| 3 Movies Set
Black Friday (2004) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2004 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Black Friday is the story of the 1993 bomb blasts that took place in Mumbai. Based on a book by S. Hussain Zaidi, this docu-drama tries to recreate those events and the intense feelings that followed them. The film has Kay Kay Menon (as the Commissioner of Police), Aditya Shrivastava (as Badshah Khan), and Pawan Malhotra (as Tiger Memon), among the star cast.
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Shrivastava, Loveleen Mishra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Imtiaz Ali, Zakir Hussain, Pankaj Jha, Pratima Kazmi, Kishore Kadam, Gajraj Rao, Raja Choudhary, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Aliya Curmally, Asif Basra, Ragesh Asthana, Suresh Dubey, Arindam Mitra, Vijay Maurya | | Director: Anurag Kashyap Music Director: Indian Ocean
| | Water (2005) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2005 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Romance
Description A thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is unceremoniously left at a bare and impoverished widows' ashram, beside the Ganges during monsoon season. The ashram's leader pimps out Kalyani, a young and beautiful widow, for household funds. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her. Can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? The ashram's moral center is Shakuntala, deeply religious but conflicted about her fate. Can she protect Kalyani or Chuyia? Amid all this water, is rebirth possible or does tradition drown all?
Cast: John Abraham, Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, Manorama, Waheeda Rehman, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raghuvir Yadav, Vinay Pathak, Sarala, Buddhi Wickrama, Ronica Sajnani, Rishma Malik, Meera Biswas, Dolly Ahluwalia | | Director: Deepa Mehta Music Director: A R Rahman, Mychael Danna
| | Parzania (2005) Tagline: Heaven And Hell On Earth Country: India Language: English, Hindi Year: 2005 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Allan (Corin Nemec), an American, arrives in Ahmedabad searching for answers, to find internal peace and to understand the world and his troubled life. He choses India as his school and Gandhi as his subject of his thesis. It is here that he meets the Pithawala family - Cyrus (Naseeruddin Shah), his wife Shernaz (Sarika), son Parzan (Parzan Dastur) and daughter Dilshad (Pearl Barsiwala). The Pithawalas being Parsis follow Zoroastrianism. Through them and the teachings of an Gandhian, Allan starts to find peace of mind.After the fall of Babri Mosque by some extremist Hindus, and then in response the Godhra incident happens wherein 58 Hindu religious activists are burnt by supposedly a Muslim mob. As a chain reaction to these incidents, communal riots ensue shortly thereafter wherein Muslims were killed and raped by Hindu mobs, followed by Muslim attack on Hindus. Amidst these riots, 10 year-old Parzan disappears. Cyrus, Shernaz and Dilshad manage to escape the carnage. In the aftermath of the riots, Cyrus searches for his missing child while fighting for his own sanity. While assisting the Pithawalas in their search, Allan battles to uncover the reason behind the riots in an effort to try and make some sense of the incident. People start to question government's official explanation of the incident which downplays any conspiracy. As a result, a Human Rights Commission is formed. Through the commission, several witnesses and victims testify against the indifference of the police to protect them from the rioters. The film ends with a dedication to the victims of communal violence.
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Corin Nemec, Sarika, Zutshi, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Anupam Shyam, Sheeba Chaddha, Parzan Dastur, Asif Basra, Pear Barsiwala | | Director: Rahul Dholakia Music Director: Ustad Zakir Hussain
| | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD S 3319 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 3 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
