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1) Piku =: Pīkū
Language
Hindi
Description
A quirky comedy about the relationship between an aging father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other's conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other's only emotional support.
Language
Hindi
Description
After four years of marriage, Tanu and Manu decide to part ways and return to India. Tanu transitions to her old self, visiting old boyfriends and taking bike rides with her new neighbor Chintu. Manu, now in Delhi, falls for a Delhi University student who looks strikingly similar to Tanu. To complicate things further, Tanu's ex-fiance Raja re-enters her life. This film follows Tanu and Manu in the next chapter of their lives.
4) Dharm
Language
Hindi
Description
The monotonous life of a Brahman priest is encroached upon by an abandoned infant. Left with no choice, the priest grudgingly adopts the child, and his life is transformed into a whirlwind of laughter and joy. After several years, a woman enters their happy life claiming to be the child's mother. The very core of Pandit Chaturvedi's belief in Hinduism is shattered when he learns that his adopted son was born of a Muslim woman, and he is torn between...
Language
Hindi
Description
This is the story about the youth of India today. A young British filmmaker comes upon the diaries of her grandfather, who served in the British police force in India during the freedom struggle. She plans to shoot a film based on the diaries and casts a group of friends to play the roles of the revolutionaries described in the diaries. The friends cannot identify with the characters and would rather enjoy today's life than get involved in a project...
8) Chamku
Language
Hindi
Description
Chandrama Singh, alias Chamku, is a government spy and assassin. He falls in love with Shubhi and tries to leave his former life behind, but a chance encounter entangles him in the world of crime once again.
Language
Hindi
Description
After the demise of her parents, a young girl is taken under the wing of her uncle. When she becomes of age to be married, her loving uncle arranges a marriage through a matchmaker and the story unfolds about the engagement and the fortunate falling in love of the young couple.
10) Don 2
Language
Hindi
Description
Don is back, with characteristic savior faire. This time he has a monumental heist plan where he wants to steal the currency plates of the Euro from a high security vault in Berlin and disappear into the horizon as a free bird. Does he succeed? Especially when there is hot cop Roma doggedly chasing him.
11) Peepli live
Language
Hindi
Description
In the week of local elections in the Indian village of Peepli, two poor farmers, Natha and Budhia, face losing their land over an unpaid government loan. Desperate, they seek help from an apathetic local politician who suggests they commit suicide to benefit from a government program that aids the families of indebted deceased farmers. When a journalist overhears Budhia urge Natha to 'do what needs to be done', a media frenzy ignites around whether...
12) Masaan
Language
Hindi
Description
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small town.
Language
Hindi
Description
Biniya, a 10-year-old girl from an idyllic mountain village in north India, discovers a blue umbrella. She has never seen anything more beautiful. Neither has Nandkishore Khatri, a miserly old man who runs a tea house. Nandkishore goes to remarkable lengths to swindle the blue umbrella from Biniya.
Language
Hindi
Description
"The powerful story of the 2012, brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year old medical student, who later died from her injuries. BAFTA winning filmmaker Leslee Udwin, herself a victim of rape, went to India inspired by the protests against sexual assault. With an all Indian crew, Udwin got exclusive, first time on camera interviews with the rapists and defense attorney. An impassioned plea for change, India's daughter pays tribute to a remarkable...
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