Girish Karnad
Also Known As: ಗಿರೀಶ್ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್
Biography: Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada.He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Maharashtra, India
Birthday: May 19, 1938
Deathday: June 10, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Jewelled Lamp
Overview: Ratnadeep revolves around a person who was fed up with his job and to get out of that situation, he applied for two months leave. The story follows when on the last day of his job he found the dead body of a man belonged to very rich family and the body resembled him, which brought new adventures in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Mysooru Mallige
Overview: Padma is in love with poet Manju. After he goes missing while trying to save a friend from nationalists, a heartbroken Padma decides to get his poems published.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1991-07-01
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Iqbal
Overview: This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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Aakrosh: Cyclone Of Anger
Overview: An officer faces personal challenges after he is assigned to stop killers of the Prime Minister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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Cheluvi
Overview: Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which produces exotic flowers. Soon, her secret is spotted by Kumar, the son of the village head.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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Man Pasand
Overview: Kamli belongs to a poor family. She sells datuns for a living. She sells them in local suburban trains as well as on railway platforms. One day she meets a bachelor named Pratap, who would like her to become a lady, and be educated, to which she agrees. She thinks that Pratap is in love with her, little does she know that she is the subject of a bet between Pratap and his friend, Kashinath, who both find her crude, crass, loud, and uncouth, so much so that both doubt that she can be transformed into a lady.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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Samrat & Co.
Overview: A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator, with a strange case. Their garden got ruined for reasons that appear natural but are not known; leading horticulturists have examined the fading plants but they have not been able to identify the probable reason. Further, her father's favorite horse died; once again the reason for the pre-mature death remains a mystery. That's not the end; Dimpy's father Mahendra Pratap Singh, otherwise a very strong and balanced man, has been experiencing deteriorating health. All these aspects when combined makes the case sound weird and that grabs the attention of Samrat. Samrat along with his assistant friend, Chakradhar Pandey, visits the huge estate of Mahendra Pratap Singh. As he starts investigating, he discovers lots of mysterious facts.
Genres: Action Mystery Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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Aashayein
Overview: The story revolves around Rahul Singh (John Abraham), a compulsive gambler who wins Rs. 20 million from a bet and throws a party to celebrate. Everyone has a good time drinking and partying till late night during which Rahul proposes to Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal). He announces their engagement to all present, then collapses on the floor. In hospital, he learns that he has only 90 days to live. Wanting to make the most of his last days, he leaves everything behind and moves into a soothing hospice. The inmates he meets change his outlook on life. As his relationships grow with each one of them, Rahul tries to rise above his own needs and live life to the fullest, learning from the courage of those around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2010-08-27
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Dor
Overview: Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal grandmother, Laxmibai, his mom, Gowri, and dad, Randhir. The family feel that they are blessed after Meera's entry in this family. Shankar must go and abroad in Saudi Arabia and bids farewell to Meera, promising to keep in touch, which he does, and also sends them a large portion of his earnings, which is used to pay off the family's debts. Then when no word is received from him, a worried Meera phones, and is devastated to learn that Shankar has been killed by being thrown off a 10th floor balcony. Her status quickly changes, her jewelery, ornaments, fancy clothes are taken off, and she is told to remain indoors. wear dark clothes, and is only allowed to pray at a Mandir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2006-09-22
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Naan Adimai Illai
Overview: Vijay and Priya fall in love and get married against her father's wishes. However, when they get separated after a fight, Priya's father plots to keep them away from each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1986-03-01
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Sutradhar
Overview: Prerna is the only daughter of the local school's headmaster. She gets to meet her childhood friend, Kumar, who is now one of the teachers at the same school. Prerna is attracted to Kumar, and admires his courage and determination to stand-up against the local and cruel zamindar, who had severely beaten-up Kumar's father several years ago. Soon both get married. Kumar is ambitious, and wants to become the head of this town. He organizes his campaign and successfully gets himself elected, not without creating some enemies. After this election, Kumar keeps busy with his new-found duties, but Prerna notices a change in him - as he is fast becoming the man he hated the most - the former zamindar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1987-01-31
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8 x 10 Tasveer
Overview: 8X10 Tasveer is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural powers. Jai is of Indian origin who works as a forest ranger in Canada. His life is shattered by a loss of a very important person in his life. This personal tragedy leads him to use his unique supernatural power to unravel the mystery behind the murder.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Life Goes On
Overview: The drama explores the relations between a grief stricken father and his three daughters. Set in London, the time is now, the family of Indian origin. With his wife’s sudden death, Sanjay is suddenly thrown into close proximity with his three daughters. The drama unfolds over six days from the day when Manju dies to day of the funeral. Haunted by memories, grappling with this devastating loss, Sanjay finds himself assessing and carving out new relations with his three daughters. He is faced with a further crisis when he discovers his youngest and most loved daughter Dia, has a Muslim boyfriend -Imtiaz. Confused and angry, Sanjay leaves home and wanders the streets of London one night. With an unexpected series of events, Sanjay is forced to face his past demons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-13
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Santha Shishunala Sharif
Overview: The story is based on the life of acclaimed saint poet Shishunala Sharif who wrote several moral poems striving towards social reformation. A collection of Sharif's poems are set to tunes by C. Ashwath, who also did the major playback singing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1990-07-19
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Apne Paraye
Overview: Film about the trials facing a family whose patriarch has squandered money into a series of unwise ventures.
