New Documentaries/Films/ added in Digital Archive’s Collection:
1. Mera naam Joker
Raj Kapoor (Director)
“Mera Naam Joker” is Raj Kapoor’s semi-autobiographical story of the life, love, and philosophy of an entertainer.
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2. Page 3: The inside story
Madhur Bhandarkar (Director)
‘Page 3′ takes a behind-the-scenes look at A-list celebrity lifestyles through the eyes of a female entertainment journalist. It explores the power-play between the rich and famous and the media.
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3. Mausam
Gulzar (Director)
Mausam is a dramatic love story of Dr. Amarnath Gill, who falls for Chanda, the daughter of a local healer, Harihar Thapa, when visiting Darjeeling for his medical exams.
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4. Sujata
Bimal Roy (Director)
The movie basically revolves around the caste system that is prevelant in India even to this day. It also raises interesting questions regarding family ties and how deep they can be.
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5. Mirch masala
Ketan Mehta (Director)
In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village, with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confidant women whose husband is away in the city, to sleep with him. She slaps him and flees for safety.
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6. Devdas
Bimal Roy (Director)
Devdas and Parvati had been inseparable as children, and as they grew older, Love Blossomed. Devdas is sent away for studies by his parents – he and Parvati are separated.
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7. Mississippi masala
Mira Nair (Director)
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
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8. Bandini
Bimal Roy (Director)
During the British Raj of the 1930s, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convict who eventually reveals the story of her past and her connection to a freedom fighter.
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9. Sarkar
Ram Gopal Varma (Director)
The Indian version of The Godfather, with the focus on SARKAR, an Indian politician.
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10. Sardari Begum
Shyam Benegal (Director)
The woman was killed by a stone thrown by an agitated person. The woman killed is known in the community as “Sardari Begum”, a popular singer and courtesan in her time.
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11. Saaz
Sai Paranjape (Director)
The film tells the story of a brave woman’s battle to come to terms with her life…
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12. Trip
Pramod Pati (Director)
The film throws light on the life in Mumbai.
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13. And miles to go
S. Sukhdev (Director)
And miles to go is representative of the angry protest oriented documentarists of the sixties and early seventies.
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14. Sardar: The iron man of India
Ketan Mehta (Director)
The film deals with all the myriad and debilitating problems that India faced in its pre and immediate post Independence period, which turned out to be Sardar Patels finest hour when problem after monumental problem was solved by Sardar Patel.
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15. Aghaat
Govind Nihalani (Director)
Aghaat is the perfect example of offbeat cinema as people always call it. It is a story of two opposing unions, one led by a capable & honest leader, Madhav Verma (Om Puri) who sincerely cares a lot about the workers of the factory and looks for their benefit.
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16. Shoplifting
Ilkka Ruohonen (Director)
Shoplifting causes the damage of 400 Million euros for the retail trade in Finland last year. How can a shopkeeper react to that situation? The film is an anthropological-sociological analysis on the theme.
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17. Karen education surviving
Scott O ‘Brien (Director) & Saw Eh Do Wah (Director)
This film focuses upon the realities of Karen villagers living internally displaced throughout the Karen state in Burma.
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18. Arzoo
Shashi Ghosh Gupta (Director)
Arzoo is the story of Sulekha Ali, a young Muslim woman who is compelled by circumstances to go live in the Shah Alam refugee camp in Ahmedabad, for six months post Gujarat communal riots of 2002.
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19. The 11th hour
Leila Conners (Director) & Nadia Conners (Director)
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet’s ecosystems.
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20. Que Sera?
Dieter Fahrer (Director)
Doing nothing, waiting for death, living in the ghetto that is an old people’s home. But the arrival of the children’s crèche brings together the oldest with the youngest and failing vitality starts to awaken.
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