Can anybody recommend me other good films which show modern Indian life? I have seen plenty of good Indian films which take place far in the past, or which are modern but show more the lives of Indians living in western countries. I would like to see some accurate portrayals of modern society in India.
shareDil Chahta Hai
Dil Se
Bas Ek Pal
Mixed Doubles
Khosla Ka Ghosla
My Brother Nikhil
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara
15 Park Avenue
Yuva
Raincoat
Ek Hasina Thi
Jhankaar Beats
Chameli
Saathiya
And a lot more :)
I think it shows few impractical things about modern India like an Uncle molesting a child, you don't hear that often in India...maybe in US, but not so much in India.
Other movie i would highly recommend: Dil Chahta Hai [THE best movie...ever!] and Rang De Basanti portray Modern India in many ways.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296621/
"Everybody Says I'm Fine"
Wonderful Film showing comtemparary India, not many people like it though.
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Goddamnit, lady, you don't throw oranges on an escalator
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We may not hear about it but it does happen a lot. The families usually (not always) try to hush it up. They feel it will ruin the family name.
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really? you think that doesn't happen in India? lol. sometimes ppl crack me up. Some Indians have an amazing ability to romanticize their own country.
shareI am not from India but Salaam Bombay! (also directed by Mira Nair) is the best indian movie I've seen about the life in modern India (Albeit I dunno how "modern" could be since it was shot in 1988).
I've seen several more Indian films that are really good but they are mostly period pieces like "Lagaan" "Water" or "The Warrior".
Salaam Bombay portraits the life of indian people (just like Monsoon Wedding) but instead on focusing on the richest ones, Salaam Bombay! focuses on the poorest onea who are the vast majority in India.
So Mira Nair have portrayed already both extremes of indian society from the few ones who have it all, to the many who haven't anything at all.
While I like Water from a technical point of view, I immensely dislike Deepa Mehta's politics. She excessively panders to a liberal Western audience about the poor oppressed, uneducated coloured folk and has some sort of axe to grind against Hinduism. I think Mira Nair is a better filmmaker technically, as well as due to the fact that she doesn't constantly try to pimp oppression.
If the OP is willing to look beyond Hindi, I would recommend you check out the works of T.V. Chandran and Adoor Balakrishnan.