Shabana Azmi
Birthday: Born in 1950-09-18 in New Delhi, India
Deathday: Alive
Shabana Azmi (born September 18, 1950) is an Indian actress of film, television, and theatre, as well as a women's rights activist and parliamentarian. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she debuted in Ankur (1974) and quickly became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and neo-realism. Recognized as being among the most acclaimed actresses of her country, she has received a record of five National Film Awards for Best Actress, six Filmfare Awards, several international accolades, and the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour awarded by the Government of India, and the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour awarded by the Government of India. She is best known for her portrayals of unconventional female characters and many of her films have won praise for depicting progressive ideals.
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The Empire
Character: Aisan Daulat Begum
The story of a king battling against enemies, fate, family, death and even himself, in search of his kingdom....
Capital
Character: Mrs. Kamal
Set on a single street in South London, Capital is a portrait of a road transformed by soaring property prices: what was once the home of modest lower-middle class families, Pepys Road has been continuously gentrified into a street of multimillion pound houses. On one day, the people of this South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community....
Next of Kin
Character: Mrs. Shirani
Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core....
Koffee with Karan
Character: Self
Celebrity host Karan Johar gets up close and personal with various Bollywood personalities and discusses their major career milestones....
Halo
Character: Margaret Parangosky
Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future....
Bharat Ek Khoj
Character: Rangamma
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script....
एंग्री यंग मेन
Character: Self
Angry Young Men is the story of Salim-Javed, legendary screenwriters of 1970s Hindi cinema. Together, they created the archetype of the Angry Young Man - a brooding anti-hero who captured the imagination of an entire nation with his rage, defiance, and quest for social justice. Like the character they created, Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, two outsiders to the Hindi film industry, defied all odds, questioning the position of writers and demanding recognition as much as the reigning stars of that ...
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Fire
Character: Radha
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage....
Masoom
Character: Indu D. Malhotra
D.K. Malhotra lives a comfortable lifestyle with his wife, Indu, and two school-going daughters, Pinky and Minni. He works in the office of an Architect. One day while the family is relaxing, D.K. gets a phone call that results in him bringing home a young school-going boy by the name of Rahul. Indu is shocked to learn that Rahul is D.K.'s son from another woman, Bhavana, who is no more. D.K. does his best to make Rahul comfortable, but fails. Rahul also feels that Indu does not really like him,...
15 Park Avenue
Character: Anu
An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta. The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for her family and carer for her sister Meethi whose progression into schizophrenia has been speed ed up by traumatic experiences. Anjali has always dominated the life of her attractive younger sister, and jealously warded off Meethi's han...
Sorry Bhai
Character: Gayatri
Scientist Siddharth(Sharman Joshi) is given "Ma Kasam" by elder brother Harsh(Sanjay Suri) to bring her along for his wedding with Aaliyah(Chitrangada Singh) to be held in Mauritius. Their mom(Shabana Azmi) is least interested in attending the wedding because Harsh is getting married against her wishes. Dad(Boman Irani) and Siddharth succeed in bringing mom to Mauritius where Aaliyah is Siddharth...
Loins of Punjab Presents
Character: Rrita Kapoor
A ruthless philantrophist. A bhangra rapper. An over-protected prodigy. A reckless actress. A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi. And a Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing contest in a small New Jersey town....
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Character: Mrs. Sethi
Indian mother Mrs Sethi's obsession with marrying off her daughter turns murderous. With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick, this black comedy farce shouldn't work. Somehow, though, it does....
Swarg Narak
Character: Geeta
Our story has three married couples: One couple, who are happily married, are Tripathi (Sanjeev Kumar) and his wife Mary; the second couple are Geeta (Shabana Azmi) and Vinod (Vinod Mehra), who live in Vinod's mom's house. Their's is an unhappy marriage with Vinod spending a lot of time with Leena (Prema Narayan), and frequenting late and all-night parties. His wife patiently awaits his return every night; And the third couple is that of Shobha (Moushumi Chatterjee) and Vicky Kapoor (Jeetendra),...
Amar Akbar Anthony
Character: Laxmi
Bollywood action comedy film with a lost and found theme, about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions. They meet in their youth to fight a common villain. It was the biggest blockbuster of 1977, and won several awards at 25th Filmfare Awards including Best Actor, Best Music Director and Best Editing....
Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Character: Self (archive footage)
Drawing upon a rich repository of images—from digital renderings of Kashmir’s mountains to the textured materiality of 16mm hand-processing and direct animation techniques—Letter From Your Far-Off Country maps a hidden vein of shared political commitment and diasporic creative expression, linking a poem by the Kashmiri American writer Agha Shahid Ali, interviews with the filmmaker’s father, and a letter addressed to Prabhakar Sanzgiri, a leader of India’s Communist party and a distant relative o...
Celluloid Man
Character: Self
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant....
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Character: Naheed
Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama....
Umrao Jaan
Character: Khanum Jaan
Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. A remake of the original directed by Muzaffar Ali and released in 1981....
Son of the Pink Panther
Character: Queen
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin....
City of Joy
Character: Kamla H. Pal
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport....
The Essence
Character:
A story about the "Ikat" handloom weavers of Pochampally through the master weaver Ramulu and his family struggle in time of mass-production....
Espousal
Character: Rekha
Idealistic Ram's one ambition is to do something for his village. Rekha rich and young girl comes into his life who in spite of warnings, marries Ram and come to the village. Fed up with idling away her time, Rekha, in a huff, moves to the city and take job as tourist guide, only to discover that this life is too short, can be humdrum as the one in village. Love triumphs over the barriers of Urban and Rural....
Apne Paraye
Character: Sheila
Film about the trials facing a family whose patriarch has squandered money into a series of unwise ventures....
Doosri Dulhan
Character: Chanda
Renu and her husband, Anil, are devastated when she cannot bear children after a miscarriage. But soon, he visits a brothel and asks young Chanda to carry and give birth to a baby for his family....
In Custody
Character: Imtiaz Begum
Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. Merchant 's treatment is wry and good humored , as his characters - an aging Urdu poet (Shashi Kapoor) and a worshipful young college lecturer - clash despite their shared passion for the beauty of words....
Arth
Character: Pooja
The semi-autobiographical film was written by Mahesh Bhatt about his extramarital relationship with actress Parveen Babi....
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai
Character: Stella
'Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Ata Hai' revolves around the Pintos and the people connected to them. There's Albert who's pretty much angry at everybody. His brother Dominic who thinks it's better to be jobless than to work an underpaid job, his patient sister Joan who works at a sari shop, his independent girlfriend Stella who feels under-appreciated by her boyfriend, his father and his colleagues, client and Stella's family. The film is very much a social commentary about Middle-class life in Bom...
Midnight's Children
Character: Naseem
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name....
Yeh Nazdeekiyan
Character: Shobna
Sunil Verma is the head of an advertising agency, and lives with a middle-class life with his wife, Shobna. Although Sunil gets to meet many beautiful women during the course of his employment, he has never really had an affair with anyone, and kept his relationship on a professional level. That is until he meets ravishing Kiran. Sunil has an affair with Kiran, and eventually divorces Shobna. It is said that the lives of models and actresses are quite shallow and superficial, but Sunil feels tha...
Jwalamukhi
Character: Kiran
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Karm
Character: Neelam Kumar
Retired Judge Shyamlal Kumar lives in a palatial home with his wife and only son, Arvind, who is now studying law and is on his way to become a lawyer, and after that a judge just like his dad. Arvind meets with beautiful Asha Shastri, both fall in love and would like to get married. Asha introduces Arvind to her astrologer dad, Chintamani, who instantly approves of Arvind; while both Shyamlal and his wife give their blessings and approval to Asha. But when Chintamani, whose predictions always p...
Lahu Ke Do Rang
Character: Roma
Inspector Raj Singh's father was killed by Shankar and his men for gold. Years later he locates them but also finds that he has a step brother Suraj who works for Shankar now known as Devi Dayal....
Tehzeeb
Character: Rukhsana Jamal
Tehzeeb (Hindi: तह्ज़ीब, Urdu: تہزیب, English: Etiquette) is a 2003 Indian Bollywood film directed by Khalid Mohammed. It premiered on 21 November 2003. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar, Diya Mirza, Arjun Rampal and Rishi Kapoor in a special appearance. Urmila and Shabana were praised for their roles....
Ghoomer
Character: Anina's Grandmother
Anina, a young woman batting prodigy, loses her right hand in an unfortunate accident on the eve of her international cricketing debut. An unsympathetic, failed and frustrated cricketer enters her life, gives her a new dream and transforms her fate by the most innovative training, to make her play for the Indian cricket team again, as a bowler....
