The Initiation (2013)

Actors: Antonio Badrani (actor), Camille Montgomery (actress), Andre Wiggins (editor), Andre Wiggins (writer), Andre Wiggins (director), Andre Wiggins (producer), Andre Wiggins (producer), Eric Corbin (actor), Roy Kerry (actor),

Genres: Action, Short, Thriller,

The Tigers, They're All Dead (2012)

Actors: Yashpal Sharma (actor), Chinmay Mandlekar (actor), Reema Sengupta (director), Ulhas Tayade (actor), Reema Sengupta (writer), Abha Parmar (actress), Manish Jain (actor), Sheikh Noor Islaam (actor), Akhilesh Jha (actor), Pankaj Uniyaal (actor), Mishrkeshi Jain (actress), Arjun Kanungo (composer), Ratan Lal (actor), Nazar Khan (actor), Mrityunjay Pandey (actor),

Plot: The panoramic reaction of Mumbai to the incident of the death of India's last tiger, under undisclosed circumstances. Through satire, it brings into focus the 'sensationalization of an event' by news channels, religious factions, politicians and activists, to present a critique on contemporary urban Indian society. The reactions of various sections of the society are juxtaposed with a 3 year old child's struggle to bring back his favorite animal.

Keywords: animal-activist, animal-actor, animal-extinction, child-actor, crowd-funding, india, mms, news-spoof, political-satire, tiger
Genres: Comedy, Short,
Taglines: What does Mumbai do the day India's last tiger dies?

Partition (2007)

Actors: Neve Campbell (actress), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Steve Woodley (miscellaneous crew), Brian Tyler (composer), Robyn Wiener (miscellaneous crew), Vinay Pathak (actor), Jeannine Dupuy (miscellaneous crew), Irrfan Khan (actor), Jesse Moss (actor), Vic Sarin (director), Vic Sarin (writer), Stacey Harris (miscellaneous crew), Mina E. Mina (actor), Chris Rudolph (producer), Reginald Harkema (editor),

Plot: Gian Singh & Avtar Singh are officers with the Indian Army serving under the command of Andrew Stilwell, who lives with his sister, Margaret, in Delhi. During 1941 the trio are dispatched to active duty in Burma where Andrew is killed. Both Gian and Avtar return to their village in Sarsa, Punjab, where Gian lives with his widowed mom, Shanti. During 1947, after 350 years of occupying India, the British decide to leave, but not before separating Islamic Pakistan and secular India. Millions of Muslims crossed from India to Pakistan, while an equal number of Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians crossed over from the other side. A group of Muslims who were crossing over to Pakistan are attacked by a mob of sword wielding horse-riding Sikhs, and Hindus, including Avtar, many are slaughtered, but some do manage to escape. Muslims, in turn, kill all Hindus, Sikhs and Christian passengers on a train en-route to India. While Gian, who refuses to participate in any killing, is picking up wood for his fireplace, he comes a across a young Muslim girl, Naseem Khan, in hiding, and decides to shelter her. He brings her home with him, places a turban over head to make her look like a young Sikh lad, and hides her in a trunk from his mother. But the villagers do find out, while some want to outrightly kill her, others want her to leave. Gian donates some money for the displaced Sikhs and Hindus from Pakistan, and asks the villagers to give him some time to locate her family from Pakistan and then send her on her way, to which they agree. Gian seeks the help of Margaret, who does her best to liaise with the Ministry of Unification of Families, but to no avail. In the meantime, Naseem adapts herself to the village life, and soon she and Gian fall in love with each other. Shortly thereafter both get married, and soon Naseem gives birth to a boy, Vijay. Years later, they get a surprise visit from Margaret, who has now located Naseem's family. Naseem's is thrilled, and departs to Kasur in Pakistan to meet her family, who she will be staying with for a month. When she does not return after 3 months, Gian approaches the authorities to travel to Pakistan, but is refused as only Muslims are permitted to cross over. He then converts to Islam, changes his name to Mohammad Hassan, and together with Vijay, obtains necessary documents to travel to Pakistan, but are stopped at the border and asked to bring further proof. Both father and son sneak in through the border fence and find a room in Lahore's Royal Hotel, managed by a Walter Hankins, a friend of Margaret. Gian goes to Kasur, finds Naseem's house - and it is here that he gets severely beaten up by Naseem's brothers, Abdul and Akbar, who, along with their mother, have been holding Naseem against her will in their house. The reason: Naseem's father was killed by a Sikh, and they refuse to permit her to leave the house and return to her family. What can Gian do under these circumstances, especially with his illegal entry into Pakistan, and also with sentiments still running high against Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians.

