Ravi Shankar

Diane and her boyfriend try to do things out of the blue and enter a desert even after there is a no-entry board written on it. In this situation, scary things and some crazy people start troubling them. The couple runs for their life and reaches a small town only to know there are more dangerous situations are in store for them. Who is behind these incidents and how the couple comes out of this mess forms the crux of the story.

An honest officer fights to bring down a corrupt and dangerous cop, and attempts to bring down the entire Mumbai mafia with him.

George Harrison inicialmente alcançou fama internacional como o guitarrista dos Beatles. Confira um mergulho em sua vida, desde sua ascensão à fama até seu brutal esfaqueamento e luta contra o câncer.

Guru Raj, a powerful business man of Charminar Group of Companies who runs his own gang as a mafia don, gets brutally assassinated. This incident upsets Guru Raj’s elder son Kaali and he decides to take revenge on his father’s killers. But twist in the tale arises when he too gets killed like his father. Left with no choice, Guru Raj’s third son, Radha takes up things in his hands and decides an counter attack.Rest of the story is as to how Radha manages to take his revenge and where does Guru Raj’s second son feature in this setup.

é uma biografia pouco convencional sobre o místico indiano do leste que trouxe yoga e meditação para o Ocidente na década de 1920. Paramahansa Yogananda foi o autor do espiritual “Autobiografia de um Iogue” clássico que já vendeu milhões de cópias no mundo inteiro e é um go-reservar para os candidatos, filósofos e entusiastas da ioga hoje.Ao personalizar a sua própria busca pela iluminação e compartilhar suas lutas ao longo do caminho, Yogananda fez ensinamentos védicos antigos acessíveis a um público moderno. Conhecido como o “Pai do Yoga no Ocidente”, ele atraiu inúmeros seguidores no seu dia. Filmado ao longo de três anos com a participação de 30 países ao redor do mundo, o documentário examina o mundo de yoga, moderna e antiga, Leste e Oeste, e explora por que milhões hoje têm voltado sua atenção para dentro, contrariando as tentações do mundo material em perseguição da auto-realização. É para quem gosta de biografia.

Imagens de arquivo, depoimentos de familiares e pessoas ligadas ao músico contam a história da sua vida e como a espiritualidade se tornou uma grande parte dela.

A rare, previously unreleased concert performance of Ravi Shankar's 'Music Festival From India' album recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1974. This DVD compiles all the complete filmed performances discovered from this historic concert.

Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.

Short documentary focused on the background story of the show, including interviews with cast and crew.

Em 29 de novembro de 2002, um ano após sua morte, um concerto de homenagem a George Harrison foi realizado no Royal Albert Hall. Amigos e familiares se reuniram para tocar suas músicas, e era uma lista impressionante, embora previsível: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Tom Petty e Eric Clapton, que também atuou como diretor musical, ocupou o centro do palco, mas o filho de George Dhani Harrison também estava lá, assim como a filha de Ravi Shankar, Anoushka, o antigo rock & roll britânico Joe Brown e Gary Brooker. Ao contrário de muitos lineups de estrelas, todos tinham uma conexão pessoal próxima com George.

Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece the Apu Trilogy is widely considered one of the most important works in cinema history. In 1992, Ray was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Oscar. But when film-preservationist David Sheppard volunteered to go to Bengal, he found the original negatives in a terrible state. “It’s hard to think of another world-class filmmaker”, says Sheppard, “whose oeuvre hangs by such a thin thread!” The Song of the Little Road tells the story of how a master’s body of work came so close to disintegration, and why Ray’s films move audiences so deeply across time and cultural boundaries. Three icons – director Martin Scorsese, producer Ismail Merchant, and music composer Ravi Shankar – illustrate stirringly what makes a masterpiece.

Filmed over two years in India and the USA, Mark Kidel's award-winning documentary brings together archive footage spanning seven decades of Ravi Shankar's performing life, and provides a definitive account of the late sitar maestro's unique musical career.

Woodstock Diary was originally broadcasted on U.S. TV in August 1994 - in honor of the 25th anniversary of the event. Later it was released on DVD with remastered 5.1 sound. It includes performances not shown in the Woodstock movie but not exclusively. Between the songs there are recent interviews with the producers / organizers of Woodstock Joel Rosenman, John Roberts, Michael Lang, the stage announcer Wavy Gravy and Lisa Law (a member of the Hog Farm who helped out at the festival).

This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.

África do Sul, início do século XX. Após ser expulso da 1ª classe de um trem, o jovem e idealista advogado indiano inicia um processo de auto-avaliação da condição da Índia, que na época era uma colônia britânica, e seus súditos ao redor do planeta. Já na Índia, através de manifestações enérgicas, mas não-violentas, atraiu para si a atenção do mundo ao se colocar como líder espiritual de hindus e muçulmanos.

O primeiro show de rock beneficente quando grandes músicos se apresentaram para arrecadar fundos de ajuda humanitária para os refugiados de Bangladesh na guerra de 1971.

