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- DirectorShantaram Rajaram VankudreStarsShantaram Rajaram VankudreSandhyaUlhasProgressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to dilapidated country farm, to rehabilitate it and themselves through hard work and kindly guidance.
- DirectorKhwaja Ahmad AbbasStarsDilip RajSurekhaDavid AbrahamIt was based on Abbas's own story One Thousand Nightson a Bed of Stones, which describes the struggle in the life of pavement dwellers in the backdrop of rapid industrialization.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsUtpal DuttSuhasini MulayShekhar ChatterjeeA lonely bureaucrat goes on holiday to a Gujarat village where a young peasant woman helps him see beyond his job and develop a newfound empathy for people.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMithun ChakrabortyMamata ShankarRobert WrightIn the 1930s, a group of tribals live in a small village in a forest in Odisha. A British administrator arrives at the village who is passionate about hunting. He befriends Ghinua, an exceptional archer.
- DirectorBiplab Roy ChowdhuryStarsOm PuriKanhu BandhopodhyayTapti BhatachrjeeSurendra (Om Puri), having been exiled from his village in youth and established himself in the city, comes back to the news of his father's demise, reportedly at the hands of a phantom. He announces a prize for anyone who succeeds in showing him a ghost, which attracts the greed of the poor hungry peasants,resulting in the accusations of innocent people as haunted and even murders with the hope of producing a ghost.
- DirectorPrakash JhaStarsManohar SinghAnnu KapoorSreela MajumdarDamul (Bonded Until Death) highlights the ill effects of Bonded Labour System while narrating the story of a bonded labour who is left with no choice but to steal by his landlord.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsRajeshwari SachdevRajit KapoorRavi JhankalIndia's caste system depicted in film within a film
- DirectorMadhur BhandarkarJay Dev BanerjeeStarsKonkona Sen SharmaAtul KulkarniSandhya MridulA look at Mumbai's socialite party circle world through the eyes of a Page 3 journalist.
- DirectorTigmanshu DhuliaStarsIrrfan KhanMahie GillRajesh AbhayThe story of Paan Singh Tomar, an Indian athlete and seven-time national steeplechase champion who becomes one of the most feared dacoits in Chambal Valley after his retirement.
- DirectorAnand GandhiStarsAydah El-KashefYogesh ShahFaraz KhanThe film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.
- DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsVira SathidarVivek GomberGeetanjali KulkarniWhen an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiAnnu KapoorPankaj KapurSubhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
- DirectorSaeed Akhtar MirzaStarsKaifi AzmiKulbhushan KharbandaSurekha SikriThe delicate relationship between a 15-year-old girl and her grandfather is used to describe how the growing political tensions between Muslems and Hindus in 1992 led to the destruction of a medieval Muslim mosque and subsequently, violent rioting in the streets of Bombay. Naseem (urdu: sahar) means Morning breeze, and charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. She shares deep and loving bond with his ill grandfather who represents the era of communal harmony between Hindus and Muslims in India, as he fondly recalls the times he spent in pre-Independent Agra. As communal tension erupts in the city of Bombay, Naseem get increasingly bewildered by changing dynamics at her school and in the neighborhood, while her grandfather watches helplessly at a city getting deeply divided over the Babri Masjid issue.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsRahul BoseKonkona Sen SharmaBhisham SahniDuring a bus journey, a devout Hindu Brahmin woman protects a Muslim man when communal rioting breaks out.
- DirectorRahul DholakiaStarsNaseeruddin ShahCorin NemecSarika ThakurA parsi family struggles to find thier son in a genocide carried out by vested interests outfits during 2002, commonly known as Gujarat riots which broke out after the Godhra Train Burning incident. During riots more than 790 Muslim and 289 Hindus died and around 300 people missing in the Indian state of Gujarat.
- DirectorMadhur BhandarkarStarsKunal KemmuNitu ChandraUpendra LimayeTraffic Signal is a Madhur Bhandarkar movie that reveals the truth behind the multimillion dollar begging Industry in India.
- DirectorGurvinder SinghStarsSamuel JohnMal SinghSerbjeet KaurA day in the life of a family in a village in Punjab as they deal with social and labor trials and inequities, leading to a night of a lunar eclipse.
- DirectorHansal MehtaStarsRajkummar RaoPrabhleen SandhuMohd. Zeeshan AyyubThe account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
- DirectorAnil GangulyStarsVijay AnandJaya BachchanAchala SachdevBy the time we learn to live, life is gone.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsShabana AzmiGirish KarnadUtpal DuttAfter she enters into an arranged marriage, a spirited and intellectual young woman tries to adjust to life with a man who was not her choice.
- DirectorTarun MajumdarStarsLaxmi AdhikariShukla BandyopadhyaySwapna BandyopadhyayA village in Bengal reels under the shock of witnessing a community feeling turn quickly into a mob mentality and the effects it has on the people.
- DirectorYash ChopraStarsSrideviRishi KapoorVinod KhannaFate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.
- DirectorAnil GangulyStarsRakhee GulzarParikshit SahniGovardhan AsraniThe oldest daughter of an old and ailing man falls in love with the doctor treating her father, but the mother of the doctor insists that the girl must leave everything she does and stay with them.
- DirectorKaran JoharStarsShah Rukh KhanKajolRani MukerjiDuring their college years, Anjali was in love with her best-friend Rahul, but he had eyes only for Tina. Years later, Rahul and the now-deceased Tina's eight-year-old daughter attempts to reunite her father and Anjali.
- DirectorAshutosh GowarikerStarsAamir KhanRaghubir YadavGracy SinghThe people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.