
The Blue Umbrella (2005)
Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various tourists, and while doing so with some tourists from Japan, trades in her bear-tooth amulet with a blue umbrella…
Genre: Bollywood, Drama, Family
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Actors: Deepak Dobriyal, Pankaj Kapur, Shreya Sharma
Country: India
Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (1970)
Pretty Sadhana, the daughter of Rangpur-based widow, Bhagmati, falls in love, and gets married to Haripur-based Deepak Chaudhary, who lives with his dad, Motilal; and mom, Maya. It is here…
Maqbool (2003)
The Scottish tragedy ‘Macbeth’ set in the contemporary underworld of India’s commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and “Duncan” is Abbaji, the…
Santosh (2024)
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and…
Sucha Soorma (2024) Punjabi
An uncompromising folklore figure of the early 20th century faces a dilemma when his best friend and his sister-in-law are caught in an illicit relationship.