Nom de naissance Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar NationalitéInde Naissance 7 janvier 1928 à Kolhapur (Inde) Mort 19 mai 2008 (à 80 ans) à Pune (Inde) Récompenses Padma Bhushan, National Film Award for Best Screenplay, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर) (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972). Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He provided his guidance to students studying "playwright writing" in US universities. For over five decades Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theatre personality in Mahārāshtra.
, 2h5 Réalisé parShyam Benegal GenresDrame ThèmesLa musique, Musique, Bollywood ActeursShabana Azmi, Anant Nag, Priya Tendulkar, Vijay Tendulkar, Dalip Tahil Note77% Lakshmi et son mari Kishtayya sont deux intouchables au service de Surya, le fils d'un riche propriétaire terrien. Kishtayya, potier sourd-muet et alcoolique, ne communique que par gestes. Surya, marié contre sa volonté à une fille trop jeune, ne parvient pas à maîtriser ses frustrations et se tourne vers Lakshmi. Celle-ci se refuse à lui et pour se venger, il chasse Kishtayya …
, 1h30 Réalisé parSridhar Rangayan ThèmesFilms pour enfants ActeursTom Alter, Mona Ambegaonkar Note27% The peace of their small Konkan village is shattered when four adventurous children come upon the dangerous smuggler Don Douglas. Two of the boys are caught spying and taken away by his goons. With the help of their dog Sikander and their monkey Birbal, the rest of the team must rescue them.
Réalisé parJag Mundhra GenresDrame ActeursShabana Azmi, Deepti Naval, A. K. Hangal, Marc Zuber, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri), Sulabha Deshpande Rôle Ecrivain Note69% Jaisingh Jadav (Marc Zuber), a Delhi based journalist finds that even to this date, flesh trade exist in a village in Madhya Pradesh, the victims being girls belonging to the Bhil tribe. Like any avid journalist he travels to the village followed by really buying a girl named Kamla (Deepti Naval) and takes her to his home in Delhi. As his intentions were good, some days later he holds a press conference where he reveals the actual wrongdoings going on in the village.
, 2h10 Réalisé parGovind Nihalani GenresDrame, Policier ActeursOm Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Naseeruddin Shah, Sadashiv Amarapurkar Rôle Ecrivain Note80% The film opens at a party where Anant Welankar (Om Puri), a police officer, meets Jyotsna Gokhale (Smita Patil), a lecturer in literature at a local college. Anant is a sub-inspector with Bombay police. They seem to hit it off despite some initial skirmishing about ideology, and the friendship blossoms into a relationship.
Réalisé parJabbar Patel GenresDrame ActeursSmita Patil, Girish Karnad, Satish Alekar Note72% Sulabha Mahajan (played by Smita Patil) is a woman who dreams to step out of the four walls of the house, assume greater responsibility as a citizen and play an important role in shaping the society. She has passion to do something constructive for the abused, assaulted, neglected and traumatized womenfolk of the society she lives in. She gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in a remote town of Sangamwadi. The job offer raises objections from her lawyer husband Subhash (played by Girish Karnad) and conservative mother-in-law who refuse to understand her need to move to the town and work for rehabilitation of the women. But her sister-in-law supports her by offering help in looking after her young daughter Rani. Determined Sulabha then goes ahead with her dream job.
, 2h24 Réalisé parGovind Nihalani OrigineInde GenresDrame ThèmesLa musique, Politique, Le racisme, Musique, Politique, Bollywood ActeursNaseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Mohan Agashe, Reema Lagoo Rôle Ecrivain Note78% Bhiku Lahaniya (Om Puri), un adivasi travaillant dans une exploitation forestière du Maharashtra, est accusé d'avoir assassiné sa femme. Il est défendu par un jeune avocat brahmane, Bhaskar Kulkarni (Naseeruddin Shah), dont c'est le premier procès. Bhaskar a pour adversaire le procureur Dushane (Amrish Puri), son mentor et ami, qui est également un adivasi. Certain de la culpabilité de son client, qui refuse de lui adresser la parole, Bhaskar ne mène d'abord son enquête que par conscience professionnelle. Il se heurte d'une part au silence de la famille de Bhiku, d'autre part à l'opposition des notables de la ville, qui se font rapidement menaçants, et est peu à peu amené à douter de la culpabilité de son client.
GenresDrame, Horreur ActeursPadmini Kolhapure, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Rita Bhaduri Rôle Ecrivain Note68% Chennabasappa (Shriram Lagoo) is a successful high-collar manager of a reputed firm in Bangalore and lives with his very spiritual and rather docile wife Saroja (Indrani Mukherjee), son Nandish (Anant Nag) and daughter Uma (Padmini Kolhapure). Chennabasappa wants to build a house for his family in Bangalore and desperately needs money. He decides to sell his plantation spread across several acres in his ancestral village to a soap company. The plantation has been looked after by Baswa for many years. Baswa is Chennabasappa's loyal servant. Upon knowing Chennabasappa's intentions, Baswa becomes agitated as he considers Chennabasappa's act to be something close to the rape of one's mother. In his view, the piece of land is like one's mother (sign of fertility) that Chennabasappa sold for money.
