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  1. The Queen Sees the Duke of Connaught’s Tour

    Date released
    9 May 1921
    Series name
    Topical Budget
    Issue no
    506-2
    NoS ID
    128096
    Story no
    1 / 4

    [SUBTITLE]: "Her Majesty with the Duke visits the West End Cinema to view ‘Across India’ and The Topical Budget." Queen Mary attends a private showing of the Topical Film Company’s film ‘Across India...

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  2. Bollywood and Beyond (2002)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £34.99

    A video-based training pack offering an introduction to Indian cinema. It is the largest cinema in the world, but only in recent years has it started to gain recognition in the West. The video contains a...

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  3. Indian Shakespeare on Screen (Audio)

    A conference held at Asia House, Cavendish Street, London and BFI Southbank April 27-30 2016. Indian Shakespeares on stage have garnered the increasing attention of academics both Western and Eastern, yet...

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  4. Cloud-Capped Star, The (2002)

    aka: Meghe Dhaka Tara

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132), £19.99

    A dark melodrama set in late fifties Calcutta ;about a refugee family and the struggle of Nita, the oldest daughter, to keep the afloat and together. It is a bitter critique of the family as an institution...

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  5. Celluloid Man (2012)

    Director
    Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 164 minutes), £12.99

    CELLULOID MAN is a tribute to film archivist and obsessive cinephile P.K. Nair, a man whose childhood fascination with cinema finally led to the creation of the National Film Archive of India. In a country...

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  6. River Called Titas, A (2002)

    aka: Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 161 minutes), £19.99

    Based on a Bengali novel by Advaita Malla Barman, A RIVER CALLED TITAS was filmed in Ghatak’s home of East Bengal after the independence of Bangladesh. Overwhelmed by the changes in his native land, Ghatak...

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  7. Leaving Bakul Bagan (1993 Video)

    Director
    Sandeep Bhusan Ray
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shot over a period of four months in 1992 in the cinema-verité style, the film examines the experiences of Bakul Bagan Saborna, a 21-year-old Bengali girl and cousin of the film-maker, leaving her large,...

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  8. Suits and Savages: Why the World Bank Won’t Save the World (2000 Video)

    Director
    Dylan Howitt; Zoe Young
    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 38 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) institutions

    Examines issues surrounding indigenous land rights and the displacement of people and wildlife in the name of development. Focuses on a conservation project in the Nagarhole National Park in southern India,...

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  9. River, The (2006)

    Director
    Jean Renoir
    Subject
    Film Studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 99 minutes), £19.99

    Jean Renoir’s first colour feature - shot entirely on location in India - is an adaptation of Rumer Godden’s autobiographical coming-of-age tale of an adolescent girl living with her English family on...

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  10. Brian Cox’s Jute Journey (2011)

    Director
    Brian Ross; Donald Alexander
    Producer
    John Archer
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 92 minutes), £16.33

    Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee and grew up amid the clatter of the Jute mills, where both his parents began their working lives. The Jute trade, making hessian from India’s ‘golden’...

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