Thread by @CinemaRareIN

50 years of Hindi alternative cinema.

Films from the arthouse, experimental, indie, Parallel and Middle Cinema movements, from 1969 to 2019.

Curated by @yooday and @jaiarjun for @livemint.

A thread..

Bhuvan Shome (1969) by Mrinal Sen.

Feat. Utpal Dutt, Suhasini Mulay, Shekhar Chatterji, Rochak Pandit, Sadhu Meher and Punyadas, with narration by @SrBachchan.

Streaming on @ErosNow and @JioCinema.

Youtube link:
(Via @rajshri )

Sara Akash (1969) by Basu Chatterjee.

Feat. Rakesh Pandey, Madhu Chakravarty, Nandita Thakur, A. K. Hangal, Dina Pathak, Jalal Agha and Mani Kaul.

Link

Uski Roti (1969) by Mani Kaul.

Feat. Gurdeep Singh, Garima, Richa Vyas and Savita Bajaj.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

Saat Hindustani (1969) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas.

Feat. @SrBachchan Madhu, Shehnaaz, Utpal Dutt, Irshad Ali, Anwar Ali, Jalal Agha, Dina Pathak, A. K. Hangal.

Streaming on @ZEE5India.

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Dastak (1970) by Rajinder Singh Bedi.

Feat. Sanjeev Kumar, Rehana Sultan @anjumahendroo Shakeela, Anwar Hussain, Manmohan Krishna and Kamal Kapoor.

Link

Koodal (1970) by Tyeb Mehta

A short feature by Mehta for @FilmsDivision on the synthesis of images.

Link

Anubhav (1971) by Basu Bhattacharya.

Feat. Sanjeev Kumar, Tanuja, Dinesh Thakur, AK Hangal, OP Kohli and Subir Sen.

Link:
(Via @ShemarooEnt )

Maya Darpan / The Illusory Mirror (1972) by Kumar Shahani.

Feat. Aditi, Anil Pandya, Kanta Vyas and Iqbalnath Kaul.

Link:

Abid (1972) by Pramod Pati.

A minute film featuring artist Abid Surti.

Link

This Bit of That India (1972) by S. N. S. Sastry.

A layered reflection of youth, diversity, progress, education and technology.

Link
(Via @FilmsDivision )

Koshish (1972) by Gulzar.

Feat. Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri, Asrani, Dina Pathak, Om Shivpuri and Urmila Bhatt with @TheDilipKumar in a cameo.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN @SonyLIV and @ShemarooMe.

Piya Ka Ghar (1972) by Basu Chatterjee.

Feat. Jaya Bachchan, Anil Dhawan, Agha, Suresh Chawal, Paintal, Ranjita Thakur and Keshto Mukherjee.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN @ErosNow @JioCinema and @yupptv.

YT youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Garam Hava (1973) by M.S. Sathyu.

Feat. Balraj Sahni, Farooq Shaikh, Dinanath Zutshi, Badar Begum, Geeta Siddharth, Shaukat Kaifi and A. K. Hangal.

Link:

Duvidha / In Two Minds (1973) by Mani Kaul.

Feat. Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee, Hardan, Manohar Lala and Kana Ram.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

27 Down (1974) by Awtar Krishna Kaul.

Feat. Rakhee, M.K. Raina, Rekha Sabnis, Om Shivpuri and Sudhir Dalvi.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

Ankur (1974) by Shyam Benegal.

Feat. @AzmiShabana Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag, Priya Tendulkar, Kadar Ali Beg, and Aga Mohammad Hussain.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @ShemarooMe.

Rajnigandha (1974) by Basu Chatterjee.

Feat. Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur, Rajita Thakur and Veena Goud.

Streaming on @hotstartweets.

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Aavishkar (1974) by Basu Bhattacharya.

Feat. Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore, Dina Pathak, Dennis Clement and Satyen Kappu.

Link:
(Via @ShemarooEnt )

Nishant (1975) by Shyam Benegal.

Featuring @AzmiShabana Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, @mohanagashe and Satyadev Dubey.

Streaming on @ShemarooMe.

Bonga (1976) by Kundan Shah.

Feat. @sats45 @bolbedibol Shobhini Singh @sureshoberoi Sudhir Pandey, Daljit Kaur, Minaxi Anand, Abha Dhulia and Om Puri.

Link cultureunplugged.com/documentary/wa…

Manthan (1976) by Shyam Benegal.

Feat. Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Naseeruddin Shah, Anant Nag, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri, Sadhu Meher and @mohanagashe.

Link:

@Amul_Coop

Ghashiram Kotwal (1976) by @KamalSwaroop Mani Kaul, Saeed Mirza and K. Hariharan.

Based on Vijay Tendulkar's play of same name.

Feat. Om Puri and @mohanagashe.

