5 Movies Set 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1981 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description After the marriage of her niece, Rosemary (Soni Razdan), Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham (Soni Razdan) lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, with only a tom cat for company. She is thrilled when a former student, Nandita Roy (Debashree Roy), looks her up and also brings her boyfriend, Samaresh Moitra (Dhritiman Chatterjee), to her flat. Samaresh is an author and likes the solitude of Violet's flat, and would like to write his new novel there, to which Violet readily agrees to. He likes her antique record-player and she gives it to him as a gift. She hopes she has become part of a family again. It is Christmas time and Violet would like to bake a cake and visit Nandita and Samaresh to surprise them. But is a surprise that awaits her when she reaches her destination.
Cast: Jennifer Kapoor, Debashree Roy, Soni Razdan, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Geoffrey Kendal, Sanjana Kapoor, Karan Kapoor, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Munmun Kapoor, Dina Ardeshir, Fae Soares, Renu Roy, Sylvia Philips | Director: Aparna Sen Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia | Junoon (1978) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1978 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description 1857, India is in turmoil. Units of East India Company are in revolt, leading to a popular uprising against British Rule. One scorching Sunday morning in May, a church is attacked and some Englishmen are massacred. Only Mariam Labadoor, the widow of one of the Englishmen, her daughter Ruth, and her mother Mrs James are the survivors. Javed Khan, a brother in law of Sarfaraz Khan, the sepoy who led the massacre, sees Ruth and is obsessed with her and gives her shelter in his home. He will not be at peace until he possesses her. Instead of joining the fight for freedom, Javed Khan stays home, bent upon marrying Ruth, by force...
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Jennifer Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Nafisa Ali, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Tom Alter, Sushma Seth, Deepti Naval, Benjamin Gilani, Jalal Agha, Sanjana Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, Pearl Padamsee, Geoffrey Kendal | Director: Shyam Benegal Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia Story: Ruskin Bond | Utsav (1985) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1985 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Romance Description The story of a passionate affair between Vasantasena (Rekha), the beautiful courtesan and Charudatt (Shekhar Suman) that polarizes two contemporary lifestyles - the ornate and richly embroidered life of a courtesan and the simple and ascetic life of a Brahmin. With devious twists, turns and passions ruling the roost, the outcome is sheer delight!
Cast: Rekha, Shekhar Suman, Shashi Kapoor, Amjad Khan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shankar Nag, Neena Gupta, Kunal Kapoor, Anuradha Patel, Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor, Harish Patel, Gopi Desai, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Rajesh Puri, Nandita Aras, Sanjana Kapoor, Yunus Parvez, Satish Kaushik | Director: Girish Karnad Music Director: Laxmikant-Pyarelal | Kalyug (1981) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1981 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a life-long bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the older son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn. Dhanraj's men accidentally kill the young son of Balraj and to take revenge Bharatraj murders Karan. Quite a few skeletons from the family cupboard are brought out in the open that only adds to the tensions and hatred, finally culminating in the destruction of the two families making us ponder on the brittleness of our moral fabric.
Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Supriya Pathak, Raj Babbar, Anant Nag, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, A K Hangal, Sushma Seth, Victor Banerjee, Vijaya Mehta, Om Puri, Reema Lagoo, Salim Ghouse, Vinay Apte, Madan Jain, Khokha Mukherjee, Akhtar Mirza, Urmila Matondkar, Akash Khurana, Ranjit Kapoor, Vinod Doshi | Director: Shyam Benegal Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia | Vijeta (1982) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1982 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Cast: Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Kunal Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Dina Pathak, K K Raina, Raja Bundela, Shafi Inamdar, Arvind Deshpande, Sulabha Deshpande, Achyut Potdar, Paresh Nanda, Khokha Mukherjee | Director: Govind Nihalani Music Director: Ajit Varman | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD S 3591 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 5 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | |