Mirch Masala (1985) Also Known As: A Touch of Spice, Spices Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1985 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description A small village on the sandy fringe of Saurashtra, where illiteracy is pervasive, employment is scarce, women are routinely oppressed, and landlords are all-powerful. The British still rule India. An officer of the alien government, a Subedar, assigned to collect taxes, arrives in the village. He is a combination of a braggart and a clown with a sadistic streak to him. He is accompanied by his soldiers and a horse, a proud symbol of his authority. The moment the Subedar sets his eyes on the dusky Sonbai, a spirited beauty known for her defiant ways, he forgets all about taxes and lusts for her openly. Knowing that it is normal for a Subedar to expect gifts from a village, he shamelessly demands Sonbai and the spineless villagers, knowing that Sonbai's husband is away, agree to oblige. What happens next?
Cast: Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Raj Babbar, Om Puri, Deepti Naval, Supriya Pathak, Suresh Oberoi, Dina Pathak, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Benjamin Gilani, Mohan Gokhale, Neena Kulkarni, Harish Patel, Ratna Pathak, Paresh Rawal | | Director: Ketan Mehta Music Director: Rajat Dholakia
| | Duvidha (1975) Also Known As: In Two Minds Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1975 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Description A girl Lachhi, is married to a merchant's son, Kishanlal. He brings her to his village but leaves her immediately to go away on business. Lachhi is left to her own devices. Meanwhile a ghost falls in love with her and assumes the form of her husband and begins to live with her. Soon she finds herself pregnant with a child.
The husband returns... a dilemma arises...
The film moves on two planes - inside-outside, dark-light, a structure that exists in the folk tales and myths the world over.
Cast: Raisa Padamsee, Hardan, Shambhudan, Ravi Menon | | Director: Mani Kaul Music Director: Hommu Khan, Ramzan Khan
| | Gangoobai (2013) Country: India Language: Hindi, Marathi Year: 2013 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, lives in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran where she loves to tend to her beloved flowers in an eco-sensitive zone where no vehicles are allowed, not even bicycles. Gangoobai's life altering moment arrives when she sees Hodiwala's teenage daughter wearing a magnificent designer Parsi sari of white Chinese motifs embroidered on a background of purple silk. She instantly falls in love with this exotic, expensive, custom-made creation - and longs to own one herself.
Driven by this unlikely obsession, Gangoobai manages to save the money over four years of hard work, and she finally finds herself in the big, polluted, overcrowded city of Mumbai - an urban nightmare she is utterly unprepared for. Yet, her essential goodness, and her unfailing generosity to life sets her life on a path that surpasses anything that she could ever have imagined...
Cast: Sarita Joshi, Purab Kohli, Mita Vasisht, Zutshi, Gopi Desai, Rushad Rana, Nidhi Sunil, Behram Rana, Ankita Srivastava, Aparna Khanekar | | Director: Priya Krishnaswamy Music Director: Ved Nair
| | | Format: DVD Label:NFDC Catalog No: NFDC DVD 092 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 3 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
