Documentary
"Fascinating India" spreads an impressive panorama of India’s historical and contemporary world. The film presents the most important cities, royal residences and temple precincts. It follows the trail of different religious denominations, which have influenced India up to the present day. Simon Busch and Alexander Sass travelled for months through the north of the Indian subcontinent to discover what is hidden under India’s exotic and enigmatic surface, and to show what is rarely revealed to foreigners. The film deals with daily life in India. In Varanasi, people burn their dead to ashes. At the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious gathering of the world, 35 million pilgrims bathe in holy River Ganges. This is the first time India is presented in such an alluring and engaging fashion on screen.
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Information for/from Outsiders: Chronicles from Kashmir
Delhi Durbar
Indian Scene of Procession
Life in Hunza
Calcutta Pageant
Calcutta Topical No. 1
Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro
Rajputana, Jhalawar, Bundi & Katakali Dancers
Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar
Lahore - Badshahi Mosque
Wandering Tigers in North India
Ah-So Graham Norton
Indian Life
Indian Elephants in the Service of Man
Delhi, Great Capital of India
Wedding of Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghrajji Shaeb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh
Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi
Wonderful Temples of India
Benares Chungking Ichang
Aka and Daffla Dances
SIMILAR MOVIES
Information for/from Outsiders: Chronicles from Kashmir
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2019
Chronicles from Kashmir seeks to create a sense of “balance”: between differently positioned voices that emerge when speaking about Kashmir; between differently placed narratives on the “victim”/“perpetrator” spectrum. While there is an inevitable streak of political commentary that runs throughout the work – a political current that cannot be escaped when talking about Kashmir – Chronicles from Kashmir does not espouse any one political ideology. We see ourselves as being artists and educators, using aesthetics and pedagogy to engage audiences with diverse perspectives from/about the Valley.Delhi Durbar
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1902
Aristocracy, army, elephants and more mark the start of the 1903 Durbar.Indian Scene of Procession
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1903
Stately scenes in India, likely filmed during the 1903 Delhi Durbar.Life in Hunza
IMDB 0 | Sep , 1937
Rural life in the mountainous valley near Gilgit - now in the Northern areas of Pakistan.Calcutta Pageant
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1912
Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.Calcutta Topical No. 1
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1925
Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.Correspondencia Llinás-Piñeiro
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2020
During the quarantine in 2020, the two friends Mariano Llinás and Matías Piñeiro sent each other video letters – 8 in total, 4 each of them – to create a compilation of ideas, thoughts and exchanges commissioned by Sergi Álvarez Riosalido for La Casa Encendida (Madrid). Llinás is in Argentina and Piñeiro is in New York, and they begin to order each other portraits of places, reflections on artists, ideas on cinema.Rajputana, Jhalawar, Bundi & Katakali Dancers
IMDB 0 | May , 1940
A trip to the spectacular city of Bundi and a Kathakali dance performance, filmed in vivid colour.Calcutta, Darjeeling & Bihar
IMDB 3 | Jun , 1947
Rare amateur footage of East India.Lahore - Badshahi Mosque
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1933
Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.Wandering Tigers in North India
IMDB 0 | May , 1935
Tigers in the Himalayan foothills, filmed by famous hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett.Ah-So Graham Norton
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2001
This one-off TV special follows the exploits of camp comic Graham Norton on a visit to Tokyo. Staying with a Japanese family, he explores the city's seedy side, visits the home of a famous Japanese make-up artist, and has an embarrassing experience with an electronic toilet/bidet.Indian Life
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1940
A motorist's excursion captures a world made by hand in the environs of Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.Indian Elephants in the Service of Man
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1938
Indian elephants in action as working animals and in hunting.Delhi, Great Capital of India
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1909
Rare stencil-coloured images of early 20th century Delhi during a Muslim festival.Wedding of Maharaj Kumar Shri Meghrajji Shaeb of Kutch and Maharaj Shri of Kishangarh
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1933
Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at Kundla, Gujarat.Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1921
The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.Wonderful Temples of India
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1916
A Christian take on 'Edenless' India, where heathens are unafraid of snakes, and build 'interesting' temples to their gods.Benares Chungking Ichang
IMDB 0 | May , 1916
Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.Aka and Daffla Dances
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1934
A stunning display by Nyishi tribesmen from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India.