Singh vs. Kaur (2013)

Actors: Avtar Gill (actor), D. Rama Naidu (producer), Mithun D'Souza (miscellaneous crew), B.N. Sharma (actor), Binnu Dhillon (actor), Thirsty Fish (miscellaneous crew), Dheeraj Rattan (writer), Gippy Grewal (actor), Surveen Chawla (actress), Navaniat Singh (director), Bikram Singh Bathh (miscellaneous crew), Japji Khaira (actress), Karamjeet Anmol (actor), Anugrah Bohrey (miscellaneous crew), Sean Bindra (actor),

Plot: Nihal Singh is a young man from a village in Nabha, who in an attempt to get rid of an unwanted marriage proposal, ends up lying to his entire village that he loves somebody named 'Jasneet Kaur' (Surveen Chawla) from Vancouver. In reality, Jasneet is a girl, who Nihal and his friend and partner in crime, Taari (Binnu Dhillon) find on the web and keep a picture of her to show as proof to the village. Coaxed by his mother and a nagging village 'Taayi', Nihal Singh sets out for Canada to stay with Taari's Chacha (B.N. Sharma) and get his help in finding the whereabouts of Jasneet. There he also meets a girl named, Simrat (Japji Khaira) who informs him that Jasneet belongs to one of the wealthiest family in Vancouver and that it would be very difficult for him to reach her. However, the luck favors our brave 'Singh' who ends up becoming the body guard of Jasneet after saving her life twice from the goons who want to kill her. Once again pressed by his mother and Taayi, Nihaal Singh has to somehow bring Jasneet to his village.

Genres: Comedy,

White Rainbow (2005)

Actors: Sonali Kulkarni (actress), Veerendra Saxena (actor), B. Lenin (editor), Santhana Bharathi (actor), R.S. Shivaji (actor), Amardeep Jha (actress), Amruta Subhash (actress), Marc Bonilla (composer), Amitabh Srivastava (actor), Dharan Mandrayar (writer), Dharan Mandrayar (director), Shameem Shaikh (actress), Linda Mandrayar (producer), Anuradha Giri (costume designer), Hannah Kirby (producer),

Plot: White Rainbow is the story of four remarkable women and their struggle to overcome the stigma and brutal reality of widowhood in modern Indian society. In the story, the protagonist Priya, is an educated, affluent young woman who is tragically widowed. Despondent, alone and desperate, she seeks unlikely solace in Vrindavan, the "city of widows." Priya meets the streetwise Roop who has spent 30 years making her own way in this temple town with its dirty secrets. She encounters gentle Mala tragically disfigured by her mother-in-law and young Deepti, forced into servitude and an underground sex trade run by the Panda priest. Together, this disparate group forms a deep bond and begin to see the power of their own conviction to take charge of their own fate. But, their journey is not without adversity and tragedy from a system dominated by men who prosper from the exploitation of India's most disenfranchised citizens. In the end, Priya comes to realize that, "Her destiny was to change their fate!"

Keywords: friendship, india, widow
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Her destiny was to change their fate!

Quotes:

[first lines]::Priya: The great poet Tagore wrote: I slept and dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and understood that service was joy.

Priya: Being a young widow was like carrion at a party for vultures. No one's invited, but they all want to be served.

Pink Ludoos (2004)

Actors: Karyn Edwards (miscellaneous crew), Shawn Williamson (producer), Linda Darlow (actress), Don MacKay (actor), Tracy D. Smith (miscellaneous crew), Agam Darshi (actress), Stephen Hegyes (producer), Elizabeth Mueller (miscellaneous crew), Kim Arnott (miscellaneous crew), Cynthia Chapman (producer), Balinder Johal (actress), Krista Kelloway (miscellaneous crew), David W. Hamilton (miscellaneous crew), Devin Senft (miscellaneous crew), Neal Clarance (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: The Dhaliwals are a traditional Sikh family living in Canada. The eldest Dhaliwal daughter, Gugan, is celebrating her nineteenth birthday, a time when many of the family's planned changes for her are to occur. Since birth, Gugan has been promised into marriage to a boy back in India, the arrangement which does not sit well with her western sensibilities. Despite being in a sexual relationship with a boy named Arjan (insensitive and directionless as he may be), Gugan has decided to go through with the arranged marriage purely out of obligation, since her betrothed's family paid for the medical bills for Gugan's mute younger brother, Ruman, when he was a child. Two developments may make Gugan change her mind about going through with the wedding. First, she meets a mysterious man with an English accent on the beach, the two who have an instant and undeniable attraction. And second, she learns that Arjan has impregnated her. Although she initially thinks about getting an abortion, the nature of her pregnancy may make her decide to go to term, all in an effort to right what she sees as the inherent problems with her culture. Her decision not to go through with the arranged marriage is strengthened when she tells her mysterious English accented admirer about her pregnancy, he who does not run away from her. Ultimately however, she will have to decide what is best her herself and for her children in her complicated situation.