Keywords: india, interracial-relationship, love, muslim, pakistan, partition, sikh
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Two Faiths. Two Worlds. One Love. Bound By Love. Separated By History.

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)

Actors: Emma Thompson (actress), Mike Nichols (actor), Jeffrey Wright (actor), Marcia Gay Harden (actress), Mary-Louise Parker (actress), Diane Sawyer (actress), Meryl Streep (actress), David Marshall Grant (actor), Ron Leibman (actor), Terry Sanders (producer), Justin Kirk (actor), Ben Shenkman (actor), Tony Kushner (actor), Freida Lee Mock (director), Freida Lee Mock (producer),

Genres: Documentary,

The Four Feathers (2002)

Actors: Dave Evans (miscellaneous crew), Kyle Cooper (miscellaneous crew), James Horner (composer), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Tim Pigott-Smith (actor), Ruth Myers (costume designer), Michael Sheen (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Djimon Hounsou (actor), Charles Bodycomb (miscellaneous crew), James Cosmo (actor), Heath Ledger (actor), Kate Hudson (actress), Frédéric North (miscellaneous crew), Wes Bentley (actor),

Plot: Set in 1884 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancée give him four white feathers, the symbol of cowardice, but little do they know he's actually going undercover and plans to redeem his honor.

Keywords: 1880s, 1890s, 19th-century, abandonment, ambush, army, arrogance, based-on-novel, bath, battle
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War,
Taglines: What would you kill for? Freedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one man must risk everything he loves.

Quotes:

General Faversham: An officer who gave his life for his country deserves far more respect than I do.

General Faversham: There is only one sacrifice nobler than sacrificing one's self for their country; that is marrying a man who does.

[Upon learning his son has resigned from the army]::General Faversham: I don't know you.

Willoughby: [speaking of Harry leaving the regiment] We've been sent to war and the very next day he resigns. There's no doubt about it.::Jack Durrance: What's that supposed to mean?::Willoughby: I think it's perfectly clear what it means.::Castleton: Tom, don't be absurd!::William Trench: Shut up, Vicar.::Willoughby: It means he's a coward, Jack.::Jack Durrance: Say that to his face.::Willoughby: I would have done only he left the barracks before I had a chance.::Jack Durrance: Alright then, say it to my face.::William Trench: Easy, Jack.::Willoughby: Harry is a disgrace. He disgraced the regement.::Jack Durrance: He is the best soldier in the regement!::Willoughby: Obviously not when it counts. I will tell him. But not to his face. He doesn't deserve it. He deserves to be treated with the same contempt he treated us.::Jack Durrance: What contempt?::Willoughby: Did he talk to you about it? Did he talk to any of you? He's left with his back exposed and he didn't even have the courage to tell us. He was my friend too, Jack.::Jack Durrance: He'll be there.

Harry Faversham: Willoughby, you look wonderful, darling.::Jack Durrance: Princess Willoughby.::Harry Faversham: Miss Willoughby.::William Trench: A hair is out of place there, Tom.::Willoughby: When are you gentlemen going to grow up?::Harry Faversham: Gentlemen! Did he call us gentlemen?::Jack Durrance: I believe he did.::Harry Faversham: I won't take that from him.::Jack Durrance: Nor will I.

