5 Movies Starring Sarita Choudhury

Mississippi Masala

Mississippi Masala

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1992-02-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (3720 Reviews)

Director:

Mira Nair

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-02-28

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

UK, India, USA, Germany, Japan

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(7848 Reviews)

Director:

Mira Nair

Cast:

Writer:

Helena Kriel

Mira Nair

Wajida Tabassuh (story)

Fullplot:

Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have maintained their friendship. Tara gets married to the local prince, Raj Singh, who soon succeeds the throne as the sole heir. After the marriage, Raj gets bored of Tara and starts seeking another female to satisfy his sexual needs. He notices Maya and is instantly attracted to her. He has her included as one of his courtesans, and is intimate with her. Watch what happens when Tara finds out and the extent she will go to keep her marriage intact.

3 A.M.

3 A.M.

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-07-01

Languages:

English, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (1072 Reviews)

Director:

Lee Davis

Fullplot:

The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tailing stories centering on the lives of individual taxi drivers as they reflect on and experience romance, politics, sociology, and spirituality.

The War Within

The War Within

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-09-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(1116 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Castelo

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Ayad Akhtar

Joseph Castelo

Tom Glynn

Fullplot:

Sayeed Choudhury was born Pakistan but has immigrated to the U.S.A., where he now lives in New York with his wife, Farida; a school-going daughter, Rasheeda; a school-going son, Ali; and unmarried sister, Duri. One morning Farida hears a knock on the door, Ali opens it and there is Sayeed's childhood friend, Hassan, who is welcomed with open arms by the family. Hassan informs them that he is going to be hired soon in the States and he is invited to spend a few days with the Choudhury family. Duri, who has a Caucasian boyfriend, Mike, is also thrilled to meet Hassan and openly shows her attraction to him. Ali also takes an instant liking to Hassan, and is taught the true values of Islam, and when one Muslim hurts, then the pain is felt by Muslims worldwide. Sayeed is quite content with the American way of life and feels secure and comfortable especially when he sees Germans, Jews, Muslims, Catholics, and non-believers living in harmony and doing business with each other. Sayeed will soon find out that Hassan has different ideas about America, a country paralyzed in fear, a nation of tyranny, hatred, greed, domination, & war. He also believes that Non-Muslims are Jaheels. Sayeed will also find out that Hassan is in the States for a deadly reason - on a suicide mission to bomb Grand Central Station. Watch what happens when Hassan leaves the house after a confrontation with Sayeed, and whether or not he will be successful in carrying out his deadly mission.

Learning to Drive

Learning to Drive

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-08-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (663 Reviews)

Director:

Isabel Coixet

Fullplot:

Wendy (Patrician Clarkson), a self-absorbed New York book critic, is shocked to reality by the sudden end of her marriage. Always dependent on her husband for driving, she must now learn to take the wheel on her own. Her instructor Darwan (Ben Kingsley) is a Sikh Indian who watches with alarm as his pupil falls apart at the seams. He himself is contemplating an arranged marriage with a woman he has never met. As these two lives intersect, both will change in unpredictable ways.

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