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Raja is an Indian Bollywood movie released on 22 June 1995, starring Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Mukesh Khanna and Dalip Tahil. The film was Sanjay Kapoor's second film after his debut Prem with Tabu in Bollywood. Prem was a flop, but this film, though penned by critics to have many flaws did excellent business in Bollywood. Its success was attributed to Madhuri Dixit because of her ardent fans. It was the fourth highest grosser of the year at the box office. Madhuri Dixit received a Filmfare Best Actress Award nomination, and won the Star Screen Award Best Actress for the year.
Rana Mahendra Pratap Garewal (Mukesh Khanna) is a wealthy businessman along with his brother Vishwa (Dalip Tahil). They are good friends with Brijnath (Birju) (Paresh Rawal) who is initially very rich but loses all his wealth in a fire in his factory. The Garewal brothers had initially proposed the marriage of Rana's younger sister Madhu (Madhuri Dixit) and Brijnath's younger brother Raja (Sanjay Kapoor) (both are young; their brothers are adults). They break the marriage off. Shocked and saddened at the rejection by his best friends, Birju goes mad and gets electrocuted by accident. Raja then stays in the city outskirts with his brother taking care of him by doing petty jobs.
Actors: Lloyd Kaufman (producer), Debbie Rochon (actress), Lynn Lowry (actress), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Robert Youngren (miscellaneous crew), Robert Youngren (actor), Robert Youngren (actor), Jennifer Valdes (actress), Bob Socci (actor), Bob Socci (actor), Dave Brockie (actor), Dave Brockie (actor), James Balsamo (actor), James Balsamo (actor),
Plot: James and Mike are tired of art films taking away the credit that horror films deserve. So, they get a script from the devil to make the best horror film ever. The script has three stories in it. The first is about Nazis that awaken a mummy's curse. The second tale is about an alien that crashes a battle of the bands and then starts eating the contestants, and the last story is about a man who gets possessed to kill televangelists.
Keywords: blood, hack, tromaActors: Rocky Verma (actor), Balvinder Singh Suri (director), Janardhan Mishra (actor), Seema Singh (actress), Lalit Shukla (writer), Manish Joshi (producer), Amit Sethi (actor), Hemant Agarwal (actor),
Plot: Villager's Richman Thakur is an important man with with many servants and security guards. He also handles all the problems in the village and all villagers carry out his orders. Thakur's daughter Pooja went to further her education by leaving to study at the nearest city. Birju is a poor goat herder who lives in a small hut in the village with his mother. Pooja fel in love with Birju at first sight when she heard him sing, and decided to marry him. Thakur does not agree with Pooja's decision as he wants her to marry Mohan, the other Richman in Village. Mohan also wishes to wed Pooja, not because he loves her, but because she is a richman's daughter. By marrying her he hopes to takeover Thakur's properties. Thakur doesn't know that Mohan is a Bad man. Mohan, hearing about Pooja and Birju's love, decides to kill Birju.
Keywords: family-relationships, friendship, love, policeActors: Farah Khan (miscellaneous crew), Nagarjuna Akkineni (actor), Babu Mohan (actor), Sarath Babu (actor), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Chalapathi Rao (actor), Mallikharjunarao (actor), Sivaji Raja (actor), A.V.S. Subramanyam (actor), Sudhakar (actor), Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew), Tabu (actress), Vijaya Y. (actress), Nagarjuna Akkineni (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Family,Actors: Nagarjuna Akkineni (actor), Ali (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Satyanarayana Kaikala (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Sudha (actress), M.M. Keeravani (composer), Kodanda Rami Reddy A. (director), A. Sreekar Prasad (editor), B.A. Raju (miscellaneous crew), Srikanth (actor), A.V.S. Subramanyam (actor), Narsing Yadav (actor), Annapoorna (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Sulabha Deshpande (actress), Dharmendra (actor), Ajit Vachani (actor), Aditya Pancholi (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Sadashiv Amrapurkar (actor), Joginder Shelly (actor), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Brahmachari (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), A.K. Hangal (actor), Dinesh Hingoo (actor), Jankidas (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Jamuna (actress),
Plot: A small town in rural India is being terrorized by wild animals, and bandits. No one is able to stop them from killing and looting the residents. The only one who was able to stand against the bandits was master Dina Nath, but he was arrested and is imprisoned. When Dina Nath returns home, he befriends a young man by the name of Shiva, and asks him to protect this town. Subsequently, Dina Nath is killed. Shiva is blamed for Dina Nath's death by the townspeople, severely beaten, and left for dead. But some compassionate townspeople rescue him as they think he is Lord Shiva reincarnated to save their town. They do not know that Shiva is an escaped convict, and by playing God to the simple-minded townspeople, he is merely whiling for time, so that he can carry out his very own secret agenda.
