Discoveries from India World Cinema

A group of friends attempts to make a 'halal' film that conforms to the guidelines and descriptions of an Islamic organization which they are a part of.

A doctor and his wife move to a new city where they plan to start a new life. However, trouble strikes in the form of a police inspector who gets completely obsessed with the doctor's wife.

Professor Mathew Idikkula who reformed the atmosphere of a college by developing a healthy relationship between teachers and students. The film reflects the goodness of the youth and the impact the students can have.

A lawyer holds the eyewitness evidence to catch a killer, but the identified criminal is the lawyer's own mentor, prospective father-in-law, and also the judge who presides over the case.

Chandamama Kathalu is an upcoming Telugu anthology film directed by Praveen Sattaru and produced by Chanakya Bhooneti.The film has eight sub-stories revolving around love.The lives of the central characters in the sub-plots get intertwined with each other.Lakshmi Manchu, Aamani, Naresh, Krishnudu, Chaitanya Krishna, Abhijeet, Naga Shaurya, Vennela Kishore, Amitha Rao and Richa Panai play the lead roles.[4] Mickey J Meyer composed the music.The shooting was wrapped up in December 2013.

Sunder Singh lives with his wife, Lajwanti, and three sons, Bheema, Kishan, and Vijay, in a small town in India. His two elder sons are slackers and up to mischief and wrestling. They find they can better their lives if they buy a tractor to till the land. Lajwanti comes up with jewelery and the brothers recover the rest of the money on hold with Lala Bhagwandas, and set forth to buy a tractor. They re-locate to the city and team up with their police inspector brother Vijay. Watch as hilarious events unfold that will encompass the trio in crime, romance, and jail-time, as they try to diligently fulfill their parents' wishes.

An honest policeman, a con man, and a hopeless romantic form an unusual team during the days of demonetization to pull off a scam that quickly goes haywire.

Guathamante Radham revolves around Gauthaman and his journey of getting a driving license and, for the first time in the family, a car of his own. The relationship he builds with the car and the fortunes brought by the car.

Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.

Telugu romantic comedy film written and directed by Nandini Reddy under the banner of Sri Sai Ganesh Productions.

Rajoo (Naseeruddin Shah) is an honest, naive, villager with a heart of gold. When he comes to the big city, he comes across a beautiful young girl, Sunayana (Rameshwari), who almost gets runover by a car. He assists her to her feet, and she tells him that she is blind, lives in a small tenement with a neighbourly woman everyone calls Maushi (Leela Mishra), and sell flowers for a living. Rajoo takes it upon himself to make arrangements to ensure that Sunayana can see again. He meets with all kinds of people in this process, namely a wealthy suicidal drunk, Heeramohan (Pinchoo Kapoor); Circus owner (Mukri); Lion-tamer, Shamsher (Rajendra Nath); Prisoner Jaggoo (Jagdeep); Prisoner #204 (Viju Khote). He also meets with Dr. Indrajeet (Vijayendra Ghatge) and arranges to pay him a sum of Rs.2000/- for Sunayana's cure. Dr. Indrajeet lives with his mom (Sulochana), and sister, beautiful Sushma (Gayetri).

Kabir decides to break friendship with Dhariya and Dhungiya after they come in merit by cheating in exams and shifts to London for further studies.

Vijay, a vigilante, teams up with political candidate Saheb Bahadur Rathore to bring down Satya Singh, a corrupt politician, and fight against the system.

Head Bush revolves around Jayaraj, his friends, foes, police officers, and the politicians who changed the course of the political scenario of Bengaluru in the 1970s. The film focuses on the rise and rise of Jayaraj - from a teenager to a rowdy to a mass hero.

A 1986 Indian Tamil film, directed by Manivannan and produced by P. Kalaimani who also wrote the film's story.

Eldho is waiting to take revenge on Shauriyar, who killed his father and mother when he was a young boy.

Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself.

