Seema Biswas
1) Water
Language
Hindi
Description
Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
Language
English
Description
At the stroke of midnight on August 15th, 1947, as India declares independence from Great Britain, babies are being born with super powers. Two of them are switched at birth by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. And so it is that Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate child of a beggar woman, and Shiva, the only son of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destinies meant for each other. Over the next three decades, Saleem and Shiva find themselves on opposite...
3) Sold
Author
Language
English
Description
Sold is an adaption of the Award-winning novel by Patricia McCormick about a young girl from Nepal who is trafficked to a brothel in India where she plots her escape. Sold is a global entry point into the issue of modern day slavery.
Author
Language
English
Description
Londoner Ronnie embarks on a journey to India when his mother goes missing and mysteriously ends up in a Kolkata hospital. Before Ronnie can unravel the mystery of what brought his mother back to her homeland, she dies in a cult killing. As he uncovers a series of similar past murders, Ronnie's own inner-darkness come to light as all roads lead to the feared witch of Kolkata's insane asylum.
5) Deewangee
Author
Language
Hindi
Description
Sargam, a popular singer, approaches Raj, a criminal lawyer, to defend her childhood friend Tarang who is accused of murder. Just when Raj gets Tarang acquitted in court upon siting split personality disorder, he learns the hard truth about Tarang.
6) Water
Language
Hindi
Description
Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, the story begins as eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out there lives in penitence. Chuyia's feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow, who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.
7) Bhoot
Author
Language
Hindi
Description
A married couple rents a beautiful, spacious apartment at a ridiculously cheap price only to find out that it is haunted. What follows is a series of eerie and hair-raising supernatural episodes in the house.
8) Sold
Language
English
Description
A young girl from Nepal is trafficked to a brothel in India where she plots her escape.
10) Ek hasina thi
Language
Hindi
Description
Story of a single girl, living alone in Mumbai, away from her family and how she deals with extraordinary circumstances that surround her meeting the man of her dreams.