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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi]; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world.
Son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using the new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from British domination.
Actors: Jason Baustin (producer), Jason Baustin (editor), Greg Coale (actor), Rob Stull (actor), Tiffany Ariany (actress), Phil Piruzzi Filsoof (actor), Phil Piruzzi Filsoof (actor), Juan Eloy Carrera (actor), Melissa Panos (actress), Steven A. Webb (actor), Edward Robert Bach (actor), Alexis Barone (actress), Michelle Trout (actress), J.D. Wine (actor), Terry Ward (actor),
Plot: ROAD TRIPPIN' vampires transsexual nudityVenus de Milo cemetery gay detective Dirty FairyGoody Two Shoes death seat phobia an alien named Queer-O friendship (as in meaning of) ... drama, trauma & sick hilarity !!!HAIL TO THE GROUPIES (sound like fun?)A movie director's assistant and her friends faithfully search for the meaning of life and love amid the wasteland of contemporary Hollywood.
Keywords: farce, nudity, parody, sex-comedy, transgender, vampireActors: Tamás Végvári (actor), Zoltán Bonta (director), Gábor Harsányi (actor), József Kautzky (actor), András Kozák (actor), Lajos Tándor (actor), Anikó Sáfár (actress), Andrea Drahota (actress), Péter Benkö (actor), Mária Goór Nagy (actress), Péter Vallai (actor), Tivadar Márk (costume designer), Gyula Buss (actor), Jenö His (editor), László Németh (writer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Diya Mirza (actress), Vidhu Vinod Chopra (writer), Abhishek Bachchan (actor), Anjan Srivastav (actor), Vidhu Vinod Chopra (producer), Sanjay Dutt (actor), Saurabh Shukla (actor), Boman Irani (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Kurush Deboo (actor), Achyut Potdar (actor), Arshad Warsi (actor), Parikshat Sahni (actor), Jimmy Shergill (actor), Arun Bali (actor),
Plot: Munnabhai, the light hearted don, this time falls in for a radio jockey Jahnavi, and to meet her, he wins a competition in... well, Munnabhai style! But to woo her, he has to study about Mahatma Gandhi. This brings about a new change in him and he tries to change the lives of people around him using his 'Gandhigiri'. Whether the teachings of M.K. Gandhi are relevant in today's world or not, and can Munna change his and other's lives for better or not, only 'Lage Raho Munnabhai' can tell.
Keywords: airplane, alarm-clock, apology, apparition, astrologer, bathroom, beach, bollywood, bombay-india, bouquetActors: Erin Heidenreich (miscellaneous crew), Anurag Kashyap (miscellaneous crew), A.R. Rahman (composer), Waheeda Rehman (actress), Mychael Danna (composer), Anurag Kashyap (miscellaneous crew), Manorama (actress), John Abraham (actor), Raghuvir Yadav (actor), Vinay Pathak (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Anurag Kashyap (writer), Seema Biswas (actress), Winnifred Jong (miscellaneous crew), Deepa Mehta (director),
Plot: A thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is unceremoniously left at a bare and impoverished widows' ashram, beside the Ganges during monsoon season. The ashram's leader pimps out Kalyani, a young and beautiful widow, for household funds. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her. Can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? The ashram's moral center is Shakuntala, deeply religious but conflicted about her fate. Can she protect Kalyani or Chuyia? Amid all this water, is rebirth possible or does tradition drown all?
Keywords: 1930s, altar, ashram, aunt-niece-relationship, balcony, bathing, beggar, begging, belief-in-god, belief-in-godsActors: Erin Heidenreich (miscellaneous crew), Anurag Kashyap (miscellaneous crew), A.R. Rahman (composer), Waheeda Rehman (actress), Mychael Danna (composer), Anurag Kashyap (miscellaneous crew), Manorama (actress), John Abraham (actor), Raghuvir Yadav (actor), Vinay Pathak (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Anurag Kashyap (writer), Seema Biswas (actress), Winnifred Jong (miscellaneous crew), Deepa Mehta (director),
Plot: A thesis picture. In 1938, Gandhi's party is making inroads in women's rights. Chuyia, a child already married but living with her parents, becomes a widow. By tradition, she is unceremoniously left at a bare and impoverished widows' ashram, beside the Ganges during monsoon season. The ashram's leader pimps out Kalyani, a young and beautiful widow, for household funds. Narayan, a follower of Gandhi, falls in love with her. Can she break with tradition and religious teaching to marry him? The ashram's moral center is Shakuntala, deeply religious but conflicted about her fate. Can she protect Kalyani or Chuyia? Amid all this water, is rebirth possible or does tradition drown all?
