Pandurang Shastri Athavale

Hello Hum Lallann Bol Rahe Hain (2010)

Actors: Manoj Joshi (actor), Rajpal Yadav (actor), Surendra Singh Sodhi (composer), Brijesh Tiwari (actor), Makarand Anaspure (actor), Ravi Jhankal (actor), Dilip Shukla (writer), Dilip Shukla (director), Abhay Bhargav (actor), Ashfaq Makrani (editor), Ketki Dave (actress), Sunil Rege (actor), Ganesh Shetty (actor), Zubeda (actress), Saagar Kale (actor),

Plot: Originally from Bijapur, Lallann Prasad Prajapati now works as a Security Guard with Wel-Watch Security in Mumbai, and is responsible for the security of Rivera Society in Lokhandwala Complex. He is regularly in touch by telephone with his girlfriend, Saroja, who has just finished her studies, and hopes to marry her soon. His hopes will be dashed when he finds out that her marriage is being arranged with a much older male who is willing to give her family Rs.2 Lakhs so that her brother can find employment. Hoping to talk her out of this marriage and even agreeing to collect the amount, Lallann will be in for more shocks when he will be told that she loves a male by the name of Kishan.

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Bhavnao Ko Samjho (2010)

Actors: Johnny Lever (actor), Birbal (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Dinesh Hingoo (actor), Dinesh Hingoo (actor), Gurpreet Guggi (actor), Gurpreet Guggi (actor), Raju Srivastava (actor), Narendra Bedi (actor), Sunil Pal (writer), Sunil Pal (director), Sunil Pal (actor), Sunil Pal (producer), Sunil Pal (actor), Nitin Rokade (editor),

Plot: Wealthy widower, Himmatram Yadav, is disappointed with his alcoholic son, Sunderlal, who spends all his time with a prostitute, Ekta. Sunderlal hopes for his father's death in order to take over the entire estate of Rs.100 Crores. Himmatram does pass away unexpectedly but wills everything to his grand-niece, Suman, with the condition that the estate will be owned by her future husband. Suman is then befriended by a struggling unemployed actor, Shekhar, but she rejects him after he shows his true colors. Subsequently, Sunderlal approaches a matrimonial agency run by Vinayak Vasudev Harne, and offers him a percentage of the estate if he can come up with a groom who should wed Suman, and then for a fee, hand-over the estate to him.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama,

Namo Venkatesha (2010)

Actors: Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (actor), Telangana Sakuntala (actress), Mukesh Rishi (actor), Subbaraju (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Sudha (actress), Mukesh Rishi (actor), Venkatesh Daggubati (actor), Venkatesh Daggubati (actor), Ali (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Raghu Babu (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Devi Sri Prasad (composer), Surekha Vani (actress),

Plot: Unable to find a suitable bride due to issues with his astrological chart, Hyderabad-based mimicry artiste/ventriloquist Venkat Ramana, is told that he must marry within one month or remain single forever. He travels to Paris to perform and meets with Prasad, the Manager, as well as his niece, Pooja, with whom he falls in love. He is thrilled when he finds out that Pooja also loves him and upon his return back home accordingly informs his family. He does not know that Pooja was only pulling the wool over his eyes - as she is slated to marry Chhotu, the brother of dangerous gangster Chengal Naidu. Things change rapidly when he finds out that Pooja is being forced to marry against her wishes. Prasad and he decide to intervene, not realizing that Pooja has not been forthright with him again, while the enraged Naidus will never permit them to return home alive.

