Discoveries from India World Cinema

Blade Purushottaman (Mammootty), nicknamed Parunthu Purushu for the way he preys on his targets, is a heartless financier. His rude and insulting ways of talking to people who owe him money have hurt many people.

A drunken man's encounter sets off a chain of gossip in a town of secrets. As whispers spread, a woman's hidden past threatens to tear everything apart.

A top fashion designer has a serious accident the very night his ex-lover mysteriously dies, raising questions on whether the incidents are related.

Mohana Krishan, who is looking for a job, is appointed as a priest of a temple. His charismatic personality attracts the young women in the village, particularly Sathya Bhama, who falls for him.

The film stars Ruhi Singh as Rhea, a free-spirited girl, whose life turns upside down when her father gets appointed as the Prime Minister of India. The fiercely independent Rhea starts to feel stifled because of the security team that accompanies her wherever she goes and the young lady jumps at the chance of an adventure provided by a mysterious stranger Aryan Shekhawat (Krishna Chaturvedi), who she runs off with while on a vacation in South Africa, much to the anguish of her security team led by RAW agents Lisa Ray and Jaaved Jaaferi.

The plot is set in Mumbai, a city of dream and land of opportunities. The psychological crime thriller showcases an intriguing chase between a serial killer with a distinctive fetish and CBI officer named Gulshan. In the serial killer's point of view, the film explores the fugitive's darkest desire for momentary pleasure.

A man with financial troubles finds himself on a boozy road trip with a wealthy stranger.

Dr. Rajeev and his wife SUJATA come from Dubai to participate in the last rituals of Sujata's friend and ex love affair who was a Sufi. The events which happen when they land in the village forms the rest of the plot.

Avinash, a young man, is troubled by the memories of his past life and decides to investigate the truth behind it.

Nandagopal, an associate editor with Keralareshmi, one of the leading dailies, is aggressive and daring and enjoys a good reputation among the media circle. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Nandan is the son of Venugopal, a daring journalist who was killed by textile mafia long back. Nandan, in Kochi meets Sekharan, an old naxalite who is running Jagratha, a newspaper which is feared by political class. Sekharan's outspoken and belligerent nature had earned him more enemies than friends. He is constantly fighting Vishwathan, who rules Kochi with his muscle and money. Vishwanathan holds a large share in Keralareshmi and enjoys a huge political clout at state and central levels. Shekharan brings out the role of Vishwanathan in the murder of Vincent Paul, which creates a panic in the political level.

‘Dandupalyam 2’ is the sequel to 2012 thriller ‘Dandupalyam’ that chronicled the life and exploitations of the scandalous D-gang. ‘Dandupalya 2’ offers a whole new perspective to the already established story, making one question everything they already know.

Melodrama about lineage and property questions. Nikhilesh (Barua) loves heiress Indira (Jamuna). A poor orphan girl, Radha (Menaka Devi), arrives claiming to be Indira's stepsister and therefore part inheritor of the family estate. Indira agrees to share her inheritance but then Radha makes a play for Nikhilesh. Ultimately, Radha turns out to be the real and sole heir. Love proves to be stronger than material possession as Indira and Nikhilesh get married and Radha finds happiness with Ratan, a man she had known and loved during her days of poverty. As each character returns to the class of his/her birth, the message hammered home is a warning to people never to transcend their social status.

A subtle yet violent commentary on feudal lords.

Ajay Kumar (Warsi) is the newly appointed, honest SSP of Lucknow police who tries to crack down on the Uttar Pradesh mafia. He establishes a Special Task Force consisting of a physics professor (Pankaj Tripathi) to counter the politically backed criminal Gajraj Singh (Sushant Singh). Loosely based on the real-life late 1990s organized crime wave in Uttar Pradesh.

The police find a dead body in a river holding on to a 'thaali' and a wedding invitation. They begin an investigation that takes them to a house where wedding preparations are in full swing.

Kittaiah, a simple villager, loves his cousin Saroja, but his maternal uncle disapproves of Kittaiah. Dejected, Kittaiah pleads with Lord Krishna to help him.

Five people trapped in a factory where two hostages and three are kidnappers but they them self do not know who are kidnappers and hostages.As they all are suffering from temporary memory loss.

A hitman comes to a hill town to plot the murder of a top scientist. A young man and his righteous father stand in his way.

