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Bad Timing (2008)

Actors: Keller Davis (editor), Pamela Jo Bowman (producer), Daniel Magallanes (actor), Cynthia Greening (writer), Cynthia L. Greening (producer), Jacob Felix (editor), Lindsay Lewis (actress), Michael Gonzales (actor), Jabbes Mvula (writer), Michael Ruiz (writer), Jabbes Mvula (director), Michael Ruiz (actor), M.K. Racine (producer), Michael Montesa (producer), Amy Lea Taylor (actress),

Plot: BAD T!MING is the story of Chiku, a respected Zambian social activist who is the leader of a U.N. Committee to improve the Future of the African Child. He is the son of a Ngoni chief who is to marry the daughter of a Tonga leader. The police come to arrest Chiku at his wedding, his bride is horrified to discover that he is accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Chiku begins an epic struggle to restore himself personally and professionally. A tale of failure, corruption, forgiveness and redemption, BAD T!MING reveals the rich Zambian culture in the first feature film made in that country.

Kya Love Story Hai (2007)

Actors: Kareena Kapoor (actress), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Pritam Chakraborty (composer), Bosco (miscellaneous crew), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Salim (miscellaneous crew), Cesar (miscellaneous crew), Sanjoy Chowdhury (composer), Gopal Pandey (miscellaneous crew), Tusshar Kapoor (actor), Steven H. Bernard (editor), Rahul Singh (actor), John (actor), Rajeev Soorti (miscellaneous crew), Ayesha Takia (actress),

Plot: Kya Love Story Hai is the story of a carefree and wayward youth, Arjun Tusshar Kapoor, who experiences love-at-first-sight with Kaajal Ayesha Takia. It isn't a typical meet-cute situation - he follows her for some time before succeeding in breaking the ice. For Kaajal, Arjun is a mere acquaintance, but the latter is in love with her and afraid of conveying his feelings. On befriending her, he learns that she lost her mother years back and that her father was busy traveling abroad on business. A situation arises when Kaajal comes across a letter, which Arjun has written for the girl he loves, but she doesn't know to whom he is referring. Arjun deliberately asks her how she would reciprocate his love if she were the girl he was in love with? Kaajal's reply leaves Arjun self-introspecting, making him mysteriously disappear from the scene. In the mean time, a successful and snooty entrepreneur meets Kaajal. Following some heated verbal scuffles with her, he concludes that she would make for an appropriate life-partner because she was a stabilizing influence and kept him mellow. When Arjun returns to South Africa, during an astonishingly coincidental encounter, he finds Kaajal engaged to the entrepreneur! Destiny has entangled three hearts, but who will emerge victorious? Who will make the grand gesture? Kya Love Story Hai is a feel-good romantic comedy oriented at young love.

Swades: We, the People (2004)

Actors: Saroj Khan (miscellaneous crew), A.R. Rahman (composer), Cesar (miscellaneous crew), Raju Khan (miscellaneous crew), Bosco (miscellaneous crew), Vaibhavi Merchant (miscellaneous crew), Rajesh Vivek (actor), Bhanu Athaiya (costume designer), Makrand Deshpande (actor), Nabeel Abbas (miscellaneous crew), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Ronnie Screwvala (producer), Rajendra Rao (miscellaneous crew), Ashutosh Gowariker (writer), Ashutosh Gowariker (writer),

Plot: Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns to on a quest to find his childhood nanny. The film uses the contrast between the highly developed world of NASA, which has been at the forefront of advances in space research, and this world back home in India, which is at the crossroads of development. Mohan's simple quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called "home".

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In Custody (1994)

Actors: Shashi Kapoor (actor), Roberto Silvi (editor), Parikshat Sahni (actor), Shabana Azmi (actress), Neena Gupta (actress), Ismail Merchant (director), Om Puri (actor), Prayag Raj (actor), Sushma Seth (actress), Amjad Khan (actor), Tinnu Anand (actor), Veerendra Saxena (actor), Donald Rosenfeld (producer), Siddharth (actor), Zakir Hussain (composer),

Plot: An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visited by sycophants who drink his whisky and eat his food. Deven wants to record Nur for posterity and seeks funds to buy an aged tape recorder, to bribe Safiya, the elder wife, to get Nur into a room at a brothel for a week for the recording, and to feed Nur's pals who show up. Nur's beautiful second wife, Imtiaz, wants to be taken seriously as a poetess. Dever dismisses her and ignores his own wife and child much as Nur does. In the end, what is preserved?