Kandiah Balasegaran

Power (2011)

Actors: Anand Raj Anand (composer), Sanjay Dutt (actor), Anil Kapoor (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Rajkumar Santoshi (writer), Rajkumar Santoshi (director), Ameesha Patel (actress), Anuradha Patel (actress), Kangana Ranaut (actress), Firoz Nadiadwala (producer), Lekha Washington (actress), R.D. Tailang (writer), Ahmed Yafei (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller,

Pride and Prejudice Revisited (2005)

Actors: Judi Dench (actress), Emilia Fox (actress), Anna Chancellor (actress), Gurinder Chadha (actress), Mary Boland (actress), Anupam Kher (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Andrew Davies (actor), Naveen Andrews (actor), Colin Firth (actor), Colin Firth (actor), Donald Sutherland (actor), Tom Hollander (actor), Gemma Jones (actress), Greer Garson (actress),

Genres: Documentary,

Quotes:

Azar Nafisi: At the heart of every Austen novel, but especially Pride and Prejudice, is a woman saying 'no' to her family, going against the norms of her society. [This novel] awakened my sense of irony, my sense of mischievousness, so as a woman, I connected to Elizabeth Bennet. Like her, I learned to say 'no' in so many different ways.

Ian McMillan: It's not a book about toffs in strange dresses walking about in a museum.

John Carey: [referring to Elizabeth Bennet's conversation with Lady Catherine, in the garden at Longbourn] This is the middle classes, of course, pushing the ancien régime aside - without a guillotine, just with wit.

Ian McMillan: If you've missed the train, if you've missed the last train and you're sat in the station, if you've got Jane Austen in your bag, that's alright. If Barnsley have lost 3-0 when they should have won 4-3, it's alright - you can turn to Jane Austen.

Bride & Prejudice (2004)

Actors: Gurinder Chadha (producer), Ashanti (actress), Marsha Mason (actress), Prem Chopra (actor), Gurinder Chadha (actress), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (actress), Sonali Kulkarni (actress), Anupam Kher (actor), Anu Malik (actor), Naveen Andrews (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Harvey Weinstein (actor), Saira Banu (actress), Anu Malik (composer), Gurinder Chadha (writer),

Plot: A Bollywood-style update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish opinions threaten to get in the way of romance.

Keywords: american-abroad, amritsar-india, arranged-marriage, backpacker, based-on-novel, beach, best-friend, bollywood, brother-sister-relationship, class-differences
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance,
Taglines: Bollywood meets Hollywood... And it's a perfect match

Quotes:

Will Darcy: I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in a light bulb with one hand and pat the dog with the other.::Lalita Bakshi: You know what? I suggest you find yourself a simple, traditional girl to teach you to dance like the natives.

Mr. Wickham: [Darcy and Lalita have just saved Lakhi from Wickham, Lalita slaps him and walks off] Lalita, it was always you. [Lakhi slaps him and walks off]

Mrs. Bakshi: I will end up living in that rotten house, full of spinsters with no grandchildren.

Mr. Kholi: You know what they say. No life without wife.

Lalita Bakshi: You should be stirring your husband's dinner not trouble.

Lalita Bakshi: I though we got rid of imperialists like you!::Will Darcy: I'm not British, I'm American.::Lalita Bakshi: Exactly!

Lalita Bakshi: Mother thinks that any single man with big bucks is shopping for a wife.::Jaya Bakshi: I'm embarrassed to say, but I hope he is.::Lalita Bakshi: What, shopping or loaded?::Jaya Bakshi: Well... both!

Mr. Kholi: Such small caterpillars that turned into beautiful butterflies! And so like you... Madame butterfly

Kiran Bingley: These girls are like naked live wires. If you get too close, you'll get an electric shock of love

Kiran Bingley: [as Balraj walks off to dance] Watch yourself, Darcy, he's about to transform into the Indian MC Hammer!

Insaaf Ka Khoon (1991)

Actors: Chandrashekhar (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Jugnu (actor), Kamaldeep (actor), Javed Khan (actor), Rajendra Kumar (actor), Roopesh Kumar (actor), Subbiraj (actor), Shoma Anand (actress), Asha Parekh (actress), Hansraj Behl (composer), Tariq Shah (actor), Homi Wadia (actor), Dimpy Bahl (editor), Gulshan Behl (producer),

Plot: Janki lives a middle-class lifestyle along with her husband, Balraj, and a young daughter, Jyoti. Balraj works as a Journalist and is ready to expose an underworld gangster named Jagdish but his editor, Mathur, refuses to let him do so. One night Police are informed that Balraj has killed Mathur with a knife. Balraj is arrested, tried in Court, found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. Janki goes to Judge Kumar to plead about his innocence, but Kumar refuses to do anything and Balraj is hanged. Janki re-locates to live with a hoodlum named Gopi and this is where Jyoti grows up, attends college and falls in love with Deepak. When Janki finds out that Deepak is Kumar's son, she refuses to let Jyoti meet with Deepak, and Kumar also prevents Deepak from seeing Jyoti. Then the Police arrest Deepak for killing Jagdish. Evidence is against Deepak and if found guilty he will be hanged. Watch what happens when Kumar finds Janki may be the only one who can save Deepak from the gallows.

