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John Abraham’s diploma film.Read More »

Two friends live happily until misunderstandings arise between them.Read More »

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Benegal’s successful feature debut is set in feudal AP and consolidated the New Indian Cinema movement. The politically inflected melodrama tells of a newly married urban youth, Surya (Nag, in his Hindi film debut), who is sent alone to his rural home to look after his ancestral property. Finding himself in the role of the traditional landlord, he has an affair with Lakshmi (Azmi, in her extremely powerful film debut), the young wife of a deaf- mute labourer (Meher), and she becomes pregnant. Her husband, believing the child to be his, goes to tell the landlord the good news but Surya, consumed by his guilt and afraid of being exposed, beats the man almost to death. Lakshmi then turns on her former lover with a passionate speech calling for a revolutionary overthrow of feudal rule. In the last shot, a young boy throws a stone at Surya’s house and then the screen turns red.Read More »

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Two arid hamlets in Tamil Nadu unfurl a drama witnessed by the searing sun. The land and human emotions lay brazenly palpable in the scorching heat. An alcoholic wife beater embarks on a journey, dragging his young son along to fetch back his wife whom he had chased away.Read More »

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Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises of love.Read More »

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Haseena is a poor woman who works day and night to earn some money to look after her three daughters. Her husband has deserted her because she has not given birth to a mail child and is already on a look out for a marriage with another woman. Haseena has three daughters including a visually impaired teenager. Haseena wants her husband to return to her and complains about it to the local masjid authorities. In another development she also learns that her daughter’s blindness could be cured. She starts to save money and also fight for justice. But in the quest of justice, she will be continued to be tortured by her husband. Haseena is prepared for a combat to get justice. But unfortunately she is rebutted and neglected by the masjid mutavalli. She becomes a pawn in the masjid politics.Read More »

A brilliant scientist creates a humanoid robot to protect mankind, but things go awry when human emotions are programmed and inner turmoil causes the robot to switch sides.Read More »

Essential Hindi popular cinema classic and a pioneer entry of the 1970’s Indian crime films. This is the breakthrough film of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, seen here in his “angry young man” persona for the first time. The people behind this was Salim-Javed, a screenwriting team who were responsible for bringing in a hardhitting socially-slanted style in Hindi cinema, penning such classics as Deewar, Sholay and Trishul.

The plot is a revenge story in the mould of the spaghetti western Death Rides a Horse, with Bachchan witnessing the murder of his parents as a child, and a chain on the murderer’s wrist acting as a flashback device…Read More »

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Raghu, the only son of Raghava Chakyar was born late for him. So he poured his entire love and affection on him. Raghu, studying in an engineering college in a far away city has to arrive at his home to attend the engagement ceremony of his only sister. But he doesn’t. The father starts his endless wait for his son. He daily waits at the bus stop till the last bus from the town also returns. Raghava Chakyar comes to know from newspapers that Raghu was taken into custody by the Police for political reasons. He reaches the capital and meets the higher Police officials. But they pretended helpless as there is no proof that Raghu was taken into custody. Raghu’s sister comes to understand that he probably would have died in police custody after being tortured, but cannot bear to tell this to her father. The old man’s grip on reality slowly slips and he starts dreaming that his son is with him.Read More »