DVD: Nandita Das

DVD: Nandita Das

DVD:

Nandita Das

Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur

New Yorker Video, 2000

Mehta Ignites a 'Fire' of Controversy with Her Unfulfilled Housewives.
Deepa Mehta is best known for her extraordinary trilogy: Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005). Set in contemporary Delhi, India, the first film in the series, Fire, ignited a controversy upon its 1988 release with its frank depiction of loveless, arranged ...

Aks
Amitabh Bachchan, Raveena Tandon

Eros Entertainment, 2007

Hari-Bhari: Fertility
Shabana Azmi, Rajit Kapoor

Before the Rains

John Standing, Linus Roache

Lions Gate, 2008

Beautiful cinematography
Before the Rains is an enjoyable movie with everything going for it. Breathtaking visuals complimented with good acting and a strong storyline makes it a winner. There may be some scenes which wouldn't make much sense to a Western mind but I do think the movie is true ...

Bas Yun Hi
Purab Kohli, Nandita Das

Arjun
Sunny Deol, Dimple Kapadia

Eros

Laawaris
Zeenat Aman, Vikas Anand

Eros Entertainment, 2006

Starring: AMITABH BACHCHAN, ZEENAT AMAN, RAKHEE, AMJAD KHAN Synopsis: The lovers Vidya and Ranvir meet. Vidya becomes pregnant. While he insists on abortion Vidya insists that she will give birth to the child, bring him up and wait for his return into her life. Ranvir leaves her. Vidya dies with the impression that her child was still-born, but ...

Earth

Maia Sethna, Nandita Das

New Yorker Video, 2003

Mehta's Earth divided by religion.
Deepa Mehta is best known for her extraordinary trilogy: Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005). Based upon Bapsi Sidhwa's autobiographical novel, Cracking India, the second film in the series, Earth, tells the epic tale of the 1947 partition of the British ...

Provoked

Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson

Eros Entertainment, 2007

JUST LIKE BURNING BED
This is a reasonably well done movie, but if you ever saw the movie "The Burning Bed" with Farah Fawcett, this is almost identical with Indian actors and actresses. Nothing wrong with copying I guess, but it has been done before. This version is no better or worse ...

Ramchand Pakistani (DVD) 2008
Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi

Eagle, 2008

Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them. With English ...