Pankaj Kapur
Also Known As: Pankaj Kapoor, पंकज कपूर
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Birthday: May 29, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Bheed
Overview: 8 hours, complete lockdown in the whole of India, movement shut and state borders sealed. Thousands of migrants without food, water and mode of transport were forced to return to their homes. A crisis that shook the whole nation, a time when borders of disparity divided the people and one man stood for humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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Maqbool
Overview: The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-01-30
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Halla Bol
Overview: Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Overview: Two zanies open a photography studio. They score a partnership with a gossip magazine that suddenly thrusts them into a world of corruption, murder, and hijinks.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-08-12
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Main Zinda Hoon
Overview: Beena, a villager married to a man in the city, is shocked to find that her husband has left the house. She begins to provide for the family, but faces issues when she falls in love with a co-worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-06-05
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Sehar
Overview: Ajay Kumar (Warsi) is the newly appointed, honest SSP of Lucknow police. Of his family only his mother (Mulay) remains, and she inspires and motivates him to do the right thing. Ajay tries to crack down on the UP mafia, but more often than not is betrayed by information-leaking local police officials. His boss tries to aid him by shielding him from political pressures, and by getting sanction for
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Jab Khuli Kitaab
Overview: upcoming hindi movie
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Original Language: hi
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The Blue Umbrella
Overview: Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various tourists, and while doing so with some tourists from Japan, trades in her bear-tooth amulet with a blue umbrella...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2005-12-11
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The Essence
Overview: A story about the "Ikat" handloom weavers of Pochampally through the master weaver Ramulu and his family struggle in time of mass-production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Aghaat
Overview: Madhav Verma is an honest and straight-forward union representative at Shivalik Engineering Works. His position and effectiveness is challenged when Chhotelal is injured. Krishnan Raju is the rival union leader whose methods are completely opposite to Madhav's ideals. The two unions clash on the Chhotelal's compensation issue. The climax shows Madhav Verma using the same exact tactics of his rival against them.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-08-29
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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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Musafir
Overview: A 1986 Bollywood film.
Genres: Drama Documentary History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Raakh
Overview: After witnessing the public humiliation & abuse of a female friend, a young man vows to avenge her by going after the hoodlums responsible. he is guided by a burnt out, cynical cop, who shows him the ropes as well as the realities of vigilante life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-09-17
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Aadharshila
Overview: Aadharshila portrays the struggles of young people - especially graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India - to find a foothold in the Indian film industry. The film ends with the completion of the film-within-a-film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1982-07-09
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Ram Jaane
Overview: A street hustler, who has spent several years in and out of prison, decides to reform his life, as he teaches street kids to stay away from crime, but has trouble maintaining these ideals in his own life.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1995-11-29
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Overview: Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2013-01-10
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Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya
Overview: Ravi, a wealthy model, leaves his father's business after unsatisfactory modeling work and returns to his parents' home to join struggle students and revolutionary Manohar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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Ek Aadmi
Overview: The last film made by KA Abbas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Religion
Overview: The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but due to requests from his wife - the family adapts the child; only to know after 4 years that the child is a Muslim. The family gives away the child and Chaturvedi engulfs himself in the purification process to cleanse his body, mind and soul due to contact with a Muslim soul. By the time, Chaturvedi thinks he is fully purified – the child reappears – seeking refuge, due to Hindu- Muslim riots. This is the time Chaturvedi finally realizes that the true religion is - religion where humans help humans – humanity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-06-08
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Tamas
Overview: Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the partition.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-08-15
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Arohan
Overview: Hari Mondal(Om Puri) is a poor village farmer who lives in the remote Bengal village of Giripur in Birbhum district with his wife, two sons, brother, an old widowed aunt Kalidashi (Gita Sen)and her daughter Panchi. The movie opens in the mid sixties when the Naxalbari uprising is spreading across Bengal and oppressed farmers are being united by youths who believe in communism and a socialist republic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-01-30
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Aitbaar
Overview: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-03-22
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Mandi
Overview: The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Death of a Doctor
Overview: After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and just as the junior doctor receives international recognition, he has to suffer humiliation from the professional jealousy and abuse of power from his seniors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Khamosh
Overview: A young actress is found to have committed suicide at the filming location. Things take a different turn when further investigation reveals it to be a cold-blooded murder and the killer is someone within the film crew.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Chala Mussaddi - Office Office
