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• Salaam Bombay! | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £20.97   |  Saving you £-7.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Meera Nair's Salaam Bombay was her first film, and one of only three Indian films nominated for an Oscar (the others being Mother India and Lagaan). The deceptively simple documentary style hides a meticulously planned feature in which nothing is left to chance. Real street kids play the leads alongside veteran actors, such as Nana Patekar and Shaukat Azmi, as we follow Chaipau, the urchin who wants to save his 500 rupees to "go home", and his encounters with prostitutes, thugs and drug addicts among whom he finds love and companionship. The story avoids sentimentality by endowing the characters with humanity while never romanticising their plight. Nair eschews the obvious "city of contrasts" theme, presenting only the view from the street, shooting in real locations of Grant Road and its environs. This is one of the greatest presentations of Bombay to date, comparable across genres to Raghu Rai's photography or Vikram Chandra's fiction. On the DVD: Salaam Bombay on DVD includes a compelling scene-by-scene commentary, in which Nair discusses the problems of location shooting, training the children and the impact of the film on the lives of so many of its characters. The film is in Hindi with English subtitles. --Rachel Dwyer

• Karam | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Karam is the story of one man's retribution dealt to him by life a retribution born out of his dark past. John is an assassin who works for mob boss Captain. One fateful day John ends up massacring an entire family as he stares into the eyes of the little girl whose life is slowly ebbing away from her realization hits John and he decides to quit and start a life without bloodshed with his wife Shalini. But as per the karmic laws of life John's plan and life's plan are in direct o

• Aadmi Khilona Hai | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Verma family consists of two brothers Vijay and Sharad (Jeetendra and Govinda respectively) Vijay's wife Ganga (Reena Roy) and their daughter. Sharad is unmarried and is studying at college while Vijay runs the household on his income. In college Sharad meets with Punam (Meenakshi Sheshadhri) and both are attracted to each other. Ganga and Vijay get them married but permit them a married life only after they complete their studies which they do so. They are devastated to learn that Punam cannot be a mother so Ganga lets Punam mother her child. Soon Sharad gets a job which gets him to re-locate to another city and there are tearful good-byes. Punam decides to keep Ganga's child with her. But Ganga has been kind to Punam and Sharad for a reason and now the time has come for payback...