Genres: Action,Actors: Amrit Patel (actor), Tej Sapru (actor), Rajesh Puri (actor), Roopesh Kumar (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Mahesh Anand (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Suresh Oberoi (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Avtar Gill (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Sharat Saxena (actor),
Plot: Yashoda has been widowed for years, but has brought up her two children with lot of love, care, and honesty. She is disappointed when her son, Shankar, who is arrested for breaking the law, and subsequently jailed, and she decides she will have nothing to do with him. She runs her life and is not dependent on anyone. When Shankar comes out of jail, he tries to make amends, but Yashoda outrightly refuses to have anything to do with a criminal.
Keywords: helicopter, loss-of-friend, love, murder, police, prison, smuggling, wellActors: Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Asrani (actor), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Ramesh Deo (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Vinod Mehra (actor), Murad (actor), Chaman Puri (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Shivraj (actor), Mumtaz Begum (actress), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer),
Plot: Anand and Devki on one hand, and Yashoda and Vicky on the other, have recently married. While Devki has a child, Yashoda is expecting. The two couples meet in a train, which is ill-fated as it meet with an accident. Devki is nowhere to be found, and Anand believes she is dead. Vicky and his child are killed and Yashoda is devastated. Anand feels sorry for Yashoda and has the doctor switch his baby for the dead one. Yashoda returns to her home and her in-laws with Anand's child, while he re-locates abroad. Several years later, Anand returns and is unable to keep away from Yashoda and the child. He repeatedly keeps on visiting them, to the extent that his visits get to be a nuisance, and an embarrassment. Then Anand is overjoyed to know that Devki is still alive. But when Devki asks about their child, he tells her the truth, thus setting off a tussle between the 2 mothers, to such an extent that both are prepared to sue each other publicly in Court.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Rajesh Khanna (actor), Jayshree T. (actress), Nadira (actress), Deven Verma (actor), Lalita Kumari (actress), Tom Alter (actor), Padma Khanna (actress), Keshto Mukherjee (actor), V. Gopal (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), A.K. Hangal (actor), Pratima Devi (actress), Om Shivpuri (actor), Salil Choudhury (writer), Raj Kapoor (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Fantasy,Actors: Birbal (actor), Sudhir (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Jeevan (actor), Rashid Khan (actor), Dev Anand (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Keshav Rana (actor), Ravikant (actor), Sachin (actor), Kishore Sahu (actor), D.K. Sapru (actor), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Shatrughan Sinha (actor), Mumtaz Begum (actress),
Plot: Raja has been abandoned by his biological mother at a very young age, and grows up with Master, a criminal don and card-sharp, who would like Raja to continue working with him on a commission basis. Raja learns all that be could be learned about playing cards, quits work with Master, and starts work on his own. He succeeds considerably, and soon gets rich and wealthy. He falls in love with beautiful Chandra Gangaram, and would like to marry her. But her father would like her to marry U.K. settled Ram Mehta, before Raja could do or say anything against this alliance, he is charged with the cold-blooded murder of Master. The climax in Raja's life is in the Court Room where he will find out about his past, and about his parents - while he awaits the outcome of the trial.
Genres: Mystery, Thriller,Actors: 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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