Kalapani ( Malayalam ) and Sirai Chaalai ( Tamil ), a 1996 Indian film by Priyadarshan, depicts on freedom struggle and briefs on the lives of prisoners in Andaman Islands.

The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema ; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in regional languages.

* Cleopatra ( 2005 film ), a South Indian Tamil film

* Cleopatra ( 2011 film ), a South Indian Malayalam film

( 1955 film ), an Indian Malayalam film starring Prem Nazir

( 1956 film ), an Indian Hindi film

( 1965 film ), an Indian Telugu film

( 1990 film ), an Indian Hindi film

In 2011, Elwes performed the English voice over for Indian film, Delhi Safari.

Indian call centres have been the focus of at least two documentary films, the 2005 film Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night and the 2006 film Bombay Calling.

In September 2010, Barrymore was confirmed to play the role of Ganga in the Indian Bollywood film The Lifestyle – In Generation Next to be directed by Santosh Kumar Jain, to be released in 2012.

* 1933 – Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director

* 2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor and film producer ( b. 1923 )

* 2001 – Ellis R Dungan, American-born Indian film director ( b. 1909 )

During Indian cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, it was producing 200 films annually, while Indian independent films gained greater recognition through international film festivals.

* 1930 – K Viswanath, South Indian film director

* 1999 – Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian scholar, historian, and critic ( b. 1899 )

In an interview on the BBC, George Fernandes, former Indian Defence Minister and prominent Burma critic, said that Coco Island was part of India until it was donated to Burma by former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.

He was a strong critic of the Western education system, feeling it demeaned the Indian students and disrespected India's heritage.

Ramachandran, a well-known 20th-century Indian music critic, wrote: " Tyagaraja is an indefatigable interpreter of the past ... but if with one eye he looks backward, with the other he looks forward as well.

On June 4, 1959, shortly after the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress, Rajaji, along with Murari Vaidya of the newly established Forum of Free Enterprise ( FFE ) and Minoo Masani, a classical liberal and critic of socialist Nehru, announced the formation of the new Swatantra Party at a meeting in Madras.

In a 2002 review in The New York Times, film critic Dave Kehr said that the film "... is often said to have helped set the pattern for the nearly 50 years of Indian film that has followed it.

Opponents of the grapheme transliteration model continued to mount unsuccessful attempts at reversing government policy until the turn of the century, with one critic calling appealing to " the Indian Government to give up the whole attempt at scientific ( i. e. Hunterian ) transliteration, and decide once and for all in favour of a return to the old phonetic spelling.

* Taran Adarsh, an Indian film critic

He became a fierce critic of the Indian National Congress and its acceptance of India's partition, and was one of those accused in the assassination of Indian leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

* Som Ranchan, Professor, author, and critic of Indian origin.

Ramachandran ( 1898 – 1956 ), Indian music and art critic

One critic said of Trudell's live performances that: " This isn't simply pop rock with Indian drums and chants added.

She was the Official Opposition critic for the Minister of Justice, and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, the Minister of National Revenue and the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada with special emphasis on Judicial Transparency and Aboriginal Justice.

* Shama Zaidi, Indian screenwriter, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary filmmaker

The commission The had introduced the system of dyarchy to govern the provinces of British India, but these revision met with harsh critic and clamoured by the Indian public.

While in Parliament, Earle was the NDP critic of Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Immigration, Indian Affairs and Northern Development, National Defence, and Veterans Affairs.

* Geeta Kapur, Indian art critic

Kalki was the pen name of R. Krishnamurthy ( September 9, 1899 – December 5, 1954 ), a noted Tamil writer, film & music critic, Indian independence activist and journalist from Tamil Nadu, India.

Poet and critic Khal Torabully has put forward the concept of " coolitude ," a poetics that results from the blend of Indian and Mauritian cultural diversity.

He served as the Whip and the Deputy Whip of the Progressive Conservative Party, and as critic of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Natural Resources, Fisheries and Oceans, Public Accounts, Parliamentary Affairs, and Library of Parliament.

Initially, this dialect was used to represent crooks and uncouth characters as, to quote film critic Shoma A. Chatterji, " Indian films have the unique quality of different characters speaking different varieties of Hindi according to their social status, their caste, communal identity, education, profession, financial status, etc.

Mawdudi believed the Indian Congress to be a hypocritical organization and was a vociferous critic of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

* Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet and art critic

47 Natkal ( 1981 ), which traces the adversities of a newly-wed Indian woman living with an scurrilous, expatriate husband in a Parisian suburb ; and Sindhu Bhairavi ( 1985 ), about the intellectual collision and subsequent romance between a lofty Carnatic musician and his ardent female critic.

* Angaar Waadi, an Urdu drama serial based on Indian occupation of Kashmir, directed by Rauf Khalid

* Laag, an Urdu drama serial based on Indian occupation of Kashmir, directed by Rauf Khalid

Fiza (, ) is a 2000 Indian film written and directed by Khalid Mohammed.

Zubeidaa (, ) is a 2001 Indian film directed by Shyam Benegal and written by Khalid Mohammed.

* Khalid Mohamed, Indian journalist turned filmmaker

* Hasan, Khalid ; Indian scholar sifts 1971 fact from fiction in the Daily Times December 18, 2005.