PROGRAMA DE FILMS DEL FESTIVAL DE CINE DE LA INDIA – CENTRO CULTURAL BORGES, 20.00 horas (6-29 noviembre)

Dia / Fecha FilmViernes 6 Nov Water - Agua (2005) – 114 min

Director: Deepa Mehta

Protagonizada por: Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Sarla Kariyawasam, Manorama

Water ( 2005 ) (114 minutes)

Director: Deepa Mehta

Cast: Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Sarala Kariyawasam, Manorama

Language: Hindi

Water is set in the year 1938, during the period when India was still under colonial rule of the British. Following Hindu tradition during that period, the marriage of young girls to older men was commonplace in certain parts of India. When a man hailing from an orthodox Hindu family died, his young widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in an institution for widows called a widow's home.

Chuyia (Sarala) a child bride, whose husband dies before their union is consummated, is relegated to life in a similar Widow Home in Varanasi (Benares) for Hindu widows to spend the rest of her life in renunciation. The life of the widows there was ruled over by an old and pompous woman, Madhumati (Manorama). She used to send the young widows out to wealthy Brahmin gentlemen. Kalyani (Lisa Ray), another young widow runs away to marry a young lawyer, a devotee of Gandhi (Mohan Jhangiani), until she discovers that his father has been her "client/benefactor." She drowns herself in the Ganges, and the young man disowns his father. Chuyia is abused, then rescued and helped to escape by Shakuntala (Rishma Malik), another of the widows.

Sábado 7 Nov Sholay (1975) – Llamas – 199 min

Director: Ramesh Sippy

Protagonizada por: Sanjeev Kumar, Amjad Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri

Two convicts and small-time crooks (Amitabh and Dharmendra) are picked by Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar), a former police officer, to seek vengeance on the dangerous bandit Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan) because he killed all of Thakur's family (except a daughter-in-law (Jaya Bhaduri)) and maimed Thakur for life. This was a result of an earlier incident in which Thakur -- acting as a police officer -- had captured Gabbar and helped in his conviction in the court. Gabbar managed to escape and wreaked havoc in Thakur's life. Hence, the Thakur sought the help of the two crooks to get Gabbar.

Domingo 8 Nov CHAK DE INDIA - Vamos, India(2007) – 153 min

Director: Shimit Amin

Protagonizada por: Shahrukh Khan, Vidya Malvade, Tanya

Chak De India es la historia de la lucha de un entrenador por hacer que su equipo supere sus diversos entornos aprendiendo a usar todo lo que la vida lanza en su dirección como un arma secreta. Es una historia de honestidad, sinceridad e integridad.El film comienza en los últimos minutos de la final del Mundial de hockey entre India y Pakistán. Kabir Khan, la estrella del equipo indio erró un penal que le hubiera permitido a su equipo empatar. Humillado por su error, fans y los medios acusan al jugador de corrupción, arruinando así su carrera.

Siete años más tarde, a Kabir Khan le ofrecen entrenar al equipo nacional de hockey femenino para el Mundial. Acepta y comienza el largo camino de formación de un equipo capaz de jugar por amor al hockey, y por la gloria

del país.

Lunes 9 Nov Bollywood-Hollywood (2002) – 105 min

Director : Deepa Mehta

Protagonizada por : Rahul Khan, Lisa Ray, Moushumi Chatterjee

The Seth family reside in Canada. While Mr. Seth has passed away, his mom is still alive, living with her daughter-in-law, her son, Rahul, and daughter, Twinky. Both Rahul and Twinky are of marriageable age. Rahul shocks them all when he brings home a gorgeous Kimberly, who he wants to marry, and does get reluctant blessings from his mom and grandma. Before the marriage does take place, Kimberly passes away in an airplane accident, leaving Rahul heart-broken. When his mom and grandma impress upon to get married to another girl, especially of Indian and Hindu origin, he refuses. Then both of them lay the ultimatum to him - get married or Twinky's marriage will be canceled. A desperate Rahul hires a gorgeous escort, Sue, of seemingly Hispanic origin, convinces his elders that she is India, a Hindu, and definitely the girl he is going to marry. As preparations get way for Twinky's marriage, Rahul is going to be finding out that Sue is not who she claims to be - and may have a separate agenda of her own.

