Films About India

isabel

I've been surfing the net for a long time trying to find films shot in India. I don't mean "Bollywood films", but western films shot there. I haven't found many till now. Can anybody add films to my list?

Bandit Queen
Passage to India
City of Joy

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ericd

The James Bond movie Octopussy was partially shot in India.
The Bourne Identity 2 starts in India (Goa)

Don't know if you want to catalogue "Monsoon Wedding" and "Bride and Prejudice" under Bollywood, but they were made together with the UK.

These are the ones I currently think of

oytun

i can advice you the films of indian director nalin pan ;espacially "the samsara "and "ayurveda;art of being".you can find some information about these films from imdb.i heard about some more of nalin pan's films but havent seen them yet.excellent films from an indian director but not a bollywood style.
there s also one film about goa... "goa;last hippie standing""
"salaam bombay" is also a good film about india ,from an indian director but not bollywood style

isabel

Monsoon wedding was a good one. I also remember East is East, shot in london but also interesting. Mira Nair also shot Kama Sutra, but I didn't like it very much.

Ikuru

Yeah Moonson wedding is a great movie... There is one called Samsara that is shot in Ladakh beautyfull too... James Bond Movie "octepussy" is shot in Udaipur, udaipur buy the way is one of the best places Ive seen...

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isabel

I won't miss it! Thanks for the advice! Loved Samsara, too.
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Shaktipalooza

Mr & Mrs Iyer is quite good

Mr & Mrs Iyer

edwardseco

So many good Ray and Ivory films..

Mandsaur

Don't forget "Gandhi".

byronic

The new Jacky Chan movie is shot in part in India. I think its Hampi?

Don't put down Bollywood movies :P In some of the older Bollywood movies one can actually see sights tourist are actually no longer able to enter, or things that just not like they used to be. For example: the Vyjay Anand film "Tere Ghar Ke Samne" (1963) has the great picturization of the song "Dil ka bhanwar kare pukar" with Nutan and Dev Anand climbing the stone steps to the lookout at the top of the Qutb Minar in Delhi. Then the song continues as they survey 1960s Delhi from the top of the tower, which are sights tourist are no longer able to enjoy as the walk inside the Qutb Minar is now closed to the public. There are lots of other such "sights" in Bollywood movies.

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anandi

What about "Fire"?

shanshas

BHAWANI JUNCTION WITH Ava Gardner was shot in India - I think.

lonelyaztec

Hey,
There are a couple of them.
1. Gandhi, someone already told that
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3. 7 years in Tibet
4. City of Joy
5. Jackie chans - mystic, i think
6. Bourne Supremacy - has Goa in it
7. Like someone said - there are loads of Ray and Ivory Merchant movies'

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phantom

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For partition time, i would suggest watching a soap called "Tamas" I wonder if any of you have heard this name.. !!

renedu

Here are a few:

1. The Jewel in the Crown - a very impressive 15 hour miniseries about the last days of the British Raj. Excellent from a historical perspective on the question of partition.

2. Staying On - The follow up to Jewel, that centers on the lives of a British couple who remain in India after partition. Intersting perspective of those Anglo-Indians whose country really was India, many had never been to the UK. Great Indian cast as well. Filmed in Shimla.

3. The City of Joy

4. A Passage to India

Like many of the other posters, I think that Inidan films (Hindi) are very undervalued, both my many Indians and non-INdians alike. Almost all of them are available with English subtitles and some are even filmed entirely in ENglish, for example, Green Card Fever, that is a Hindi film made in the US.