# Art House Cinema

> Dedicated To Meaningful Indian Cinema


## Posts

- [Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/07/mondo-meyer-upakhyan-2002/): Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002), also released as A Tale of a Naughty Girl, is a Bengali drama by Buddhadev Dasgupta about a fourteen-year-old girl who defies her mother's plan to sell her into prostitution in favour of returning to school.
- [Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1971)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/07/ashadh-ka-ek-din-1971/): Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1971), based on Mohan Rakesh's play of the same name, is Mani Kaul's adaptation of the love triangle between Sanskrit poet Kalidasa, Mallika, and Priyangmanjari.
- [Vijeta (1982)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/07/vijeta-1982/): Vijeta (1982) is a coming-of-age Hindi drama directed by Govind Nihalani, tracing a young man's passage into the Indian Air Force amid his parents' fraught marriage.
- [Ijaazat (1987)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/07/ijaazat-1987/): Ijaazat (1987) is Gulzar's exquisitely poetic Hindi musical romance about an estranged couple (Naseeruddin Shah and Rekha) who unexpectedly reunite in a railway station waiting room five years after their divorce, tenderly excavating memories of their failed marriage and the other woman (Anuradha Patel) whose presence still lingers between them.
- [Dooratwa (1978)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/07/dooratwa-1978/): Dooratwa (1978), Buddhadev Dasgupta's debut feature, is a spare and poetically rendered Bengali drama — adapted from a Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay short story — that examines marital estrangement when a Kolkata professor discovers his young wife is pregnant by another man, winning the National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film.
- [Sparsh (1980)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/sparsh-1980/): 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tender Hindi drama about a fiercely independent blind principal (Naseeruddin Shah) of a school for the blind and a withdrawn widow (Shabana Azmi) who volunteers at the school, exploring how physical disability, pride, and insecurity become emotional barriers to love and human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.
- [Black Friday (2004)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/black-friday-2004/): 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.
- [Teesri Kasam (1966)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/teesri-kasam-1966/): 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.
- [Paroma (1985)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/paroma-1985/): 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.
- [Ek Hota Vidushak (1992)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/ek-hota-vidushak-1992/): 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.
- [Paanch (2003)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/paanch-2003/): Anurag Kashyap's Paanch is a gritty, controversial 2003 crime drama—his directorial debut—about five reckless friends in a rock band whose lives spiral into violence, drugs, and murder, a film that remained unreleased due to censorship battles over its dark themes.
- [Tahaan (2008)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/tahaan-2008/): Tahaan (2008) is a Hindi drama film by Santosh Sivan about a young Kashmiri boy who embarks on a journey to recover his beloved donkey after it's taken away to settle a family debt.
- [Elippathayam (1981)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/elippathayam-1981/): Elippathayam, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is a 1981 film, that chronicles, with extraordinary restraint and formal control, the extinction of an entire social order through the fate of one thoroughly unremarkable man.
- [Anantaram (1987)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/anantaram-1987/): Anantaram, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is a 1987 psychological drama that is considered one of Indian cinema's most sophisticated meditations on the relationship between storytelling, memory, and psychological disintegration
- [Kodiyettam (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2026/06/kodiyettam-1977/): Kodiyettam, released in 1977 and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, stands as one of the defining works of the Malayalam New Wave cinema. 
- [Jubilee (2023)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2023/04/jubilee-2023/): Jubilee (2023) is a Hindi period drama web-series directed by Vikramaditya Motwane. Set in the early days of 1947, the film traces the path of Hindi Cinema from the days when talkies have become a norm and the Studio was the king.
- [Crushed Wings - A Film on FGM](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/09/crushed-wings-a-film-on-fgm/): CRUSHED WINGS is the first drama film of its kind on Female Genital Mutilation - also known as FGM – on the harsh reality of this brutal, increasingly widespread cultural ritual.
