I Am Kalam (2011) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2011 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description 'I am Kalam' is an inspiring tale of a quick-witted boy's journey to make his impossible vision a reality!!!!
Chotu is a young boy working at a dhaba (Indian roadside eatery), dreams of becoming educated one day and pursue his dream. Once he saw the then president of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam addressing on television. He learned that Kalam was a poor boy like him selling newspapers.
Chotu has been sent away by his mother to work and he has no time to go to school. Inspired by a message from President Kalam that anyone can change his or her destiny by education, Chotu starts studying on his own whenever possible. Through a chance encounter, he befriends the local prince and the two secretly spend time together, planning their perfect futures. Both learn about life through the other's very different experiences.
I Am Kalam, an endeavor in championing the cause of empowering underprivileged children through education. Moreover, the heart warming tale celebrates the survival of the human spirit against overwhelming odds.
Cast: Gulshan Grover, Harsh Mayar, Husaan Saad, Beatrice Ordeix, Pitobash Tripathy, Namrata Dixit | | Director: Nila Madhab Panda Music Director: Abhishek Ray, Susmit Bose
| | Iqbal (2005) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2005 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description 'Iqbal' the film, is a passionate journey that fallows a deaf and mute village boy's dream to enter the prestigious Indian Cricket Team. Iqbal (Shreyas Talpade) has a natural gift, a talent for bowling in great speed, which he hones in his father's farmland by practicing voraciously. In his craving for learning the art of bowling, he is helped initially by the local team's coach (Girish Karnad). Later he gradually discovers and revels in the magic of training by a drunkard in the village (Naseeruddin Shah) who actually is a veteran cricketer.
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Naseeruddin Shah, Prateeksha Lonkar, Girish Karnad, Shweta Prasad, Yatin Karyekar, Dilip Salgaonkar, Jyoti Joshi, Vikram Inamdar | | Director: Nagesh Kukunoor Music Director: Sukhwinder Singh
| | Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid (2012) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2012 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Mystery
Description Two city-bred kids Shreya and Sam travel to their dusty Haryana village for vacation with their parents. What happens there is an adventure, which comes packed with significant life lessons. It's not the idyllic village of their dreams but a problem-ridden place with dried up ponds, unfriendly villagers, unspoken secrets, out-of-bounds spaces, a child-eating daayan (witch) and no girls, a reason why wives are imported from other states.
In the backdrop of this engrossing adventure the social issue of female foeticide is subtly interwoven without being preachy and melodramatic.
Cast: Parvin Dabas, Suhasini Mulay, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Harsh Mayar, Lehar Khan, Krishang Trivedi, Rahul Singh | | Director: Nila Madhab Panda Music Director: Medival Punditz, Ashish Chauhan, Piyush Mishra
| | | Format: DVD Label:Ultra Catalog No: DVD U 1269 (421) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
