Movies: Santosh Sivan

Tehzeeb (Hindi: तह्ज़ीब, Urdu: تہزیب, English: Etiquette) is a 2003 Indian Bollywood film directed by Khalid Mohammed. It premiered on 21 November 2003. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar, Diya Mirza, Arjun Rampal and Rishi Kapoor in a spe...

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealist...

A group of villagers from Maranur, India, and their clash with a neighbouring village leader as their community begins to prosper. Soon, money and greed threaten a will for peaceful coexistence between the two rivalling communities....

A man, with the help of his two best friends, helps his third friend to elope with his lover. However, when the couple parts ways, they decide to teach them a lesson....

Carlos, an underworld mafia, murders a man for his selfish needs. However, things take a turn when the son of the dead man sets out to seek revenge against the perpetrator....

Chronicles the rise of young Shivaji Bhonsale, who challenged the might of established empires to found the Maratha kingdom and lay the groundwork for “Swarajya” (self-rule) during a turbulent period of Indian history....

Dr. Roy is a surgeon who works in a private hospital. He falls in love with his colleague Dr. Annie. When Annie discovers a frightening organ-smuggling operation in her hospital, it proves to be a turning point in the story....

An Artist Goes To A Remote Place To Portray Nature's Beauty. His Life Takes A Turn When He Meets Two Strangers In That Place....

Delving into the limitless world of creative endeavors, and vicissitudes in the way of such endeavors, this tale of an artist and his muse, like a painting, leaves itself open to interpretations and readings by every viewer......

The film tells the story of Raja Ravi Varma at a certain stage in his life. He is in the process of painting a masterpiece. The theme of his painting is Pururavas, the legendary king who fell in love with the heavenly nymph Urvashi, who later agrees ...

The saga of Mazhuddin Khan alias Immi, born in 1939 in Bombay, British India, as a eunuch, whose mother, Zeenat, in denial that she has sired him, refers to him as her younger brother. She attains fame, has an affair with Inder Kumar Bhalla, only to ...

A Malayalam action thriller....

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend. Using p...

Woyzeck is a hapless, low-ranking soldier-alone and powerless in the tribal society around him. He earns extra money by taking part in medical experiments, but during one such experiment his mental health begins to deteriorate and he begins to experi...

Keshu is a deaf and dumb boy who lost his mother when he was born. He was raised by his maternal uncle and wife. Being mischievous, there were many complaints against Keshu by the villagers. His uncle kept punishing him, but to no avail. The only per...

Balachandra Menon is intrigued by the story of a chirpy girl (Shari) who suddenly commits suicide. He determines to figure out what lead her to that decision....

A truck driver helps a boy in his quest for finding his mother, and then helps get him reinstated in school, from which he had been dismissed for being HIV-positive....

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Rajini, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl, narrates the horrific tale of why she had to leave her homeland and become a refugee in India....

Childhood friends Devdas and Parvati hail from different backgrounds. Devdas falls in love with Parvati, but the norms of the society do not let them be together....