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The Raju (or Rajulu) are a Telugu caste inhabiting Andhra Pradesh, India.
Raju is a Telugu language variant of the Sanskrit title Raja, which Cynthia Talbot describes as being "most often used by members of noble or princely lineages. [But it] could also designate an individual employed by a lord or prince." In medieval Andhra Pradesh, the title was used in both senses and was very likely adopted by some secular Brahmins, who occupied important advisory functions. The royal usage at that time was particularly prevalent in the northern coastal areas of the region. Talbot also notes that the title, and others in use at that time, do not align with the Vedic four-fold varna system and in that sense could not refer to a caste. However, they do appear to have conformed to "the existence of broad social categories based primarily on occupation. Although [the title] did not necessarily designate a distinct class, much less a bounded community, or a hereditary grouping, various sets of these titles differentiated social types marked by a common status and shared occupation".
Rakhi Sawant (Hindi: राखी सावंत) (born on 25 November 1978) is an Indian dancer, Hindi film and television actress, model and television talk show host. She has appeared in many Hindi films and few Kannada, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil films in roles commonly attributed to item girls. She has converted to Christianity.
Rakhi was born as Neeru Bheda to Jaya Bheda. who married Sawant, a police constable at Worli Police Station, and gave her children her second husband's name Sawant. Rakhi attended Goklibai High School in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai and later studied at Mithibai College. She is the sister of film director Rakesh Sawant and former actress Usha Sawant.
In 1997, Rakhi debuted with the unnoticed film Agnnichakra as Ruhi Sawant. She continued acting in some low-budget Bollywood films. She did small roles & dance numbers as a junior artist in films like Joru Ka Ghulam, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hain & Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke and went unnoticed.
In 2003, she auditioned for an item number in the Bollywood movie, Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne. She auditioned about four times before being finally selected for her breakthrough item number, "Mohabbat Hai Mirchi", composed by Himesh Reshammiya. She also bagged a small role in the movie for which she gained visibility. After that, Rakhi acted in small roles in some more films including Masti & Main Hoon Na
Actors: Paramita Guha (editor), Paramita Guha (producer), Paramita Guha (writer), Paramita Guha (director), Ruma Sengupta (actress), Upamanyu Bhanot (composer), Arghya (actor), Partha (composer), Arunabha (writer),
Genres: Drama, Family, Short,Actors: Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Adesh Shrivastava (composer), Ganesh Acharya (miscellaneous crew), Anjan Srivastav (actor), Sushmita Sen (actress), Ila Arun (actress), Bhupen Hazarika (writer), Zafar Sultan (editor), Kalpana Lajmi (writer), Kalpana Lajmi (director), Kalpana Lajmi (producer), Kalpana Lajmi (writer), Shankar Sachdev (actor), Ravi Gossain (actor), Swini Khara (actress),
Plot: In the village of Rangpur, District of Badlapur, India, lives Narainda, who has been the Postmaster for the last over 35 years. He has patiently awaited the arrival of an assistant so that he can consider retiring. His assistant does arrive in the shape and form of Chandan Mishra. Narainda teaches him to deliver mail, take a rupee for reading mail out aloud; and avoid much contact with the prostitutes of Lal Batti. But the women of Lal Batti, Phulwa, Gulabo, Bijli, Basanti, Padmavati, and young Titli, the daughter of Basanti, are drawn to Chandan, and he becomes a frequent visitor there. The local High Priest Bhuvan Panda, who also visits Basanti late at night to satisfy his sexual lust, does not appreciate Chandan's frequent visits, especially after he finds out that Chandan is educated and very outspoken. Then a mysterious admirer of Basanti starts sending her love letters and even proposes marriage. When Bhuvan finds out, he forbids anyone from going to Lal Batti, as in his mind there are only three kind of women: 1. Devi (Goddesses), 2. Mother who provides a heir for the family; and 3. Prostitutes. He forbids anyone to marry any prostitute. With patrons being intimidated by Bhuvan's instructions, no one dares go near Lal Batti, causing considerable anxiety and financial worries for the women there. The entire village awaits in dread as the deadline approaches for Basanti's lover to materialize and marry her. The question remains, who is this mysterious admirer, and why does he want to marry a prostitute and go against the wishes of the all powerful and deadly Bhuvan Panda.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Shashi Kiran (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Anil Dhawan (actor), Deep Dhillon (actor), Ishrat Ali (actor), Ramesh Goyal (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Kamaldeep (actor), Anil Kapoor (actor), Satyendra Kapoor (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Pramod Moutho (actor),
Plot: Ravi Kumar is clearly the black sheep of the Kumar family, and has been so for years. He is unemployed, uncouth, and gets into fist fights and trouble all the time. And then a man is killed, and the evidence points towards Ravi, he gets arrested. Although there were witnesses to this murder, no one comes forward to testify in favor of Ravi. The Kumar family are aware of Ravi's innocence, but watch helplessly as Ravi awaits his sentence, which may send him to the gallows, as now only a miracle can save Ravi.
