Striker (Hindi: स्ट्राइकर) is a 2010 Bollywood action-drama film written, directed and produced by Chandan Arora. It stars Siddharth, Padmapriya, Vidya Malvade, Nicolette Bird, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas and Aditya Pancholi. The film had a theatrical release in cinemas throughout India on 5 February 2010. It also premiered on YouTube the same day, thus becoming the first ever Indian film to premiere on YouTube internationally on the same day as its domestic theatrical release.
Set in a Mumbai ghetto in the mid '80's and based on true life accounts, Striker is a story of triumph of human spirit over indomitable odds.
Born into a poor family, Surya grows up with few luxuries. Poor health keeps him away from school often and that is when his elder brother, Chandrakant, introduces him to carrom. Winning the Junior Carrom Championship at 12 is not enough to keep Surya's fire for the sport burning through adolescence. Hopes for a job in Dubai replace the passion for carrom as Surya grows into a young man. Duped by a bogus overseas employment agency, Surya loses all his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. Surya is forced to cross paths with Jaleel.
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A single mother in Paris, Bernadette tried hard to give her daughters everything. She is thrilled when her eldest, Elza, the first college graduate in the family, completes her master's degree. However, Elza breaks her mother's heart by running away to their native Guadeloupe in search of a distant childhood memory: the father she barely remembers. This feature debut by writer/director Mariette Monpierre offers an unusual insider's view of lush island culture as she captures the passion and contradictions of this family.
Keywords: foreign, french
When a dream becomes an obsession.
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A single mother in Paris, Bernadette tried hard to give her daughters everything. She is thrilled when her eldest, Elza, the first college graduate in the family, completes her master's degree. However, Elza breaks her mother's heart by running away to their native Guadeloupe in search of a distant childhood memory: the father she barely remembers. This feature debut by writer/director Mariette Monpierre offers an unusual insider's view of lush island culture as she captures the passion and contradictions of this family.
Keywords: foreign, french
When a dream becomes an obsession.
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The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, abuse, abusive-father, airliner, airplane, airport, alcoholic, alcoholic-father, ambulance
The pride of a nation. The heart of a champion.
Tony Fingleton: [narrating] I was always a little afraid of my father. From my earliest memory there was nothing I could do to please him. I just... never connected to him. So I fell between the cracks.
Harold Fingleton: [to Tony while having Harold Jr. beat him up in a boxing lesson] What're you crying for?::Young Harold Jr.: [whilst boxing] You are. You're crying!::Young Tony: [sobbing] I'm not!::Young Harold Jr.: [punches Tony again] You are now!
Harold Fingleton: [in a drunken stupor, to Tony] When I was your age, I was tougher.::Tony Fingleton: What are you talking about?::Harold Fingleton: You're far too weak. You make me feel ashamed. I wish you didn't exist.::Dora Fingleton: Oh, Tony, come to bed.::[Tony leaves]::Harold Fingleton: They were a bunch of animals. Bastards.::Dora Fingleton: Harold, what happened? What happened today, hmm? What happened? How'd you get that mark on your face?::Harold Fingleton: Coppers came out and, um... I think I fell over. Coppers...::Dora Fingleton: Was it...::Harold Fingleton: It was all so long ago that they were animals. And my mother... My mother, she was there. THEY WERE ANIMALS!::Dora Fingleton: What?::Harold Fingleton: You're a very good woman, Dora. Where's Tony?
Dora Fingleton: [about Tony, proudly] Your son's just won the junior championship.::Harold Fingleton: [to John] Wait'll these mugs see what you can do.
Tony Fingleton: [after losing to John] You reckon I could swim from here to America?::Dora Fingleton: You just gonna sit here feeling sorry for yourself?::Tony Fingleton: No, John's the star. He's a better swimmer than me. He always was. He's good, Mum. John's number one.::Dora Fingleton: You know it's just one race. There's gonna be plenty of races for you.::Tony Fingleton: Mum, it's too late, all right? How many years have I been swimming? I wanted to win a medal. I wanted to be a champion and win a medal at the Olympics.::[sighs]::Tony Fingleton: You know? You know, I wanted to BE somebody.::Dora Fingleton: Oh, you think you're nobody, hmm? Winning a medal isn't gonna change that...::Tony Fingleton: Look, Mum, it's not about that, all right? I wanted... I had this plan, all right? I thought that... maybe... if I could get to the top in swimming, then it would lead to something and then I could... get so I could just... I could... I could just GO!::[sobs]::Dora Fingleton: You can't let this break you, okay? You gotta be very strong up here in the head, okay? Listen. Listen. My darling boy, I love you. I love you. I'm so proud of you.::Tony Fingleton: I love you, too.::Dora Fingleton: My darling boy. Only you can make something of yourself. Not your father and not me. Now, if swimming is what you're after, then there's always next year. But, you know, there might be something completely different for you - nothing to do with swimming - that'll get you... get you out of here, if that's what you want.
Brother Campbell: Oh, Harold, uh, Father Dillon is hearing confession right after mass.::Harold Fingleton: Is he? That's nice.::Brother Campbell: Probably been awhile?::Harold Fingleton: I'll pop along next week.::Brother Campbell: Since you're here, and since your boys will be coming here...