Genres: Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-08-08
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Chellamae
Overview: A young man follows his newlywed neighbour from Chennai to Goa when she moves there with her husband. He ends up kidnapping her when his obsession takes a drastic turn.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Jadu Ka Shankh
Overview: Shyam and Soni live with their mother in a village. They are very poor. The children give away the only bread piece to a hungry saint, who in turn gives them a magical conch. The children somehow discover that the conch reveals something foul concerning the listener. While patrolling, the disguised king reaches the kids and the children give the conch to him, requesting to pass it to the king, saying that this is magical. The king, using the conch, finds that his cousin wants to poison him. The king reaches his palace and confirms the plot against him and punishes the culprits. The king sends jewelery, garments, sweets, fruits etc for the kids and punishes the moneylender, and comes to take them along. The message "Good deeds do not go unrewarded".
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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China Gate
Overview: After witnessing the brutal slaying of her Forest Officer father, Sunder Rajan, at the hands of dreaded dacoit Jageera, Sandhya goes to Colonel Krishnakant Puri and asks for his assistance in bringing an end to Jageera's rule in the Devdurg region. Krishnakant agrees to assist her, and summons about a dozen of his fellow officers and subordinates to assist him. They all assemble at Devdurg with all the necessary ammunitions and arms to combat Jageera, not realizing that Jageera has influence over the local police detachment, who will prevent Puri and his men to possess any guns and weapons. This does not deter Puri and his men, and they continue to stay on in Devdurg and gain the confidence of the villagers. What the villagers do not know that Krishnakant and his men had all been dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice and retreating when attacked by the enemy. Will Puri and his men abandon Devdurg and let history repeat itself?
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1998-11-27
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Umbartha
Overview: After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comfortable lifestyle with her two sons - Dr. Mohan and his wife, Maya; and Advocate Subhash Mahajan, his wife, Savitri, and their daughter, Rani. Savitri is unhappy as she wants a career for herself. She finally gets a chance to prove her skills in social services when she gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in distant Sangamwadi. Although Rani and Subhash as well as the rest of the family oppose her going, she has made up her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: mr
Release Date: 1982-07-20
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Night's End
Overview: A man whose wife is abducted seeks to have the culprits prosecuted for their crime, but no one will help him. Meanwhile, the wife—abused and berated by her abductors—cannot bring herself to face her husband.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Manthan
Overview: A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people. The film is set against the backdrop of the White Revolution of India (Operation Flood) which started in 1970. It was entirely crowdfunded by 500,000 farmers who donated Rs. 2 each.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Kempe Gowda
Overview: An enraged and influential gangster plans the ultimate vengeance against an honest police officer.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2011-03-11
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Prathyartha
Overview: Akshay, a family man, finds himself compromising with his conscience when he is blackmailed to murder the home minister of the nation for the safety of his son, Nitin.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe
Overview: Vijay falls in love with a woman, who rejects him for a wealthy man, which drives him to work for a gangster in order to get rich but soon lands him in trouble.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-01-12
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Zamana
Overview: Poona-based Satish is a professional photographer and lives with his pregnant wife, Sudha, and son named Vinod. While developing some photographs with his friend, Shyamlal, they come across one that shows a man strangling another. They report this to the police, and shortly thereafter several men show up at Satish's house, take the photos,the negative, kill Satish, then go to hunt and kill Sudha, Vinod and Shyamlal, but they manage to escape and travel to Bombay, albeit separately. Sudha gives birth to a boy and names him Ravi. Years later, Vinod, who lives with Shyamlal, is a police inspector, while Ravi, who has taken to a life of crime, works for a gangster/respectable citizen named J.D. alias Jogeshwar Dayal - a man who Shyamlal can identify as their father's killer, and the very man who has just given Ravi a contract to kill Vinod.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-11-11
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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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Mugamoodi
Overview: A man can no longer tolerate injustice and corruption and he becomes a vigilante to fight for a better society.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2012-08-31
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Chandra
Overview: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chandra is a 2013 and 2014 Indian fantasy film, simultaneously made in Kannada and Tamil languages. Directed by Roopa Iyer, it features Shriya Saran and Prem Kumar in the lead roles. The film deals with the life of a last generation princess and her love story. Chandra is a joint production of India Classic Arts and Narasimha Arts. The film was released on 27 June 2013 to positive reviews and emerged as a commercial success, also becoming one of the highest grossing kannada films at its time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Duryea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Kadhal Mannan
