"Actor: Dhritiman Chatterjee"

• The Stranger | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (18.63%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Stranger (Agantuk) sees Anila receiving a letter from a man claiming to be her uncle a man who disappeared 35 years prior. He turns up at her family home professing to be an anthropologist a globally seasoned traveller en route from the United States to Australia. The family are suspicious of the stranger believing him to be an imposter with a financial scam to sell. After a grilling from the family's lawyer he leaves as unexpectedly as he arrives leaving behind a stunned family and some very insightful observations. Widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema and the last of the Bengali renaissance movement begun at the start of the 19th century Satyajit Ray was a giant of Indian cinema. Directing 37 films during his lifetime he was also a critically lauded writer publisher illustrator graphic designer and film critic... as well as recipient of more than 30 Indian National Films Awards a winner of numerous international film festivals - including Berlin Venice and Cannes - and an honorary Academy Award recipient in 1992.

• Black | DVD | (02/04/2005) from £6.66   |  Saving you £2.33 (34.98%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Transcending the barrier of language this is a film that explores human relationships gratitude love and sacrifice... Debraj Sahani is a teacher to Michelle McNally who is both deaf mute and blind he meets her as an eight year old who doesn't understand anything. She is violent confused and unable to comprehend her life. Her world is 'Black'. Debraj leads her from this darkness and confusion into light and hope how he makes her discover her an identity this makes her feel human rather than someone inferior with a disability. He is her teacher her guru the one who leads her from the darkness into the light....

• 36 Chowringhee Lane | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £16.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (15.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Violet Stoneham (Jennifer Kendall) is an elderly school-teacher whose life consists of a series of little routines - her walk in the park church on Sundays feeding her beloved cat Sir Toby visiting her brother in an old-age home and teaching Shakespeare to generations of insensitive students. When a new principal takes over in school she is relegated to drilling younger students in the elements of English grammar as the new incumbent considers Miss Stoneham's views outdated. Her bewilderment and grief leave her especially vulnerable on Christmas Eve as she walks back from church. A chance meeting with a former student Nandita Roy (Debashree Roy) and her jovial fianc'' Samaresh Moitra (Dhritiman Chatterjee) cheers her up and she feels she has found friends at last. But this young couple is like all middle-class lovers in an Indian city - looking for a place to be alone. Miss Stoneham's apartment seems ideal. The story winds to its poignant heart-rending finale as Miss Stoneham realizes the true nature of love friendship and exploitation.

• Junoon | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1857: the first shot is fired in the Indian mutiny against British colonisation. The bloody events which follow provide the dramatically atmospheric for this star-crossed lovers story in which Muslim rebel Javed Khan (Shashi Kapoor) develops a passionate almost obsessive love for Ruth (Nafisa Ali) a beautiful English girl. As their tragic relationship unfolds and the rebellion surges around them Javed's fiery brother-in-law to impress upon him where his true loyalties should lie...

• 15 Park Avenue | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  15 Park Avenue