Makdee
Character: Makdee
One half of an identical set of twins, the mischievous Chunni is known in her hometown for the pranks she plays, notably on her father, the schoolteacher and the village butcher. To get out of trouble, Chunni often impersonates her sister Munni and makes others look a fool....
Sameera
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Sameera's husband Prashant, is a civil engineer dedicated to his job. He goes to work on the site of a dam and is often away from home. While he is away Sameera falls ill and is looked after by Nakul, and a relationship develops between them...
Madame Sousatzka
Character: Sushila Sen
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano. As he struggles to meet the challenges, Manek must also deal with his mother, who vies with his teacher for his attention....
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Character: Chaudhari Devi
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....
Side Streets
Character: Mrs. Chandra Bipin Raj
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap....
The Crossing
Character: Rama
When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperat...
The Market Place
Character: Rukmini Bai
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....
Parvarish
Character: Shabu
A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law....
The Obsession
Character: Firdaus (Javed's wife)
Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them....
Sparsh
Character: Kavita
An independent visually impaired man who runs a school for blind children deals with troubles and triumphs of his profession and finds love when a withdrawn recent widow volunteers at the school....
Khamosh
Character: Shabana Azmi
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....
Night's End
Character: Sushila
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....
Morning Raga
Character: Swarnalata
Morning Raga is about the meeting of worlds. It is a story that brings the modern and traditional together, unites the past with present, Carnatic music with Western music, as never before in the history of humanity, fate and coincidence with individual choices. It is a story of our times where our worlds are interacting with each other....
Gangvaa
Character: Jamuna
Gangvaa embarks on a quest for revenge against a crooked landlord after he orders the death of his father for reporting his crimes to the police and getting him arrested....
Ek Din Achanak
Character: Neeta Roy
Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance....
The Ruins
Character: Jamini
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?...
Sweekar Kiya Maine
Character: Gopika Sharma / Gopika K. Shukla
Gopika Sharma lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with her widowed mother in Bangalore. She expresses a desire to sing and is encouraged by her maternal uncle, Dubey, who takes her with him to Bombay along with her maid, Lajjo. Once there, they are molested and Dubey goes missing. They then attempt to find a decent place to live, and after many frustrations make an agreement with a single male, Kishankumar Shukla, who poses as Gopika's husband, and move into an apartment owned by Lala Dhanira...
Pestonjee
Character: Jeroo
Phiroj and Pesi are close friends and both fall in love with Jeroo but Phiroj decides to walk away and lets Pesi marry her. Years later, he returns and discovers a shocking secret....
Amba
Character: Amba Bhanupratap Singh
When Amba gets her son Rajendra arrested for sexually assaulting their servant's daughter, Rajendra's wife wreaks havoc into their lives as she vows to avenge him....
Raaste Pyar Ke
Character: Shyama
A love triangle, the film is a remake of the Telugu blockbuster movie Dasara Bullodu (1971), made by the same company and director. Mohan Lal Srivatsav loves Gauri and so does Shyama. The rivals in love are close friends, their friendship proves to be stronger than their love. When Gauri learns that Shyama loves Mohan, she decides to sacrifice her love, her dream, her life for her friend's happiness....
Kadambari
Character: Chetna
The story revolves around the life of a kind-hearted and mature woman who falls in love with a shy man who is afraid of her mother and how she convinces him to take control of his own life with sheer determination....
Libaas
Character: Seema
The film is about married couples of urban India having extramarital relations and adultery. Based on Gulzar's own story "Seema", the film portrays the relationship between a theatre director, Sudhir, who neglects everything but his work and is struggling to establish his theatre group. His wife Seema is also the leading lady in the theatre group but is left alone as Sudhir is involved in his work. Things take a turn when Sudhir's friend TK turns up and woos Seema...
Yeh Kaisa Insaf?
Character: Madhu R. Nath
A woman's marriage is filled with upheaval and conflict, but she makes many compromises for the sake of her struggling family. How will she react to her husband's ultimatum, that she must choose him and his family over her own, otherwise he would take their daughter and leave forever?...
Toote Khilone
Character:
Film starring Shekhar Kapur, Shabana Azmi and Utpal Dutt....