Overview: A young girl's wedding is arranged by her father, yet she falls in love with the local mechanic. Her father is a strict person who despises love; the hatred has increased since the eldest daughter eloped with her lover.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1998-04-04
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Aatank
Overview: Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the death of his mother. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and they fall in love with each other, and get married. While enjoying a quiet swim on the sea-shore, Suzy disappears. A search is carried out, and a number of human body parts are recovered. With shock and horror, this community finds that their livelihood is being threatened by a gigantic, virtually indestructible man-eating shark.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1996-07-10
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Dharma Chakram
Overview: The story is about a family in which mother and son together fight against father for the principles and human values. Srividhya, as a ditched wife, rises up her kid Rakesh (Venkatesh) with well behavior, manner and makes him a good lawyer to do justice to the fellow woman who are cheated brutally by their husbands. How Rakesh takes the revenge on his father for the injustice that he had done to his mother is the crux of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1996-01-13
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The Prince
Overview: The Prince is the story of the other side of a Mafia family. Jeeva (Mohanlal), son of a Don (Girish Karnad), falls in love with Swarna, daughter of a famous Carnatic singer named Vishwanath. He hides the truth of his family background from her to win her love. But then one fine day she comes to know and shocked beyond disbelief, uses silence as her weapon to bring him to confess his situation. How Jeeva goes through trials and tribulations of saving his love on one side and law of the mafia on the other side forms the theme of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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Lava Kusha
Overview: Lava Kusha is a 2007 Kannada film directed by Om Saiprakash. The film stars Upendra, Shivaraj Kumar, Charmi Kaur and Jennifer Kotwal in lead roles. Music was composed by Gurukiran.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2007-12-13
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Gunaa
Overview: Guna, a mentally-disturbed man, imagines a fictitious character of a woman to be his future wife. One day, he sees a girl in a temple and assumes that she is his imaginary love and kidnaps her.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1991-11-05
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Tananam Tananam
Overview: Tananam Tananam (Kannada: ತನನಂ ತನನಂ) is a 2006 Indian Kannada romantic musical drama film directed and written by Kavitha Lankesh. The film introduces Shaam, a Tamil actor, to Kannada cinema along with Ramya and Rakshita teaming up together for the first time, in the lead roles. The film was produced by N. M. Suresh and based on a Tamil short story written by Kalki. The film released on 24 November 2006. The film won two Filmfare Awards in Best Actress and Best Lyricist categories. Noted violinist L. Subramaniam was roped in to play violin bits in the film.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2006-11-24
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Samskara
Overview: Narayanappa, a Madhwa Brahmin man, dies in the Agrahara of the village Durvasapura. As per Madhwa customs, his last rites must be performed at the earliest. However, due to Narayanappa's rebellious actions in life, which included eating meat, consuming liquor and marrying a prostitute, there is disagreement amongst the Brahmins of the village as to who will perform his rites.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1970-05-13
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Ratchagan
Overview: A girl falls for a violent man, who keeps taking law in his hands and beats people up. She wants to marry to him and eventually even he says yes, but her father has a condition that he should control his anger and work with him in his factory.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1997-10-29
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Sivasakthi
Overview: Marc Zuber Antony alias Tony (Mahesh Anand), an international smuggler, ended up in an isolated island after killing some navy officers. He decided to hide his merchandises there and he threatened the inhabitants of the island. In the process, Tony killed the island's school teacher (Girish Karnad) in front of his wife, his son Siva and his daughter Priya. Many years later, Siva (Sathyaraj) becomes rich in the city and lives with his sister Priya (Rambha) and his mother (Sujatha). Siva is haunted by his father's murder and he tries to take revenge with the help of his friend Anbu (Nizhalgal Ravi).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Aa Dinagalu
Overview: Chetan loves Mallika but his father hires an underworld don, Kotwal, to break their relationship. Irked by his father's actions, Chetan approaches Kotwal's rival, Jayaraj, to defeat him.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2007-10-19
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24
Overview: Scientist turned Entrepreneur Dr. Sethuraman tries to safeguard his newly invented time travel device from falling into the hands of his Evil Twin Brother Aathreya.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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Shankar Dada MBBS
Overview: Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local goon with a good heart who defends his extortion and settlement business as social service to maintain peace in society. But he pretends to be a doctor to his parents to make them contended about their son's achievement. One fine day, Dr. Rama Lingeswara Rao (Paresh Rawal) - dean of the biggest medical college in Hyderabad - exposes the real identity Shankar Dada to his parents. Gravely disappointed, Shanakr Dada's parents vow not to visit their son's place and leave him. An emotionally wrecked Shankar Dada decides to become doctor in real to teach a lesson to Dr. Lingam and his beautiful daughter Sunita (Sonali Bendre) and at the same time to prove to his parents that their son is a doctor, in deed!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: te