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Maa (1976)

Actors: Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Inder Raj Anand (writer), Nirupa Roy (actress), Padma Khanna (actress), Urmila Bhatt (actress), Hema Malini (actress), Kalpana (actress), Brahmachari (actor), Rajan Haksar (actor), Paintal (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Dharmendra (actor), Ranjeet (actor), Shashi Kiran (actor), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer),

Plot: Vijay lives with his mother in a palatial house deep in the jungles in South India where he makes a living trapping animals for circuses, zoos - both nationally and internationally. He meets with beautiful U.S.-returned Nimmi, both fall in love with each other and want to get married. Vijay's mother cautions them both against separating new-born animals from their birth mothers, but both refuse to listen. Then the unexpected happens, a mother lioness, angered at Vijay for taking her cubs, attacks him, and leaves him badly wounded. With the help of his mother, and Nimmi, Vijay recovers and despite of what happened, and his mother's warning, he again goes to trap animals - this time a baby elephant for a circus. He does manage to trap the elephant in a pit, but the angered mother elephant pursues them, even after they transport it in a truck. Her maternal and protective instincts come to the foreplay, she overtakes the truck, dismantles it, but is chased away by Vijay and his employees. She turns to attack Vijay, but his mother intervenes - and is instantly attacked and crushed. Holding his mother in his arms, Vijay swears to hunt them the elephant as well as all other animals and kill them one by one, but his dying mother makes him promise that he will not do so, but instead return all cubs to their parents, as well as the baby elephant. Vijay promises to do so, and his mother passes away. Vijay is devastated, in heart-wrenching sorrow & pain, he calls out to his mother, and carries out her promise. He releases all trapped animals, and returns the cubs to the jungle. But returning the baby elephant, Ganesh, is another issue altogether as it has been transported to the city, and must be brought back. When Vijay goes to bring it back, he finds out that the truck had broken down, the elephant had escaped and is lose in the city. He desperately goes around looking for it. In the meantime back home, the mother elephant is on a rampage, enraged at being separated from it's child, it crushes vegetation, attacks villagers, and tears down their dwellings. And the next target that looms before it is none other than Vijay's beloved - Nimmi.

Keywords: animal, cheetah, elephant, forest
Genres: Drama, Family,

Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973)

Actors: Prem Chopra (actor), Sujata Bakshi (actress), Dharmendra (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Shatrughan Sinha (actor), Mehmood Jr. (actor), Polson (actor), Pran (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Ranjeet (actor), Ravikant (actor), Narbada Shankar (actor), Uma Dutt (actor), Yogeeta Bali (actress),

Plot: Kulwant Rai's horse carriage runs over a child, and as a result, she loses her vision. Years later she grows up to be beautiful girl namely, Neelu (Mumtaz), and Kulwant Rai's son, Sameer (Dharmendra) takes a fancy to her. This fancy turns to love, and he proposes to marry her. This proposal does not auger well with his mother, Rani Maa Rai (Veena), who wants her son to marry Jugnu (Yogeeta Bali), who is the daughter of her Diwan (Iftekhar), and both Rani Maa and Jugnu pressure and humiliate Neelu so that she can leave Sameer. Sameer's attempts to get Neelu her vision take root when he meets with eye specialist Dr. J.P. Tandon (Shatrughan Sinha). When Jugnu finds out about this, she concocts a devious plan that will get Neelu out of her way forever.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Action, Drama, Family, Romance,

Fashionable Wife (1959)

Actors: Anoop Kumar (actor), Leela Mishra (actress), Iftekhar (actor), Nasir Hussain (actor), Achala Sachdev (actress), Manorama (actress), Daisy Irani (actress), Satyanarayan (miscellaneous crew), Prem Sagar (actor), Abhi Bhattacharya (actor), Radhakrishan (actor), Mirza Musharraf (actor), Shivaji Awdhut (editor), Jaymala (actress), Jaymala (actress),

Genres: ,

Neecha Nagar (1946)

Actors: Kamini Kaushal (actress), Ravi Shankar (composer), Chetan Anand (director), Zohra Segal (miscellaneous crew), Zohra Segal (actress), Rafiq Anwar (actor), Hameed Butt (actor), Uma Anand (actress), Hayatulla Ansari (writer), S.P. Bhatia (actor), N.R. Chauhan (editor), Roma Ghosh (miscellaneous crew), Gopa Lal (miscellaneous crew), Vyas (actor), Mohan Saigal (actor),

Genres: ,