- [Akramana (1979)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/09/akramana-1979/): Akramana (The Conquest) is a 1979 Kannada film directed by Girish Kasaravalli. It had Vijaya Kashi, Vaishali Kasaravalli, Padmashree and Chandrakumar Jain in the lead roles. The film is a psychodrama revolving around its three protagonists, their struggle to break free from the limitations of family and tradition, and the ultimate acceptance of the realities of life. 
- [Partap Singh remembers Sukhdev](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/09/partap-singh-remembers-sukhdev/): Sukhdev was certainly the greatest Indian documentary film-maker that ever lived. A gentle, a clown, an extraordinary friend, Sukhdev had no pretension to him, He could not brook pettiness, puffery or prudery. 
- [Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho! (1984)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/04/mohan-joshi-haazir-ho-1984/): Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! is a 1984 Hindi film directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza. Based on a story penned by Mirza, the film tells the story of an elderly couple who decide to take on the corrupt nexus of the rich and the law and pay dearly.
- [Paar (1984)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/04/paar-1984/): Paar is a 1984 Hindi film directed by Goutam Ghose, with Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi in prominent roles. Based on the Bengali story 'Paari' by Samaresh Basu, the film tells the story of a Dalit couple forced to flee their village after a massacre and their ordeal and quest for homecoming.  
- [Aneek shoots a film with Pawan Chopra in Calcutta](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/02/aneek-shoots-a-film-with-pawan-chopra-in-calcutta/): City filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri has recently completed a film with Pawan Chopra. Directed by Aneek, the film is titled ‘The tale of a Santa and his Moth’ and stars Pawan Chopra and Usha Banerjee as the only two actors in the film.
- [Kalira Atita (2019)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2022/01/kalira-atita-2019/): Kalira Atita is a 2019 Odia film by noted film maker, Nila Madhab Panda. The film is based on real events, set in Satavaya, a cluster of seven villages on India’s east coast that are swallowed up by the rising sea as a result of climate change.
- [Jharokh Releases Digitally](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/12/jharokh-releases-digitally/): Jharokh aka Ventilator, directed by Aneek Chaudhuri is finally releasing online for Indian Viewers on MovieSaints. 
- [Aneek Chaudhuri films an Ode to Charles Chaplin of boundless duration](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/12/aneek-chaudhuri-films-an-ode-to-charles-chaplin-of-boundless-duration/): City filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri has completed the shooting of his upcoming feature-length venture ‘A Sonnet to the Hushed Times’ which is a tribute to the Silent Era and to be precise, Charles Chaplin. 
- [Smita Patil – Lost Presence](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/11/smita-patil-lost-presence/): So how does one sum up Smita’s achievement? At the risk of being misunderstood, let me say that she remained an actress in search of a director. 
- [The Studio as Superstar](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/11/the-studio-as-superstar/): In spite of volatile temperaments, fragile egos, and artistic moods, the studio system was for a whole fifteen years the only way to make films in India. 
- [Hello Arsi (2018)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/10/hello-arsi-2018/): Hello Arsi is a critically acclaimed 2018 Odia film directed by Sambit Mohanty. Set in the backdrop of the mining belt of Rourkela, the film traces the story of a young man and a woman whose paths cross accidentally. 
- [Why Preserve Films](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/09/why-preserve-films/): Preservation of national cinema is the primary concern of any film archive. If we ourselves are not going to preserve our films, nobody else will do it for us. Archival reproduction of 'Why Preserve Films' by P.K. Nair. 
- [Junoon (1978)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/09/junoon-1978/): Junoon (Eng: Obsession) is a 1978 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal. Based on Ruskin Bond’s novella ‘A Flight of Pigeons’, the film is set around the Revolt of 1857, and a Pathan noble’s obsession for an English girl and the tragedy that war brings with itself. 
- [Ghasiram Kotwal (1976)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/08/ghasiram-kotwal-1976/): Ghasiram Kotwal is a 1976 Marathi Film based on a play of the same name by Vijay Tendulkar. The film was the first venture of YUKT Film Cooperative, an experiment in collective filmmaking and was made by a group of filmmakers - K. Hariharan, Kamal Swaroop, Mani Kaul, and Saeed Akhtar Mirza. 
