Sumitra Bhave

A filmmaker visualizes a British Raj Prince tale. The tale concerns a Prince married to his mother's niece. The king comes to the court-singer, though.

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When Sukhatme's youngest son narrowly fails his entrance exams, the family are presented with a financial and moral conundrum.

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A bus conductor from India and his family struggle to deal with a ridiculously large electricity bill they have been sent by mistake.

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Savitri, a young girl, revolts against the age-old custom of arranged marriages. Despite facing troubles, she manages to convince an entire village about the upshots of pre-planned matches.

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Neeraja has vitiligo, a skin disease that makes her a social outcast. She faces many challenges in her life but with her will power, she overcomes them all.

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A young girl is forced to live apart from her family because of suspicions that she is a witch.

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Devrai depicts a story of a man who suffers from schizophrenia and is struggling to come to terms with his illness and the frustration of his helpless sister.

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School kids who feel discriminated against must learn to channel their righteous indignation in a positive way.

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Dr. Bhaskar, a Magsaysay Award winner, returns to his native village after forty years accompanied by his doctor son and American daughter-in-law. While watching the ruins of his ancestral manor, Dr. Bhaskar remembers the critical year before his joining medical college. It was not his Gandhian freedom fighter father nor his feudal uncle or romantic elder brother, but his mother who motivated him to be a doctor for the service of the poor. She believed that is the only way to appease the Guardian Spirit of the house. Bhaskar is indebted to another woman, Krishnatai, his brother's lower caste lover, who was enlightened enough to support his mother's dream. Bhaskar is now back home to fulfill the wish of his mother

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When a young Indian landscape designer finds out that an emergency transfusion has left her boyfriend infected with HIV, she becomes obsessed with finding the source of the tainted blood. Her search will take her into every strata of Indian society, from the quiet office of the respected doctor who performed the operation, to the teeming slums that are home to the desperate poor who have nothing to sell but their blood. Her story is paralleled by the tale of two young male lovers torn apart by society’s demands and their dread of this new disease, and a young slum dweller who refuses to let fear destroy his compassion.

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The story of two sisters in a poor rural family in India as their family struggles to come to terms with compromises that they have to make in order to survive. Their father's illness forces the eldest sister to go to the big city to work as a prostitute, allowing her to send money home so the rest of the family can live in relative ease. The return of that sister to the village to attend the younger sister's wedding results in a showdown in the family, bringing to the surface the struggles and double standards of the parents in their willingness to accept money from the elder sister but at the same time wanting her to go away so as not to "spoil" their name and remind them of their guilt in forcing her into her city life and the moral compromises that they have made.

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