Tansen

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. During a struggle with one of his step-brothers, his mother urges Asoka to escape to stay alive. While away, Asoka meets Kaurwaki and falls in love, but must use his skills as a warrior to protect her. A dangerous and heartbreaking web of co...

Runtime

2h 55m

Director

Santosh Sivan

Cast

Shah Rukh Khan, Ajith Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan

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

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

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

Runtime

3h 33m

Director

Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast

Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phoolan Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage cri...

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Shekhar Kapur

Cast

Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek