Indian Movies with Dialogues in English
NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, all dvds on this page are coded for USA/Canada Region 1 only and may not play in other regions.

36 CHOWRINGHEE LANE (English audio)
Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Geoffrey Kendal & Soni Razdan
A 1981 Classic Produced and Directed by Aparna Sen
Nandita and Samaresh are tired of sneaking kisses in taxis and start using Violet Staneham, an ageing Anglo-Indian schoolteacher's dingy apartment in Calcutta as a meeting place. In the process, a warm and exciting relationship grows up between the young lovers and the old lady.

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AMERICAN DESI - New 2-DISC SET (English/Hindi with English subtitles)
FUNNY - GREAT SLICE OF LIFE COMEDY
Deep Katdare, Purva Bedi, Ronobir Lahiri, Rizwan Manji
Special Features - Making of featurettes Extended Scenes Audio Comentary by Deep Katdare and Piyush Dinker Disc 2 contains the unreleased motion picture soundtrack of 16 songs including hits by Panjabi MC, Penn Masala, Karmacy, and more 'American Desi' is a fun-loving romantic comedy reminiscent of the great teen films of the eighties like "16 Candles" and "Pretty in Pink," mixed with the fresh hip-hop style of "House Party" with a uniquely Indian flavor. From Kris, an All-American boy from India, to Ajay, an Afro-Centric Hindu homeboy, to Farah, a devoutly religious but modern Muslim girl, 'American Desi' tells the story of a unique set of characters and their culture from a decidedly hip and youthful point of view. Like the masala films of India, 'American Desi' is so full of music and dancing that it might very well do to Bhangra and Garba what "Saturday Night Fever" did to Disco!

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BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM* (All Regions)
A film by Gurinder Chadha
Perminder Nagra, Anupam Kher, Kera Knightley, Archie Punjabi 
Football-mad Jess is 18, smart, beautiful and can bend a ball better than any boy she knows. She's set her heart on playing for a top women's footie team, but there is one problem; her strict parents want her to settle down with a nice Indian boy and learn how to cook! Flying in the face of her parents' disapproval Jess and her best mate Jules make a name for themselves in the Beautiful Game, but then love rears its head for them both in the form of their fit (in more ways than one) coach Joe (Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Velvet Goldmine). Jess has a touch choice - her best friend or a gorgeous bloke. What's a girl to do? 

With a great cast that also includes Juliet Stevenson (Emma) and Shaznay Lews (All Saints), Bend it like Beckham is a hilarious comedy about friendship , family and football that will have you cheering from the sidelines.

SPECIAL FEATURES ON DVD: Feature Length. Audio Commentary by Director and Co-writer. "Who wants to Cook Aloo Gobi? Cookery Featurette Hosted by The Director and "The Aunties". Aloo Gobi Recipe Behind the  Scenes Featurette, The Deleted Scenes. "Hot Hot Hot Music video. Theatrical Trailers. Animated Menus.

$23.95

BHAJI ON BEACH (All Regions)
A film by Gurinder Chadha (1993)
This film follows three generations of women on an outing to the British seaside resort of Blackpool. Led by the self-assured feminist Simi, they land on the beach with a variety of issues at hand. The twenty-something Jinder has drawn the wrath of her entire community for having left her abusive husband while her counterpart, Hashida, has just discovered she's pregnant -- worse news for her family, her boyfriend is black. All of these threads are loosely pulled together through Asha, a middle-aged housewife who struggles between her sense of duty and dignity. 

$21.95

Bollywood Hollywood - A Deepa Mehta film in English
Rahul Khanna, Lisa RAy, Moushmi Chatterji, Dina Pathak
Rahul Seth (Rahul Khanna) is a dashing young millionaire who believes he is "western" enough to rebel against his mother (Moushmi Chatterjee) and Grandmother (Dina Pathak). They are not keen about his Caucasian girlfriend Kimberly (Jessica Pare), who, to make matters worse, is a pop star. Before you can say "Karmic Intervention," Kimberly dies in a freak accident and Rahul is devastated. Instead of allowing him to mourn in peace, Rahul'S mother sees the opportunity she's been waiting for. She threatens to call off his sister's wedding unless he finds himself a "Nice Indian Girl." Rahul enlists the services of Sue (Lisa Ray), who accepts the deal to pose as his Indian bride-to-be. Slowly, Sue endears herself to Rahul's family. She cracks a tough nut like his grandmother, becomes friends with his sister and younger brother and even calls the shots with his chauffeur (Ranjit Chowdhry). It seems that everyone is falling in love with Sue. Even, perhaps, Rahul. During the course of his sister's marriage celebrations, Sue breaks through Rahul's tough exterior and helps him find his heart again. But an incident changes things. Does Rahul accept Sue for who she is and what she represents? Lisa seems to have a natural flair for comedy and a knack to tickle the funny bone. Moreover, she has grooved perfectly into the role that is pretty much close to her real self. Rahul Khanna too deliver goods playing the ‘half-confused, half-assured’ young man who gradually falls in love with a girl who ‘detests’ the Indian men as ‘chumps’. All in all, ‘Bollywood Hollywood’ is a film that will bring a broad smile to faces, even the brooding ones.  Deepa Mehta is best known for making controversial, searing dramas like Fire and Earth, and has earned a reputation as the new voice of Indian cinema. Her latest film is a change of pace. Set in Canada, Bollywood / Hollywood is a comedy that infuses a North American sensibility to the conventional Bollywood formula.
Contains adult situations and nudity. Parental guidance is advised

$24.95

SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S 3-DVD EDITION
English & Hindi with English subtitles.

