Ek chadar maili si

cover image Barcode: 58944856 Call Number: V-HIN 039 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 140 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Sukhwant Dhadda Description: Based on an Urdu novel by Rajinder Singh Bedi, this story is about Rano, a woman abused by her mother-in-law and her husband, Triloka, who plies a horse cart by day and drinks and beats his wife by night. Her troubles seem to be over when her hisband is killed but the Panchayat, i.e. village council, passes a resolution asking her to marry Mangal, her brother-in-law, whom she has brought up almost as one of her own. How much more will she have to sacrifice to ensure the survival of her children? Collection: Language Resource Center

Elementary Hindi: An Introduction to the Language

cover image Barcode: 58964476 Call Number: IL-HIN Del Material Type: Print Language: Hindi Creator: Richard Delacy; Sudha Joshi Description: "From learning to write the Hindi alphabet and pronounce its sounds, to using vocabulary and grammar, to communicating in dialogues, this title helps to develop skills in Hindi. It offers information about the Hindi-speaking cultures of the world." --WorldCat Collection: Language Resource Center

Elementary Hindi: An Introduction to the Language Workbook

cover image Barcode: 58964509 Call Number: IL-HIN Del Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Hindi Creator: Richard Delacy; Sudha Joshi Description: "From learning to write the Hindi alphabet and pronounce its sounds, to using vocabulary and grammar, to communicating in dialogues, this title helps to develop skills in Hindi. It offers information about the Hindi-speaking cultures of the world." --WorldCat Collection: Language Resource Center

English Vinglish = Enगlish vingliश

cover image Barcode: 58956578 Call Number: V-HIN 139 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 134 min. System Requirements: NTSC DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Gauri Shinde = Gauरी Shinदे Description: Money, fame and the ability to speak English. In India, these 3 factors play a huge role in how society judges an individual. ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Essential Hindi Grammar: With Examples from Modern Hindi Literature

cover image Barcode: 58964507 Call Number: IL-HIN Eve Material Type: Print-Reference Language: Hindi, English Creator: Christine Everaert Description: "This is a comprehensive grammar of Modern Standard Hindi, the primary language spoken by more than 420 million people in India. Because each grammatical topic is thoroughly illustrated with basic examples and more complex ones from modern Hindi short stories, it can be used as a reference and supplementary grammar to any textbook from beginning to advanced levels." -WorldCat Collection: Language Resource Center

Garam Hawa / Garm Hawa = Hot Winds / Warm Winds

cover image Barcode: 58925398 Call Number: V-HIN 021 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 150 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hindi, Urdu Creator: Directed by M.S. Sathyu Description: A story of India's Independence, 1947. A story of how families on both sides of the border suffered emotionally, and how their dreams and values were shattered to pieces after the partition. Dramatization of the plight of north India's Muslim minority during the Partition upheavals. A Muslim shoe factory owner must decide whether to emigrate to newly-formed Pakistan or remain in his ancestral home and business. Collection: Language Resource Center

Gharaonda

cover image Barcode: 58944882 Call Number: V-HIN 082 Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: PAL Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Bhimsain Description: This film is about a young working couple, who strive to build a home for themselves in the city of Bombay, so that they can get married. Both come from lower-middle class families and both aspire to a better future. Unfortunately, they develop different views on how to proceed, after a major setback shakes their confidence, especially in the case of the young man. Deeply involving drama does not take the easy way out. Collection: Language Resource Center

Gol Maal / Gola mala / Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Gol maal = Hanky Panky

cover image Barcode: 58925414 Call Number: V-HIN 018 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 139 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hindi, Urdu Creator: Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee Description: Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any of his employees indulging in recreation of any kind. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job. When Bhavani's daughter falls in love with the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, and insists on marrying ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Guddi

cover image Barcode: 58944850 Call Number: V-HIN 051 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 114 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee Description: A young girl becomes obsessed with the world of cinema, especially with the Indian film star Dharmendra. Unable to distinguish between cinema and reality, she becomes infatuated with Dharmendra and ignores the young boy who loves her. Her mother enlists the help of the film star to show the girl the reality of filmmaking. Collection: Language Resource Center

Guide

cover image Barcode: 58952176 Call Number: V-HIN 131 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 183 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Vijay Anand and Tad Danielewski Description: Raju makes a living by acting as a guide for tourists on one hand, and a con-man on another. He meets with Rosie Marco during one of his tours, and is attracted to her. He finds out that Rosie is unhappily married, would like to separate from her spouse, and take up acting and dancing. With Raju's encouragement, Rosie succeeds and both become rich beyond their imagination. Raju's lifestyle becomes easy, and he succumbs to gambling, and drinking in a big way. He forges a signature, is ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Gumrah

cover image Barcode: 58944865 Call Number: V-HIN 073 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 155 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by B.R. Chopra Description: "Thus far and no more." The line and limit beyond which a woman dare not venture. For the consequences may be unimagineable. Your desire or you greed may impel you to test the limit. When you cross it you have to hold yourself responsibile for your actions and their results. Collection: Language Resource Center

Half Ticket

cover image Barcode: 58944848 Call Number: V-HIN 052 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 116 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Kalidas Description: A kind-hearted playful young man (Munna) is driven out of his home by his father, who can't take his pranks anymore. He goes about his life doing odd jobs but never lasts longer than few days in one place. One day he meets a girl but pretends to be half-witted in order to win her heart. Meanwhile some cops are chasing a diamond thief who hides a diamond in Munna's hip pocket. Collection: Language Resource Center