Martes 10 Nov World Unseen : El mundo que no se ve (2007)

Director : Shamim Sarif

Protagonizada por: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth

In the pressure cooker of apartheid South Africa, two women meet and their worlds are turned upside down. Miriam is a traditional Indian mother - hardworking and self-effacing. Amina breaks all the rules by driving a taxi and setting up a cafe with a local black man. In the face of outraged disapproval, their friendship flourishes. But the price, for Miriam, is the discovery of impossible truths about her marriage. In a system that divides white from

black, black from Asian and the women from men, what chance is there for an unexpected love to survive?

Miércoles 11 Nov Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) El corazón es loco–181 mins

Director : Yash Chopra

Protagonizada por : Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Akshaya Kumar

Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is a dancer and the director of a successful music and dance troupe. He believes that Nisha (Karisma Kapoor), one of his dancers, is his best friend; Nisha acts like his pal, but is secretly in love with him.

Nisha injures her foot and Rahul needs a new dancer. He hires Pooja (Madhuri Dixit). She and Rahul are increasingly attracted to each other, but they act as if it were not happening. Pooja, unknown to Rahul, is already engaged to Ajay (Akshay Kumar), the son of family friends who raised her when her parents died . A romance with another man would be scandalous, and be a disappointment to her auntie and uncle, who want to see her marry their son. She tries to keep her distance from Rahul and he, puzzled by her mixed signals, does not push matters.

Nisha, however, her senses sharpened by jealousy, sees it all. Rather than try to stop the affair, however, she decides to leave India for a time and let matters take their course. She truly loves Rahul, and wishes only the best for him.

Nisha returns from London to view the new production and complains that it has an unhappy ending. Rahul refuses to change it; the story reflects his relationship to Pooja the way he sees it.

In the end, Rahul decides to make one last effort to revive his romance with Pooja. Pooja is torn between love and duty until Ajay, who has realized what is going on, releases Pooja from her engagement, and Pooja and Rahul reconcile. As well Ajay and Nisha introduce themselves to

each other and Ajay asks whether Nisha is married or not.

Jueves 12 Nov EL VIAJE DE UNA MUJER - Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007) – 140 minutos

Director: Pradeep Sarkar

Protagonizada por: Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Konkona Sen Sharma

Situada en Varanasi, Shivshankar Sahay lleva una vida austera junto a su esposa Savitri y a sus dos hijas Vibhavari y Subhavari. La familia por momentos no puede costear ni los gatos de electricidad. Intentan en vano alquilar su hogar de valor patrimonial pero venido abajo, como set de filmación. Cuando el hermano mayor de Shivshankar, Rajshankar, solicita a la corte que se haga cargo de la casa, sufre un infarto y es hospitalizado.Vibhavari le comunica a la familia que ha logrado obtener un trabajo en Mumbai y se muda. Regularmente comienza a enviar dinero y no solo mejora la calidad de vida de su familia sino que envía a Subhavaria a realizar un Posgrado. Ella completa su educación y también se muda a Mumbai, donde se reúne con su hermana. Allí conoce también a Vivaan y se enamoran perdidamente. Vibhavari lo conoce y aprueba la unión, mientras que a Subhavari le presentan a la abuela de Vivaan. Entonces, se planea un casamiento en Varanasi, y unas pocas horas antes Subhavari se enterará de que su hermana no sólo no asistirá sino que no podrá volver a su hogar jamás.

Viernes 13 Nov Pinjar (2003) Esqueleto – 188 minDirector : Chandra Prakash Dwivedi

Protagonizada por: Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpai

The film is based on a Punjabi novel by the same name, written by Amrita Pritam.

It tells the story of Puro (Urmila Matondkar), a young Punjabi girl of Hindu background, living a good life - in a period around the time of the partition of India in 1947 - with her family, who, however, gets to suffer atrocities owing to an old family feud.

She is engaged to Ramchand (Sanjay Suri). But just before her marriage, a Muslim man, Rashid (Manoj Bajpai), was made to kidnap her to avenge the family rivalry since generations. When once Urmila manages to escape from Rashid to reach her home, she is ostracized by her family. On the path of giving up her life, she is rescued by Rashid, and taken back to his home. Subsequently Puro had to marry her captor and turns into a Muslim. Puro's family marries their son Trilok (Priyanshu Chatterjee) to Ramchand's younger sister, Lajjo, (Sandali Sinha), and the entire family moved back to Amritsar.

Meanwhile, Urmila's sister Rajjo (Isha Koppikar) is offered in marriage to Ramchand, who refuses since he is completely heartbroken.

The flaring up of the partition riots, all Hindus were ordered to leave the Islamic state of Pakistan. Puro's family were safe in Amritsar which fell in India. Ramchand's father had refused to leave Rattoval which fell in the newly created

Islamic state of Pakistan. Ramchand, his parents and Lajjo are caught in the riots. Ramchand set out on the long journey to India along with his younger sister and mother, his father was already missing in the riots. They were part of a large group of Hindu and Sikh refugees on the way to India, guarded by an Indian army regiment. However, large groups of Muslim thugs kept attacking refugee camps and Lajjo was kidnapped during one such attack.

Trilok had a tearful reunion with Puro and explained to her that she could start life anew as Ramchand was ready to accept her even then. However Puro refused since she was caught between two worlds, and that her life was beyond repair, she was where she belonged.

Puro sought Rashid out in the camp and the two bid Ramchand, Trilok, and Lajjo farewell, forever.

Sábado 14 nov Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – Hay cosas que pasan (1998)-177 min

Director: Karan JoharProtagonizada por : Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherji

Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) and the tomboy Anjali (Kajol) are students at St. Xavier's College. They are the best of friends. One day Tina, (Rani Mukerji), the principal's daughter, enrolls at St. Xavier's. She had come from London and as she was beautiful, feminine, and sophisticated; she was the antithesis of Anjali. Rahul falls

hard for Tina as soon as he meets her, which was just the time that Anjali realized that she has some feelings for Rahul, probably prompted by a careless comment on his part that she had heard, which equated love with friendship. This creates a romance triangle. One day, Rahul confesses his love for Tina to Anjali. Anjali leaves college suddenly, vowing to forget the heartbreak he caused.

Tina and Rahul marry and have a child, whom Tina names Anjali. Tina dies in childbirth, but had previously written a series of eight letters. Every year, on Anjali's birthday, she is given a letter and hears her mother's loving wishes for her. In the eighth and last letter, the little girl is told about her namesake. Where Rahul had been blind, Tina had noticed the older Anjali's emotions and pitied her deeply. Because Rahul hasn't remarried, perhaps his first love could be the mother that the young Anjali needs and wants.

Anjali Jr. believes that the older Anjali can make her beloved father happy again, and decides to help her father reclaim his lost paramour. She soon recruits her doting grandmother (Rahul's mother, played by Farida Jalal) and grandfather (Tina's father played by Anupam Kher) as accomplices.

The unlikely conspirators locate Rahul's old friend and contrive to make Rahul and Anjali meet again. They meet in a camp where Anjali Jr. had enrolled, where her namesake is a counselor. The namesake discovers, without the younger girl's knowledge, the truth of her new charge's parentage. Rahul soon finds old feelings reviving. However, Anjali has bowed to her family's wishes and is engaged to another man, Aman (played by Salman Khan). Complications ensue, but all ends well as Aman steps aside to let the fated couple marry at last

Domingo 15 nov Maya Memsaab (La illusión encantadora) – 1993

Director: Ketan Mehta

Protagonizada por: Deepa Sahi, Farooq Sheikh, Shahrukh Khan

The story is a narration in flashback as a reconstruction of the life of Maya (Deepa Sahi), the beautiful wife of a country doctor (Farooq Sheikh) who is full of dreams and desires.

Maya gets married to the doctor who came to treat her father (Shreram Lagoo) when the latter had a fall and broke his leg.

Initially the excitement of beginning a new life, of redecorating the house and discovering togetherness, gave her a feeling of euphoria. But gradually the monotony of marriage together with the boredom of the small-town, middle-class existence set in, becoming oppressive and she tried to find an escape in a series of extramarital affairs. However, her craving for a more glamorous and extravagant life fanned her fantasies of romance and passion and ultimately led her to duplicity, debt, despair and a tragic end.