Adha Din Adhi Raat
Character: Radha / Babli
Gopal is constantly haunted by the tragedy that took place in his childhood. His youthful elder sister Sita and his younger brother Jagan were abducted by villainous Gulshan and his men. Gopal's mother dies with this shock, before innocent Gopal's eyes. This tragedy leaves a deep and an unerasable scar on Gopal's heart and mind. Revenge becomes his motto....
Ankur: The Seedling
Character: Laxmi
In a small Indian village, a destitute woman's barren, alcoholic husband absconds after stealing toddy. Alone to fend for herself, she ends up relying on the affections of her landlord's to-be-married son who recently returned to look after the estate....
Hum Paanch
Character: Sundariya
Tyrannical and wealthy Veer Pratap Singh, rules over a small town - ruthlessly. Whoever opposes him is crushed. He is attracted to women, and has a lengthy affair with Soundariya, and even has a secret marriage ceremony with her. When Soundariya gets pregnant, he asks her to abort the child. When she refuses, he shuns her, and denies ever having married her or even being intimate with her. Her brothers attempt to get justice, but are dealt with ruthlessly by Pratap Singh's bodyguard, Bhima. Soun...
The Bengali Night
Character: Indira Sen
Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy....
Nasihat
Character: Sunita
Taking advantage of the dispute between Ratanlal and his daughter, his employee, Mohanlal, takes over the business. Subsequently, he ends up ruining many lives....
Hum Rahe Na Hum
Character: Mohini P. Sahani
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Samay Ki Dhaara
Character: Madhvi A. Verma
Drama - Outspokenly devoted to her principles, Madhavi finds her relationship with her husband, Ajay, an ambitious engineer, crumbling. What continues to bind them is their son Bunty, who eventually must undergo the pain of separating parents. At first, Bunty stays with his mother and her new husband, Dr. Vinod, but his increasingly difficult situation with the doctor prompts the boy to move in with his father. - Shatrughan Sinha, Shabana Azmi, Vinod Mehra...
Ek Baar Kaho
Character: Aarti Mathur
Ravi is in love with Aarti but unable to express his feelings to her. With Aarti's marriage arranged, will he be able to confess before it's too late?...
Jeena Yahan
Character: Lekha
Jeena Yahan is a 1979 Bollywood film, directed by Basu Chatterjee and produced by N.P. Ali under Jamu Pictures. The film is based on story Ekhane Aakash Neyi by Manu Bhandari. Lekha marries Shekhar, who does not belong to her caste, and lives happily with him in Mumbai. When they visit his village, she learns that his sister is in love but is forced to marry someone else....
Aunty Ji
Character: Parvin
'AuntyJi' is a sweet slice of life tale that follows an important day in the lives of Parveen (Shabana Azmi) and Geetika (Anmol Rodriguez). Parveen is a lonely Parsi widow while Geetika is an acid attack survivor, they both belong to entirely different worlds, but destiny brings them together to make them realize that they share a lot more than what meets the eye. As they share their dreams, sorrows and beliefs an unlikely friendship is formed. The 20 minutes short film is a gentle reminder to f...
Dharavi
Character: Kumud
The film follows a scrappy taxi driver's fortunes as he tries to break out from the clutches of poverty, devising plans and investing all his money in a dubious schemes which eventually blow out on him, coming under the eye of unscrupulous politician and local goons, yet he still perseveres for his dreams....
Sati
Character: Uma
Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree....
Ek Pal
Character: Priyam
Based on a short story by Maitreyi Devi, Kalpana Lajmi’s directorial debut tells a story of extramarital affair in the tea gardens of Assam. Famous Assamese singer-composer Hazarika contributes some fine compositions, overcoming the mandatory emphasis on regional folk-music in films set in exotic locales....
Death of a Doctor
Character: Seema
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....
The Chess Players
Character: Khurshid
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Prem...
Jazbaa
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After her daughter is kidnapped, a lawyer is forced to defend a criminal in exchange for her daughter's freedom....
Chalk N Duster
Character: Vidya Sawant
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...
Neerja
Character: Rama Bhanot
Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization....
Namkeen
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Nimki (Sharmila Tagore) is the mortar that holds her fragile family together. She looks after her younger sisters, the mute, sweet Meethu (Shabana Azmi) and spirited Chinki (Kiran Vairale). Together the three sisters care for their aging Amma (Waheeda Rehman), a troubled, frail woman bordering on senile dementia. Geru (Sanjeev Kumar), an itinerant construction hauler in the family's village for a brief contract, rents a room from the family, and before long bonds of friendship and even love deve...
