The Stoneman Murders (2009)
Director: Manish Gupta
Release Date: 13 February 2009 (India)
Stroryline: After the serial killer aptly dubbed ‘Stoneman’ by the media has just claimed his fifth victim, the case is still of little interest to the Bombay Police force. But to suspended sub-inspector Sanjay Shelar (Kay Kay Menon), this killer poses an opportunity. Sanjay hopes to track this killer down and thus, possibly find an entry back into the police force. With the secret aid of his patronizing superior AIG Satam (Vikram Gokhale), Sanjay takes up the arduous process of tracking this killer down. But the official police investigator of the case Inspector Kedar Phadke (Arbaaz Khan) clashes incessantly with Sanjay as both of them, separately, delve deeper into the case. Even as the police jostle for leads and clues, the Stoneman stalks the streets unabated, claiming victim after victim…
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Casting: Irrfan Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, G. Asrani, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone
Director: Priyadarshan
Release Date: 13 February 2009 (UK)
Stroryline: A remake of the hugely successful Malayalam film Kadha Parayumbol, Billu (formerly “Billu Barber”) is the story of a small town man, Billu (Irrfan Khan) who mentions to his family that he was once a friend of superstar; Sahir Khan (Shahrukh Khan). Sahir Khan happens to come to the village to shoot a film and Billu’s children spread the rumor that their father is his childhood friend. The villagers, on hearing their Billu could be their ticket to meeting the star, shower him with gifts and promises on condition Billu make contact for them. Billu is embarrassed by his poverty and doesn’t want to impose, but everyone works themselves up so he’s forced to make several ill-fated attempts at contacting the star while he’s shooting just outside the village. But it’s the school principal who, after threatening to expel Billu’s children for non-payment of fees, has a turnaround when she believes Billu is able to get the star to appear at a school function and speak to the children. She goes to Sahir herself and requests his presence at the function for the children. Were Billu and Sahir childhood friends? Will Sahir meet with the villagers?
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Narsimha (1991)
Director: N. Chandra
Release Date: 5th July, 1991
Stroryline: Narasimha a young and captive man lives a middle class life with his family in a quite neighbor hood. He gets his beautiful sister marry to an eligible young man in there vicinity. On the occasion of his sister giving birth, he returns home to find that a conflict arise between his neighbor hood and another neighbor hood where he seek refuge in a dwelling area nearby only to return and find out that his whole family has been murder. Without no aim left in life Narasimha decided to turn to crime and alcohol. He later decided to work for a man call Suraj Narayan Singh. But when Suraj asks him to kill Ravi Rastogi for falling in love with his daughter, Meenu. Narasimha refuses, and on the contrary joins forces with Ravi, his sister, Anita, to force Suraj to get the young couple married. This kind of conflict escalates to such proportions that Suraj finally gets arrested and lodged in a cell. Everything seems clear for Ravi and Meenu to get married, but Meenu wants proof that her dad is a criminal, and she gives Ravi 24 hours to find proof or she will marry the boy of her dad’s choice. And ruin everything and every plans between them.
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Raqeeb (2007)
Director: Anurag Singh
Release Date: 18 May 2007 (India)
Stroryline: Siddharth Verma lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai, India, along with his near-comatose mom. He works as a Legal Advisor with Jain Software which is owned by his friend, Remo Matthews. Remo is single and eligible but is not seeing anyone as he has relationship problems ever since his parents passed away in a car accident several years ago on July 25. Siddharth sets him up with one of his Internet chat buddies, Sophie, they meet, fall in love and get married. Shortly after their marriage, Siddharth throws a party and invites them both, but Remo is unwell and unable to attend. Sophie attends and after the party is over she confides in him that before her marriage, she was in love with an aspiring Bollywood actor, Sunny Khanna, but their relationship did not last long. Now Sunny is back in her life and she fears for Remo’s life. Siddharth and Sophie return to her home only to find Remo’s lifeless body as he has been shot dead. An employee of Remo’s, Sharma, witnessed a man running away from the crime-scene, through him they identify the assailant as Sunny. When Sunny goes to meet Sophie, Siddharth entraps him, leading to a physical confrontation which results in Sunny being arrested by CBI Inspector Pradhan. With Sunny behind bars Sophie decides to re-locate to an undisclosed location with over 500 Crore Rupees, little knowing that Siddharth has doubts about her and may follow her to find out what the real motive was behind Remo’s death.
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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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Milan (1995)
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
Release Date: 1995
Stroryline: Raja (Jackie Shroff) is a small-time smuggler. His sweetheart, Priya (Manisha Koirala) does not approve of this, and convinces him to give up his smuggling activities, and turn the information over to the police. He does so, only to find that he has been framed for a murder he did not commit. When he decides to entrust himself to the justice of the courts, he is convicted of murder and sentenced in jail. In jail he encounters more problems, and needs all his wits to stay alive. Back to Priya, Raja’s former smuggling colleagues, including corrupt police officers are openly harassing her, and no one seems to be able to look after her. Raja must get out of jail to find out who has framed him, and who is the king-pin behind the smuggling ring. But will the authorities let Raja out of jail that easily?
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