- [Gaman (1978)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/08/gaman-1978/): Gaman is a 1978 Hindi film made by Muzaffar Ali and has Farooq Shaikh and Smita Patil in main roles. The film is a take on the lives of migrants in big cities, as seen from the eyes of a young man from Uttar Pradesh who has to leave his wife back home and come to Bombay in search of better life, and ends up as a lonely taxi driver. 
- [Kanneshwara Rama (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/07/kanneshwara-rama-1977/): Kanneshwara Rama is a 1977 Kannada film directed by M.S. Sathyu. The film is based on the Kannada novel Kannayya Rama written by S.K. Nadig and has Anant Nag, Shabana Azmi and Amol Palekar in prominent roles. 
- [Oka Oorie Katha (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/07/oka-oorie-katha-1977/): Oka Oorie Katha (Eng: The Marginal Ones) is a 1977 Telugu film directed by Mrinal Sen. Based on an acclaimed story by Munshi Premchand, Kafan, the film is a scathing commentary on rural destitution and social injustice, projected powerfully through its protagonists and a sincere narrative. 
- [Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/07/shatranj-ke-khilari-1977/): Shatranj Ke Khilari [Eng: The Chess Players] is a 1977 Hindi film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based on Munshi Premchand’s short story by the same name, the film is set in 1856 when the princely state of Oudh was annexed by the East India Company and the titular ruler of the state, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was deposed. 
- [Swami (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/07/swami-1977/): Swami is a 1977 Hindi language film directed by Basu Chatterjee and has Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Vikram, and Utpal Dutt in lead roles. Based on a novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Swami tells the story of the intelligent and vivacious Saudamini who feels let down by her marriage to a simple man. 
- [Bhumika (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/07/bhumika-1977/): Bhumika is a 1977 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal and has Smita Patil, Amol Palekar, Anant Nag, Naseeruddin Shah, and Amrish Puri in prominent roles. Said to be based on a memoir of Marathi actress Hansa Wadkar, Bhumika tells the story of an actress and her search for identity and self-fulfillment. 
- [Pasi (1979)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/07/pasi-1979/): Pasi (Eng: Hunger) is a 1979 Tamil film directed by Durai and has Shoba, Delhi Ganeshan, and Vijayan in prominent roles. The film is notable for its realistic portrayal of life in the most deprived stratum of society, in all its dignity. Pasi was critically acclaimed and won many National and State film awards.
- [Nirmalayam (1973)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/06/nirmalayam-1973/): Nirmalayam is a 1973 Malayalam film written and directed by M.T. Vasudevan Nair and has P.J. Antony and Kaviyoor Ponnamma  as the main cast. An adaptation of the short story 'Pallivalum Kalchilambum', the film went to win many State and National awards. 
- [Nisidhha Swapna (1988)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/06/nisidhha-swapna-1988/): Nisidhha Swapna (1988) is a National Award-winning Odia film made by Manmohan Mahapatra. Based in a rural set up in Odisha, the film dealt with a family redefining life in the context of a social change.
- [Kanku (1969)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/04/kanku-1969/): Kanku is a 1969 Gujarati film directed by Kantilal Rathod. Based on a short story by Pannalal Patel, the film tells the story of a young widow and her struggle in a traditional society. It received the national award for the best Gujarati film in 1970. 
- [Padatik (1973)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2021/02/padatik-1973/): Padatik (1973) is a Bengali film directed by Mrinal Sen, his third in the Calcutta trilogy. The film tracks the Naxalite movement of the 70s, following a young revolutionary (Dhritiman Chatterjee) who escapes police custody and takes shelter in a luxury apartment owned by a young woman (Simi Garewal). With time, he starts questioning his own ideology. 
- [Ahaa Re (2019)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/12/ahaa-re-2019/): Ahaa Re (2019) is an Indian Bengali film directed by Ranjan Ghosh. Based on Bengal's famous love for food, it is the story of a Dhaka Chef who falls in love with first the cooking, and then the person of a home caterer.  