Disc 1: Contains the movie in Hindi with English subtitles 

Disc 2: Contains the English version of Devdas with dialogues in English (Songs are in Hindi with English subtitles )

Disc 3: Theatrical trailers, Indian premier in Mumbai, Making of Devdas, World premier of Festival de Cannes, Classic scenes of Shah Rukh, Aishwarya and Madhuri

If you want to give a gift of Indian cinema to your non-Indian friends, give this 3-dvd edition to them.

Highly recommended by our BharatVani Hindi teachers as advanced Hind learning aid. 

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FIRE (English) - $26.95  
Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Jaaved Jaferi
Banned in India, this 1996 film by Deepa Mehta powerfully demonstrates the struggle of two women in love in a culture so deeply entrenched in ritual and tradition. All this against a backdrop of an India which itself is struggling for freedom from these same values. This film is both political and personal and never too preachy or idealistic on either front. It is easy to see why "Fire" has caused riots in India, but tragic nonetheless. A true film such as this one deserves to be seen by all people of the world, not just privileged westerners.
Contains adult situations and nudity. Parental guidance is advised

$19.95

FREAKY CHAKRA* (All Regions)
Deepti Naval, Sunil Roah, Ranvir Shortey, Sachin Khedekar
The story of a haggard woman who left her medical practice after she could not save her husband. She is very temperamental and spends her time either alone or with dead people (she becomes a coroner). One day, a young boy (Sunil Roah) walks into her life and everything changes. The 40-something changes from a prim and cranky nag to a pretty and blushing Janki. The film is very different from Dil Chahta Hai, Leela and Ek Chhotisi Love Story, where the story includes a young man in love with an older woman. Freaky Chakra is more about the life of an older unwanted woman who craves for attention
Contains adult situations and nudity. Parental guidance is advised

$19.95

$9.95

GANDHI* (English version) 
A  Richard Attenborough Classic $24.95
Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen
Gandhi was not a ruler of nations, nor did he have scientific gifts. Yet this small, modest man did what others before him could not. He led an entire country to freedom - he gave his people hope. Gandhi, the man of the century, is explored in his brethtaking, unforgrttable motiom picture.
After 20 years in the making, this masterful epic garnered nine 1982 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. In stirring detail, Gandhi's life principles and power explode on the screen with vivid scenes uch as the horrific massacre at Amritsar, where the British opened fire on 15,000 unarmed men, women and children, and the dramatic march to the sea where Gandhi led thousands of his fellow Indians to prove that sea salt belonged to all and was not just a British Commodity. A distinguised cast of characters surrounds Academy Award - winning Ben Kingsley as Gandhi including Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, John Gielgud and Trevor Howaard. A vision of the heart and soul of a man, Gandhi is a classic epic as timeless as Gandhi himself.

KAMASUTRA (Region 1 only) - 
A Mira Nair film 
Rekha, Navin Andrew, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram, Indira Varma
In a seductive tale of love and betrayal, a king's courtesan is forbidden to embrace her one true love. Trained in the are of pleasure, Maya, the beautiful servant girl becomes defiant, rebelling against ancient tradition. As passion takes over, the conflict brings consequences that no one ever envisioned. Breathtaking cinematography, lavish costumes and mesmerizing music add a compelling richness to this epic tale.Kamasutra A Tale Of Love!
Contains adult situations and nudity. Parental guidance is advised
A T Series Hindi Indian Censored Edition also available for $23.95

LEELA* (All Regions)
Dimple kapadia, Vinod Khanna, Deepti naval, Gulshan Grover
LEELA is not just about Leela, the protagonist played by Dimple Kapadia but it is more about 'cultural clashes'. Leela, a professor at Bombay University, leaves India for America to 'broaden her view'. She teaches South Asian history classes as visiting professor at some American University. There she finds Kris (born Krishna), a young American Born Confused Desi, and his mother Chaitali (Deepthi Naval). Being just eighteen Kris is infatuated with Leela and is very desperate to lose his virginity.
Contains adult situations. Parental guidance is advised

$26.95

The Logic of Spirituality - An Introduction to Vedanta (All Regions) H.H. Swami Chinmayananda, Lectures in English 
(with optional English Subtitles) 
An introduction to Vedanta. The logic of Spirituality answers questions such as "Why God? What is God? If He exists, where is He? What is my relationship with God and with the world?" Swami Chinmayananda answers with unerring logic, leading the intelligent and educated individual through reason, to the one Reality supporting this universe. Through the Body (B), Mind (M), Intellect (I), The Perceiver (P), Feeler (F), Thinker (T) becomes enmeshed in the world of Obejects (O), Emotions (E), and Thoughts (T). But when we transcend our Vasanas (V), we realize our true Self, OM the Supreme Reality

A culture clash comedy/drama that's as spicy as the Indian dish it's named for, director Mira Nair's film stars Denzel Washington as a black American businessman in the South who falls in love with East Indian immigrant Sarita Choudhury. The pair face pressure from both sides to break off their romance. 