Keywords: escape, murder, police, revenge, spoof, violence, voteActors: Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew), Mahesh Anand (actor), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), Murali Mohan (actor), Nutan Prasad (actor), Srihari (actor), A.V.S. Subramanyam (actor), Dharmavarapu Subramanyam (actor), Sudhakar (actor), M.M. Keeravani (composer), K. Raghavendra Rao (director), Venkateswara Rao Kotagiri (editor), Suchithra Chandrabose (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: ,Actors: Lalu Alex (actor), Cochin Hanifa (actor), Balan K. Nair (actor), Prem Nazir (actor), Sukumaran (actor), K. Sankunny (editor), Cochin Hanifa (writer), John Paul (writer), Shyam (composer), Joshi (director), Manju (actress),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Indira Bansal (actress), Keshav Rana (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Agha (actor), Ram Avtar (actor), Shyam Kumar (actor), Mehmood Jr. (actor), Moolchand (actor), Rajesh Khanna (actor), Polson (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Bela Bose (actress),
Plot: Udharchand Shikarpuri is a homeless man who lives in Bombay albeit under the roof of multi-millionaire Seth Kalidas, who six months away in his palatial house in Mussoorie. For the 4th time in his life, Udharchand 'moves' into Kalidas's Mansion along with his dog, Chicko. He meets and befriends two other homeless men, Raju and Vijay, and invites them to live with him. Shortly thereafter, one night the trio find that a female thief has broken into the mansion, they confront her, find out her name is Roopa, feel sorry for her, and invite her to also live with them. Subsequently, Raju's wife, Kiran, his son, and sister, Rita also move. Then Roopa feels sorry for another homeless man, Kaluram, and also invites him to live in the mansion. The last inmate is a cook by the name of Mishrain, who is also permitted to live there. What Udharchand does not know is that the owner of the mansion has also made himself a member, and he will be the one who will eventually decide the fate of all the trespassers.
Keywords: break-in, business-tycoon, dog, love-triangle, miracle, temple, unemploymentActors: Laxmi Chhaya (actress), Saawan Kumar Tak (writer), Brahm Bhardwaj (actor), Abhi Bhattacharya (actor), Madan Mohan (composer), Indrani Mukherjee (actress), Jagdeep (actor), Sanjeev Kumar (actor), Manmohan (actor), Mehmood Jr. (actor), Madhavi (actress), Balraj Sahni (actor), Asit Sen (actor), Laxmi Chhaya (actress), Raj Rani (actress),
Plot: The Principal of New Era High School in Panchgani finds an orphan, Raju, who had lost his parents to plague, brings him home, and enrolls him in the school. Raju notices that while every student has parents and visitors, he has no one to call his own. He gets distraught and is assured by the Principal that he does have a relative in Chacha Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister). Raju believes him, and when he finds out through his teacher, Uma, that Nehru will be delivering a speech in Chowpatty, Bombay, he sneaks off in the trunk of a car. Upon arrival he faces harsh realities, his money is almost stolen, and he is befriended by a cynical deranged male, who tells him that Nehru is now a speech-prone politician and is unable to hear what the common citizen has to say. He also tells him that Nehru has left Chowpatty and is at the Government Bungalow. Both take a cab there, but are told that Nehru has departed for Delhi. Raju attempts to go to Delhi but is abducted by Ustad Mansharam and forced to beg on the streets along with a blind beggar, Kavita, who lives with a child, Rani. When Ustad's men blind Rani, Raju attempts to run away with her, but abandons her and sneaks abroad a Delhi-bound train. Upon arrival, he passes out on the street due to exhaustion and hunger and is rescued by a kind-hearted resident who also summons the Principal, Uma, and Uma's fiancé, Rakesh. Together they prepare Raju to meet with Nehru and impress upon him that the very people who are supposed to protect the most vulnerable are, in fact, exploiting them. Will Raju be able to take this message to Nehru?