Exorcist Mukundan meets and falls in love with Malu, a girl who has lost her memory. A few years later, he arrives at a palatial house for an exorcism and bumps into Malu who fails to recognise him.

Jai is hired to locate the daughter and wife of a wealthy man after they vanish under mysterious circumstances

The film is based on the after the wedding custom when a newly-wed bride is taken back to her husband's home for the first time.

Anna, an Italian woman, approaches Shankar, an explorer, to accompany her in search of the golden city of El Dorado. He accepts the offer and sets out on an adventure through the Amazon.

A literary film based on a play in three acts, One Day Before the Rainy Season (Ashad Ka Ek Din) portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist. Vilom, a friend to both and interested in Mallika, is a passive onlooker for the first two acts. Kalidasa leaves his verdant mountain valley home for the splendour of far off Ujjain, where he wins fame. The action of the film is rooted in the village to which Kalidasa returns years later and finds Mallika married to Vilom and the mother of his child. Mallika sacrificed her love so that the poet could pursue his muse.

Sandhya (Kajal Aggarwal) is a student who is madly in love with Karthik (Ravi Teja), a techie based in Italy. She decides to travel with him to India, confident that the travel time would be enough for her to get Karthik to fall in love. Karthik reciprocates her gestures in a friendly way, but finally reveals that he is married to Vasudha (Richa Gangopadhyay) but is waiting to seek Divorce.

Meenakshi, a Marathi gal with an ultra-sensitive sense of smell, lives her life in her dreams, dancing and enacting her favourite actresses Sridevi, Madhuri and Juhi. Not believing in arranged marriages, Meenakshi awaits her prince when she comes across Tamil artist Surya, to whom she is strangely attracted to.

Anil, a criminal's son, follows a righteous path and marries Geeta. After his death, Geeta has to leave their son, Tony, with her brother, who is an inspector.

The story of an Indian girl falling in love with an American in 80s USA.

Shiv (Abhishek Bachchan) and Pooja (Karisma Kapoor) are happily married to each other but sometimes can get into the most petty arguments coming from the way they approach life. Shiv takes each day as it comes whilst Pooja's imagination sometimes gets the best of her. Pooja falls in love with Shiv so much that she gives up her high rising career for him and settles as a housewife. Their in-difference gets worse and Pooja is soon convinced that Shiv has been unfaithful. Pooja asks for a divorce and leaves him. She carries on with life and meets Raj (Akshay Kumar). Raj has everything anyone could ask for: money, fame but not love something he has craved for some time. He falls for Pooja and she also begins to like him. They get engaged and as the wedding approaches, Shiv re-enters Pooja's life. Old feelings and emotions come rushing back and she finds herself torn between two men. Who does she choose...?

After graduating, a young man and a girl, who are in love with each other, promise to meet again after five years in their college campus. When he does show up on the set day, his friends are shocked to see that he has completely changed.

Babu, a tea vendor, loves Uma, a rich girl. She too loves him for his sincerity. When she receives a proposal from a doctor, she accepts for the sake of a secure future. Babu sues her for cheating.

Radhika Balan, a smart cyber-security expert, advocates the use of the technology for the good but her life is turned upside down when she falls prey to a cyber-stalking incident and her privacy gets compromised

Prem Kishan comes to Kodaikanal for work and happens to meet Prabha. He falls in love with Prabha without knowing much about her. But later he realizes that she is already married.

Jayadevan is a most-wanted writer in the Malayalam Television industry, who pens the scripts for all major soap operas. The marriage brings in a lot of changes in Jayadevan's life and this forms the crux of the story.

Inspector Amar Kaushal attempts to incarcerate wrong-doers in his society only lead to frustration when they are let off by the incompetence of the law and his superiors and seniors. Eventually Amar stands accused of killing several criminals and innocents which prompts him to take law into his own hands.

Kaanchi movie is a musical thriller with a love story. It is a story of the inner power of a woman who represents millions of suppressed youth against unjust in the country. It is also the story of an innocent rural beauty and her fight against power.

As a mountain village fractures under unseen forces, a man who believes language can save the earth and another who believes spectacle can sell it drive the village toward the same, irreversible disappearance.

An upcoming thriller.

On 1st April 1996, the Kerala government had taken an initiative to prohibit arrack shops, which had led many alcoholics in awful situations. What follows, is how they prevailed over this change.

