5 Movies Set Anand (1971) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1971 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Anand is the story of Anand Saigal (Rajesh Khanna), an unusual and interesting man, who lived what remained of his life fully, completely. Treating every living moment as magic, every minute as a miracle, every hour a gift. A man whose life inspires his friend Dr Bhaskar Banerjee (Amitabh Bachchan) to write an award winnng book.
A terminally ill cancer patient, Anand walks into Dr Bannerjee's life just when he is about to sink into cynicism. Anand's selfless, boisterous, humorous non-stop chatter changes everyone around him. His attempts to get the tongue tied Dr Bhaskar to admit his love for Renu, the schoolteacher. His refusal to stay in bed and be treated like a patient. His metaphorical search for Murarilal, his so called long lost friend, his total commitment to live for others and not wallow in self pity. These are very sensitively brought out by one of India's finest director.
Cast: Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Ramesh Deo, Sumita Sanyal, Asit Sen, Lalita Pawar, Durga Khote, Dara Singh, Johnny Walker, Seema Deo | Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee Music Director: Salil Choudhury | Mandi (1983) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1983 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description For years an aging Rukmini Bai (Shabana Azmi) has been the Madame of a brothel in Hyderabad, India. One day she gets the news that she now has a new landlord in Mr. Gupta (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), whose daughter is to marry the mayor's son Sushil, shortly. Lead by City Councillor, Shantidevi, the people in this town demand that this bordello be moved elsewhere, preferably on the outskirts of the town, and they do succeed, compelling Rukmini to move with her women to their new location, which happens to be near the Dargah of Baba Karak Shah. Ironically, this attracts a lot of people, and the patronage to Rukmini's bordello increases. Then complications set in when Sushil refuses to marry his father's choice, child-like Malti, and wants to marry Zeenat (Smita Patil) - a prostitute, not entirely by choice and seeking for a better existence, who resides with Rukmini.
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, Saeed Jaffery, Om Puri, Neena Gupta, Ratna Pathak, Pankaj Kapur, Soni Razdan, Ila Arun, Gita Siddharth, Sreela Majumdar, Khokha Mukherjee | Director: Shyam Benegal Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia | Angoor (1982) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1982 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Comedy Cast: Sanjeev Kumar, Deepti Naval, Deven Verma, Aruna Irani, Utpal Dutt, Moushmi Chatterjee, Padma Chavan, Shammi, Yunus Parvez, C S Dubey, T P Jain, Kamaldeep | Director: Gulzar Music Director: R D Burman | Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (1986) Also Known As: A Pending Decision, Hung Jury Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1986 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Cast: Pankaj Kapur, K K Raina, Annu Kapoor, Deepak Kejriwal, Amitabh Srivastava, S M Zaheer, Subhash Udghate, Hemant Mishra, M K Raina, Subbiraj, Shailendra Goel, Aziz Qureshi | Director: Basu Chatterjee | 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 | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD D 4843 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 5 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | |