India

A budding director endeavors to research a merciless gangster for making a film on gangsterism. But his secret attempts to conduct the research fail when he gets caught for snooping.Read More »

Orphaned as kids, Radha and her brother Ramu make their living by dancing and singing in small functions. Ramu makes it big in the music world.Read More »

The New York Times
Shwaas,”the debut feature by Sandeep Sawant, is the teary, slow-moving story of a grandfather (Arun Nalavade) who has brought his young grandson from their rural village to the big city to seek medical attention. The boy, a wide-eyed moppet named Parashuram (Ashwin Chitale), is losing his sight, and tests reveal that he is suffering from a rare cancer. His only hope of survival is an operation that would leave him permanently blind.Read More »

Synopsis:
Tashi, a man in his early thirties is forced to come back to his village in the remote northeast region of india after eight years when he loses his job in the city. As he stays in the village waiting for news of any new job in the city to go back to, he begins to experience the life and culture of his native place and his people. He gradually begins rediscovering his roots, which he had never paid attention to earlier. He meet and falls in love with a girl, Anila, a school teacher in the village who helps him in the process. The experience in the village begins to slowly change him and he decides to finally stay back in the village and not go back even after he gets the news that he has found himself a new job in the city.Read More »

Rekha and her uncle Shyamlal are the only survivors in their family which has a long and painful history of death under bizarre and suspicious circumstances while living in their ancestral property. Rekha and Shyamlal leave their ancestral property in fear and settle down in the city where Rekha meets a jovial and rowdy bunch of youngsters belonging to the Youth Club. Members of the Youth Club decide to unravel the mystery of Rekha’s ancestral property and hope to find out if those deaths are freak accidents or an ancient curse.Read More »

Raju lives as a derelict as a result of being estranged from his bitter father, a district judge, who threw Raju’s mother out of the house years ago. Raju shacks up with a Dacoit (pickpocket bandit) as his surrogate father only to realize that the man is actually responsible for the original misunderstanding between his parents. Raju kills him, and then tries killing his father, but fails, is arrested, and is taken to court right before his very own father, who presides there as the Judge. Raju has his childhood girlfriend as his legal representative, and the onus is now on his father, who must pass judgment without showing any personal sentiment. Written by rAjOoRead More »

At the age of eight, Dolkar fled her home with her father to escape Chinese armed forces, and faced an arduous journey across the Himalayas. Now 26, she lives in a Tibetan refugee colony in Delhi, where an unexpected encounter with a man from her past awakens long-suppressed memories, propelling Dolkar on an obsessive search for the truth.Read More »

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Disco Dancer is a 1982 Bollywood movie starring Mithun Chakraborty. It is notable for having been popular in both India and the Soviet Union during the 1980s. The film tells the rags-to-riches story of a young street performer. Today, the movie has become a cult phenomenon among many generations of Indians who grew up in the 80s and remember the classic I am a Disco Dancer song. The movie was a musical blockbuster and cemented music director Bappi Lahiri’s talents in Bollywood.Read More »

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Tashi, a lonely single man stays by himself in a defunct fuel station on the edge of a small town that is slowly being inundated by water from a dam reservoir that is being constructed nearby. He is unwilling to leave the place in spite of the coming danger and the warnings from the authorities as it holds a lot of memories for him. He meets Eshna, who comes to town with her husband, who is overseeing the construction of the dam. Despite the differences in their culture and unable to understand each other’s language, Tashi and Eshna slowly begin to form a close bond finding companionship from their loneliness in each other. As the dam nears completion and the authorities clamp down on the people to leave town. Now, Eshna must decide between the two paths that lay ahead of her and Tashi must decide whether to stay back and fight for his land and his world.Read More »