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Prarambha, the beginning (2007)Prarambha - The Beginning, directed by renowned cinematographer and director Santosh Sivan, features the South Indian Superstar Prabhudeva as a truck driver who discovers a little boy in the back of his van. The boy is on a journey to find his mother, who left him upon discovering that she was HIV + |
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Positive (2007)Farhan Akhtar is one of India's most prominent young filmmakers. His film, Positive, follow the story of a young boy and his parents and how they cope with the devastation that AIDS can visit on a family. The film stars Boman Irani, Shabana Azmi and Arjun Mathur. |
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Blood Brothers (2007)tags: AIDS drama short thriller Blood Brothers is directed by award-wining new wave director Vishal Bhardwaj (Omkara) stars Siddhartha (Rang de Basanti) as a young man who gets a positive HIV diagnosis, and allows his life to fall apart. Pankaj Kapoor plays his laconic doctor. |
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Taare Zameen Par (2007)tags: psychological Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class. |
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Destination Bangalore (2007)tags: documentary short Filmed over two weeks in Bangalore, India, filmmaker Jim Kerns searched for the heart and soul of a city that the U.S. media portrays as merely a technological haven for American corporate outsourcing. |
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Punching at the Sun (2006)tags: drama Punching at the Sun is a crackling, emotionally-charged dream ride through the streets of Elmhurst, Queens. It is a tale of rage and redemption as seen through the fiery eyes of Mameet Nayak: a headstrong Indian teen lost in the shadow of his brother's death. |
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The Namesake (2006)tags: wedding While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. |
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Nalini by day, Nancy by night (2005)tags: documentary outsourcing short Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night is a documentary on outsourcing of American jobs to India. |
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Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)NINA'S HEAVENLY DELIGHTS (PG)is a surprising love story where Scottish humour meets Bollywood spectacle! It follows the mixed fortunes of a Glaswegian family, THE SHAHS and their award winning Indian restaurant, THE NEW TAJ. |
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13th floor (2006)tags: drama psychological Life can take you to many levels… which one do you want to go to... Mumbai city- huge population- so many people - so many - busy lives - dreams- opportunities- careers- fast lives- not enough time- difficult relationships etc. This story is about two strangers, thrown together in a strange situation. One evening, in a corporate office building,due to a major power failure, two people happen to find themselves stuck together in an elevator- a young man and a slightly older woman. There seems to be no one else around- no one in the building and no help seems to be coming their way. |

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