Hera Pheri

cover image Barcode: 58944858 Call Number: V-HIN 040.01 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 139 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Priyadarshan Description: Raju, Shyam, and Babu Rao are in dire need of money. The gangster Kabira kidnaps the grandson of a wealthy businessman and contacts the wrong number for the ransom money-- Raju and Shyam's residence. The trio struggle to decide whether they should attempt to save the kid, or try to profit from the situation, which they eventually decide on. Trouble ensues, as the gang's greed takes control of them, leading them into the mouth of danger. The film focuses on how morality is often thrown ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hera Pheri

cover image Barcode: 58944881 Call Number: V-HIN 040.02 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 139 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Priyadarshan Description: Raju, Shyam, and Babu Rao are in dire need of money. The gangster Kabira kidnaps the grandson of a wealthy businessman and contacts the wrong number for the ransom money-- Raju and Shyam's residence. The trio struggle to decide whether they should attempt to save the kid, or try to profit from the situation, which they eventually decide on. Trouble ensues, as the gang's greed takes control of them, leading them into the mouth of danger. The film focuses on how morality is often thrown ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hindi

Barcode: 58953688 Call Number: IL-HIN Pim Material Type: Language Kit Language: Hindi Description: 16 CDs Collection: Language Resource Center

Hindi Kit

Barcode: 58924747 Call Number: IL-HIN Pim Material Type: Language Kit Language: Hindi Description: Self-study language kit with 35 audio cassettes Collection: Language Resource Center

Hindi Tutor: Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook

cover image Barcode: 58964477 Call Number: IL-HIN Sha Material Type: Print Language: Hindi Creator: Naresh Sharma Description: "Master Hindi grammar and broaden your vocabulary with your very own Hindi Tutor. This contemporary interactive workbook features 200 activities across a range of grammar and vocabulary points with clear goals, concise explanations, and real-world tasks. By studying and practising Hindi grammar you'll understand how the language really works and be able to speak Hindi with clarity and ease."--Amazon.com Collection: Language Resource Center

Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! = What Am I to You...!

cover image Barcode: 58947373 Call Number: V-HIN 112 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 206 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya Description: Prem, a top student, is learning the ropes of business under his elder brother Rajesh and his uncle Kailashnath, a big industrialist. In another town, Nisha is studying computer science and is the darling of her elder sister, Pooja, and her parents, Professor Choudhry and Kamladevi. Fate brings the two families together and this results in the the betrothal of Rajesh and Pooja. At the wedding, Prem meets Nisha and falls in love with this carefree woman. With Pooja as the woman of the house, joy ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hum Aapke Hain Koun...! = What Am I to You...!

cover image Barcode: 58965104 Call Number: V-HIN 112.02 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 199 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya Description: "Prem and Nisha meet and fall in love at the wedding of their elder siblings, but their plans to be together are put in jeopardy when Nisha's sister dies, leaving behind a baby." -IMDb Collection: Language Resource Center

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam / Straight from the Heart

cover image Barcode: 58945208 Call Number: V-HIN 095 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 188 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali Description: Indian-based traditional family of Pundit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) gets a visit from Sameer Rafilini (Salman Khan), from Italy, who has come as a pupil to learn music and singing. Darbar and his family accept him. Sameer meets Nandini (Aishwarya Rai), Darbar's daughter, and both fall in love. But Darbar wants Nandini to wed Vanraj (Ajay Devgan), and has Sameer swear that he will leave India, and not marry Nandini, as his guru-dakshina (fee), to which Sameer agrees. Nandini is heart=broken, ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hum dono

cover image Barcode: 58944854 Call Number: V-HIN 038 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 149 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Amar Jeet Description: This is a drama. The drama of life lived by people with hopes, aspirations, emotions and courage. People engulfed in the turbulent times of war and destruction. Those on the battlefront fight with all their might and gallantry while those who are left behind bear the consequences that arise out of long seperation and anguished waiting. Collection: Language Resource Center

Hum Tum

cover image Barcode: 58925419 Call Number: V-HIN 004 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 142 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hindi, Urdu Creator: Directed by Kunal Kohli Description: Karan is a cartoonist whose characters Hum and Tum reflect his perspective on male/female relationships. Rhea is sensitive, well-bred and self-confident. Initially, it seems that they have little in common but, over the course of a decade, their relationship evolves from hate to respect to friendship to something more. Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: not rated Collection: Language Resource Center

Hyderabad Blues

cover image Barcode: 58948603 Call Number: V-HIN 120 Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hindi, English Creator: Directed by Nagesh Kukunoor Description: This is the story of an NRI, Varun, who has returned to India after 12 years, the film shows him trying to grapple with the dichotomies in his personality of an antiseptic American reality where calories are counted and saturated fat (ghee to his mother) is bad for the heart. Throughout the film, Varun argues about the pros and cons of being what he is, an Indian American. Varun, played by the director, is a prize catch for the neighbors, who try to get him married off to their daughters. While ... Collection: Language Resource Center

India's Daughter

cover image Barcode: 58961230 Call Number: DQ-66654 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 63 min. Language: Hindi Creator: Directed by Leslee Udwin Description: The life and death of Jyoti Singh, an Indian medical student whose violation and murder by gang rapists exposed the violent misogyny of Indian society. Collection: Language Resource Center

Introduction to Hindi Grammar

Barcode: 58946309 Call Number: IL-HIN Jai Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook Language: Hindi, English Collection: Language Resource Center