National Film Development Corporation of India
1) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.
2) The lunchbox
Language
Hindi
Appears on list
Description
Trying to add some spice to her marriage, Ila prepares a special lunchbox for her husband at work. Unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another worker, Saajan. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a note in the next day's lunchbox. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the communication soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Ila and Saajan become lost in a virtual relationship...
3) Gandhi
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
1983. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all South African Indians. The government finally relents and recognizing rights for Indians. Gandhi goes back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent campaign of unprecedented...
4) Late Ray
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Bengali
Description
"The films directed by the great Satyajit Ray in the last ten years of his life have a unique dignity and drama. Three of them are collected here: the fervent Rabindranath Tagore adaptation The Home and the World; the vital An Enemy of the People, based on the Henrik Ibsen play; and the filmmaker's final work, the poignant and philosophical family story The Stranger. They are complex, political, and humane depictions of worlds both corrupt and indescribably...
5) The stranger
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Bengali
Description
An enigmatic but friendly long-lost family member visits after many years and shakes up a middle-class household, in Ray's moving swan song.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Bengali
Description
An enemy of my people. In Satyajit Ray's absorbing contemporary adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen, a good-hearted doctor discovers that the serious illness befalling the citizens of his small Bengali town may be due to a contamination of the holy water at the local temple.
8) Agantuk
Series
Publisher
Eagle Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Bengali
Description
A wise and witty world traveler returns to Calcutta after 35 years to visit his niece, who had only briefly known him as a child. She accepts the stranger's story, but her suspicious husband believes the long-lost uncle is an imposter who has come to claim an inheritance.
10) Jāne bhī do yāro
Publisher
SKY Entertainment
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
Hindi
Description
Two bumbling photographers are employed by the editor of a scandal sheet. They have to spy on millionaire property developer and police commissioner. The photographers uncover dirty business between the developer and his equally unsavoury rival Ahuja.
Publisher
IndiePix
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Ruth is searching for her father, a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit at a massage parlor. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien, yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth's quest. She struggles to find her independence and space, even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly. It's a city that feeds on her misery, a love that eludes her, and...
12) Ganaśatru
Series
Publisher
Eagle Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Bengali
Description
A doctor living Chandipur, Bengal suspects that the source of an epidemic lies in the holy waters of a temple. Unfortunately, no one believes him, including his brother who works for the city water department, the temple's builder, and a newspaper editor.