APRIL FOOL (U) 1963 INDIAN MUKHERJI, SUBODH HINDI £12.99 Bollywood drama. Ashok (Biswajeet) is a slacker from a wealthy family who is only interested in messing around and playing practical jokes on people. THE BIG CITY (PG) 1963 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 In order to help with her family's financial situation, Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee) finds work as a saleswoman. Despite her husband Subrata (Anil Chatterjee)'s insecurity over this, when he loses his job, Arati becomes the sole provider for her family. BLACK HEN (12A) 2015 NEPAL BHAM, MIN BAHADUR £15.99 During a fragile ceasefire in the 2001 Nepalese Civil War, young Prakash and Kiran go in search for their missing hen which provides them with their income by selling the hens eggs. THE COWARD (KAPURUSH) (PG) INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99Stranded in a small town, a screenwriter is shocked to discover that a girl he once loved is now married to the tea plantation owner who has offered to put him up. EK VILLAIN SURI, MOHIT HINDI £12.99 Bollywood romance starring Sidharth Malhotra and Shraddha Kapoor. GO GOA GONE (15) 2013 INDIA NIDIMORU, RAJ/D K, KRISHNA IN HINDI £12.99Bollywood zombie comedy starring Saif Ali Khan THE HERO (PG) 1966 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 Bollywood drama directed by Satyajit Ray. Aditi is a pretty journalist who interviews the film star Arindam Mukherjee on a train trip to Delhi, and flashbacks are used to illustrate the main events in the actor's life. THE HOLY MAN (PG) 1965 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 A widower and his daughter as they become more and more influenced by the Holy man Birinchi Baba, but is really who he says he is? LONELY WIFE (U) 1964 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 Cited by Ray as his ‘most flawless film’, this sensitive, moving tale of a neglected housewife in Victorian-era Calcutta is adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore. THE LUNCHBOX (PG) INDIA 2013 DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £19.99 Hindi romantic drama starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur. MURDER (12) INDIA BASU, ANURAG IN HINDI £12.99Sudhir (Ashmit Matel) and Simran Sehgal (Mallika Sherwat) are a young Indian couple who live in the wealthy suburn of Bangkok. When Simran (Sherwat) bumps into an ex-lover, her relationship with Sehgal ((Sherwat) leads the three down a path of destruction and devastation. THE SATYAJIT RAY COLLECTION: VOLUME 3 (PG) INDIA BENGALI £29.99 Satyajit Ray is internationally acknowledged as one of the great masters of world cinema. This new collection features three more accomplished works.The Public Enemy (1990) An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’. The Home And The World (1984) A Journey of a woman who recalls the events that molded her perspective on the world. Deliverance (1981) An interesting look at the differences in the Indian caste system. SHOOTOUT AT WADALA (18) 2013 INDIA GUPTA, SANJAY IN HINDI £12.99 Second feature in the Bollywood crime thriller franchise 'Shootout' A FLAT (15) 2010 INDIA MADHUKAR, HEMANT IN HINDI £13.99 Bollywood supernatural thriller. A THROW OF THE DICE (U) 1929 INDIA OSTEN, FRANZ SILENT £19.99 Based on an episode from the Mahabharata. AAKROSH (15) 2010 INDIA PRIYADARSHAN IN HINDI £13.99 Bollywood action thriller from director Priyadarshan. Three friends have reportedly gone missing in Jhaanjhar, a small village in New Dehli. CBI officers Sidhant Chaturvedi (Akshaye Khanna) and Pratap Kumar (Ajay Devgn) are sent to investigate the disappearances but the local authorities are corrupt and willing to do anything to keep the truth hidden ABHIJAN (PG) INDIA 1962 SATYAJIT RAY BENGALI £19.99 Narsingh is a hot tempered, frequently drunken taxi driver. He is given work transporting tins of ghee for a shady merchant