 DVD $29.95

MITR - MY FRIEND* - Directed by Award Winning Actress - Revathy (All Regions)
Nasir Abdullah, Shobana and Preeti Vissa
Shot entirely in California's Silicon Valley with all woman crew this film tells the story of the millions of women all over the world, who give their all to their marriages, homes, children but somewhere down the years stop thinking about their own feelings and needs.
...one of the best efforts we've seen this year - Filmfare
... a delightfuly film! - Screen
... Bollywood can learn a thing or two - Indian Express
* English with Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu on same dvd.
Highly recommended by  BharatVani as a Hindi learning aid. 

$21.95

MONSOON* - $19.95
Gulshan Grover, Helen Bordie, Richard Tyson
A Jag Mundhra film with an Indo-American cast set in Goa, India. Contains adult situations and nudity. Parental guidance is advised. DVD has English and Hindi soundtracks. VHS has only English soundtrack

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MONSOON WEDDING - A film in English by Mira Nair
Naseeruddin Shah, Roshan Seth, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Vasundhara Dass
A story set in the modern upper-middle class of India, where telecommunications and a western lifestyle mix with old traditions, like the arranged wedding young Aditi accepts when she ends the affair with a married TV producer. The groom is an Indian living in Texas, and all relatives from both families, some from distant places like Australia, come to New Delhi during the monsoon season to attend the wedding. The four-day arrangements and celebrations will see clumsy organization, family parties and drama, dangers to the happy end of the wedding, lots of music and even a new romance for the wedding planner Dubey with the housemaid Alice...
Contains adult situations and nudity. Parental guidance is advised
Language: English/Hindi, Adult Language, Rated R

 DVD $29.95

MR. & MRS. IYER (All Regions)
(English language with English subtites over Indian langugages)
Rahul Bose, Konkona Sensharma, Esha Chuhan
MUMBAI, July 26 2003: Mr and Mrs Iyer joyously swept four national awards this year, vindicating one's faith in humanity in general and the national awards jury in particular. The film won awards for best director and best screenplay for Aparna Sen, best actress for Konkona Sen Sharma, and the Nargis Dutt award for best film on national integration
Mrs. Iyer is on the beginning of a long journey to Calcutta to be with her husband. The trip starts with a long bus ride and is supposed to be followed by a train trip. But there is a problem along the bus route as Hindus and Muslim extremists are at each others throats. The roads are closed and there is a curfew put in place. Along side her is Raja Chowdhary, taking the same journey and since Mrs. Iyer has a small child, helping her out when he can. While trapped on the bus, a gang of Hindus boards the bus in order to ferret out any Muslims. They go so far as to make a boy strip so they can check and see if he is circumcised. Raja is Muslim, but Mrs. Iyer goes against her beliefs and covers for him so nothing will happen to him. Mrs. Iyer was brought up believing that Muslims were inferior and she should have nothing to do with them. But along the journey she comes to realize that it's not your religion that defines you, but who you are as a person

$22.95

RAMAYANA (Animated - All Regions)
The Legend of Prince Rama
Animated Ramayana for Children in English on DVD
RAMAYANA has been cinematized a number of times in India. Universal themes, such as love, friendship, family ties, selfless devotion, war and peace etc. that RAMAYANA is replete with have inspired film makers time and again to cinematize it. However, since war scenes around which the story of RAMAYANA revolves are full of fantasy, it might be difficult to do justice to them with the usual techniques of filming. Thus, there is no medium but animation for depicting the divine powers of the hero Rama and the devlish powers of his arch rival Ravana, the life and death battle between Lakshmana and Indrajit in the sky and the antics of Hanuman - the other hero of this story - who can fly like superman in the sky and change the size of his body at will.
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$14.95

SEDUCING MAARYA (All Regions)
Nandana Sen (as Maarya), Mohan Agase, Cas Anwar, Ryan Holliman and Vijay Mehta
In Seducing Maarya, a recently widowed Indo-Montrealer finds Maarya, the "perfect" girl for his Canadian born son. After the hastily arranged marriage, he discovers that the home fire is not burning as it should so he decides to teach his son the traditional art of "seducing" and falling in love with one's wife. Instead of his son winning Maarya's heart, however, the widower winds up falling head over heels in love with her. Before long a dark family secret is revealed that makes everyone question who Maarya really is and is she that "perfect" girl? Treated with equal measure tragedy and comedy, religious, cultural and sexual taboos explode in this examination between old world values and new world sensibilities.