Frozen (2009) Country: India Language: Hindi, Ladakhi Year: 2009 Color/BW: BW Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description This is a touching and somber journey of Lasya, who lives with her father Karma and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere.
One day the army moves in, settles a hundred yards across their doorstep. The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surroundings changes into a harsh ceaseless irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dream like existence is interrupted by inevitable odds, one after the other.
Cast: Danny Denzongpa, Gauri Kulkarni, Skalzang Angchuk Gultuk, Zutshi, Yashpal Sharma, Aamir Bashir, Denzil Smith, Sonam Stobgias Gorky | | Director: Shivajee Chandrabhushan Music Director: John P Varkey
| | John & Jane (2005) Also Known As: John And Jane Country: India Language: English Year: 2005 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Documentary
Description An uncanny blend of observational documentary and tropical science fiction, JOHN & JANE follows the stories of six call agents that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center. After a heady mix of American culture training and 14 hour night shifts, the job soon starts to take its toll. Counter pointing the fluorescent interiors of late night offices and hyper-malls with the uneasy currents swirling around the characters, JOHN & JANE discovers a young generation of urban Indians that are beginning to live between the real and the virtual. However, this futuristic world of American aliases and simulated reality is not science fiction, these are the times in which we live. JOHN & JANE raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity in a 21st century globalized world.
Cast: Glen Castinho, Sydney Fernandes, Oaref Irani, Vandana Malwe, Nikesh Soares, Namrata Pravin Parekh | | Director: Ashim Ahluwalia
| | Ocean Of An Old Man (2008) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2008 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Tsunami changed lives of many but in the most devastating way possible. Here an archetypal school teacher loses his students to the ocean. He embarks on a journey to find them and it lands him in a forbidden island. Once a school teacher - now an old man, living in an old dingy Japanese bunker, reminiscing the bygone days and unfailingly conducting classes under a solitary tree talking to the moon and the ocean. With an outstanding performance by Tom Alter, the film is one under-rated gem.
Cast: Tom Alter | | Director: Rajesh Shera
| | | Format: DVD Label: Enlighten Catalog No: EFC D 150 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 3 Subtitles: English | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
