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The quietly devastating Maya begins with the statement, “Based on true practices.” Not until the very end will those practices, which still take place in certain remote parts of India, be revealed. Until that time, Digvijay Singh’s deceptively bucolic debut takes a quasi-documentary approach to the rural summer of 12-year-old Maya (wide-eyed Nitya Shetty) as she and cousin Sanjay (Nikhil Yadav) play in the sun, sneak candy, and drink warm milk. But then Maya “becomes a woman” and her family starts making preparations for her “prayer ceremony.” Things seems normal enough, although Maya is never told what this ceremony entails and why it is so important. Although the disturbing centerpiece of her initiation into adulthood is more suggested than shown, the point is as clear as it is heartbreaking. It represents, quite simply, the brutal and irrevocable destruction of one girl’s innocence. For this reason, the film is recommended for adult viewers, despite the young (more…)

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Rakesh Roshan’s KARAN ARJUN is about faith & reincarntion. Durga’s (Rakhee) sons, Karan (Salman Khan) & Arjun (Shahrukh Khan) are murdered by Dhurjan Singh (Amrish Puri). When Durga’s pleas to bring Karan Arjun back to life are heard by the Goddess Kali, the two brothers are reborn in different families. Karan as Ajay, grows up to be a boxer & goes to work for Saxena (Ranjeet), Dhurjan Singh’s partner in crime. Arjun as Vijay, grows up to work with horses and falls in love with Sonia (Kajol), Saxena’s daughter and Dhurjan Singh’s soon to be daughter-in-law. By divine intervention Ajay & Vijay realize they are Karan Arjun, and return to their mother Durga in ‘Malakhera’ to take revenge upon Dhurjan Singh. Will Karan & Arjun succeed this time in defeating Dhurjan Singh?This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.

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Starring: AAMIR KHAN, KARISHMA KAPOOR, SURESH OBEROI,NAVNEET NISHAN, FARIDA JALAL, ARCHANA PURAN SINGHSynopsis: This is a story of a handsome young taxi driver Raja (Aamir Khan) who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl Aarti (Karishma Kapoor). Despite her family’s disapproval, Aarti marries Raja and goes to live with him in his village. Aarti’s stepmother, uncle and cousin weave a web of deception to split them apart. Will Aarti realize that her stepmother is deceiving her? Will Raja & Aarti ever get back together? Watch “Raja Hindustani” to find out!This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com’s standard return policy will apply.

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This time debutante director Pradeep Sarkar takes on the adaptation of Parineeta by joining hands with Vidhu Vinod Chopra production house. Chopra has a remarkable past record of good films to his credit and Sarkar comes from a background of advertising and directing music videos.

The film starts with Amitabh Bachchan’s poetic voiceover introducing 1962’s Calcutta(as called then) with sepia color tone welcoming us to the City of joy, of laureates, of processions & strikes, of the section of moderns highly influenced by British raj, of those eating paan & rasgullas, of the banks of Ganga river overlooking the symbolic Howrah bridge sliding into the world of Shekhar Rai(Saif Ali Khan) who is getting married to Gayatri Tantiya(Dia Mirza),a high society resident but his heart belongs to Lolita(debutante Vidya Balan) with whom he had shared the most memorable childhood and and many priceless moments.

He chooses to drift back in time taking the film in flashback mode when he as a kid was first introduced by his neighbour Koel(Raima Sen) to her cousin Lolita who after a sad demise of her parents was invited to stay with her maternal uncle. They hit it off from the very first moment… they evolve from neigbours to friends to lovers, an evolution so effortless and non-prentious.

A kind and favourite of all Lolita is free to walk into Shekhar’s room at any time of the day and has a key to his personal savings and he is free to call her anytime of the day to listen to his new musical score and even expects her to give inputs to make the tune more lilting which she happily does. Outside the world of this deep relationship of trust and unspoken rights over each other, there is a world where Shekhar’s aristocratic father(Sabyasachi Chakravarthy) , a very shrewd businessman lives and there is also Girish babu(Sanjay Dutt), a suave London-returned bachelor whose cheerful & generous heart falls for Lolita at first sight. Lolita’s call for her family duties and Shekhar’s transition from ‘just a Musician’ to ‘just a Buisnessman’ results in friction.

