The Apu trilogy is the most celebrated work of Satyajit Ray, the greatest filmmaker ever to have emerged from Indian cinema. Pather Panchali (1955), Ray's extraordinarily accomplished debut feature, ... Read more
Based on a novel by Pulitzer prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, this is a film about the universal themes of family, generational difference and culture clash. Gogol (Kal Penn), the son of immigrants is ... Read more
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Rajan Mathur, a professor in Urdu literature in Dr. Zakir Hussain College, resides in Chandni Chowk with his activist wife Roma Mathur. Prof. Mathur happens to meet a young boy, Numair Qazi, who ... Read more
In The Adversary a young man, newly graduated from college, is unable to find meaningful employment. He lives in a crowded apartment with his widowed mother, a revolutionary brother and a younger, ... Read more
A US-based Indian takes his new wife to meet his family in India where he insists they stay at the ancestral home. He ignores their warnings about a deadly secret but after his wife opens up a locked ... Read more
The 'third daughter' in this excellent, intended trilogy by acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray got axed in the final cut. The first story in the set, both based on tales by Nobel Prize winner ... Read more
A story based on a novel and set in Ghatak's hometown of East Bengal, where a couple are divided by a kidnapping. Bengali dialogue with English subtitles.
A modern-day fairytale in which a handsome prince is trapped in eternal sleep while his wicked mother exploits the Cinderella type working in her coffee shop