Streaming Films Set in India
- Dabba (The Lunchbox)
Trying to add some spice to her marriage, Ila prepares a special lunchbox for her husband at work. Unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another worker, Saajan. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a note in the next day's lunchbox. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the communication soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Ila and Saajan become lost in a virtual relationship that could jeopardize both their lives. - Dharavi (City of Dreams)
Rajkaran is a taxi driver in Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. Fueled by Bollywood tales of underdogs beating the powers that be, Rajkaran dreams of becoming a factory owner and climbing out of the depths of poverty. Optimistic of his plans to co-invest in a factory with a few fellow slum-dwellers, he calls for his mother to join him in Dharavi. But when things go awry, Rajkaran watches as his dreams and family fall apart. - Kabhie Tum Kabhie Hum (Sometimes You, Sometimes We)
A bank employee takes a vacation only to have it ruined when his cottage is taken over by another family, so he and his family try to ruin the other family's vacation. - Kali Salwaar (The Black Garment)
Sultana, a small-town prostitute, migrates to the big city - Mumbai. The film Kali Salwaar unfolds in the downtown and back streets of Mumbai where destinies are constantly being transacted along with glances, favours and money. - Kho Ki Pa Lu (Up Down and Sideways)
'Up Down & Sideways' is a musical portrait of a community of rice cultivators and their memories of love and loss, created from working together on the fields. - Nayika Sangbad (The Actress)
This story gives the director's vision regarding the murkier side of the glamorous India film industry where one needs to have 'special qualities' over and above acting talent. - Tok Jhal Misti (Life is Sour, Life is Sweet)
Dilip and Mukund, both married with a child each, live in a building in the city of Kolkata. Both the families do not mix due to the difference in status. A new tenant moves into the building, inadvertently bringing trouble with her. - Tunnu Ki Tina (Tunnu's Tina)
Tunnu Ki Tina is a Bollywood film about a middle class Indian boy who dreams big and wants to marry a rich girl in college life. When he faces reality, however, he feels great pain.
Fiction Books Set in India
The Far Field by Publication Date: 2019-01-15The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present.
The Jungle Books I by Call Number: Print, eBook, eAudiobookPublication Date: 1981-01-01The adventures of Mowgli, man-child, reared by the jungle wolf packs and educated by wild animals. Includes other classic jungle stories by Kipling.
Midnight's Children by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2009-03-16Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence.
The Midnight Rose by Call Number: eAudiobookPublication Date: 2014-05-01Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a remarkable girl, Anahita Chaval, from 1911 to the present day.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Call Number: Print, eAudiobookPublication Date: 2017-06-06The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love.
A Passage to India by Call Number: Print, Book on CDPublication Date: 1992-11-03Centering on an ambiguous incident between a young Englishwoman of uncertain stability and an Indian doctor eager to know his conquerors better, Forster's book explores, with unexampled profundity, both the historical chasm between races and the eternal one between individuals struggling to ease their isolation and make sense of their humanity.
Shantaram by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2004-10-13A convicted Australian bank robber and heroin addict escapes from Pentridge Prison and flees to India. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of tumultuous life in Bombay.
Slumdog Millionaire by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2008-11-18Arrested for unbelievably answering all twelve questions on the Indian game show, "Who Will Win a Billion?" semi-literate waiter Ram Mohammad Thomas explains to his lawyer how he knew the answers due to events in his personal life.
The Story of My Assassins by Call Number: eAudiobookPublication Date: 2013-02-01When a journalist discovers that five men have been arrested for planning to kill him, he launches an investigation into his would-be killers that forces him to reassess his notions of his country, and himself.
The White Tiger by Call Number: PrintPublication Date: 2008-04-22Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
