Pashtuns

Son of Sardaar (2012)

Actors: Ajay Devgn (producer), Sanjay Dutt (actor), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Robin Bhatt (writer), Ajay Devgn (actor), Sanjay Mishra (actor), Himesh Reshammiya (composer), Sajid Ali (composer), Puneet Issar (actor), Rajesh Vivek (actor), Juhi Chawla (actress), Salman Khan (actor), Tanuja (actress), Wajid Ali (composer), Sandeep Chowta (composer),

Genres: Action, Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: This Diwali, Vengeance Will Be Funny For his return...He waited 30 years!

Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010)

Actors: Ajay Devgn (actor), Pritam Chakraborty (composer), Avtar Gill (actor), Ekta Kapoor (producer), Shobha Kapoor (producer), Emraan Hashmi (actor), Guneet Monga (producer), Kangana Ranaut (actress), Akiv Ali (editor), Asif Basra (actor), Randeep Hooda (actor), Sandeep Shirodkar (composer), Meraj Shaikh (producer), Arbaaz Ali Khan (actor), Deepak Gawade (producer),

Plot: During March 1993, after his Ambassador car is being fished out of water, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Agnel Wilson, narrates to the Commissioner as to how he commenced his investigation against an underworld gangster, Sultan Mirza. He details how Sultan had survived floods in Madras, shortly after Independence; his arrival in Bombay; and his employment which earned him a mere 25 Paisa daily. Agnel's attempts to rein in Sultan fail, but he keeps tabs on him and his romance with Bollywood actress, Rehana; as well as his new recruit, Shoaib, the son of Sub-Inspector Khan. Agnel will find his investigation slipping out of his hands after Sultan temporarily delegates complete responsibility to Shoaib.

Keywords: 1970s, city-in-title, city-name-in-title, east-indian, gang, gangster, indian-woman, intentionally-misspelled-title, mumbai-india, once-upon-a-time-in-the-title
Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: The man Mumbai once feared. The man Mumbai now fears. Once upon a time... there was a powerful king... a reigning queen... an innocent confidante... and an evil prince. Mumbai goes rewind Rewind to the era of romance... smuggling... cabaret... mafia. Where it all began...

Aur Pappu Pass Ho Gaya (2007)

Actors: Mushtaq Khan (actor), Jackie Shroff (actor), Alok Nath (actor), Kashmira Shah (actress), Narendra Bedi (actor), Narendra Bedi (actor), Sambhavna Sheth (actress), K.K. Goswami (actor), Krishna Abhishek (actor), Krishna Abhishek (actor), Ravi Chopra (composer), Sikander Kharbanda (actor), Rahul Kanawat (actor), Shradha Kamle (actress), Shradha Kamle (actress),

Plot: Day-dreamer Pappu lives a poor lifestyle with his mom and dad in a village in India. In order to better his prospects, he re-locates to Bombay and finds a job as a mechanic in Sardar Tara Singh's garage. He meets with and falls in love with Kiran Chauhan, who is the sister of dreaded gangster, Sudhakar Chauhan, and lives a very wealthy lifestyle surrounded by bodyguards. Pappu feigns that he is really a runaway Prince of Trikamgarh, worms his way into Kiran's heart and also wins over Sudhakar and their grandmother. When Sudhakar asks Pappu to bring his father to finalize the marriage, he asks Tara to be his dad, to which he agrees, and in this way fool Sudhakar and Kiran. When Tara borrows money from Pathan in order to enable Pappu live a princely lifestyle, they are unable to re-pay this debt, but help comes unexpectedly from the real Raja of Trikamgarh, who also travels to finalize his son's marriage - much to Pappu's surprise. Things spiral out of control when Pappu's real father and mother also decide to pay their son a visit!!!

Genres: Comedy,

Danger (2002)

Actors: Rana Jung Bahadur (actor), A. Sreekar Prasad (editor), Dinesh Hingoo (actor), Ashutosh Rana (actor), G.P. Singh (actor), Shishir Sharma (actor), Shishir Sharma (actor), Zul Vellani (actor), Govind Menon (director), Jas Arora (actor), Tara Deshpande (actress), Gautam Kapoor (actor), Nakul Sen (costume designer), Mahmud Babai (actor), Shashi Wadia (writer),

Plot: Gujarati-speaking vegetarian, Nainesh, is the Accountant of a gangster, Sarfaraz Pathan, and lives with his mistress, Unnati. After Sarfaraz' nephew, Sunny, and Wassimbhai torture and recover Two Crore Rupees from a bald man, but Sunny kills him, spattering blood all over the Rupee notes. Nainesh and Unnati spend all night cleaning and ironing the currency, and neatly packaging it in a suitcase. Subsequently, Unnati tells him she had seen Sunny driving away with two bags while Nainesh was in the bathroom. Suspicious, Nainesh opens the suitcase and finds the cash substituted by old newspapers. He will soon find his life in danger after Sunny denies taking the cash, and Sarfaraz demands the cash be returned to him at any and all costs.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: You can run but you can't hide

