| 3 Movies in 1 DVD
Ankur (1974) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 1974 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Laxmi (Shabana Azmi) lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya(Sadhu Meher), who is a deaf-mute. Both husband and wife work for the wealthy landlord. The landlord's son, Surya (Anant Nag), has to cancel his studies and return home to look after the estate, as well as formalize his marriage to Saroj (Priya Tahil), the girl he was compelled to get married to when he was very young. Shortly thereafter Kishtaya is apprehended stealing toddy from the fields, is severely beaten, left senseless, and when he recovers he absconds, leaving Laxmi alone to fend for herself. Surya finds her attractive and starts an intimate relationship with her, much to the chagrin of the rest of the family. Things only get worse when Saroj moves in to live with Surya - compelling him to make a final decision about a visibly pregnant Laxmi.
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag, Dalip Tahil, Priya Tendulkar | | Director: Shyam Benegal Music Director: Vanraj Bhatia
| | 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
| | 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
| | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD C 5567 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 1 Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