Godmother
Character: Rambhi
inspired by the life of Santokben Jadeja, who ran the Mafia operations of Porbandar, Gujarat in the late 1980s and early 1990s and later turned politician.[1]...
Swami
Character: Saudamini
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....
A Decent Arrangement
Character: Preeti
This is the story of an American- Indian who travels to India for an arranged marriage. After he meets an American girl traveling through India, he must decide if he should follow cultural traditions or his own heart....
Good Morning Sunshine
Character:
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Kanneshwara Rama
Character:
Kanneshwara Rama (Kannada: ಕನ್ನೇಶ್ವರ ರಾಮ; English: The Legendary Outlaw) is a 1977 Kannada political drama film directed by M. S. Sathyu and produced by the Sharadha Movie Productions banner. The film is based on the novel Kannayya Rama written by the acclaimed writer S. K. Nadig. The story is set in the 1920s during which a young rebellious youth named Kanneshwara Rama opposes to the unjust orders given by the village head and becomes outlawed from the village.[1] The film stars Ananth Nag as ...
Luck by Chance
Character: Self
Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one....
Unique Relation
Character: Annapurna (Anu)
A woman takes care of a young boy as her own son, and the challenges that follow....
What Will People Say?
Character: Roma
Roma is forced into an arranged marriage with a widower. Coming to detest her husband, his son, and the life that has been enforced upon her, she begins an affair with another man....
Signature Move
Character: Parveen
A secret new romance with Alma forces Zaynab to confront her complicated relationship with her recently widowed mother. In this coming-of-age Muslim melodrama, Zaynab copes by taking up Lucha-style wrestling....
Banglatown Banquet
Character: Sofia
Middle-aged Muslim Bangladeshi women struggling for their freedom as they leave the familiarity of their Bangladeshi community and set out on a voyage of discovery....
Disha
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Two peasants are ill-prepared for life in the big city after moving from their tiny village to Bombay....
The Wishing Tree
Character: The Gypsy Woman
'The Wishing Tree' is a magical, inspirational and an extremely entertaining story of five children in a hill-station somewhere in India, who come together to save their 'wishing tree' from being cut by vested interests. The film is extremely lively, endearing and engrossing so that the underlying message to protect trees and environment is seamlessly driven home....
Immaculate Conception
Character: Samira
Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewish-American wife Hannah have been unsuccessful at conceiving a child. Over time, the desire to have a child begins to consume Hannah and she persuades a reluctant Alistair to go with her for three days to a fertility shrine. After a ceremony during which Hannah converts to Islam and coaxes Alistair to do the same, she becomes pregnant. But Hannah’s joy at the discovery of her pregnancy is overshado...
Main Azaad Hoon
Character: Subhashini Saigal
A newspaper reporter exploits an ordinary man for few rupees to pose as a man who is fighting against the corrupt politicians and prints imaginary stories in his name to improve the circulation of her newspaper. People take him for real and he becomes a powerful leader of poor man. One day the paper prints a letter in his name that he is going to end his life fighting corruption. This puts the ordinary man in a fix. He knows that at this juncture he can't refute the accuracy of all those stories...
Fakira
Character: Neeta / Geeta
Vijay helps the poor and robs the rich, while Ajay is assigned the job to bring Vijay to justice. Thirsty for each other's blood, both men are unaware that they are brothers separated at a young age....
Khel Khilari Ka
Character: Rachna
After watching his father, Masterji, getting killed; his sister, Laxmi, getting sexually assaulted by Sangram Singh, Dharamdas and Nandan, and then killing herself; and his younger brother, Munna, being thrown in a river, Ajit swears to avenge this during this lifetime....
The Black Prince
Character: Rani Jindan
The Black Prince follows the story of the last Sikh Maharaja — the son of the powerful ruler Ranjit Singh — who was placed on the throne at the age of five, after the death of his father. In 1849, the young prince was removed from the throne and eventually sent off to England. His attempts to return to India and reclaim his kingdom were subsequently thwarted by the British....
Congregation
Character: Anjuman
A young woman leads impoverished embroidery workers in a strike against the greedy wholesalers who exploit them....
Jhoothi Shaan
Character: Krishna
Ranimaa, a one-time empress, refuses to believe that her home is no longer a palace, even though she and her four children have turned it into a hotel. So when the police inform her that four bank robbers have checked in and they need to search every nook and cranny, she haughtily stands in the way of justice....
