Devdas (2013)

Actors: Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), Shakib Khan (actor), Moushumi (actress), Apu Biswas (actress), Shahiduzzaman Selim (actor), Chashi Nazrul Islam (director),

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance,

Lootera (2013)

Actors: Anurag Kashyap (producer), Anurag Kashyap (writer), Ekta Kapoor (producer), Divya Dutta (actress), Shobha Kapoor (producer), Arif Zakaria (actor), Amit Trivedi (composer), Sachin Suresh Gurav (miscellaneous crew), Dibyendu Bhattacharya (actor), Adil Hussain (actor), Barun Chanda (actor), Subarna Ray Chaudhuri (costume designer), Sonakshi Sinha (actress), Vikramaditya Motwane (director), Vikramaditya Motwane (writer),

Plot: The year is 1953. A visiting archaeologist called Varun Shrivastav comes to the village of Manikpur in West Bengal to excavate the temple grounds of the local Zamindar. With knowledge and experience beyond his young demeanour, Varun greatly impresses the Zamindar and his family. Especially Pakhi, the Zamindar's feisty and only daughter, who finds herself irrevocably drawn towards him. But Varun isn't all he seems on the surface. And as the simmering attraction between him and Pakhi leads to a tender and deep love, he is forced to choose between her and his past. Making his choice, Varun disappears. Pakhi struggles to move on with her life, determined to forget him and their relationship. Until one day, when he returns under the most extraordinary circumstances. Inspired from O. Henry's "The Last Leaf", Lootera is the uplifting story of two lovers. Of heartbreak, betrayal... and ultimate redemption.

Keywords: accident, artist, based-on-short-story, love, painter
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Pakhi Roychoudhary: Sometimes I feel like strangling you to death... That's how much I hate you...

Varun Srivastav: In my life, everyone used me... Only you loved me...

Pakhi Roychoudhary: What if that leaf falls off...?::Varun Srivastav: It wont. I promise you...

Pakhi Roychoudhary: [Whispering] What-else?::Varun Srivastav: [Whispering] I want to paint a masterpiece that the whole world will remember...::Pakhi Roychoudhary: [Whispering] Really?::Varun Srivastav: [whispering coyly] Don't you tell anyone.

Varun Srivastav: What do you want to do?::Pakhi Roychoudhary: I want to write. Lots and lots of books. Sometimes I feel like running away to our house in Dalhousie, sit there and keep on writing, keep on writing. Snow will keep falling outside and inside I'll...::Varun Srivastav: -Keep on writing, keep on writing.

Devdas (2002)

Actors: Prasenjit Chatterjee (actor), Tapas Pal (actor), Shakti Samanta (producer), Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), Shakti Samanta (director), Chetana Das (actress), Indrani Haldar (actress), Ashim S. Samanta (director), Babul Bose (composer), Arpita Pal (actress), Gayatri Mahanta (actress),

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Ravan Raaj: A True Story (1995)

Actors: Ishrat Ali (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Jack Gaud (actor), Harish (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Aditya Pancholi (actor), Harish Patel (actor), Paresh Rawal (actor), Ghanshyam Rohera (actor), Tej Sapru (actor), Madhoo (actress), Rama Rao Tatineni (director), Chinni Prakash (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Crime and corruption have taken over Bombay City and there seems to be no solution. Then a rash of kidnappings, of young women, takes place. One male who was traveling in an auto-rickshaw with his sister, saw her being abducted by a male named Auto Kesariya right in front of his eyes. When he goes to the nearby Kala Chowki Police Station, he is asked to make a written complaint. He does so, yet his sister is not located. He persists with his complaint, and then one day disappears from the police station itself. His wife approaches the Courts and asks for their assistance in locating her husband, as she fears that the police themselves are behind his disappearance. The Police Commissioner takes the Governor's permission and has a jailed prisoner, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Arjun Verma, reinstated, and assigned to this case. Arjun will get himself deeply involved in this disappearance and the kidnappings and will face the shock and trauma of finding skeletal remains of young women who had been abducted, as well as body parts stolen from innocent hospital patients. His very personal life will be turned upside down; his fiancée will abandon him on his wedding day; his niece will be abducted and held for ransom, and he himself will become the target of assassins hired by influential politicians and senior police officials.

