| Feature Films (Some made by Émigré directors and producers) |
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| The Apu Trilogy: |
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| Pather Panchali: Song of the Road |
[VHS] 791.43 P2977 |
| This is the story of a poor family in India and the misfortunes that befall them. It is the first film in the Apu trilogy. |
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| Aparajito; The Unvanquished |
[VHS] 791.43 A6392 |
| After moving his family to Benares, Apu's father becomes ill and dies. Apu's mother works to support the family and Apu begins training for the priesthood. However, he wins a scholarship to the University of Calcutta and he finds his future lies not as a priest but as a man of Calcutta. |
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| The World of Apu |
[VHS] 791.43 W9273 |
| Visiting the wedding of a friend's sister, Apu, a struggling writer from Calcutta, finds himself the bridegroom when the husband-to-be goes insane just before the ceremony. Aparna, Apu's wife, dies in childbirth and Apu is shattered. He refuses to see his son and wanders alone through the country. Five years later, he returns to his son. |
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| Bandit Queen |
[DVD] 791.43 B2146 |
| Phoolan Devi was a murderer, kidnapper and living folk legend who had endured a life of rape and abuse after being sold into marriage at the age of eleven. A spree of murders known as the Behmai Massacre to avenge the death of her lover made Devi the object of a police hunt. In prison from 1983 until 1994, she spent years being prosecuted by the Indian police, only to be turned into a legend by the Indian press. This true story shocked the world and brought the Indian government to its knees. |
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| Bend it like Beckham |
[DVD] 791.43.B4583 |
| Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team. |
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| The Clay Bird |
[DVD] 791.43 C6192 |
| Set against the backdrop of Pakistan during the turbulent 1960's, a family is ripped apart by religious beliefs and civil war. A young boy from Bangladesh is sent away by his Muslim father to a Madrassah. He struggles to adapt to a harsh monastic life. |
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| Lagaan |
[VHS] 791.43 L1722 |
| An arrogant British Army captain forces a bet on a group of farmers. If they can win a cricket match against the army team, they will not have to pay the tax called lagaan for three years. |
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| The Mahabharata |
[DVD] 791.43 M2143
[VHS] 791.43 M2143 |
| This film is a dramatized version of the great Indian classic. It portrays the world of The Mahabharata with its profound storytelling power and spiritual import; within it a civilization rises, falls and is reborn. |
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| Monsoon Wedding |
[DVD] 791.43 M7555 |
| You are invited to join the festivities as one colorful and eclectic family gathers from all over the world for a traditional wedding - a non-stop four-day celebration as unpredictable as the monsoon season itself. Anything goes when love, lust, hope and happiness take them by storm and bring them ever closer. With this family, when it rains, it pours. |
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| Phorpa/The Cup |
[VHS] 791.43 C9741 |
| Comedy set in 1996 about a group of boys in a Tibetan monastery-in-exile in India who are determined to watch the World Cup soccer tournament. |
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| Salaam Bombay |
[VHS] 791.43 S1592 |
| Krisha, a ten year old boy, has been abandoned in Bombay by his mother. He tries to earn money to go home while he lives in the streets. |
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| Water |
[VHS] 791.43 P2977 |
| A Hindu widow in 1938 could throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre, marry her husband's younger brother or live in poverty and self-denial from then on. When eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed, she is sent to a home in the Holy City of Varanasi where Hindu widows live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices, especially a young woman who has fallen in love with a follower of Gandhi. |
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| English and American Feature Films about the Indian Sub-Continent |
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| Gandhi |
[VHS] 791.43 G1956
[DVD] 791.43 G1956 |
| Tells the story of Gandhi's adult life, when he led an entire country to freedom, using non-violent methods. |
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| The Jewel in the Crown |
[VHS] 791.43 J593
[DVD] 791.43 J593 |
| This multipart film – seen on Masterpiece Theatre -tells the epic story of men and women caught up in a struggle of race and class during the last five years of British rule in India. |
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| The Namesake |
[DVD] 791.43 N1747 |
| The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways. |
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| Passage to India |
[DVD] 791.43 P2852 |
| While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancée, becomes appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over- stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young girl. |
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| Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King |
[DVD] 791.43 M26688 |
| Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan leave 19th century India and set out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold and priceless rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god. |
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| Documentaries |
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| The Bomb Under the World |
[VHS] 338.9 B6953 |
| An ornately decorated elephant leads a parade through an Indian village, in a promotional campaign for soap. Consumer society is coming, and India's growing population looks for the same goods and a similar living standard as the West enjoys as the film examines the consequences of Western-style consumerism in a large developing country. |
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| Discovering music: music of India |
[VHS] 780.89 D611426 |
| The film describes the two main types of Indian music, the Carnatic of the south and the Hindustani of the north, dating back more than three thousand years. The film demonstrates the use of a wide variety of simple and complex instruments. |
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| India the Empire of the Spirit |
[VHS] 930.1 I393 |
| Looks at how ancient India is with us today in the living tradition of the Hindu religion, the basis of Indian culture. Also describes how India has kept true to its ancient tradition of non-violence and spiritual search, even as it became part of the modern world. |
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| Raga |
[VHS] 780.89 R1412 |
| The film illustrates the complex Raga system of music and its foundation on simple folk songs and Hindu religious chants. It includes a performance of the devotional morning Raga Sindh Bhairavi, played by sitarist Halim Jaffer Khan. |
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| Tigers: Tracking a Legend |
[DVD] 599.756 T5663 |
| Join a tiger tracker and his son on their trusted elephant as they venture into a wild paradise for an intimate look at the lives of the Bengal tigers. |
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| Music CDs |
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| Bhangra fever |
[CD] 780.89 B575 |
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| Lakshmi Shankar/Chants de Devotion |
[CD] 780.89 S5284ch |
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| The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 5, South Asia, the Indian Subcontinent |
[CD] 780.89 G233 v.5 |
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| Movie Mahal: Golden voices from the Silver Screen |
[CD] 780.89 G618 |
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| U Srinivas/ Modern Mandolin Maestro |
[CD] 780.89 U867mo |
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| Pandit Ravi Shankar |
[CD] 780.89 S5287pa |
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| Passages: Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass |
[CD] 780.89 S5287pas |
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| Rag Madhuvanti; Rag Misra Tilang Shiv Kumar Sharma |
[CD] 780.89 S531ra |
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| Rag Marwa/Rag Misra Shivaranjani Ali Akbar Khan |
[CD] 780.89 K453ra |
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| Sarangi the music of India / Ustad Sultan Khan |
[CD] 780.89 K455sa |
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| Three ragas Ustad Ali Akbar Khan |
[CD] 780.89 K453th |
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| L'art de l'alghoza du Sind Pakistan Khamisu Khan, Nazir Khan |
[CD] 780.89 K454ar |
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