William Trench: Don't worry, Vicar. They're only women. They won't bite.

Harry Faversham: I've left the army. [Ethne laughs in disbelief] No, Ethne, I have left the army.::Ethne: Why?::Harry Faversham: There was talk they might send us abroad. For a year or two. I didn't want to wait that long to get married.::Ethne: I would have waited. Or come with you. My mother did the same for my father.::Harry Faversham: Yes, I know, but it tisn't what I wnated for us. You're all that matters to me now.::Ethne: Where were they going to send you?::Harry Faversham: They weren't sure. [the church door opens and a delivery boy from the army gives Harry a package that contains three white feathers]::Ethne: [Picking up the feathers from the floor] Is this your friends' idea of a joke? What is it, Harry?::Harry Faversham: Feathers of cowardice. Yesterday we were informed that our regement would be shipping out to Sudan. That we would be sent to war.::Ethne: You don't know where they were sending you, you said it yourself. You did it for me. No one in their right mind could call you a coward. Especially not your friends. If there's been some kind of misunderstanding you have to clear it out. You have to go back to the regement and clear it out.::Harry Faversham: No, I can't.::Ethne: Then I will. I'll go see Trench, Willoughby and Castleton myself and tell them it's my fault you resigned. You did it for me.::Harry Faversham: It has nothing to do with you, Ethne!::Ethne: Then why?::Harry Faversham: I never wanted to join the army! I did it for my father. I thought I'd serve my commission for a year or two and keep everyone happy and then I could...::Ethne: Do what? Wait until we were married to tell me the truth?::Harry Faversham: Ethne, I never meant to lie to you.::Ethne: No, but you were quite happy to let me deceive myself. Do you think people will let us forget this?::Harry Faversham: I don't care what people think, Ethne. All I care about is us.::Ethne: It's not about us, Harry. It's just not about us. Jack would give his life for you.::Harry Faversham: Don't you think I know that?::Ethne: Then go back. It's not too late. Tell them you wouldn't have resigned if it weren't for me.::Ethne: I would have resigned. And I wouldn't have gone to war for anything or anyone.::Ethne: Then you are a coward.

Harry Faversham: When something like this happens you are lost. You don't know who you are anymore and what you're capable of. Unless I do something this is always how people will remember me. A feather. And that is how I will always see myself: a coward. All I know is that I can't live with myself like this.

Abou Fatma: I found you half dead crossing the desert alone and you say you are afraid?

Jack Durrance: You may be lost, but you are not forgotten. For those who have travelled far, to fight in foreign lands, know that the soldier's greatest comfort is to have his friends close at hand. In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea for which we fight. Or a flag. Rather we fight for the man on our left, and we fight for the man on our right. And when armies are scattered and the empires fall away, all that remains is the memory of those precious moments that we spent sided by side.

East Is East (1999)

Actors: Paul Webster (producer), Om Puri (actor), Jill McCullough (miscellaneous crew), Gary Lewis (actor), Archie Panjabi (actress), Ruth Jones (actress), Helene Lenszner (miscellaneous crew), Jimi Mistry (actor), Linda Bassett (actress), Amanda Street (miscellaneous crew), Lorna Marie Mugan (costume designer), Marinella Setti (miscellaneous crew), Emil Marwa (actor), Deborah Mollison (composer), John Bardon (actor),

Plot: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Keywords: 1970s, arranged-marriage, asian-man-white-woman-relationship, based-on-play, big-teeth, biracial, biracial-child, british, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog. Young, Free and soon not to be single A comedy with attitude about finding your way in a home with no latitude. This holiday weekend, America is heading 'East'!

Quotes:

Stella Moorhouse: Let's elope. That's soooo romantic.

Mr. Moorhouse: See. You let one of 'em in, and the whole fuckin' tribe turns up.

