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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.
Dec 1982
A story of a person full of remorse, who does not care about nature. Soon, all elements such as tree, air, water and thunder confront him and make him realize that his actions don't only affect the nature, but also people around him.
Jan 2023
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.
Sep 2013
A young man is happy to hear the news that the local candidate is offering money to elect. This money will help him get married but he sacrifices the money for an ailing beggar.
Feb 1994
A recently widowed forest ranger in India strikes up an unlikely relationship with a woman he finds lost and alone in the woods.
Sep 2009
A village woman devotedly loves an unfaithful man, struggling to keep him while he constantly strays.
Apr 1995
Three college boys think that everything American is fabulous; everything Indian is backward. Determined to get to America, they cook up one hair-brained scheme after another to get the all-important 'letter of sponsorship' from America.
Aug 1999
Kedar Babu is a freedom fighter since the days of Mahatma Gandhi's call for a Civil Disobedience Movement. Kedar Babu lost his wife at an early stage of his marriage. Since then, he has brought up his only son Sangram with all paternal affection. In town, Sangram stays in the house of a landlord, Bahadur Suryakant Singh, where there is a gradual moral decline. This puts him in a state of dilemma and delusion. In the last encounter with his father. Sangram experiences a new perception of life, illuminated with anxiety.
May 1997
A family in rural Odisha struggles to maintain their traditional unity against the pressures of changing times. As individual career aspirations and marriages pull the siblings in different directions, the family's shared bond begins to fracture.
May 1984
It is a coming-of-age story of a Bihari boy who is embraced by residents of a Marathi Chawl due to his grit, imagination and especially his footballing skills.
Jun 2023
In a parched, post-apocalyptic world, a veteran scientist grapples with hope and despair amidst water scarcity.
The violence and upheaval of Calcutta in the 1970s is focalized through a young man coming to the city to study.
Jan 2009
Located in a seaside village in Maharashtra during the 60s, the film unfolds over two decades. It is a tragic tale of how the best of friendships can rupture over a trivial quarrel. Once a rupture takes place, there are always people who know how to turn a quarrel to their own advantage, even if the main adversaries are completely destroyed in the process.
Jan 1996
It is the directorial debut film of Farook Abdulrahiman, startting Manoj K. Jayan, Tirtha Murbadkar, Vaiga, Kalamandalam Sivan Namboodiri, Babu Namboothiri, Manju Pillai, and Mani Pattambi in lead roles. It is about Kathakali actor, Kunhiraman and his relationship with his Guru, Asan. Gradually over the years, as the actor gets popular he becomes arrogant and takes to confronting with his Guru.
Sep 2015
A frustrated housewife whose marriage to an average man does not meet her expectations enters into an affair with a younger man. Of course, there are no easy escapes from reality.
Jul 1993
When a revengeful Krishna destroys his brother's motorbike, his mother asks him to return home only when he earns INR 500 to repair it. In a turn of events, he finds himself in a Bombay slum.
Aug 1988
An estranged son visits his ailing father and tries to figure out the reason behind the latter's silent remorse. When he learns about his father's past, he makes a decision that may help his father.
Feb 1990
Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
Jan 1990
Ahmedabad, 1960. Kirti, a young businessman, crusades to preserve handlooms. His wife, Sonal, dying slowly of a hereditary disease, argues they should enter the powerloom industry to secure the family's – and her own – future. They must choose between moving forward or giving in to nostalgia when they encounter a tapestry that illustrates their entire family history.
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There is something comical and pathetic about Percy, an awkward young man of 28, living alone with his aged mother in an old house tucked away in the Parsi colony in Bombay -- a very middle-class setting. Though Banubai, Percy's mother, utterly dominates Percy's life, she does so with love and kindness. Percy holds a clerical position in a small Unani pharmacy, famous for its sexual restoratives. It is only at his place of work, where he wields some power, that Percy displays a measure of authority and self-assurance. One day, Percy discovers a fraud in the office accounts, as a consequence of which one of the junior employees is sacked. This event has far-reaching consequences in the lives of Percy and Banubai. Percy's peace is soon to be shattered.
Jan 1989