Pak Pak Pakaak (2005)

Actors: Nana Patekar (actor), Nana Patekar (actor), Usha Nadkarni (actress), Jyoti Subhash (actress), Sanjay Mone (writer), Aashish Rego (producer), Aashish Rego (composer), Narayani Shastri (actress), Prachi Shah (actress), Vidyadhar Joshi (actor), Saksham Kulkarni (actor), Vijay Patwardhan (actor), Jyoti Joshi (actress), Gautam Joglekar (director), Gautam Joglekar (writer),

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family,

Second Generation (2003)

Actors: Anupam Kher (actor), Danny Dyer (actor), Dave King (editor), Roshan Seth (actor), Om Puri (actor), Nitin Ganatra (actor), Rahul Nath (actor), Nicolas Kent (producer), Jay Simpson (actor), Helene Lenszner (miscellaneous crew), Nitin Sawhney (composer), Parminder Nagra (actress), Parminder Nagra (actress), Susannah Buxton (costume designer), Paola Desiderio (actress),

Plot: A modern reworking of King Lear, where a businessman lies in a coma while 2 of his daughters plan to turn off his life support machine and sell his business. His third daughter has his best interests at heart but is estranged from the family.

Keywords: british-indian, east-indian, indian-woman, interracial-sex, male-rear-nudity
Genres: Drama,

The Dinosaur Hunter (2000)

Actors: Alison Pill (actress), R.H. Thomson (actor), Claude Forest (miscellaneous crew), Ross Ikeda (miscellaneous crew), Shaun Johnston (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Derek Mazur (producer), Roberta Maxwell (actress), Rick Stevenson (director), Simon MacCorkindale (actor), Jackie Dzuba (editor), Sandi Cameron (miscellaneous crew), Joely Collins (actress), Enuka Okuma (actress), Dan MacDonald (actor),

Plot: Young girl Julia (Alison Pill) and her older brother Daniel (Bill Switzer) befriends paleontologist Jack McCabe(Simon MacCorkindale), who is looking for an entire dinosaur skeleton. Jack and the kids make exciting discoveries, rival dinosaur hunter Hump Hinton(Christopher Plummer)arrives and starts trouble for them. The film is based on a novel by Pam Conrad. This family-friendly drama takes place in a farming community in Canda.

Keywords: based-on-book, dinosaur, independent-film, paleontologist
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: Adventure unearthed.

Idiot (1991)

Actors: Fyodor Dostoevsky (writer), Mita Vasisht (actress), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Rajeev Kumar (writer), Mani Kaul (director), Ayub Khan-Din (actor), Zul Vellani (actor), Lalitha Krishna (editor), Meenakshi Goswami (actress), Anup Singh (writer), D. Wood (composer), Hemendra Bhatia (writer), Navjot Hansra (actress), Amrit Nath (actress), Vikram Joglekar (composer),

Plot: An epileptic man (Myshkin) returns from medical treatment abroad and finds himself in love with Nastasia. There are twists and turns as the he gets engaged to another woman (Amba) only to have an epileptic seizure. Nastasia and he get betrothed but on the wedding day she goes to her rich pursuer (Pawan) only to be killed by him. Both men wait together for the police. Ultimately, Myshkin descends into insanity.

Keywords: based-on-novel, tv-mini-series
Genres: Drama,

ChaalBaaz (1989)

Actors: Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Sunny Deol (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Annu Kapoor (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Kader Khan (actor), Anupam Kher (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Rajnikanth (actor), Aftab Shivdasani (actor), Rohini Hattangadi (actress), Aruna Irani (actress), Sridevi (actress), Sridevi (actress),

Plot: Anju and Manju, identical twins separated at birth. Born to a rich father who is paralyzed, they are brought up in totally contrasting environments. Anju is brought up in her father's house, bullied by her stepmother and her brother. She is constantly terrorized by them and often ends up in tears. Manju is a street smart girl, dancing in a hotel and ready to take on the world. They accidentally exchange places; Anju lands up in Manju's house and Manju in her father's palatial house. She takes up cudgels on behalf of the down trodden and soon discovers that she has a twin. She soon turns tables on Hattangadi and Kher.