Genres: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller,

Sanjog Se Bani Sangini (2010)

Actors: Aruna Irani (actress), Kunika (actress), Sudha Chandran (actress), Deepak Qazir (actor), Vikas Bhalla (actor), Iqbal Khan (actor), Shakeb Sayed (producer), Ajay Kapoor (producer), Tarun Bali (producer), Binny Sharma (actress), Binny Sharma (actress), Sandip Banswana (actor), Shauzab Sam Khan (director), Additi Gupta (actress), Veerdhaval Purmaik (director),

Genres: Drama,

Jab We Met (2007)

Actors: Binny Padda (miscellaneous crew), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Bosco (miscellaneous crew), Saroj Khan (miscellaneous crew), Ahmed Khan (miscellaneous crew), Dara Singh (actor), Kareena Kapoor (actress), Sanjoy Chowdhury (composer), Pritam Chakraborty (composer), Manish Malhotra (costume designer), Cesar (miscellaneous crew), Shabina Khan (costume designer), Ravi Padda (miscellaneous crew), Pavan Malhotra (actor),

Plot: Depressed after the passing of his father, Dharamraj; as well as his gorgeous girlfriend ditching him, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. This is where he meets Geet Kaur Dhillon, who is returning home to Bhatinda, and who pays for his ticket. At Bar Nagar, he decides to leave, but she follows him, missing her train. They manage to get a ride to Ratlam, miss the train again, but eventually make it to Bhatinda. Once there, he gets to meet her family; her pretty sister, Roop; as well as her to-be betrothed, Manjeet Singh Mann. Before the engagement could be finalized, she manages to convince her family that she wants to marry Aditya, and they welcome him with open arms. Before he could take stock of these new developments, she elopes with him - not to get married - but to re-locate to Manali - where her true love, Anshuman, is waiting, and who she hopes to get married to.

Keywords: abusive-language, arranged-marriage, bollywood, break-up, confusion, elopement, grief, hotel, impulsiveness, joint-family
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Quotes:

Geet Kaur Dhillon: [All dressed up and with a bag] I am running away to Anshuman [her boyfriend] .::Aditya D, Kashyap: [Just woke up, trying to process] Are you crazy? Don't do that!::Geet Kaur Dhillon: I am running away, right now! You stay here for few days, then go back to your home.::Aditya D, Kashyap: Are you insane? They already doubt me of having a secret affair with you! If I stay, they will tie me with the cows and beat me all day.::Geet Kaur Dhillon: Okay, then run along with me.::Aditya D, Kashyap: What? Then their doubts will be confirmed!::Geet Kaur Dhillon: Why do you care? [Implying he will never have to come back to her house]::Aditya D, Kashyap: [Realizing] True, why do I care?

Aditya D, Kashyap: The way Anshuman threw you out of his life, just flush him out of your life! [Remembering a similar incident earlier] Give me his photo.::Geet Kaur Dhillon: [Shocked at his idea] I don't have his photo.::Aditya D, Kashyap: Shit. Okay, I got an idea. Let's call him up. [Drags her to the phone] Even better, call him and use all the swearing words that you can think of!::Geet Kaur Dhillon: Aditya! This is crazy! [Still shocked, but obeying him anyway]::Aditya D, Kashyap: I know, do something crazy, you will feel better! Here. [Dials Anshuman's number]::Anshuman: Hello.::Aditya D, Kashyap: Anshuman, Geet wants to talk to you. [Passed the phone to her]::Geet Kaur Dhillon: [Nervously takes the phone] Anshuman...::Anshuman: Geet? Was that Aditya?::Geet Kaur Dhillon: Yes. [Still nervous] I wanted to tell you something... [Aditya insists at the back]::Anshuman: [Very sympathetic] Tell me, Geet.::Geet Kaur Dhillon: [Softly] Anshuman, you bastard...::Anshuman: [Shocked] What?::Geet Kaur Dhillon: [Now on a rage] You son of a bitch! What did you think, you will leave me and I will sit and cry for you all my life? [Aditya happily cheers] You are the one who will cry, you pathetic loser! You will die like the little dog you are! And then you will go to hell... and get fried in a hot oven for the rest of the eternity, you asshole! [Hangs up, smilingly]

Geet Kaur Dhillon: Are you convinced, Mister, or do I continue to speak?

