7 Movies Directed by Priyadarshan

Virasat

Virasat

Basic Info:

Languages:

Hindi, English

Countries:

India

Runtime:

165 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1631 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Cast:

Writer:

Kamal Haasan (story)

Vinay Shukla (dialogue)

Vinay Shukla (screenplay)

Fullplot:

After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides. Accompanying him is his leggy girlfriend, Anita, who he is in love with and wants to marry, much to the disapproval of his family. After a few days, Shakti starts to feel that nothing much has changed in this part of India and longs to return, as he is unable to bear the animosity between the townspeople, in general, and in particular between his Zamindar dad, Raja Thakur, and rival Zamindar Birju, none other than Raja's crippled brother. When Anita leaves the town to meet her parents elsewhere in India, Shakti too wants to follow her, but his plans change suddenly when his father passes away, and the region is ravaged by unprecedented natural calamities. Following the funeral he decides to stay on to look after the family estate and business temporarily, and that is when he meets local town belle, Gehna, who has given her heart to him years ago, hopes to marry him, with approval from his very own family. Anita returns to find that nothing is the same anymore, and that her role may be reduced to that of a mistress, she must now make a choice to either return back home, or fight and win back Shakti's love.

Hera Pheri

Hera Pheri

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-03-31

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

156 min

IMDB Ratings:

8.5 (19876 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Cast:

Writer:

Siddique (story)

Lal (story)

Neeraj Vora (dialogue)

Neeraj Vora (screenplay)

Anand S. Vardhan (story)

Fullplot:

Baburao is a landlord in India, who is very near-sighted, and always in financial trouble. He has a tenant named Raja, who has not paid his rent for several months. He also has anther tenant named Shyam, who has come to the city to look for a job in his late father's place, but is unable to find employment. The three men quarrel amongst themselves frequently. Then one day, the three men get a phone call from a kidnapper named Kabira, and decide to make use of this phone call to overcome their financial problems - pretend to be the real kidnappers, increase the ransom amount, keep the incremental amount for themselves, and then give the original ransom demanded to Kabira. Will they get away with this idea?

Hulchul

Hulchul

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-11-26

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3088 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Cast:

Writer:

K.P. Saxena (dialogue)

Siddique (story)

Neeraj Vora (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Angar Chand lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small town in India along with his wife, Parvati, and four sons, Balram, Kishan, Shakti and Jai. Since Balram is of marriageable age, he arranges his marriage with the daughter of Laxmi Devi, who decides to oppose this marriage. During the wedding ceremony, Laxmi Devi and her sons, Surajbhan, and Pratap forcibly remove their sister and accidentally kill Parvati. They subsequently get their sister married to Kashinath. An enraged Angar hacks Laxmi's husband to death, is arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison. When he returns he makes it clear that women will not be permitted in his house and forbids his sons to ever marry. Then Jai, who is studying in Lala Lajpatrai Law College meets with Anjali, Laxmi's grand-daughter, who openly admits that she is attracted to him. Jai, at first rejects her, then decides to teach and her family a lesson. Both feign their love for each other, but subsequently admit the truth, and even Anjali admits that she wanted to come close to Jai to extract vengeance. Both go their separate ways, but subsequently find that they are indeed in love with each other. In order to get wed, Jai must first convince his elder brothers to get married albeit in vain as none of them even want to consider this option. Then Lucky, Jai's friend, finds out that Kishan. a seemingly celibate Bhagwan Hanuman's devotee, is leading a dual life as Murari, who has been married to a woman, Gopi, from Gangapur, for 7 years and has two children, a son and a daughter. When Angar finds out he kicks Kishan and Jai out of his house. Watch what happens when Anjali's marriage is finalized with Laxmi's advocate's son, while Pratap and Surajbhan approach Angar to help them stop Jai from disrupting this marriage on one hand, while Laxmi tells Jai to marry Anjali - setting off a deadly confrontations between the estranged sons and father.

Garam Masala

Garam Masala

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-11-03

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

146 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (5763 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Priyadarshan (screenplay)

Neeraj Vora (dialogue)

Priyadarshan (story)

Fullplot:

Shyam and Makarand work as photographers in a commercial advertising agency. Both of them like to fool around with women, even though Makarand is engaged to be married to a doctor named Anjali. In order to outsmart each other, they two get into a competition of shooting a photograph, and Sam wins it, goes on a trip to the United States of America. Upon his return, he finds that Makarand is living a very enviable lifestyle with three of the most beautiful girls, who also work as air-hostesses. Sam meets them all, and finds out that the trio are unaware of each other, falls in love with Pooja; and begins several moves to upset Makarand lifestyle, and possibly get promoted as a Supervisor.

Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Bhool Bhulaiyaa

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-12

Languages:

Hindi, Bengali

Countries:

India

Runtime:

159 min

IMDB Ratings:

(7044 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Cast:

Writer:

Neeraj Vora (screenplay)

Manisha Korde (dialogue)

Madhu Muttam (original story)

Fullplot:

When U.S.-based Siddharth visits his Indian home town with his new wife, he insists they stay at the ancestral home, laughing off family members' warnings of ghostly goings-on in the mansion. But events soon make him reconsider his beliefs. As unexplained and terrifying occurrences arise, Siddharth calls on his doctor friend to help solve the mystery. What will be the outcome? Will Siddharth's friend be able to solve this riddle?

De Dana Dan

De Dana Dan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-27

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

162 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (3825 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jay Master (dialogues)

Ashiesh Pandit (lyrics)

Priyadarshan (screenplay)

Sayeed Qadri (lyrics)

Neeraj Shridhar (lyrics)

Fullplot:

Singapore-based Nitin Bankar's education was paid for by his employer, Kuljeet Kaur, and he, after the passing of his father, works as an unpaid maid-chauffeur for her until such time he pays off whatever she had spent. He is in love with gorgeous Anjali Kakkad but her father refuses to give his consent for this alliance. Desperate to get out of this situation, Nitin attempts suicide, albeit in vain, and then cooks up a scheme to abduct Kuljeet's pet, Mulchand, demand a hefty ransom, and then marry Anjali. He seeks assistance from his equally deadbeat-courier deliveryman, Ram Mishra, who wants to wed tall and pretty Manpreet Oberoi, and both book a room in Pan Pacific Hotel. However, Murphy's Law and a host of assorted characters get involved - resulting in hilarious and uncontrollable chaos.

De Dana Dan

De Dana Dan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-27

Languages:

Hindi

Countries:

India

Runtime:

162 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (3935 Reviews)

Director:

Priyadarshan

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jay Master (dialogues)

Ashiesh Pandit (lyrics)

Priyadarshan (screenplay)

Sayeed Qadri (lyrics)

Neeraj Shridhar (lyrics)

Fullplot:

Singapore-based Nitin Bankar's education was paid for by his employer, Kuljeet Kaur, and he, after the passing of his father, works as an unpaid maid-chauffeur for her until such time he pays off whatever she had spent. He is in love with gorgeous Anjali Kakkad but her father refuses to give his consent for this alliance. Desperate to get out of this situation, Nitin attempts suicide, albeit in vain, and then cooks up a scheme to abduct Kuljeet's pet, Mulchand, demand a hefty ransom, and then marry Anjali. He seeks assistance from his equally deadbeat-courier deliveryman, Ram Mishra, who wants to wed tall and pretty Manpreet Oberoi, and both book a room in Pan Pacific Hotel. However, Murphy's Law and a host of assorted characters get involved - resulting in hilarious and uncontrollable chaos.

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