Biography: A native of New Delhi, India, British character actor of theater and film Roshan Seth honed the skills he learned at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in British repertory theater. His first break came in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972. Seth entered feature films in Richard Lester's Juggernaut (1974), but because subsequent filmmakers only wan ... show all A native of New Delhi, India, British character actor of theater and film Roshan Seth honed the skills he learned at London's Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in British repertory theater. His first break came in Peter Brook's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which toured in 1972. Seth entered feature films in Richard Lester's Juggernaut (1974), but because subsequent filmmakers only wanted Seth for ethnic roles, his career abruptly stalled. Discouraged, he abandoned acting and returned to India, where he worked as an editor and journalist until the early '80s, when Richard Attenborough asked Seth to play Pandit Nehru in Gandhi (1982). Shortly thereafter, Seth essayed Indian author Victor Mehta and toured the globe in playwright David Hare's biography A Map of the World. After the play's Broadway run, Seth's movie career took off, with roles in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and David Lean's A Passage to India (1984). Seth's subsequent film credits include Mississippi Masala (1992), Street Fighter (1994), and The Journey (1997). hide |
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| After months of fighting, a multinational military force of the Allied Nations has managed to enter the city. The AN is fighting against the armed forces of drug-lord turned the evil warlord General M. Bison, who has recently captured a couple of dozen AN workers. Bison makes his demands in a live two-way TV broadcast with William F. Guile, the commander of the AN forces. If he is not paid $20 billion in three days he will kill the hostages! And so Guile and M. Bison will be facing off in the ultimate final showdown! Search keywords
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Categories: 1994, Action, Adventure, Japan, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community's insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies. Search keywords
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Categories: 1984, Adventure, Drama, UK, USA
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| When 'Mahatma Gandhi' (qv) first set foot in British India, he had already been to Britain and South Africa, and had created quite a stir for the betterment of the people. But in India, he realized that he had first to live the life of a peasant to understand what it is to be an Indian. This resolve will lead him to shed his westerners clothing, and don a simple loincloth, be subjected to racial slurs from none other than Winston Churchill (Half naked Indian Fakir); Mobilize awareness of local industry and less dependence on imported clothing and material; the historic dandee march for withdrawal of the salt tax; a fast unto death to stop the virtual slaughter of British troops by irate Indian mobs; and be imprisoned several times. His resolve was to work with stalwarts such as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sardar Valabhbhai Patel, Professor Gokhale, J.B. Kripalani, Maulana Azad, and Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru to ensure first of all to get the British to quit India, and then run an Indian Government under the Congress party. Gandhi will soon realize that it is not enough to be just an Indian, for India has many facets - Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, and Christian. The British relied on these many facets as an excuse for their continuance as they wanted to ensure that the minorities are not oppressed by the Hindu majority. Concerned over the inroads made by Gandhi to unite the Hindus, Muslims, and all others under a common umbrella, the British invited Jinnah for talks, and it is here that a seed was laid for a separate country called Pakistan. When Gandhi came to know about this, he pleaded with Jinnah to unite the Muslims, even take over as the first Prime Minister with his choice of Muslim candidates for Parliament, but separatist Jinnah had already made his mind. The World Wars of 1914 and 1944 having taken it's toll on Europe and Britain in particular, the weary British finally decided to leave India in 1947 - not the India they had conquered - but an India that was ready to be divided in East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Now after the much awaited independence was the real test for Gandhi - a test that will make him or break him - as he started a fast unto death to try and stop the violence that was threatening to break out into a civil war, not realizing that he had indirectly fanned Hindu extremism, which would later be called the Shiv Sena, into taking the matter directly in their hands to ensure that Muslims are kept out of their Hindustan forever. Search keywords
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Categories: 1982, Biography, Drama, History, India, UK
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| The girl of a shine but an overtired rationally upset mathematician (has newly die) try to come in close touch with his possible succession: his madness. Compliquantes questions are one of the ex-students of his father who wants to search his papers and his separated sister who shows up to help install his business.
La fille d'un brillant mais un mathématicien surmené intellectuellement dérangé (a récemment décéder) essaie de venir aux prises avec sa succession possible : sa folie. Les questions compliquantes sont un des ex-étudiants de son père qui veut fouiller dans ses papiers et sa soeur séparée qui montre jusqu'à l'aide installent ses affaires. |
Categories: 2005, Drama, USA
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| A fairy tale of the high adrenalin of the young mountaineer Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell) who must begin a treacherous and unusual rescue strain K2, the second highest point in the world. His own restrictions as well as the awful power of the uncontrollable elements of the nature opposite, risk Peter his life to save his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), and her summit team (Bill Paxton and Nicholas Lea) in a race with the time. The team becomes in an icy grave on 26,000 feet - a death zone about the vertical border of the duration caught where the human body cannot survive long. All second countings as Peter enlist the help of a team of comountaineers, including the eccentric, secluded miner Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn) to climb cooling would be able to from the mostly dreaded point in the world to save them.
Ein Märchen des hohen Adrenalins des jungen Bergsteigers Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), der eine tückische und außergewöhnliche Rettungsanstrengung K2, die zweite höchste Spitze in der Welt starten muss. Sowohl seine eigenen Beschränkungen als auch die schreckliche Macht der unkontrollierbaren Elemente der Natur gegenüberstehend, riskiert Peter sein Leben, um seine Schwester, Annie (Robin Tunney), und ihre Gipfel-Mannschaft (Bill Paxton und Nicholas Lea) in einem Wettlauf mit der Zeit zu retten. Die Mannschaft wird in einem eisigen Grab an 26.000 Fuß - eine Todeszone über der vertikalen Grenze der Dauer gefangen, wo der menschliche Körper lange nicht überleben kann. Alle zweiten Zählungen als Peter werben die Hilfe einer Mannschaft von Mitbergsteigern, einschließlich des exzentrischen, zurückgezogenen Bergmannes Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn) an, das Abkühlen zu ersteigen, könnte von der am meisten gefürchteten Spitze in der Welt, um sie zu retten. |
Categories: 2000, Action, Adventure, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| The archaeologist illustrates and the expert in occult sciences, Dr. Indiana Jones, cost in action in the 2nd film Indy. It teams with a singer of nightclub and a 12-year-old person called the Short Circle. They meet in an Indian village, where people think that mediocre spirits took their children after a sacred stone was stolen. Indiana agrees to try and to recover stone for the villagers.
L'archéologue illustre et l'expert en sciences occultes, Dr. Indiana Jones, revient dans l'action dans le 2ème film Indy. Il fait équipe avec un chanteur de boîte de nuit et une personne de 12 ans appelée le Rond Court. Ils se retrouvent à un village indien, où les gens croient que de méchants spiritueux ont emmené leurs enfants après qu'une pierre sacrée a été volée. Indiana accepte d'essayer et récupérer la pierre pour les villageois. |
Categories: 1984, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, USA
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