Departures

• DEPARTURES (DVD MOVIE)

When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi moves back to his hometown and takes a job preparing corpses for burial. Too embarrassed to admit his new career to his family, Daigo keeps his profession a secret, until he’s faced with the death of someone close to him. Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film.Departures is surely the gentlest, sweetest movie about death that you will ever see. A cellist named Diago (Masahiro Motoki) comes to the rueful conclusion that he’s not talented enough to make a career as a musician; having just returned to his hometown with his wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue, Wasabi), he answers a job ad for what he thinks must be a travel agency... only to discover that company prepares bodies to be placed in coffins. Fearful of his wife’s response, he hides his new job--but as he grows to appreciate his boss (Tsutomu Yamazaki, Tampopo) and the affect that the humbling ceremony of cleaning and dressing the deceased has on their families, Diago discovers that he might have a calling. Departures won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and it’s easy to understand why. Though it starts out quietly and even seems slight, it gradually builds in emotional power, layer by layer, until scene after scene at the end is richly moving. Particularly affecting is the performance of Kimiko Yo, the secretary of the company, who harbors a troubling secret. A few moments of overt symbolism push the movie from compassion to sentimentality--but every time Departures seems to have lost its footing, a scene follows that strikes all the right notes so deftly it resonates like a bell. A truly marvelous movie. --Bret Fetzer

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Bumm Bumm Bole (Children Hindi Film / Bollywood Movie / Indian Cinema DVD)

• Family film

Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on BFJA Awards winners.The film explores the dreamy feel of a thief's wife who by an uncanny coincidence lands up to stay in the very house of a rich socialite and promptly declares ownership to a very expensive necklace owned by the rich man's wife. The narrative of the film unveils the lives of two couples caught in a bizarre comic situation and how they react to these very situations.Vir Pratap Singh is a bachelor from a small-town working as a Sous-chef in a five star hotel in Mumbai; a handsome, charming and macho man who really needs to grow up.

Vir flirts with, yeans for, lusts after and is intimidated by one beautiful woman after another.

From his man-hating maid Shanta Bai, whom he ogles as she wipes his floor to the man-eating Nafisa Khan, the powerful call-center executive who could wipe the floor with him.... From the Bong-Beauty-with-brains Sharmishta Basu to the pretty and playful Parminder Kaur- Vir is drawn to them all.

Ego, Confusion, Commitment.... It is so difficult to stop flattering and lying to himself!

All along, he is supported by his buddy, Sandhya Iyengar, whom he takes for granted till it's too late.

The sometimes smart and often silly observations of Vir's kitchen gang of cooks hea! ded by Guruji Krishnan, punctuate his hilarious passage into manhood.An Assistant Director in Bollywood, Rahul Bajaj is in love with Shalu. He wants to marry her, so meets her parents and gets their conditional approval. However, he is given 3 months to find a flat or Shalu's marriage will be re-arranged to a Surat-based groom. Namita and Akash Ranade are caught up in their respective lives, but take time to resolve a neighbor's problem but delay in getting medical treatment for their daughter, Anushka. Amit and Suchita Soni are a newly married couple, very much in love until she discovers he is having an affair with his boss. Devika and her husband, Gaurav, contemplate divorce, as he suspects her of aborting a child, whose biological father is unknown. He has her movements spied upon. All four families are fated to meet each other in a variety of ways, changing their lives forever.The movie 'Life Express' is the story about an urbanized couple Tanvi (Rituparna Sengupta) an! d Nikhil (Kiran Janjani), whose life's pace revolves around th! eir resp ective careers so much so, that they have no time to spend with each other or start a family. The film is also the story of Mohan (Yashpal Sharma) and Gauri (Divya Dutta) who live far away from the daily hustle and bustle of big city and are leading a poverty-ridden life in a village and the challenges they face in their day-to-day life.

The film deals with motherhood, love, aspirations and priorities individuals make in their lives, touching upon major societal issues, solutions and trading of human emotions for personal benefits.Bumm Bumm Bole is a family entertainer filmed by Priyadarshan. Starring Darsheel Safary of the 'Taare Zameen Par' fame, the film's pivotal essence is a unique brother-sister relationship. Priyadarshan has very perceptively carved out the innocent and poignant story of two siblings and the dilemmas they face in life and how they fight their way to overcome it. The movie is sure to bring out the hidden child inside all of us... Two little feet, one! long journey.

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