cinema cinema

7.3/10
www.imdb.com/title/tt0116308/
Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok’s extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother Biji and their manservant Mundu, all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, [...]

7.8/10
www.imdb.com/title/tt0388789/
Admist the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another side of the nation that is little known. This film is a chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s efforts to show that world of Calcutta’s red light district. To do that, they inspired a special [...]

7.0/10
www.imdb.com/title/tt1146285
When Chand (Preity Zinta) journeys from India to Canada
to marry a man she has never met, her dreams of a new
life seem to be coming true. Chand’s idyllic world is
shattered when her arranged marriage takes a sudden
violent turn. Trapped between tradition and the desire to
be happy, Chand retreats into a parallel mythical world.
But [...]