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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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Subtitles:English, ArabicAmar Deep|
1958
Amar Deep
1958 | 148 min
The Movie is about Aruna who lives a wealthy lifestyle with her paternal grandfather. Her Grandfather wants her to get married to a young man named Pran as she has crossed her marriageable age, but Aruna doesn't like Pran as she finds him possessive, controlling, and shot-tempered, so she decides to run away. Her grandfather asks Pran to search everywhere for her, and Pran takes an oath that he will not return home until he finds her. He does find her and brings her back home. Shortly thereafter, her grandpa develops complications and passes away, leaving her in the care of Pran and a servant named Harriya. When Pran offers to marry her, she refuses and tells him that she loves another man, Ashok, she met when she ran away, the one who lives in an abandoned bus in the country. When they locate Ashok, he is unable to recognize her, and is in the company of a beautiful street dancer, Roopa, who he hopes to get married to soon.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicDiary 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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Subtitles:English, ArabicParineeta - Ashok Kumar|
1953
Parineeta - Ashok Kumar
1953 | 106 min
Set in the beautiful Kolkata of the sixties, Parineeta follows the love-story of the talented but emotionally high-strung Shekhar and Lalita an orphan with a heart of gold. Shekhar s ambitious and conniving father, Navin Rai is against their match as Lalita has no money and has been raised by a middle-class family. Matters come to a head when Lalita decides to take the young and enterprising businessman, Girish s help to save the fortunes of her adoptive family. But this act of selflessness leads to a crack in her relationship with Shekhar. Based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay s 1914 novella by the same name, Parineeta portrays Bengali culture and the ethos of a bygone era with great perfection.
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Subtitles:EnglishJaal Saz - Kishore Kumar|
1959
Jaal Saz - Kishore Kumar
1959 | 139 min
Dwarkanath and his wife were separated from their child, a son named Shankar when they attended the Khumbh Mela in Central India. Years later they are still awaiting his arrival. Notorious con-man and gangster, Sunderdas, comes to know of this, and hires a look-alike named Kundanlal, who meets with Dwarkananth, and is accepted immediately. Sundedas wants to use Kundanlal as a tool to get money from the wealthy Dwarkanath, but Kundanlal refuses to do so. As a result, Sunderdas exposes Kundanlal and hires another look-alike to take his place as the missing son.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicShaandaar - Sanjeev Kumar|
1974
Shaandaar - Sanjeev Kumar
1974 | 145 min
Shanker comes from a poor family. He falls in love with a woman from a middle-class background named Rani. Shanker has another admirer in Anita Chaurasia, daughter of a multi-millionaire industrialist and politician, Rai Bahadur Arjun Chaurasia. Shanker comes to know the details of the wrong-doings of Arjun and sets out to expose him. Arjun comes to know about Shanker's plans and hires a notorious gangster named Dhaga, to dispose of Shanker. And Dhaga has never failed in any job.
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Subtitles:Arabic, EnglishKahani Nadaan Umar Ki|
2000
Mr. Mahesh Kumar|
1994
Mausam - Sanjeev Kumar|
1975
Mausam - Sanjeev Kumar
1975 | 136 min
When a young Dr. Amarnath and Chanda fall in love in the idyllic surroundings of a blooming Darjeeling, love, and marriage are promised, but Amarnath is unable to keep his promise. A heartbroken Chanda ends up being married off to a cripple and delivers a baby girl. Chanda slowly starts losing her grip on reality, pining for Amarnath. Left to fend for herself, Chanda s young daughter, a cornered Kajli is molested and sold into the flesh trade. A gray-haired Amarnath returns to heartbreak and lost memories as Kajli misunderstands his overtures. Ahead of its times, Mausam is a must watch for its lyrical beauty and the heartwarming climax.
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