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AIDS JAAGO
Four short fictions urgently address India's alarming rate of Aids cases, within star-laden entertainment. In The Beginning, a truck driver (Prabhu Deva) meets a boy searching for the mother who left him when she learned they were HIV-positive. In Blood Brothers, Siddarth plays an HIV-positive man whose life falls apart. In Migration, Mumbai go-getter Abhay leads a double life, with his wife, Divya, and a gay lover. Impoverished farmer Birju impregnates the neglected Divya, while his own wife and baby test positive. In Positive, a son returns home to nurse his once-philandering father, who is dying from Aids.
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BEFORE THE RAINS
In 1930s, British-ruled Kerala, ambitious British spice trader Henry Moores (Linus Roache) gets a bank loan to build a connecting road into Kerala’s hinterland, which will enhance his business. When his wife and son are away on holiday, he starts a torrid affair with his Indian housemaid, Sajani (Nandita Das). As the affair is revealed, he seeks help from his farm assistant T. K. (Rahul Bose), who belongs to Sajani’s tribe. T. K. soon finds himself caught in a terrible dilemma.
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FROZEN
In remote, snow-lined Ladakh, Karma (Danny Denzongpa), an apricot jam-maker, lives with his imaginative and impulsive teenage daughter, Lasya (Gauri), and her younger brother, Chomo (Angchuk). The three live a sparse, close-knit family existence in a deserted hamlet hemmed in by harsh, barren land and snow-capped Himalayan mountains. One day the Indian army arrives, basing their camp just hundred yards away from Karma’s home, and the family’s daily life becomes one of ceaseless, irreversible conflict.
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LAL PAHARE’R KATHA (A Story Of The Red Hills)
The film centres on Manohar (Mithun Chakravarty), a revered Chhou (a form of tribal dance) performer from Bengal’s Purulia region. His art supersedes his feelings for a young girl, Maloti (Moumita Gupta). When Manohar is away on a dance tour, Maloti is forced into marriage with Shib (Shankar Chakravarty). She gives birth to Felai, a physically handicapped child. In the entertainment world, the more melodramatic dance form of Jatra is replacing Chhou – and both are endangered by the lure of cinema. Ashamed of his handicapped son, Shib tries to kill him. The boy is saved by Manohar, who raises him and, in doing so, picks up the pieces of his life. Manohar’s backing helps Felai (Kayyum Ali) respond to Chhou rhythms. As he grows into manhood, can Felai recover from his infirmity and restore Chhou in all its splendour?
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LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS
In a small New Jersey town, the lives of seven strangers collide over three days as they take part in a Bollywood-style singing contest. They are a motley lot: a ruthless philanthropist, a gay bhangra rapper, an over-protected prodigy, a reckless actress, a lovelorn businessman, an entrepreneurial yogi – and a Loin King.
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