- [Sudani From Nigeria (2018)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/09/sudani-from-nigeria-2018/): Sudani From Nigeria is a 2018 Malayalam film directed by Zakariya Mohammed. The film tells the story of a local football club in Kerala where the manager Majeed recruits three footballers from Nigeria for his team. 
- [Rajlokhi O Srikanto (2019)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/07/rajlokhi-o-srikanto-2019/): Rajlokhi O Srikanto (2019) is a Bengali feature film directed by Pradipta Bhattacharyya is a cinematic adaptation of the Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's four-part novel narrating the life of a drifter named Srikanto.
- [Bancharamer Bagan (1980)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/07/bancharamer-bagan-1980/): Bancharamer Bagan is a 1980 Bengali film directed by Tapan Sinha. Adapted from a play ‘Sajano Bagan’, this Chaplinesque dark comedy tells the story of an old peasant who stands up to a tyrannical landlord to defend his land. 
- [Bishkanyar Deshot (2019)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/07/bishkanyar-deshot-2019/): Bishkanyar Deshot (2019) is a Pangchenpa film by Manju Borah. Based on a literary work by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi, it tells the story of the Monpa tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, about the legend of the Poisonous Women and an individual’s effort to break the myth.
- [Kadvi Hawa (2017)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/06/kadvi-hawa-2017/): Kadvi Hawa is a 2017 Hindi film directed by Nila Madhab Panda, with Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, and Tillotama Shome in lead roles. The film is based on climate change and the way it impacts the farmers in an impoverished village. 
- [New Delhi Times (1986)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/05/new-delhi-times-1986/): New Delhi Times (1986) is a Hindi film directed by Ramesh Sharma and has Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri, and Kulbhushan Kharbanda in prominent roles. The film is considered a fearless and incisive take on the rot in the socio-political system through the eyes of an upright Journalist. 
- [The Japanese Wife (2010)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/04/the-japanese-wife-2010/): The Japanese Wife (2010) is a primarily English Film directed by Aparna Sen. Based on a book by Kunal Basu, the story of this Indo-Japanese film revolves around the love story of a young Bengali village school teacher and his Japanese pen friend over letters and a relationship that transcends the boundaries of human presence. 
- [Chakra (1981)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/04/chakra-1981/): Chakra is a 1981 Hindi film directed by Rabindra (Robin) Dharmaraj, starring Smita Patil and Nasiruddin Shah. The film tells the story of a migrant family that takes refuge in the slums of Dharavi and is slowly sucked into the seedy underbelly of Bombay.
- [Nayakan (1987)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2020/04/nayakan-1987/): Nayakan (1987) is a Tamil film directed by Mani Ratna. With Kamal Haasan as the protagonist, this film is loosely based on the Mumbai gangster Varadarajan Mudaliar and is considered one of the finest films of Indian Cinema. 
- [Genesis (1986)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2019/07/genesis-1986/): Genesis is a 1986 Hindi film directed by Mrinal Sen that tells a minimalistic tale of the rise and fall of civilizations, miniaturized within the confines of a ruined village and inside the minds of the four protagonists.
- [Sadgati (1981)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2018/12/sadgati-1981/): Based on a short story by the same name written by Munshi Premchand,  Sadgati is a 1981 Hindi film directed by Satyajit Ray, a deeply angry fim by his own admission...
- [Tya Ratri Paus Hota (2009)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2018/02/tya-ratri-paus-hota-2009/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.5.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] ya Ratri Paus Hota (That Night It Rained) is one of the most audacious thriller-dramas of Marathi Cinema written and directed by Gajendra Ahire, with a stellar cast of Subodh Bhave, Amruta Subhash, Sonali Kulkarni and Sayaji […]
- [White (2018)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2018/01/white-2018/): White, a silent film by Aneek Chaudhury, is a combination of three tales about a crime, its horrors and motherhood...
