Bollywood

One of the ways M and I have been educating ourselves about India in recent months has been through film.  We are movie lovers, so this wasn't a hard sell.  We've been faithful Netflix members since 2003, and have watched (at last count) 832 movies since joining.  That's a lot of movies!

We stacked our Netflix queue with as many India related dramas and documentaries as we could find.  Some were fabulous, others, not-so-fabulous.  Here's a list of some of the movie titles, if you'd like to check them out yourself:

• Water
• Born into Brothels
• Office Tigers
• Mother Teresa
• The Namesake
• Ghandi

Of these, my favorite is "Born into Brothels."  It's a documentary which focuses on several children who live in Calcutta's red light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes.  Shunned by their own, these children are given a hope for the future thanks to the dedication of a New York based photographer who teaches them photography.  It's an amazing example how one person can make a difference.  The film won an Academy Award in 2005 for Best Documentary Feature film - for more information visit www.kids-with-cameras.org

Anyone else have any other India-related films that they'd recommend?