Brave Heart Will Take the Bride 1995 N/R, 182 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Aditya Chopra Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Satish Shah, Achla Sachdev, Himani Shivpuri, Pooja Ruparel, Anupam Kher, Karan Johar
Raj lives in London and has had a good life to date. Meanwhile, Simran also lives in London under her stern father's care. Raj and Simran meet, and Raj falls in love. But Simran's father intends to take her back to India to marry a friend's son. After her departure, Raj follows her to India to try to convince her and her father to marry him.
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Gandhi 1982 PG, 188 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough Cast: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Ian Charleson, Saeed Jaffrey, Nigel Hawthorne, Gunther Maria Halmer, Geraldine James, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Ian Bannen
This film was a highlight of the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Director, and Actor (Ben Kingsley). The power and passion of Gandhi (Kingsley), who preached nonviolent resistance to British rule, is the focus as the story follows Gandhi's life from a young South African lawyer to leader of an independent India. In all, the film collected nine Oscars and was nominated for three others.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1984 PG, 118 min. Genre: Adventure / Action / Thriller
Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Philip Stone, Amrish Puri, Dan Aykroyd, Roshan Seth, Roy Chiao, David Yip, Ric Young, Philip Tan, Michael Yama, Akio Mitamura
Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is back, and this time he is in India to retrieve a magical stone. The sequence of stunts that takes Indiana from a bar in Shanghai to an Indian village provides great movie fare. Happily, the rest of the film continues in the same excellent vein.
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| 1. Brave Heart Will Take the Bride (1995)
2. Gandhi (1982)
3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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