Genres: Crime, Drama, Family,Actors: Purnima (actress), Ram Avtar (actor), Praveen Paul (actress), Leela Chitnis (actress), V. Gopal (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Gajanan Jagirdar (actor), Krishan Dhawan (actor), Dev Anand (actor), Rashid Khan (actor), Prem Sagar (actor), Kishore Sahu (actor), Narbada Shankar (actor), Ulhas (actor), Mridula Rani (actress),
Plot: After being released from prison for Forgery and Theft, Multi-linguist Raju (Dev Anand) reflects on his life as a Guide; his meeting with the daughter of a prostitute, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who was unhappily married to Marco (Kishore Sahu), and wants to take up acting and dancing as a career. Rosie separates and moves in with Raju and his mom (Leela Chitnis). Then both re-locate, and with Raju's encouragement, she succeeds in an acting and dancing career, resulting in both becoming very wealthy. He then succumbs to gambling, and alcohol, and forges Rosie's signature. He is arrested, tried in court, found guilty and imprisoned. Now discharged from prison, he changes his mind about returning home to his mother, and decides to go elsewhere and start afresh - a decision that will alter his life and way of thinking forever.
Keywords: anklet, anti-hero, antihero, attempted-suicide, based-on-novel, bitterness, budding-friendship, catharsis, countryside, dancingActors: David Abraham (actor), Dev Anand (actor), Dev Anand (actor), Krishan Dhawan (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), K.N. Singh (actor), Mumtaz Begum (actress), Pratima Devi (actress), Nutan (actress), Achala Sachdev (actress), Vrajendra Gaur (writer), Sachin Dev Burman (composer), Mehmood (actor), Badri Prasad (actor), Kundan (actor),
Plot: Simla-based foreign-returned Rajkumar Mehta lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his father, mother, and sister, Shobha. His father would like him to join the family business, but he is only interested in music, and spending time with his childhood sweetheart, Jalandhar-based Pushpa. Fed-up of taunts, Rajkumar is compelled to leave for Bombay when his enraged father decides to dispose off the piano, and apparently refuses to communicate with anyone for several months. Pushpa's mother asks her brother, Mangal, to check up on him, and the latter finds him living with a prostitute named Titlibai. Refusing to believe her uncle, Pushpa herself travels there and does see the duo together. Convinced that she has lost him for good, she then gets married to Ambala-based Captain Prem Nath - leaving an embittered but now successful music composer, Rajkumar, who claims that he was never involved in any relationship, to take to alcohol, alienate himself from everyone, and heads towards self-destruction.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Geeta Bali (actress), Dev Anand (actor), Jankidas (actor), Hemanta Mukherjee (composer), Narbada Shankar (actor), Akhtar-Ul-Iman (writer), Dhruva Chatterjee (writer), Ram Singh (actor), Hemen Gupta (director), Hemen Gupta (producer), Hemen Gupta (writer), Nand Kishore (actor), Chand Burke (actress), Moppet Rajoo (actor), Rani Bala (actress),
Plot: Widower Vikas lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle along with son, Raju, on an island off of Bombay's Gateway of India. Raju has not been told of his mother's demise, and believes that she will return home by the next boat. He is looked after and abused by Vikas' aunt, and manages to run away. On one occasion, in the company of Minoo, his neighbor, they manage to get on the boat, reach Bombay, and start a frantic search for his mother. With the help of the Police, Vikas was able to locate and bring them back home. When Vikas goes to work one day, villagers find an unconscious female and bring her to his house. She is looked after, and Raju believes that his mother has returned. When Vikas returns, he decides to let this female, whose name is Juhi, live with them - little knowing that she is a runaway prostitute.
Genres: Drama, Family,[Bonus track]
Watch out, they're on the loose
They creep into your privacy, lurk in all corners for you
Justice - that's what they scream
But can they find verdicts on me while they're corrupt like...
Shit, I don't know who or what
They say that they're friends and they fight for your rights
They say that they're helpers
But they only teach you to stand real tight
Out there in the streets: Law and order
In out battlefields: Law and order
No way, you can't escape
You can't make mistakes or have fun or just do what you feel
They'll keep you locked in, you might be a troublemaker
Keep him safe
You bastard, you'd better be dead or something like this...
Now he's safe