"Actor: Geetanjali"

• Hotel Salvation (DVD) | DVD | (26/02/2018) from £5.90   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A warm tale of life and relationships, embedded in Indian culture and Hindu rituals. Daya, a 77-year-old father, and Rajiv, his over-worked accountant son, journey to the eponymous Hotel Salvation in the awe-inspiring holy city of Varanasi. Rajiv struggles with anxieties about his responsibilities back home, while Daya (whose prophetic dream about his own death led them there) starts to bloom in the hotel as he befriends a delightful widow. The simple pleasures of this timeless city are explored as father and son belatedly come to know each other in the enforced intimacy of their cramped hotel room and the teaming streets. With superb performances from renowned actors Adil Hussain (Life of Pi), Lalit Behl (Titli) and Geetanjali Kulkarni (Court), this gentle and tender multi award-winning film will make you laugh and cry. Extras: Presented in High Definition Q+A with director Shubhashish Bhutiani and producer Sanjay Bhutiani (2017, 17 mins) Kush (2013, 20 mins): director Shubhashish Bhutiani's award-winning short film Varanasi (1901, 2 mins): archive film shot on the banks of the holy city of Varanasi The Making of Hotel Salvation (2016, 11 mins) Original Trailer Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits

• Hotel Salvation (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/02/2018) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A warm tale of life and relationships, embedded in Indian culture and Hindu rituals. Daya, a 77-year-old father, and Rajiv, his over-worked accountant son, journey to the eponymous Hotel Salvation in the awe-inspiring holy city of Varanasi. Rajiv struggles with anxieties about his responsibilities back home, while Daya (whose prophetic dream about his own death led them there) starts to bloom in the hotel as he befriends a delightful widow. The simple pleasures of this timeless city are explored as father and son belatedly come to know each other in the enforced intimacy of their cramped hotel room and the teaming streets. With superb performances from renowned actors Adil Hussain (Life of Pi), Lalit Behl (Titli) and Geetanjali Kulkarni (Court), this gentle and tender multi award-winning film will make you laugh and cry. Extras: Presented in High Definition Q+A with director Shubhashish Bhutiani and producer Sanjay Bhutiani (2017, 17 mins) Kush (2013, 20 mins): director Shubhashish Bhutiani's award-winning short film Varanasi (1901, 2 mins): archive film shot on the banks of the holy city of Varanasi The Making of Hotel Salvation (2016, 11 mins) Original Trailer Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film and full film credits

• Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  BAHAREN PHIR BHI AAYENGI is on one hand a classic love triangle and on the other the triumph of truth. Amita (Mala Sinha) the editor of a newspaper fires her young reporter Jiten (Dharmendra) for his story about some corrupt but influential builders only to discover that his report is true. She hires him back and secretly falls in love with him but finds out that Jiten is in love with her own younger sister Sunita (Tanuja). Meanwhile the pressure from the board of directors to fire Jiten mounts as his stories get too uncomfortably close to the truth... One of Guru Dutt's last films Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi was under production when he died in 1964 and his brother Atma Ram completed the film casting Dharmendra in Guru Dutt's place. Guru Dutt had initially asked S.D. Burman to compose the music for the film subsequently replacing him with O.P. Nayyar. (Interestingly the Kishore Kumar solo Yeh Dil No Hota Bechara from Jewel Thief was rejected as the theme song for his film!). Apart from sensitive performances by Dharmendra Mala Sinha and Tanuja the film's music is one of O.P. Nayyar's best scores with such hits as Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (Mahendra Kapoor) Aap Ke Haseen (Mohd. Rafi) & Who Hans Ke Mile Humse often rated as one of Asha Bhonsle's 10 best songs.