Link:

Murder At Monkey Hill (1976) by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Feat. Anjali Paigankar, Dilip Dhawan and Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Link cultureunplugged.com/documentary/wa…

Alaap (1977) by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.

Feat. @SrBachchan Rekha, Asrani, Fardia Jalal, Om Prakash, Vijay Sharma, Lily Chakraborty, Chhaya Devi, AK Hangal and Sanjeev Kumar.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN @SonyLIV and @yupptv.

Shatranj Ke Khilari / The Chess Players (1977) by Satyajit Ray.

Feat. Sanjeev Kumar @AzmiShabana Farooq Sheikh, Amjad Khan, Saeed Jaffrey, Richard Attenborough, Farida Jalal, Victor Banerjee,Tom Alter, and Leela Mishra.

Streaming on @hotstartweets.

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Gharonda (1977) by Bhimsain Khurana.

Feat. Amol Palekar, Zarina Wahab, Shreeram Lagoo, Jalal Agha, Sadhu Meher, Sudha Chopra and Dina Pathak.

Link

Bhumika (1977) by Shyam Benegal.

Featuring Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Amol Palekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Sulabha Deshpande, Dina Pathak and @mohanagashe.

Streaming on @ShemarooMe.

YT Link

Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan (1978) by Saeed Akhtar Mirza.

Feat. Dilip Dhawan, Anjali Paigankar, Sriram Lagoo, Rohini Hattangadi,  Om Puri @sats45 @sureshoberoi Sulabha Deshpande, Avtar Gill and Javed Khan.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinemasofindia.com
@nfdcindia

Gaman (1978) by Muzaffar Ali.

Feat. Farooq Sheikh, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar, Gita Siddharth, Protima Beda, Jalal Agha, Sulabha Deshpande and @sats45.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com

An Encounter With Faces (1978) by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

A short documentary feature focusing on a group of children in an orphanage, nominated in 1978 Academy Awards for Documentary Short Subject. 

Link

@VVCFilms @FilmsDivision

Cinema Cinema (1979) by Krishna Shah.

A quasi-documentary based on Indian film world, using archival footage.

Cinematography by K.K. Mahajan, music by Vijay Raghav Rao, research by B.D. Garga and P.K. Nair. 

Link

Griha Pravesh (1979) by Basu Bhattacharya.

Feat. Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Sarika, Dinesh Thakur, Master Bittoo, Danny and Sudha Chopra.

Link:

Sparsh (1980) by Sai Paranjpye.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah @AzmiShabana Om Puri, Sudha Chopra, Mohan Gokhale, and Arun Joglekar, streaming on @JioCinema.

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Aakrosh (1980) by Govind Nihalani.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Amrish Puri, @Mohanagashe3 Achyut Poddar, Reema Lagoo and Nana Palsikar.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @ShemarooMe.

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai (1980) by Saeed Akhtar Mirza.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah @AzmiShabana Smita Patil, Dilip Dhawan, Om Puri, Aziz Mirza, Aravind Deshpande, Sulabha Deshpande @sats45 Nitin Sethi, and Rohini Hatangadi.

Link:

Sadgati / Deliverance (1981) by Satyajit Ray.

Based on a short story by Munshi Premchand.

Feat. Om Puri, Smita Patil, Gita Siddharth, Richa Mishra and @mohanagashe.

Link:

Chashme Buddoor (1981)

Feat. Farooq Shaikh @DeeptiNaval Ravi Baswani, Rakesh Bedi, Leela Mishra, Vinod Nagpal and Saeed Jaffrey.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN @ErosNow and @JioCinema.

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Namkeen (1982) by Gulzar.

Feat. Waheeda Rehman, Sharmila Tagore @AzmiShabana Sanjeev Kumar, Kiran Vairale, TP Jain and Ram Mohan.

Streaming on @hotstartweets.

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Arth (1982) by @MaheshNBhatt.

Feat. @AzmiShabana Smita Patil, Raj Kiran, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rohini Hattangadi, Dina Pathak, Mazhar Khan, Om Shivpuri @daliptahil @sidkakspeaks Gita Siddharth and Shammi.

Link

Vijeta (1982) by Govind Nihalani.

Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Kunal Kapoor, Supriya Pathak, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Dina Pathak, Madan Jain, KK Raina, Raja Bundela, and Shafi Inamdar.

Link:

Arohan (1983) by Shyam Benegal.

Featuring Om Puri, Victor Banerjee, Pankaj Kapur, Sreela Majumdar, Khokha Mukherji, Gita Sen, Noni Ganguly, Jayant Kriplani and Amrish Puri.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN and @ErosNow.

Ardh Satya (1983) by Govind Nihalni.

Feat. Om Puri, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Shafi Inamdar, Ila Arun, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Achyut Poddar, and @DrAkashKhurana.

Streaming on @ZEE5India.

