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Roshan Seth

Roshan Seth

4 films · 264 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19842019

Born 2 April 1942 · Patna, Bihar, India

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Roshan Seth OBE is an Indian-born British actor, who appears mainly in British and American films. He is best known for his critically acclaimed performances in the films Gandhi, Mississippi Masala, Not Without My Daughter, My Beautiful Laundrette, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Such a Long Journey.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Roshan Seth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 264 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Roshan takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 4 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Roshan takes.

Time of day

Night55%
Day33%
Golden hour7%

Lighting

Low key51%
Natural36%
High key9%

Shot size

Medium42%
Wide25%
Closeup20%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle12%
Low angle5%

Mood

Neutral57%
Tense21%
Ominous10%
Lonely4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 264 frames from Roshan Seth's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.