City of Joy 1992   PG-13, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Roland Joffe
Cast: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Art Malik, Ayesha Dharker, Santu Chowdhury, Imran Badsah Khan, Nabil Shaban, Debatosh Ghosh
After his young patient dies, American surgeon Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) walks away from his medical practice and travels to Calcutta to retire. But people in Calcutta desperately need his services, and he is soon helping the needy at the City of Joy clinic. Despite problems from the local godfather, he succeeds in restoring his own life as well as those he treats. 1 User Review
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| | Swayze did a very believable portrayal in the role of Max | JoJo 03/12/2007 | | The acting was excellant by all of the cast. The director strayed from the book and in doing so lost some of the impact the movie may have had. It is well worth watching and the scenes in India are true to life. |
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Color Me Kubrick 2005 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
Director: Brian W. Cook
Cast: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Luke Mably, Marc Warren, Terence Rigby, James Dreyfus, Peter Bowles, Ayesha Dharker, Robert Powell, Henry Goodman, Maynard Eziashi, Leslie Phillips, Honor Blackman
This film is an amusing story of how con-artist Alan Conway (John Malkovich) passed himself off for years as filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Working out of London during the 1990s, Conway swindled numerous unsuspecting people who were captivated with the thought of being close to the famous film director and failed to check out his true identity.
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The Mystic Masseur 2001 PG, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ismail Merchant
Cast: Om Puri, Aasif Mandvi, Ayesha Dharker, James Fox, Sakina Jaffrey, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jimi Mistry, Zohra Sehgal, Grace Maharaj, Danesh Khan
Set in 1940s' and 1950s' Trinidad, this story revolves around a schoolteacher (Aasif Mandvi), who returns to his rural home and sets out to become a writer and a mystic.
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The Terrorist 1999  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
Director: Santosh Sivan
Cast: Ayesha Dharker, Vishnu Vardhan, Bhanu Prakash, K. Krishna, Sonu Sisupal, Vishwas, Anuradha, Bhavani, Parmeshwaran, Gopal
Malli (Ayesha Dharker), raised and indoctrinated in a revolutionary environment, volunteers to strap a detonationg bomb on her waist as the means of killing a VIP whose politics are not in accord with those of her group.
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| 1. City of Joy (1992)
2. Color Me Kubrick (2005)
aka: Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story
3. The Mystic Masseur (2001)
4. The Terrorist (1999)
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