Indian & Tibetan Cinema
Hindi/Urdu cinema is the most prolific in the world, churning out literally hundreds of films a year. Centred in Mumbai (once Bombay), it has earned the nickname 'Bollywood' (see 'Browse the Aisles' sub-category 'Bollywood Masala'). The cinema Western audiences are used to from India is what local audiences there would term 'art films'. These are not widely patronised in India, but many such as 'The Apu Trilogy' from Bengali director Satyajit Ray and the works of Mira Nair like 'Salaam Bombay' and 'Monsoon Wedding' have been received to great acclaim in the wider world.
This section is called 'Indian & Tibetan'. From Tibet we have (at the moment) just a handful of films. But as film makers emerge from this region Alice is committed to expanding our collection from both Tibet and India.
Bandit Queen (1994)
7.6/10
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Manoj Bajpai
Based on the true-life of Phoolan Devi, a lower-class woman who was sold at age 11 by her family as a child bride but later escaped. Challenging her c... Read more
Barsaat - A Sublime Love Story (2005)
Director: Suneel Darshan
Starring: Bobby Deol, Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra
Bollywood hunk Bobby Deol is the object of two women's affection in this masala remake of 'Sweet Home Alabama'. Arav leaves his beautiful wife (Priya... Read more
Before the Rains (2007)
6.6/10
Director: Santosh Sivan
Starring: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, Leopold Benedict
Forbidden romance and culture clash lie at the heart of this drama set in 1930s India, as Britain's reign is beginning to lose its hold. British busin... Read more
Bichhoo (2000)
4.6/10
Director: Guddu Dhanoa
Starring: Bobby Deol, Rani Mukerji, Ashish Vidyarthi
This is a Bollywood remake of the 1994 thriller 'Leon (The Professional)' with songs! Masala heart-throb Bobby Deol is Jeeva, the jaded assassin who... Read more
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Anupam Kher, Nadira Babbar, Nav...
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" gets the Bollywood treatment in this spectacular fusion of East meets West. Director Gurinder Chadha ("Bend It Lik... Read more
Chalte Chalte (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Aziz Mirza
Starring: Rani Mukerji, Shahrukh Khan
Priya and Raj are two sides of a coin, different as chalk and cheese. Raj is an impulsive middle class, hard working, emotional fellow. He allows Cupi... Read more
Chokher Bali (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Lily Chakrabarti, Prasenjit Chatterjee
Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh adapted and directed this costume melodrama based on the classic 1902 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. Subtly using th... Read more
Devdas (2002)
7.6/10
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Starring: Madhuri Dixit, Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai
Set in the early 1900s, this film follows a young man named Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) on his way home to India after having spent the past ten years in L... Read more
Dhamaal (2007)
7.1/10
Director: Indra Kumar
Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Aashish Chowdhry, Ritesh Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey, G A...
Four friends are putting all their resources into finding their cash cow. Unfortunately their resources don't add up to much, and minor con-jobs is a... Read more
Dhoka (2007)
4.1/10
Director: Pooja Bhatt
Starring: Muzammil Ibrahim, Tulip Joshi, Aushima Sawhney
A searing look at the marginalisation of Muslims in India that sometimes leads, in this case, to radical elements taking events into their own hands.... Read more