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Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Banhart released his debut album in 2002, continuing to record his material on the Young God and XL labels, as well as other work on compilations and collaborations.
Banhart was born May 30, 1981 in Houston, Texas to a Venezuelan mother and an American father. His given name is a synonym for Indra, the Hindu god of rain and thunder, which was suggested by Prem Rawat, an Indian religious leader whom Banhart's parents followed. Banhart's middle name Obi was modeled after the Star Wars character. Banhart's parents divorced two years after his birth and he moved with his mother to Caracas, Venezuela. His mother later remarried and Banhart's stepfather moved the family to Los Angeles, California, when Banhart was 14 years old.
Actors: David Teo (producer), Brian Ng (editor), Trabye (composer), Mazlan Senario (actor), Ismail Bob Hasim (director), Kamal Adli (actor), Azlee Senario (actor), Wahid Senario (actor), Diana Amir (actress), Mr. Os (actor), Mas Muharni (actress), Sasqia (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Arjun (actor), Arjun (actor), Vadivelu (actor), P. Vasu (actor), Ashish Vidyarthi (actor), Annapoorna (actress), Khushboo (producer), Satyaraj (actor), Deva (composer), Jyothika (actress), Jyothika (actress), Reema Sen (actress), Malavikka (actress), Nalini (actress), Pasupathy (actor),
Plot: Based in Mumbai, Raja (Arjun) lives a violent yet poor lifestyle along with his father, Banwarilal. He meets with and comes to the rescue of Madurai/Mahendrapur-based belle, Mahalakshmi/Madhumita (Jyotika), and both fall in love with each other. When she returns home, her dad (Ashish Vidyarthi) finds that she is in love with Raja, instantly approves of him, and asks her to invite him, which she does. Raja accordingly arrives to meet her family - and it is this arrival that will pit him against goons dispatched by none other than Mahalakshmi's dad, who wants him dead - at any and all costs.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Aparna Sen (writer), Raviranjan Maitra (editor), Raviranjan Maitra (actor), Aparna Sen (writer), Aparna Sen (director), Anjan Dutt (actor), Rahul Bose (actor), Rahul Bose (actor), Konkona Sen Sharma (actress), Rajatabha Dutta (actor), Jishu Sengupta (actor), Surekha Sikri (actress), Sunil Mukherjee (actor), Masood Akhtar (actor), Zakir Hussain (composer),
Plot: Meenakshi Iyer comes from a devout Hindu Brahmin family, purely vegetarian, who not only abstain from meat, but also food from restaurants, is the only child, married to Subramaniam Iyer from Tamil Nadu, has just given birth to a young son, Santhanam, and is visiting her mom. It is then they receive news that her mother-in-law is ill and wants Meenakshi back home in Calcutta. The parents arrange to drop her and her son off at the bus-stand, where they are introduced to a young photographer named Raja Chowdhury. Meenakshi's parents ask Raja to look after her, to which he agrees. The bus starts off, taking it's passengers through scenic hillside. The bus driver comes across a sign that the regular road is closed and he decides to take another route. After a few hours the bus comes to a stop as there is a line-up of vehicles ahead. The passengers are told that there has been a terrorist attack on a train resulting in the death of about 200 people. The region, predominately Hindu, believe that the attack was carried out by Muslims and there is retaliation by Hindu extremists. Curfew has to be imposed by the police to prevent further riots and casualties. It is then that a Police Jeep containing Police Officer Raj Arora drives by, asking all passengers to board their respective vehicles, as the area is under curfew. The passengers comply, shut the door, and wait for the traffic to clear. It is now dark and the silence is broken by men with fire-lit torches asking the driver to open the door of the bus, which he does. A group of extremists ask the passengers to identify themselves, and prove to them that they are Hindus, some have to take their pants off. Meenakshi identifies Raja as her husband, Mani. A Jew loudly claims that there are only two Muslims and points to Iqbal Ahmed Khan and his wife Najma. Iqbal is taken off the bus, a visibly upset Najma follows him, and they are killed. It is then the truth unfolds that Raja is not the young man's name but he is Jehangir - a Muslim. An upset Meenakshi must now come to terms with her Brahmin background, which prevents her from coming into contact, drinking water, sharing food, with even a non-Brahmin, leave alone a Muslim, especially now that she has identified him as her "husband" to protect him from being killed. The question remains will this "marriage" last or will Jehangir be discovered before they reach Calcutta.
