"Actor: Sohrab Modi"

• Yahudi | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £6.49   |  Saving you £6.50 (100.15%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Injured by a Jewish child named Elijah Brutus has his soldiers arrest him and ignoring the father Ezra's pleas he has Elijah thrown to the lions. Ezra's servant Emmanuel breaks into Brutus' mansion and abducts his daughter Lydia and takes her to Ezra so that he could kill her. But a grieving Ezra decides to adopt her and re-names her Hannah. Years later the father and daughter are financially well off but people continue to be oppressed by the Romans. Hannah comes to the assistance of Julius Caesar's heir Marcus due to an accident with his chariot and he is smitten by her despite of his forthcoming marriage to Octavia. Unable to get her out of his mind he dons a Jewish guise calls himself Moshe and dramatically befriends her and Ezra.

• The Tiger And The Flame | DVD | (19/11/2013) from £6.94   |  Saving you £6.05 (87.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in India this lavish historical drama tells the story of Queen Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi who was one of the first Indians to rebel against the British Rule. Rani Laxmibai finds a prominent mention in history textbooks of India but Sohrab Modi's film takes an in-depth look on the entire biography of the queen; from her childhood to her death. The film opens with the Queen's childhood when she was known as Manu and had the courage to face an elephant. When the chief adviser of Jhansi Raj Guru (Sohrab Modi) sees her valour he asks Manu's father Moropant to get her married to the much older King of Jhansi Gangadhar Rao (Mubarak). So the 9-year-old Manu is married off to the 50-year-old Gangadhar. The story unfolds on the life of Manu her courage political ascensions and her struggles against rivals. Photographed by Ernest Heller (who had shot Gone with the Wind 1939) and was deftly cut by Russell Lloyd (The Man Who Would Be King 1975) this was the first Indian production to 'Go Hollywood'.

• Yahudi | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Based on Kashmiri's famous and often filmed play. This version is partially authenticated by former Parsee Theatre actor Modi's Prescence. The melodrama in fancy dress is set in ancient Rome. The infant son of Ezra The Jew is fed to the lions by Brutus's daughter Lydia whom Ezra renames Hannah and raises as his own child. The Roman Prince Marcus falls in love with Hannah by pretending to be Aommoner but he refuses to convert to Judaism in order to marry her when by royal decree Ma