Ho Sakta Hai! (2004)

Actors: Victor Banerjee (actor), Mahesh Bhatt (actor), Mukesh Tiwari (actor), Nina Kulkarni (actress), Sampurn Anand (writer), Jaya Bhattacharya (actress), Khalid Siddiqui (actor), Krishna Bhatt (actor), Rahul Ranade (composer), Avinash Walzade (editor), Pinky Campbell (actress), Wilson Louis (writer), Wilson Louis (director), Hazel Croney (actress), Rajkumar Kanojia (actor),

Plot: Mohan is a medical student who lives in the United States. One day, he receives a strange phone call from his grandfather asking him to come back to his native village in India. Once he arrives, he finds out that his brother and sister-in-aw have mysteriously disappeared. Moreover, his little cousin Tanaji survived, but is behaving very strangely: he never speaks a word, gets up in the middle of the night, sometimes suddenly turns cold, and mistreats his toys. Mohan tries to solve the mystery, but fails to find a rational explanation for all the creepy things that happen. Everything points in the direction of the caretaker's wife, Parvati, who performs rituals of black magic.

Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: The Poison of Power India's First Black Magic Movie

Mitti (2001)

Actors: Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Pramod Moutho (actor), Sajid Ali (composer), Raju (miscellaneous crew), Adesh Shrivastava (composer), Raza Murad (actor), Mukesh Tiwari (actor), Waman B. Bhosle (editor), Nimesh Bhatt (miscellaneous crew), Sitaram (actor), Wajid Ali (composer), Iqbal Durrani (director), Iqbal Durrani (actor), Iqbal Durrani (writer), Shetty (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Ganga is sexually molested, assaulted, tortured and killed by a goon employed by Pagla Jaan, a Kolkata-based notorious gangster, whose wealth, power, and influence are beyond imagination. Deva undertakes to locate the killer, succeeds in his mission and beheads him publicly. Deva does not know that soon his friends' and family's lives will be endangered, and he, himself, will be hunted down - not only by an enraged Pagla Jaan and his army of goons - but also by the Police.

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,

Common Man (1997)

Actors: Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Sulabha Deshpande (actress), Bhimsain (director), Yeti Jindal (producer), Yeti Jindal (director), Devesh Thakur (writer),

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Immaculate Conception (1992)

Actors: Bhasker Patel (actor), Shabana Azmi (actress), Melissa Leo (actress), Richard Harvey (composer), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), James Wilby (actor), Badi Uzzaman (actor), James Cossins (actor), Jamil Dehlavi (writer), Jamil Dehlavi (director), Jamil Dehlavi (producer), Chris Barnes (editor), Bill Bailey (actor), Zia Mohyeddin (actor), Tim Choate (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Hum Se Badkar Kaun (1981)

Actors: Birbal (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Vijayendra Ghatge (actor), Vijayendra Ghatge (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Ranjeet (actor), Shivraj (actor), Gurbachchan Singh (actor),

Plot: Radha lives a poor lifestyle with her husband, Mohan, and four sons, Chandan, Raju, Bablu, and Pappu. Although Mohan comes from a rich family, his dad had disapproved of his marriage, and since that day he has not met with him. Now his dad is very ill and the entire family go to visit him, and are welcomed with open arms. Before he passes away, he shows Mohan the family's treasure, which consists of gold and jewelery, hidden under a temple, which can only be opened by four different keys. Mohan asks his children to keep one key. Then his dad passes away, and Lalchand, an employee, who has overheard the conversation between father and son decides to keep the treasure to himself. He ends up killing Mohan, getting arrested and sentenced to a long prison term. Alone and widowed, Radha, gets separated from her sons and loses her mind. Years later the sons have grown up. Chandan calls himself Bholaram and runs a milk dairy farm; Raju is a career thief and burglar and goes by the name of Johny; Bablu is the DS of Police, Vijay; while the youngest, Pappu, also has taken to a life of crime and calls himself Tony. The lives of these four young men are all set to collide with each other with Bholaram and Vijay on the side of the law, and Johny and Tony on the run from them. The question that comes to mind is will the four brothers ever get to meet their mom in this lifetime, and what of the treasure that is still buried beneath the temple?

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