Keywords: alcoholic-father, alcoholic-husband, arranged-marriage, babe, brown-power, color-in-title, culture-clash, desi, east-indian, film-starts-with-sex
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Sometimes destiny is your best choice

Quotes:

Mrs. Dhaliwal: Gugan, go boil these dishes.::Gugan Dhaliwal: Mom! They are people just like you and me, and you call yourself spiritual. Even Jesus was nice to the lepers.::Mrs. Dhaliwal: Jesus was white, what did he know.

Mrs. O'Donnell: Oh, what are those?::Gugan Dhaliwal: Ludoos.::Mrs. O'Donnell: What?::Gugan Dhaliwal: Ludoos - they are the traditional sweet of celebration. In India when a boy is born the family hands out ludoos to show their gratitude.::Mrs. O'Donnell: And when a little girl is born, what do they hand out then?::Gugan Dhaliwal: A box of Kleenex.

Gugan Dhaliwal: I'm pregnant.::Arjan: Shit.::Gugan Dhaliwal: With triplets.::Arjan: Triple shit.::Arjan: [excitedly] All right, my boys can swim.::Gugan Dhaliwal: Actually, they're girls.

Gugan Dhaliwal: [looking at her ultrasound] What's that?::Dr. Berenstein: What's what?::Gugan Dhaliwal: That strange cloudlike thing around their heads. It looks like a halo.::Dr. Berenstein: Oh, they all have halos in there. Wait until you get them home.

Mehndi Shagna Di (1992)

Actors: Priti Sapru Walia (director), Anita Raj (actress), Shammi (actress), Priti Sapru Walia (actress), Yograj Singh (actor), Uttam Singh (composer), Jagdish Khanna (composer), Malkith Singh (actor), Hans Raj Hans (actor), Hemavati Sapru (producer),

Genres: Drama,

Ambe Maa Jagdambe Maa (1980)

Actors: Sunder (actor), Mehar Mittal (actor), Mehar Mittal (producer), Manorama (actress), Surendra Sharma (actor), Yogesh Chhabra (actor), Subhash Sehgal (editor), Lata Arora (actress), Sukhdev Ahluwalia (writer), Sukhdev Ahluwalia (director), Monto (actor), S. Madan (composer), Jaya Kausalya (actress), Brij Mohan (actor), Surjeet Kaur (actress),

Plot: Radha lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in Punjab along with her widowed mom. She is an ardent devotee of Devi Maa Jagdambe and goes to Her Mandir to worship daily. One day she meets with another devotee, Roop, from Rampur, and both are attracted to each other. Her mother comes to know and approaches Roop's step-mother, Laajwanti, and father, Lala Sunderdas, who instantly approve, and Radha gets married and moves in to live with Roop. From the very first night she is subjected to abuse at the hands of her mother-in-law, who is also cruel to Roop. She asks Roop to accompany her brother, Chandrabhan, and continues to abuse Radha, making her do all the housework without feeding her adequately. Things get worse for Radha when she is told that Roop is having an affair with another woman, and shortly thereafter she is told that he has passed away in an accident. When she is molested by Chandrabhan, she complains to Laajwanti, who refuses to believe her, blames her for Roop's death and asks her to leave. The question remains: What will Radha do now, and where will she go?

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, History,

Mad Max (1979)

Actors: George Miller (writer), Roger Ward (actor), George Miller (director), Mel Gibson (actor), George Miller (writer), Steve Bisley (actor), Bill Gooley (miscellaneous crew), Brian May (composer), Hugh Keays-Byrne (actor), Jonathan Hardy (actor), Paul Young (actor), Reg Evans (actor), Tony Paterson (editor), Nick Lathouris (actor), Vincent Gil (actor),

Plot: A vision of an apocalyptic future set in the wastelands of Australia. Total social decay is just around the corner in this spectacular cheap budget gang orientated road movie, where the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Leather clad Max Rockatansky husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend, wife and baby are killed. Here we see the final days of normality of a man who had everything to live for, and his slip into the abyss of madness. Mad Max is the antihero on the road to vengeance and oblivion.

