Deepa Mehta
Bezubaan|
1982
Bezubaan
1982 | 135 min
Bezubaan, as the name suggests, is the story of a woman (Reena Roy) who suffers silently; society and family pressures effectively stifling any protest she might have voiced. In the process, she gets blackmailed by an unscruplous photographer who has pictures of her and her lover (Raj Kiran) taken before her marriage. Reena's husband (Shashi Kapoor) is a trusting, humane person who loves his wife very much and can't understand why she needs as much money as she does. But the truth is eventually revealed and even the meek turn violent under pressure when emotions suppressed become uncontrollable. What will Reena do?
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Subtitles:English, Arabic1947 Earth|
1999
1947 Earth
1999 | 104 min
Lenny (Maia Sethna) is an eight-year-old Parsee girl who is growing up rich in pre-partition Lahore in 1947. Lenny travels daily to the nearby Queens Gardens with her beautiful Ayah (Nanny- Nandita Das), a young Hindu woman with the kind of curves and smile that ensures a constant supply of eager male suitors. It is an entirely pleasing world peopled by her beloved Ayah, Imam Din, the genial cook (Kulbhushan Kharbhanda), by Dil Navaz (Aamir Khan) the Ice Candy Man, a rogue who is Lenny's hero, Hasan the Masseur (Rahul Khanna) who invents oils made from pearl dust and fish eggs and also by her precocious cousin Adi. Outside this secure world, the searing process of splitting British India into independent India and Pakistan is about to begin and Ayaah will find herself caught in the tumultous love of two men and in the waves of nationali politics.
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Subtitles:EnglishShaandaar - Sanjeev Kumar|
1974
Shaandaar - Sanjeev Kumar
1974 | 145 min
Shanker comes from a poor family. He falls in love with a woman from a middle-class background named Rani. Shanker has another admirer in Anita Chaurasia, daughter of a multi-millionaire industrialist and politician, Rai Bahadur Arjun Chaurasia. Shanker comes to know the details of the wrong-doings of Arjun and sets out to expose him. Arjun comes to know about Shanker's plans and hires a notorious gangster named Dhaga, to dispose of Shanker. And Dhaga has never failed in any job.
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Subtitles:Arabic, EnglishSwarag Narak|
1978
Swarag Narak
1978 | 158 min
One couple, who are happily married, are Tripathi (Sanjeev Kumar) and his wife Mary; the second couple is Geeta (Shabana Azmi) and Vinod (Vinod Mehra), who live in Vinod's mom's house. Theirs is an unhappy marriage with Vinod spending a lot of time with Leena (Prema Narayan), and frequenting late and all-night parties. His wife patiently awaits his return every night; And the third couple is that of Shobha (Moushumi Chatterjee) and Vicky Kapoor (Jeetendra), their's is a seemingly "happy" marriage, with Shobha being a very jealous and possessive woman. One day when she sees her husband and Radha (Tanuja) together, she thinks they are having an affair, and starts to ask questions. Suddenly their lives are turned upside down when Vinod decides to leave the house; Shobha leaves her husband, and Tripathi tries to make amends but it looks like these two couples are unable to compromise and adjust to married life.
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