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983) by Kundan Shah.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapur, Ravi Baswani, Bhakti Barve @Neenagupta001 @satishkaushik2 and @sats45.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com

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Trikon Ka Chautha Kon (1983) by Madhusudan.

Feat. Vijayendra Ghatge, Priyadarshini and @YoSwaroop.

Link (via @ShemarooEnt )

Party (1984) by Govind Nihalani.

Feat. Manohar Singh, Vijaya Mehta, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Rohini Hattangadi, Amrish Puri, @SahiDeepa Shafi Inamdar @Soni_Razdan IlaArun, Mohan Bhandari, PearlPadamsee, Benjamin Gilani.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinrmasofindia.com

Holi (1984) by Ketan Mehta.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah @aamir_khan @AshGowariker Raj Zutshi, Amol Gupte @DeeptiNaval @IamKituGidwani Bani Sharad, Om Puri, Shreeram Lagoo, Mohan Gokhale, Neeraj Vora, Benjamin Gilani, Dina Pathak and @SirPareshRawal

Link:

Khandhar / The Ruins (1984) by Mrinal Sen.

Feat. @AzmiShabana Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Gita Sen, Sreela Majumdar and @annukapoor_ .

Link:

Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984) by Saeed Akhtar Mirza.

Feat. Bhisham Sahni, Dina Pathak, Naseeruddin Shah @DeeptiNaval Mohan Gokhale, Pankaj Kapur, Amjad Khan, Rohini Hattangadi, Salim Ghouse, Anjali Paigankar and @sats45.

Link:

Trikal (1985) by Shyam Benegal.

Feat. Leela Naidu, Naseeruddin Shah, Anita Kanwar, Kunal Kapoor, @Neenagupta001 @Soni_Razdan @daliptahil @luckyali Ila Arun, Jayant Kripalani, Salim Ghouse and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

Streaming on @ShemarooMe

YT Link

Massey Sahib (1987) by Pradip Krishen.

Feat. Raghubir Yadav Arundhati Roy, Barry John, Virendra Saxena, Jacqueline Garewal and Madan Lal.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

New Delhi Times (1986) by @rameshfilms.

Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, AK Hangal, MK Raina and Manohar Singh.

Link

Chameli Ki Shaadi (1986) by Basu Chatterjee.

Feat. @AnilKapoor Amrita Singh, Pankaj Kapur @annukapoor_ Bharati Achrekar @tabassumgovil Satyen Kappu, Rupini, Om Prakash and Amjad Khan.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN @SonyLIV @ErosNow and @JioCinema.

YT

Mirch Masala (1987) by @KetanMehtaMaya.

Feat. Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri @RajBabbarMP @DeeptiNaval Supriya Pathak Kapur, Ratna Pathak Shah @sureshoberoi Dina Pathak @SirPareshRawal and Mohan Gokhale.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinemasofindia.com.

Ijaazat (1987) by Gulzar.

Feat. Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Dina Pathak, Sulabha Deshpande, with Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor.

Link:

Pestonjee (1987) by Vijaya Mehta.

Feat. @AnupamPKher Naseeruddin Shah @AzmiShabana and @KirronKherBJP.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

The Eight Column Affair (1987) by Sriram Raghavan.

Feat. Nana Patekar, Hemendra Bhatia, Rachel Reuben and Shivkumar Subramaniam.

Link

Om Dar-B-Dar (1988, released theatrically in 2014) by @KamalSwaroop.

Featuring Anita Kanwar, Aditya Lakhia, Gopi Desai and Lalit Tiwari.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

Tamas (1988, TV movie) by Govind Nihalani.

Om Puri @SahiDeepa Pankaj Kapur, Amrish Puri, Uttara Baokar, AK Hangal, Manohar Singh, Bhisham Sahni, Dina Pathak, Surekha Sikri, Saeed Jaffrey, Barry John @DrAkashKhurana and Virendra Saxena.

Link:

Salaam Bombay (1988) by @MiraPagliNair.

Feat. Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar @irrfank @sanjnawithjunoo Anjan Shrivastava and Yunus Parvez.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com

Pushpak (1988) by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao.

Feat. @ikamalhaasan @amalaakkineni1 Tinu Anand, Farida Jalal, P L Narayana and Sameer Khakhar.

Link

https://twitter.com/CinemaRareIN/status/1168776562570776576/photo/1

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) by Pradip Krishen and Arundhati Roy.

Feat. Arjun Raina, Arundhati Roy, Rituraj Singh, Roshan Seth, Divya Seth, Himani Shivpuri, Raghubir Yadav with @iamsrk and @BajpayeeManoj.

Link

Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) by Saeed Akhtar Mirza.

Feat. Pavan Malhotra @MakrandOfficial @AshGowariker Neelima Azim, Rajendra Gupta, Vikram Gokhale, Surekha Sikri, Nishigandha Wad, Tom Alter and Haidar Ali.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinemasofindia.com
@nfdcindia

Siddheshwari (1989) by Mani Kaul.

