"The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mina Nair's Mississippi Masala, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner (Denzel Washington), their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with bighearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love's power"--Container

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small town

Set amidst the ethnic cleansing and general chaos that accompanied India's partition in 1947, this sweeping drama stars Irrfan Khan, as a Sikh attempting to forge a new life for his family while keeping their true identities a secret from their community.

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• Disc 2. Special features ; Making of Haider ; Deleted scenes.

Vishal Bhardwaj's adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', Haider - a young man returns home to Kashmir on receiving news of his father's disappearance. Not only does he learn that security forces have detained his father for harboring militants, but that his mother is in a relationship with his very own uncle. Intense drama follows between mother and son as both struggle to come to terms with news of his father's death. Soon Haider learns that his uncle is responsible for the gruesome murder, what follows is his journey to avenge his father's death--Container.

A young man is torn between his mystic, shamanic calling and the utter lowliness of his particular caste--the rules of this caste being rigidly forced upon him by his own parents.

"Yamuna, a young [widow], stays in an orthodox agrahara with her father Udupa, who runs a veda pathashala. Nani, the new entrant to the school, likes her whereas the other pupils dislike her. On the sly, Yamuna befriends the village school teacher and becomes pregnant. She desperately tries to get rid of pregnancy before the orthodox people of the agrahara come to know of it. Her efforts go in vain. Nani in his ... innocent way tries to help her out. But soon the entire village comes to know about Yamuna's relationship. Terming it 'immoral' they decide to outcast her by performing Ghatashraaddha ritual."--Container.

People resent the romance of a black man and an Indian woman in a Mississippi town. Directed by Mira Nair.
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Lavish action-filled account of the separation, separate lives, and eventual reunion of three brothers: one raised by a Hindu policeman, one raised by a Muslim tailor, and one raised by a Catholic priest.

Banned in India, this film was the first to confront lesbianism in that country.

Dramatization of the plight of north India's Muslim minority during the Partition upheavals. A Muslim shoe factory owner must decide whether to emigrate to newly-formed Pakistan or remain in his ancestral home and business.

A 1960s filmic manifesto on the liberation struggle being waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical model.

Inspired by the mining accident at the Chashal Mines in Bihar, it tells the story of a miner, Vijay, who teams up with an engineer and a runaway convict to warn the mine's greedy, unscrupulous owners of a coming disaster. When the disaster occurs, they must fight to save the lives of trapped miners.