Director Jean Renoir’s entrancing first color feature—shot entirely on location in India—is a visual tour de force. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden, the film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the Bengal river around which their daily lives unfold. Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.

Bal Ganesh

2007

Hindi

7.6

♡ 3

Pankaj Sharma Director

Namrata Sawhney as Parvati

Adarsh Gautam as Shiva

Avtar Gill as (voice)

Dolly Mattoo as (voice)

The film is about the childhood of Lord Ganesh. The film covers a) Lord Ganesh's birth and b) The story behind Lord Ganesh's voracious appetite which recalls the incident of Lord Kubera inviting Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvathi for a feast and the consequential events

Awake: The Life of Yogananda

2014

English

7.2

♡ 2

64%

Paola di Florio Director

Anupam Kher as Narrator

George Harrison as Self

J. Robert Oppenheimer as Self

Ravi Shankar as Self

An unconventional biography by Oscar nominee Paola di Florio and Sundance winner Lisa Leeman about Hindu mystic Paramahansa Yogananda who brought yoga and meditation to the West in 1920 and authored the spiritual classic "Autobiography of a Yogi," which became the go-to book for seekers from George Harrison to Steve Jobs.

The Deceivers

1988

Hindi

5.9

♡ 7

33%

Nicholas Meyer Director

David Robb as George Anglesmith

Tim Van Rellim as Reverent Matthias

Nayeem Hafizka as Sepoy

Pierce Brosnan as William Savage

India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In disguise, he plans to himself become a “Deceiver” and infiltrate their numbers. Ever present in Savage’s adventures is a sense of dread; he is in constant fear of betrayal and vengeance and also undergoes a disturbing psychological transformation as he experiences the cult’s blood lust firsthand.

A Passage to India

1984

English

7.3

♡ 47

77%

based on novel or book

David Lean Director

Art Malik as Ali

James Fox as Fielding

Clive Swift as Major Callendar

Nigel Havers as Ronny

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

Jodhaa Akbar

2008

Hindi

7.5

♡ 49

79%

husband wife relationship

Ashutosh Gowariker Director

Hrithik Roshan as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Jodhaa Bai

Amitabh Bachchan as Narrator

Sonu Sood as Sujamal

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

Hey Ram

2000

Tamil

8.0

♡ 8

Kamal Haasan Director

Arindam Sil as Abhiyankar's Man #2

Shah Rukh Khan as Amjad Ali Khan

Saurabh Shukla as Manohar Lalwani

Naseeruddin Shah as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.

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