Part of SARAI (South Asia Resource Access on the Internet)

Listed below are commercial and non-commercial vendors, producers, lenders, guides, directories, and catalogs that have been helpful to librarians and scholars in the field. Corrections and additions are welcome.

Baba Digital Media (Virginia)

Vendor. DVD catalog ca. 200 titles. Some older titles, esp. films by V.Shantaram, Amitabh Bachan, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna.

Big List of Resources on Indian/South Asian Documentary Films (New Delhi)

Directory. Links to History, Film Reviews and Synopsis, Film Lists and Catalogues, Filmmakers and Other Personalities, Educational Institutions, Academic Studies, Other Related Groups and Societies, Private Production Companies, Web Resources and Presentations, News and Reports, Events and Festivals, Books and Bibliographies, Ritwik Ghatak, and Satyajit Ray sites. Hosted by Yousuf Saeed, an independent documentary filmmaker and writer.

BollywoodFlix (California)

Vendor. Published customer service policies. Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Pakistani titles.

Breakthrough TV

Producer. An international NGO headquartered in Delhi, devoted to "building human rights culture". It uses education and popular culture (e.g. music videos, radio television) to promote public awareness and dialog about human rights and social justice, with special reference to India. Main agendas: "supporting women's dreams,... enhancing sexual wellbeing and health,... encouraging peace and religious harmony,... and promoting racial, ethnic and caste equality."

Cornell University South Asia Video Collection

Lender. Over 300 DVD's and 100 VHS films. Bibliographic records include plot summaries.

Dharma Communications (New York)

Vendor. Videos produced by Zen Mountain Monastery.

Documentary Films And Videos On South Asian Religion (Australian National University)

Directory. Compiled by Geoffrey Samuel, August 1994 and updated 1998. About 70 items listed with descriptions. Distribution info mostly out-of-date but title info might be helpful. FTP site.

Eros (New Jersey)

Distributor. Large International distributor of Bollywood films. Owner of multiple format rights for over 1500 films.

Film South Asia (Himal South Asia, Nepal)

Catalog. "A biennial festival of documentary films on South Asian subjects, which brings together the best the Subcontinent has to offer in non-fiction film." Site includes a very useful Clearinghouse of South Asian Documentaries, with a large searchable database of films

Films by Anand Patwardhan (Biju Matthew, Rider University, New Jersey)

Guide. Annotated filmography with distributor info.

Hindi Movies Online (Maryland)

Vendor. Contemporary Bollywood films on DVD and VHS. Separate list of those with English subtitles. Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil titles.

IndianBlockbuster (New Jersey)

Vendor. DVD's and CD's. Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi titles.

IndianCDstore (California)

Vendor. Unusually wide number of search categories. Published customer service policies. Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Punjabi titles.

IndianDVDwala (Illinois)

Vendor. Search by title, actor, director, producer. Well-developed and published customer service policies. Small number of "regional" titles.

IndiaPlaza (San Jose, California)

Vendor. Large range of products, including DVD's, CD's, Books. Well-developed and published customer service policies, including shipping options, backorders, returns. Hindi and "regional" titles, including Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, and Punjabi.

IndiaTimes (New Delhi)

Vendor. Ships almost exclusively within India. Indian Film Music, Indian Non film Music, Indian Classical Music, VCD's, DVD's, and CD-ROMs. Hindi and Bengali titles.

IndoFilms (San Diego)

Lender. Items in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, English.

KARUPPAN productions (Singapore)

Vendor. Documentary photo and video CD's on South India, especially Tamilnadu and Kerala.

Library of Congress

Catalog. Indian Films & Videos in the Library of Congress. 99 feature films and 100 short films.

National Film Archive of India

Lender. Search their archive for films by title, director, name, year, or language.

National Film Development Corporation (Mumbai)

Vendor. Produces and markets Indian feature films and doordarshan programs.

National Library of Australia

Catalog. Mainstream Hindi Cinema and 'Art' Cinema listed separately.

NehaFlix Indian DVD Shop (Maryland)

Vendor. Audio CD's, books and novelties as well as DVD's. High Yahoo! Merchant Rating. Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati titles. Well-developed published customer service policies.

Philip's Filums (University of Iowa)

Guide. Notes on Indian popular cinema by Prof. Philip Lutgendorf.

Satyajit Ray Film & Study Collection (UC Santa Cruz)

Filmography, biography, news on DVD releases.

Swati Visuals (Delhi)

Producer. Site offers clips of documentaries by filmmakers Abha Dayal and Puneet Tandon on social issues such as child prostitution, rural women, childcare, and right to information as well as a publicity video on Buddhism in India.

Tibet House (Government of Tibet in Exile, London)

Vendor. Films and Videos on Tibet. See also World Bridges Tibet.

University of California, Berkeley (Media Resource Center)

Lender. Includes a list of US and European Movies set in South Asia. See also their videography of documentary films.

University of Cambridge (Department of Social Anthropology Video Library)

Catalog. Search on location keyword "India" generates a list of 135 items in their non-circulating collection with brief descriptions. No information on distributors.

University of Hawaii at Manoa (Wong Audiovisual Center Sinclair Library)

Catalog. "Videotapes on South Asia" last updated 1999. Instructions for generating an updated list from the online library catalog.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Asian Educational Media Service)

Catalog. Search by region, subject, title, media type, and audience to find abstracts, reviews, bibliographic information, and distribution info for materials on Asian cultures (including documentary films, feature films, CD-ROMs, and slide units). See also their list of distributors.

University of Pennsylvania

Lender. A search on keyword "india" and limited to "videorecording" generated over 500 hits. See also the listing by title with summaries of their Documentaries on South Asia.

University of Virginia (Center for South Asian Studies)

Lender. Over 100 are listed with full descriptions. See also their syllabi on South Asian film and Philip McEldowney's index to the Indian monthly news video journal Newstrack, 1988-1994.

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Center for South Asia Documentary Film Series)

Vendor. About 50 documentary films produced by this center. Available for purchase in VHS or 16 mm format.

University of Wisconsin-Madison (South and Southeast Asia Video Archive)

Lender. Search on keyword "India" generated a list of 396 videos.

Yash Raj Films (Mumbai and New York)

Vendor. Distributor for older and contemporary productions of Guru Dutt, Yash Chopra, B.R., R.K., Bimal Roy, Pramod, Prasad.