On May 1st 1993 a bomb explodes in Gangaram Park in Bombay, killing more than 150 people, many of whom are children. ACP Jay Suryavanshi is assigned this case, quick arrests are made of four individuals. Jagat Jogia, a terrorist, claims responsibility for these killings, but the police are unable to arrest him as he is now located in London, England. Jay discusses this matter with his senior, and together they recruit dreaded killer, Jeet Balraj, rename him Raja, save him from death-row, promise him freedom in exchange for killing Jagat Jogia, to which Jeet agrees. Jeet is provided with money, passport and living quarters in London, and he re-locates. Upon arrival, he meets with Manpreet Kaur, and both of them fall in love. With someone to motivate him in life, Jeet decides to give up his past life - only to find out that not only Jay has other plans for him, but Jagat is also on the look-out for him - and both their agendas are the same - his death!

During times of conflict, three elderly men try to instill values in their families.

One among the few sci-fi movies in Malayalam, 'Bharathan Effect' tells the story of Bharathan (Biju Menon) who is a genius inventor struggling to make ends meet. His efforts are under appreciated by his wife Geetha (Geethu Mohandas) and causes constant conflict between them. After apparently seeing an object float in air defying gravity; Bharathan gets obsessed by the whole idea. He tries to research the topic with the financial assistance of his landlord (Jagathy Sreekumar) despite the entire community branding him as a lunatic. The rest of the film deals with his quest to find the truth behind the strange phenomenon of anti-gravity that he witnesses.

A forest smuggle, lives in the jungle and smuggles sandalwood. He is also involved with other anti-social behaviour and forest controlling activities like robberies, dacoity, murders and drug pedalling. He consequently kidnaps an electrician Rahul and takes him to the jungle, forcing him to teach him how to make explosives. Rahul refuses to help create bombs and is subsequently falsely accused of murder. The rest of the story is about how Rahul proves his innocence to police investigators

The men of a neighbourhood compete to win over a young woman.

Karthik is an investigative crime reporter from 2019, while Sujatha is from 1993 . An accidental cross time phone talk connects them. When Karthik knows about her difficulties, he tries to change her future by changing the incidents from her past.

Falling into an over-the-phone romance with a rickshaw driver, a young woman visits his city when an encounter with a stranger derails their meeting.

Pandiyan, a police officer, is enraged when his sister's husband dies. In order to find and catch the culprits, he goes undercover.

A minor thug, Raghu, and a pickpocket, Maria, fall in love. To find proof, Raghu joins a gang that killed Maria's father but soon realises that they are planning to kill Maria to bury any evidence.

A group of musicians travel to London after finding renewed success with a new singer. They end up winning the lottery, but misplace the winning ticket.

Machine depicts the story of racing enthusiasts , who meet each other under mysterious circumstances. As their bond becomes stronger, they eventually fall in love. However, new things begin to unfold, which change their lives forever

My dear Mummy` tells another different campus story, scripted by Biju Vattapara. The Movie revolves around the lives of two women

When young Rekha falls in love with unemployed Kalyan, her high-hat mother, Chamundeshwari, disapproves of the match and devises numerous schemes to drive the lovebirds apart. But Kalyan proves a tougher adversary than Chamundeshwari expects, and soon an intense battle of wills ensues.

Amar works as a private detective and tries to make his overbearing wife happy. He becomes involved in a police investigation and has an affair with his client's paramour.

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.

A family traveling from Kolhapur to Mumbai will face many ups and down before they reach their destination.

Story about how a young girl is ill-treated by her step-mother and how her brother's friend saves her and her husband.

Dharma, an auto driver, works for RR, an influential politician, and kidnaps young women. Investigating officer DCP Raj, who was earlier suspended due to political pressure, must bring him to justice.

The middle-aged in-laws in love with each other elope from their children's wedding.

NRI Jayanta Dutta makes his return home to Calcutta, only to soon discover that he must fight tooth and nail in order to save his ancestral estate from being seized by a ring of land sharks.

Nimmi falls in love with a married man. When the man and his wife meet an untimely death, Nimmi decides to look after their daughter, Binutty.

Jebin is a writer who is trying to get his work published. He comes to understand his financial status after his father's death. There is also a villa in Pondycherry that has been bequeathed to him by his dad about which he had no clue till then. His ensuing journey to the villa sets the ball rolling for interesting events that get unfurled slowly.