Kamla
Character: Sarita Jadhav
Jaisingh Jadav (Marc Zuber), a Delhi based journalist finds that even to this date, flesh trade exist in a village in Madhya Pradesh, the victims being girls belonging to the Bhil tribe. Like any avid journalist he travels to the village followed by really buying a girl named Kamla (Deepti Naval) and takes her to his home in Delhi. As his intentions were good, some days later he holds a press conference where he reveals the actual wrongdoings going on in the village....
Chor Sipahee
Character: Priya
A police officer doesn't believe in strict punishment and attempts a new way to deal with crime...
Avtaar
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Avtaar Krishen lives a poor lifestyle with his wife, Radha, and two sons, Ramesh and Chander. He works in a factory and toils hard so that his sons can get the necessary education, and live a better lifestyle. He gets injured and crippled while working, but is compensated adequately by his employer, Bawaji....
Rakhwala
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A little girl comes from her village to Bombay to find her father. She meets Vikram a kind hearted person who could help her. But Vikram is helpless as she doesn't know her father's name nor has his photograph....
Mardon Wali Baat
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Dacoit Sunder Singh kills a brave police officer, Shefali's husband. To avenge his death, Shefali secretly hires two mercenaries....
Fateh
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The Major, aided by three other military commandos, undertakes a mission to bring to justice an evil arms dealer and drugs smuggler....
Thodisi Bewafaii
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Arvind Kumar Choudhary is widowed, respectable and wealthy businessman, who lives with his only son, Arun, in a palatial house. He re-marries another woman, Sujata, who is a widow, with two daughters, Veena and Seema. Arun does not respect her and refuses to even speak with her. Arun meets Neema Deshmukh and both of fall in love. With approval of their respective families they get married. Then things start to slide financially for the Choudharys when Arun accidentally breaks a valuable diamond ...
Hira Aur Patthar
Character: Gauri
A young crusader struggles to free the poor peasants from the clutches of the corrupt trustees of their town. He decides to take any measures to get justice....
Amar Deep
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Raja was adopted by a criminal don (Ashok Kumar) at a very young age. After the death of the don, Raja inherits the property, and refrains from crime. However, the wealth and the power associated with it, make him arrogant. He desires Radha, the daughter of his servant, Ramu, and Raja asks his permission to marry her, Ramu accepts, but Radha refuses as she loves Kishan. Raja finds out that Radha is meeting with Kishan on the sly, and complains to Ramu, who forbids her from meeting with Kishan. T...
Ashanti
Character: Kamini
During the process of a police investigation Police Inspector Kumar Chandra Singh himself becomes a suspect....
Kaifinama
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Kaifinama looks at the life and art of the Urdu Progressive poet Kaifi Azmi. Kaifi Azmi was both a poet for social change as well as one of the foremost lyricists in the Hindi film industry....
Atithee
Character: Leela M. Kumar / Julie
Navendhu Kumar lives a poor lifestyle with his handicapped father, Mohan, housewife mom, two unmarried sisters, Leela and Rajni, a younger brother, Kundan, and a sweetheart in Meena. He works for Avinash Gupta, however, when differences occur, he is framed by Gupta for breaking and entering, arrested by the police, tried in Court, and exiled from the town for a period of 12 months. After he leaves, the family is almost destitute and are exploited by Gupta. Then some months later, a young man, An...
Gaja Gamini
Character: Premchand's Nirmala
A mysterious and beautiful woman, in her various incarnations, inspires artists throughout the ages....
Love Breakups Zindagi
Character: Naina's Mother
A couple and many of their friends experience changes and challenges in their respective lives after attending a wedding....
Saaz
Character: Bansidhar (Bansi) Vrundavan
Mansi, played by Aruna Irani the elder sister has to take up professional singing after her father's death and to support the family. The film focuses mainly on the female characters and traces how the younger sibling Bansi played by Shabana Azmi regains her identity....
Bollywood and Beyond: A Century of Indian Cinema
Character: Self
Indian cinema has the largest audience of any art form on the planet. With a population of over a billion, India has recently enjoyed an economic boom and its movie stars are treated like deities. Today their fame stretches across the diaspora, in what has become a truly global industry. As Indian cinema celebrates its centenary, Sanjeev Bhaskar travels across the subcontinent to get under the skin of the Indian movie business as never before. From young hopefuls in the slums of Mumbai to sup...
