Matching Films and People
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Mother India (1957) - Film Review from Film4
1957One of the first great epics of Indian cinema and a profound influence in Bollywood and beyond. Massive in scope and also running time, it follows a poverty-stricken single mother's struggle to overcome impossible odds and do right by her rebellious son
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Indian Cinema Takes On The World - Film4
Despite the size and significance of the Indian sub-continent, until recently its contribution to world cinema has been disgracefully undervalued. Bollywood, most Westerners thought, was an insular industry churning out song and dance driven epics that valued style over content.
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Sahara Indian Film Festival - Film4
Sahara India Pariwar are hosting an international Indian Film Festival in London, San Francisco and New York. The 3 day tribute will screen some of Bollywood's finest films - and best of all, it's totally free!
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Top Five Bollywood Directors - Film4
We're all familiar with Scorsese and Kubrick. But who are the greatest directors in Indian cinema? Nasreen Munni Kabir picks her all time top 5.
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Top Ten Classic Indian Movies - Film4
India's film industry has produced thousands of great movies. But which are the ten classic Indian movies of all time? We asked Nasreen Munni Kabir, authority on Indian cinema and the author of Channel 4's Bollywood: The Indian Cinema Story, to list her all time favourites.
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Aan (1952) - Film Review from Film4
1952A young pretender to the throne and his conniving sister are undone by a clever peasant couple. Billed in America as the 'First Spectacular Musical Drama Ever to Come Out Of Mystical, Magical India!'
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Mujhe Jeene Do (1963) - Film Review from Film4
1963Sunil Dutt and Waheeda Rehman prove that there is honour amongst thieves in a tale of high romance and big guns on the planes of northern India
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Zubeidaa: The Story Of A Princess (2001) - Film Review from Film4
2001Karishma Kapoor and Rekha star in a sumptuous period film. The true story of a love that defied caste and religion, set in a land where modernity and tradition vie for supremacy
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I For India (2005) - Film Review from Film4
2005Award-winning documentary in which a young British-Indian filmmaker chronicles her parents' 1960s emigration to England through her father's Super 8 home movie correspondence with their family back home
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Shot In Bombay (2008) - Film Review from Film4
2008Liz Mermin's documentary cuts incisively through the head-spinning confusion of Bollywood filmmaking
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Dance Of The Wind (1997) - Film Review from Film4
1997The successful career of a young Indian classical singer, Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani), comes to an abrupt end when her mother dies. She must then find a way to survive on her own.