Three friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives.

Credited cast: Nagarjuna Akkineni ... Jagan Mahesh Anand Babu Mohan Dipti Bhatnagar Brahmanandam Ashok Kumar K. Srinivasa Rao Kota Simran Dara Singh Sudhakar Sujatha Vijayakumar

A mentally-challenged father lives in his idyllic world with his daughter, both of them crazy about planes. In his quest to get his daughter that toy plane that she yearns for, he ends up in jail wrongly accused of a crime he doesn't commit. What follows is a bittersweet tale of a father and daughter trying to be together...

1972 Tamil language adaptation of the novel "Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi" by R. K. Narayan

A man turns to violence to win the affection of his childhood crush and unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.

When the epitome of female sexuality, the iconic Savita Bhabhi, comes in 21-year-old Aatish's dreams, he invites her to be the chief guest of the local Dahi Handi festival. Aatish, spellbound by the magical lady who has seen it all, drives himself and those around him into a state of frenzy.

Shiv Shastri, a retiree from India and a big Rocky movie fan moves to the USA and ends up on an unexpected road trip through the American heartland which teaches that it's never too old to reinvent yourself.

A villager's search for his two lost bulls turns his village to become breaking news on all the television channels in India,and into an expose of the corruption in politics and media.

Revolving around Hyderabad, a city like no other, are the lives of eight people grappling with life-changing choices as their fates entwine with each other. However, they're determined to rise above the occasion and make room for life and a little more.

Manathe Vellitheru is the story of Shobhana, who plays a pop star, gets stalked by an obsessive fan (Vineeth).

Two girls open a beauty parlor in a small town, gaining initial support from the townspeople. However, an incident triggers a perilous cat-and-mouse game, forcing them to embark on a journey to escape the trap.

Six high-school classmates, three boys and three girls, coming from different strata of society, who have each their own problems in their respective families and escape from their homes, deciding to live together on their own with the help of an older friend of theirs.

A bright but misunderstood student, who has a passion for BMX and a love for science, in his search for humanity. His faith in humanity is tested when something unexpected happens.

Aravind's parents have raised orphans Chandru and Krishna as their own and the three are great friends. Chandru loves Amrita, Aravind's sister, but is hesitant. Aravind's love life too is troubled.

Kaliyil Alpam Karyam movie tells the story of Vinayan (Mohanlal) who comes from a rich family. His parents and his brother and sister are all modern. But Mohanal grew up eccentric and likes different things in life. He follows the teaching of Gandhi.He took a degree, and when a job opportunity came to be a postal inspector in a rural village , he jumps at the chance, at the disapproval of his parents to go work there. There he meets a village girl who lives next door and they fall in love. Problems happen when there two cultures clash, as the girl wants to become modern, while Mohanlal wants to continue to live the simplistic village life style.

An Indian has no faith in the existence of God. His friend recounts numerous tales depicting the miracles of Sai Baba. Unconvinced, he visits Shirdi himself and begins his journey towards discovery and faith. The movie is focused on the story of Sai Baba - his birth, teachings, miracles and his physical death. For the first time, a film has been shot in Shirdi, the holy temple of Sai Baba.

In the 18th Century, Tributary Monarch Nirpathunga Varman's diadem became the centerpiece of an annual carnival. In 1996, a forbidden love affair leads to tragedy, revenge, and a cursed spirit. Two decades later, a stolen diadem resurfaces, triggering the return of a vengeful spirit.

Bolo Dugga Maiki is an entertaining movie about Samya who always leads his life as a liar. However, when he meets a gorgeous girl in a train, Uma, his life changes in the blessings of Ma Durga.

Michael Mishra, a kidnapper from Patna, falls for a girl, Varsha Shukla, at a very young age. He got arrested and sent to jail. After releasing from jail, he searched for her but couldn't find her. He then finds her in a talent show. The story revolves around as to how he gets his love and what he has to go through.

Three friends find themselves in a love triangle. Things get complicated with their friendship and they have to find a solution for their problem.