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1) Lion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
2) The lunchbox
Publisher
Reliance Big Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Hindi
Description
Trying to add some spice to her marriage, Ila prepares a special lunchbox for her husband at work. Unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another worker, Saajan. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a note in the next day's lunchbox. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the communication soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Ila and Saajan become lost in a virtual relationship...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Hindi
Description
Eight-year-old Ishaan can't seem to get anything right in class and gets into more trouble than his parents can handle. They pack him off to boarding school to 'be disciplined, ' and his art teacher, Nikumbh, realizes that something is wrong and sets out to discover what it is. With time, patience, and care, Nikumbh helps Ishaan find himself.
6) Andhadhun
Publisher
Reliance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019], ©2018.
Language
Hindi
Description
Things go hilariously awry when a man posing as a blind pianist witnesses a murder. Akash is a young musician who decides to conduct a social experiment that requires him to pretend that he is blind. When Akash is invited to give a private performance for a has-been celebrity, a murder occurs. The young man cannot report the crime because he has convinced everyone that he cannot see. He must now find a way to convince the authorities that he saw the...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.
9) Water
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
Hindi
Description
It is 1938, the twilight of colonial India, as Gandhi's protests begin to change Indian society. But for some women, things may never change. As widows, they are condemned by Hindu law to spend the rest of their lives in an ashram, to live out their lives in poverty, chastity, and humble obscurity. Then Chuyia, a bewildered 8-year-old who doesn't even remember being married, arrives and upsets everything. Madhumati, the head of the house; Shakuntala,...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's...
11) Drishyam
Publisher
Shemaroo Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Hindi
Description
Vijay Salgaonkar runs a cable TV network in a remote and hilly village of Goa. He lives a happy life with his wife Nandini and two daughters. A fourth grade dropout and an orphan, he has worked his way towards success with his sheer hard-work and street smartness in order to provide for his family who mean the world to him. Will a humble and middle class man, be able to protect his family from oppression of the powerful?
Publisher
Yash Raj Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Hindi
Description
When more-than-pleasantly-plump Sandhya gets hitched to Prem, the latter cannot bring himself to look beyond his wife's size. Her relentless attempts to win over his attention are in vain and the two end up on the brink of divorce when she overhears him passing objectionable remarks about her to friends. As he deals with his fear of the English language and an overbearing father, he finally discovers his wife true value.
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