Some more trying times fall ahead which force one and all to take some stand in their lives which necessarliy not be pleasing to the other or oneself. So does one make a compromising decision and live with it for lifetime or is there some chance to revert back to where one’s soulmate resides?

BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL COLLECTION! Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) the daughter of singer Pandit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) loves his student, Sameer (Salman Khan). However, Vanraj (Ajay Devgan) sends his proposal to her father. Sameer and Nandini are caught romancing each other, and as a payment for teaching Sameer music, Darbar demands Sameer forget Nandita. After the marriage takes place, Vanraj comes to know about Nandini’s love for Sameer. He decides to unite the lovers even in the face of ridicule by society and takes Nandini to Italy to search for Sameer. They find Sameer… but Nandini is now torn between Vanraj, whom she has come to respect and Sameer, whom she loves.

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Would you believe the most enchanting musical of the year is an almost four-hour-long epic about a ragtag group of 19th-century Indian farmers who form a cricket team to take on an arrogant British captain? The old-fashioned Hollywood musical is alive and well in India’s Bollywood industry, where the joyful explosion of music and dance and innocent romance abounds in sweeping epics. In this infectious tale of bloodless revolution, the underdog outcasts and oddballs of a fractured village pull together into a unified team to take on the oppressive colonial Brits at their own game. Think The Longest Yard meets The Seven Samurai by way of Rudyard Kipling, with cricket bats, choreographed dance numbers, romantic triangles, and a rousing call to solidarity. There are no surprises, but what spirit, what color, what good fun! –Sean Axmaker

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Both stylish and stylized, Santosh Sivan’s Hindi epic Asoka tells the heavily fictionalized but nonetheless compelling story of India’s greatest emperor. In the third century B.C., the Mauryan king Asoka built a vast empire by means of ruthless conquest; but after the great Kalinga war he became sickened by the terrible slaughter he had caused, converted to Buddhism and dedicated the rest of his life to spreading peace and prosperity. The film, though, concerns itself only with Asoka’s rise to power, his love for the princess Kaurwaki, and his subsequent descent into brutality. Shah Rukh Khan is a brooding and temperamental prince who woos the lovely princess Kaurwaki (Kareena Kapoor) incognito and with the aid of the obligatory song-and-dance numbers. After a promising start involving mythic swords, heroic combat, and King Lear-like sibling rivalry, the film falls into a familiar Bollywood groove for a while until events overtake the unlucky lovers and Asoka (more…)

Starring: SHAH RUKH KHAN, AISHWARYA RAI, MADHURI DIXIT Synopsis: Devdas is the story of a love beyond all else, even life. The saga of a man called Devdas who loved, loved and just loved. Devdas shared a magnetic childhood with his lovely playmate Paro where supreme love was felt before it was understood. When youth beckoned, the loved intensified. But, alas, a fateful moment of weakness on the part of Devdas created a permanent wall of separation between him and his beloved Paro. On one side of the wall was a heartbroken Paro who became the wife of another. And on the other, was a completely shattered Devdas. Unable to bear the agony of a life without Paro, Devdas made alcohol his constant companion. But that could not make him forget the piercing pain. Even the unflinching devotion of a beautiful courtesan Chandramukhi, did not ease the heartache of losing Paro. It was only when his eyes closed to a permanent sleep, did the pain begin to fade. But even before losing the (more…)

Aditya (Shahid Kapur), a defeated industrialist, is even more broken as the girl he loves is getting married. Unable to muster up the courage to return home, he drifts out of the gathering and aimlessly boards a train, bounding away into the night. As destiny would have it, on the train he meets Geet (Kareena Kapoor) (more…)