughter of one of his descendants tries to put an end to the curse and travels to the ancient temple where it all began 200 years ago. What awaits her and her friends there is terror beyond their wildest nightmares.Read More »

  • Shyam Ramsay & Tulsi Ramsay – Veerana AKA Vengeance of the Vampire (1988)

    Shyam Ramsay1981-1990CultHorrorIndiaTulsi Ramsay

    After the sudden death of her dad, Sameer, and mom, Preeti, Sahila goes to live with her grandmother and cousin in Bombay. Years later, now fully matured, she returns home to Chandanagar to live with her uncle, Mahendra Pratap, and cousin, Jasmin. This is where she will be exposed to a resurrected evil witch, Nikita, who has manifested herself in the body of Jasmin. Aided by a priest named Baba, she is determined to kill each and everyone of the remainder of the Pratap family members. And there is no known power on Earth that can stop Nikita.Read More »

  • S. Shankar – Mudhalvan (1999)

    S. Shankar1991-2000ActionDramaIndia

    A man accepts a challenge to act as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for one day only, and makes such a success of it that soon he is embroiled in political intrigue.Read More »

  • Rituparno Ghosh – Bariwali AKA The Lady of the House (1999)

    1991-2000DramaIndiaRituparno Ghosh

    A lonely middle-aged woman is forced by circumstance to let out her house to a film crew. She is attracted to the charming director and he exploits this fact to suit his purposes. Director Rituparno Ghosh analyzes the problems of womanhood in its several perspective. This film is a good when a loneliness of a being is concerned. And the effect of sudden but implicit love at middle age of life when female in Indian Subcontinent are supposed and expected to serve God, to put a step towards divinity instead of mundane life.Read More »

  • Ahsan Muzid – Sonam (2007)

    Ahsan Muzid2001-2010AsianDramaIndia

    This film deals with polyandry in a small society called Brokpas, a society of “Yak Shephards” who live in the mountain slopes of the Himalayan range. It is a custom in the region where a wife can have more than one husband. The director deals directly with the unique labyrinthine situation when the husband offers to accept the lover of his wife as a co-husband. The presence of the new husband catapulted the first husband out and he becomes very lonely. And the film slowly reveals the firm bonding of the natural pair-bond that exist between the men and women. Sonam, the wife of the duo slowly and silently starts suffering due to the body and mind complex. Being a believer of Buddhism she indulges herself a total and ultimate atonement in her own death.Read More »

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