"Actor: Om Puri"

• East Is East | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £8.34   |  Saving you £4.64 (86.73%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In early 1970's England, a traditional Pakistani father (Om Puri) finds his family spinning in decidedly non-traditional directions.

• Merchant-Ivory In India | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £99.90   |  Saving you £-49.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Heat And Dust Blending east with west and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of modern-day India and the magnificent splendours of the Raj 'Heat And Dust' intertwines the contemporary story of Anne a young woman drawn to India by her desire to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt Olivia's seduction in the 1920's by a glamorous Indian Prince. For Anne it proves as much a journey of self-discovery as the opportunity to solve an enigma as she too becomes seduced by the romantic and luxurious enchantments of India. Bombay Talkie The story set off by elaborate studio numbers is a melodrama echoing those of Bombay's mass audience movies and the sexy best sellers of the film's heroine American authoress Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal). A character study about a best-selling English novellist who comes to Bombay in search of creative inspiration she becomes romantically involved with handsome movie star Vikram (Shashi Kapoor). When that doesn't work out she flees to an ashram to take up the spiritual ife. That also hilariously doesn't work out and the ill-fated couple get together again with explosive results! Shakespeare Wallah Essentially a culture-clash romance which blends Shakespeare and British tradition with the emerging Indian 'pop' culture the film traces the developing relationship between Lizzie one of the members of the acting troupe with Sanju a wealthy Indian playboy. But their romance is beset by hinderances not least being the machinations of Manjula a fiery Indian cinema star who is also in love with Sanju. The Courtesans Of Bombay Roughly situated over 24 hours we visit Pavan Pool a compound in Bombay where poor women sing dance and engage in prostitution. The Deceivers In 1825 India lives under fear. A mysterious religion's followers murder everyone that stands against their plans. In Custody Drama based on the novel by Anita Desai which follows Deven a teacher at an Indian college and his attempt to interview a famous poet...

• Code 46 | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.

• White Teeth | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best-selling and multi-award-winning novel by Zadie Smith White Teeth is superbly adapted to the screen in this outstanding drama which features a compulsively watchable cast including Robert Bathurst Phil Davis Geraldine James James McAvoy Om Puri and more. Set in the far from glamorous Willesden Green London from the 1970s to the 1990s White Teeth finds Archie Jones interracially married to the post-Jehovah's Witness Clara meeting up with an old colleague Samad Iqbal who with his family has just arrived in England. The secrets they share from the past and the secrets they will share in the future are tossed and tumbled in a rich stew that bubbles with racial and sexual tension new-found freedoms old school politics genetic science animal liberation and the end of the world as we know it. It all adds up to a feast to be relished from start to finish.

• Code 46 | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £9.68   |  Saving you £6.31 (65.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.

• West Is West | Blu Ray | (20/06/2011) from £9.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (81.72%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Manchester 1975. The now much diminished but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid the youngest Khan the runt of the litter is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So in a last desperate attempt to 'sort him out' his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford England swiftly follows to sort out the mess past and present.

• Satyajit Ray Collection Vol.3 | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Deliverance The Home and the World The Public Enemy

• The Mystic Masseur | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ganesh a young man living in a community of Indian exiles in Trinidad has ideas of becoming a successful writer. Ganesh is persuaded to marry a local woman who is used to living in luxury unfortunately he cannot afford to finance the lifestyle that she is used to. Together they dream up an idea to make more money Ganesh becomes a 'Mystic Masseur' and claims to be able to cure the sick...

• In Custody (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Drama based on the novel by Anita Desai which follows Deven a teacher at an Indian college and his attempt to interview a famous poet...

• Mere Baap Pehle Aap | DVD | (08/12/2008) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mere Baap Pehle Aap

• Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge is the story of Sapna. Brought up by three doting but eccentric uncles Uncle No.1 (Paresh Rawal) a shloka-chanting pooja-pathwala Uncle No. 2 (Om Puri) a fitness freak and Uncle No. 3 (Anupam Kher) a colourful dandy who loves to dance. Sapna who loves her uncles as dearly as they her tries to keep all of them happy by frantically running from exercise classes to dancing lessons to Bahaman singing. And each uncle is determined to marry off Sapna to a man of his choice. Poor Sapna exhausted and pulled in three different directions runs away and goes abroad with a tourist It's hate at first sight but after Raja saves her from several sticky situations Sapna realises that she loves Raja and vice versa. Raja decides to meet her uncles to ask for Sapna's hand in marriage little knowing what he's up against - three eccentric men three determined doting uncles. But Raja made of sterner stuff takes up the challenge to win over all three men - and thus begins a hilarious roller coaster ride of masti and mayhem. Does Raja succeed in winning Sapna's hand and the hearts of her three eccentric Uncles? Does the brave Dulha get the Dulhan? To find out don't miss the Millennium's Masti Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge.