and finds himself drawn against his better judgement into trafficking opium. ADVERSARY (PG) 1972 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT BENGALI £14.99 First film in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Calcutta trilogy’ ANHONEE (PG) 1952 INDIA ABBAS, K. A. HINDI £6.99 A young lawyer, becomes the object of the affections of twin sisters, Roop (a wealthy heiress) and and poor Mohini. When they swap identities Raj marries Mohini, thinking she is Roop. APRIL FOOL (U) 1963 INDIAN MUKHERJI, SUBODH HINDI £12.99 Bollywood drama. Ashok (Biswajeet) is a slacker from a wealthy family who is only interested in messing around and playing practical jokes on people. APU TRILOGY (U) SATYAJIT, RAY BENGALI £49.99 Three DVD set. ASOKA (12) 2002 SIVAN, SANTOSH HINDI £19.99 Sweeping epic about Emperor Asoka, who after many battles dedicates his life to Buddhism. BANDIT QUEEN (18) 1994 INDIA KAPUR, SHEKHAR HINDI £17.99 Biopic of Phoolan Devi, India’s ‘Bandit Queen’. THE BIG CITY (PG) 1963 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 In order to help with her family's financial situation, Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee) finds work as a saleswoman. Despite her husband Subrata (Anil Chatterjee)'s insecurity over this, when he loses his job, Arati becomes the sole provider for her family. BOLLYWOOD AND BEYOND (E) 2002 VIDEO AND CD ROM £39.99 BFI video compilation and CD ROM guide to teaching IndianCinema. The video compilation features a selection of clips from the following films: Peacock Screen Do Bigha Zamin (1953), Mother India (1957), Pather Panchali (1955), Mughal-e-Azam (1960), Junglee (1961), Pakeezah (1972), Sholay (1975), Bhumika (1977), Mr India (1987), Bombay (1995), Dil Se (1998). BOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD (12) CANADA 2003 MEHTA, DEEPA ENGLISH/HINDI. £12.99 Comedy sendup of Bollywood and Hollywood. BORN INTO BROTHELS: CALCUTTA'S RED LIGHT KIDS (15) INDIA 2004 KAUFFMAN,R/ BRISKI, Z BENGALI £19.99 Oscar-winning documentary by about the children of Calcutta’s sex trade workers. THE COWARD (KAPURUSH) (PG) INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 Stranded in a small town, a screenwriter is shocked to discover that a girl he once loved is now married to the tea plantation owner who has offered to put him up. CHESS PLAYERS (PG) 1977 SATYAJIT RAY URDU £19.99 Satirical look at life in Imperial India as two wealthy men indulge in a game of chess to the exclusion of everything else. CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (PG) 1960 GHATAK, RITWIK BENGALI £19.99 Dark melodrama about a refugee family living in 1950s Calcutta. COMPANY LIMITED (PG) INDIA 1971 RAY, SATYAJIT IN HINDI £12.99 An ambitious and successful export manager at a British-owned company has his values question when a morally questionable incident happens at work. COOLIE (PG) 1983 DESAI, MANMOHAN HINDI £12.99 One man pledged to defend and uphold the rights of the Coolies. DEVDAS (PG) 2002 BHANSALI, S J HINDI/ENGLISH £19.99 Big Bollywood extravaganza. EARTH (15) 1998 MEHTA, DEEPA HINDI £15.99 Set in Lahore in 1947 film examines the effect of partition on one family and their friends. FIRE (15) 1996 MEHTA, DEEPA HINDI/ENGLISH £15.99 A beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband. GANDHI MY FATHER (PG) 2007 INDIA KHAN, FEROZ £15.99 Based on the true story of Mahatma Ghandi's troubled son Harilal, who rebelled against his father's idealistic priciples and sought a life free from the overpowering burden of being his son. GO GOA GONE (15) 2013 INDIA NIDIMORU, RAJ/D K, KRISHNA IN HINDI £12.99 Bollywood zombie comedy starring Saif Ali Khan GODDESS (PG) INDIA 1960 RAY, SATYAJIT BENGALI £12.99 Doyamoyee is left alone with her husband's father-in-law. One evening, the ageing widower she cares for has a dream that she is an avatar of Kali, and must be worshipped. Word spreads, and