3 Movies Directed by Anurag Basu

Murder

Murder

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-04-02

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

130 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (2432 Reviews)

Director:

Anurag Basu

Cast:

Writer:

Anurag Basu

Subodh Chopra (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Living in Bangkok with her husband Sudhir and the child from his first marriage to her sister, Simran feels isolated in a foreign land and ignored by her husband. A chance meeting with an old flame leads to a renewed and passionate affair until she starts to realise how badly she could be damaging her marriage. Sudhir has indeed become suspicious and hired a private detective who gives him compelling evidence of his wife's deceit. Sudhir sets out to confront his rival.

Gangster

Gangster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-04-28

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

123 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (3224 Reviews)

Director:

Anurag Basu

Cast:

Writer:

Mahesh Bhatt (story)

Girish Dhamija (dialogue)

Anurag Basu (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya - who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed - a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.

Barfi!

Barfi!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-09-14

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

151 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (45971 Reviews)

Director:

Anurag Basu

Cast:

Writer:

Anurag Basu (story)

Tani Basu (story)

Sanjeev Dutta (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Set in the 1970s in a pretty corner of India, Barfi! is the story of three young people who learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's norms of normal and abnormal. Barfi, a hearing and speech impaired boy falls in love with Shruti. In spite of her deep affection for Barfii, Shruti gives into societal and parental pressure to marry a 'normal' man and lead a 'normal' life. Many years later their paths cross once again when Barfi, now in love with Jhilmil, is on the run from the police. Barfi is desperately seeking Jhilmil, who has gone missing. Shruti's realization that Jhilmil is autistic makes her recognize that true love is really blind. Caught in a cat and mouse game, in the search for the girl Barfi loves, Shruti realizes that she is still in love with him. She must now choose between her happiness and Barfi! stars three of India's most loved young stars, all essaying roles of a lifetime. The uber cool Ranbir Kapoor plays the lead role of Barfi!, the very talented Priyanka Chopra takes on the challenge of playing Jhilmil and South star Ileana makes her Hindi debut as Shruti. This season, don't worry, be Barfi!

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