Overview: Mussaddi Lal (Pankaj Kapoor), a retired school teacher goes on a pilgrimage for three months after his wife's death. When he returns, he finds his pension has been stopped and the pension office has declared him dead. What follows is his endless struggle against the petty corruption in the government office where the infamous gang of five -- Manoj Pahwa, Sanjay Mishra, Deven Bhojani, Hemant Pandey and Asawari Joshi -- are determined to fleece him till the very end.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Chameli Ki Shaadi
Overview: Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love with her. A hilarious take on the caste system of India, as both of them come from different castes and try hard to marry each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-02-21
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Blood Brothers
Overview: This is a movie about how one small mistake can change your fate, the fate of people close to you, the fate of your unborn child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-09-08
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Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Shaandaar
Overview: Jagjinder Joginder, a wedding planner, brings together the dysfunctional family of businessman Bipin Arora while making arrangements for Bipin's daughter's destination wedding in London.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2015-10-22
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Toba Tek Singh
Overview: The story takes place just before the India-Pakistan partition in one of the oldest mental asylums in undivided India. Situated in Lahore, it was home to Hindu, Muslim and Sikh patients who were left behind by their uncaring families. Friendships were thick between the patients who had nobody but each other for company. Each had a story that made for an interesting tale but none quite like Bishan Singh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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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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Binny and Family
Overview: Binny's life in London turns upside down when her grandparents visit her and try to insist living her life according to them. Binny and Family throws light on the widening generation gap and that neither generation not being able to understand the other one.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2024-09-27
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Rui Ka Bojh
Overview: The story revolves around a self-respecting, wise old Indian man, who decides to divide his wealth and property among his sons and then let them take care of them. But all doesn't go according to his plans as his sons don't want to take his responsibility and things start going downhill for the family from there. It's a journey of old-age, family values, love and respect for your family and responsibility.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Dus
Overview: Jamwaal, a terrorist, plans to wreak havoc in Canada when the Indian Prime Minister visits the nation. However, a team of special agents from India are sent to catch the terrorist.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2005-07-08
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Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
Overview: An old couple, Mohan Joshi and his wife, sues their landlord for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. Back home in the society, the old couple is ridiculed for fighting the landlord, but they fight on nevertheless.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Finding Fanny
Overview: Five friends from Goa get lost during a journey to discover the lot of the childhood sweetheart of an old postman.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-11
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The Ruins
Overview: Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-06-08
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Roja
Overview: Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them.
Genres: Drama Action Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1992-08-15
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Kshatriya
Overview: In the arid region of Rajasthan, India; there are two royal families, Mirtagarth and Surjangarh who believes in a religious ritual which states that a warrior from each of these two families will come together annually to have a fierce battle with the winner having to sacrifice a baby buffalo and it will rain in that person's territory. This tradition must be fated to carry on by the future generation as it is a rule of nature set down by their kin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1993-03-26
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Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Overview: Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is the story of Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), a girl of today's generation full of life and vibrant ecstasy. She lives life on her own terms and gets very upset when her mother Susheela (Himani Shivpuri), arranges for her to see a boy leading to a marriage prospect.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-06-26
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Happi
Overview: Happi is a comedy drama that tells the amazing story of survival of a social misfit set in Mumbai. The film is all about a man, who is content with what he earns as his needs are few and thus, he is comfortable being a misfit. He earns by making people laugh as well as by singing at Cafe Bombay.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2019-12-25
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Jersey
Overview: An ex-cricketer struggling to make ends meet, wants to fulfill his child's wish of getting an Indian jersey but in the process comes face to face with his heroic past and is forced to decide if he will rise to the occasion and become a symbol of hope or continue to live a life as a loser?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2022-04-22
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This Is Not Our Destination
Overview: 1987 Hindi drama film written and directed by Sudhir Mishra, in a directorial debut. It starred Manohar Singh, Habib Tanvir, B. M. Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Sushmita Mukherjee and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Lamp of the Tomb
Overview: Dalit Jagseer Singh's troubles do not seem to end in this poignant portrayal of life in a small village of Punjab in newly independent India.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pa
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Lost
Overview: Crime reporter Vidhi investigates the sudden disappearance of a college student. While society associates different theories for his disappearance, what really is the true story?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2023-02-16
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