Best From Prithvi Theater (Set Of 5 DVD's)  (DVD Hindi)

36 CHOWRINGHEE LANE
36 Chowringhee Lane is a very sensitive account of a lonely old Anglo Indian lady (Violet) living in Calcutta. In the tiem of this film India has been independent from the British Raj for about 30 years. A new Indian identity is emerging. Calcutta has a cosmopolitan young culture well versed with the west. However in this culture Violet has no place she is an outsider. Anglo Indian were given jobs in the Civil Service Army Customs Railway (as in the case of Violets father) and other plum governent jobs. When India became independent this privilege was withdrawn. These jobs were thrown open to the wider populace (as one character moans -even the natives are getting educated now). Most of the Anglo Indians left India and settled jn USA UK and Australia. Violet lived in these changing times. Her family are dead and she tends to their graves with care. Her only surviving relative is an infirm brother and she had lost her betrothed to the War. Yet she struggles on in life with fortitude and without bitterness. She loves the country she was born in and treats everyone with kindness. As her age creeps up on her she realises that the new times have no place for her. Her naivety and her emotional weakness is exposed and she is left pondering her future in a Anglo Indians after their privileged status was withdrawn by history and some were left to fend for themselves.
JUNOON
The film is set at the time of the 1857 Mutiny and has a love story woven into the fabric of the tale. Javed Khan (Shashi Kapoor) is a Pathan whose wife (Shabana Azmi) is still to bear a child. Javed falls madly in love with a half caste Angelo Indian girl Ruth (Nafisa Ali) who lives with her mother (Jennifer Kendall). After Javeds brother in law (Naseeruddin Shah) and a banmutineers attack and massacre the English garrison Javed takes the women under his protection. Marriage with Ruth is impossible as his family objects to the English woman becoming his second wife. In the climax Javed is killed and Ruth returns to Britain where she dies an old maid. The human story is interlinked with the fortunes of the war. The film is based on a short story The Flight to Pigeons which in inspired by the memories of an English woman a survivor of the Mutiny.
UTSAV
Utsav is based on a classical tale of love and romance and political drama "Mrichchakatika" by poet Bhasa. It is a story of a passionate love between Vasantasena (played by Rekha) a beautiful and renowned courtesan of Ujjain and Chardutt (played by Shekhar Suman) a poor married Brahmin. Interesting drama unfolds resulting in confusion and calamities. The brother in law of the king Samsthanak (played by Shashi Kapoor) is in pursuit of Vasantasena. On one hand Aryak (played by Kunal Kapoor) a political revolutionary plots to depose the king on the other hand Vatsyayana (played by Amjad Khan) complies his masterpiece on erotics the Kamasutra. The plots thicken and come to a climax when Charudutt is accused of murder and sentenced to die.
KALYUG
Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand a life long bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the older son of RAmchand begets two sons Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar) Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). The film is tale of intrigue plots and inevitable war between the two families. Another player in the families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn. Dhanraj's men accidentlly kill the young son of Balraj and to take revenge Bharatraj muders Karan. Quite a few skeletons from the family cupboard are brought out in the open that only adds to the tensions and hatred finally culinating in the destruction of the two families making us ponder on the brittleness of our moral fabric.
VIJETA
Angad Kunal Kpoor comes from a Hindu family that had pleged their eldest son to be the Sikh religion and accordingly Angad had adapted to the turban. He is in training to be a pilot for the Indian Air Force and he is afraid of flying. He is attracted to Anna Verghese Supriya Pathak who is the dagughter of his flying instructor Amrish Puri. Angad must learn to adapt to flying leaving his mom and dad for long periods of time as well as try and woo Anna.