Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Publisher
Arbelos Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
An ambitious and extraordinary blood-and-bullets fueled crime saga that charts seventy years in the lives – and spectacular deaths – of two mafia-like families fighting for control of the coal-mining town of Wasseypur, India. Inspired by the real-life exploits of local gangs and beginning with the bandit-like career of Shahid Khan in the 1940s, the film follows the ruthless rise of his son Sardar and his offspring, the surreally-named Danish,...
2) Lion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
10) Firaaq
Author
Description
Inspired from the 2002 violence in Gujarat, this drama follows the lives of different people directly or indirectly affected by the riots, from a compassionate woman in an orthodox Gujarati family living with a stone-hearted husband, an urban cross-culture couple with a Hindu wife and a Muslim husband, a poor Muslim couple whose house is charred to ashes during the riots to an old Muslim singer. As their stories unfold and intertwine, we see the harrowing...