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1) Pihu
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
While her mother lies still in bed, unsupervised two-year-old Pihu struggles to manage on her own and unnoticed in the minefield her home has become.
2) Water
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Director's cut.
Language
Hindi
Description
Set in 1938 Colonial India against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Hindi
Description
On December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide pesticide leak killed more than 10,000 people in just a few hours in Bhopal, India. Based on true events, the film chronicles the days leading up to the world's deadliest industrial disaster. While journalist Motwani investigates a suspicious death at the plant, American Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson faces plummeting profits despite the unregulated and ever-increasingly unsafe technology used by his Indian...
5) The lunchbox
Series
Language
Hindi
Formats
Description
"A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects Ila, a neglected housewife, to Saajan (Irrfan Khan), a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Through a series of exchanged notes that they pass back and forth through the lunches, Saajan and Ila find comfort in their unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They...
11) Devdas
Language
Hindi
Description
Devdas shared a magnetic childhood with his lovely playmate, Paro. They had a special relationship, which evolves into love, but was still unspoken. Devdas is sent away for studies by his parents and subsequent events lead to Paro being married to someone else. A shattered Devdas turns to alcohol and the devotion of a beautiful courtesan, Chandramukhi.
12) The sky is pink
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Hindi
Description
The incredible love story of a couple spanning 25 years, told through the lens of their teenage daughter. She is sassy, sardonic, spunky. and dead. A fact she nonchalantly mentions at the very outset. "Get over it. It's quite cool actually. You'll see when you get here (which you do know you will right?!)" Unexpectedly humorous, warm, and heart-wrenching all at once as the magic of life and the beauty of death manifests in one family's unusual, courageous...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Hindi
Description
Rahul and Simran fall in love while travelling in Europe on an inter-rail holiday. Simran's father, settled in London for twenty-two years, is determined that his daughter should marry a family friend, back in their homeland of rural Punjab. All his plans undergo serious revision once the family travels to India and Rahul also shows up.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Hindi
Description
"Prem's (Ranbir Kapoor) fundas in life were very simple--be happy-- make others happy-- keep the town happy. But these supposedly simple fundas usually resulted in disastrous consequences for Prem, the members of his Happy Club, and the town! It may have been a case of mistaken identity that led Prem to kidnap Jenny (Katrina Kaif). And it was sheer greed that made Prem try to pull a fast one over her father. As for sweet and simple Jenny, brought...
15) Karwaan
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
Two friends and a chirpy teenager take a road trip from Bangalore to Kochi.
16) Jodhaa Akbar
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Hindi
Description
Story of the great Mughal emperor who ruled Hindustan (now India), Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, and a fiery Rajput princess, Jodhaa. Set in the sixteenth century, this epic romance begins as a marriage of alliance between two cultures and religions.
17) Main hoon na
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Hindi
Description
Major Ram Parsad Sharma returns to school in search of his step-brother and to rescue a general's daughter. While there, he falls in love with a teacher.
18) Jodhaa Akbar
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Hindi
Description
Story of the great Mughal emperor who ruled Hindustan (now India), Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, and a fiery Rajput princess, Jodhaa. Set in the sixteenth century, this epic romance begins as a marriage of alliance between two cultures and religions.
20) Water
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Hindi
Description
Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
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