Swaminarayan

The Waiting Room (2010)

Actors: Indrajith (actor), Sona Nair (actress), Radhika Apte (actress), Radhika Apte (actress), Gopal K. Singh (actor), Prateeksha Lonkar (actress), Vicky Ahuja (actor), Sandeep Kulkarni (actor), Raj Singh Chaudhary (actor), Sunil Doshi (producer), Keshav (miscellaneous crew), Kannan Pattambi (actor), Kukul Tarmaster (actor), Swamy (actor), Shelly Nabu Kumar (actress),

Plot: Enroute to Pune from Tanmalai Railway Station, Tina finds out the train is several hours behind schedule, so her uncle leaves her in the waiting room and returns home. She starts to read a newspaper and finds out that a male, who has already killed six women, is on the lose in the area. Then she is joined by a male, who introduces himself as Karan, and behaves suspiciously making her suspect that he may be the killer. Nervous, she refuses to neither converse nor share food with him. Then a couple, Ghanshyam and Reema, also enter the waiting room and settle down for the night. With frequent electricity outages, interrupted by a mad man, the four start to suspect each other of a variety of crimes. They do not know that one of them has a suitcase that does not belong to him/her; that another carries a gun concealed on her/his person; and soon two more deaths will occur.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,

Jaane Jigar (1998)

Actors: Rajesh Roshan (composer), Puneet Issar (actor), Jackie Shroff (actor), Tiku Talsania (actor), Shiva Rindani (actor), Rita Bhaduri (actress), Kunika (actress), Mohnish Bahl (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Brahmachari (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Ganesh (miscellaneous crew), Brijesh Tiwari (actor),

Plot: Ravi and Vijay's friendship was an example by itself. One was Life-Jaan, the other Jigar-Courage, the famous singer Ravi Kumar and the daring Vijay Kumar. Vijay's mother looked after Ravi since his childhood; as such Ravi's life is indebted to them. It was said that nobody could separate the two friends. Vijay's father was died when he was very young and till today his mother had not told him that the reason for his father's death was Jaikishan who is hiding from Vijay. Jaikishan is dreaded by all the rich people and every poor man loves his name. Some times Vijay and Jaikishan do meet, but they do not recognize each other. One day Vijay falls in love with a girl called Meena. The same girl, by the name of Minu falls in love with Ravi. Both Vijay and Ravi love the same girl, and one day Vijay comes to know that the girl whom he loves and who is his life is in arm of Ravikumar. Vijay's life come to standstill and from here begins a series of misunderstandings.

Keywords: airport, beach, death, dual-role, guitar, kidnapping, love, misunderstanding, prison, singer
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family,

China Gate (1998)

Actors: Om Puri (actor), Paresh Rawal (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Harish Patel (actor), Anupam Kher (actor), Brij Gopal (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Tinnu Anand (actor), Girish Karnad (actor), Razak Khan (actor), Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Shivaji Satam (actor),

Plot: After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of dreaded dacoit Jageera, Sandhya goes to Colonel Krishnakant Puri and asks for his assistance in bringing an end to Jageera's rule in the Devdurg region. Krishnakant agrees to assist her, and summons about a dozen of his fellow officers and subordinates to assist him. They all assemble at Devdurg with all the necessary ammunitions and arms to combat Jageera, not realizing that Jageera has influence over the local police detachment, who will prevent Puri and his men to possess any guns and weapons. This does not deter Puri and his men, and they continue to stay on in Devdurg and gain the confidence of the villagers. What the villagers do not know that Krishnakant and his men had all been dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice and retreating when attacked by the enemy. Will Puri and his men abandon Devdurg and let history repeat itself?

Keywords: actor-shares-last-name-with-character, ambush, bandit, captain, child-murder, colonel, corrupt-cop, country-name-in-title, courage, court-martial
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western,

Trinetra (1991)

Actors: Bharat Kapoor (actor), Manik Irani (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Mahesh Anand (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Hercules (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Arun Bakshi (actor), Dharmendra (actor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor),

Plot: Raja is an aspiring singer and gets a chance to sing in Dubai through Mr. Singhania. He informs his pregnant wife, Seema, and they look forward to a more prosperous life. Before that could happen, Raja finds out that Singhania is going to use him to carry drugs in his suitcase, he objects to this, and is brutally killed in the presence of his wife. His wife flees the assailants, and gives birth to a baby boy near the temple of Bhagwan Shri Shankar and names the boy Shiva. Unmarried and childless Maria Fernandes sees the child and an apparently dead Seema, and takes the child. But Seems is still alive, and is angered at being separated from her son. She swears to avenge Raja's death, and sets about to kill the assailants one by one. She manages to kill one of them, but before she could proceed on with her gruesome task, she is arrested by the police and sentenced to jail for several years. How will Seema avenge the death of Raja? Will she escape from prison, or wait till she is withered and old after the end of her sentence?

Genres: Action,

Daulat (1982)

Actors: Raj Babbar (actor), Birbal (actor), Ramesh Deo (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Dev Kumar (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Om Shivpuri (actor), Deven Verma (actor), Zeenat Aman (actress),

Plot: Honest mint employee, Ghanshyam (Shreeram Lagoo) gets framed for murder by Joseph D'Souza (Amjad Khan), and has to flee from the police. He is separated from his wife, Radhika (Seema Deo), two sons, and a blind daughter. Years later, Ghanshyam, after being forced to work for Joseph to print fake rupee notes, is rich and known as Vikram Singh; his daughter and wife are homeless and destitute; his elder son, Ravi (Vinod Khanna) is a burglar at night, and a rich and respectable man named Kunwar Dilip Singh during the day; his other son, Sushil (Raj Babbar) is a police inspector, adopted by the Police Commissioner (Om Shivpuri). Joseph, now known as Tripathi, comes to know that Ravi is Ghanshyam's son, and devices a scheme that will bring certain death to Ghanshyam and his family.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Family,

