Galige - 1996 DVD (Award Movie) $14.99

Movie : Galige
Year : 1996
Cast : Shailaja, Amith Rai, Dandup Sangpo, G S Sadar Joshi, Manjula Rao, M P Venkata Rao, Shyam Arora, Mohini Mathur, Soniya Kumar, Neethu Kumar, Keemthi Anand
Music : Mysore Ananthaswamy, Raju Ananthaswamy
Lyrics : G P Rajarathnam, K S Nisar Ahmed, Bulle Shah
Story : M S Sathyu
Direction : M S Sathyu
Producer : NFDC, Doordarshan
Release Date : 28-06-1995
Runtime : 130 min
Genre : Social

DVD Features:

• Anamorphic Widescreen Enhanced (16:9) DVD
• English Subtitles
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
• DVD Text
• Jacket Picture
• NTSC - All Regions
• Interactive Menus of Songs & Scenes for Easy Access

Plot

The film shows how religion has become a contradiction to integration, far flung from its basic, simple truths of love and brotherhood among people. Religion thrives on ‘tolerance' for another religious group or ‘non-tolerance' which have both led to fanaticism today. It unfolds how these concepts result in separating more than in binding or bringing people of a neighbourhood, let alone a nation, together. One talks about progress, then, why are we letting ourselves be bogged down by inconsequential matters of discrimination and downplay on the basis of religion, e, creed or tribe? The protagonists in the film question and cross-question the relevance of such identity.

Orphaned, but a girl with an unusual grit and courage, Nithya meets a poor couple who claim to be her grand parents. Though suspicious of them, she supports them. She falls in love with a terrorist boy, who is hunted by the police. Nithya would like him to surrender but...