The Company of Thieves (2011)

Actors: Todd A. Robinson (actor), Sandy Parker (producer), Samrat Chakrabarti (actor), Geno Romo (actor), Harold Phillips (actor), Richard Topping (actor), Hank Harris (actor), Jerry L. Buxbaum (actor), Jerry L. Buxbaum (miscellaneous crew), Trish Egan (actress), Andrew Harris (actor), Shilpa Sunthankar (producer), Jan Pinkava (producer), Shilpa Sunthankar (writer), Shilpa Sunthankar (director),

Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller, Western,

Traffic Signal (2007)

Actors: Shankar (miscellaneous crew), Manoj Joshi (actor), Bhola (miscellaneous crew), Raju Singh (composer), Ranvir Shorey (actor), Sudhir Mishra (actor), Konkona Sen Sharma (actress), Nassar Abdulla (actor), Madhur Bhandarkar (director), Madhur Bhandarkar (writer), Madhur Bhandarkar (writer), Madhur Bhandarkar (writer), Shamir Tandon (composer), Lalit Parashar (actor), Kunal Khemu (actor),

Plot: Silsila is the "manager" of one traffic signal, that is he collects the "hafta" (protection tax) from each signal squatter plying his trade. There's Tsunami, a little scavenger boy, there's Rani - a Gujrati girl selling ethnic clothes on the sidewalk, and there's Dominic - a drug addict and the prostitute who feels for him. Then there's Silsila himself, who's an orphan, and reports to Jaffer bhai the local goon. Jaffer bhai in turn reports to Haji the leader of the local mafia. And the hafta, from each traffic signal and territory Haji controls, seeps upward to the politicians. Life is routine, until Silsila and Jaffer bhai get caught up in a chain of events which threatens the very source of their livelihood - the traffic signal itself, and Silsila must either remain mute with fear or protest . . .

Keywords: beggar, child-nudity, cult-director, drug-addict, eunuch, folk-dance, homosexual, hooker, mumbai-india, murder
Genres: Drama,

Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle (2007)

Actors: Phil Cornwell (actor), James Fleet (actor), Nigel Martin Davey (actor), Tony Slattery (actor), Roger Sloman (actor), Christopher Simon (actor), Christine Hamilton (actress), Mark Sutton (actor), Baz Taylor (director), Baz Taylor (actor), Carolyn Pickles (actress), Michael Fenton Stevens (actor), John R. Walker (actor), Sarah Tapscott (costume designer), Neil Hamilton (actor),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: A Comedy 1000 Years in the Making

Gandhi Park (2007)

Actors: Adesh Shrivastava (composer), Krishna Ghattamaneni (actor), Anupam Kher (actor), Luan Bexheti (actor), Sneha Ullal (actress), Tom George (writer), Tom George (director), Vikas Kalantri (actor), Bobby Pataki (actor), David Linter (writer), Dinesh Arora (actor), Jason Verga (actor), Stephen K. Sam (producer), Brandon Sommers (actor), Mathai George Kolath (producer),

Plot: Tom George Kolath's film offers the audience a window into the life and love of a young Indian girl living in Queens, New York. Priyanka is due to marry in New Delhi in a traditional arranged marriage to Sanjeev. But her heart belongs to Bobby, a young American musician. Her inner and outer conflicts with her old school father, Sammy, a loving but controlling paterfamilias, collides head on with the freedom to do what her heart tells her. Stuck in the middle is her mother, Annie and brother Steve, who truly sympathize but are also conflicted by their sense of loyalty to the family culture. Finally, under pressure, Priyanka makes her "choice," and in the end discovers what she really wants..

Genres: Romance,

Hello? Kaun Hai! (2006)

Actors: Kabir Bedi (actor), Rajat Bedi (actor), Anthony Buncio (producer), Meera Vasudevan (actress), Bapi-Tutul (composer), Negar Khan (actress), Rakesh Sawant (director), Ajit Bhargava (producer), Adam Bedi (actor), Asadullah Sharif (producer), Ashok Khullar (producer), Govind Mishra (producer),

Genres: Thriller,

Outsourced (2006)

Actors: Lance Rosen (miscellaneous crew), Josh Hamilton (actor), Larry Pine (actor), Diane Hounsell (miscellaneous crew), Ketan Mehta (actor), Robert C. Yu (miscellaneous crew), BC Smith (composer), Siddharth Jadhav (actor), Rob Coleman (miscellaneous crew), Asif Basra (actor), Brian Berdan (editor), Ayesha Dharker (actress), Arjun Mathur (actor), Tom Gorai (producer), Sudha Shivpuri (actress),

Plot: When the call center he manages in Seattle is outsourced to India, Todd travels there to train his replacement. Housed in a new building that looks like an above-ground bunker, the call center is staffed by willing novices whom Todd trains to sound American. One star on the staff is Asha, who teaches Todd that he should learn about India, and proceeds to do just that.