others come to believe that she is an incarnation of the deity. THE HERO (PG) 1966 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 Bollywood drama directed by Satyajit Ray. Aditi is a pretty journalist who interviews the film star Arindam Mukherjee on a train trip to Delhi, and flashbacks are used to illustrate the main events in the actor's life. THE HOLY MAN (PG) 1965 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 A widower and his daughter as they become more and more influenced by the Holy man Birinchi Baba, but is really who he says he is? I FOR INDIA (12) UK SURI, SANDHYA HINDI/ENGLISH £19.99
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri moves to England. Over the next 40 years the family reord on video and audio tapes the family story. INDIA WITH SANJEEV BHASKER (E) £15.99 Sanjeev Bhaskar takes a closer look at how India has changed during the past 60 years. JODHAA AKBAR (12) 2008 GOWARIKER, ASHOT HINDI £19.99 Bollywood movie, set in thee sixteenth century, is a love story about a marriage of alliance that gives birth to true love between the great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and the Rajput princess, Jodhaa. THE JOURNEY (U) 2004 INDIA PULLAPPALLY, LIGY J MALAYALAM £12.99 Award-winning Indian drama telling the story of two young women from an idyllic rural village: the studious and reserved Kiran (Suhasini V Nair,) and her lifelong best friend Delilah (Shrruiti Menon). When the two women fall in love, the village is engulfed by scandal and Delilah's mother forces her into an arranged marriage in an attempt to put an end to the relationship. KABHI KHUSHI KABHIE GHAM (PG) 2001 JOHAR, KARAN HINDI £19.99 Bollywood blockbuster wIth three of the biggest stars in India. KHAKEE (18) 2004 SANTOSHI, RAJKUMAR HINDI £19.99 Police officers have to escort a dangerous terrorist and a witness from Chandangadh to Mumbai. KITES (12A) 2010 INDIA BASU, ANURAG HINDI £15.99 Bollywood romantic thriller set in the USA. LAGAAN (PG) 2001 GOWARIKER, ASHOT £19.99 1863, Champaner, a drought stricken village, crippled by taxes challenges the British soldier to a game of cricket. The prize for winning - their taxes to be annulled. LAST THAKUR (15) 2008 BANGLADESH AHMED, SADIK ION ENGLISH £19.99 When a wild-eyed and mysterious young man named Kala arrives in a small Bangladeshi town armed with a rifle, he immediately attracts the attention of two rival gang leaders. LIKE STARS ON EARTH (PG) 2007 INDIA KHAN, AAMIR HINDI £17.99 Bollywood drama about a dyslexic boy whose life is changed forever when he meets a teacher at his boarding school. LONELY WIFE (U) 1964 INDIA RAY, SATYAJIT IN BENGALI BLU RAY ONLY £19.99 Cited by Ray as his ‘most flawless film’, this sensitive, moving tale of a neglected housewife in Victorian-era Calcutta is adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore.. THE LUNCHBOX (PG) INDIA 2013 DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £19.99 Hindi romantic drama starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur. MAHABHARAT - 5 DISC BOXSET(E) INDIA 1988 CHOPRA, RAVI HINDI £59.99
Classic 15 hour Hindi epic. MAN OF THE STORY (15) 2006 INDIA GOPALAKRISHNAN, ADOOR MALAYALAM £12.99 Man of the Story (Kathapurushan) is a dramatisation of Kerala's history since the onset of the Independence struggle. RAT-TRAP (PG) 1981 INDIA GOPALAKRISHNAN, ADOOR MALAYALAM £12.99 A lazy, narcissistic feudal lord in Kerala. is unable to adapt to the socio-economic changes taking place in early '80s India. The film tells the story of rural Indian lifeas well as being a character study of a man out of time. MICHAEL WOODS - STORY OF INDIA (E) £24.99 For more than two thousand years, India has been a massive component in world history. But what are the country's origins and how did it come to be what it is today? These are just two of the questions that Michael Wood tries to answer during his quest across the