M. K. Raina
Also Known As: Maharaj Krishna Raina, M.K. Raina
Biography: M. K. Raina is one of India's best-known theatre actors and directors. Since 1972, he has been freelance theater and film worker, and works all over India in many languages and with many traditional forms.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Overview: A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2008-12-11
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Manu
Overview: Set against the backdrop of bustling New Delhi, the story quietly follows a specific day in the mundane routine-driven life of a young boy called Manu. Manu is a nineteen-year-old, introverted, repressed boy who loves art, and belongs to a middle-class religious family in India. On this particular day, a series of events brings him finally to confront himself, and in the end, leaves him in a dilemma to bring the change in his life or not.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2021-08-28
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Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Overview: Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-07-23
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27 Down
Overview: Sanjay wanted to pursue art, but his father forced him into a career as a train conductor. Unhappy, he meets and falls in love with Shalini but is pressured into an arranged marriage when his father comes to find out. Feeling trapped, he turns to drinking and brothels, until he gets one final chance to escape with Shalini and start his life anew.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
Overview: At an anniversary party, Sohrab Handa is found dead, with his throat slit in the hall. As the investigation unravels, friendships are tested, and secrets are revealed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2023-10-30
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Tasveer Apni Apni
Overview: In this rather routine, made-for-television movie by famed Indian director Mrinal Sen, an employee (K.K. Raina) in a large office is suddenly facing unemployment because his bosses have found him guilty of negligence. He is devastated, but he cannot lose his job since he is the only support of his family. Interspersed with the employee's efforts to convince his boss, in several different ways, that he cannot be fired are direct dialogues with the author (Shyamanand Jalan) who created the character of the employee. In these latter conversations, the employee berates his creator for giving him an impossible, no-win situation — he has no control over his fate.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Aisha
Overview: Aisha, who loves playing matchmaker much to her friend Arjun's disapproval, finds a new target in the simple Shefali. But in the process, she ends up ruining her own relationship with close friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Savi
Overview: Savi, a simple housewife, attempts a daring jailbreak to get her husband out of one of England's high-security prisons consisting of 400 inmates, 75 armed guards, and 60 surveillance cameras.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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New Delhi Times
Overview: When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Arising from the Surface
Overview: Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in voice-overs (poetry, essays, and stories), while the characters within the texts walk through real or imaginary landscapes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-02-17
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Three and a Half
Overview: The story of one house in three different eras. Where 50 years ago it was divided between a school and an apartment, in which a young boy struggles with the pressures of pre-pubescent school life, coupled with being compelled to share a tiny room with his paralysed, disconsolate grandfather. Who in turn has devious plans for the child's 12th birthday which happens to fall on a leap year. The same building 20 years later becomes home to a brothel, where a young unexploited concubine is dealing with her self-proclaimed "first" client who has a strange inability to fulfil his physical desire unless obligated to the duress of a transaction to do so. Now, 30 years later these same walls surround a sublime home which belongs to a soul-stirring 75 year old couple who love, laugh and dance together. They whisper the secrets of time forgone and seemed to have overcome the undying need for love and escape which seems to have plagued the inhabitants of this house in the past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2018-01-10
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Sardar
Overview: Sardar is a 1993 Indian biopic on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters, directed by Ketan Mehta and written by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1994-01-07
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Like Stars on Earth
Overview: Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-12-21
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Lakshya
Overview: An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
Genres: War Action Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2004-06-18
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Tarang
Overview: Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dinesh, the industrialist’s nephew who is openly unscrupulous. Rahul, on his part, conceals his personal ambition under a cloak of liberalism and encourages indigenous production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Prassthanam
Overview: A rural politician marries a widow with kids and gains a respectable position and trusts his stepson more than his own in political matters; thus upsetting his son beyond limits.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2019-09-20
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Giddh: The Vulture
Overview: In a remote village at Karnataka-Maharashtra border in India, the poor residents follow Devdasi tradition according to which young girls are given up in the service of Goddess Yellamma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Panchvati
Overview: This is a story about having an extramarital affair within the family itself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Genesis
Overview: This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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