Dalip Singh Rathore Movies
A girl coming of age in India discovers the ugly realities of a woman's legal rights and social status in her village in this drama. Maya (Nitya Shetty) is a bright and enthusiastic 12-year-old girl who loves spending time with her cousin and best friend, Sanjay (Nikhil Yaday), and keeps her family -- mother Lakshmi (Mita Vasisht) and father Arun (Anant Nag) -- on their toes. When Maya gets her menstrual period for the first time, she's at once nervous about the changes in her body, and excited about how she's growing into womanhood. Maya has heard about a special prayer ceremony for girls who have begun to develop into adulthood, and feels both eager and honored when Mr. Nair (Virendra Saxenda), the "high priest" who supervises the ceremony, tells her the time for her service has come. However, to her horror Maya learns the true nature of the ceremony when she is held down on a stone slab and violated by Nair and three of his assistants; Arun rages against Nair and his compatriots, but feels powerless to stop them within boundaries of their community. Director Digvijay Singh claims that his film was based on a true story, and that such rituals are still performed on a regular basis in a small number of Indian communities. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nitya Shetty, Anant Nag, (more)
This historical drama, based on a novel by John Masters that was in turn inspired by actual events, follows William Savage (Pierce Brosnan), a British agent of the East India Company, as he is sent with his new wife to India in the early 19th century. While Savage holds the unusually progressive view that the people of India are human and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, he is still a very proper subject of the British empire and behaves accordingly. One night, when he sees a group of seemingly crazed men rob and kill a defenseless woman, he demands to know what has happened. He learns that the killers were members of a bizarre cult called the Thugees; Savage is determined to do something about them, and he works his way into the group by disguising himself as one of their number; however, the more Savage tries to win the trust of the Thugees, the more he must act as one of them, which leads him into a murderous secret life of his own. The Deceivers was produced by Ismail Merchant, his first film with a director other than James Ivory. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, (more)