, 2h1 GenresDrame, Historique ActeursSadashiv Amarapurkar, Arundhati Nag Rôle Concepteur de dialogues Note76% Pune was visited by the pestilence of bubonic plague which took a heavy toll of life. But the plague had another, indirect and far reaching consequence on the politics of the country. The behaviour of the military which was called out to deal with the situation arising from the pestilence caused great indignation. On 22 June in 1897, British officer Charles Walter Rand Assistant Collector of Pune and Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, Pune, and British Army officer Lieutenant Charles Egerton Ayerst, were assassinated on the Ganeshkhind road, Pune, on their way back from a Government house party celebrating the Diamond Jubilee anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria.
, 1h50 Réalisé parSaeed Akhtar Mirza GenresDrame ActeursDr. Shriram Lagoo, Om Puri, Anjali Paigankar, Sulabha Deshpande, Rohini Hattangadi, Satish Shah Rôle Ecrivain Note70% Arvind Desai (Dilip Dhawan) is the only son of a rich businessman (Shriram Lagoo) who deals in luxury handicrafts and products. His feelings for his father are mixed. While he hates his dominating nature, he admires his power and lack of scruples. He has long discussions on art and politics with a Marxist friend (Om Puri), is seeing his father's secretary, Alice (Anjali Paigankar) and sometimes he visits a prostitute, Fatima. Much against his wishes, his marriage is arranged to a girl from a high-class family that has just returned from Paris much to Alice's mother dismay who realizes that Alice was time-pass for Arvind and nothing more. Suresh Oberoi has done cameo in movie.
Réalisé parJabbar Patel ActeursNilu Phule, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Mohan Agashe, Nana Patekar, Arun Sarnaik, Reema Lagoo Note78% The movie draws parallel from the political turmoil of India.
The main character is a journalist named Digu Tipnis (Nilu Phule) who uncovers a network of telephone tapping, relations between trade unions and politicians, etc. The plot addresses Maharashtra's political corruption linked with Mumbai's entrepreneurial sector.
, 2h14 Réalisé parShyam Benegal OrigineInde GenresDrame ThèmesLa musique, Politique, Musique, Politique, Bollywood ActeursKulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Agashe Note76% Le docteur Rao (Girish Karnad), un vétérinaire, vient fonder une coopérative laitière dans un village où les producteurs de lait sont en majorité des dalits (intouchables). Il doit faire face à Mishraji (Amrish Puri), qui achète à bas prix le lait de tous les villageois, mais aussi au chef du village (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) qui souhaite utiliser la coopérative naissante pour renforcer son pouvoir. Rao s'aperçoit vite qu'il a besoin du soutien de la population dalit pour réussir son entreprise. Bindu (Smita Patil), une femme de caractère appartenant à cette communauté, sympathise avec lui et accepte d'y participer, entrainant avec elle les autres femmes. Mais Bhola, dont la forte personnalité fait le leader de la communauté, reste sur ses gardes. Sa méfiance s'aggrave lorsqu'il découvre qu'un des associés de Rao a une aventure avec une femme de sa caste. Lorsque Rao finit par convaincre Bhola, l'ensemble du village se rallie à sa cause et des élections sont organisées pour désigner le président de la coopérative. Le vainqueur est un dalit. Mais le chef du village n'accepte pas cette remise en cause de son pouvoir. Il trouve un allié en la personne de Mishraji dont l'entreprise est menacée par le développement de la coopérative. Mishraji parvient à convaincre Bindu, en grande difficulté financière, de prétendre que Rao l'a séduite. Rao et son équipe doivent quitter le village, mais la coopérative ne périclite pas pour autant : les producteurs de lait continuent son œuvre.
Réalisé parMani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Jabbar Patel GenresDrame, Historique ActeursMohan Agashe, Om Puri, Tom Alter Rôle Ecrivain Note69% The play begins with an invocation to lord Ganesha. Then the Brahmins of Pune introduce themselves and we can see the morally corrupt state of affairs in Pune. Nana Phadnavis who is the Diwan (Chief Secretary) of Pune is also corrupt and visits the lavani dancer. Ghashiram is working with the lavani dancer. Ghashiram being a Brahmin goes to collect alms at the Peshwa's festival the next day. However he is ill-treated there and is charged with pick-pocketing and imprisoned for the offence. He then decides to take revenge.
, 2h20 Réalisé parShyam Benegal GenresDrame, Policier ThèmesLa musique, Sexualité, Le viol, Musique, Bollywood ActeursShabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri Note75% Un instituteur et son épouse arrivent dans un village de la région d'Hyderabad sur lequel une fratrie de zamindars (propriétaires terriens) fait régner la terreur. Le plus jeune des frères s'éprend de la jeune femme et l'enlève. Son mari tente de la libérer par lui-même, puis fait appel, sans succès, à la police, au conseil du village, à la justice, et au prêtre du temple local. Pendant ce temps, dans le palais des zamindars, Sushila s'accommode de son sort.