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Diary of a Butterfly|
2012
Diary of a Butterfly
2012 | 97 min
A story of a young girl in pursuit of her dream of becoming big in the fashion industry, Gul comes to Mumbai from Jaiper to joins Vivek's company. Soon, she complains to him about Adi, her senior, who seeks sexual favours from her for accepting her design submissions. This is her way of getting back at Adi, with whom she had to sleep with before. She soon becomes Vivek's blue-eyed employee and is promoted, but stabs him in the back when she gets a far more lucrative job offer from his competitor, Ravi Bajaj. Before long, she ditches Ravi Bajaj too to join Xavier. Gul's mother, Shobha, always reminds Gul to maintain a diary to record her day-to-day events, as she feels it would serve as a mirror to her life. Gul obliges, but she is soon tired of writing in it due her consequential decisions in life, as well as due to feeling terribly let down by Karan, her boyfriend in Jaipur, and her two friends in Mumbai, Carol and Pia.
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Babu|
1985
Babu
1985 | 148 min
Sometimes, love is all it takes to change someone s life. Babu, a young rickshaw-puller ends up helping a man named Shankarlal who in return invites him to his house. Not knowing what s in store, Babu goes to his house where he finds himself overwhelmed with all the love showered on him. Feeling grateful, he decides to stay in touch with the family until one shocking incident lands him in jail. Years later, when Babu is released, he s shocked to see Shankarlal s daughter begging on the road. What happened to Shankarlal s family while he was in prison and how will Babu be able to help them during these hard times makes the story a heart-touching tale full of drama and emotions.
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Amar|
1954
Amar
1954 | 137 min
A nuanced psychological drama, exploring a 3-way relationship between the main characters and the crisis of conscience. A prosperous, well-respected lawyer, engaged to an educated, socially-conscious young woman, succumbs to a weak moment and rapes a poor local village milkmaid. The rest of the story deals with the aftermath of this tragic event, with all the inevitable undercurrents of guilt, penitence and pervasive heartbreak that stem from it.
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Anari|
1975
Anari
1975 | 129 min
How far would one go to end their poverty driven lives? Raj and Poonam find themselves in this moral dilemma which not only affects their love for each other but also their own personal lives! Raj's battle to find the finances for his sister's wedding while Poonam's to nurse her ailing mother certainly takes their lives down very complicated paths!
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Anokhi Ada|
1948
Anokhi Ada
1948 | 129 min
Surendra is a rich man's son who leaves his father's home to live as a vagabond. He encounters the heroine who is very poor and has nothing to eat. He gives her some rotis. Police mistake him for a thief, brings him to the police station where he is bailed out by his father's Munshi. Meanwhile the heroine's brother comes under a car and dies. She being bankrupt, leaves the house. They meet again in a train and fall in love. But the train falls off the track and suffers an accident. The heroine loses her memory and in a lost state of mind walks out of the hospital into a professor's house nearby. He takes pity on her and allows her to live in his house. He begins liking her and knows of her from the doctor who attended her in the hospital. They plan to get married but Surendra who is a former student of professor finds her and appeals to the professor to let her go and let them marry. The professor agrees but the heroine still doesn't remember him. In the end her memory comes back and they get married.
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Astitva|
2000
Astitva
2000 | 110 min
Aditi (Tabu) is a neglected housewife since Shri, her new husband, travels extensively. Her only respite seems to be her music lessons. A mutual attraction springs up between her and Malhar Kamath, her music teacher. On one of Shri's long trips abroad, Aditi gives in to her feelings of loneliness and in her desire for comfort, sleeps with Malhar. She subsequently gets pregnant but is unable to tell her husband who the father is. However, twenty-five years later, it dawns upon Shri that he may not be the father of the child after all and he confronts his wife about their son.
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Bahurani|
1963
Bahurani
1963 | 133 min
Bahurani features the story of a landlord who has two sons Raghu, by his first wife, and Vikram, by his second wife. Raghu is a simple-minded and innocent young man. Vikram is cruel, domineering, selfish and greedy. Also, he ill-treats everyone, from servants to his own brother Raghu. Likewise, his mother too is equally cruel to people around her. One day, Vikram has a fight with the Padma, who becomes the first person to ever confront him. Seeing this, the landlord decides to get Vikram married to the Padma. But Vikram refuses and after a series of incidents the Padma is married to Raghu, who she soon realizes is mistreated by her family members. Filled with rage, she stands up for him and defends him, thus making Raghu gain some confidence to fight for himself. Will Raghu and Padma be able to teach Vikram a lesson or not, forms the rest of the story.
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