B. A.-chidambaranath

Murappennu|
1965

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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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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Buddha Mar Gaya|
2007
Buddha Mar Gaya
2007 | 96 min
Laxmikant Kabadiya aka LK (Anupam Kher) is one of India's richest industrialists. His conglomerate is on the verge of a 5000 crore IPO that should make them one of the largest companies in the country. LK's family can't stop salivating at the thought of all that money. Unfortunately for all of them on the night before the IPO opens, LK dies. The family is distraught and horrified as now no one will buy their shares. So, on the advice of their family guru, the family decides to hide the death of LK for a period of two days until the shares are all sold out. However, to make matters worse, every time they're ready to announce LK's death, fate intervenes forcing them to keep his death hidden for another couple of days. This results in them having to announce the death of a fictitious friend or a relative of LK's; which means generating dead bodies and worse, getting the dead LK to make appearances at these funerals.
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Bolo Raam|
2009
Bolo Raam
2009 | 106 min
In this fast-paced and gripping thriller, Raam is charged with the murder of his mother, Archana. On the other hand, Raam falls into a state of shock, after his mother's death and becomes silent, refusing to talk or react in any manner. The investigating officer, Indrajeet Singh Rathi, is puzzled and unable to make Raam speak. He consults a psychiatrist, Dr. Negi, to determine the cause of Raam's state of mind and the reason for his silence. Every possible motive that Raam might have for murdering his mother is explored. Furthermore, Raam's neighbors, Sub-Inspector Sajid Khan, his daughter, Juhi and son, Sameer are summoned by Rathi for interrogation. Will Raam's silence solve the puzzle?
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Aladin|
2009
Aladin
2009 | 132 min
A fantasy drama in which Aladin Chatterjee lives in the city of Khwaish. He is an orphan who has been bullied since childhood by Kasim and his gang. But his life changes when Jasmine gives him a magic lamp - because it lets loose a genie named Genius. Desperate to grant him 3 wishes and seek the end of his contract with the Magic Lamp, Genius makes Aladin's life difficult until the real threat looms on the horizon: the ex-genie Ringmaster. Why does Ringmaster want to kill Aladin? What is the dark secret about Aladin's past that Genius is carrying? And what is Aladin's destiny after all?
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Dance Party|
1995
Dance Party
1995 | 124 min
Sweety goes for a party with her boyfriend Sanjay, but is left shocked when she realizes that Sanjay becomes an altogether different person when high. She breaks up with Sanjay and tries to start her life afresh with a new job, but unfortunately, Sanjay turns out to be her colleague. Sweety decides to teach him a lesson, ignorant of the fact that her firm is owned by Sanjay s father, Rajaram.
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