A. M.-samiullah
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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Subtitles:English, ArabicOnde Roopa Eradu Guna|
1975
Onde Roopa Eradu Guna
1975 | 137 min
Onde Roopa Eradu Guna is a 1975 Indian Kannada film, directed by A. M. Samiullah and produced by A. M. Samiullah. The film stars Vishnuvardhan, Balakrishna, Narasimharaju, Chandrashekar, Ambarish, Chandrakala and Bhavani in lead roles. Music of the film was composed by Salil Chowdhary.
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Subtitles:EnglishAndaz|
1949
Andaz
1949 | 140 min
Dilip saves Neeta when her horse veers off control. A friendship develops between the two and when her father passes away she makes him a partner in the family business that she inherits. Very soon Dilip falls in love with her. However, it turns out that Neeta is in love with and engaged to Rajan. She marries him once he returns from abroad. When Dilip declares his love for her on her wedding night, she tells him that she has always looked upon him as a friend and nothing more. Rajan soon begins to suspect Neeta of infidelity. Things come to a head as there is a violent clash between the two men, where one of them gets shot by Neeta and is tried for his murder.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicAnmol Ghadi|
1946
Anmol Ghadi
1946 | 121 min
Chander and Lata were childhood friends in Jahanabad, Lata being the daughter of a rich family whereas Chander was the son of a poor, widow mother. Lata's parents didn't like Renu being friends with Chander. Renu's family gets transferred to Bombay. At the time of departure, Renu gifts her watch to Chander as a memento. They grow up. Chander goes to Bombay to search Lata. Chander's rich friend Prakash opens a shop for Chander where Chander can earn his livelihood by repairing musical instruments. Prakash's mother doesn't like Prakash spending money on Chander. Lata has turned a writer, her work published under the nickname of "Renu" aka "Renuka Devi", Chander becomes a fan of her work. Basanti is Lata's friend. In one of her novels, Lata writes the story of Childhood friendship of Chander and Lata. Chander reads it and writes a letter to Renu (Lata) to find out how she knows of this story and if she knows Lata, then helping him to find Lata. Reading that letter, Basanti forces Lata to call Chander to meet plotting that Basanti will meet Chander as Lata. Basanti meets Chander there and falls in love with Chander. Chander was carrying the watch gifted by Lata to him all the time, that he looses when Basanti meets him and Basanti locates it. Seeing the watch, Lata recognizes it and recognizes Chander. Basanti feels hurt and blames Lata that she was knowing that Basanti was in love with Chander even then Lata didn't tell her that Chander is the same guy who Lata herself is in love with. Lata tells her that she herself was not aware. Lata's parents contact Prakash for marrying Lata. When Chander Comes to know of it, under the lifetime of obligations of Prakash, he lets go of his love. Chander's mother dies. Prakash gets married to Lata; Chander walks off into the sunset followed by Basanti.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicAnokhi 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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Subtitles:English, ArabicAur Pyar Ho Gaya|
1997
Aur Pyar Ho Gaya
1997 | 148 min
Aashi's (Aishwarya Rai) marriage has been arranged with a rich garment chain owner. However, she is not prepared to plunge into an arranged marriage unless she checks out the man herself! So she heads to Switzerland where she meets another man, Bobby Oberoi (Bobby Deol), who claims to be her husband-to-be and falls in love with him. Realising the seriousness of the situation, Bobby decides to come clean. He tells her the truth. Aashi feels betrayed and tells him to stay away from her. Aashi soon understands her love for Bobby and they reunite. They decide to get married on returning to India. Their love story takes a turn when Bobby's mother, who is a General Manager in a bank refuses to cover Aashi's dad's high-risk stock trade leading to his arrest. The marriage is called off and Aashi reluctantly agrees to marry her dad's friend's son.
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Subtitles:English, Arabic, RomanianBahurani|
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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