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  • Chicken Tikka Masala on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Jamila Massey,  Zohra Sehgal
    Director: Harmage Singh Kalirai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is celebration time for the Chopra family of Preston. Not only their only son Jimi is all set to become a doctor but is going to get engaged to the girl his family likes, Simran, who has come from India. She comes from a respectable Gujarati family, is well educated, pretty and above all, the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,314 member
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  • Day Of The Sirens on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Rik Mayall
    Director: Ray Brady
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    DAY OF THE SIRENS tells the riveting story of one sweltering day in the city, when a lone gunman goes on a shooting spree. Unable to be stopped, this ruthless killing machine becomes a mystery that terrorizes the city while confounding authorities. Is there a method to the murderous madness
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 93 members
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  • English Babu Desi Mem on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Shahrukh Khan,  Sonali Bendre,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Praveen Nischol
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Bombay, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt Bijuriya in which Vikram is torn between choosing to take Nandu back to England to learn his family's business, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 71 members
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  • Yeh Dillagi on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Akshay Kumar,  Saif Ali Khan,  Kajol
    Director: Naresh Malhotra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Sapna, the daughter of their driver becomes a model, one of the heirs of Saigal Industries falls for her. However his mother disapproves, so his serious minded brother tries to help out, but ends up falling for Sapna...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 201 members
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  • Dil on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Deven Varma,  Madhuri Dixit,  Anupam Kher
    Director: Indra Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A miserly father tries to get his extravagant son married to a rich man's daughter in order to get a dowry in exchange. Unfortunately they fail to get along and proceed to play practical jokes on one another. Eventually they fall in love, but it is revealed that her father was pretending to be a ..read more »
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  • Eeshwar (1989)
    Starring: Anil Kapoor,  Vijayshanti,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: K.Vishwanath,  Rajesh Malik
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Eeshwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody he comes in contact with. But alas nobody really likes him and think him as mentally retarded. Living an unconventional life, he takes pity on a widow named Lalita, with a young son, and marries her, much ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 4 members
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  • Just Ask For Diamond on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Jimmy Nail,  Susannah York,  Peter Eyre
    Director: Stephen Bayly
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When the man who left a package in his care is found murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, the clueless Diamond sets out to unravel the mysterious plot he has suddenly become the center of.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 95 members
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  • Partition on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Bhasker Patel,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Shaheen Khan
    Director: Ken McMullen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 48 members
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  • My Beautiful Laundrette on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Roshan Seth,  Daniel Day-Lewis
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 10,484 members
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  • A Passage To India on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Peggy Ashcroft,  Judy Davis,  James Fox
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    David Lean returned to filmmaking after a 14-year absence to direct this award-winning adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel. Adela Quested (Judy Davis), a young and spirited Englishwoman, travels to India alongside the somewhat older Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft). Mrs. Moore's hope is that her son, an ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,223 members
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  • Kissi Se Na Kehna on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Utpal Dutt,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Deepti Naval
    Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    What happens when a father wants just a typical, homely Bahu from some village and son ends up marrying a well educated girl from the city? Watch Kisise Na Kehna to find out what happens when the city Bahu portrays to be someone she really isnt. Does the father give in?