Ella Khan: Sorry about him Mr. Shah. He's just been circumcised.

Auntie Annie: They'll do anything for you Mrs/ Shah. Good Samaritans they are. Just like in the Bible.

[Annie meets Tariq and Abdul's brides to be]::Auntie Annie: [sarcastic] Is it these two. They're bleedin' gorgeous. You're lucky you pair aren't ya. Landin' a couple of belters like these.

George Khan: ...when I come this country, I have no luggage. Today what I got?::Meenah Khan: You got a chip shop. dad.::George Khan: Right. Own bloody business, see.

Priest: God bless.::George Khan: And Allah be with you

[In the hospital following Sajid's circumcision]::George Khan: Tickle-Tackle all gone?::Doctor: [Puzzled] Circumcision was absolutely fine.::George Khan: You Indian?::Ella Khan: [whispering] George.::George Khan: [to Ella] Bastard Indian.

Tariq Khan: [Watching Enoch Powell speaking on TV] We should have a whip round and get Dad repatriated.

Ella Khan: Do you think I'm a good mother?::Auntie Annie: No, I think you're a friggin' awful mother.

L'Amérique en otage (1991)

Actors: Philippe Sarde (composer), Kevin Connor (director), Arliss Howard (actor), Alice Krige (actress), Ving Rhames (actor), George R. Robertson (actor), Ronald Guttman (actor), Didier Flamand (actor), Mac McDonald (actor), Tony Goldwyn (actor), Jeff Fahey (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Daniel Gélin (actor), Keith Palmer (editor), Valérie Kaprisky (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Sadat (1983)

Actors: Sam Sako (actor), Charles Bernstein (composer), Paul L. Smith (actor), Tony Plana (actor), John Rhys-Davies (actor), Lionel Chetwynd (writer), Pepe Serna (actor), Nehemiah Persoff (actor), Jeffrey Tambor (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Louis Gossett Jr. (actor), David Hess (actor), Barry Morse (actor), Humberto Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Grady Hunt (costume designer),

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War,
Taglines: He made his name as a warrior. He made history as a peacemaker.

King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)

Actors: Argentina Brunetti (actress), Terry Moore (actress), Billy Wilkerson (actor), Guy Rolfe (actor), Michael Rennie (actor), Tyrone Power (actor), Frank Lackteen (actor), John Farrow (actor), Alberto Morin (actor), Gavin Muir (actor), Ramsay Hill (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Frank DeKova (actor), Travilla (costume designer), Bernard Herrmann (composer),

Plot: Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird. Brigadier general J. R. Maitland, whose policy is full equality among whites, learns King knew Kurrum Khan as a boy and charges him with training and commanding native cavalry, which comes along fine. The general's egalitarian daughter Susan Maitland takes a fancy to King, even falls in love but the general decides to send her safely home to England after a kidnapped attempt when King saved her. King volunteers to take out Khurram Khan, the only man who can bring the normally dived local tribes together in revolt, pretending to have deserted...

Keywords: 1850s, based-on-novel, bathrobe, battle, behind-enemy-lines, biracial, british-empire, camp, character-name-in-title, childhood-friend
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: GREAT ADVENTURE OF INDIA! (original print ad - all caps)

The Drum (1938)

Actors: Natalie Kalmus (miscellaneous crew), René Hubert (costume designer), Alexander Korda (producer), Lajos Biró (writer), Ralph Truman (actor), Valerie Hobson (actress), Guy Rolfe (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Edward Lexy (actor), Francis L. Sullivan (actor), Raymond Massey (actor), Alf Goddard (actor), Leo Genn (actor), Edward Underdown (actor), Arthur Wimperis (writer),

Plot: Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries to warn the British of the impending revolt by tapping out messages on the Drum of the title.

Keywords: bagpipes, based-on-novel, british-empire, colonialism, drums, india, loyalty, message, palace, plan
Genres: Adventure, War,
Taglines: A CAST OF 3000