Ghajini (2008)
Aamir Khan…… Sanjay Singhania
Asin…… Kalpana
Jiah Khan…… Sunita
Pradeep Rawat…… Ghajini Dharmatama
Khalid Siddiqui…… Sanjay Singhania’s secrectary
Tinu Anand…… Ad director
Vibha Chibbar…… Constable Vyjayanti
Kunal Vijaykar…… Mayapuri Journalist
Kunal Kumar…… Waiter
Anjum Rajabali…… Professor at medical college
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Release Date: 25 December 2008 (UK)
Stroryline: Imagine being one of the most successful businessmen in the country. Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) is a rich businessman who owns a cellular phone company. Kalpana (Asin) is a model who brags to her friends and peers that she is the love interest of Sanjay, though in reality she doesn’t even know the man.
When Sanjay comes to know about this anonymous admirer of his, he decides to dispel her delusions. But on his way he sees a beautiful woman helping the handicapped kids cross the road. Instantly, Sanjay falls for her. Later, he comes to know that she is Kalpana, the same model who boasted of being his girlfriend.
Sanjay gets introduced to Kalpana but doesn’t disclose his real identity. Love blossoms between the two.
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Release Date: 9 January 2009 (UK)
Stroryline: The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions. Each chapter of Jamal’s increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show’s seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.
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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Director: Aditya Chopra
Release Date: 12 December 2008 (USA)
Stroryline: SHAHRUKH is married to ANUSHKA but there is a huge age gap between them. There is no real romance in the marriage. Then, a dance reality show called “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” airs and ANUSHKA wants to participate but can’t because her husband is not hip and happening, she has a fear of losing and she also fears that her friends will laugh at her. SHAHRUKH overhears this problem and decides to go in for a makeover. He watches some movies and learns to dance in order to woo his young wife. Throughout the show ANUSHKA keeps falling in love to with this ‘new and improved’ SHAHRUKH KHAN without once realizing that he’s her husband. In the end, a justified title “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”
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Oh, My God (2008)
Director: Sourabh Shrivastava
Release Date: 5 December 2008 (India)
Stroryline: Rajendra [Vinay Pathak], a simple salesman with big dreams, a hardcore Dhirubhai Ambani fan, wants to make it big in life through ethical means. Suman [Divya Dutta], his loving wife, stands by her husband at all times. As Rajendra continues to fail in his various money-making schemes, Suman pleads with God to help her husband.
What follows is a series of hilarious encounters where God [played in human form by Saurabh Shukla] tries to help Rajendra become successful, but is constantly frustrated as Rajendra fails to recognise the opportunities.
Given the fact that OH, MY GOD!! has been shot in 19 days, it doesn’t look like a hurried job at all. Sourabh takes a simple story of a simpleton and narrates it in the most simplistic manner. The film has a lethargic pace in the first hour and that tapers the effect to an extent, but its back on its feet, post intermission.
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Maharathi (2008)
Director: Shivam Nair
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Stroryline: Subhash (PARESH RAVAL) has spent the last 10 years unsuccessfully trying to get acting parts in films. He makes ends meet by his uncanny ability to think on his feet committing small time cons on unsuspecting victims.
One night he saves a man’s life, to do so he puts his own at risk. He accompanies the injured man back home. Subhash is awe struck at the grandeur and affluence of Mr. Adenwalla. (NASSERUDIN SHAH) Subhash realizes this may lead to a generous tip.
Soon enough Subhash is hired by the grateful Adenwalla as his driver. The wife Mallika Adenwalla (NEHA DHUPIA) resents Subhash for his proximity to her husband and senses this man taking advantage of her husband.
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Gumnaam (2008)
Director: Neeraj Pathak
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Stroryline: Gumnaam – The Mystery is the story of an aspiring actress Ria (Mahima Chaudhary) who models / acts in music videos but has her eyes set on making it big in films as a lead actress. During one of her shoots, she happens to meet Dev (Dino Morea) a stuntman by profession, who saves her life during an accident on the set. She’s impressed with him, soon love blossoms between them and they are on a romantic high. Meanwhile Ria is offered a lead actress’ role in a film by casting director Rishi Gandhi (Madan) but the condition is that she has to leave for Shimla the very next day. Dev is very happy about her getting the role in the film and sees her off, wishing all the luck. On reaching Shimla, she is introduced to the film’s director Muni Gandhi (Govind Namdeo) who also praises her beauty and appreciates his assistant’s perfect choice of casting her as the heroine.
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Jannat (2008)
Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Release Date: 16 May 2008 (India)
Stroryline: Arjun is a reckless young man with an obsession for making money at card games. A chance meeting with a girl in a mall, Zoya, gives him the reasons he was looking for the move out of his ordinary life. He steps up from playing small-time card games to becoming a bookie. Stuck in a triangle of sorts between the woman he loves and his addiction to make a quick buck, Arjun moves on from being a bookie to a runner for the mafia. He steps into the world of match fixing. Arjun switches on the limelight to bigger, better, faster, more, until his dizzying rise attracts the attention of the police. Arjun has to now choose between the love of his life, Zoya, and this new found success and power. As Arjun struggles to choose between the two, the Don offers the forbidden apple of limitless wealth in exchange for his soul and draws him into his core entourage of money spinners. How far will the horizon of reality stretch as Arjun and Zoya tread a fine, fast-blurring line between right and wrong to find the heaven they have been looking for?
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