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Adla Badli

Ram (Viju Khote) and Shaam (Anand Abhyankar) are business partners who have an unusual habit to bet with each other on human tendencies. According to Ram, a human tends to behave as per the situation around him, whereas Shaam believes that no matter what the situation is, it cannot change the core of human's nature.For a small bet, they create situations where in their honest, successful employee Vaibhav (Sachin Pilgaonkar) is forced to see a world of poverty, whereas, a laid back beggar named Chandu (Ashok Saraf) gets to live a life of a rich businessman. Vaibhav realizes the true value of humanity while Chandu comes across the lack of humanity in high society.Eventually Chandu and Vaibhav learn about the bet. They decide to even the scores by teaching Ram and Shaam a lesson in their own ways. Will the rich duo realize their wrong doings.

Adla Badli

NR 2008
Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein

Kabir sang his poems in the market place, his spirituality firmly grounded in the public square. 600 years after his time, this 15th century Indian mystic poet’s legacy can be found in both spaces – sacred and secular. This film interweaves the deification of Kabir by a religious sect with his secular appropriation by a social activist group. The story unfolds through the life of Prahlad Tipanya, a Dalit singer whose participation in both domains begins to raise difficult questions for him about ritual and organized religion.

Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein

NR 2009
A Mirror of Imagination

In a quest to explore the impact of India's Partition on the classical music traditions of South Asia, Delhi-based filmmaker Yousuf Saeed spent about 6 months in Pakistan in 2005. After traveling in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad - interviewing musicians and scholars, attending music concerts, and observing the teaching of music in various institutions, Yousuf not only documented some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of classical music, but also raised many vital questions, about cultural identity, nationalism, legitimacy of music in Islam, Pakistan's popular culture and its affairs with India, and the survival of classical music itself in South Asia. This quest has resulted in a musical documentary film, Khayal Darpan, featuring some well-known as well as many lesser known but talented musicians of Pakistan.

A Mirror of Imagination

NR 2006
Kalpavriksha

A film on medicinal plants, indigenous people and traditional medicines. India is one of the richest bio-diversity hotspots in the world, supporting over 45,000 species of plants both agricultural and medicinal.The film explores and brings out the essence of the interdependence and the way of living of tribal communities that have since time immemorial depended on the forest for all their needs, including healing. It looks into the philosophy of traditional medicinal practices and discusses what further steps and measures are required to conserve and protect the medicinal heritage that is ours.

Kalpavriksha

NR 2000
Snapshots from a Family Album

An intimate look at parents, family and relationships from the point of view of a filmmaker son. After graduating from film school, the director captured his parents on film over a period of five years. Quiet moments at home, random conversations, festival prayers; all the myriad events that comprise family life were lovingly and unflinchingly recorded. The film chronicles the challenges of having parents living and working in different cities – Delhi and Bombay – just as the filmmaker faces his own challenges, settling into his career as a cinematographer of documentaries and ‘arty’ films, as perceived by his family.

Snapshots from a Family Album

NR 2004
The Life

How long could a father work and bring up his children is the central theme of the movie Me-tse. During the early years of Tibetans' life in exile in India, many of them had a hard time fighting poverty and other related issues. Me-tse is the story of one such family, Jamyang's — with his wife Dolma and two sons Londhen and Gonpo. Jamyang runs a noodle factory partially owned by his colleague Phuntsok. The money he makes out of this business is so meagre that it is sufficient only for daily living expenses. He works extra hours to earn more and save for his sons' future. Londhen, the elder son, is not so bright in studies. He discontinues his studies and joins a tailoring institute with the help of Jamyang's financial assistance. The younger son Gonpo is good at his studies so he gets a place in an engineering college. The remaining story deals with how the future of the two sons develops, and how they handle the responsibility of taking care of their old father.

The Life

NR 2007
Thambivudaiyan

Thambividaiyan', the film which has been courting controversy ever since it was launched early this year, is releasing this week. The story revolves around the difficulties and tough times faced by the farmers of Cauvery Delta in and around the Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu. Some romance too has been sprinkled in good measure to make the film more interesting. To star in the film in the lead role, Tamilvanan approached in vain all heroes, right from When the film was viewed by the screening committee of the Censor Board, it objected to 'certain violent sequences' depicting the farmers' turmoil in a rather forceful manner. When the Board advised the producer to cut down some 'sequences', the latter refused to do so, prompting the Board to promptly ban the movie altogether.

Thambivudaiyan

NR 2009