How To Train Your Dragon (2010) by Dreamworks

How To Train Your Dragon tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who sticks out like a sore thumb amongst his tribe’s heroic dragon slayers. An encounter with a dragon challenges him to see the world from an entirely different point of view, rendering the attentive, intuitive boy a hero as his growing knowledge of the fire-breathers enables him to harness their strengths sans blood and gore.

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BOLLYWOOD Movie Review- Dor (2006)

To Indian cinema enthusiasts, the name Nagesh Kukunoor needs no introduction. His movies tell the lesser known tales of India today that bear resemblance to a changing India, but at the grassroots level. Of Indians from villages and townships that still constitute 60% of the Indian populace. The middle class Indian stories, without the unnecessary- and unreal- drama that glossy television and glossy cinema-makers slap on. These are tales of modern India, both modern and Indian in the truest sense. These are mature stories, reflecting the writhing of ideological change, the tug-of-war between the demands for self and the traditions of service to others, the realizations of the consequences of societal divisions on caste and sex in current times.

Nagesh Kukunoor's Dor is one such classic.

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The Horse Whisperer

Based a book of the same name by Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer isn't a path-breaking film. But it is a poetic rendition of some very regular, very humane relationships- not the least of which involves two very different creatures- without resorting to drama. Definitely worth a watch.

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