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 4 members
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  • The Far Pavilions (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Amy Irving,  Christopher Lee
    Director: Peter Duffell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This made-for-TV adaptation of M.M. Kaye's novel is a haunting love story set in imperial 19th-century India. Ben Cross plays Ashton Pelham-Martyn, an Indian-reared British officer who is assigned to safeguard a group of Indian princesses en route to meet their new husbands-to-be. During the voyage,..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 632 members
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  • Chashme Buddoor (1981)
    Starring: Farooq Shaikh,  Deepti Naval,  Saeed Naval
    Director: Sai Paranjape
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two womanizing slackers, Omi and Jai (Rakesh Bedi and Ravi Baswani respectively) attempt to woo the new girl in the neighbourhood, and fail - miserably. Their third room-mate, shy, and a bookworm - succeeds, much to their chargin. The two scheme up comical ideas to split the two lovebirds, so that ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 19 members
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  • Aulad on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Asrani,  Vinod Mehra
    Director: Vijay Sadanah
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Aulad is story based on the relationship of a mother and her child. It deals with unprecedented love of two mothers for the same child.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 6 members
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  • The Man Who Would Be King on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Sean Connery,  Christopher Plummer
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the classic story by novelist Rudyard Kipling, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING follows two British adventurers (Sean Connery and Michael Caine), former soldiers in Her Majesty's Service, as they give up the drudgery of eking out a living, legal and illegal, in poverty Raj-ruled India, and set ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 4,959 members
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  • Bunker Hill
    Starring: James McDaniel,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Laura Kirk
    Director: Kevin Willmott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When former Wall Street executive Peter Salem is released from prison, he heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas, where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon after he arrives in town, all power is lost - there is no electricity, and cars and computers suddenly shut ..read more »
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  • Angrakshak on DVD
    Starring: Sunny Deol,  Pooja Bhatt,  Kulbhushan Kharbanda
    Director: Ravi Raja
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Time changes circumstances, and circumstances change the course of a man’s life. Ajay Verma (Sunny Deol) was also a victim of time and circumstances. Once a picture of bravery, today Ajay was a broken and dejected man, with no goal to look eorward to in life. He lived life because he had to live - ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 7 members
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  • Jewel in the Crown, The - Episode 12, Th... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Peggy Ashcroft,  Charles Dance,  Geraldine James
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 60 minutes
    With the Japanese surrender and the end of the war, Perron puts into effect his plan for a quick demobilization. He also hears a strange tale from one of the nurses, "Sophie" Tucker about Lance Corporal Pinker, who served as a clerk to Dr. Samuels, the hospital psychiatrist. Pinker was a young man ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 4 members
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  • Jewel in the Crown, The - Episode 5, The... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Peggy Ashcroft,  Charles Dance,  Geraldine James
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 60 minutes
    With the wedding over and Teddie and Susan safely off on their honeymoon, Merrick once again is harassed and humiliated at the train station. He apologizes to Sarah for all that has happened. The Laytons return to Pankot, as does Susan when Teddie returns to duty, and they resume their normal lives...read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 4 members
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  • Jewel in the Crown, The - Episode 14, Th... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Peggy Ashcroft,  Charles Dance,  Geraldine James
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 60 minutes
    Before leaving Mirat, Count Bronowski tells Guy the true circumstances concerning Merrick's death. While traveling on the train to Ranpur, Guy, Sarah, Susan and Fenny come face to face with the sectarian violence that is sweeping India in the days leading up to independence. When the train is ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 5 members
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  • Jewel in the Crown, The - Episode 8, The... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Peggy Ashcroft,  Charles Dance,  Geraldine James
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 60 minutes
    Returning to Pankot from her trip to Calcutta, Sarah Layton meets Count Bronowski and Nigel Rowan at the train station in Ranpur. Also accompanied by Ahmed Kassim, they are on their way to visit the imprisoned political leader Mohammed Ali Kassim, Ahmed's father, who is known colloquially as MAK. ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 3 members
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  • Jewel in the Crown, The - Episode 10, An... to Watch Now (1984)
    Starring: Peggy Ashcroft,  Charles Dance,  Geraldine James
    Director: Jim O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 60 minutes
    Sarah travels to Bombay to meet her father, Colonel John Layton, who has been freed from his prisoner of war camp. Colonel Layton is concerned as to the well-being of a Havildar from his Regiment who apparently joined the Frei Hind, the Nazi version of the Indian National Army who fought with the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 5 members
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Saeed Jaffrey facts

5 most recent films

Chicken Tikka Masala - 2.5 stars
Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Day Of The Sirens - 2.0 stars
Mad Dogs - 2.0 stars
Mr In-Between - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Would Be King - 3.5 stars
A Passage To India - 3.5 stars
Staying On - 3.5 stars
Dil - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bunker Hill - 3 stars
Angrakshak - 2.0 stars
Mad Dogs - 2.0 stars
Aulad - 2.0 stars
Partition - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peggy Ashcroft - 16 times - show films
Geraldine James - 14 times - show films
Warren Clarke - 14 times - show films
Art Malik - 14 times - show films
Nicholas Farrell - 14 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Morahan - 9 times - show films
Jim O'Brien - 7 times - show films
Vijay Sadanah - 1 times - show films
Nicholas Meyer - 1 times - show films
David Lean - 1 times - show films