Ashutosh Gowariker
Also Known As: आशुतोष गोवरिकर
Biography: Ashutosh Gowariker (born 15 February 1964) is an Indian film director, actor, writer and producer. He is known for directing large scale, opulent epic films as well as grounded, realistic dramas. His work includes the acclaimed films Lagaan (2001), Swades (2004) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008). Lagaan was nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 74th Academy Awards. He has also been nominated for a European Film Award, and has won a number of other awards, including a National Film Award, five Filmfare Awards, and seven international film festival awards.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Birthday: February 15, 1964
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Gender: Male
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Cinema Asia: India
Overview: While Northern India’s 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have begun to step outside established formulas and explore grittier subject matter. This program surveys the world of Bollywood filmmaking, examining the personalities as well as the commercial and thematic concerns that drive central Asia’s answer to Tinseltown. Interviews with directors Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowariker, and Yash Chopra are included, along with commentary from choreographers, musical directors, and Cinemaya Magazine editor Aruna Vasudev. The industry’s newfound attention to poverty, homelessness, and other social concerns is examined. Several film excerpts are included.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-01
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Chamatkar
Overview: When Sunder loses everything, he seeks refuge in a graveyard, where he befriends a ghost.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1992-07-08
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Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro
Overview: Salim Pasha, a man with a physical disability, is involved in crimes like extortion and robbery with two of his friends Peera and Abdul. Salim is a carefree man.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-05-29
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Holi
Overview: In a typical college in a typical Indian city, the hostel boys Madan Sharma (Aamir Khan) and his friend are a rowdy lot. The teaching staff suffer from the common apathy of most teachers in similar colleges. The administration has the usual problems, with ill-paid employees periodically going on strike. On the whole, the college is a very normal place. But on this particular day, when Madan and his friends rise from their slumber, some with the customary hangover, they are not so perturbed to find no water in the taps again, as when they hear that it is not going to be a holiday after all. Instead there will be a lecture in the auditorium by the Chairman of the Board (Dr. Shriram Lagoo), on the day of the festival of fire, Holi, and the boys decide not to attend the classes. The hostel superintendent Professor Singh (Naseeruddin Shah), the only lecturer with some human links with the students...
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-08-15
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Brand Bollywood Downunder
Overview: When most people think about Australia, they picture massive sandy beaches, singlet-clad locals drinking beer, and kangaroos bounding through the dusty red outback. Saris, musical numbers, and masala are the furthest from anyone's mind - unless of course, you're one of the millions of Bollywood fans from around the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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Sarkarnama
Overview: The residents of a village are being driven out of their homes for the sake of a new building by the politician-builder nexus, but one man tries to step in and stop them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Kamla Ki Maut
Overview: The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Ventilator
Overview: Ventilator is a Marathi Movie about Joint-Family relations and emotions.
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Original Language: mr
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Ventilator
Overview: Ventilator is a Marathi Movie about Joint-Family relations and emotions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: mr
Release Date: 2016-11-04
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Jaanam
Overview: A boy and girl from opposing families meet and fall in love, determined not to let the hate between their parents stand in the way of their happiness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1992-11-26
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Gawaahi
Overview: Jhanvi Kaul is on trial for the murder of her lover and employer, Ranjeet Choudhary. A series of prosecution witnesses build a damning case against her - that the two of them had embezzled large sums of money, that she had another lover who is also a local goon and that a witness even saw her throwing the body of Ranjeet over her apartment balcony.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-08-01
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Jeeva Sakha
Overview: In Dhangao village Jeeva and Sakha are inseparable brothers living with their widowed mother when Sakha gets a job as police inspector he is posted at other place hence brothers get separated.Jeeva is in love with Paro.Nagya is a spoil brat who tries to bluff village people by asking them to sell their land to DK for Dhangao Industrial Zone but villager's support Jeeva which irks him after Paro gets married to Jeeva,Nagya threatens to kill her brother and makes her father sign the property papers and does so with many villagers when Jeeva takes action DK kills his person and puts blame on Jeeva,Jeeva now hides in jungle and whereabouts are only known to his friend Baadshah,Nagya kills Jeeva 's mother when she refuses to sign on papers.Sakha returns to the village to perform final rights of his mother and is unaware about things happening in his village and thinks Jeeva should be punished for taking law in his hand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mr
Release Date: 1992-10-30
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West Is West
Overview: Vikram (Ashotosh Gowariker) is an Indian immigrant from Bombay who lands in San Francisco. His happiness over his arrival in the United States is diminished when customs officers unexplainably trim his tourist visa from six months to one. When he arrives at the home of his sponsor, he finds that the building is abandoned, and his application to study at the University of California has been rejected. He later meets Sue (Heidi Carpenter), a punk-rock femme who works at a late-night theater specializing in horror films, and Vikram becomes very fond of the woman, proposing marriage in hopes of starting a new life in the United States.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-30
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Jai Ho
Overview: The Film brings to its viewers, a hitherto unseen and unheard narrative of one of the greatest musicians the world has ever known: A. R. Rahman
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Goonj
Overview: Wedged in a political chaos, Sanjeev has to prove his innocence for a murder he did not commit and expose the real rogue, MLA Kalekar. But, the culprit is also the father of the girl he loves.
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-03-07
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