- [Manthan (1976)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2017/05/manthan-1976/): Manthan is a 1976 Hindi Film directed by Shyam Benegal. Set in the backdrop of rural Gujarat, the film tells the story of the White revolution..
- [Trikal (1985)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2017/01/trikal-1985/): Trikal is a 1985 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal. The film is predominantly set in the pre-liberation Goa of the early 1960s and gives a great insight into the society of those days. 
- [The Wife's Letter (2016)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/08/wifes-letter-2016/): Streer Potro, or the Wife’s Letter turned out to be another avant-garde piece of Cinema from Aneek Chaudhuri’s closet. 
- [Maya Miriga (1984)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/07/maya-miriga/): Maya Miriga (The Mirage) is a 1984 Odia film directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra.
- [Andha Diganta (1989)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/06/andha-diganta-1989/): The idea of the subjugation of women and the subordination of people of either sex to the traditional values of the majority is central to Andha Diganta ('Blind Horizon', 1989), an Odia Film by Manmohan Mahapatra
- [Marathi Cinema - From Phalke to Manjule](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/05/marathi-cinema-from-phalke-to-manjule/): It all began when a man with a hint of insanity foresaw the possibility that one day the people in this country will fall in love with moving pictures projected on a big blank screen. 
- [Banned film Unfreedom completes 100 grass root screenings in India](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/05/banned-film-unfreedom-completes-100-grass-root-screenings-india/): Almost a year ago the feature film Unfreedom was banned by authorities with reasons that the film would cause “Communal Violence” and arouse “Unnatural Passion” among audience.
- [Ship of Theseus (2012)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/04/ship-theseus-2012/): Ship of Theseus is a 2012 Hindi/ English film directed by Anand Gandhi. Based on the Theseus paradox of Plutarch, this film tries to explore the question of existence and of being.
- [Niraba Jhada (1983)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2016/03/niraba-jhada-1983/): Niraba Jhada (The silent storm) is an 1983 award-winning Oriya film directed by Manmohan Mahapatra. The film was produced by Manmohan Mahapatra under Chhaya Dhwani Productions. This is the only Odia film to be archived under Indian Films & Videos  sections in the Library of Congress.
- [Aadi Mimansa (1991)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2015/12/aadi-mimansa-1991/): Aadi Mimansa is an award winning Odia film directed by Apurba Kishore Bir. The film was critically acclaimed and went on to win the Nargis Dutt Award (1991) for best film on National Integration.
- [Shita Rati (1982)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2015/12/shita-rati-1982/): Shita Rati is a 1982 Odia film directed by Manmohan Mahapatra. The National Award winning film tells the story of the love of a young couple divided by the boundaries of class.
- [Salaam Bombay! (1988)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2015/12/salaam-bombay-1988/): Salaam Bombay is a 1988 Hindi film directed by Mira Nair. It revolves around the lives of children living on the streets of Bombay.
- [Mammo (1994)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2015/01/mammo-1994/): Mammo (1994) a film by Shyam Benegal is the first film of Muslim trilogy including Sardari Begum (1996) and Zubeidaa (2001).
- [Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/09/jaane-bhi-do-yaaro-1983/): Kundan Shah's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro is a 1983 Hindi film, a comical satire on the corruption which is rampant in India, and holds a cult status in Hindi Cinema
- [Pyaasa (1957)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/08/pyaasa-1957/): Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957) signifies the beginning of the shattering of the dream which the makers of this country once had. One of the best films ever made. 
- [Gulaal (2009)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/07/gulaal-2009/): Gulaal is a 2009 Hindi film directed by Anurag Kashyap. Set in present day Rajasthan, this film explores the dark sides of power, royalty, student politics, quest for legitimacy and social hypocrisy through a fictitious secessionist movement which aims to create a separate Rajputana.
- [Antarjali Jatra (1987)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/06/antarjali-jatra-1987/): Antarjali Jatra is a 1987 Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose. Based on a novel named Mahayatra, by Kamal Kumar Majumdar, this film depicts the social ills like untouchability, polygamy and child marriage in the 19th century Bengal. 
