Madhur Jaffrey

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Madhur Jaffrey - what members say

Chutney Popcorn review by from Staffordshire

Sweet as Chutney! 26 January 2004
...l taboos honestly and in a down to earth fashion, and was a pleasure to watch. Madhur Jaffrey is hilarious and plays her character brilliantly. I would recommend this film ... Read customer review

Partition on DVD (2007)
Starring: Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, Irfan Khan
Director: Vic Sarin
Certificate:
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Set in India during the regime of the British Colonial Empire, this historical drama tells the story of the forbidden love between a Sikh soldier, Gian Singh (Jimi Mistry), and an Islamic teenager, Naseem (Kristin Kreuk).

60% from 1,203 member

ABCD (1999)
Starring: Madhur Jaffrey, Faran Tahir, Sheetal Sheth
Director: Krutin Patel
Certificate:
The only goal of an ageing Asian-American widow is to see her son and rebellious daughter (described as an American Born Confused Deshi or ABCD) married off to respectable Indian families.

43% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Cotton Mary on DVD (1999)
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby
Director: Ismail Merchant
Certificate:
Set in 1954 India, a British woman who has recently given birth to a sickly child, becomes overly dependent upon an Anglo-Indian hospital worker.

50% from 127 members

Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Starring: Nisha Ganatra, Jill Hennessy, Sakina Jaffrey
Director: Nisha Ganatra
Certificate:
To call CHUTNEY POPCORN a chick flick would be ironic, as the film treats a wide variety of topics with an openness that is careful not to exclude any group--specifically men. However, the film is, in essence, about women loving women--as sisters, as mother and daughter, as friends, as lovers--so ..read more »

53% from 720 members
Not currently released

The Perfect Murder on DVD (1988)
Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Stellan Skarsgard, Amjad Khan
Director: Zafar Hai
Certificate:
Based on the award-winning novel by H.R.F. Keating, Merchant Ivory Productions presents THE PERFECT MURDER, a highly entertaining, exotic detective thriller. Inspector Ghote (NASEERRUDDIN SHAH, Monsoon Wedding) of the Bombay police has just been assigned his most perplexing case: a savage attack on ..read more »

45% from 93 members

The Assam Garden (1985)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Madhur Jaffrey, Alec McCowen
Director: Mary McMurray
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An embittered, lonely old widow reluctantly tends her late husband's garden and discovers that more than flowers can bloom there when she encounters her East Indian neighbour, a woman with an ailing husband. This touching drama chronicles their friendship. The story opens as the widow returns from ..read more »

65% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

Autobiography Of A Princess on DVD (1975)
Starring: James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier
Director: James Ivory
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The London-based daughter-in-exile of an Indian Maharajah holds onto the memory of her father and Imperial India through faded home movies. The annual visit from her former English tutor gives her the chance to further reminisce, and to discover more about her father's complex relationship with the ..read more »

37% from 92 members

Shakespeare Wallah (1965)
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey
Director: James Ivory
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Director James Ivory based his black-and-white 1965 film, SHAKESPEARE WALLAH, about a struggling English troupe of Shakespearan actors touring India, on an actual theater company called Shakespeariana. Shakespeariana's director, Geoffrey Kendal; his wife, Laura Liddell; and their daughter, Felicity ..read more »

51% from 487 members
Not currently released

The Wandering Company on DVD
Starring: James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ismail Merchant
Director: Humphrey Dixon
Certificate:
A documentary on the Mercant-Ivory production company, a fascinating insight into the unique partnership of American director James Ivory, Indian producer Ismail Merchant and German-born writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. This unique account is illustrated with clips from many of the Merchant-Ivory films,..read more »

38% from 17 members

Partition - 3.0 stars
ABCD - 2.5 stars
Cotton Mary - 2.5 stars
Chutney Popcorn - 2.5 stars
The Perfect Murder - 2.0 stars

Partition - 3.0 stars
Chutney Popcorn - 2.5 stars
Shakespeare Wallah - 2.5 stars
Cotton Mary - 2.5 stars
The Perfect Murder - 2.0 stars

The Wandering Company - 2.0 stars
ABCD - 2.5 stars
The Assam Garden - 3.5 stars
Autobiography Of A Princess - 2.0 stars
The Perfect Murder - 2.0 stars

Felicity Kendal - 2 times - show films
Shashi Kapoor - 2 times - show films
Irfan Khan - 1 times - show films
Cara Buono - 1 times - show films
Aasif Mandvi - 1 times - show films

James Ivory - 3 times - show films
Krutin Patel - 1 times - show films
Zafar Hai - 1 times - show films
Humphrey Dixon - 1 times - show films
Vic Sarin - 1 times - show films