Harold Fingleton: [on his way to confession] Hot in here, isn't it?::Dora Fingleton: Not for us Protestants.
Dora Fingleton: I'll wait till you kids are all grown up and don't need me.::Tony Fingleton: Which will be never.
Tony Fingleton: [struggling to connect with his dad prior to leaving Australia for Harvard College in the United States] Do you remember the first time you took me to the pool, Dad? Put me in the water?::[Harold shakes his head]::Tony Fingleton: I do. At the old Spring Hill Baths. I remember being terrified of drowning. You had me there and then you just... you just... let me go.::Harold Fingleton: Oh. I remember that.::Tony Fingleton: Yeah. But I didn't go under. I floated. And then, uh... and then I swam away from you, and... I swam away across to the other side maybe, but...::Tony Fingleton: [suddenly embarrassed at how directly this childhood story connects to his current actions] I should go. I've got things to do.
Tony Fingleton: [narrating] It's funny how the stumbling blocks of life can help make us better people. I never had the support of my father, but in the end that's what gave me the strength to seek something more than I could've ever imagined. Something in another world.
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Dr. Willis discovers that the severely wounded casualty on her operating table is the same man who raped her when she first started work in this county hospital. She has the power to save him or to wreak revenge. How will she decide?
Keywords: character-name-in-title, hospital, rape
She is the victim, he is the attacker... now his life is in her hands.
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A reluctant gunslinger tires of having to defend himself at every cow town he visits, so he adopts an alias and continues his wandering. At an outpost run by a father and young son, he gets involved with a robbery in progress, and agrees to take the son to the boy's uncle, a sheriff in Table Rock, for his safety. Once there he finds the town gearing up for the arrival of a cattle drive and the unruly cowboys. He strives to remain uninvolved as the sheriff tries to get his help with the cowboys, but the sheriff nurses bad memories from an earlier incident that may threaten his effectiveness.
Keywords: based-on-novel, long-brown-hair, street-shootout
Wes Tancred: I was just telling Cathy I'm pulling out.::Sam Murdock: Oh? Well, any particular reason, Wes?::Wes Tancred: What happened to Ard out there?::Sam Murdock: Oh, well, they'd have strung him up anyway, so I did him a favor.::Wes Tancred: Well, I'm pulling out before you do me any favors.
ageing bar girl: What's the matter, nobody want to play with you?::Wes Tancred: Leave it alone, I'm not a trail hand.::ageing bar girl: It's OK, I've got time.::Wes Tancred: No you haven't.
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Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The Lone Ranger is on hand to help the homesteaders battle Bart's men as he overcomes traps, ambushes, burning buildings and other obstacles in his attempt to bring peace to the valley.
Keywords: 1800s, action-hero, adobe, agent, agitator, american, americana, arrest, arson, b-movie
Hi-Yo Silver! AND THE ROBIN HOOD OF THE ROCKIES RIDES THE DANGER TRAIL IN A NEW AND DARING CRUSADE AGAINST THE LAWLESSNESS THAT IS THE LAW OF THE WEST! (original poster)
THE GREATEST HERO OF SCREEN AND RADIO Rides to dangerous glory in an ALL-NEW series of spectacular and breath-taking adventures! (original poster)
NOW - see a living, vibrant Lone Ranger in the greatest thrill drama ever shown on any screen! (original poster)
A FIERY HORSE WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHT A CLOUD OF DUST AND A HEARTY Hi-Yo, Silver (original poster)
NEW ADVENTURES BRING NEW THRILLS WITH THE SCREEN'S GREATEST HERO! (original poster)
YOUR PHANTOM HERO OF THE AIR WAVES RETURNS TO FLESH-AND-BLOOD REEL LIFE With Tonto and Silver in an ALL-NEW series of fifteen whirlwind adventures! (ORIGINAL POSTER)
THE LONE RANGER, TONTO AND SILVER - Old friends in a brand NEW series of spectacular adventures on the treacherous trails of the prairies.(original poster)
ALL NEW STORY - ALL NEW ACTION (original poster)
Based on THE RADIO SERIAL, "THE LONE RANGER" by Fran Striker (original posters)
Original Screen Play by FRANKLYN ADREON, RONALD DAVIDSON, SOL SHOR, BARRY SHIPMAN (original poster)
Waking the fury, the power, the beast
You challenge the best in the land
I'll show you no mercy, prepare for a fight
The ultimate force is at hand
Slithering into position, moving in for the attack
Forging ahead with precision, now there is no turning back
Charging ahead with conviction, let no one dare stand in my way
Conquering all opposition, the battle is mine once again
Striker, yeah, striker
Yeah, strike
Crushing opponents, I'll silence them all
With a hunger that's second to none
Intimidation is my reputation
It's over before it is done, yeah
Slithering into position, moving in for the attack
Forging ahead with precision, now there is no turning back
Charging ahead with conviction, let no one dare stand in my way
Conquering all opposition, the battle is mine once again
Striker, yeah, striker
Yeah, strike, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Incomprehensible]
Waking the fury, the power, the beast
You challenge the best in the land
I'll show you no mercy, prepare for a fight
The ultimate force is at hand
Slithering into position, moving in for the attack
Forging ahead with precision, now there is no turning back
Charging ahead with conviction, let no one dare stand in my way
Conquering all opposition, the battle is mine once again
Striker, the striker