Released Date:
2001-09-28
Languages:
Hindi
Countries:
India
Runtime:
150 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1564 Reviews)
Director:
Madhur BhandarkarMohan Azaad (dialogue)
Mohan Azaad (screenplay)
Madhur Bhandarkar
Masud Mirza (dialogue)
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.
Released Date:
2014-11-07
Languages:
English, Hindi
Countries:
UK, India
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1169 Reviews)
Director:
Ravi KumarThe story follows a young rickshaw-puller in Bhopal who gets a menial job at a chemical plant, but in December of 1984 a chemical spill in India takes the lives of almost 15,000 people and injuring more than 100,000. The film follows how the industrial disaster in the city changes his life and those of others.
Released Date:
2008-05-09
Languages:
Hindi
Countries:
India
Runtime:
150 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (4056 Reviews)
Director:
Vivek SharmaSudhanshu Dube (screenplay)
Vivek Sharma (screenplay)
Banku, his mother, Anjali Sharma and father move in to their new house -- the Nath villa, unaware of the fact that the house is inhabited by a ghost. It is learnt the ghost is not too happy with his new housemates. But what the ghost is not prepared for is his unlikely friendship with Banku. Now Banku must uncover the reason why his ghostly friend is stuck and help him to attain salvation.
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