Kaante (2002)

Actors: Remo (miscellaneous crew), Crystal Connell (miscellaneous crew), Anand Raj Anand (composer), Jayesh Pradhan (miscellaneous crew), Rati Agnihotri (actress), Vishal Dadlani (composer), Kurt Sinclair (actor), Nils Allen Stewart (actor), Mahesh Manjrekar (actor), Sanjay Dutt (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Sunil Shetty (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Shari Sontag (miscellaneous crew), Bharat S. Shah (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: On or about 12May00, a truck gets stolen in Los Angeles, and the Police bring in six men of South Asian origin for questioning. They are: Yashvardhan Rampal, known as 'Major' educated intelligent, unemployed, with an ailing wife who longs to return to India; Non-English speaking Jay Rehan, otherwise known as 'Ajju', a foul-mouthed, trigger-happy gangster; A out-of-work former nightclub bouncer, Marc Issak, whose girlfriend, Lisa, is a bar dancer, and who is known to get into fights due to his uncontrollable temper; A drug deal, Raj Yadav, otherwise known as Bali, foul-mouthed, womanizer, stutterer, and alcoholic; Bali's sidekick, Maqbool Haider, otherwise known as Mac; White-collared Anand Mathur, alias Andy, recently separated from his wife, Renu, and longing to get back together with his son, who he cannot get custody of due to financial problems. The six confer in a cell, cite woes that even though the Italians have their Mafia, the Colombians have their Cartels, but the East Indian criminal community is yet to forge a Bhai-type organization, resulting in their getting pulled-in as the usual suspects every time there is a crime involving a colored person. They plot to get back at the cops by robbing the American Services Bank, perhaps the only bank which has a majority of it's clientèle employed by the city police. They plan and carry out this caper quite successfully, but when they exit the bank, they find themselves surrounded by the Police. After a shoot-out, They do manage to escape and meet in a secret hideout, to not only share the loot, but also try and find out who betrayed them. Ajju abducts Police Interrogator, Detective MacQuarrie, and it is through him they learn that their informer is one of them - and they must find out his identity - kill him - then divide the loot amongst them and disperse. The only problem is the informer is not willing to come forward - and the gangsters end up suspecting each other and their respective motives.

Keywords: abandoned-warehouse, arms-dealer, bank-robbery, betrayal, black-comedy, bouncer, computer-expert, dark-humor, death-of-wife, drug-addict
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: 6 perfect strangers, 1 perfect crime. Now, all they have to fear is each other... Kill, threaten, kidnap, maim, murder, steal....Meet the masters.

Quotes:

[in the police station]::McQuarrie's partner: [in Hindi] Where were you last night?::Ajju: [Looks at McQuarrie] With his wife.

Ajju: Why are you looking at each other like this?

Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': [Speaking to Ajju] Who gave you the passport to come here.

Jay Rehan 'Ajju': [to Major in Hindi] Will you only bark or will you bite?

Ajju: If I put this bomb on your head... what's gonna blow first? The bomb or your head?::Raj Yadav 'Baali': The bomb... no... the head can also blow first... its a very tough question... you tell me... what will blow first?::Ajju: Neither the bomb nor the head... first of all your balls will blow!

McQuarrie's partner: About the robbery, Tell us whatever you know about this...::Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': I'll tell what I know and what I do know is that you've made a very very big mistake by bringing me here

Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': Plan's changed.... all of you put your cellphones on the table... we are going to rob the bank tomorrow... not the day after...::Maqbool Haider 'Mak': Smart move Major! You're doing this so none of us can cheat on you...::Anand Mathur 'Andy': So what do we do tonight?::Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': Tonight? We're gonna dance, sing, drink... what else?::Raj Yadav 'Baali': *Picks up the mobile* I will get some hot chics arranged right now!::Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': Put the phone down Bali!

Jay Rehan 'Ajju': [To the bodyguard in English] You know what this is brother? Its a gun... with bullets! Goes in real small... comes out real big::Marc Issak: *Shocked* So this gentleman also speaks english, huh?::Jay Rehan 'Ajju': Sometimes, I guess::Marc Issak: Man... seen so many bastards, but not one like you!

Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': [To Ajju] Who in the blue hell gave you a passport?::Jay Rehan 'Ajju': Baali's mom!::Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major': [Major looks at Baali]::Raj Yadav 'Baali': She's been w... working in a passport office since childhood only!

Maqbool Haider 'Mak': So there we were... all of us laughing our hearts out... not knowing that somewhere in the dark, Death too was laughing back at us!

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.