Kanwaljit Singh Movies
- 2006
Director Gurbir Singh Grewal tells the remarkable true-life tale of a man who lost it all, and still refused to give up hope even in his darkest hour. As turmoil raged in Punjab, an Army officer and a local village girl somehow managed to find love amidst the chaos of war. Later married under dramatic circumstances, the loving couple soon set about building a family. Though the woman would sadly die during childbirth, her baby girl emerged healthy and strong. When another woman desperate to bear children kidnapped the young girl and the missing child's grieving father was subsequently sentenced to life and prison, it appeared as if all hope was lost for the tragic family. Soon after completing his sentence, however, the determined father refuses to bend to the cruel hand fate has dealt him and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite with his long-lost daughter and tell her the truth about her remarkable past. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jimmy Shergill, Kulraj Randhawa, (more)
- 1989
To Indian audiences, the plot of Izhaar was standard stuff. Once again, the course of true love has a bumpy ride thanks to a greedy landlord. The landlord's son, destined for a wealthy marriage, has the gall to fall in love with a poor girl. The enraged father then contrives to have the girl murdered. For some reason, Indian filmgoers were willing to sit through all 140 minutes of this by-the-numbers tale. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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)
