| 3 Movies in 1 DVD
Bhumika: The Role (1977) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1977 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Coming from a poor and destitute family, Urvashi is encouraged by her mother, Shanta (Sualbha Deshpande) to be on more than friendly terms with a much older male, Keshav Dalvi (Amol Palekar). Keshav takes a liking to young Urvashi, and encourages her to explore her talents in films, which she does, and does gain popularity, starting as a singer, than accomplishing herself as an actress/singer. She decides to marry Keshav, only to be discouraged by her own mother, but she is strong-willed, and does marry him. She has a baby girl after the marriage, but feels stifled and oppressed with Keshav, and has affairs with her co-star Rajan (Anant Nag), a film producer, Sunil Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), but ends up dissatisfied. Then she meets wealthy Vinayak Kale (Amrish Puri), and decides to settle down with him, little knowing that he is already married to another woman, and also has a son. By the time she finds out it is too late, she has already been accepted in his household, and any woman, whether his own mother (Dina Pathak), his present handicapped wife, and even Urvashi have to follow the rules laid down - no women can leave the house under any circumstances, except after death.
Cast: Smita Patil, Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Sulabha Deshpande, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Dina Pathak, Mohan Agashe, Om Puri, Benjamin Gilani, B V Karanth | | Director: Shyam Benegal Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia
| | 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
| | 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
| | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD C 9451 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 1 Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