Feat. Mita Vasisht, Muhar Biswas, Ranjana Srivastava, Shravani Mukherjee, and Pandit Narayan Misra.

Link:

Raakh (1989) by Aditya Basu Bhattacharya.

Feat. @aamir_khan Supriya Pathak, Pankaj Kapur, Gajanan Bangera, Homi Wadia and Jagdeep.

Link youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Figures of Thought (1990) by Arun Khopkar.

A documentary feature by Arun Khopkar that captures the techniques and creations of three prominent artists in India.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Thodasa Roomani Ho Jayen (1990) by Amol Palekar.

Feat. Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Vikram Gokhale, Dilip Kulkarni, and Gautam Joglekar.

Link:

Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1990) by Tapan Sinha.

Feat. Pankaj Kapur @AzmiShabana @irrfank @SahiDeepa Anil Chatterjee and Vijayendra Ghatge.

Streaming on @hotstartweets @yupptv and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com

Dharavi (1991) by @IAmSudhirMishra.

Feat. Om Puri @AzmiShabana Raghuvir Yadav, Virendra Saxena, Anjana Mumtaz, @dqkejriwal with @MadhuriDixit and @AnilKapoor in special appearance.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

Diksha (1991) by Arun Kaul.

Feat. @nanagpatekar Manohar Singh, Rajashri Sawant, Vijay Kashyap, Ashish Mishra, K.K. Raina, and Sulabha Arya.

Streaming on @hotstartweets @yupptv and cinemasofindia.com

Kasba / The Township (1991) by Kumar Shahani.

Based on the short story "In the Ravine" by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

Feat. @ShatruganSinha @lalded Raghubir Yadav, Navjot Hansara, KK Mahajan, and Manohar Singh.

Link:

Ram Ke Naam / In The Name Of God (1992) by @anandverite.

Link

Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (1992) by Shyam Benegal.

Feat. Rajit Kapoor, Raghubir Yadav, K.K. Raina, Amrish Puri @rajeshwarisachd Anang Desai, Himani Shivpuri, Pallavi Joshi, Ila Arun @Neenagupta001 and Lalit Mohan Tiwari.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinemasofindia.com

Rudaali (1993) by Kalpana Lajmi.

Feat. Dimple Kapadia, Rakhee @RajBabbarMP Amjad Khan, Raghubir Yadav, Sushmita Mukherjee and @lalded.

Link:

Maya Memsaab (1993) by @KetanMehtaMaya.

Feat. @SahiDeepa @iamsrk Farooq Shaikh @RajBabbarMP, Om Puri, Sudha Shivpuri, Shree Vallabh Vyas, Shreeram Lagoo and @SirPareshRawal.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia and @justvoot.

Youtube:

In Custody / Muhafiz (1993) by Ismail Merchant.

Feat. Shashi Kapoor @AzmiShabana Om Puri, Amjad Khan @Neenagupta001 Sushma Seth, Tinnu Anand, and Parikshat Sahni.

Link:

Bandit Queen (1994) by @shekharkapur.

Feat. Seema Biswas @BajpayeeManoj Nirmal Pandey @saurabhshukla_s Aditya Shrivastava, Raghubir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek, Govind Namdeo and @raogajraj.

Streaming on @SonyLIV.

Mammo (1994) by Shyam Benegal.

Feat. Farida Jalal, Surekha Sikri, Amit Phalke, Rajit Kapur, Lalit Tiwari, Himani Shivpuri, Shrivallabh Vyas, Salim Shah and Rupal Patel.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com

@Jhajhajha

Drohkaal (1994) by Govind Nihalani.

Feat. Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, @lalded @AshishVid @annukapoor_ Amrish Puri @BajpayeeManoj @milind07122568 Ila Arun, Sadiya Siddiqui, Vineet Kumar, Shri Vallabh Vyas @IamKituGidwani and Ravi Kale.

Link:

Naseem / The Morning Breeze (1995) by Saeed Akhtar Mirza.

Feat. Kaifi Azmi, Mayuri Kango @kaykaymenon02 Seema Kelkar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Surekha Sikri @MakrandOfficial and Salim Shah.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinemasofindia.com

Father, Son and Holy War / Pitra, Putra Aur Dharamyuddha (1994) by @anandverite.

A documentary feature in 2 parts

Part I: Trial by Fire

Part II: Hero Pharmacy

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996) by @IAmSudhirMishra.

Feat. Nirmal Pandey, Smriti Mishra @Tara_Deshpande @AshishVid @saurabhshukla_s Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa @iamjohnylever with @ActorMadhavan in a cameo

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

Youtube

Fire (1996) by @IamDeepaMehta.