Sábado 21 Nov(2100 hrs)

UN POCO DE AMOR, UN POCO DE MAGIA –Thoda pyaar thoda magic

Protagonizada por: Rishi Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee - 145 minutos

En el día en que recibe un premio, el arrogante, adinerado y egocéntrico Ranbeer Talwar, sufre un accidente en su BMW, provocando la muerte de los padres de cuatros pequeños niños. Ranbeer es arrestado y un año más tarde sentenciado a cuidar de los cuatro niños hasta que cumplan la mayoría de edad o cumplir 20 años de condena tras las rejas. Ranbeer accede a cuidar a los niños sin darse cuenta de que ellos tiene un plan propio – vengar la muerte de sus padres y asegurarse de que acabe en la cárcel.

Domingo 22 Nov Muna Bhai MBBS (Dr. Muna Bhai) - 2006

Director: Rajkumar HiraniProtagonizada por: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani

Murli Prasad Sharma, nicknamed "Munna Bhai" (literally "Brother Munna") is a bhai or a crime don in the Mumbai underworld. Given that his father had wished him to be a medical doctor, he creates the faux Sri Hari Prasad Sharma Charitable Hospital (named after his father) and pretends to live in accordance with this wish whenever his father (Sunil Dutt) and mother (Rohini Hattangadi) visit him in Mumbai.

One year, however, Munna's plan goes awry when his father meets an old acquaintance, Dr. Asthana (Boman

Irani) and the two older men decide to marry Munna to Dr. Asthana's daughter, Dr. "Chinki" Suman (Gracy Singh). It is at this point that the truth about Munna is revealed. Dr. Asthana insults Munna's parents and calls them "fools" for being ignorant of Munna's real life. Munna's father and mother, aghast and later heartbroken, leave for their village.

Munna, in grief and despair, decides that the only way to redeem himself and to gain revenge for the humiliation suffered by his father at the hands of the spiteful Dr. Ashthana is to become a doctor in fact. He therefore decides to go to a Medical College in order to obtain an M.B.B.S. degree; the graduate medical degree in South Asia, an acronym of "Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery".

With the help of his right-hand man Circuit and others, Munna "gains admission" to the Imperial Institute of Medical Sciences, where he again encounters Dr. Asthana, who is the dean of the medical school. His success there becomes dependent upon the (coerced) help of Dr. Rustam Pavri (Kurush Deboo). While Munna Bhai's skills as a medical doctor are minimal, he transforms those around him with the "Jadoo Ki Jhappi" ("magical hug") — a method of comfort taught to Munna by his mother — and the compassion he shows towards those in need. Despite the school's emphasis on mechanical, Cartesian, impersonal, often bureaucratic relationships between doctors and patients, Munna constantly seeks to impose a more empathetic, almost holistic regimen. To this end, he defies all convention by treating a brain-dead man called "Anand bhai" as if the man were able to perceive and understand normally; interacts on familiar but autocratic terms with patients; humiliates school bullies; effusively thanks a hitherto-underappreciated janitor; and encourages the patients themselves to make changes in their lives, so that they do not need drugs or surgery.

Dr. Asthana, who perceives all this as symptoms of chaos, is unable to prevent it from expanding and gaining ground at his college. He therefore becomes increasingly irrational, almost to the point of insanity. Repeatedly, this near-dementia is shown in a scene wherein he has just received unwelcome tidings, at the revelation of which he begins laughing in a way that implies that he has gone mad. This behavior is explained early on as an attempt to practice laughter therapy; an attempt that seems to have backfired in that Dr. Asthana's laughing serves rather to convey his anger than diffuse it. Meanwhile, his daughter becomes increasingly fond of Munna, who in his turn becomes unreservedly infatuated with her. Some comedy appears here, because Munna is unaware that Dr. Suman and his childhood friend "Chinki" are one and the same; an ignorance that Dr. Suman hilariously exploits. Dr. Asthana tries several times to expel Munna, but is often thwarted by Munna's wit or the affection with which the others at the College regard Munna, having gained superior self-esteem by his methods.

Eventually, Munna is shamed into leaving the College, his guilt for not being able to help a dying friend getting the

better of him. In the moments immediately following Munna's departure, Anand miraculously awakens from his vegetative state; at this point Dr. Suman gives a heartfelt speech wherein she criticizes her father for having banished Munna, saying that to do so is to banish hope, compassion, love, and happiness etc. from the College.

