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• Abhijan | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £20.24   |  Saving you £-0.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Abhijan was Satyajit Ray's most popular film in Bengal: a ""conscious"" effort to communicate with a wider audience. The project was originally conceived by his friends and Ray stepped in when they panicked at the prospect of directing. Ray's mastery turned a starkly conventional plot into a subtly nuanced story which topped the Bengali box office for months. Set on the Bihar-Bengal border where Marwari businessmen - a powerful Hindi-dialect community of entrepreneurs much disl

• Satyajit Ray Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Satyajit Ray is internationally acknowledged as one of the great masters of world cinema. His films - many of them masterpieces - have won him legions of admirers among them Akira Kurosawa Henri Cartier-Bresson V.S. Naipaul and Martin Scorsese. This box set features the following films: Mahanagar (Aka: The Big City) (1963): Set in the mid '50s Ray's often humorous story of conflicting social values in India's lower-middle class stars Madhabi Mukherjee as a housewife whose growing independence alarms her traditionalist India 1963 family. Charulata (Aka: The Lonely Wife) (1964): Neglected by her ambitious journalist husband the lonely Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee) befriends his cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee) a sensitive aspiring writer and almost inevitably their feelings for each other begin to deepen. Adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore Ray considered this sesnitively realised drama one of his finest achievements. Nayak (Aka: The Hero) (1966): This beautifully observed character study was one of Ray's earliest original screenplays. En route to an award ceremony a famous and egocentric Bengali movie star finds that he is compelled to re-evaluate his life after encountering a disapproving young journalist (Sharmila Tagore).

• The Stranger | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (18.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Stranger (Agantuk) sees Anila receiving a letter from a man claiming to be her uncle a man who disappeared 35 years prior. He turns up at her family home professing to be an anthropologist a globally seasoned traveller en route from the United States to Australia. The family are suspicious of the stranger believing him to be an imposter with a financial scam to sell. After a grilling from the family's lawyer he leaves as unexpectedly as he arrives leaving behind a stunned family and some very insightful observations. Widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema and the last of the Bengali renaissance movement begun at the start of the 19th century Satyajit Ray was a giant of Indian cinema. Directing 37 films during his lifetime he was also a critically lauded writer publisher illustrator graphic designer and film critic... as well as recipient of more than 30 Indian National Films Awards a winner of numerous international film festivals - including Berlin Venice and Cannes - and an honorary Academy Award recipient in 1992.

• The Satyjit Ray Collection Vol.2 | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Satyajit Ray's artistic legacy is one of the most formidable in all of film history. Exceptionally versatile his films covered almost every conceivable genre winning him nearly every major cinema award including an Oscar for lifetime achievement. Titles Comprise: Kapurush (a.k.a The Coward) (1965): Stranded in a small town screenwriter Amitabha Roy is astonished to encounter a former lover who is now married to the owner of a tea plantation. Recalling his inability to commit to her and the relationship's resultant breakdown Roy decides to make amends for the past. Mahapurush (a.k.a The Holy Man) (1965): Ray's rarely-seen gem is a comedy-drama in which a gullible and religiously devout retiree is completely taken in by a bogus holy man and enlists the charlatan's help in finding his daughter a husband. But she is being courted by a young man who determines to expose the fraudster. Joi Baba Felunath (1978): Set in the holy city of Benares where Ray had shot Aparajito over 20 years previously this adventure story adapted from Ray's own novel stars Soumitra Chatterjee as a detective investigating the theft of a priceless gold icon.

• Charulata | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law Umapeda a would-be writer to keep her company. At this point Bhupati's cousin Amal visits and spends a long vacation and after several months Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond friendship.

• The Holy Man (Mahapurush) | Blu Ray | (09/09/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A story of a devout Hindu man who falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man by asking him to find his daughter a husband the lightness of this sharp quick-witted comedy belies a cutting criticism of Indian post-war society.

• Man Pasand | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Two friends Pratap (Dev Anand) and Kashinath (Girish Karnad) are bound by their passion of music. Pratap who has a doctorate in music has created a machine which can perfect a human voice. As music and their friendship leave room for little else both Pratap & Kashinath are confirmed bachelors till one day Pratap has a bet with Kashinath that if he in 6 month's time can polish and perfect any girl's voice Kashinath will marry her. One day having to travel by train they come

• Utsab | DVD | (01/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The two middle-aged daughters of Bhagabati gather with their families in their old home to celebrate Durga Puja. But what seems like a celebration is in fact a seething cauldron of family tensions as each daughter brings along her own baggage of problems. Parul the eldest daughter sees a possible repeat of her own tragic past as she watches her elder son Joy attracted to her niece Shampa. Bhagabati's younger son Asit faces the possibility of losing his job after the Puja something h

• Koi Hai | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £9.05   |  Saving you £-1.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Raj and Shefali's happy married life is ransacked by a beautiful dancer Lisa. Her threat of exposing her relationship with Raj forces Raj to plan to eliminate Shefali. Shefali sensing danger hires Robert a sharp shooter to protect her from Raj by any means. Raj engages deadly killer Rana to kill Shefali resulting into a series of thrills confusion and killings. A sudden entry of singers Roop Kumar and Sonali Rathod gives and emotional turn to this thrilling drama....

• BUDDHA-DIE ERLEUCHTUNG DE - MO | DVD | (06/07/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A