Keywords: 1930s, altar, ashram, aunt-niece-relationship, balcony, bathing, beggar, begging, belief-in-god, belief-in-godsActors: Divya Dutta (actress), Ganesh Acharya (miscellaneous crew), Kishore Kadam (actor), Kishore Kadam (actor), Vinit Kumar (actor), Denzil Smith (actor), Denzil Smith (actor), Jabeen Merchant (editor), Taufiq Qureshi (composer), Rajesh Bhosle (actor), Samantha Tremayne (actress), Shafaat Khan (writer), Shafaat Khan (writer), Shafaat Khan (writer), Vijay Ghatge (director),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Bhanu Athaiya (costume designer), Mammootty (actor), Govind Namdeo (actor), Anjan Srivastav (actor), Shyam Benegal (miscellaneous crew), Sonali Kulkarni (actress), Sushant Singh (actor), Tirlok Malik (producer), Tirlok Malik (actor), Pramod Kumar (actor), Mohan Gokhale (actor), Amar Haldipur (composer), Luan Bexheti (actor), Jabbar Patel (director), Mrinal Kulkarni (actress),
Plot: A portrait of the one of our greatest social reformer of our times - Ambedkar. The film documents the period between 1901 and 1956. The film delves more into Ambedkar's life as a reformer, while his personal life is sort of skimmed over. Ambedkar who is the first graduate of his community, the untouchables, is an unassuming young man. All he is concerned about, even when he goes to New York for further studies is that he's here to study, not get involved in political issues and rallies. His exchanges with Afro-Americans, his teachers who support Human Rights and the inclusion of the 14th Amendment in the US Constitution granting rights to African-Americans however rouse the reformer in him. While India is fighting against the British rule on the political level spear-headed by Mahatma Gandhi, Ambedkar wages a social battle against the Upper Caste Hindus. Ambedkar and Gandhi clash in their ideologies. Yet Gandhi admires Ambedkar and it is on his insistence that Ambedkar is made the first Law Minister in Prime Minister, Nehru's rule. The film ends on the note of salvation - where Ambedkar gives millions of untouchables an alternate religion where they find dignity, compassion and equality. He publicly renounces Hinduism and adopts Buddhism.
Keywords: babasaheb-ambedkar, casteism, character-name-in-title, indian-history, reference-to-mahatma-gandhi, social-injustice, social-realism, social-reformer, untouchableActors: John Gielgud (actor), Richard Griffiths (actor), Edward Fox (actor), Ernest Clark (actor), Anang Desai (actor), David Gant (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Tom Alter (actor), John Boxer (actor), Mohan Agashe (actor), Jalal Agha (actor), Ian Bannen (actor), Sudhir Dalvi (actor), Nigel Hawthorne (actor), Günther Maria Halmer (actor),
Plot: In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.
Keywords: 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 19th-century, 20th-century, amritsar-india, amritsar-massacre, army-vs-civiliansActors: Achala Sachdev (actress), Robert Morley (actor), Diane Baker (actress), Harold Kasket (actor), Horst Buchholz (actor), Marne Maitland (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), P. Jairaj (actor), Peter Illing (actor), Allan Cuthbertson (actor), José Ferrer (actor), David Abraham (actor), Malcolm Arnold (composer), Mark Robson (producer),
Plot: "Nine hours to Rama" depicts the life of Nathuram Godse the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. How Godse planned the assassination is shown in the film. How he became a Hindu activist who (unfairly) blamed Gandhi for the killings of thousands of Hindus by Muslims is revealed in a series of flashbacks.
Keywords: assassin, assassination, based-on-book, indian-history, number-in-title, reference-to-mahatma-gandhi