https://mrqe.com Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:13:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/ek-baar-phir-once-again-m100069846/ Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=213730 Kalpana is a young girl living in a small community. She is thrilled when she receives a marriage proposal from a popular Bollywood movie actor named Mahender Kumar, which she accepts. Soon they are married. Kalpana soon finds out that her husband is so busy with his career, that he has no time to spend with her. In order to complete a movie shoot, they travel to Britain, where Kalpana meets with a struggling student, who doubles as an artist as a living. She finds herself getting attracted to him. It will not be for long before her husband finds out about this, and the impact this will have on his career, and personal life.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/hullabaloo-over-georgie-and-bonnies-pictures-m100053972/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/hullabaloo-over-georgie-and-bonnies-pictures-m100053972/ This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couplenicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governessthey must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharajas beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-courtesans-of-bombay-m100054699/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-courtesans-of-bombay-m100054699/ In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors James Ivory and Ismail Merchant blend documentary footage and dramatic reenactments in their exploration of this seamy underworld, the flip side of the Bollywood film industry, where aspiring actors and dancers — some even sold into prostitution by their own families — end up, with their innocence lost and their hopes for movie stardom shattered.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/partition-m100023183/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/partition-m100023183/ The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent’s partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen’s complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto’s short story ‘Toba Tek Singh’, Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film’s first-ever release on DVD.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/masala-m100065479/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/masala-m100065479/ An Indian-Canadian heroin addict becomes involved in the lives of his mother’s family, watched over by the god Krishna.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/chicken-tikka-masala-m100047762/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/chicken-tikka-masala-m100047762/ Jimi (Chris Bisson), the Chopra family’s only son, gets caught off guard when his high-handed parents (Saeed Jaffrey and Jamila Massey) announce an arranged marriage to Simran (Jinder Mahal), a lovely girl from a respectable family. Problem is, Jimi’s gay, so to hide his homosexuality, he spins an ever-more elaborate web of deceit — but how long can he conceal the truth?

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/kaun-hai-jo-sapno-mein-aaya-m100085792/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/kaun-hai-jo-sapno-mein-aaya-m100085792/ Kuldeep lives comfortably with his family.One day his friend asks him to look after his niece for a month. Mahek moves into the Khanna household and notices that the family is dysfunctional. She begins to reform the youngest one and succeeds.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-guru-m100031768/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/?post_type=movie&p=15279 Britain’s top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/albela-m100018703/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/albela-m100018703/ Boy is loved by a girl, but he doesn’t know. Boy becomes smitten with another girl, but she loves another.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/naseeb-m100066400/ Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/naseeb-m100066400/ A man attains fame and wealth but still faces rejection from the woman he loves.

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