Dancer and courtesan, Nargis (Meena Kumari), dreams of escaping her dishonourable life but she is rejected by the family of …
Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown
Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Now Grown, a powerful film made straight from the heart, is a cinematic …
Director’s Note: Jari Mari: Of Cloth And Other Stories
Jari Mari is a sprawling slum colony adjacent to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji international airport. Its narrow lanes house hundreds of …
Kannathil Muthamittal
So you go see the recent over-hyped, keyed up, inescapable films whose in-your-face campaigns are plastered all over your cityscape, …
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
It is tough enough to make both a good film as well as a successful one, particularly if it is …
Director’s Note: UnLimited Girls
While we were making UnLimited Girls, a researcher, interviewing me asked, “so would you say you are a feminist filmmaker?” The question alarmed …
Baazi
Madan (Dev Anand) is a small time gambler forced into joining the Star Hotel by its owner, a mysterious and …
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
Bhoothnath (Guru Dutt), a middle-aged architect wanders through the ruins of an old haveli. He remembers arriving in colonial Calcutta …
Aparajito
Varanasi (Kashi) 1920; Apu (Pinaki Sengupta) and his mother, Sarbojaya (Karuna Bannerjee), live in this holiest of the holy cities, …
Mother India
Radha (Nargis), now an old woman, remembers her past. She remembers her married life. The family has to work extremely …