Be-Reham (1980)

Actors: Brahm Bhardwaj (actor), Reena Roy (actress), Mala Sinha (actress), Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), C.S. Dubey (actor), I.S. Johar (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Dev Kumar (actor), Sanjeev Kumar (actor), Manmohan (actor), Raj Mehra (actor), Keshto Mukherjee (actor), Ranvir Raj (actor),

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Swami (1977)

Actors: Suresh Chatwal (actor), Dharmendra (actor), Utpal Dutt (actor), Girish Karnad (actor), Dheeraj Kumar (actor), Shabana Azmi (actress), Hema Malini (actress), Shashikala (actress), Basu Chatterjee (writer), Saratchandra Chatterjee (writer), Rajesh Roshan (composer), Basu Chatterjee (director), Vikram (actor), Preeti Ganguli (actress), Sudha Shivpuri (actress),

Plot: Shortly after Saudamani's birth, her dad passes away, leaving her in the care of her widowed mom, who re-locates to live with her elder brother in a small town. It is here that Saudamini grows up, goes to school, and attends arts college. She is in love with her neighbor, Narendra, and hopes to marry him soon. But her mom and uncle have chosen Ghanshyam, a matriculate, who lives in another town. Her uncle passes away, and shortly thereafter Saudamini gets married & re-locates to Ghanshyam's house, who lives with his step-mother; step-brother, Nikhil, and his wife, Shobha; and an unmarried step-sister, Charusheela. Saudamani detests Ghanshyam at first, but feels sorry for him after she witnesses that while he does all the work, he is ignored by the rest of the family and the servants. She changes all that and slowly starts to admire, respect, and fall in love with him, and Ghanshyam also reciprocates. Everything changes when Narendra comes to visit with a hope of reviving his romance with Saudamani. Watch what happens when Ghanshyam's mom sees Narendra and Saudamani holding hands in broad daylight in everyone's presence.

Keywords: based-on-book, based-on-novel, social
Genres: Drama,

Teesra Kaun (1965)

Actors: Rahul Dev Burman (composer), Habib (actor), Rajan Haksar (actor), Jankidas (actor), Feroz Khan (actor), Kalpana (actress), Indira Bansal (actress), Shashikala (actress), Shyam Kumar (actor), Mohammed Hussain (director), Kundan (actor), Kamlakar Karkhanis (editor), Paro (actress), Mirza Musharraf (actor), Kamal Mehra (actor),

Plot: Prakash lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with his widowed mother, and a sister, Renuka, who is soon to wed Dindayal, the only son of widower businessman Mukatlal. Before the wedding could be formalized, Prakash unexpectedly leaves, and the Police notify Mukatlal that his house has been broken into and diamonds worth Rs.8 Lakhs have been stolen. Mukatlal's servant informs them that he is able to identify Prakash as one of five of the culprits, the police launch a search for him, and the wedding gets canceled. Prakash returns home and informs his family and girlfriend, Shoba, that he has been framed, and sets out to try and convince Mukatlal also. Shortly thereafter, his mother will get the news that Mukatlal has been killed and the prime suspect is none other than her son.

Keywords: boat, car-crash, disguise, fight, gun, murder, murder-mystery, police, police-investigation, restaurant
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery,

Bhowani Junction (1956)

Actors: Ava Gardner (actress), Pandro S. Berman (producer), Ronald Adam (actor), George Cukor (actor), Les Tremayne (actor), Bill Travers (actor), Anthony Bushell (actor), Peter Illing (actor), Lionel Jeffries (actor), Harold Kasket (actor), Marne Maitland (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), Abraham Sofaer (actor), Stewart Granger (actor), Sonya Levien (writer),

Plot: The year is 1947, the British are on the verge of finally leaving India. Amongst the few who are sorry to see the British leave are the Anglo-Indians, half British and half Indian, for they are going to miss the patronage of their white cousins, the job reservations, and the important status and positions they currently hold. The British, quite frankly, do not think well of Anglo-Indians, nor do the Indians. Victoria Jones is one such Anglo-Indian, a WAC in the British Army, her father a railway engine driver, and her mom a housewife. She is close to another Anglo-Indian, Patrick Taylor, but changes her mind about him as he harbors deep hatred for the Indians. She witnesses Col. Rodney Savage instruct his soldiers to pour filthy water and garbage at the hands of untouchables on high-caste men and women who are protesting by laying down on the railway tracks to prevent trains from moving. Repulsed and shocked at this, she turns to Ranjit Singh Kassi, a Sikh, and longs to be Indian. She even accompanies him to the Gurudwara in order to change her faith. Then circumstances make her change her mind in favor of Rodney Savage. What Rodney does not know is that Victoria harbors a deep dark secret - a murder of a white British Officer named Graham McDaniels, on one hand, and of her knowledge of a terrorist named Ghanshyam - the one who was responsible for stealing explosives from a stranded train - and who may use these to bring the railways to a halt by planting them on the tracks, his motive to disrupt the railways, and to kill the passengers of a train. And amongst the passengers is none other than Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - more popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi.

Keywords: based-on-novel, british-army, british-colonial, caste-system, colonel, colonialism, cross-cultural-relations, epic, half-breed, independence
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: M-G-M's Drama Aflame With Love And Revolt!

Quotes:

Col. Rodney Savage: The only people who face reality are too dumb to duck when they see it coming.

Badi Maa (1945)

Actors: Master Vinayak (director), Yakub (actor), Ishwarlal (actor), Noor Jehan (actress), Meenakshi (actress), Sitara Devi (actress), Dada Salvi (actor), Girish (actor),

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