4-Disc Holiday Collection

This Winter, FilmKaravan brings you a 4-Disc Holiday collection of it's titles at the very special price of $50.

The films in this collection include the beautiful and controversial Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley; AIDS Jaago - a series of four short films by Mira Nair, Vishal Bhardwaj, Farhan Akhtar and Santosh Sivan; the most hysterical making-of documentary by Faiza Ahmed Khan, Supermen of Malegaon; and a whimsical day spent with Indian Ocean in Spandan Banerjee's Beware Dogs.

Order now and we'll throw in a limited edition gold-metal-and-enamel cloisonne pin of Sita along with a nifty magnet for your fridge door.

And finally, as a special tribute to our dear friend Manish Acharya, we be sending you his absolutely brilliant film, Loins of Punjab, as a gift fromFilmKaravan.

Beware Dogs

Premiered at The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Beware Dogs captures the popular music band, Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean is one of the most exciting music groups of the contemporary South Asian scene exploring an intriguing crossover of eastern and western styles through folk, rock, fusion. The film is a witness of the struggle the four eclectic musicians go through as they create new material. They are together in their artistic journey in an inspiring house in old Delhi, sharing their inner joys, fear, thoughts, and putting it all in their music. With a lyrical pace, in a cinema verite manner, the film shares with us the excitement and the inner battle of the process of creating music.

Supermen of Malegaon

• Genre: Comedy, Documentary
• Status: Completed
• Director: Faiza Ahmad Khan
• Producer: Faiza Ahmad Khan, Junichi Katayama

Malegaon, a small town tucked away near the heart of India geographically, is wrought with communal tension and economic depression. To escape the harsh reality of their world, its people seek refuge in the fantastical world of cinema. This passion for cinema has spurred a group of cinema enthusiasts to make their own films--quirky, low budget, socially aware and notoriously funny spoofs of Bollywood films.

Now, we follow them on their latest venture as they take on for the first time a Hollywood classic: Superman. As the film begins to take shape through schemes and approaches that are sublimely ingenious, simply bizarre, and purely hysterical, we also slowly discover Malegaon itself. Occasionally hilarious, occasionally tragic, and always heartwarming, Supermen of Malegaon is a tribute to the undefeatable spirit of filmmaking.

Sita Sings the Blues

• Genre: Animation/Comedy/Musical

• Status: Completed

• Director: Nina Paley

• Producer: Nina Paley

• Cast: Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya

Synopsis: Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."  Played at over 200 Film Festivals and winner of over 15 awards including the Gotham awards, Berlinale, Annecy, Athens and more.

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