Viceroy's House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. The film's story unfolds within that great House. Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife and daughter; downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite - Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi - converged on the House to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted. A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan. It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day.
BAFTA-award winning drama from the BBC. The Miller's Tale: When smooth talking Nick arrives in a flash red sports car young wannabe pop star Alison thinks that her dreams have come true and incites the jealousy of her husband Dennis Waterman. The Wife Of Bath's Tale: Beth Craddock is a TV actress who still believes in Mr. Right even after a number of failed marriages. But is her dashing co-star Jerome her soulmate despite their large age difference. The Knight
Hera Pheri is a story about innocent desires and desperate actions. Shyam (Sunil Shetty) and Anuradha (Tabu) fathers both died in tragic fire at a bank as compensation they both have been offered a job their one small problem...there is only one job available. Shyam decides to wait it out finds accommidation and becomes friends with the other guests. In his desperation for money Shyam takes a phone call not meant for him but the call contains an oppurtunity to get some much nee
Sequel to the internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning 'East is East', 'West is West' takes the Khan family on a journey from Salford, England, to rural Pakistan.'West is West' is the coming of age story of both 13 year old Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George (‘Ghengis’) Khan. Sajid, the youngest Khan has been misbehaving so his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 30 years earlier. Resolved to teach Sajid a lesson, the tables are turned on George as he realizes that it is he himself who has much to learn.
Sophisticated to a point, this well-executed wolf-man tale works due to its clever setting and enormous star power. We all know Jack Nicholson can go nuts but the script makes his character aware of his changes, sometimes for the better, early on. The setting, a publishing house in the middle of a takeover, gives the characters dramatic life before the horror elements kicks in. A senior editor about to get the boot, Nicholson's character becomes a new man after being bitten by a wolf. He takes on challenges at work, lives a more robust life and attracts a new love. But will his new-found energy consume him? Director Mike Nicholson keeps the action alive in the first half but the film peters out at the end with cheap theatrics and the overuse of slow motion. Michelle Pfeiffer has little to do as simply the love interest with a grittier than average personality. Better is James Spader as a smarmy colleague. Nicholson is in fine form, relying on his keen gift to spark interest (a twitch of the head, a look in the eyes), instead of heavy doses of movie make-up. Giuseppe Rotunno's sweeping camerawork sets the mood quite well. Wolf is easy to recommend, with the added feature it's hardly gratuitous. --Doug Thomas
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom brings you nonstop thrills and excitement like nothing you've ever experienced. Indy (Harrison Ford), his sidekick Short Round (Ke Huy Quan), and nightclub singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from a fortress-like mine in India.Hang on tight as the world's ultimate action hero takes you on a heart-pumping roller-coaster ride of adventure that's guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.Also includes an exclusive mini-poster.
For the seven kids of George Khan - proud Pakistani and chip shop owner - life is one long compromise. Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari, hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he's really at art school, heart-throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local Casanova, and Sajid hasn't even been circumcised yet. For George Khan ('Genghis' to his kids), life is an uphill battle to get his family to conform to traditional Pakistani values. But this is Salford in the 1970's. George's English wife Ella is Lancashire born, and his kids have got minds of their own. In the Khan's cramped terraced house with it's scant indoor plumbing, anarchy erupts on a daily basis. When the Khan kids begin to oppose their father's petty tyrannies, Ella is forced to make a choice between her love for her husband and the right of her children to make their own way in the world.
In early 1970's England, a traditional Pakistani father (Om Puri) finds his family spinning in decidedly non-traditional directions.
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...
Vijay Varma an inspector of the criminal investigation department Mumbai and Ravi a brilliant criminal lawyer are childhood friends but their friendship falls prey to the evil machinations of Daga. Daga's smuggling operation has been busted time and again by Vijay and in one such raid Vijay apprehends Daga's lieutenant Balwant. Daga hires Ravi to get Balwant acquitted. When Daga learns that Vijay and Ravi are in love with the same girl Sheetal he causes a rift between the two fri
The story of Raj a young man from London who takes a Eurorail holiday with his friends while away he meets with Simran and eventually the pair fall in love. Now Raj must persuade Simran's parents that he is a worthy suitor...
Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.
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.
Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton star as a pair of doomed lovers in a strictly controlled society in the near future.
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.
Suraj and Karan are a father and son whose relationship is very wonderful. Suraj can do anything for his son. In his son's adoration Suraj finds heaven. In his father's love Karan finds his world. Komal a violin player who is a wife and a mother and yet cannot be both. Once upon a time Suraj and Komal were very happy. But one fateful day everything changed. They started staying apart. A child was denied his mother. A family became incomplete in their lives because of a scheming f
Sharda gives shelter to her husband's cousins Bhishamber and Bhanu in her house against the wishes of her husband. Bhishamber and Bhanu are evil evil enough to throw Sharda and her sons out of the house kill her husband and usurp their family Haveli. Sharda is left stranded on the streets with nowhere to go with her soons Ram and Lakhan. She vows to avenge her husband's life and the injustices done to her by making Ram and Lakhan her weapons against Bhishamber and Bhanu. Ram beco
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