Feat. @AzmiShabana @nanditadas @jaavedjaaferi Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ranjit Chowdhry and @pathakvinay.

Link

Daayra / The Square Circle (1996) by Amol Palekar.

Feat. Nirmal Pandey @sonalikulkarni Ganesh Yadav and @neenakulkarni.

Link

Jaya Ganga (1996) by @vijaysinghparis.

Feat Asil Rais, Smriti Mishra, Paula Klein , Vijay Singh and Anupam Shyam.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

Halo (1996) by @santoshsivan.

Feat. @benaf_d Rajkumar Santoshi, Supriya Pathak, Mukesh Rishi, Viju Khote, Tinnu Anand, Dimple Ghosh, Harish Patel, Govind Menon and Bulang Raja.

Link

Private Detective : Two Plus Two One (1997) by Rajat Kapoor.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah @irrfank @KhanalyyKhan Shambhavi Kaul @kashmerashah and Keneth Desai.

Link:

Char Adhyay (1997) by Kumar Shahani

Feat. Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Nandini Ghosal, Kaushik Gopal, and Shiboprosad Mukherjee.

Based on Rabindranath Tagore's last novel by the same name, written in 1934.

Streaming on @hotstartweets @yupptv and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com

Such A Long Journey (1998) by Sturla Gunnarsson.

Feat. Roshan Seth, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah @Soni_Razdan @irrfank Ranjit Chowdhary @vrajeshhirjee Kurush Deboo, Pearl Padamsee @uberanahita and Anupam Shyam.

Streaming on @Tubi.

Earth /1947 : Earth (1998)

Feat. @aamir_khan @R_Khanna @nanditadas @maiasethna @IamKituGidwani Arif Zakaria, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Pavan Malhotra with @AzmiShabana as the narrator.

Link

Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) by Govind Nihalani.

Feat. Jaya Bachchan @nanditadas @joysengupta97 @AnupamPKher Seema Biswas @milind07122568 @rajeshtailang @MonaAmbegaonkar Sandeep Kulkarni, Bhakti Barve @lalitparimoo and Aditya Shrivastava.

Link:

Kaun (1999) by @RGVzoomin

Feat. @UrmilaMatondkar @BajpayeeManoj and @sushant_says.

Link

Shool (1999) by E. Niwas.

Feat. @BajpayeeManoj @TandonRaveena @SayajiShinde Vineet Kumar, Ganesh Yadav, Virendra Saxena, Shri Vallabh Vyas @YashVidya @rajpalofficial Pratima Kazmi with @Nawazuddin_S and @TheShilpaShetty.

Streaming on @JioCinema.

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Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar (2000) by @mehtahansal.

Feat. @BajpayeeManoj Tabu @saurabhshukla_s Aditya Srivastava @ActorVijayRaaz @harshchhaya Kishor Kadam, Anupam Shyam, Prithvi Zutshi and @kashmerashah.

Link

@VishalBhardwaj

Kumar Talkies (2000) by Pankaj Rishi Kumar.

The film explores the relationship between Kalpi--a small town in northern India--and its only surviving cinema hall. 

Link pad.ma/DBH/00:59:43,0…

Rasikapriya (2000) by Arun Khopkar.

A cinematic exploration - the camera's desperate attempt to "see" music. The terminology of Indian classical music like Khayal and Dhrupad are examined through this canvas.

Link:

Monsoon Wedding (2001) by @MiraPagliNair

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, LilleteDubey @ShefaliShah_ @Thevasundhara @parvindabas @ActorVijayRaaz @TillotamaShome @RandeepHooda @RamKapoor NehaDubey, RajatKapoor @Soni_Razdan Kulbhushan Kharbanda and RoshanSeth

Link:

My Mother India (2001) by @SafinaUberoi.

A quirky documentary about an eccentric, multicultural upbringing, that unfolds into a complex commentary on the social, political & religious events of the riots of 1984 which tore this family apart.

Link (VoD) vimeo.com/179709892

Chandni Bar (2001) by @imbhandarkar.

Feat. Tabu @atul_kulkarni @rajpalofficial Ananya Khare, Shrivallabh Vyas, Vinay Apte, Vishal Thakkar, Minakshi Sahani and @Upendralimaye.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

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To be continued..

Kali Salwaar (2002) by Fareeda Mehta.

Feat. @irrfank @kaykaymenon02 Sadiya Siddiqui, Sheeba Chaddha @vrajeshhirjee Surekha Sikri and Rajat Kapoor.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @nfdcindia's cinemasofindia.com.

War And Peace / Jung Aur Aman (2002) by @anandverite.

Link

The Men in the Tree (2002) by Lalit Vachani.

An excerpt vimeo.com/245756914

Mr. And Mrs. Iyer (2002) by @senaparna.