country. MOHABBATEIN (PG) 2001 CHOPRA, ADITYA HINDI £19.99 Romantic Bollywood musical. MONSOON WEDDING (15) 2001 NAIR, MIRA ENGLIS/HINDI /PUNJABI £19.99 Funny and movng film about an arranged marriage in New Delhi which reunites the extended Verma family from around the globe. MR INDIA (12) 2003 INDIA KAPUR, SHEKHAR £19.99 The owner of an orphanage discovers a way to turn invisible. He then uses his new powers to fight the people trying to close the orphanage. MURDER (12) INDIA BASU, ANURAG IN HINDI £12.99 Sudhir (Ashmit Matel) and Simran Sehgal (Mallika Sherwat) are a young Indian couple who live in the wealthy suburn of Bangkok. When Simran (Sherwat) bumps into an ex-lover, her relationship with Sehgal ((Sherwat) leads the three down a path of destruction and devastation. MY NAME IS KHAN (12) 2010 JOHAR, KARAN £15.99 Bollywood drama based on a true story. Shahrukh Khan stars as a Muslim with Asperger’s syndrome. Living in San Francisco. After the events of 9/11,he is detained at an airport by the authorities, who mistake his disorder for suspicious behaviour. His nightmare begins NAME OF A RIVER (E) INDIA 2001 SIGH, ANUP BENGALI £19.99 The film explores the life of the great Indian filmmaker Ritwik Chatak. OYE LUCKY, LUCKY OYE (12) 2008 INDIA £19.99 Inspired by the real life exploits of charismatic Delhiite thief Lucky Singh. Born into modest surroundings, Singh aspired to the affluent lifestyle of the Delhi elite, and set out to steal it for himself. PEEPLI [LIVE] (15) 2010 INDIA HINDI RIZVI A/FAROOQUI, F £15.99 Anusha Rizvi's debut feature is a satirical political drama portraying the tragicomic plight of two poor farmers in an Indian village. PROVOKED (15) 2006 INDIA MUNDHRA, JAG HINDI/ENGLISH £19.99 True story of a Punjabi woman who leaves India to marry a London-based man, only to be badly abused. She ends up in prison for murdering him. RAT TRAP (PG) 1991 INDIA GOPALAKRISHNAN, ADOOR MALAYALAM £12.99 Set in Kerala in the early 1980’s, this film takes a look into the life of a lazy feudal lord, unable to accept socio-economic changes. RIVER (15) INDIA 1951 RENOIR, JEAN IN ENGLISH AND BENGALI £19.99 Rite-of-passage movie about three sisters living in Bengal. A RIVER CALLED TITAS (PG) 1973 GHATAK, RITWIK BENGALI £19.99 Based on the celebrated Bengali novel by Advaita Malla Barman. SALAAM BOMBAY! (15) 1988 INDIA NAIR, MIRA £15.99 Mira Nair's first feature is an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna (Shafiq Syed) is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming job of staying alive quickly makes that dream an unlikely reality. SATYAJIT RAY COLLECTION 1 ([G) INDIA SATYAJIT, RAY BENGALI £29.99 Contains Mahanagar (Aka: The Big City), Charulata (Aka: The Lonely Wife) & Nayak (Aka: The Hero) SATYAJIT RAY COLLECTION 2 ([G) INDIA SATYAJIT, RAY BENGALI £29.99
Contains Kapurush, Mahapurush and Joi Baba Felunath. THE SATYAJIT RAY COLLECTION: VOLUME 3 (PG) INDIA BENGALI £29.99 Satyajit Ray is internationally acknowledged as one of the great masters of world cinema. This new collection features three more accomplished works.The Public Enemy (1990) An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’. The Home And The World (1984) A Journey of a woman who recalls the events that molded her perspective on the world. Deliverance (1981) An interesting look at the differences in the Indian caste system. SHOOTOUT AT WADALA (18) 2013 INDIA GUPTA, SANJAY IN HINDI £12.99 Second feature in the Bollywood crime thriller franchise 'Shootout'. SKETCHES OF INDIA (E) £14.99 26 films of contemporary India, from Kerala in the South to Kashmir in the North. THE STRANGER (U) INDIA 1991 RAY, SATYAJIT IN HINDI £12.99 Satyajit Ray's final film charts the familial upheavals wrought by the arrival of a long lost relative at his niece's home. TAXI 9211 (PG) INDIA 2006 LUTHRIA, MILAN HINDI £19.99 Comedy thriller set in Mumbai. TERRORIST (12) 2001 SIVAN, SANTOSH