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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Chalk N Duster
Overview: Chalk n Duster is an emotional journey of two teachers Vidya ( Shabana Azmi) & Jyoti ( Juhi Chawla) , serving at a Mumbai - based High School. Their passion and love for teaching, bonds them in a special relationship with their students. Their gratification is good grades, moral values they strive to impart to students
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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Kaanooru Heggadithi
Overview: Subbamma (Tara), third wife of Chandre Gowda (Girish Karnad), is a rebellious mistress of the household and encourages sporadic acts of defiance against men from among her women friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Nehru: The Jewel of India
Overview: Based on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru (played by Pratap Sharma) -- who succeeded Mahatma Gandhi and became independent India's first prime minister -- this red-letter film takes an inside look at the man known as the Jewel of India. Directed by former politician Kumar Kiran, the movie intertwines historical information and human drama to examine the personal and professional life of one of India's master statesmen.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Swami
Overview: Saudamini is a pampered girl until she is forced to marry the widower Ghanshyam and move into his large household. Saudamini cannot cope with her husband's overbearing and greedy stepmother and pines after the man she really loved and had to abandon, Narendra.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1977-01-06
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Sangeetha Sagara Ganayogi Panchakshara Gavai
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Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1995-07-21
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Kadhalan
Overview: Prabhu, a college student, falls in love with Shruthi, a governor's daughter. On knowing about their love affair, her father imprisons Prabhu and forbids him to meet Shruthi.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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Hey Ram
Overview: Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country. He sets out to kill him.
Genres: History Drama Crime
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2000-02-18
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Akarshan
Overview: Love story about an actress falling in love with her costar
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-02-21
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Pranadaata
Overview: A doctor with amnesia starts treating patients when he remembers how to use surgical instruments. Meanwhile, his wife and daughter, who get banished from his house, try leading a humble life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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Sur Sangam
Overview: The last thread of the Great tradition of Indian Classical Music, Pandit Shivshankar Shastri (Girish Karnad), is worried about whom to shoulder the responsibility - It's the quest of a great musical mind to find his true prodigy! Through his riyaz of a life time, he has come to the very core of the musical God - Param shiva. He's the embodiment of music. The notes & rhythm talks to him. (naad chhipa tan mein, laya man mein). Due to the ignorance of the masses - Classical music is becoming mis-interpreted & being ignored. He had his share of great respect & great concerts, but it's slowly dying, and not for himself but to keep the tradition live - he's ready to teach the art to a select few, but no one comes his way. When Tulsi (Jayaprada) who knows his greatness, but drifted away in life due to circumstances, sends her son to learn from shastriji.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Tiger Zinda Hai
Overview: When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a secret agent is drawn out of hiding to rescue them.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2017-12-18
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Pukar
Overview: Major Jaidev saves a politician from the clutches of a dreaded terrorist. However, the terrorist joins hands with his childhood friend Anjali to ruin his life.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2000-02-04
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Meri Jung
Overview: When evil lawyer Thakral prosecutes innocent family man Deepak and sends him to his death, his family is shattered--and when his son Arun grows up, he's determined to avenge his parents' suffering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-08-11
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Komaram Puli
Overview: Puli joins the police force since he wants to avenge his father's murder at the hands of Al Saleem. He gets an opportunity to bring Al Saleem to justice after he saves the life of the PM of India.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: te
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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Ek Tha Tiger
Overview: An Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission becomes complicated when he falls in love with the scientist's Pakistani caretaker.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2012-08-15
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Rudra Tandava
Overview: Rudra Tandava follows a timid young man who has a loving family. When his brother, a government official, is murdered, the protagonist and his father plans to take revenge in their own separate ways.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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Neela Kurinji Poothappol....