Dus Kahaniyaan
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An anthology of ten short films dealing with diverse subjects such as infidelity, companionship, lust and a spectrum of human emotions....
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Character: Ammi
In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks....
Devata
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Khoon Ki Pukaar
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After the murder of his wife, and his son's kidnapping, Dr. Vidya Bhushan decides to devote the rest of his life as a Poojary, living on the premises of a princely-donated temple, hoping ......
Genesis
Character: The woman
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. ...
Mrityudand
Character: Chandravati
Ketki marries Vinay, who is exploited by hard-nosed businessman Tirpat. Ketki then organizes local women against Tirpat & Co. Her group includes her sister-in-law, who had a run-in with a dangerous priest....
Yaadon Ki Zanjeer
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Bollywood 1984...
Shaque
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Shaque is a 1976 Bollywood drama film directed by Vikas Desai and Aruna Raje. The film stars Vinod Khanna....
Oonch Neech Beech
Character: Tulsi
The film is based on an incredible true story about a village woman who gets lost at a railway station and waits fourteen years for her husband to come....
Kissaa Kursee Kaa
Character: Janata
The plot revolved around a corrupt and evil politician Gangaram or Gangu, trying to woo personified public, depicted as mute and helpless looking. The movie is a humorous comment over the system and the selfishness of the politicians regarded as a motion picture version of the cartoonist columns that are the most brutal taunt over the politics....
Lorie
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A woman, depressed that she in unable to bear children, abducts a child, and wants to keep him for her own. The child belongs to a large family consisting of 11 other children....
Kaali Khuhi
Character: Satya Maasi
When a restless spirit curses a Punjab village that has a history of female infanticide, the town's fate lies in the hands of a 10-year old girl, Shivangi....
Sonata
Character: Dolon
Three single women, a professor, a banker, and a journalist, who are best friends, share their happy and joyous moments and support each other through hard times....
Om Shanti Om
Character: Self
Reincarnated 30 years after being killed in a suspicious on-set fire, a small-time actor is determined to punish the person who ignited the blaze....
Shart
Character: Kiran Dutt
The city is rocked by a series of brutal murders. All the victims are women of lose character or prostitutes, and all have been brutally slain. Inspector Arjun Dutt is assigned this case, and he launches an investigation. The only clue is part of a photograph. Arjun concludes that these murders are being committed by a young man named Vikram alias Devendra. Arjun's superiors do not agree with him, and fault him. His superiors also find out that Vikram was Arjun's close friend, and both were riva...
Ek Hi Bhool
Character: Meenakshi
Sadhana (Rekha) and Ramkumar (Jeetendra) are a married couple. Their marriage gets into troubled waters when Sadhana starts to suspect that Ramkumar is having an affair. Sadhana does not handle the matter properly, and drives him away from her. Her family attempt to talk to her and try to patch things up for the couple, but Sadhana is relentless. What will bring the couple to come together and attempt to re-build their marriage?...
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Character: Aisha Khan
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan....
Jallian Wala Bagh
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The whole film is a story about Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar....
Sheer Qorma
Character: Ammi
A story of belonging and acceptance, identity and family told through courageous, queer women choose to embrace love that exists beyond their personal beliefs and social moralities....
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
Character: Jamini Chatterji
Gym-freak brat Rocky falls in love with Rani, who comes from a well-educated Bengali family. Being from polar opposite worlds, the two decide to switch their families to adjust to each other's cultures and backgrounds and to know if their marriage will survive. Rocky and Rani are trapped in a world where they are united by love but divided by families and the ultimate question is will they fit in?...
Ishk Ishk Ishk
Character: Pammy
Dhun comes from a wealthy and talented family and desires to see the world on his own. He sets upon this travel and on his journey comes upon an inn called Five Daughters, run by Pahar. Deciding to stay there for a while, he meets Pahar's daughters and falls in love with Pooja. Pooja reciprocates his love and both hope to get married. Just when their marriage is being planned, Pooja's family comes to learn that Dhun and Pooja are related....
Devi Ahilya Bai
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Ahilyabai was born on May 31, 1725 in the village of Chaundi, in the present-day Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra. Her father, Mankoji Shinde, was the patil of the village, a member of the proud Dhangar community. Women then did not go to school, but Ahilyabai's father taught her to read and write....
Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen
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Documentary on Aparna Sen's life....