Keywords: action-hero, ambulance, anarchy, apology, australia, automobile, baby, barefoot, biker, black-leather
Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller,
Taglines: He rules the roads. The Maximum Force of the Future. The last law in a world gone out of control. Pray that he's out there somewhere. When the gangs take over the highway... ...Remember he's on your side. The Film That Started It All

Quotes:

Nightrider: I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!

Bubba Zanetti: We're here to meet a friend. Comin' on the train.::Station Master: Nothin' comin' on the train except a couple of crates and a, uh, coffin!::Bubba Zanetti: Our friend.

Fifi: They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well damn them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give them back their heroes!::Max: Ah, Fif. Do you really expect me to go for that crap?::Fifi: You gotta admit I sounded good there for a minute, huh?

[Max hands Fifi his letter of resignation]::Fifi: What's this?::Max: I'm through.::Fifi: Again?::Max: No, not again. I'm through. I'm quitting.::Fifi: Sit down.::Max: I didn't come here to dicuss it, I came here to say it. I'm through.::Fifi: Now just a minute! Alright, so the Goose bought it, but that's the way he always came in the world...::Max: -Off beat!

Max: I'm scared, Fif. It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys.

Roop: That scag and his floozie, they're gonna die!

[the Kid is handcuffed to a car that's about to explode]::Max: The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.::[the hacksaw is dropped next to The Kid, and Max limps off]

Fifi: They say people don't believe in heroes anymore. Well, damn them! You and me, Max, we're gonna give 'em back their heroes!

Station Master: That must be your friend over there. They didn't leave much of him.::Bubba Zanetti: Must've cut his heart out, eh?::Station Master: Yes. That's what I meant. Poor bastard!::Toecutter: [whirls on the Station Manager] The Nightrider. That is his name... the Nightrider.::Station Master: [frightened] The NightRider.::Toecutter: Remember him when you look at the night sky!::Station Master: I will.::Toecutter: Take your hat off.::Station Master: Anything you say.::Toecutter: Anything I say. What a wonderful philosophy you have. Take him away.

Toecutter: That there is Cundalini... and Cundalini wants his hand back!

America at the Movies (1976)

Actors: John Anderson (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Rene Auberjonois (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Martin Balsam (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), Richard Benjamin (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Humphrey Bogart (actor), Marlon Brando (actor), Marlon Brando (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Richard Burton (actor), Woody Allen (actor),

Genres: Documentary,

Claudine (1974)

Actors: Diahann Carroll (actress), James Earl Jones (actor), Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (actor), Terence Alexander (actor), Art Evans (actor), John Berry (director), Stefan Gierasch (actor), Ralph Wilcox (actor), Ivan Dixon (actor), Rony Clanton (actor), Curtis Mayfield (composer), Adam Wade (actor), Chip Fields (actress), Bernard Barrow (actor), Minnie Gentry (actress),

Plot: Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop, a cheerful garbageman she meets while working on the side as a maid.

Keywords: african-american, black-american, character-name-in-title, engineer, garbage-collector, ghetto, harlem-manhattan-new-york-city, inner-city, intimacy, love
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A heart and soul comedy. Can you dig it?

Yauwan (1973)

Actors: Sujata Bakshi (miscellaneous crew), Anil Dhawan (actor), Madan Joshi (writer), Jugnu (actor), Rajni Bala (actress), Purnima (actress), Yogeeta Bali (actress), Sujit Kumar (actor), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Kabir Bedi (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Sajjan (actor), Jankidas (actor), Kamal (miscellaneous crew), Sunder (actor),

Genres: Musical, Mystery, Romance,

Dil Deke Dekho (1959)

Actors: Raj Mehra (actor), Nasir Hussain (director), Asha Parekh (actress), Shammi Kapoor (actor), Bhanu Athaiya (costume designer), Usha Khanna (composer), Shammi Kapoor (actor), Shammi Kapoor (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Randhir (actor), Shammi Kapoor (actor), Sulochana Latkar (actress), Nasir Hussain (writer), Master Sonik (composer), Surendra (actor),

Plot: Neeta is a heiress, the only daughter of U.K. based Industrialist, Jagat Narayan. She is of marriageable age, and is presently wooed by Kailash, Chandra, and Raja. She prefers Chandra over Kailash and Raja, but subsequently changes her mind and falls in love with Raja. Things take a dramatic turn when Jagat and Neeta find out that Raja is not who is claims he is. When Raja defends himself, and calls himself Roop, his very own mother denies this claim, and instead states that Chandra is Roop, her only son. Raja alias Roop must now make attempts to prove himself, and realizes that this is indeed an uphill task.

Genres: Musical, Romance,