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• Mr And Mrs Iyer | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Meenakshi Iyer is travelling on a bus with her infant child when it is stopped by an angry mob looking for Muslims. Sitting with Meenkashi is a Muslim man who fears for his life and so she passes him off as her husband.

• Raincoat | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  One afternoon can prove to be greater than a lifetime.... All he wanted was to see her just once. Manu was from a village in the backwoods Neeru was the girl next door his lost love. No one supported him in his desire neither his family nor his friends. After all she was the woman who had broken his heart and married for money when all he had to offer were his dreams. He came from his small village to the big city of Kolkata with hope in his heart. His pockets were empty and he was desperate for employment. He found his way to her house on a wet afternoon in a borrowed raincoat. She met him draped in silk and shrouded by darkness in a strange gloomy house crowded with furniture. There in the dark hidden from the world by the rain the two relived their past...

• Zubeidaa | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Palaces, princesses and politics--on the face of it Indian art cinema doyen Shyam Benegal's maiden foray into Bollywood, Zubeidaa, appears to have all the ingredients of a mainstream success. However, the film is at best an uneasy blend of art-house sensibilities with the full-on spectacle that is commercial Hindi cinema. This is the latest in a series of semi-autobiographical stories by writer Khalid Mohamed that have been directed by Benegal. Here the director charts the story of Zubeidaa, a young aristocratic Muslim woman, whose promising film career is cut short. She is married off young, has a son, is divorced and finally finds love with the married ruler of a princely state in newly independent India. Told in flashback, the film's structure and some key scenes are very similar to the director's masterpiece Bhumika ("The Role", 1976). Karisma Kapoor, hitherto known for her scantily clad raunchy roles, makes her bid for artistic credentials as the eponymous heroine. But much like the film itself, her performance falls between two stools. Veteran actress Rekha who plays her paramour's first wife easily outclasses her in a graceful yet forceful performance. AR Rahman's music is haunting, dreamy and helps create a mood and ambience that the visuals fail to produce. On the DVD: Zubeidaa is presented in a pleasing anamorphic transfer with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. While the menus are easy enough to navigate, the extras are disappointing, consisting of a faded theatrical trailer and a few television promos complete with dropouts. The subtitling, though largely accurate, makes quite a few errors. For example "cemetery" appears as "symmetry" while the word "diary" consistently appears as "dairy". --Naman Ramachandran

• Tumsa Nahin Dekha | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tumsa Nahin Dekha

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