 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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Juggernaut 1974  PG, 109 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight, Ian Holm, Roy Kinnear, Freddie Jones, Roshan Seth, Clifton James, Caroline Mortimer, Mark Burns, John Stride, Julian Glover, Jack Watson
Bombs are reported to be aboard Captain Alex Brunel's (Omar Sharif) British cruise ship. Sidney Buckland (Freddie Jones) has planted them and is demanding a ransom. Demolition experts LCDR Fallon (Richard Harris) and Charlie Braddock (David Hemmings) are flown in by helicopter to disarm the bombs. Meanwhile, Scotland yard detective John McLeod (Anthony Hopkins), whose family is aboard the ship, searches for the bomber. A good thriller.
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London Kills Me 1991  R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Hanif Kureishi
Cast: Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif, Tony Haygarth, Alun Armstrong, Eleanor David
Clint (Justin Chadwick) tries to escape from the drug world, but he finds that even to be a waiter he must find the means to get new shoes. Too soft on drugs and thievery.
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Mississippi Masala 1991 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca, Sharmila Tagore, Ranjit Chowdhry, Mohan Gokhale, Mohan Agashe, Tico Wells
This is an erotic inter-racial story about Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a Southern businessman, who falls in love with Mina (Sarita Choudhury) whose family has been expelled from Uganda.
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 Monsoon Wedding 2001 R, 115 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tillotama Shome, Vasundhara Das, Parvin Dabas, Sameer Arya, Kamini Khanna, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dubey, Kemaya Kidwai, Ishaan Nair, Randeep Hooda, Roshan Seth
Wealthy Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah) plans a lavish wedding for the arranged marriage of his daughter Aditi Verma (Vasundhara Das) to Houston, Texas, engineer Hemant Rai (Parvin Dabas). Guests from around the world gather in New Delhi, India, for the big event. As the wedding day nears, Aditi grows nervous and thinks about returning to her former lover, Vikram (Sameer Arya). Meanwhile, the wedding planner, P.K. Dubey (Vijay Raaz), falls in love with the maid, Alice (Tillotama Shome). Drama and comedy abound in this fun film.
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My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Anne Field, Rita Wolf, Richard Graham, Colin(3) Campbell, Derrick Branche, Souad Faress, Winston Graham, Charu Bala Chokshi
Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani, is given a run-down launderette in London. With help from his White friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), the launderette is turned into a very successful establishment. As luck would have it, a racist gang decides to ruin their playhouse and shut them down.
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Not Without My Daughter 1991  PG-13, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Brian Gilbert
Cast: Sally Field, Alfred Molina, Sheila Rosenthal, Roshan Seth, Sarah Badel, Mony Rey, Georges Corraface
This story is based on the true story of an American, Betty Mahmoody (Sally Field), who was married to an Iranian (Alfred Molina) and went on a family vacation to Iran to introduce their daughter (Sheila Rosenthal) to her paternal relatives. Once there, Betty found herself a prisoner in the family home; it took 18 months for her to organize a successful escape over the Turkish border.
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A Passage to India 1984  PG, 163 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: David Lean
Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson, Antonia Pemberton, Saeed Jaffrey, Art Malik, Michael Culver, Clive Swift, Roshan Seth, Ann Firbank
David Lean succeeds again in this story that takes place in 1928 when a young Englishwoman (Judy Davis) leaves for India, where she is to marry. During a visit to the Marabar caves, she is apparently raped, an event which ends in a court trial. Academy Awards were received for Best Supporting Actress (Peggy Ashcroft) and Musical Score. There were also nine other nominations, including Best Picture, Actress, and Director.
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Second Generation 2003 TV, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Sen
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Om Puri, Christopher Simpson, Anupam Kher, Danny Dyer, Nitin Chandra Ganatra, Rita Wolf, Amita Dhiri, Roshan Seth, Lalita Ahmed, William Beck
This made-for-TV, two-part miniseries revolves around an Indian family's problems when the father, Sharma (Om Puri), collapses into a coma. Estranged daughter Heere (Parminder Nagra) returns to their London home and finds her two sisters (Amita Dhiri and Rita Wolf) ready to turn off their father's life support machine and take control of his business. Then, Sharma wakes up, and Heera tries to make peace, but there are many problems to overcome.
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Secret of the Andes 1998  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alejandro Azzano
Cast: David Keith, Camilla Belle, John Rhys-Davies, Nancy Allen, Jose Luis Alfonzo, Betiana Blum, Roshan Seth
Diana (Camilla Belle) is becoming a problem at school, partially due to her not fitting in with the other students. So, she and her mother (Nancy Allen) head to an Argentine village in the Andes where Diana's archeologist father (David Keith) is searching for a long lost treasure. But things still don't seem to go right for Diana as she becomes involved with the supernatural. And things don't go too well with this film, either.
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Street Fighter 1994  PG-13, 95 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Comedy
Director: Steven E. DeSouza
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Simon Callow, Roshan Seth, Wes Studi, Byron Mann, Grand L. Bush
This comic book, action flick is formed around a video game, "Street Fighter," and kids will recognize most of the set and action from the game. A colonel (Jean-Claude Van Damme) for a U.N. type organization drops into Southeast Asia to bring feuding warlords to their knees. This was Raul Julia's last film before his untimely death.
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Such a Long Journey 1998 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Cast: Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Ranjit Chowdhry, Sam Dastor, Kurush Deboo, Vrajesh Hirjee, Pearl Padamsee, Vrajesh Hirjee
Based on the epic novel by Rohinton Mistry, this story is set in 1971, during the war between India and Pakistan, and centers on the Noble family as Gustad Noble's (Roshan Seth) middle-class life begins to crumble resulting in a transformation of his character.
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Vertical Limit 2000 PG-13, 126 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison, Stuart Wilson, Nicholas Lea, Roshan Seth, Ben Mendelsohn
Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton) stages a publicity stunt on K2 (the second highest mountain in the world). But plans go awry when an avalanche strands Elliot and two fellow climbers–Annie Garrett (Robin Tunney) and Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea). Annie's brother, Peter (Chris O'Donnell), leads the rescue team and quickly learns that ingenious methods are needed to save the trapped trio.
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| 1. Gandhi (1982)
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
3. Juggernaut (1974)
4. London Kills Me (1991)
5. Mississippi Masala (1991)
6. Monsoon Wedding (2001)
7. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
8. Not Without My Daughter (1991)
9. A Passage to India (1984)
10. Second Generation (2003)
11. Secret of the Andes (1998)
12. Street Fighter (1994)
13. Such a Long Journey (1998)
14. Vertical Limit (2000)
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