An ancient treasure goes missing from a palace, causing the Prince to go on an adventurous hunt. The famous Vishnu Puram Palace is home to an ancient treasure, full of diamonds. While the royalty prides itself on it, the treasure attracts the attention of a lot of people. One day, the treasure is reported to be lost and the prince sets out to find it.

An unemployed alcoholic decides to get his life back together and returns to practicing law. While investigating a case, he falls in love with a dancer whose brother was murdered, and he sets out to find the killers.

The story depicts the campus life of the 80s. Zacharia Pothen is a rich and spoiled senior student who is also ruthless and arrogant. He is always accompanied by his friends for whose happiness, Pothen can go to any extent. Pothen and his friends have a lot of fun and experience many exciting events in the course of their campus life. The film is a campus love story with a lot of comic sequences to enjoy the 80s campus life.

Prahlada, Lord Vishnu's staunch devotee, is born to Hiranyakashipu (S.V. Ranga Rao) his father. Hiranyakashipu is determined to dissuade his son from worshipping Lord Vishnu, as the Lord killed his brother, Hiranyaksa. To prevent Prahlada's devotion, Hiranyakashipu is willing to go to any extent.

Raja, an unemployed youth, does odd jobs to support his family. When his brother, Ravi, an IAS officer, becomes a target for corrupt businessmen Nagpal and Tejpal, Raja has to save him.

A classical bharatanatyam dancer and a nathaswaram player fall in love against the wishes of her family.

The story of the film is loosely based on a novel named 'Godavari Kathalu', written by BVS Rama Rao. The film is set in 1986, in Bangarappeta village near Rajahmundry. Malli (Aadhi) and Chitra (Lakshmi Manchu) is a newlywed couple who are forced to battle it out against a devastating flood of the River Godavari. They lose all hope of survival, so they decide to narrate the darkest moments of their lives to each other after they find a support to rest on.

Jency and Ganesh love each other, but she has to get married to Nicholas, a rich entrepreneur from London. He had financed her mother's surgery, so in gratitude, Jency agrees to marry him.

After facing rough times in life, Nandini, a resilient and tough woman returns to Law College to finish her education. She finds solace in new friendships. Unknowingly she gets into dangerous conflicts that threaten the social fabric of society.

Two retired colonels are at odds with each other because one of them had been a traitor to the country. The grandson of the traitor and the grand daughter of the other colonel fall in love but have to surmount a number of obstacles

Haridas Choudhury, a wealthy and honest shoe company owner, faces a moral dilemma when his Chauffeur's son (Bansi) is mistakenly kidnapped instead of his son. Inspector Amar is assigned to the case and while the search for Bansi is on-going Haridas is losing control of his company.

Centuries ago, Damyaan, a Sorcerer was granted a wish to be immortal by the Book of Magi with a rider/curse that he would be confined to the City of Sonapur. To escape from this confinement and to unleash his dark arts over the world, Damyaan lures Raja Indravarma with a map with the directions to the City of Gold. The only way Damyaan can be defeated is to destroy him with the Book of Magi.

A rich man's daughter accuses a loyal servant of attempting to rape her and sends him out of the house. However, she later reveals that she had falsely accused him as she had hated his father.

While facing backlash after a video of her at a nightclub goes viral, a teacher disappears suddenly — and a tenacious cop begins a thorny investigation.

Sarah, a free spirited young girl looking to surgically reassign her gender and Antony, a once exuberant but now a dejected and dispirited young man. What will happen when they meet?

A family man, Ratan, decides to commit a crime for Balram Singh, but keeps the bounty for himself. Singh sets his house on fire, and believing his family to be dead, Ratan goes on the run.

After her fiancé is killed in an accident, Seema becomes a bar dancer and is raped. When her fiancé miraculously returns, she learns that her rapist is his uncle.

Saleena is happily married to Mathew , a wealthy estate owner. Inexplicably she commits suicide much to the shock of Mathew. He firmly believes that there existed no reason for her to do the act and asks his journalist friend Balu to investigate why. Balu, who was also close to Saleena, tries to piece together clue from her past to figure out the answer.

A woman from a town in Kerala gets married to a hoodlum who promises her a good life. However, the situation turns awry when her husband dies and she goes abroad to make a living.

Jada is an upcoming Indian Tamil language sports drama film written and directed by Kumaran on his directorial debut. The film stars Kathir and newcomer Roshini in the lead roles, while Kishore and Yogi Babu play supporting roles.