Feat. @konkonas @RahulBose1 Bhisham Sahni, Surekha Sikri & @anjandutt

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P6

Haasil (2003) by @dirtigmanshu.

Feat. @irrfank @jimmysheirgill @IamHrishitaBhat @ashutoshrana10 @rajpalofficial @brijkala @sharatsaxenaind Tinu Anand, Sudhir Pandey and Raj Zutshi.

Link

Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (2003) by Manish Jha.

Feat. @tulipkjoshi @sushant_says Piyush Mishra, Sudhir Pandey, Aditya Srivastava, Vinamra Pancharia, Mukesh Bhatt @RohitashvG Pankaj Jha, Amin Gazi and Rajesh Jais.

Streaming on @ZEE5India.

@BoneyKapoor @SlimSulaiman

Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II (2003) by Shashanka Ghosh.

Feat. @ArshadWarsi @sandymridul Prashant Narayanan, Anant Jog @suchitrapillai Pratima Kazmi, Manini De and Kurush Deboo.

Link

@VishalDadlani @ShekharRavjiani @shibanikashyap

#Paanch (2003) by Anurag Kashyap.

Feat. @kaykaymenon02 @TejuKolhapure Aditya Srivastava @urfvijaymaurya Joy Fernandes and @sharatsaxenaind.

Link

@VishalBhardwaj @AbbasTyrewalas

Black Friday (2004) by Anurag Kashyap

Ft. @kaykaymenon02 Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava, Dibyendu, Kishor Kadam @raogajraj @zakirhussain9 Imtiaz Ali, Aditya Bhattacharya @asiftheactor @rajsinghc Pratima Kazmi @Nawazuddin_S and @urfvijaymaurya.

Streaming on @hotstartweets

#Amu (2004) by @Shonali_Bose1

Feat. @konkonas @brindakarat Ankur Khanna @YashVidya Loveleen Mishra, Lushin Dubey, Bharat Kapoor and Rajendra Gupta.

Link

The Blue Umbrella (2005) by @VishalBhardwaj.

Feat. Pankaj Kapur, Shreya Sharma @deepakdobriyal Dolly Ahluwalia, Manek Bedi, Samrat Mukerji, Rahul Kumar and Rajesh Sharma.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

@RonnieScrewvala @utvfilms @RealRuskinBond @rekha_bhardwaj

Sehar (2005) by Kabeer Kaushik.

Feat. @ArshadWarsi @mahimachaudhrym @sushant_says Pankaj Kapur, Suhasini Mulay, Rajendra Gupta, Naved Aslam, Surendra Pal, and Ravi Jhankal.

Streaming on @ZEE5India.

John and Jane (2005) by Ashim Ahluwalia.

An observational documentary that follows the stories of six "call agents" that answer American 1-800 numbers in a Mumbai call center.

Link

Being Cyrus (2005) by Homi Adajania.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Saif Ali Khan @bomanirani Simone Singh, Honey Chhaya and Manoj Pahwa.

Link

7 Islands And A Metro (2006) by Madhushree Dutta.

A tale of three cities, Bom Bahia, Bombay and Mumbai, it is structured around imaginary debate between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto

Feat. @theHarishKhanna and Vibha Chibbar.

Link cultureunplugged.com/play/27/Seven-…

Riding Solo To The Top Of The World (2006) by Gaurav Jani.

A feature documenting filmmaker Gaurav Jani's motorcycle journey from Mumbai to one of the remotest places in the world, the Changthang Plateau in Ladakh, bordering China.

Link

Manorama Six Feet Under (2007) by Navdeep Singh.

Feat. @AbhayDeol @GulPanag Sarika @raimasen @pathakvinay @Nawazuddin_S Kulbhushan Kharbanda and @brijkala.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

@ShemarooEnt @RaiomondMirza @jabeenmerchant

No Smoking (2007) by Anurag Kashyap.

Feat. @TheJohnAbraham @Ayeshatakia @RanvirShorey @SirPareshRawal @kikusharda Joy Fernandes with Jesse Randhawa and @bipsluvurself.

Streaming on @ZEE5India @ErosNow and @JioCinema.

@ErosNow @officialvbfilms @rekha_bhardwaj @KumarMangat

Frozen (2007) by Shivajee Chandrabhushan.

Feat. Danny Denzongpa, Gauri, Skalzang Angchuk @AamirBashir Sanjay Swaraj @shilpashukl @DenzilLSmith Raj Zutshi and @YashVidya.

Link vimeo.com/80334177

@gurgaonthefilm

Supermen of Malegaon (2008, released theatrically in 2012) by Faiza Ahmad Khan.

Feat. Shakeel Bharati, Farogh Jafri, Akram Khan, Shafique and Nazir Shaikh.

