Maharaja (1998 film)

Don gato y su pandilla (2011)

Actors: Melissa Disney (actress), Peter Pamela Rose (actress), Fred Tatasciore (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Fred Tatasciore (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Rob Schneider (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Jason Harris (actor), Jason Harris (miscellaneous crew), Sondra James (actress),

Plot: Top Cat and the gang face a new police chief, who is not at all happy with officer Dibble's performance in trying to prevent Top Cat's scams. Strickland, the new police chief, will test Top Cat and his gang while proving to be the greatest foe Top Cat has ever encountered.

Genres: Action, Animation, Comedy, Family,
Taglines: The Cat is back! (UK release) Aquí Hay Gato Encerrado. (Mexico release) Una aventura que está de pocajú (Mexico release)

Quotes:

Officer Dibble: Thanks a lot fellas! Now I'm never going to be chief.::Brain: Uh, Officer Dibble, I didn't know you cooked.::Officer Dibble: Chief, not chef! That is why I've been working overtime. Now I'll never get the job.

Lou Strickland: Dibble's a clown.::Top Cat: Certainly, he can be foolish.::Lou Strickland: No! I mean I, literally, turned him into a clown!

Maharajah of Pikachu: Please, Shiek Alleycat! I insist you take this Maharajah Talk 5000. You'll find it more valuable.::Top Cat: Why? Can it turn into rubies, too?

Top Cat: They call me T.C. It's short for "Top Cat".::Trixie: Oh, that's very clever. I'm Trixie, which is short for...::Top Cat: [interrupts] The future Mrs. Top Cat?::Trixie: [chuckles] You're funny, too. Too bad I have to go to work and too bad I don't take anyone from the alley.::Top Cat: Oh, I wasn't joking. I think you have stolen my heart. I'm usually the one who does the taking around here.::Trixie: [gasp] Is that why he's so upset?::Top Cat: [pulls out a bag of bird seed, throws it on Griswald, calls out for birds]::Top Cat: Now, where were we? [gasp; finds out Trixie vanishes]

Hey Ram (2000)

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah (actor), Sreenivasan (actor), Ram Mohan (actor), Om Puri (actor), Nasser (actor), Saurabh Shukla (actor), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Girish Karnad (actor), Vikram Gokhale (actor), Atul Kulkarni (actor), Amar (actor), Delhi Ganesh (actor), Kamal Hassan (actor), Annapoorna (actress), Vivek (actor),

Plot: The film starts with Saketh Ram as a very old man and almost immediately goes into flashback. As a young man he is among his friends, in conviviality. He has taken a Bengali wife, Aparna, and everything is wonderful in his life. But the year is 1946, and the imminent independence of India from British suzerainty is complicated by religious antagonism between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority, who demand their own independent state. Saketh and Aparna visit Calcutta; rioting is reported, but Saketh goes out to get some food, and he soon encounters a Hindu woman being chased by Muslim rioters. He rescues her, but the rioters later come to his house, and brutally rape and then kill his wife. Saketh is devastated and takes to the streets, determined personally to kill as many Muslims as he can find. He meets up with Sriram Abhiyankar, who is leading a group of Hindu extremists, and Saketh becomes temporarily taken with the cause himself. At the same time, he is persuaded to take a new wife, Mythili, and life begins to stabilise for Saketh after all. However he then falls in with an eminent Maharajah who is leading an underground group with the intention of assassination. Travelling with the Maharajah, Saketh meets one of his old friends from younger days, who has fallen on hard times. Reminiscing, and getting his old friend back on his feet deflect the process of recruiting Saketh, but only temporarily, and soon he is manipulated into committing himself to renouncing his family and his new wife, in the interests of the cause which now is disclosed as the assassination of Gandhi. Although a fellow Hindu, Gandhi was felt by some to be too conciliatory to Muslims and in the logic of extremists, Gandhi became the prime target. Soon Saketh is informed that Gandhi will be in Delhi for some weeks, and that Saketh is to take the opportunity to do "his duty". However, hiding from a snap search by the police, he has to hide his pistol on a delivery lorry, and it is driven away to a factory owned by Muslims. Going there hoping to retrieve the gun, he becomes engulfed in a shoot-out between some Hindu attackers and the Muslims, and finds that his loyalties are not so clear cut as he had imagined. Finally he escapes after the death of another of his old friends in the crossfire. The next day, January 30th 1948, he contrives to be near Gandhi in a public prayer ground, his appointment with destiny. But the film still has 20 minutes to run, and the ending is not what you expect.

Keywords: anti-hero, antihero, assassin, assassination, bare-chested-male, black-and-white-scene, black-and-white-segment-in-color-film, black-and-white-segues-into-color, brotherhood, character-name-in-title
Genres: Drama, History,
Taglines: An experiment with truth.