Keywords: affair, arranged-marriage, assimilation, bed, boss, call-center, cattle, computer, consultant, cross-cultural-friendship
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Todd just lost his job. Now he has to find his life. Call centre chaos... What really happens at the other end of the line!

Quotes:

Asha: A holiday in Goa.

Purohit N. Virajnarianan: I'm Purohit Narsimacharaya Virajnarianan. But you can call me Puro.

Todd Anderson: [standing on the ferry to the island of Gharapuri] What's with all the tourists?::Asha: Oh, some famous caves.

Todd Anderson: I've noticed that almost everyone signed up for the incentive program, except you. Don't you want anything?::Asha: What would I do with this, I'm a vegetarian. [looking at the My Hot Dog toaster product]::Todd Anderson: Maybe it works with carrots...

Asha: Asha can do anything.

Purohit N. Virajnarianan: [saying goodbye] I hope that both your legs get broken.::Todd Anderson: I'll never forget you said that.

The Audit (2004)

Actors: Christopher Thomas (actor), Donald Naumann (actor), Elizabeth Tavares (actress), Art Kochukov (producer), Art Kochukov (editor), Art Kochukov (director), Art Kochukov (writer), Manoj Balraj (producer), Manoj Balraj (actor), Leigh Hays (actress), Coneti Giri (miscellaneous crew), Coneti Giri (actor), Blake McDonald (actor), Tatiana Romanova (actress), Fred Welden (actor),

Plot: In the tradition of "Dilbert" and "Office Space", this comedic DV short focuses on the hell that is corporate America. The KoKo-Nut Company has hired external auditors to assess the performance of its employees. Fed up with the daily B.S. from their fellow cubicle dwellers, three co-workers hatch a plan to use this audit to their advantage.

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Hyderabad Blues 2 (2004)

Actors: Salim Merchant (composer), Suleiman Merchant (composer), Sanjib Datta (editor), Nagesh Kukunoor (director), Nagesh Kukunoor (writer), Nagesh Kukunoor (producer), Nagesh Kukunoor (actor), Tisca Chopra (actress), Elahe Hiptoola (producer), Elahe Hiptoola (actress), Jyoti Dogra (actress), Vikram Inamdar (actor), Anuj Gurwara (actor), Devika Bahudhanam (producer), Anoop Ratnaker Rao (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Rearranged marriage

Gauri (1968)

Actors: Chinni Prakash (miscellaneous crew), Sunil Dutt (actor), Nutan (actress), A. Bhimsingh (writer), Rajendra Krishan (writer), Ravi (composer), A. Bhimsingh (director), Shivaji Ganesan (miscellaneous crew), Sanjeev Kumar (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Randhir (actor), Shivraj (actor), Urmila Bhatt (actress), Laxmi Chhaya (actress),

Plot: Orphaned Sanjeev lives with his comically parsimonious paternal uncle, Maniram, who offers to look after him on the condition that a contested Last Will and Testament, will benefit him. When the Court rules otherwise, Maniram stops all support for Sanjeev, who then borrows money from his close friend, Sunil, to complete his education. Then Maniram arranges Sanjeev's marriage with a young woman named Gauri, the only daughter of millionaire Ram Prasad. Sanjeev agrees to this marriage, gets married, and thereafter leaves as he finds out that Gauri is blind. Maniram gets Sunil to convince Sanjeev to return to his wife, so Sunil and Sanjeev go on a hunting trip, where Sanjeev is attacked by an enraged elephant, thrown off a cliff, and believed to be dead. But he survives, and several months later, returns to Maniram's house, where, to his horror, he finds that Sunil has taken over his identity and is now living with Gauri. Watch closely as an enraged Sanjeev decides to find out what really happened after his accident, and the circumstances that made Sunil live with Sanjeev's wife.

Genres: Drama, Family,

Ek Phool Char Kaante (1960)

Actors: Radhika Sarathkumar (actress), David Abraham (actor), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Waheeda Rehman (actress), Sunil Dutt (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Krishan Dhawan (actor), Rashid Khan (actor), Dhumal (actor), Sulochana Latkar (actress), Johnny Walker (actor), Mumtaz Begum (actress), Bindu (actress), Bela Bose (actress), Tun Tun (actress),

Plot: Bombay-based Sanjeev lives a wealthy lifestyle with his parents. He dramatically meets with wealthy Sushma Saxena and falls in love with her. He is quite displeased when he sees her a number of time - always in the company of a different male. The air is cleared when he finds that the men are her paternal uncles. He introduces her to his parents, and his father goes to meet the uncles in order to finalize the marriage - but they reject this alliance insisting that Sanjeev does not measure up to their standards in either religion, yoga, acting, and music. In order to wed her Sanjeev must now satisfy each and every uncle - not realizing that he does face competition from 'yoga expert' Shyam Dhawan, who has already convinced one uncle - and has yet to realize that even if does overcome all competition and does manage to convince each and every one of the uncles - how is he going to get approval from the other three disapproving uncle? and what will be their reaction when they find out he has been pulling wool over their eyes?

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,