Gandhi

Gandhi 1982

7.56

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

1982

The Lunchbox

The Lunchbox 2013

7.30

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

2013

Tok Jhal Mishti

Tok Jhal Mishti 2002

4.25

Dilip and Mukundo, both married with a child each, live in a building in the city of Kolkata. Both the families do not mix due to the difference in status. A new tenant moves into the building, inadvertently bringing trouble with her. The bubbling and warm Deepa barges into both the apartments and befriends the husbands, as their wives seethe with anger and jealousy. They decide to call on their relatives for help. This rigmarole brings Dilip and Mukundo together; they have a common problem - their suspicious wives. The wives also come together, their common enemy being the youthful Deepa and their wayward husbands. Watch the movie to learn how this comic quagmire unfolds further...

2002

Tanvi the Great

Tanvi the Great 2025

7.00

Autistic young Tanvi Raina learns of her deceased Indian Army father's dream to salute the flag at Siachen Glacier. Despite barriers facing those neurodivergent in military service, she resolves to complete his mission.

2025

The Stranger

The Stranger 1991

7.60

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.

1991

Salaam Bombay!

Salaam Bombay! 1988

7.30

After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.

1988

He...

He... 2011

1

He...' is a story of a 13-year ragpicker boy Hari from the Slums of Mumbai who gets a chance to act in a short movie. Hereafter his friends call him Hero. Under the name 'Hero' he starts a journey, a journey which is all waiting and observing. Under his observation, he confronts the dark side of the society but practically he finds himself helpless. The name Hero gives him a new window to look at his harsh reality.

2011

Maya Memsaab

Maya Memsaab 1993

5.60

A frustrated housewife whose marriage to an average man does not meet her expectations enters into an affair with a younger man. Of course, there are no easy escapes from reality.

1993

Biswaprakash

Biswaprakash 1999

1

On his journey to self realization, Biswaparakash faces a changing value system in a new consumerist culture and that conflict with his beliefs, values and traditions.

1999

Manjhi: The Mountain Man

Manjhi: The Mountain Man 2015

7.38

After his wife passes away trying to cross a mountain, Manjhi, out of sheer rage, sets on a quest to carve a road through the treacherous mountain.

2015

That Girl in Yellow Boots

That Girl in Yellow Boots 2011

5.68

An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.

2011

Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost

Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost 2013

6.10

Set in post-colonial India, Qissa tells the story of Umber Singh, a Sikh who is forced to flee his village due to ethnic cleansing at the time of partition in 1947. Umber decides to fight fate and builds a new home for his family. When Umber marries his youngest child Kanwar to Neeli, a girl of lower caste, the family is faced with the truth of their identities; as individual ambitions and destinies collide in a struggle with eternity.

2013

Mirch Masala

Mirch Masala 1987

7.80

Early-1940s, rural British India. When a woman decides to fight against the village's despotic subedar and is supported by the guard of the local spice factory, more women join to defy the prevailing oppression.

1987

An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People 1990

7.20

Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.

1990

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro 1983

7.00

Two zanies open a photography studio. They score a partnership with a gossip magazine that suddenly thrusts them into a world of corruption, murder, and hijinks.

1983

Ooruku Nooruper

Ooruku Nooruper 2001

1

Balan, a young artist, becomes a part of "Ooruku Nooruper", a revolutionary organisation. To promote the ideals of the group, he becomes a modern-day Robinhood, as looting becomes an integral part of his life. Anandan, a leftist freelance writer, supports Balan and runs a campaign against capital punishment.

2001

Mujib: The Making of a Nation

Mujib: The Making of a Nation 2023

6.50

Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his growing up as a child to his standing up against all injustice in his youth to fighting for the independence of his country. How he led a country to it's independence with his inspirational presence and fight for the justice.

2023

The Land of Cards

The Land of Cards 2013

6.20

A royal prince arrives on an island of fascist rule and inspires a rebellion among its women in this hallucinogenic adaptation of a classic play.

2013

Sanshodhan

Sanshodhan 1996

6.00

The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.

1996

Train to Pakistan

Train to Pakistan 1997

5.00

Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with tens and thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and seated on the roof of this train. The plot is to tear the bridge down when the train is on it, and no one will dare stop these men to carry out this horrific task

1997