Patel, Jabbar

Jabbar Patel's The threshold = Umbartha : screenplay by Vijay Tendulkar by Shampa Banerjee ( Book )
2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Subah ( Visual )
in Hindi and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sulabha decides to take charge of a women's rehabilitation center in a small Indian town. There she has to contend with the gross corruption and greed which further exploits and victimises the women in her care. The governors of the institution eventually make life so difficult for her that she has to resign. When she returns home, her husband informs her that he has taken a mistress. Sulabha leaves her home determined to make a life for herself. A national award winner for best film of the year

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and Hindi and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: a visionary and giant man, whose vision brought to centre stage the struggle for social freedom, the struggle for justice and equality at a time when India was fighting the might of the British Empire for political freedom. Dr. Ambedkar late rose to be the author of Indian Constitution that abolished the discriminatory practices. The film is about the period turmoil, of toil and tears and the struggle that led to a change in the lives of people born in bondage and kept that way for thousands of years and the breaking of those shackles. But before all that was achieved, he had to confront the Hindu society, the British Empire and even the Mahatma"--Container

Haṃsa akelā ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in Hindi and held by 6 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Biographical documentary on the life and works of Kumāra Gandharva, b. 1924, exponent of Hindustani music

Umbartha ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in Marathi and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The superintendent of a women's prison finds the courage to leave her husband after he casually admits to having had adulterous affairs

Sinhasan ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in Marathi and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story takes place against the backdrop of a political struggle for chief ministership, as witnessed by a journalist

Umbaraṭhā ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2004 in Marathi and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A look at the underlying dependence of a woman on man in marriage, and how men tend to take undue advantage of it. But even so, there comes a time for every woman to make a decision, and act accordingly

Subaha Subah ( Visual )
1 edition published in 1983 in Hindi and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on the novel "Beghar" by Shanta Nishal, this movie is about the women's rehabilitation center in a small Indian town. A national award winner for best film of the year