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Wafaa (1972)

Actors: M.S. Mani (editor), Krishan Dhawan (actor), Bipin Gupta (actor), Nasir Hussain (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Sanjay Khan (actor), Prem Nath (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Madan Puri (actor), D.K. Sapru (actor), Joginder Shelly (actor), Sunder (actor), Shabnam (actress), Jayshree T. (actress), Rajendra Krishan (writer),

Plot: Alcoholic womanizer Shyam meets with Shanti and gets married to her. On their wedding night, a friend of Shyam's lures Shanti away on the pretext that Shyam is hospitalized due to an accident, and takes her to a brothel, and attempts to force himself upon her. The police raid the place, and Shanti is arrested for prostitution. Shyam comes to the jail, tells her that he is ashamed of her, disowns her and leaves. Shanti is released from jail, as there is no evidence to hold her, and starts her search for Shyam. She soon finds out that Shyam has married again, and is living with his mom and dad. She goes to see a lawyer, Saraswati, who agrees to represent her, and get Shyam to admit that he is married to her. When confronted with a legal notice, Shyam denies ever knowing, leave alone marrying a woman named Shanti. Saraswati gets herself involved in obtaining proof of this marriage, and the matter is taken to court. It is there that Shanti finds out who Shyam's second wife is.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,

Pardesi (1970)

Actors: Biswajeet (actor), Biswajeet (actor), Brahmachari (actor), Jankidas (actor), Jeevan (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Sujit Kumar (actor), Manmohan (actor), Mumtaz (actress), Shabnam (actress), Jayshree T. (actress), Chitra Gupta (composer), Sulochana Chatterjee (actress), Padma Khanna (actress), Sulochana Latkar (actress),

Plot: Beautiful Myna is a snake-charmer and lives with her father, Ustad, who is the head of their tribe. She is to marry his assistant, Tikora, soon. One day, Ustad finds the body of a seriously injured young man and brings it home. The man appears to have been bitten by a poisonous snake, so the Ustad charms another snake to bite him a second time and take the venom out. After sometime the man regains conscious, but is unable to remember his name or where he is from, but does wear an expensive diamond ring. Ustad and Myna decide to call him Pardesi and look after him until he regains his health and memory. Myna and Pardesi both fall in love, much to the chagrin of Tikora. Ustad then comes up with a solution to teach him all relevant snake-charming skills, thus making him a native, and be eligible to marry Myna. Tikora does not appreciate this, and wants to kill Pardesi. When Ustad opposes him, he throws him over a cliff, and Myna and Pardesi run away, fearing Tikora and his poisonous snake. A car stops by in the mountain region, and the young couple are given a lift to a palatial house, and separated. The owners of the car, Ranimaa, Savitri, and Vijay claim that Pardesi is Ajay, their son, husband, and brother respectively. Pardesi wants to leave immediately, but Myna convinces him to stay. What Pardesi/Ajay does not know that he did not have an accident, and that it was Vijay who had him thrown off a cliff, so that he can claim the entire inheritance for himself. Has fate given Vijay a second chance to do away with Ajay?

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Devdas (1955)

Actors: Kumari Naaz (actress), Nasir Hussain (actor), Dulari (actress), Johnny Walker (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Kanhaiyalal (actor), Pratima Devi (actress), Shivraj (actor), Dilip Kumar (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Motilal (actor), Murad (actor), Nana Palsikar (actor), Pran (actor), Praveen Paul (actress),

Plot: Devdas and Parvati had been inseparable as children, and as they grew older, Love Blossomed. Devdas is sent away for studies by his parents - he and Parvati are separated. A chain of events lead to Parvati being married off to someone else and Devdas drowns his sorrows in alcohol. When Devdas is pronounced critical due to his drinking, he remembers the promise he had made to Parvati, of coming to see her before he dies. Will he fulfilled this promise or not?

Keywords: alcoholic, alcoholism, based-on-novel, brat, character-name-in-title, childhood, childhood-sweetheart, classism, coughing-blood, courtesan
Genres: Musical, Romance,

Abhilasha (1938)

Actors: Yakub (actor), Anil Biswas (composer), Bhudo Advani (actor), M. Kumar (actor), Sankatha (actor), Zia Sarhadi (writer), Zia Sarhadi (director), Ishrat Sultana (actress), Maya (actress), Mahendra Thakore (director),

Plot: Postman Shishir is obsessed by the desire to own a car. He meets the crook Vinod who promises him a car if he will become his accomplice. The film includes a character named Devdas obsessed with violins, who provokes the failure of Vinod's plot to have Shishir framed for the murder of Sushila.

Genres: ,

Devdas (1935)

Actors: Amar Mullick (actor), Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), P.C. Barua (actor), P.C. Barua (director), P.C. Barua (writer), Chandrabati Devi (actress), Manoranjan Bhattacharya (actor), Krishna Chandra Dey (actor), K.L. Saigal (actor), Ahi Sanyal (actor), Jamuna (actress), Jamuna (actress), Timir Baran (composer), Nirmal Bannerjee (actor), Sailen Pal (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Devdas (1928)

Actors: Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), Naresh Mitra (director), Naresh Mitra (actor), Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), Phani Burma (actor), Tincory Chakrabarty (actor), Maya Devi (actress), Tarakbala (actress), Niharbala (actress), Prafullabala (actress), Usharani (actress), Miss Parul (actress), Kanaknarayan Bhup (actor), Parulbala (actress), Nandarani (actress),

Plot: First version of Saratchandra's novel. Despite the 'theatrical ruggedness' the film was well scripted and showed a distinct Bengali touch as against the 'Madan' style.

Genres: Drama,