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1) Tomb of sand
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House India PVT. Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention – including striking up a friendship with a hijra person – confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two. To her family’s consternation, Ma insists on travelling to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's...
Publisher
Eros International
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Hindi
Description
A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders' home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the help of Munna's sidekick, Circuit, while Munna is busy romancing Jahnvi elsewhere. Munna, who is now masquerading as a Professor specializing in the life of Mahatma Gandhi, must now battle his very own forces...
4) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dramatized portrayal of the 2008 terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbia, India.
5) The lunchbox
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Hindi
Description
"A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects Ila, a neglected housewife, to Saajan ... , a lonely man on the verge of retirement"--Container.
6) Belle
Language
English
Description
Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Hindi
Description
A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.
9) Hotel Mumbai
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dramatized portrayal of the 2008 terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbia, India.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
11) A few good men
Language
English
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
12) Saawariya
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Hindi
Description
Two strangers arrive in the same town for very different reasons, and spend the most important day of their lives there, with each other.