Striker (2010)

Actors: Rajendra Gupta (actor), Anupam Kher (actor), Yuvan Shankar Raja (composer), Aditya Pancholi (actor), Seema Biswas (actress), Vishal Bhardwaj (composer), Padmapriya (actress), Siddharth (actor), Amit Trivedi (composer), Murari Kumar (actor), Anup Soni (actor), Vijay Maurya (writer), Chandan Arora (director), Chandan Arora (writer), Chandan Arora (producer),

Plot: Amidst strictly enforced curfew by Bombay Police during December 1992 following Hindu-Muslim riots, Suryakant - one of four siblings from Malad's Malvani slums, heads home. While doing so, he reflects on his childhood; his sisters: Devi and Rajni; brother Chandrakant; his dad, Shashikant, as well his mother; his expertise with the Carrom-board; run-ins with extortionist-goon, Jaleel Khan; his friendship with Zaid Khan; his crush on Noorie as well as his plans to find employment in Dubai; why he could not attend Devi's marriage, as well as the tragedy that awaits him.

Genres: Crime, Drama,

Tere Bin Laden (2010)

Actors: Ehsaan Noorani (composer), Loy Mendonsa (composer), Shankar Mahadevan (composer), Piyush Mishra (actor), Rahul Singh (actor), Masood Akhtar (actor), Suresh Pai (editor), Ankur Tewari (miscellaneous crew), Rajendra Sethi (actor), Barry John (actor), Harry Josh (actor), Seema Bhargava (actress), Abhijit Chawathe (miscellaneous crew), Chinmay Mandlekar (actor), Ali Zafar (actor),

Plot: "Tere Bin Laden" is a tongue-in-cheek comedy about an ambitious young news reporter from Pakistan who is desperate to migrate to the US in pursuit of the American dream. His repeated attempts to immigrate are shot down as his visa is always rejected. But when things couldn't look worse he comes across an Osama bin Laden look alike. Ali then hatches a scheme to produce a fake Osama video and sell it to news channels as a breakthrough scoop! Unfortunately there are serious ramifications as the White House gets involved and dispatches a overzealous secret agent on Ali's trail.

Keywords: afghanistan, ak-47, american-soldier, anti-americanism, arabian, arabic, burqa, chicken, chicken-coop, chicken-farm
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: A million-dollar fake

Dev (2004)

Actors: Adesh Shrivastava (composer), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Pramod Moutho (actor), Achyut Potdar (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Om Puri (actor), Rati Agnihotri (actress), Kareena Kapoor (actress), Milind Gunaji (actor), Suresh Bhagwat (actor), Govind Nihalani (writer), Govind Nihalani (producer), Govind Nihalani (director), Ehsan Khan (actor), Fardeen Khan (actor),

Plot: Dev is the saga of Dev and Tej's friendship, a bond stronger than blood ties in which Farhaan emerges as the wedge driving them apart. The story unfolds against the vitiated atmosphere of present times where innocent lives become fodder for political expediency. The spark of terrorist violence unknowingly set off by Farhaan under the aegis of the corrupt politician Latif engulfs the whole city in its flames. Tej transgresses beyond the boundaries of law in his passion to eliminate anti-national crime. Dev is faced with the spectre of the tragic human cost and a moral compulsion to act. The stakes rise beyond self-interest. Dev and Tej are set on a path of dramatic collision. Even as Dev and Farhaan's fate gets irreversibly linked, two soldiers whose allegiance may be to different causes but admiration for each other's courage and integrity brings them together.

Keywords: character-name-in-title, controversy, explosion, flashback, friendship, hindu, loss-of-father, muslim, non-violence, police-officer
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: He choose to walk the razor's edge...

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.

Kaun? (1999)

Actors: Manoj Bajpayee (actor), Urmila Matondkar (actress), Anurag Kashyap (writer), Ram Gopal Varma (director), Ashok (miscellaneous crew), R.R. Pathak (miscellaneous crew), Shankar (miscellaneous crew), Sandeep Chowta (composer), Sushant Singh (actor), Gopal (miscellaneous crew), Bahadur (miscellaneous crew), Allu Aravind (miscellaneous crew), Parvez (miscellaneous crew), Bhanodaya (editor), Kusha (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: It's a rainy day and a young woman is all alone in the house. She is shown talking to her family on the phone, anxious for them to come back to the house. Adding to her anxiety is the television, which announces that a killer is on the loose. And then, the doorbell rings. Who could it be?

Keywords: alone-in-house, axe, bollywood, broken-down-car, doorbell, fade-to-black, female-protagonist, kitten, knife, knocking-on-door
Genres: Thriller,

Maujaan Dubai Diyan (1985)

Actors: Paintal (actor), Madan Puri (actor), Raza Murad (actor), Birbal (actor), Ram Mohan (actor), Arun Govil (actor), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Kamaldeep (actor), Kamaldeep (actor), Sunil Dhawan (actor), Brahmachari (actor), Vinod Mehra (actor), Mehar Mittal (actor), Ranjeet (actor),

Plot: Naive and simple-minded, Chandraprakash, lives in Ludhiana along with his dad, Jagannath; mom, Paro; sister, Ranno; and brother, Raju. They are unable to come up with a dowry to get Ranno married, while everyone expects him to wed Billoo, whose dad, Harbhanslal, is employed in Dubai, and wants Chandraprakash to re-locate there. Jagannath sells almost every item in his house as well as borrows money from Thekedhar to accumulate Rs.10,000/- to pay for the passport and visa, and asks him to go see Roshanlal in Delhi. Chandraprakash leaves but is not heard for a long time. Then a letter from Harbanslal devastates the family by informing them that he never made it to Dubai. Little do they know that he is has been sold as a slave to labor in Bekaar Camp on an unknown island, and may never return home.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,