Saurabh Shukla

Chintu 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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Paathshaala|
2010
Paathshaala
2010 | 121 min
The story starts with the joining of a new English Teacher Rahul Prakash Udyavar (Shahid Kapoor) in Swaraswati Vidya Mandir school, situated in the outskirts of Mumbai Suburbs. Though he creates an instant rapport with students and teachers alike, he realizes that there is something amiss in this school. Slowly his doubts come true as the manager of the school, Sharma (Saurabh Shukla), makes many monetary obligations compulsory for the parents in the name of extracurricular activities. He goes to the extent of punishing the students inhumanly when the new and unjustified demands of the school are not met by the parents. Day by day the stress levels among the students increase. The situation becomes so explosive that it eventually turns into a national issue. Paathshala tries to answer many questions that are related to the sanctity of today's education system. The high morals and basic ethics of the teachings have taken a back seat. Making more profit than ever has become a new mantra of education institutions. The film is neither afraid of telling the truth of wrong doings by the greedy educational institutes on the face nor does it spare them from exposing the use of unethical media activities for the children who are yet not ready for it.
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Satya|
1998

Utt Pataang|
2011
Utt Pataang
2011 | 101 min
UTT PATAANG is a comedy thriller of happenings one night that find a simpleton Vinay Pathak who is on the brink of a break up, caught in a dangerous money deal gone horribly wrong. Caught in this chase for the bagful of money, is his private detective friend Saurabh Shukla, a heartbroken woman (Mona Singh), a French-obsessed gangster (Vinay Pathak again) and the gangster's moll (Mahie Gill), all thrown into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse chase. Layers of secrecy unfold and game gets worse as the night wears on.
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Hey Ram|
2000
Hey Ram
2000 | 199 min
Saket Ram (Kamal Hassan) and his close associate and friend Amjad Ali Khan (Shahrukh Khan) are archaeologists working at the excavation sites of Mohenjodaro. Aparna Ram (Rani Mukherji), Saket's simple Bengali wife, is a school teacher. She lives in Calcutta in the midst of riots and chaos over the issue of the formation of Pakistan and the call by Mohammad Ali Jinnah for Direct Action. Saket is swept into the political madness. A group of Muslims brutally rape and murder Aparna. Saket, unable to cope with his tragic loss, goes on a killing spree. He comes across Sriram Abhyankar, who is part of a Hindu militant group determined to fight the Muslims and Saket becomes a part of his militant organisation that plots to do away with Mahatma Gandhi.
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Shakal Pe Mat Ja|
2011
Shakal Pe Mat Ja
2011 | 140 min
SPMJ is a story of 4 young boys who get caught up as suspects at the Delhi international airport, on a high alert day. They get caught while capturing an American Airlines aircraft landing on their camera, which they claim to have shot for a documentary that they are making. With their explanation and situation not being fruitful they are brought into the interrogation room of the International airport to be questioned by the CISF. With Looks that are totally anti-terrorist, these simple guys get into crazy trouble, as their hold up doesn't turn up the way anyone expected. After all, looks are deceptive. Everything that they say or possess or even do leads them to further obstacles. Whether it's the suspicious footage of the boys being at Rashtriya pati bhawan, or the Arabic and Pakistani Porn that they find in Rohan's bag, Whether it's the bomb like looking device in Dhruv's bag which he states to be his physics project or the fact that the 27 year old Bulai who resembles a most wanted terrorist and doesn't carry any id or even a cell phone. At the same time the Intelligence has reports that a group of terrorists are planning some sort of an attack. Do these 4 guys have any involvement with the terror group or they have different plans all-together. Are looks always deceptive? Could these four innocent looking guys be hard core terrorists involved in one of the biggest terror plans? Shakal Pe Mat Jaa is a film which deals with all such deceptive goof ups, mistaken identities & madness created due to being there at the wrong place at the wrong time. Innocent Looking maniacs, amateur terror groups, and Security forces who are never on time is what Shakal Pe Mat Ja is all about!
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Lage Raho Munna Bhai|
2006
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
2006 | 144 min
Munna is in love with the voice of popular Radio Jockey Jhanvi. Her effervescent greeting of 'Good Morrrning Mumbai' on her daily radio show makes Munna's heart skip a beat each time he listens to her. He manages to get on a call on her show and poses himself as a history professor. Jhanvi in all her innocence, Jhanvi even invites Munna to give a history lecture to her family. As Munna tries to sort out this entanglement in his otherwise perfect life, Circuit comes up with a bright solution and just when he thinks he's got his problem solved, the arrival of a figure from history finds Munna facing a most unusual case of the past catching up with the present.
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero|
2013
Phata Poster Nikhla Hero
2013 | 146 min
Phata Poster Nikhla Hero is a story of a boy named Vishwas, brought up in a small town with dreams of being a film hero, while his mother, Savitri, always dreamt of him becoming an honest police inspector. Vishwas, now a grown man, comes to Mumbai for an interview in the Police Service. But his mind still had the suppressed dreams of making it big in Bollywood. His passion for stardom leads him to a wannabe writer named Jogi, who is a hoax and struggling writer in debt. Jogi, along with his troupe of struggling actors get Vishwas a small role in a film. Thus, Vishwas begins his journey to stardom. Just as Vishwas begins of big stardom, a very sweet girl named Kajal walks into his life, turning his whole plan upside down. Vishwas now must pretend to be someone he is not for the sake of the girl and for his mother who wants him to be a police officer.
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero - Russian|
2013

Phata Poster Nikhla Hero - Polish|
2013