Keywords: car-accident, confusion, dancer, fight, injection, marriage-proposal, mentally-retarded-nanny, mistaken-identity, poison, property-deed
Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Thriller,

The Mahabharata (1989)

Actors: Tuncel Kurtiz (actor), Maurice Bénichou (actor), Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Clifford De Spenser (miscellaneous crew), Andrzej Seweryn (actor), Sotigui Kouyaté (actor), Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Vittorio Mezzogiorno (actor), Ciarán Hinds (actor), Georges Corraface (actor), Peter Brook (writer), Nicolas Gaster (editor), Bruce Myers (actor), Bruce Myers (actor), Michèle Hollander (editor),

Plot: In ancient India the five Pandava brothers, Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva, are cousins of the sons of king Dhritharashtra, known as the Kaurava. The five are the sons of the wives of king Pandu, who seceded in favor of his blind brother after he was cursed. The men are raised together, but from the beginning there are difficulties. They are prone to fight and when Arjuna becomes a great archer, the Kaurava are both jealous and afraid. Is it the kingdom the Pandava are after? Yudhishthira, the eldest of the Pandava, strives after it as he is told by the deity Krishna that he will become king. The hatred and jealousy of the Kaurava grows even stronger when the Pandava turn a barren wasteland Dhritharashtra gave them into a great court. This can't go on forever. Inevitably a war will follow, a war that will shake the foundations of the Earth.

Keywords: based-on-play, battle, dead-boy, epic, massacre, mythological, religion, tv-mini-series, veda
Genres: Drama, War,

Quotes:

Duryodhana: Birth is obscure and men are like rivers whose origin are often unknown

Duryodhana: A man says: I have enough to eat and wear. I need nothing more! Shame! He says: I don't know anger! Shame! I am like a dried up stream, like a wooden elephant. All because my father was born blind, because one does not give a throne to a blind man.

Duryodhana: A man's body grows from birth and everyone is delighted in the same way his desire grows, his desire for power.

Duryodhana: Stay in this unhappy world, I am going to another world . Who is happier than I? I reigned on earth. I was just. I laughed. I sang. I loved my friends and wives. I protected my servants. I held out my hand to the afflicted. I knew all of human joys.

Krishna: The victory of the Pandava is assured. Tell your friends: 'Look - it's spring. The buds are sweet, the water sparkles, everyone is joyful... we're going to die.'

Phir Kab Milogi (1974)

Actors: Hrishikesh Mukherjee (director), Kumari Naaz (actress), Rahul Dev Burman (composer), Praveen Paul (actress), Abhi Bhattacharya (actor), Mala Sinha (actress), Mala Sinha (actress), Dilip Kumar (actor), David Abraham (actor), Biswajeet (actor), Uma Dutt (actor), Deven Verma (actor), Bipin Gupta (actor), Rajinder Singh Bedi (writer), Vikram (actor),

Plot: Sapna (Mala Sinha) is having fun meeting his employee Rajesh (Biswajit) as Paro, and then, in the city as Sapna; and Rajesh falls for the simplicity of Paro. His heart breaks when he realizes both Sapna and Paro are one, and he leaves his job, and goes to a remote village, where he once again meets Sapna, but this time, as a would be of local contractor, Diwan Sahab. She is taken hostage by Teja (Dilip Kumar) because of a confusion that she hit his sister. His sister, realizing that Teja would kill Sapna, lets her go, but Sapna doesn't reach back to her cottage. Would Rajesh ever be able to tell her he loved her; more importantly, is Sapna alive?

Genres: Romance,

Parivar (1968)

Actors: Madhavi (actress), Sunder (actor), Johnny Whisky (actor), Sulochana Latkar (actress), Krishan Dhawan (actor), Jankidas (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Raj Kishore (actor), Manmohan (actor), Mehmood Jr. (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Randhir (actor), Nanda (actress),

Plot: After his step-mother, Bhagwanti, asks him to leave, Andheri-based medical student, Gopal, gets married to his sweetheart, Meena, and both move in nearby. He completes his studies, becomes a doctor and both soon become parents of three children, two boys and a girl. Their harmonious lifestyle is shattered when their daughter passes away; and Gopal is arrested for killing a male named Diwanchand Rai.

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Bhishma (1962)

Actors: Anjali Devi (actress), Shobhan Babu (actor), Gummadi (actor), Saluri Rajeshwara Rao (composer), Relangi Venkatramaiah (actor), Varalakshmi G. (actress), Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri (actor), Prabhakar Reddy (actor), Vanisri (actress), Kanta Rao (actor), Suryakantham (actress), Rajababu (actor), Nagabhushanam (actor), Subba Rao B.A. (director), Subba Rao B.A. (producer),

Genres: Drama, Musical,

Bhishma (1942)

Actors: Jyotish Bannerjee (director), Jahar Ganguli (actor), Rekha Mallick (actress), Chandrabati Devi (actress), Santosh Singha (actor), Joy Narayan Mukherjee (actor), Satya Mukherjee (actor), Manorama (actress), Shishubala (actress), Meera Dutta (actress), Durga Sen (composer), Bijoy Kartik Das (actor),

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