Link

@SnehaKhanwalkar @Hiteshsonik

Mithya (2008) by Rajat Kapoor

Ft. Naseeruddin Shah @RanvirShorey @NehaDhupia Iravati @pathakvinay @saurabhshukla_s @brijkala @harshchhaya @manurishichadha & TinuAnand

P1 dai.ly/x223tgk

P2 dai.ly/x223tgy

P3 dai.ly/x223th7

P4 dai.ly/x223thj

Little Zizou (2008) by @soonitara

Feat. @bomanirani Sohrab Ardeshir @ImaadtheShah Shernaz Patel, Zenobia Shroff, Dilshad Patel @Kamaalsidhu @kunalvijayakar and @TheJohnAbraham.

Link dailymotion.com/playlist/xx1bj

@MiraPagliNair

99 (2009) by @rajndk

Feat. Vinod Khanna @kunalkemmu @sakpataudi @BoredBroacha @bomanirani @manjrekarmahesh @Actoramitmistry Simone Singh @pitobash and Sudesh Berry.

Link

@rajnidimoru @krishdk

Videokaaran (2010) by Jagannathan Krishnan.

Buy DVD magiclanternmovies.in/film/videokaar…

Nainsukh (2010) by Amit Dutta.

A feature based on the life and works of Nainsukh, an 18th-century Indian miniature painter. 

Link (VoD) vimeo.com/ondemand/nains…

Dhobi Ghat /Mumbai Diaries (2010) by Kiran Rao.

Feat. @aamir_khan @prateikbabbar @MonicaSDogra Kriti Malhotra and @IamKituGidwani.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

@utvfilms

Udaan (2010) by @VikramMotwane.

Feat. @barmecharajat @RonitBoseRoy @RamKapoor Aayan Boradia @OyeManjot and @anandntiwari.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

@Ishikamohan @ItsAmitTrivedi @RonnieScrewvala @utvfilms

Love Sex Aur Dhokha (2010) by @DibakarBanerjee.

Feat. @RajkummarRao @theanshumanjha @NushratBharucha Neha Chauhan, Arya Banerjee @herrytangiri @AmitSial Atul Mongia, Tarana Bajaj and Sandeep Bose.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia @Viu_IN @altbalaji @JioCinema and @yupptv.

Bom / One Day Ahead Of Democracy (2011) by @animagineer.

A documentary feature about an Himalayan village known for its hashish industry maintains a unique and ancient form of democracy.

Link

Kshay/Corrode (2011) by Karan Gour.

Feat. @RasikaDugal @alekhsangal and Sudhir Pednekar.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN and @Tubi.

Youtube

@mesopystic @Kshaythefilm

Jai Bhim Comrade (2011) by @anandverite.

Link

Partners In Crime (2011) by Paromita Vohra.

Link indiancine.ma/BBLE/player/00…

Miss Lovely (2012) by Ashim Ahluwalia.

Feat. @Nawazuddin_S Anil George, Niharika Singh, Zeena Bhatia and Manoj Bakshi.

Link

Shahid (2012) by @mehtahansal.

Feat. @RajkummarRao @Mdzeeshanayyub @dirtigmanshu @kaykaymenon02 @PrabhleenSandhu @PrabalPanjabi and Baljinder Kaur.

Streaming on @SonyLIV.
YT :

@utvfilms @RonnieScrewvala @aachinjain @guneetm @ShaaileshRSingh

Celluloid Man (2012) by @shividungarpur.

A documentary feature that explores the life and work of legendary Indian archivist P. K. Nair, founder of the National Film Archive of India @NFAIOfficial.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

Ship Of Theseus (2012) by @Memewala, produced by @s0humshah.

Feat. @NeerajKabi @s0humshah Aida Al-Khashef, Amba Sanyal, Faraz Khan and Vinay Shukla.

Link

@utvfilms @RonnieScrewvala @Recyclewala @sohumshahfilms

Katiyabaaz / Powerless (2013) by Deepti Kakkar and Fahad Mustafa.

Documentary feature about the electricity crisis in Kanpur, leading to power thefts.

Link

@FuhSePhantom @aliceinandheri @indianoceanband @varungrover @GinggerShankar

Siddharth (2013) by @RichieMehta.

Feat. @rajeshtailang @TannishthaC Master Irfan Khan Anurag Arora, Shobha Sharma Jassi, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Amitabh Srivasta and @CastingChhabra.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

@AbhayDeol @FilmKaravan

Labour Of Love / Asha Jaoar Majhe (2015) by @Aditya2Vikram.

Feat. Ritwick Chakraborty and @BasabdattaChatt.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

YT

@AlokanandaD

Titli (2014) by @KanuBehl

Feat. @RanvirShorey @AmitSial @ShashankSArora Shivani Raghuvanshi and @BehlLalit.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

@yrf @DibakarBanerjee @aliceinandheri

Ankhon Dekhi (2014) by Rajat Kapoor.