ENGLISH £19.99 Terrorist on a suicide mission has doubts as she embarks on her mission. THREE IDIOTS (12) 2009 INDIA HINDI RAJKUMAR HIRANI £15.99 Bollywood comedy. When two former college friends Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman) set out on a journey to track down their lost friend, the free-spirited Rancho (Aamir), their college memories unfold in flashback as they journey into the mountains having all kinds of present-day mishaps and adventures along the way. A THROW OF DICE (U) 1929 OSTEN, FRANZ SILENT £19.99 Film inspired by the gambling episode of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. TWO DAUGHTERS (15) INDIA 1961 RAY, SATYAJIT BENGALI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES £12.99 Two Daughters tells two tales. Both stories (‘The Postmaster' and ‘Samapti') are based on tales by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore. WARRIOR (12) UK 2001 KAPADIA, ASIF ENGLISH £19.99
Mythical adventure about a warrior’s journey from the deserts of Rajasthan to the snow capped peaks of the Himalayas. Includes the short film - ‘The Sheep Three’ WATER (12) 2005 MEHTA, DEEPA HINDI/ENGLISH £19.99 Set in pre-independent India, it tells the story of a child bride, who is sent into exile following her husband’s death. ZINDA (19) 2005 INDIA GUPTA, SANJAY HINDI £19.99 A man, taken and locked up for 14 years without any sane reason, is suddenly released, and has 4 days to figure out why this was done to him. PAKISTANI FILMS LONG LIVE PAKISTAN (E) £19.99 Informative documentary that was commissioned to celebrate the sixtieth anniversay of the creation of Pakistan. PAKISTAN (E) £19.99 Part of the renowned GLOBE TREKKER series, this illuminating documentary takes the viewer on a guided tour of Pakistan. Traveller Neil Gibson journeys to the city of Karachi, before heading north to Multan and Lahore. SILENT WATER (12) 2003 PAKISTAN SUMA, SAHIBA £19.99 Rare cinematic perspective of the political evolution of Pakistan, the advent of fundamentalism and the fragile rights of ordinary women. BANGLADESHI DVDSLAST THAKUR (15) 2008 BANGLADESH AHMED, SADIK ION ENGLISH £19.99 When a wild-eyed and mysterious young man named Kala arrives in a small Bangladeshi town armed with a rifle, he immediately attracts the attention of two rival gang leaders. NEPALI DVDSBLACK HEN (12A) 2015 NEPAL BHAM, MIN BAHADUR £15.99 During a fragile ceasefire in the 2001 Nepalese Civil War, young Prakash and Kiran go in search for their missing hen which provides them with their income by selling the hens eggs. LANGUAGE DVDSHINDI FOR KIDS: SIMPLE WORDS/NUMBERS AND COLOURS (E) £23.99Double bill of educational children's programmes that teach Hindi in a fun and interactive way. Both 'Simple Words' and 'Numbers and Colours' use colourful animations of friendly jungle characters, as well as songs, stories and games to encourage and motivate children to learn. GUJARATI FOR KIDS: SIMPLE WORDS/NUMBERS AND COLOURS (E) £23.99 Two instalments of the children's language learning programme teaching basic vocabulary, numbers and colours in Gujarati. Join Kishy, Loki, Isla, Tiki and Oni for a colourful animated jungle adventure featuring fun characters, eye-catching visuals, interactive games and music. The programme offers an ideal learning tool for children growing up outside their home countries. URDU FOR KIDS: SIMPLE WORDS/NUMBERS AND COLOURS (E) £23.99 Two instalments of the children's language learning programme teaching basic vocabulary, numbers and colours in Urdu. Join Kishy, Loki, Isla, Tiki and Oni for a colourful animated jungle adventure featuring fun characters, eye-catching visuals, interactive games and music. The programme offers an ideal learning tool for children growing up outside their home countries. ALL FILMS ARE IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. JOIN
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