M. A.-thirumurugan
Neelamalai Thirudan|
1957
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, ArabicBuddha Mar Gaya|
2007
Buddha Mar Gaya
2007 | 92 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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Subtitles:English, ArabicBolo 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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Subtitles:English, ArabicChintu Ji|
2009
Chintu Ji
2009 | 115 min
Hadbahedi, a small but beautiful town, is forward looking but honest. It competes for resources and recognition with a neighbouring corrupt town, Triphala. Hadbahedians believe that they have been totally neglected by the state and seek an identity. They are lead in this endeavor, by Arun, the local newspaper's proprietor. Things brighten when they discover that the celebrated film star Rishi Kapoor was actually born in their village 55 years back. A grand welcome follows. Chintu arrives with Devika Malhotra, his young and dynamic PR agent. He is a nuisance at Hadbahedi and treats the innocent people of Hadbahedi with contempt. Arun and Devika get along well, their romance blossoming, while ruthless Chintu is falling prey to the tempting monetary and political offer made by Triphala. The town by now has started getting the media and government's attention due to Chintu's stay in Hadbahedi. Chintu with the tempting offer from Triphala, on one side, and Arun-Devika with the townsfolk on the other are at the middle of a see-saw climax, while concurrently, Arun's past unfolds.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicDaag|
1952
Daag
1952 | 134 min
Living a poor life with his widowed mother, Shankar sells toys for a living, but is addicted to alcohol. He is attracted to Parvati, who also lives a similar life along with her step-brother, Jagat Narayan, his wife, and their daughter, Pushpa. After an argument with his mother, Shankar departs to the city, gives up drinking, earns a lot of money, and returns home just to time to pay off his mortgage. But his world will soon be shattered after he goes to ask for the hand of a now wealthy Parvati. This is where he will be forced to face his past, and ultimately be told that Parvati's marriage has been arranged elsewhere. Unable to live without Parvati, he takes up drinking again and heads on to a path of self-destruction
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Subtitles:English, ArabicDalamarmarangal|
2009
Dalamarmarangal
2009 | 102 min
The hidden secrets of an attempted murder are revealed through portrayal of circumstances that three different girls pass through in their life. Aswathy, a textiles shop employee, is staying with her bedridden and sick mother. She looks after the family with her meager salary. Kartika is a girl who is bestowed upon lots of love and affection by her parents. Her life zooms into a crisis when she comes to know of the secrets of her father s profession. The third girl, Rohini, lives in luxury and has tremendously rich parents. But the uneasiness and unhappiness in the family atmosphere makes her very very sad. She elopes with her very poor lover. Her father engages hired hoodlums to get her back after beating up the lover. She decides to commit suicide. Aswathy s mother comes in search of Indusekharan, Rohini s father. Aswathy is actually an illegitimate daughter of Indusekharan. But Indusekharan decides to get Aswathy murdered. The person whom he engages to do this murder is Kartika s father. He comes towards Aswathy as the messenger of death. This is an essay on how three different girls from three different social and economic backdrops try to cope with their life against all odds. Their crisis gets deepened and dangerous due to the attitudes of their parents. The experiences they go through prove that lack of love and affection is the prime reason that made the hell out of their lives. Lack of love and affection leads one to violence and to destruction as well. Dalamarmarangal establishes that love is the one and only antidote to violence.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicDe Dana Dan|
2009
De Dana Dan
2009 | 167 min
Apart from love, Nitin and Ram everything else in their lives have zero luck, including their bank balance! But now their rich girlfriends, Anjali and Manpreet, demand that they earn enough money so that they could either elope or break up forever. Broke and desperate, Nitin and Ram need to make big money and fast! They come up with a masterplan to kidnap Moolchandji, the pet dog of a rich socialite named Archana. But Moolchandji runs away, and the police think it's Nitin who's been kidnapped. As the guys try to get their hands on the ransom money, they encounter several strange characters like a Chinese Don, a hired assassin, an ACB officer, a club dancer, an ambassador, a young frustrated wife, a letch, a drunken waiter and a dead body nobody wants! What happens next is De Dana Dan - full of so many twists and turns that you'll turn giddy with laughter! De Dana Dan, full of masti and madness!
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Subtitles:English, Arabic, Romanian