Suresh Oberoi Movies
- 2002
Directed by Guddu Dhanoa, this film chronicles the life and eventual martyrdom of Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Singh (Bobby Deol), who grew up in an impoverished neighborhood, didn't truly grasp the concept of freedom fighting until his uncle was forced to flee from the British military. The carnage inflicted by the British upon a local village caused Singh to vow to spend his life fighting agasint them. While attending college, an eager Singh joins the non-cooperation movement originated by Mahatma Gahndi in 1921, but becomes disillusioned. After deciding that action was required, Singh leaves his mother and joins the revolutionary party of Chandrashekhar Azad (Sunny Deol). After participating in the oftentimes violent boycott movement, both Singh and Azad are arrested by British authorities on March 23rd, 1931.
~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, (more)
- 1998
Few films made in Japan have created such international outrage as Shunya Ito's Pride -- an affectionate biopic on that country's most notorious prime minister, Hideki Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 during the Tokyo trials for war crimes. Funded by renown ultra right-wing investors, this film struck many in China and Korea -- two countries on the receiving end of much of Japanese war crimes -- as close to a deliberate provocation, especially since Japan has yet to officially come clean about such wartime atrocities as the Rape of Nanking or the murderous Unit 731. Instead of the incarnation of evil that U.S. propaganda portrayed him as, Tojo, played by Masahiko Tsugawa, is presented as being a brilliant leader, a passionate nationalist, and a loving family man. His goal was not the subjection of Asia under a Japanese empire, but to cast off the yolk of Western colonialism. American prosecutor Joseph Keenan (Scott Wilson) is seen as shrill, ignorant, and scheming, while Indian judge Radhabinod Pal as the sole dissenting jurist is the film's only non-Japanese hero. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Starring:
- Masahiko Tsugawa, Ayumi Ishida, (more)
- 1989
A short story by Pushpa S. Choudhary was the launching pad of the Indian Do Qaidi The "heroes," played by Sanjay Dutt and Govinda, are a pair of cheap crooks. As much as they hate the authorities, the two criminals hate each other more. They may be thieves, but they aren't murderers, and when they are framed by a drug cartel for the murder of a police inspector, the two crooks take the first opportunity to escape together, despite their mutual animosity. In trying to clear themselves, the boys find an unlikely ally in the form of the murdered man's widow. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, (more)
- 1987
A chauvinistic Indian businessman and a liberated artist from Nepal enter into marriage in this cliche-ridden melodrama. The man was talked into considering the union to the woman by his brother, but the husband never changes his boorish attitude or overcomes the class difference between him and his wife. The woman leaves him after she is beaten and takes off to Katmandu with the man's brother. The two have a brief love affair before he returns to his wife. The film contains some great natural scenes of Nepal but is hampered by uneven editing. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Suresh Oberoi, Dipti Naval, (more)
- 1985
A landmark work of Indian feminism, Spices was made by famed filmmaker Ketan Mehta, featuring Smita Patel in the leading role. Patel, possibly the greatest actress of her generation, plays a woman who faces the oppressive realities of life as a woman in India. Spurning the advance of a corrupt tax collector, the heroine is forced to take refuge in a pepper factory. Spices is a Hindi film with English subtitles. ~ Sean Hurley, Rovi
- Starring:
- Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, (more)