• Kaala Patthar | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  With the first rays of the rising sun the minors go down so deep in the coal mine the their voices are stifled in the bowels of the earth - even in their wildest dreams they can not escape to reach out to the reality above ground. When disaster strikes - there are 3 men that stand up to fight for these labourers who take death as part and parcel of their existence. Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) an ex-naval officer who is court-martialled and dismissed from the navy. Vijay is now working at the coal mine. He welcomes every sign of danger and adversity in an attempt to combat the demons within and to pay for an act of cowardliness as the captain of a sinking ship. Ravi (Shashi Kapoor) is an engineer in-charge of this doomed project due to the negligence and the greed of its owners. Ravi tries to alert the management and the workers. Ravi joins forces with the workers and Vijay in order to save the lives of his fellow workers and fight the establishment. Mangal (Shatrughan Sinha) is runaway convict who finds shelter from the hands of the law at the coal mine. A boisterous and egoistic man who finds that there is a compassionate human being within him and also ends up joining the quest for justice. Kaala Patthar is a film about how different people from different walks of life and backgrounds come together and show true courage and character to fight the force of nature in what is a loosing battle.

• East Is East / Monsoon Wedding | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  East Is East (Dir. Damien O'Donnell 1999): English Dolby Digital 5.1 / Widescreen 1.78:1 Anamorphic / English subtitles for the hard of hearing We meet George Khan who is a proud Pakistani and a chip shop owner. He has seven children and believes that he is raising them to be respectable Pakistanis - but the kids have other ideas... Monsoon Wedding (Dir. Mira Nair 2001): English/Hindi Dolby Digital (5.1) / Widescreen 1.85:1 Anamorphic As the romantic monsoon rains loom the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. 'Monsoon Wedding' traces five intersecting stories each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class continent and morality. The film celebrates a contemporary India never before seen on screen. The family's hopes anxieties and long-guarded secrets emerge amid frantic wedding preparations and are juxtaposed with arresting montages of real-life Delhi. The relentless summer heat mirrors the story's building intensity as the city anticipates the cooling torrent of the monsoons. And when the rain comes the cathartic downpour brings romance revelation and liberation.

• Mausam | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (-150.10%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mausam involves a young medical student who falls for the daughter of a heeler after seeking his help with an injured leg.

• Don | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When ruthless Don (Amitabh Bachchan) is killed by the police the DSP (Iftekhar) is afraid that another Don will take over when the rest of the gang come to know of his death so he unbeknown to the rest of the police force recruits Don's look-alike Vijay (also Amitabh Bachchan) to become the real Don/ Vijay is at first reluctant but when promised that two children he is caring for will be looked after and educated he agrees. He is successfully re-located back with his gang by feigning injuries and loss of memory. He soon recuperates. Then fate takes an unexpected turn when the DSP is killed and Vijay becomes the suspect; his role as the Don ends as his gang comes to know he is a fraud; Vijay must run for his life - both from the police and Don's gang - for his life and the life of the two children.

• Ghayal | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  When Ajay a budding boxer is framed for his Elder Brothers murder he sets about trying to attain justice.

• Aakhree Raasta | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Chup Chup Ke | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Chup Chup Ke is an ensemble romantic comedy of errors and mistaken identities with foot-tapping music. Jeetu a small town hustler is constantly in debt and dodging creditors. His father a retired schoolteacher and fiance are made to suffer the consequences of his financial instability. He is constantly being told off and being forced to kill himself in shame. Jeetu decides to fake his death so that his family gets to claim his life insurance to pay off erstwhile debts. Two bumbling fishermen find Jeetu entangled in fishing nets and take him with them. They owe money to a businessman Prabhat Singh Chauhan and mistaking him to be a millionaire hatch a scheme to give Jeetu's services to Chauhan in exchange for the money they owe. Sensing that he may reveal too much Jeetu plays safe and pretends to be a deaf-mute and plays along with them. The unexpected complications surprises laughter and twists that follow constitute the crux of Chup Chup Ke the year's keenly awaited musical comedy; orientated for families!

• Billu Barber | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £22.91 (73.90%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Billu Barber is the story of a small town man Billu (Irrfan Khan) who mentions to his family that he was once a friend of superstar Sahir Khan (Shah Rukh Khan). Sahir Khan happens to come to the village to shoot a film and Billu's children spread the rumor that their father is his childhood friend. The villagers on hearing their Billu could be their ticket to meeting the star shower him with gifts and promises on condition Billu make contact for them. Billu is embarrassed by his poverty and doesn't want to impose but everyone works themselves up so he's forced to make several ill-fated attempts at contacting the star while he's shooting just outside the village. But it's the school principal who after threatening to expel Billu's children for nonpayment of fees has a turnaround when she believes Billu is able to get the star to appear at a school function and speak to the children. She goes to Sahir herself and requests his presence at the function for the children. Were Billu and Sahir childhood friends? Will Sahir meet with the villagers?

• Code 46 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-10.99 (-110.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.