A Film Journey to the Soul of India documents the life of sitar master Ravi Shankar in the late 1960s and early 1970s, following him on his return to India to revisit his guru, Bengali multi-instrumentalist and composer, Baba Ustad Allauddin Khan. It further explores Shankar's life as a musician and teacher in the United States and Europe, initiating those in the West to the exceptional world that is Indian classical music and culture. Through rare and candid footage shot in both India and the United States, Raga sheds light on Shankar's influences and collaborations, from Allauddin Khan to his famed dancer brother Uday Shankar, to his associations with Western musicians Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison. Fully narrated by Shankar himself, the film reveals music as the soul of India and of Shankar's life.

Nature documentary, consisting of footage of various animals mating, narrated by naturalists and university professors Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne.

O festival Monterey Pop realizado em 1967 é considerado por muitos o precursor dos festivais de música tal como os conhecemos hoje em dia. este filme, o diretor D. A. Pennebaker registra os incríveis shows e conversa com o público para captar a emoção desta experiência pioneira.

Um homem intelectualmente deficiente passa por um experimento que lhe dá a inteligência de um gênio. Charly é um homem adulto com deficiência cognitiva, lutando para sobreviver no mundo moderno. Suas frequentes tentativas de aprender, ler e escrever são difíceis, e ele é alvo de brincadeiras cruéis na padaria, onde faz pequenos trabalhos de zeladoria. Sua professora, a Sra. Kinnian, matricula Charly em um estudo clínico onde ele é observado por um cirurgião e um psicólogo que coloca Charly numa "disputa" com um rato chamado Algernon, resolvendo labirintos. Algernon é geralmente o vencedor, graças a um experimento envolvendo proteínas cerebrais que aumentou bastante sua inteligência. O experimento prossegue com a cirurgia em Charly, que a princípio não parece afetado. Mas, quando Charly suspeita gradualmente das consequências do experimento, ele luta para saber se o procedimento foi ou não uma boa ideia. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.

"...I was playing it at the Cinematheque, and it got a lot of word of mouth in town. Everybody liked it because we used this really neat trick to put these images on Pat Barrington’s body as she was doing a belly dance. It was just perfect, and it was an the height of the LSD period and all the hippies loved it." - Ed DePriest

Swapna Niye is a 1966 Indian Bengali film, directed by Purnendu Patri.

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

Life and disciples of legendary Indian classical musician and teacher, 'Guru' of Pandit Ravishankar, 'Baba' Ustad Alauddin Khan.

Apu é um estudante recém-formado e desempregado que sonha em ser escritor. Um amigo de escola o convida para um casamento e ele acaba como o noivo da garota que estaria se casando. Mesmo com repulsa pela idéia, ele aceita e a leva, posteriormente, de volta a Calcutá.

Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar (1542-1605), who united what is now India and Pakistan, and his son Jahangir (1569-1627). Two schools of the miniature paintings, done by anonymous artists, flourished after Akbar established unity and peace across what had been many smaller states: the Moghul (Islamic) school and the Rajput (Hindu) school. The Moghul paintings record the events of the court, while the Rajput school connects physical beauty and, in particular, the longing of women to the transcendent values of the spirit.

An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.

An ordinary looking chair refuses to be sat upon.

Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illness and decides to return to Afghanistan. But before he goes a violent fight with a customer leads to Rehmat killing him. He gets out of prison ten years later. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore story.

Segundo filme da trilogia sobre a vida de Apu que aqui consegue uma bolsa de estudos e sai de casa, mas a mãe não suporta sua ausência. Leão de Ouro no Festival de Cinema de Veneza.

No início do século 20, Abul é um menino pertencente a uma pobre família brâmane de um vilarejo na Índia. Seu pai, poeta e sacerdote, é forçado a deixar seus entes queridos em busca de trabalho. Uma das obras-prima do cinema mundial, inédita no Brasil e nas Américas. Este filme foi a estréia espetacular de Satyati Ray. Recuperada a finais dos anos 90, pois um incêndio destruiu os negativos originais, esta é a primeira fita, que deu origem a Trilogia de Apu. Nela se narra a comovente história de uma família de Bengali perseguida pela má sorte. O pai, Harihara, é um sacerdote mundano, curandeiro, sonhador e poeta. Sabajaya, a mãe trabalha para alimentar a uma família, que recebe com alegria e esperança a chegada de um novo filho, Apu.

Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander

Wealthy landlord Sarkar decides to direct all waste into the village to make space for his real estate project. However, the poor villagers agitate against his plan and the protest is led by Balraj.

An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankar”, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.

An abridged version of the film “Ravi Shankar”, a film portrait of the Sitar Maestro, depicting through a series of interviews and recitals his versatile personality as a well-known classical performer and a creative composer of Indian Music.

Here in this film about the Indian classical music, the sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar and the santoor maestro Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma explaining their concepts of a raga, a gharana, and their world of music. Characteristics of various gharana/schools such as the Jaipur gharana, the Kirana gharana, the Agra gharana, the Patiala gharana, the Mewati gharana are explained along with the contribution made by their leading exponents.