Feat. @imsanjaimishra Rajat Kapoor, Seema Pahwa @dasnamit Maya Sarao, Shripad Raorane @manurishichadha @brijkala @saurabhshukla_s @yogitiku with @RanvirShorey in a cameo.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and @PrimeVideoIN.

@ManMundra

Placebo (2014) by Abhay Kumar.

A documentary feature infiltrataing AIIMS to witness the ambition and mindscapes of the youth.

Link

Island City (2015) by @ruchikaoberoi.

Feat. @pathakvinay @AmrutaSubash @TannishthaC @IamRoySanyal @samirkochhar @ashwinmushran Jyoti Subhash, Sana Sheikh and Uttara Baokar.

Streaming on @hotstartweets and cinemasofindia.com.

@DrishyamFilms @nfdcindia

Waiting (2015) by Anu Menon.

Feat. Naseeruddin Shah @kalkikanmani Suhasini Maniratnam, Rajat Kapoor @reallybadhairda and @mathurarjun.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia and @hotstartweets.

@ManMundra @DrishyamFilms @PritiRathiGupta @nitin_baid @Apurvasrani @MikeyMcCleary1

Masaan (2015) by @ghaywan.

Feat. @imsanjaimishra @RichaChadha @vickykaushal09 @battatawada @TripathiiPankaj and Vineet Kumar.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia and @hotstartweets.

@DrishyamFilms @FuhSePhantom
@sikhyaent @ManMundra @varungrover @VikramMotwane

Mukti Bhawan / Hotel Salvation (2016) by Shubhashish Bhutiani.

Feat. @_AdilHussain @BehlLalit @getkul @PalomiGhosh Navnindra Behl and Anil K Rastogi.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

@sanjaybhutiani

Phobia (2016) by Pavan Kirpalani.

Feat. @radhika_apte @satyadeepmisra @ankvikal @Yashaswini__ @amritabagchi Nivedita Bhattacharya and Faezeh Jalali.

Streaming on @ZEE5India @ErosNow and @JioCinema.

@vikirajani

Autohead (2016) by @rohitmittal2607.

Feat. Rohit Mittal, Deepak Sampat, Ronjini Chakroborty, Sunny Banerjee and Jhanvi Dwivedi.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

Tu Hai Mera Sunday (2016) by @MilindDhaimade.

Feat. @BarunSobtiSays @ShahanaGoswami @avinashtiw85 @RasikaDugal @SuhaasAhuja @Vishhman @maanvigagroo Nakul Bhalla, Pallavi Batra and
Shiv Subramaniam.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia and @hotstartweets.

Kadvi Hawa (2017) by @nilamadhabpanda.

Feat. @imsanjaimishra @RanvirShorey @TillotamaShome Bhupesh Singh and Ekta Swant.

Streaming on @ZEE5India.

@DrishyamFilms @ManMundra @ErosNow @RidhimaLulla @krishikalulla

Gurgaon (2017) by Shanker Raman.

Feat. @TripathiiPankaj @Akshay0beroi @iraginikhanna @shalinivatsa1 @AamirBashir and Srinivas Sunderrajan.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

@gurgaonthefilm @JarPictures @CastingChhabra

Anaarkali of Aarah (2017) by @avinashonly.

Feat. @ReallySwara @TripathiiPankaj @imsanjaimishra and Mayur More.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia and @hotstartweets.

Newton (2017) by @Amit_Masurkar.

Feat. @RajkummarRao @TripathiiPankaj @AnjaliPOfficial @imsanjaimishra Raghubir Yadav, Omkar Das Manikpuri and @DanHusain

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

@ManMundra @DrishyamFilms @aanandlrai @cypplOfficial @ErosNow @mayankis

Pari (2018) by @prosit_roy.

Feat. @AnushkaSharma @paramspeak @ritabharipc Rajat Kapoor, Dibyendu Bhattacharya and @theanshumanjha.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

@CleanSlateFilms @kriarj @nowitsabhi

Tumbbad (2018) by @BarveRahi.

Feat. @s0humshah Jyoti Malshe, Mohammad Samad, Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar, Rudra Soni and @ronjinichakra.

Streaming on @PrimeVideoIN.

@Memewala @rahianil @Memewala @thisisadesh @shah_mitesh @JesperKyd @AjayAtulOnline @rajshekharis

Soni (2018) by Ivan Ayr.

Feat. @GeetikaVidya @salonibatra_29 Vikas Shukla, Mohit Chauhan and Himanshu Kohli.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota (2019) by @Vasan_Bala.

Feat. @Abhimannyu_D @radhikamadan01 @gulshandevaiah @manjrekarmahesh @JimitTrivedi06 @prateekparma and @shweta_official.

Streaming on @NetflixIndia.

@RonnieScrewvala @RSVPMovies @karankulkarni @prernasaigal
@GarimaObrah

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