5 Movies Set Page 3 (2005) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2005 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Madhavi Sharma (Konkona Sen Sharma) arrives in Mumbai and soon lands a journalist job. Her boss Deepak Suri (Boman Irani) gives her the task of reporting celebrity news. She begins her journey in the glitzy and glamorous world of celebrity lifestyle.
Her roommate Pearl Sequiera (Sandhya Mridul) is an air hostess and wants to marry for money. Gayatri Sachdeva (Tara Sharma) later joins them. She is an aspiring actress and gets involved with a leading actor Rohit Kumar (Bikram Saluja). When she tells him she is pregnant he suggests she have an abortion; depressed and shattered, she unsuccessfully tries to kill herself and in the process loses her unborn child. Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to the United States. Madhavi plans to expose Rohit Kumar (by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri), but her editor kills the article and she is forced to apologise to Rohit Kumar.
Madhavi finds out that her boyfriend is gay when she surprises him in bed with her best friend Abhijeet (Rehaan Engineer).
As soon as Madhavi begins to get disillusioned with her job of covering lives of these celebs she declares that "the party is over" for her. She soon realises that the glamorous world of celebrity life is not as glamorous as it seems. As well her roommate Gayatri who supposedly returned to Delhi sleeps with a director and gets put in a movie.
Cast: Konkona Sen, Atul Kulkarni, Sandhya Mridul, Tara Sharma, Boman Irani, Bikram Saluja, Upendra Limaye, Jai Kalra, Soni Razdan, Anju Mahendru, Suchitra Pillai, Kunika, Navni Parihar, Madan Jain, Suhasini Mulay, Maya Alagh, Mukesh Tyagi, Nassar Abdulla, Bobby Darling, Kurush Deboo, G K Desai, Rehaan Engineer, Manoj Joshi, Pradeep Velankar | Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Music Director: Shamir Tandon | Gol Maal (1979) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1979 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Comedy Cast: Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Verma, Dina Pathak, Shubha Khote, David, Yunus Parvez, Anjaan Srivastav, Kesto Mukherjee | Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee Music Director: R D Burman | Deewaar (1975) Also Known As: Deewar Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1975 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Action, Drama Description A story of conflict, and emotion. A mother (Nirupa Roy), and her two son Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi (Shashi Kapoor) make it to Mumbai from a small town. While Vijay works alongside his mother and shares the burden, Ravi goes to school and on to college. Vijay is all anger and vengeance, while Ravi treads the path of dharma and the rule of law. This is the wall that separates them. This is not a wall built on the shaky foundations of anger, jealousy of envy. It is a wall built on the bedrock of principles of honesty, labour, dignity, and the rule of law. When of her sons breaks the code, the anguished mother, who loves both her sons, has to end does make the choice.
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Neetu Singh, Nirupa Roy, Manmohan Krishna, Madan Puri, Iftekhar, Satyendra Kapoor, Sudhir, Yunus Parvez, Alankar Joshi, Raju Shrestha, Vikas Anand, A K Hangal, Mohan Sherry | Director: Yash Chopra Music Director: R D Burman | Arth (1982) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1982 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Romance Description Arth is about Pooja (Shabana Azmi), an orphan girl. Her husband Inder (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) hates her and he falls in love with another woman, Kavita (Smita Patil). He advices Kavita to leave her husband, but his husband refuses. She is helped by Raj (Raj Kiran) to surpass the difficulties of a life as a single person, to find a job and to rely morally on herself. Inder requests Pooja to sign the divorce papers. Pooja (Rohini Hattangadi) personally assures Kavita that she is not interested anymore in Inder. What happens next? Does Inder changes his mind and lives with Pooja? forms the rest of the story.
Cast: Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran, Rohini Hattangadi, Gulshan Grover, Siddharth Kak, Mazhar Khan, Dina Pathak, Shammi, Om Shivpuri, Gita Siddharth, Dalip Tahil, Chand Usmani, Kiran Vairale | Director: Mahesh Bhatt Music Director: Jagjit Singh, Chitra Singh | 1947 Earth (1998) Country: India Language: Hindi, English Year: 1998 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Romance Description The year 1947, the city Lahore, in what was then India and what is now Pakistan. Lenny (Maia Sethna), an eight year old Parsi girl is one of the daily visitors to the Queen's Gardens with her comely and shapely nanny Shanta (Nandita Das), with the kind of curves and smiles that draw numerous male admirers. Lenny basks in the warmth of her favorite people. A warm, comfortable world. A world about to be shattered by vicious arguments, rumors and hatred. Angry Hindus storm through Lahore one day, angry Muslims the next. Then the killings begin. From the rooftop of her house Lenny sees Hindus and Sikhs killing Muslims; Muslims burning Hindus and Sikhs alive. Trains arrive with only corpses as passengers. Through this all, she is also privy to the blossoming love affair between the beautiful Shanta and Hasan (Rahul Khanna) the masseur whose is the only voice of sanity in the madness around. And then there is the once charming Ice Candy Man, Dil Nawaz (Aamir Khan) who has a thing for Shanta and who now roams the streets of Lahore with vengeance on his mind. The demonic dance of greed and desire wearing the garb of religion and nationalism, trampling on innocence, the price of making one country into two nations.
Cast: Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Kitu Gidwani, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Gulshan Grover, Raghuvir Yadav, Maia Sethna, Arif Zakaria, Mohini Mathur, Lauren Walker, Pavan Malhotra, Rajendra Kumar, Javed Jaffrey | Director: Deepa Mehta Music Director: A R Rahman | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD D 4844 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 5 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | |