"Actor: Raghuvir Yadav"

• Lagaan | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  India, 1893. The farmers in a small village confront their British overlords when double taxes are demanded. To settle the dispute the British suggest a cricket match.

• 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

• Asoka | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £3.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This film is inspired by the legendary Indian King Asoka, who went from bloodstained warrior to spreading the word of Buddha across the world.

• Salaam Bombay! | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (66.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) adds her angry voice to the cinema of forgotten children in this wrenching drama of an 11-year-old boy (real-life street child Shafiq Syed) who heads to the big city and joins a sea of homeless children and down-and-out adults scrambling to survive the pitiless streets. The fantasy of Bollywood dreams hangs just out of reach in posters movies and radio tunes momentary respites from the hard reality of a world ruled by brutal pimps and drug dealers. Academy Award nominated for Best Foreign Language Film this is a gritty look into the underbelly and plight of Bombay's poor street children who call the gutters of its filthy urban streets home. It is filled with the sights and sounds of this urban nightmare. This highly acclaimed film allows the viewer a peek at another culture only to find that basic human needs and desires are universal.

• Dil Se | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A story of obsessive love focusing on the conflicts of love and duty - set against the fantastic scenery of Northern India.

• 1942 A Love Story | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It was August 1942. The 'Quit India' movement had gathered momentum. Protesters all over the country came out in large numbers and the thunderous cry of 'quit India' echoed across the nation The response of the British became increasingly brutal and what followed was savage repression leading to unprecedented violence lathi charges and ruthless firing on unarmed protesters. The country was quickly engulfed in flames and Kasauni a small town in the Himalayan foothills was no exc

• Meenaxi-Tale of 3 Cities | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Nawab a popular novelist of Hyderabad is suffering from the classic case of a writer's block. Five years have elapsed. Stories of substance seem to have dried up. Almost providentially Nawab comes across Meenaxi at a traditional qawwali ceremony. The young woman is enigmatic and individualistic. She's not quite willing to perform the part of a passive muse. Meenaxi assumes different personae. She can be the mysterious perfume trader of Hyderabad the exotic desert bloom of Jaisalmer and the orphaned Maria of Prague. Inexorably she consolidates her command over the novelist. She dismisses his renewed attempts at writing as insubstantial and hackneyed plunging him into a state of deeper despair. She is scathingly critical about his story and is amused by one of the characters he creates the lovelorn and awkward kaameshwar. Nawab strives to start on a new page all over again. Meenaxi comments that perhaps the book is in vain. In any case it is much too late. The writer must survive and live if he can without her support inspiration and criticism. Delving into the limitless world of creative endeavour and the vicissitudes in the way of such endeavours Meenaxi : Tale of 3 Cities approaches myriad aspects the relationship between art the real and the imagined being just one of them.

• Rawander | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.97   |  Saving you £9.02 (82.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on a true story that sent shock waves through India in 1992 this drama concerns Sanwari (Nandita Das) a lower-caste woman with a husband Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav) and two children who is raising her family in a rural village. While it's generally Sanwari's nature to mind her own business and take care of her family when she sees a neighbor woman being mistreated by an man from the city's upper caste Sanwari is outraged and speaks out in public about the incident. Shobha (Deepti Naval) a social worker is impressed by Sanwari's conviction and hires her as an assistant as the Indian government begins implementing a program to give greater rights and protection to Indian women. While she's timid at first Sanwari soon comes to value her work as a feminist activist but as she becomes more outspoken against sexism and abuse of caste position she earns the enmity of many powerful men in the community. First Sanwari and her family are shunned by the local leaders and then a group of men from the town's leadership take their revenge by subjecting Sanwari first to a savage beating and then to a gang rape. Sanwari Shobha and Sohan refuse to be intimidated or silenced and when the local leadership refuses to bring Sanwari's attackers to justice they bring the crime to the attention of the national media leading people across the country to demand justice for Sanwari -- and for women all over India.

• Agni Varsha | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Kahan Ho Tum | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Kahan Ho Tum is the story of three friends Jai, Rakesh and Karan who get caught up in a crime they did not commit. Unaware that they are under suspicion in the murder of a tribal beauty they had playfully chased while on a trek in the deep jungles, they continue with their normal existence in the city until Mansi, a filmaker, arrives on the scene to look for Jai. Mansi discovers to her horror that Jai has been missing for a long time. ; ; Were Karan and Rakesh as innocent as they claimed t...