Hamid

The film starts with the veteran thespian Harish Mishra, he is gravely ill. His co-star, Shabnam, is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth, keeps strangely distant and refuses to visit his ailing star. In flashbacks, their story emerges.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Rituparno Ghosh

Cast

Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal

In 1947, the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Deepa Mehta

Cast

Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school,...

Runtime

2h 42m

Director

Aamir Khan

Cast

Darsheel Safary, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma

In 1938, Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies sweep across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go reside with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Deepa Mehta

Cast

Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Ins...

Runtime

2h 37m

Director

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Cast

Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Alice Patten