4 Movies Set Umrao Jaan (1981) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1981 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Romance Cast: Rekha, Farooq Shaikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Shaukat Azmi, Prema Narayan, Gajanan Jagirdar, Dina Pathak, Rita Rani Kaul, Umme Farwa, Bharat Bhushan, Leela Mishra, Mukri, Yunus Parvez, Satish Shah | Director: Muzaffar Ali Music Director: Khayyam | Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) Also Known As: Kamasutra Country: India Language: English Year: 1996 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Mature Description Set in 16th century India, Kama Sutra brings the legends to life as it follows the fortunes of Maya and Tara. Tara is a princess, Maya her servant. Raised together as childhood friends and rivals, each in different ways uses the teachings of the Kama Sutra, the 4th century Indian treatise on love and sexuality, as a source of inspiration and enlightenment in a high-stakes romantic and lustful game they play to get what they desire. And when Maya finally achieves the equality with Tara which she has always desired, the price that must be paid is mythic in its finality.
Cast: Rekha, Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram, Indira Varma, Pearl Padamsee, Urvashi Nair, Arundhati Rao, Avijit Dutt | Director: Mira Nair Music Director: Mychael Danna | 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 | | Format: DVD Label:Eagle Catalog No: EDVD R 3450 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 4 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | |