Sparsh (1980) is Sai Paranjape’s tender Hindi drama about a fiercely independent blind principal (Naseeruddin Shah) of a school for the blind and a withdrawn widow (Shabana Azmi) who volunteers at the school, exploring how physical disability, pride, and insecurity become emotional barriers to love and human connection.
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by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 20, 2026 | Anurag Kashyap, Experimental Cinema, Hindi
Black Friday (2004) is Anurag Kashyap’s documentary-style Hindi film, adapted from S. Hussain Zaidi’s book, that reconstructs the investigation into the 1993 Bombay serial bombings through a sprawling mosaic of perpetrators, policemen, and bystanders, offering a searing, unsentimental account of how the attacks were planned, executed, and unravelled.
READ MORETeesri Kasam (1966)
by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 18, 2026 | Basu Bhattacharya, Hindi
Teesri Kasam (1966) is Basu Bhattacharya’s National Award-winning Hindi film, adapted from Phanishwarnath Renu’s story, about a naive bullock-cart driver who falls in love with a travelling nautanki dancer, a tender meditation on innocence, unfulfilled love, and the exploitation of folk performers in rural India.
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by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 15, 2026 | Aparna Sen, Bengali
Paroma (1985) is Aparna Sen’s Bengali film about a conventional middle-class housewife whose affair with a younger photographer awakens her sense of self but brings social and personal turmoil, probing questions of female identity and desire within patriarchal society.
READ MOREEk Hota Vidushak (1992)
by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 14, 2026 | Jabbar Patel, Marathi
Ek Hota Vidushak (1992) is Jabbar Patel’s Marathi film about a folk artist (Vidushak) who rises from rural obscurity to fame and political power, only to lose his artistic soul and personal moorings in the process.
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