Quotes:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: See mister Uppili, your son in law is also a mahatma!::Saketh Ram: No, I am not!::Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Most mahatmas don't admit they are one. Do you think I am a mahatma?::Saketh Ram: You will deny it if I say you are, So I shall deny you another denial sir.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: I am willing to take all this communal hatred in the form a bullet, If I am promised that along with that they will also bury this communal hatred and live together as one community.

Mythili Iyengar: Is there something on your mind that you're hiding from me?::Saketh Ram: Yes. No. Maybe.::Mythili Iyengar: That's a pity. Gandhi ji says hiding anything from others is a big sin.::Saketh Ram: Hmmm... Then this blouse of yours is a big sinner.

Mehboob Mere Mehboob (1992)

Actors: Mohnish Bahl (actor), Birbal (actor), Biswajeet (actor), Anil Dhawan (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Manmauji (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Paintal (actor), Rakesh Pandey (actor), Ghanshyam Rohera (actor), Ajit Vachani (actor), Ajit Vachani (actor), Beena Banerjee (actress), Nandita Thakur (actress), Vijay Patil (composer),

Plot: The region of Jungela and Takt Hazar have been embroiled in hatred for centuries. Now a young man named Ranjha from Takt Hazar, who lives with several brothers and their respective wives, has fallen in love with a young woman named Heer from Jungela. His brothers will not permit him to marry outside the region, while the parents of Heer are agreeable. But when Ranjha does not show up on the wedding night, they arrange her marriage with another suitor by the name of Saheda Khan, even though Heer does not give her consent to the marriage, she is married. After the marriage, Ranjha comes to meet with Heer and their romance is rekindled, much to the chagrin of Saheda, who wants Heer to follow the Shariyat Law, obey him, sleep with him, and shun Ranjha. Heer refuses to do so and Saheda calls upon the Islamic Clergy, who are unable to convince Heer. Then the Maharaja gets involved when he finds out that Heer has been forcibly married. But evidence that comes before him leads him to conclude that Heer was indeed having an extra-marital affair, so he orders punishment for both of the young lovers. Will the ill-fated lovers ever come together or will local rulers, laws, and regional boundaries continue to separate them?

Genres: Romance,

Bloodstone (1988)

Actors: Nico Mastorakis (writer), Jack Kehler (actor), Nico Mastorakis (editor), Deep Dhillon (actor), Ashok Amritraj (producer), Ilayaraja (composer), Nico Mastorakis (producer), Nico Mastorakis (writer), Rajnikanth (actor), Tej Sapru (actor), Bob Christo (actor), Christopher Neame (actor), Charlie Brill (actor), Marjean Holden (actress), Sunanda Murali Manohar (producer),

Plot: When an newlywed American couple goes to India on their honeymoon, little do they realize that they were about to go on the adventure of their life time. A ruby, back from the ages of the Indian Maharajas has been stolen and placed in the backpack of the Americans. When the bad guys realize this, they kidnap the wife.. Now the husband and his Indian friend (played by a famous Tamil Indian actor) must go out to save the wife. But along the way, they are confronted with many challenges, like the Indian bad guys who steal the ruby from them! Overall a great movie, especially if you've ever been to Tamil India! And even if you haven't, here's your chance to see what an American action movie can be like when filmed on the other side of the world!

Keywords: desi, independent-film, india, kidnapping, ruby, south-asian
Genres: Action, Adventure,

Quotes:

Sandy McVey: Are you saying you've been on the wrong side of the law?::Shyam Sabu: Mr. McVey, the law has been on the wrong side of me.

Pancha Thanthram (1974)

Actors: Jayabharati (actress), M.G. Soman (actor), Adoor Bhasi (actor), Bahadur (actor), Kunchan (actor), Adoor Bhasi (actor), K.P. Ummer (actor), Sankaradi (actor), Nagesh (actor), Prem Nazir (actor), Prem Nazir (actor), Prem Nazir (actor), Jose Prakash (actor), Sankaradi (actor), Jayabharati (actress),

Plot: After slaying a snake to protect his terrified wife, the King of the region loses his vision. Years later, his palace officials find out he can be cured with the help of a Naagmani. The King offers a reward but no one is able to find it. Then his former Senapati's son, Jaidev Manohar Singh, comes forward, goes deep into the forests, right into Naag Lok and finds the Naagmani. He hopes to return back, restore the king's vision, and claim the hand of Rajkumari Sathi as his reward. Misfortune visits him after he is caught stealing the Naagmani by Naagrani, who turns him into an aged and deformed half-human half-beast.