- [Anhe Ghore Da Daan (2011)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/05/anhe-ghore-da-daan-2011/): Anhe Ghode Da Daan is a 2011 Punjabi film directed by Gurvinder Singh. Based on a Punjabi novel by the same name written by Gurdial Singh, this internationally acclaimed film depicts the plight of the farmers and small time farm labourers in Punjab. 
- [Bagh Bahadur (1989)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/05/bagh-bahadur-1989/): Bagh Bahadur is a 1989 film by Buddhadeb Dasgupta that explores the alienation of traditional art forms which are being edged out by the so called modernity.
- [Aparoopa (1982)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/05/aparoopa-1982/): Aparoopa is a 1982 Assamese film by noted film maker Jahnu Barua. Produced by NFDC, and with Suhasini Muley, Girish Karnad and Sushil Goswami in lead roles, it was Barua's first feature film. Aparoopa went on to win the National Award for the best regional film in 1982.
- [Sonchidi (2011)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/04/sonchidi-2011/): Sonchidi (The Golden Bird) is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Amit Dutta. This experimental film was screened at the 68th Venice Film Festival and was hailed as  "truly cinematic, a connoisseurs’ piece".
- [36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/04/36-chowringhee-lane-1981/): 36 Chowringhee Lane is a 1981 English-Bengali film directed by Aparna Sen. It is the debut film of Sen as a director and has Jennifer Kendal, Dhritman Chatterjee and Debashri Roy in prominent roles. The film was critically acclaimed upon its release and went on to become one of the most prominent films of Bengali art cinema. 
- [Xagoroloi Bohudoor (It’s a long way to the sea) (1995)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/04/xagoroloi-bohudoor-long-way-sea-1995/): Xagoroloi Bohudoor is a film by Jahnu Barua, a multi award-winning filmmaker from Assam in India. It won India’s Golden Lotus award for best director in 1995, and many other international awards.
- [Bandini (1963)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/04/bandini-1963/): Bandini is a 1963 Hindi film directed by Bimal Roy, based on a Bengali novel Tamasi written by Charu Chandra Chakraborty. A female centric film, Bandini is considered the best film made by Bimal Roy and one of the crowning achievements of the Indian Cinema. 
- [Jait Re Jait (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/03/jait-re-jait-1977/): Jait Re Jait is a 1977 Marathi film directed by Jabbar Patel. With Smita Patil and Mohan Agashe in lead roles, the film revolves around the life and tradition of the Thakar tribe in Maharashtra.
- [Sandhya Raag (1977)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/03/sandhya-raag-1977/): Sandhya Raag is a 1977 Assamese film by Bhabendra Nath Saikia, one of the prominent film makers of the Assamese Cinema. The film is based on the story 'Banaprastha' written in 1969. It is the first Assamese film to be showcased in the Indian Panorama.
- [Ankur (1974)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/03/ankur-1974/): Ankur is a 1974 Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal. This film analyzes the human character, changing loyalties, vices of nature and voices of silent rebellion in its 125 minutes.
- [Nagarik (1952)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/02/nagarik-1952/): Nagarik (Eng: The Citizen) is a 1952 Bengali film by Ritwik Ghatak, one of the stalwarts of the Indian Art Cinema. It is considered as one of the first examples of Bengali Art Cinema, preceding Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali. 
- [27 Down (1974)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/01/27-down-1974/): 27 Down is a 1974 Hindi film directed by Awtar Krisna Kaul. The film is based on Ramesh Bakshi's Hindi novel Athara Sooraj ke Paudhe and has Rakhee and MK Raina in the lead roles. 
- [Mirch Masala (1987)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2014/01/mirch-masala-1987/): Mirch Masala is a 1987 Hindi film directed by Ketan Mehta and has Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Deepti Naval in prominent roles. The film depicts the resistance of common folks against a powerful tyrant.
- [Amma Ariyan (1986)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/11/amma-ariyan-1986/): Amma Ariyan is a 1986 Malayalam film directed by avant-garde filmmaker John Abraham. It was the first film of the Odessa Collective, made from donations received from the public, and the last made by Abraham. It is considered a landmark film in the history of Indian and Malayalam cinema. 
- [Swayamvaram (1972)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/11/swayamvaram-1972/): Swayamvaram is a 1972 Malayalam film co-written and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. The film depicts the story of a couple who have married against the wishes of their family and decide to start a new life at a new place. Swayamvaram is credited with being the pioneer of the Malayalam New Wave cinema.
- [Ardh Satya (1983)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/10/ardh-satya-1983-govind-nihlani/): Ardh Satya (Eng: Half Truth) is a 1983 Hindi film directed by Govind Nihlani. The film is based on a short story by D.A. Panvalkar and the script is written by Vijay Tendulkar. It has Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah and Sadashiv Amarpurkar in lead roles.
- [Garm Hava (1973)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/07/garm-hava-1973/): Garm Hava (Garam Hawa) (Eng: Scorched Winds) is a 1973 Hindi film directed by M.S. Sathyu. It is based on an Urdu short story by Ismat Chughtai with screen play by Kaifi Azmi. The film deals with the struggles of a Muslim family in the aftermath of partition, in a country which was their own. It remains as one of the most remarkable films on the partition of India.
- [Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (1986)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/06/ek-ruka-hua-faisla-1986/): Ek Ruka Hua Faisla is a 1986 Hindi film directed by Basu Chatterjee. It is a remake of the 1957 English classic 12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet. The film depicts an adapted closed room drama of a murder trial where one dissenting juror in a murder trial tries to influence the verdict with his personal prejudices and biases.
- [Om Dar Ba Dar (1988)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/05/om-dar-ba-dar-kamal-swaroop/): Om Dar Ba Dar is a 1988 Hindi film directed by Kamal Swaroop. This film is considered a pioneer in the Indian Avant Garde cinema and has become a cult classic with a section of viewers with its post modernist approach extending to absurdist.
- [Uski Roti (1970)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/04/uski-roti-1970/): Uski Roti (Eng: Our Daily Bread) is a 1970 Hindi film made by Mani Kaul. The first film of Mani Kaul, Uski Roti is based on a story by the same name by Mohan Rakesh. It is considered a landmark in the history of New Wave Cinema in India.
- [Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/03/meghe-dhaka-tara/): Meghe Dhaka Tara (Eng: The Cloud Capped Star) is a 1960 Bengali film written and directed by Ritwik Ghatak. The film is based on a Bengali novel by the same name by Shaktipada Rajguru. Meghe Dhaka Tara is the first from the Partition trilogy by Ghatak, the other two being Komal Gandhar (1961) and Subamarekha (1962)
- [Bhuvan Shome (1969)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/02/bhuvan-shome/): Bhuvan Shome is a 1969 Hindi film directed by Mrinal Sen. Based on a story by Balai Chandra Mukhopadhyay, this film is considered a landmark in the Modern Indian Cinema. This film is one of the earliest attempts at what came to be known as art house or new wave cinema in India.
- [Do Bigha Zamin (1953)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/02/do-bigha-zamin-1953/): Do Bigha Zamin (Two acres of land) is a 1953 film directed by Bimal Roy. Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, this film is known for its socialist theme, and is an important landmark in the early parallel cinema of India, also considered as a trend setter.
- [Pather Panchali (1955)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/02/pather-panchali/): Pather Panchali is a 1955 Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray. Based on a Bengali novel by the same name, this film is considered as one of the best films ever made.
- [Neecha Nagar (1946)](https://www.arthousecinema.in/2013/01/neecha-nagar-1946/): Neecha Nagar, released in 1946 is a Hindi film directed by Chetan Anand. This film is considered as one of the pioneering efforts in the field of expressionist social realism in Indian Cinema. Written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, this film is inspired from Maxim Gorky’s Lower Depths. The film was financed by the Indian People’s Theater Association (IPTA).

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