Ismail Bashey
Also Known As: Ishmail Bashey
Biography: Ismail originally hails from Bombay, India where he began his acting career at a fairly young age, taking an active part in every school production from Shakespeare to Moliere. He began performing on stage professionally in Musical Theatre in productions such as Grease; They Are Playing our Song and Best of Broadway. He has trained extensively in jazz ballet under the guidance of Karla Singh and Shiamak Davar. He then moved to New York and began his acting career in the Big Apple. He trained at the Lee Strasberg theater Institute in New York for 3 years. During that time he was working on the local south Asian cable channels such as ITV and ATN as a TV host introducing Music videos and Bollywood tidbits. He then began the auditioning circuit around that time and landed some guest roles in independent features such as the Tic Code (starring Gregory Hines). He also began acting on the popular Zee TV drama Mausam that was filmed in New York and Bombay. He was recently seen in the independent feature film Wings of Hope for which he won Best Actor at the Cinevue International film festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bombay, India
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Ball and Chain
Overview: Somewhere in the middle of Texas, Ameet (Sunil Malhotra) and Saima (Lisa Ray) have a problem. They were perfectly happy avoiding each other until their parents set them up to get married. The reluctant couple decide to do whatever it takes to break off the engagement. After some very embarrassing efforts, they finally succeed in getting their parents to call off the wedding, only to realize they have another problem, they're in love! Meanwhile, Saima's father (Asrani), deciding that she's passed her expiration date, promises her to Ashol (Ismail Bashey)- a sleazy playboy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-14
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Overview: After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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Desperate Endeavors
Overview: Follows the exploits of an Indian immigrant trying to make it in New York City in 1973.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-07
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Zafar
Overview: A Pakistani immigrant juggles demanding rideshare customers while talking on the phone to his mother in Pakistan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-02
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Overview: To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-20
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The Warrior
Overview: In feudal India, a warrior who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-23
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Rollerball
Overview: In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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Messengers
Overview: Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, and Sarah discloses that all of them have perfect health; they hear voices when they are sleeping; and they are addicted to the stimulant Tributol. Her further investigation discloses a dark secret about the haunting voices.
Genres: Horror Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-27
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Overview: In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-24
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American Eid
Overview: Ameena, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant, wakes up on Eid to find out that she has to go to school. Homesick and heartbroken, she goes on a mission to make Eid a public-school holiday, and in the process, reconnects with her older sister, and embraces her new home, while her new home embraces her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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The Virgin of Highland Park
Overview: During a medical test to join the high school soccer team, a virgin teenager is shocked to discover she is pregnant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-29
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The Illegal
Overview: A gritty realistic story about a young film school student from middle-class India who's forced to drop out to support his family while staying in the United States as an undocumented worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-21
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Street
Overview: Remo Street is a young fighter who comes from a world where nothing is easy, so when he is faced with the opportunity to train with a world class coach, he has to choose between the long hard road to honor and glory, or succumbing to a brutal future as a cage fighter for the Russian Mafia.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Million Dollar Arm
Overview: In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-09
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The Guru
Overview: Bored with Bollywood movies but fascinated with their Hollywood counterparts from his youth, Ram dreams to become a singer and actor in America, the country where dreams are made. He is encouraged when his American-based close friend, Vijay Rao, comes for visit, and brags about driving a Mercedes and living in a penthouse.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-21
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Little Senegal
Overview: Passionné par l'histoire de son peuple, Alloune, un vieux guide du musée africain "La Maison des Esclaves" à Gorée, part en pèlerinage pour retrouver les descendants de ses ancêtres aux Etats-Unis. Cet émouvant voyage va le mener des côtes de Caroline du Sud au quartier de Harlem où vit la communauté africaine, Little Senegal. Alloune, animé par l'idée de réunir sa famille par delà les siècles et les frontières, remonte jusqu'à une lointaine cousine, Ida, qui ignore tout de son passé. Le vieil homme croise également les chemins de son neveu Hassan, chauffeur de taxi clandestin, de sa fiancée Biram, d'Eileen, enceinte et fugueuse, et de Karim, qui cherche à faire un mariage blanc pour obtenir la carte verte. Tous les quatre comprennent mal la quête d'Alloune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-18
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Mambo Café
Overview: A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-04-21
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ABCD
Overview: The only goal of an ageing Indian-American widow is to see her son and rebellious daughter (described as an American Born Confused Desi or ABCD) married off to respectable Indian families.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-06
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The Tic Code
Overview: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette's Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother's acceptance of the disease.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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Twisted
Overview: This retelling of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist may be populated by drug pushers, pimps and prostitutes, but the book's classic themes remain the same. Caught under the thumb of a lecherous brothel owner, 10-year-old Lee befriends an aspiring musician named Angel who helps him escape his servitude and sends a maternal drag queen to vanquish the boy's enemies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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