Hindustan (Urdu name for India) used to a vast territory and countries' like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangla Desh, and Bhutan were all it's provinces. All this changed when the British established their rule over India, and promoted their policy of hatred, and division - mainly between the Hindus and the Muslims. After their departure in 1947, the celebrations of a independe...
A circular story, told in flashback, in which eternal repetition is only interrupted by death in the form of a relentlessly linear railway engine. The film opens at a railway crossing where a man is about to kill his wife when the narrative spins into the past via a song. The central story is of the unhappy love affair between Kasturi, the Harijan (Untouchable) daughter of the ...
Inspired by true events and a collection of unpublished poems, ‘The Daughter’ follows Indu in a dystopian Indian town under curfew as she sets out on a difficult journey and grapples with her father’s dying wish.
Starring legendary Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah and Ira Dubey, Soumyak Kanti DeBiswas’ directorial debut is a deeply personal exploration of the complicated relati...
While studying in Aligarh, Anwar Hussain Anwar falls in love with a veiled woman and is unable to get her out of his mind. Enroute to Lucknow, they meet with Nawab Buland Akhtar Changezi, and subsequently meet with him a few days later so that he can use his influence to secure an editor's job for Anwar with a magazine. Nawab then asks Anwar to teach his sister, Husna, some poe...
DOBARA PHIR SAY is the unlikely love story of soul mates who just can't seem to be in the right place at the right time for the right reasons. When Hammad, an architect falls for Zainab the first time he sees her on a ferry, little does he know that 'love at first sight' has a lot more in store for him than he bargained for.
