NFDC or National Film Development Corporation of India has made some films available to watch for free on JioCinema. There are English subtitles available for the films.
NFDC is the central agency that promotes good content and excellence in the film industry and encourages the development of the craft.
The films include the popular Gandhi, Salaam Bombay and many films from the parallel cinema movement like Dharavi, Mammo, Mirch Masala. It includes Mani Kaul’s Ashad Ka Ek Din, Shyam Benegal’s Suraj Ka Satwa Ghoda, Massey Sahib starring Raghubir Yadav, Rui Ka Bojh from Pankaj Kapur and a lot of other art films.
Triyacharitra by the audience’s favorite Basu Charterjee, Debshishu, directed by Utpalendu Chakroborty, Nana Patekar’s Diksha, Om Puri starrer Tarpan, the Mahesh Bhatt thriller Nazar are now available to watch for free on JioCinema.
It also has documentaries like Sang-e-Meel Se Mulaqat by Goutam Ghose, Shubhankar Ghosh’s drama Woh Chokri, Tapan Sinha’s wonderful Ek Doctor Ki Maut, Chaar Adhyay which is adapted from Rabindranath’s stories, Marathi movie Ek Hota Vidushak, Dimple Kapadia’s Rudaali, the musical drama Gaman. It has a long list of Matathi, Gujarati, Odia and South Indian movies as well. The films are Nirbachana, Bioscope, Percy, Shesha Drishti, Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan, Marhi Da Deeva, Gangoobai, Marupakkam, Maya Bazaar, Sasanam, Parinamam, Adi Shankaracharya, Jaya Ganga, Sanabi and Island City, the Bengali classic adaptation Shesher Kabita and the Assamese Ekhon Nedekha Nodir Xhipare are also there.
The list goes on, discover them and you will find many underrated gems among them. If you are a fan of the movies from the parallel cinema movement of India, you are going to like a lot of these films. Go on and add them to your list and watch as many as you can this weekend.
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