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Take One|
2014
Take One
2014 | 97 min
An Indian Actress, Doel Mitra, acquires overnight infamy by igniting the wrath of conservative Indian society when a bold sex-scene from one of her foreign films is leaked on the internet. What makes it even more scandalous is that Doel is in the middle of shooting an Indian film in which she plays the part of the mythological Hindu character, Sita.
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Subtitles:English, ArabicCommrade|
2017
Commrade
2017 | 84 min
The plot revolves around the land acquisition movement of 2006-07 in Bengal. The government asked the peasants to give up their lands for industrialization and promised them jobs in return. However, the peasants refused to give up their ancestral land as they smelled foul play and this led to a clash between them and the authorities. Later two women, Nandini and Radharani became the flag bearers of the movement, but they suffered a terrible fate.
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Subtitles:English, Chinese, ArabicMain Krishna Hoon|
2013
Main Krishna Hoon
2013 | 129 min
An abandoned baby boy is rescued from floodwaters by Kantaben and Nattubhai, the kindly proprietors of a small orphanage. They name the baby Krishna because of the way he was found parallels the legend of how the god Lord Krishna came to live with his adoptive parents as a baby. Orphan Krishna lives happily in the orphanage with Kanta and Nattu and the other foundling children. But over the years, as one by one, his other friends are adopted out to families but he remains, young Krishna comes to believe that he is unadoptable, unwanted, and will never find a family. In despair, all alone one night he goes to a temple and prays to Lord Krishna. This is the story of how Lord Krishna himself (in his childhood 'butter thief' avatar) comes to Earth and befriends the young orphan Krishna ... and helps him to discover his family.
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Subtitles:English, Arabic, ChineseMain Krishna Hoon - Russian|
2013
Mahasathi Anasuya|
1965
Ariyatha Paiyan|
2001
Ariyatha Paiyan
2001 | 78 min
Mumtaz is a village girl whose family is killed in communal riots. She moves to Mumbai with her uncle, the only family member she has left. They are desperately poor and her uncle persuades her to become a bar girl at Chandni Bar. This is merely temporary, he promises, until he gets a job. Mumtaz is a shy girl who loathes the work, but she forces herself to dance and flirt. However, the uncle doesn't keep his promise; he lives on her earnings, drinking them away, and never gets a job. He adds one final, unforgivable crime to the list when he gets drunk and rapes her. By this time she has caught the eye of a gangster called Potiya Sawant. When she tells Potiya what her uncle did to her, Potiya decides to "defend her honor." Potiya shoots the uncle. Mumtaz, bereft of any male protection in the dangerous slums, marries Potiya. She is determined to make the best of things. She leaves the bar and stays home to raise her two children, whom she carefully protects from the world of prostitution and gangs. However, her world unravels again when Potiya is killed. She has to return to the bar to support her children. In the end, she cannot protect them from their sordid surroundings. Her son becomes a killer, her daughter becomes a bar dancer in her turn, and Mumtaz turns to prostitution in a tragic attempt to save her son.
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