Keywords: bengali, brahmin, brahmin-family, bus-ride, character-name-in-title, character-repeating-someone-else's-dialogue, freeze-frame, interracial-relationship, jewish-man, journeyActors: Naomi Watts (actress), Corey Burton (miscellaneous crew), Tony Danza (producer), Jerry Hardin (actor), Andy House (miscellaneous crew), Melinda Taksen (miscellaneous crew), David Gallagher (actor), Lisa Jakub (actress), Susanna Thompson (actress), Pierre de Lespinois (producer), Dennis Neal (actor), Ellen Falguiere (costume designer), Michael Reilly Burke (actor), Ian Toynton (director), Jane Daly (actress),
Genres: Adventure, Mystery,Actors: Mala Aravindan (actor), Azeez (actor), Pappu (actor), Jose Prakash (actor), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), K.P.A.C. Sunny (actor), Sabitha Anand (actress), Vettoor Purushan (actor), Nellikode Bhaskaran (actor), Prassi Mallur (writer), Prassi Mallur (producer), Prassi Mallur (director), M.V. Natarajan (editor), Mohan Kumar (writer), Pattam Sadan (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Arthur Miller (writer), Brad Fiedel (composer), Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Jane Alexander (actress), Christine Baranski (actress), Melanie Mayron (actress), Anna Levine (actress), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Shirley Knight (actress), Rick Washburn (actor), Tom Everett (actor), Maud Adams (actress), Marisa Berenson (actress), Joseph Sargent (director), Ruth Morley (costume designer),
Plot: In World War II, the Jewish French musician and cabaret singer Fania Fenelon Goldstein is sent by the Nazis from Paris to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The guards take her clothing and luggage and they cut her hair very short. One day, when she is very weak, she hears someone asking whether any prisoner could sing Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and she joins the group of musicians that have been spared from the gas chambers to entertain the Nazis performing music for them. She convinces the conductor Alma Rose to invite her friend Marianne, telling that she would be a talented singer. Along the years of abusive treatment, they survive but losing their dignity.
Keywords: auschwitz, based-on-autobiography, based-on-true-story, cabaret-performer, concentration-camp, courage, destiny, evil-man, foreign-language-adaptation, guiltActors: Leena Das (actress), Ajit (actor), Zeenat Aman (actress), Om Shivpuri (actor), Bhushan Tiwari (actor), Ranvir Raj (actor), Tom Alter (actor), Murad (actor), Kamal Kapoor (actor), Agha (actor), Rishi Kapoor (actor), S.N. Banerjee (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Nasir Hussain (producer), Nandita Thakur (actress),
Plot: A businessman, an underachever, an heiress, her mobster father, his gang, his assistant and his father, and others hunt for a leather belt carrier containing a cache of diamonds which unintentially passes from person to person without anyone's knowledge of its contents.
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance,Actors: Yunus Parvez (actor), Tabassum (actress), Sunder (actor), Sachin (actor), Rani (actress), Vasant (producer), Dalpat (actor), Samson (actor), Indira (actress), Bismillah (actor), John Cawas (director), Azaad Irani (actor), Azaad Irani (actor), Yadav (actor), Korega (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Joan Bennett (actress), Yola d'Avril (actress), George Sanders (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), George Bancroft (actor), Julian Rivero (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Vincent Price (actor), Alan Hale (actor), John Howard (actor), Noble Johnson (actor), Franco Corsaro (actor), Francis McDonald (actor), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor), Kay Linaker (actress),
Plot: A group of adventurers head deep into a South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. A beautiful woman, brought to their camp by hired bearers, has come to join her husband, a newer member of the group, who was recently killed by hostile natives. As the months go by, jealousies and tempers flare as fights break out over the woman. The Incan treasure is finally found but the treaure-seekers, now united by a common enemy, are about to be attacked by hundreds of fierce natives armed with bows and poisoned arrows.
Keywords: 1930s, american, ancient-city, argument, attack, barroom, bartender, battle, bow-and-arrow, brazilActors: Kanhaiyalal (actor), Anil Biswas (composer), Jagdish Raj (actor), Sheikh Mukhtar (actor), Mehboob Khan (director), Wajahat Mirza (writer), Jyoti (actress), Harish (actor), Gani (actor), Mohan (actor), Arun (actor), Dewaskar (actor), Babubhai A. Mehta (writer), Anuradha (actress), Devi (actress),
Plot: The orphan and shipwreck survivor Raja works as a coolie forming a trio of friends with Mangoo, a pickpocket, and Vithal, a hansom cab driver. Mala and her father come to the city where she is kidnapped by Banke and sold to a rich man while her father accuses Mangoo of theft. Mangoo kills the father. Mala escapes and finds shelter with Raja, with whom she falls in love. The problem with the trio increase when they enlist in the army for WW2. The film opposes religious faith to atheistic fatalism (the latter exemplified by Mangoo whose mother dies in accident and he becomes a killer) and dares to present a couple openly living together as Mala stubbornly rejects the pressures of her stepmother and her villainous cousin Madan.
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