Viernes 27 Nov Jab We Met (2007) Lorsque nous nous sommes rencontrés)Director : Imtiaz Ali

Protagonizada por : Shashid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor

Aditya Kashyap (Shahid Kapoor), the demoralized son of a famous industrialist, gets even more depressed after attending the marriage of the girl he loves to another. Feeling ashamed to face the world, he walks out of the marriage gathering and boards a train in the night. While on board, he meets Geet Dhillon (Kareena Kapoor), a beautiful, talkative girl who is leaving Mumbai to go to her hometown - Bhatinda (Punjab).

Initially, Aditya finds Geet to be very irritating and every meeting becomes mental torture for him. She discloses big plans to him of eloping with her boyfriend Anshuman (Tarun Arora) as she fears resentment from her parents.

On arrival, Geet's family (Pawan Malhotra, Dara Singh and Kiran Juneja) mistakes the two for lovers, but the two quickly assure Geet's family that there is nothing of the sort going on between them. A few days later, Geet's family find a suitor for her that will be arriving to ask for her hand in marriage. While he is there, Geet leads the suitor to believe he witnesses an intimate moment between Aditya and Geet, making Geet achieve what she wishes (her suitor to leave). Later that night, Geet runs from her home along with Aditya to marry Anshuman in Manali. The separate their ways after running.

Upon returning to Mumbai, Aditya guides his company to extreme success. Aditya is shocked to hear that Geet has not returned home. He takes it upon himself to find her and return her to her family.

Aditya returns to Manali where he expects her to be with her new husband but finds that Anshuman had turned her out to the streets and refused to marry her. He finally tracks her down in Shimla, a Himalayan town. Convincing her to face her circumstances, he manages to bring her back to her parents and things start to look up for her again. However, Anshuman arrives and exclaims that he has realized he was a jerk and tries to patch up their relationship. Initially, Geet does not think she will accept his apology but Aditya pushes her to accept it and be with him even though he loves her too. All three then travel back to Bhatinda to bring Geet back and to announce that Geet and Anshuman are involved. Back in Bhatinda, the family again assumes that Geet and Aditya are together

and in all the confusion there is no chance to right the family's misconceptions. While trying to clear the misconception, situations make Geet realize that she is in fact in love with Aditya, not Anshuman, and therefore, both of them get married.

Sabado 28 Nov Morning Raga – 2004 (only English Subtitles)

Director: Mahesh Dattani

Protogonizada por: Shabana Azmi, Perizad Zoorabain

The story is set deep in the Andhra Pradesh countryside, which is beautifully depicted in the movie. Shabana Azmi is a Carnatic singer, Swarnalata, who lost her son and best friend in an accident. Azmi's character is obviously a cultured and well off woman (the house used for her home is a beautiful zamindar country mansion and estate in Kulla) and the surrounding countryside is beautiful. Azmi's character is still haunted by her loss, and after twenty years the dead woman's son Abhinay (Prakash Rao) returns to the village to open up hardly healed wounds. The was photographed by Rajiv Menon and edited by Sreether Prasad.

Domingo 29 Nov Phir Milenge (We will Meet Again) (2004) – 124 min

Director : RevathyProtagonizada por: Shilpa Shethy, Salman Khan

Tamanna Sahni (Shilpa Shetty) is a dedicated staff member of a top advertising agency, her ideas and designs have mainly contributed to the success of the agency. She leaves for a college reunion and meets her college sweetheart Rohit (Salman Khan). They rekindle their love for each other and share some intimate moments together. Eventually Rohit leaves and Tamanna settles back into her normal daily routine.

When her sister, Tanya (Kamalinee Mukherjee), has an accident she decides to give her own blood to replace the blood used to save Tanya. However her doctor, Dr. Raisingh (Revathi), tells her that she has been tested positive for HIV. Tamanna's world turns upside down and she desperately tries to get into contact with Rohit but in vain.

Her situation is soon spread around the office and she loses her job. Angered by her unfair dismissal she searches for a lawyer to fight her case. Eventually Tarun Anand (Abhishek Bachchan) agrees to represent her.