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A fearless group of journalists maintain India's only women-led news outlet. All from the Dalit caste, the women of Khabar Lahariya prepare to transition the newspaper from print to digital while fighting for marginalized voices in the world's largest democracy. The film chronicles the astonishing determination of these reporters as they redefine what it means to be powerful.
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In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety). One local woman competes with her neighbors for business while battling the strictures of patriarchy, a local infrastructure from...
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Hindi
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A university student in India writes letters to her estranged lover while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
4) Purdah
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Hindi
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The inspiring story of a young Indian woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women’s Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations. Official Selection at the **CInequest Film Festival**. “*It’s like a real-life Bend It Like Beckham*” -***NPR (KQED)*** "*Uplifting and Empowering*" - **Film Threat**...
5) Padman
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Hindi
Description
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
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Hindi
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A sarcastic love story of a 64-year-old arrogant, acidic chef of London's top Indian restaurant and a simple 34-year-old unmarried woman visiting London. It's a story of how they meet, how they fight, how they make up, and how their relationship evolves into romance. It's a story of their funny struggle to break the news to the woman's father and the chaos they go through convincing him and making him accept them as a couple.
7) Dangal
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Hindi
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The film traces the inspirational journey of Mahavir Singh Phogat, an amateur wrestler, who trains his daughters, Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari, to become world class wrestlers.
8) Maya
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Hindi
Description
For Maya and her cousin Sanjay, life is simple in rural India. However, their fraternal love is shattered when Maya's journey to becoming a woman results in her being the victim of an ancient and brutal ritual, tragically ending her childhood innocence and scarring her for life.
9) Parineeta
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Hindi
Description
The lifelong romance between Lolita and Shekar is upset by the arrival of another man.
10) Parineeta
Language
Hindi
Description
"The lifelong romance between Lolita (Balan) and Shekar (Khan) is upset by the arrival of another man."--Imdb.com
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Hindi
Description
Pinjar is a saga of human strength during trying times and a metaphorical representation of the partition of India and Pakistan. It is the story of this division as seen and experienced by a young woman, Puro. She is a victim of circumstances, who overcomes the wrath of a hostile community and rewrites her destiny.
13) Dor
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Hindi
Description
Tells the moving story of love, loss, friendship, hope and redemption. It is a tale of two women from two different worlds. The emphasis is on spirit and emotions.
14) Fanaa
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Hindi
Description
A blind girl meets a flirtatious tour guide who she soon falls for. Her friends warn her against him, but it's her time to learn her own lessons of life and love.
15) Mother India
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Hindi
Description
Depicts, through one woman's life from marriage to old age, the joys and tragedies of village life in rural India.
17) Bodyguard
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Hindi
Description
Summoned for an assignment of guarding Divya, the daughter of business tycoon Sartaj Rana, Lovely Singh accompanies her to her campus, but ends up rubbing her the wrong way with his over-protective nature and paranoia about security. She finds him to be a major obstacle in leading a regular campus life. To throw him off-track and get him out of the way, she comes up with a 'master-plan' to trap him in a fake love affair.
18) Lajja = =: Lajjā
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Hindi
Description
Story of a woman's journey through a difficult life, and how she rebels against it. Film focuses on the atrocities experienced by women in India. Vaidehi, who lives in New York is unable to tolerate her unfaithful husband any longer and flees to India. She meets Maithili, a runaway bride, Janki, an actress and an unwed mother, and Ramdulaari, a feminist whose goal is to change women's role in society, but who gets publicly gang raped when her son...
19) Piku =: Pīkū
Language
Hindi
Description
A quirky comedy about the relationship between an aging father and his young daughter, living in a cosmopolitan city, dealing with each other's conflicting ideologies while being fully aware that they are each other's only emotional support.
20) Chandni Bar
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Hindi
Description
Story of Chandni Bar, a sleazy beer bar, where a woman is persuaded to take up bar dancing.
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