| 3 Movies in 1 DVD
Chokher Bali (2003) Also Known As: Sand in the Eye, Choker Bali: A Passion Play Country: India Language: Bengali Year: 2003 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description Chokher Bali, A passion play set in the early 1900s is the story of a beautiful, educated woman, Binodini, struggling to free herself from the oppression of widowhood. Widowed within a year of marriage, she movers into Mahendra's house, the man who was once offered her hand in marriage and refused. There she meets Mahendra's wife Ashalata and friend Behari, who is in and out of the house. Among these develops a forbidden attraction, a mesmerizing web of destiny and desire.
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Lily Chakravarty, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Suchita Ray Chaudhury | | Director: Rituparno Ghosh Music Director: Debajyoti Mishra Story: Rabindranath Tagore
| | Manorama Six Feet Under (2007) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2007 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Description Homage to the noir genre, Manorama Six Feet Under is about an amateur detective in a small town who finds himself caught in a web of lies, deceit and murder.
SV (Abhay Deol) is a government engineer but his real ambition has always been writing detective fiction. Unfortunately, his maiden attempt, a novel called Manorama, sank without a trace and he has been reduced to writing for cheap pulp magazines.
Stifled by the dreariness of small town existence and frustrated by his failure, SV's life takes a turn when the wife of a powerful local politician arrives at his doorstep with an irresistible offer; the chance for SV to play a real life detective by spying on her husband. Intrigued and tempted by the opportunity to redeem his self worth, SV accepts.
Upon completion of his assignment, things take a turn when SV discovers that the woman is not who she claims to be. The situation get further complicated when she is killed in a mysterious accident.
Sensing foul play, SV begins investigating her death only to discover that nothing is what it seems to be and that redemption doesn't come easy...
Cast: Abhay Deol, Gul Panag, Raima Sen, Sarika, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vinay Pathak, Brijendra Kala, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yana Gupta | | Director: Navdeep Singh Music Director: Raiomond Mirza
| | Khela (2008) Country: India Language: Bengali Year: 2008 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Thriller
Description Raja Bhowmik, an uncompromising realist filmmaker wants to direct a film Nalok, named after a child-character from a Buddhist legend and based on a work by painter Abanindranath Tagore. After six years of married life Raja is not prepared to take on the responsibility of being a father, so his wife Sheela has left home. One day he discovers a boy in school uniform devouring pani-puris, and Raja thinks the boy is perfect for the role of the child in his film. But the boy's parents refuse Raja's proposal. The boy picks up a telephone at a grocer's shop and asks Raja to 'kidnap' him for six weeks and then return him to his parents. Crazy Raja takes him up on his word and the team sets off for their location in the forests of North Bengal. The whole team develops a solid emotional bond with the boy. Does the bonding with the small boy change Raja's mind about beginning a family?
Cast: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Manisha Koirala, Shankar Chakraborty, Akashneel Dutta Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee | | Director: Rituparno Ghosh Music Director: Raja Narayan Deb, Sanjay Das
| | | Format: DVD Label:Shemaroo Catalog No: DVD 3/1 724 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 1 Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
