11. Lonely Wife, The ( Charulata )
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal, Gitali Roy, Bholanath Koyal
Plot: Charulata is attractive, intellectual and a bit unfulfilled as her husband, Bhupati seems more interested in his newspaper job than in her. When his bohemian brother, Amal, returns from college - she connects with him on many levels.
12. Andaz Apna Apna
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
Actors: Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon , Paresh Rawal, Deven Verma
Plot: A pair of middle-class con men looking for one big score find themselves going after the same heiress, and, surprisingly, finding love as well. But things are complicated when her father's twin brother decides to take over the family business - by assuming his brother's identity.
13. Lunchbox, The ( Dabba )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ritesh Batra
Actors: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Denzil Smith, Bharati Achrekar, Nakul Vaid
Plot: Mumbai's Dabbawalas is an extremely efficient lunchbox delivery service, but a happy accident suddenly has a widower nearing retirement start up a relationship, via notes in the lunchbox, to an unhappy housewife.
14. Black
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Shernaz Patel, Ayesha Kapoor, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Sillo Mahava
15. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Actors: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Plot: It's late in the season and it hasn't rained yet.the people of a small Indian village in Victorian India hope to be excused from paying the crippling tax that their British rulers have imposed. The over-confident British officer in charge, then challenges them to a game of cricket, a game totally unknown to them. If they win, they get their wish; if they lose, however, the increased tax burden will destroy their lives. Bhuvan, a young village farmer, accepts the challenge and begins to build his team of villagers for the showdown.
16. Bandit Queen
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Actors: Seema Biswas, Aditya Srivastava, Agesh Markam, Ajai Rohilla, Aseem Bajaj, Anupam Shyam
Plot: Phoolan Devi was known as the Bandit Queen - prosecuted by the Indian police while the press fawned over her.
17. Swades ( Swades: We, the People )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Actors: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Balal, Smith Seth, Rajesh Vivek, Daya Shankar Pandey
18. Days and Nights in the Forest ( Aranyer Din Ratri )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh
Plot: Follows four middle-class workers as leave their jobs behind for a week and visit the forest. Meeting up with another group, they begin flirting with women.
19. Music Room, The ( Jalsaghar )
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Chhabi Biswas, Padmadevi, Pinaki Sengupta, Gangapada Basu, Tulsi Chakraborty , Kali Sarkar
Plot: Biswambhar Roy is the last of a dying breed of zamindar - a landlord whose diminishing returns will spell doom. But despite his dwindling money, he still enjoys lavish parties and spectacles, especially in his music room and if he has to go out, he will do so in the most imaginative way possible.
20. Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Actors: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan, Boman Irani, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Diya Mirza