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller,

Fantom Morrisvillu (1966)

Actors: Vít Olmer (actor), Otto Simánek (actor), Václav Wasserman (actor), Bohus Záhorský (actor), Rudolf Deyl (actor), Josef Príhoda (actor), Jan Skopecek (actor), Lubomír Kostelka (actor), Frantisek Filipovský (actor), Frantisek Nemec (actor), Miroslav Homola (actor), Jaroslav Marvan (actor), Karel Hovorka (actor), Natasa Gollová (actress), Kveta Fialová (actress),

Genres: Comedy, Mystery,

Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)

Actors: Praveen Paul (actress), Utpal Dutt (actor), Pinchoo Kapoor (actor), Shashi Kapoor (actor), Ismail Merchant (actor), Prayag Raj (actor), James Ivory (director), Satyajit Ray (composer), James Ivory (writer), Ismail Merchant (producer), Madhur Jaffrey (actress), Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (writer), Sudarshan Dhir (miscellaneous crew), Felicity Kendal (actress), Sudarshan Dhir (actor),

Plot: The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies. Based on the travels of 'Geoffrey Kendal' (qv) with his daughter 'Felicity Kendal' (qv).

Keywords: based-on-true-story
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Bobby: [Speaking to Lizzie] And when you're young, you never think. And when you're old... you're too tired to think.

Angulimaal (1960)

Actors: Achala Sachdev (actress), Anil Biswas (composer), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Helen (actress), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Nimmi (actress), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Vinod Mehra (actor), Ram Mohan (actor), Ulhas (actor), Anita Guha (actress), Helen (actress), Pratap Dave (editor), Vijay Bhatt (director),

Plot: Born on an inauspicious occasion in the household of Rajpurohit and his wife, the Rajjyotish predicts that this child will grow up to be a brutal killer. The region's Maharaja is asked to have the child killed but he cannot do so until and unless a crime has been committed. A number of elders, including Archarya, decide to impart positive thoughts and learning in him, as well name him Ahinsak (non-violent). He then departs to live in the Gurukool along with three other children, Maruti, Dhanpal, and Krishna. Ahinsak impresses everyone both in studies and sports. Years later, Archarya may be forced to take back his words when he finds Ahinsak has broken rules to stay away overnight with Rajkumari Mayadevi, without permission. The Archarya misgivings will gather more ground when Ahinsak gets into a fight with Maruti and injures him badly. As if that were not enough, he again breaks the rules and is punished. But the worst is yet to come when Archaya will be told that his wife, Gurumata, may be having an affair with his pupil, as well the discovery of the dead body of Dhanpal - the first of many victims that are fated to be slain by Ahinsak - who will now acquire a new name - Angulimaal - a man who first slays his victims then cuts their fingers off and wears them around his neck.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,

Sadko (1953)

Actors: Sergei Martinson (actor), Francis Ford Coppola (miscellaneous crew), Ivan Pereverzev (actor), Nikolay Kryuchkov (actor), Yuri Leonidov (actor), Mikhail Astangov (actor), Mikhail Troyanovsky (actor), Stepan Kayukov (actor), Olga Kruchinina (costume designer), Aleksandr Ptushko (director), Alla Larionova (actress), Sergei Stolyarov (actor), Ninel Myshkova (actress), Konstantin Isayev (writer), Olga Vikland (actress),

Plot: An oddly Russian Sinbad seeks to bring happiness to his people - first by trying to give money and goods to the poor, then by seeking out the Blue Bird of Happiness.

Keywords: blue-bird-of-happiness, character-name-in-title, mythological, sea
Genres: Adventure, Fantasy,
Taglines: All the Magic of "Stone Flower". All the Power of "Alexander Nevsky". All the Artistry of "Grand Concert" Spectacular Scenes From The Greatest Adventure Story Ever Produced!

Amber (1952)

Actors: Agha (actor), Bipin Gupta (actor), Raj Kapoor (actor), B.M. Vyas (actor), Cuckoo (actress), Cuckoo (actress), Nargis (actress), Tanuja (actress), Tun Tun (actress), Ghulam Mohammed (composer), Jayant Desai (director), Kanhaiyalal (miscellaneous crew), Badri Prasad (miscellaneous crew), Dwarka Khosla (writer), Dharamvir (editor),

Plot: Claiming to be a homeless orphan, young Amber gets adopted by the Maharaja and grows up in the palace. 10 years later, she dramatically meets a bandit, Raj, and both are attracted to each other. Raj's father fears for the life of the Maharaja and asks his son to act as a bodyguard. The former dons the guise of a tutor and arrives at the palace. While the Maharaja is pleased, the Diwan and his son, Johar, are not too thrilled. Then the latter comes to know of a conspiracy to kill the Maharaja - and the person he suspects is none other than Amber.

Keywords: character-name-in-title
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller,