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Jamie (Cera) is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn. He and his friends are planning on taking a road trip north to experience a legendary shamanistic hallucinogen called the San Pedro cactus. In a fit of drunkenness at a wild party, Jamie invites an eccentric woman -- a radical spirit named Crystal Fairy (Hoffmann) -- to come along. What is meant to be a devil-may-care journey becomes a battle of wills as Jamie finds himself locking horns with his new traveling companion. But on a remote, pristine beach at the edge of the desert, the magic brew is finally imbibed, and the true adventure begins.

Keywords: actress-breaking-typecast, bare-breasts, breasts, cactus, character-name-in-title, chile, cleavage, desert, drug-trip, female-frontal-nudity

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Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they journey to Bhutan where the three children must undergo a test to prove which is the true reincarnation. Interspersed with this, is the story of Siddharta, later known as the Buddha. It traces his spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment.

Keywords: buddhism, buddhist, death, enlightenment, illumination, independent-film, kicked-in-the-butt, misery, nonlinear-timeline, poverty

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Charandas lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in India along with his older brother, Bhajandas, and Bhabhi. He is unemployed and commits himself to be a wrestler with Ustad Mastram Pahelwan, who gets him to promise to be celibate until he is 40 years of age. But when Charandas meets with a school student, Chameli, the daughter of a low-caste Coal merchant, both fall head-over-heels in love with each other, go on dates, exchange love letters, much to the chagrin of Chameli's dad, Kallumal, who has plans to be the next Municipal Chairman, and mom, Champa, who decide to enlist the help of Champa's brother, Chaganlal, as well as arrange Chameli's marriage with Advocate Makhan, the son of Lachuram, who is of their caste. As events hilarious spiral out of control, Charandas must now decide whether he prefers to be known as the semi-senile lover, Majnu, or as Prithviraj Chauhan, who dared to abduct his future wife, amidst stiff all-round opposition.

Keywords: bicycle, character-name-in-title, elopement, fantasy-sequence, key, lawyer, lock, locked-in-a-room, love, love-between-castes

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Dharam Murti is a much respected school master in Shaktinagar in India, where he lives with his young son, Ravi, daughter, Padma, and wife, Savitri. One day he witnesses a man being being killed at the hands of Sher Singh Bandookwala, the Zamindar. He reports this matter to the police and Sher is arrested and prosecuted. Sher uses all his financial might to convince the courts of his innocence, and is set free. Then a few days later, Dharam is found in a compromising position with a new lady school-teacher, Menaka, is summoned by the local Panchayat, and asked to leave Shaktinagar for 30 days. Dharam leaves and does not return, leaving his wife and children alone and destitute. Savitri toils hard to provide education for Ravi, and for this she scarifies everything she has owned, and sends Ravi to her brother's place. Years later, Ravi is now an Engineer and returns home to Shaktinagar, is appalled to learn of his mom's and sister's destitute condition and vows to avenge this humiliation, and get the family decent accommodation. He sets his plan in motion to clear his father's name by openly challenging Sher. Before the plan could proceed further, Ravi finds out that Padma is pregnant and is in love with Shakti, the son of Sher's Munim, Narayandas Gopaldas, who agrees to this marriage at Sher's insistent - not because the couple love each other - but to torture Padma and keep Ravi subdued. With Ravi reined in, how will he be able to clear his father's name?

Keywords: remake

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The evil Zamindar of a small village has his lustful eyes on the beautiful wife of Jagga, a labourer, who also has a small son. He has her brought in by one of his men, and has her raped and killed. The son is also killed in this process. An enraged Jagga wants to avenge this humiliation, but in vain. He abducts one of two of the Zamindar's sons, and brings him up as his own. His motive is to raise this child in a responsible manner, and instill all the good values in him, so that he can then confront the evil Zamindar later. Years later, this young man has grown up to be called Badal, while the other son has grown up to be called Police Inspector Ram. Now Jagga is all set to avenge the humiliation and death of his wife and son, and pits the unknowing father and son against each other.

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Ronnie comes from a poor family, lives with his mother, and drives a taxi in Bombay, India. One day he comes to the rescue of a Punjabi woman named Santho, who is lost and in distress. She is unable to find the person, Gulbahar Singh, she is looking for, has her belongings and money stolen, and takes shelter with Ronnie. Both of them fall in love, and want to get married. Then Ronnie gets the shock of his life when he sees Santho dancing in a brothel, and being referred to as Ram Kali. Ronnie must find out why Santho is leading a double life, before he can get married to her.

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After his business partner embezzles money and leaves him penniless, Parvati's husband passes away, leaving behind two sons, Prabhakar and Sudhakar, & a dumb daughter, Gauri, virtually on the verge of destitution, When Prabhakar grows up, he marries Pooja and moves out. Years pass by, Sudhakar has grown up, has managed to complete schooling, gets a job out of town and re-locates. He is summoned home when his sister kills himself as she is not permitted to marry Murli, who also kills himself. Then Sudhakar gets married to wealthy Padma and brings her home. Padma wants to be pampered and does not like playing second fiddle even to Parvati, which leads to disagreements in the household. Padma's pregnancy does not resolve any of the problems, and as a result the couple leave an ailing Parvati on her own and re-locate to Padma's palatial house in the city. Weeks turn into months, months turn into years, Parvati is all by herself - with the question remaining who will bid adieu (Bidaai) to her?

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In order to reward Ramu for loyally serving his family for many years, Amar Singh undertakes to treat Ramu's son, Shyam, as his younger brother, ensures that he has a good education in a college in Dehradun, and even made plans with Manoharlal to send him abroad for further studies. When Manoharlal unexpectedly passes away, he permits the later's wife, Kanta and her son, Pappu; an elderly aunt and her son, Kuldeep; and unmarried sister, Renu, to move in with him in his mansion. He falls in love with Renu and plans to marry her much to the chagrin of Thakur Chandan Singh, who had planned to get his sister, Rajkumari, married to him, and was offended when Amar suggested that she be married to Shyam instead. Before he could handle this animosity, he and Ramu will have to deal with an unexpected situation that will involve a courtesan named Champa.

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In a small industrial town near Bombay lives Bholanath, who works at the local mill, and is the proud husband of Gauri, a daughter, Champa, and above all his son, Ramaiya, who is a graduate in the arts faculty, - the only one in this town who has attained this degree. But times are hard, and jobs are difficult to come by. When Bholanath loses his job, Ramaiya decides to find employment, and does so as a menial worker in the same mill his dad used to work. Ramaiya is very popular with his co-workers and they soon elect him as their new union leader. This puts Ramaiya in conflict with the Management of the Mill, headed by the owner, Kapoor, who has ordered that Ramaiya be eliminated post haste. But Ramaiya is determined to address the workers' grievances, and he gets himself framed for theft; has the police on the lookout for him, and so Ramaiya goes into hiding. When Ramaiya does not show up for a workers' meeting, some believe that he has been bought by the mill management, and they decide to take the matters into their own hands - by burning the mill down, killing Kapoor and his family, and getting into direct confrontation with the local police, who have been issued orders to shoot-at-sight.

Keywords: melodrama