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• Bombay Talkie | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bombay Talkie is Merchant Ivory's affectionate bemused view of bollywood - India's huge dream factory. The film is like a brightly coloured sumptuous Indian sweet covered in gold foil and cameraman Subrata Mitra's ravishing photography has never been surpassed in any other of James Ivory's films. The story set off by elaborate studio numbers is a melodrama echoing those of Bombay's mass audience movies and the sexy best sellers of the film's heroine American authoress Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal). Visiting India in search of 'new material' she becomes romantically involved with handsome move star Vikram (Shashi Kapoor). When that doesn't work out she flees to an ashram to take up the spiritual life. That also - hilariously - doesn't work out and the ill-fated couple get together again with explosive results.

• Baaz | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the 16th Century India Baaz is the story of Prince Ravi (Guru Dutt) who lives with his mother the Queen in Malabar. Since the Portuguese traders have practically begun to rule the state the royal family has been reduced to mere figureheads. Nisha (Geeta Bali) is the daughter of a revolutionary who along with her father is arrested by the Portuguese and sold as slaves on a ship. Witnessing the killing of her father she becomes a revolutionary herself fights the Portuguese takes over the ship and ultimately becomes the leader of her group. Each time she attacks a Baaz (falcon) comes and sits on her shoulder and hence her group is named BAAZ. Meanwhile Prince Ravi is travelling by a Portuguese ship to Portugal to get crowned by their Queen. Nisha and her group attack the ship but Ravi is unharmed because he is Indian. Nisha also realises that he is the same man she had met on an earlier occassion when sparks flew... The attraction ignited again is mutual and Ravi not only romances her but also helps her to come ashore and start to fight against the Portuguese not revealing his royal identity. Will Nisha ever get to know? How will she reconcile her love and her mission?

• Kaagaz Ke Phool | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99