Life of Pi (2012)

Actors: Sal Lopez (miscellaneous crew), Lee Tucker (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Patrick Joseph (miscellaneous crew), Ang Lee (director), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Paul 'Sled' Reynolds (miscellaneous crew), Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew), Susan Hegarty (miscellaneous crew), Irrfan Khan (actor), Mychael Danna (composer), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Tabu (actress), Ang Lee (producer), Garson Yu (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Francois Hall (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Rickard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.

Keywords: 11-year-old, 12-year-old, 1970s, adrift, animal, animal-attack, animal-cage, animal-fight, animated-sequence, apology
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,

Quotes:

Santosh Patel: You think tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.::Pi Patel: Animals have souls... I have seen it in their eyes.

Adult Pi Patel: With one word, my name went from an elegant French swimming pool to a stinking Indian latrine - I was pissing everywhere.

Adult Pi Patel: What has mamaji already told you?::Writer: He said you had a story that would make me believe in God.::Adult Pi Patel: [laughs] He would say that about a nice meal.

Adult Pi Patel: [after describing what the priest in the Church told him about Jesus] That made no sense!

Pi Patel (11: Thank you Vishnu, for introducing me to Christ.

Adult Pi Patel: Faith is a house with many rooms.::Writer: But no room for doubt?::Adult Pi Patel: Oh plenty, on every floor. Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it is tested.

Santosh Patel: We will sail like Columbus.::Pi Patel: But Columbus was looking for India!

Adult Pi Patel: Now we have to send our little boy to the middle of the Pacific.::Writer: And make me believe in God.::Adult Pi Patel: Yes, we will get there.

Pi Patel: I can eat the biscuits, but God made tigers carnivorous, so I must learn to catch fish. If I don't, I'm afraid his last meal would be a skinny vegetarian boy.

Pi Patel: [on killing a fish] Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of a fish and saving our lives.

Varcha Class (2009)

Actors: Kedar Shinde (producer), Kamlakar Satputhe (actor), Omkar M. Datt (writer), Omkar M. Datt (director), Salil Kulkarni (composer), Sneha Raikar (actress), Rajan Bane (actor), Ashish Gade (actor), Minal Bal (actress), Bela Shinde (producer), Nirmala Kotnis (actress), Rajendra Shisatkar (actor), Pankaj Pushkar (composer), Nimish Datt (director), Sundar (editor),

Genres: Family,

Swati (1986)

Actors: Dinesh Hingoo (actor), Meenakshi Sheshadri (actress), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), L.V. Prasad (producer), Vinod Mehra (actor), Rahi Masoom Reza (writer), Arjun (actor), Shashi Kapoor (actor), Sarika (actress), Madhuri Dixit (actress), Sharmila Tagore (actress), Shubha Khote (actress), Sarika (actress), A. Sreekar Prasad (editor),

Plot: Sharda is in love with a young man who wants to marry her. Before the marriage could take place, some of his friends force themselves upon Sharda, leaving her pregnant. When her boyfriend does not show up, she decides to keep the child, names her Swati, re-locates to a small town in Southern India and finds employment as a nurse with Dr. Rajendra. Years later Swati has grown up to be an assertive young woman, who is not only outspoken but quite capable of physically defending herself, but her attitude alienates her and Sharda from the community in general. She befriends Ram Mohan, an activist, who is often in trouble with the police. With no one to look after her mother after she gets married, Swati asks Rajendra, now a widower, to marry Sharda, to which he agrees. The marriage takes place, and both move in to live a wealthy lifestyle with Rajendra and his daughter, Anandi. Rajendra and Sharda decide to find a suitable groom for Swati, but before that could happen Swati and Anandi have a confrontation, things escalate to such an extent that Sharda disowns Swati and she moves out, while Anandi's marriage is being arranged with Prasad Chiranjivi Gupta. But Sharda's troubles with Swati are far from over - as Swati will soon return back into her life - with time with her long-last boyfriend, and Swati's biological father - turning Sharda's life upside down.

Keywords: remake
Genres: Drama,

Zakhmi Sher (1984)

Actors: Narayana Rao Dasari (director), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Rajan Haksar (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Jeevan (actor), Dimple Kapadia (actress), Jayshree T. (actress), Jayshree T. (actress), Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), Brahm Bhardwaj (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Kiran Kumar (actor), Vinod Mehra (actor),

Plot: Honest and diligent Major Vijay Kumar Singh is called back from active duty to attend to the funeral of his mother. He declines as he has to be present on the front as well as inspire others. When he returns home, he grieves for his mother, and sets about finding a suitable groom for his unmarried sister. He finds out that Reshmi is in love with a male, and he goes to talk to this male's father. The father, Lala, agrees to the marriage, provided Vijay marries his mentally retarded daughter, Anandi. Vijay instantly refuses, but when he finds out that his sister is pregnant, he agrees to marry Anandi. Then circumstances force him to be a witness in two crimes - one an arson set deliberately, and the other about a drunk driver who crushes some people asleep on a city footpath. In both the cases, the Judge dismisses the matters. Confused and hurt by a system that is unable to punish the guilty, he ponders on what is going to happen to his country. Then he comes to know that his mother did not die but was murdered and he sets out to find the person(s) responsible for this. Vijay does not trust the police now, and knows that they will let the guilty go unpunished, and sets out to hunt them down one by one - until he comes across the male who actually killed his mother - none other than a holy man named Swami Kashinath Singh - a man who claims to be his biological father, and a man who claims that killing his wife was a mistake. What will Vijay next action be? Will he be objective enough to punish his father for this heinous crime, or will emotion overwhelm him from making any decision.

Genres: Action, Thriller,

Naga Phasa (1977)

Actors: Prashant Nanda (actor), Anita Das (actress), Madhav Kishan (miscellaneous crew), Jairam Samal (actor), Sriram Panda (actor), Bijoy Mohanty (actor), Akshaya Mohanty (composer), Dhira Biswal (actor), Mohammad Mohsin (actor), Radha Panda (actor), Nari (actor), Shyamlendu (actor), Basant Nayak (director), Govind Tej (actor), Basant Nayak (producer),

Genres: Crime,