Overview: Sivaramakrishnan Nair meets his retired defence friend Mennon after a long time and invites him to stay with his family. During his stay, his elder daughter falls in love with him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1987-01-09
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Chaitanya
Overview: A Garage Mechanic, Chaitanya, who wants to participate in a car race, finds himself beaten and left for dead after he comes to the assistance of a journalist. When he regains his senses he finds himself in custody, arrested and charged with the homicide of the very person he tried to assist. With evidence pointing toward his guilt, he has virtually no defense and may well spend the rest of his life in prison or be hanged
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Sankeertana
Overview: Sankeertana is a 1987 Telugu-language classical film produced by M. Gangaiah under the Konark Movie Creations banner, directed by Geetha Krishna. It stars Akkineni Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishna in the lead roles, with music composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The film was later remade in Tamil as Deiva Vaakku.
Genres: Action Family
Original Language: te
Release Date: 1987-02-26
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Minsara Kanavu
Overview: Priya decides that she wants to be a nun, much to the horror of her father and Thomas, the boy who is in love with her. Thomas decides to enlist the help of Deva to change her mind.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1997-01-14
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Aasha
Overview: A famous singer, Aasha, falls in love with a truck driver, who believes his wife is dead, but when Aasha discovers that his wife is alive, she struggles as to whether she should reveal this information, and possibly lose him.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Aparoopa
Overview: Set in the tea plantations of Assam in northeast India, where a young woman quits her studies to marry a wealthy man whom her father owes money. The monotony of her days is broken by the arrival an old university acquaintance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: as
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Dhanam
Overview: Ananthakrishnan, coming from a conservative and rich Brahmin family, falls in love at first sight with Dhanam, a beautiful prostitute. Soon Ananthu proposes to her and she says that she will marry him if his family accepts her knowing her past. Cunning astrologer of Ananthu's family is lusting after her & plots his own agenda with Dhanam using this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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Anveshane
Overview: In the mid-1980s, Shaam (Anant Nag) and Revati (Smita Patil) live in a Vatara (housing complex) with a host of other families and two little girls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Ananda Bhairavi
Overview: Steeped in tradition, a village elder defies social scorn to preserve the dying art of Kuchipudi dance. Ostracized for training a young woman, he faces exile, isolation, and the loss of everything he holds dear. Can his unwavering spirit revive a fading art and redefine the future of Kuchipudi?
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-25
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Rana Vikrama
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2015-04-10
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Gurudakshina
Overview: An orphaned boy Dev is adopted by Guruji and brought to his dance academy in Kolkata, owing to his dancing skills. Impressed by his talent, guruji takes him under his wings. However, Dev's one-sided love for Guruji's daughter Sanjukta changes their lives forever. Sanjukta finds herself seduced by Chhau dancer Gambhira instead, who seems like a man of dubious intent. Turns out he is a Naxalite, on a secret mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2015-03-19
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Revisiting Samskara
Overview: Samskara, the film by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, created a revolution in Indian cinema 50 years ago. Winning National and International awards. It broke barriers of caste and other social taboos, both in the process of production and on its release. 50 years later it still remains relevant and raises political and social questions that need our reflection. 'Revisiting Samskara’ is a journey back in time, in an attempt to piece together the motivation, circumstances and process. It recounts the experience of the cast and crew revisiting the same locations and recounting anecdotes of ‘Predestined Synchronicity’.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-07
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Paanch Qaidi
Overview: Once upon a time in a village a dacoit named Daku Mangal Singh (Ranjeet) harasses the villagers for lagaan, When Inspector-in-charge Vijay (Girish Karnad) gets transferred to that village he encounters Daku Mangal Singh (Ranjeet) and makes a plan to set the village free of the menace. This story is about five criminals who were taken by the inspector-in-charge Vijay for help to the village. Inspector Vijay take those criminals at his own risk as the higher authority denies his approval. Daku Mangal Singh also exploits women in the village. Does Vijay succeed in his mission.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Yaare Koogadali
Overview: Kumara and Natesa escape from their village and settle in the city. Later they start to work at a gas station. Soon they are chased by a gang of goons; while their actual truth is revealed.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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Peepli Live
Overview: Natha decides to commit suicide to get the farmers' compensation. However, the media and politicians learn about his intentions and descend on their village to capture the rare event.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2010-08-13
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Prathama Ushakirana
Overview: Filmfare South Award-winning Kannada film dealing with child psychiatry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1990-08-01
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Divorce
Overview: Mr. Oswal is a very rich, influential, domineering man who lives with his wife and two sons, Jayant and Ajay. Mr. Oswal convinces his elder son Jayant that he cannot marry the girl he loves, Chandra; he must marry the girl of his father's choice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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