Discoveries from India World Cinema

A stingy miser gets the shock of his life when a nation-wide lock-down thwarts his attempts for a cost-effective marriage.

Krishna, a villager who is determined to become wealthy, bumps into a moneylender, Anakonda, and joins a gang. However, after climbing the ranks, he realises that his gang leader plans to trap him.

An undercover policeman attempts to solve a murder and ends up with more murders on his hands, a mysterious killer, and other people out to kill him.

Nidal navigates his way through the treacherous four years of engineering as he comes in terms with his philosophy and morals.

Chinna Pasanga Naanga is a 1992 Tamil drama film directed by Raj Kapoor. The film features Murali, Revathi and Saradha Preetha in lead roles.

After witnessing a murder, musicians Dev (Rishi Kapoor) and Salim (Paintal) dress as women and flee with a girl band to avoid the killers' wrath. Soon, Dev falls for fellow bandmate Reetu (Neetu Singh), but his disguise makes it impossible for him to reveal his feelings. When he discovers that Reetu desires a rich man, Dev devises a second disguise, as the wealthy Esso. Madan Puri and Anwar Hussain co-star in this Indian take on Some Like It Hot.

Prince, a dog trainer, faces an awkward situation when his pet dog Diana acts in a film alongside his ex-lover, an actress who shares the same name as the dog.

After his brother is killed in a terrorist attack, Bharath, a policeman, assures his mother that he will resign. However, when he learns of a secret terrorist organisation he sets out to capture them.

The film is based on the Mahatma Gandhi University Youth Festival which takes place every year, where different colleges under the university participate for winning the champion trophy.

A young woman falls in love with a man and wishes to marry him. However, everything changes when she learns about her father's involvement in his first wife's death.

The father of a sick child takes on a criminal gang running a pharmaceutical racket.

Two estranged childhood friends, Raghu and Suresh, find themselves at loggerheads when Raghu joins the army and Suresh becomes a gangster.

Raju is a poor guy who wants to marry a rich girl. Her father challenges Raju to earn ₹10,000,000 within a year to prove himself first.

The police raid a theatre where movie tickets of a very successful film are being sold in black (illegally at a higher price). When Police Inspector Sher Khan interrogates Khoji, a man in his 20s, he claims that he is the director of the very film whose tickets he is selling in black. The cynical Sher Khan puts Khoji behind bars. Now Sher Khan receives two phone calls -- one from the Police Commissioner and another from the dreaded don "WC", both of whom support Khoji's detention. Who is Khoji? Is he really the film's director? Then why is he selling his film's tickets in black? What do the Police Commissioner and don "WC" want from Khoji? All this is revealed through a hilarious turn of events.

Shankar and Paro love each other, but their relationship is strained by his drinking problem and Paro's sudden wealth.

A landlord's son and a farmer's daughter fall in love and marry secretly in a temple. Since their love is not accepted by the families, they are forced to separate while their child grows up in an orphanage.

Migrant and aspiring actress Thooya navigates Mumbai by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a fellow migrant working a corporate job, the two women from seemingly different worlds begin sharing more than just living space. Amid Mumbai’s relentless pulse, they discover silent empathy, though personal histories and wounds test their delicate connection in a strange and tender unfolding – of selfhood, of survival, of unexpected kinship.

When Kanal, a B-grade engineering college student, finds out that his dad went on to pay a hefty amount as “donation” to get him the seat, the liquor-swigging student is introduced to the underground world of the admission racket system in colleges.

Dara Singh rescues a village maiden from a giant dinosaur and is given the name "King Kong" by the ruler of the land who also desires that the hero marry his lovely daughter, the princess. Wrestler King Kong appears as as the previously bestowed "King Kong" who is none too happy to lose his title to the muscular young upstart.

When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with Yadav's own daughter, Gauri (Farha). As they grow up, Krishna (Sunny Deol) and Gauri fall in love - but an obstacle is looming in their path in the form of Yadav's young second wife (Sujata Mehta), who is attracted to the handsome Krishna, and in her jealousy proceeds to do all she can to destroy the young couple's chances of happiness.

Krishnan Unni tries to settle the dispute between two feuding families. In the process of doing so, he ends up falling in love with Sreebala, who belongs to one of the families.

Tina Marie D'Silva lives a middle-class lifestyle in a small town in India along. One day renowned singer, Vikramaditya Singh, hears her voice and enrolls her in his prestigious school. After a few clashes, Tina manages to amaze everyone with her talents - so much so that she is invited to sing along with Vikramaditya himself. On the day of the recording, Tina fails to appear. An angered Vikramaditya decides to have nothing to do with her. He subsequently changes his mind, goes to visit her, and finds out that she is now a nun. After many attempts he succeeds in convincing her to return to sing with him at his very first live concert to which she agrees. On the day of the concert Tina is all set to sing, but this time Vikramaditya fails to show. Watch what impact this has on Tina and the concert itself.

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, Anand, comes to visit them, informing them that Navendhu has sent him. He gives them some money for day to day expenses, gets some clothes for everyone, and a wheelchair for Mohan. He arranges the marriage of Rajni with her boyfriend, Ajay, despite strong opposition from Gupta, and falls in love with Leela. What the Kumar family do not know is that Anand is a fugitive on the run from the police in Bombay, and he harbors a dark secret that will change their lives forever.

Ravi Verma is an honest and diligent Inspector who lives with his wife, daughter, and brother Raghuveer. Ravi and Raghuveer are brothers with a very strong bond and both are extremely close to each other. However, their bond weakens because Raghuveer often gets into fights. Raghuveer can't stand injustice and when he watches injustice done to his professor, he fights for him.

Rahmat, a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of his own daughter back in Afghanistan. One day Rehmat receives news of his daughter’s illness and decides to return to Afghanistan. But before he goes a violent fight with a customer leads to Rehmat killing him. He gets out of prison ten years later. Based on a Rabindranath Tagore story.

A wounded man finds himself in an unknown place nursed by a woman and realizes he has amnesia. He keeps getting flashes of his past and decides to uncover his true identity with the help those flashes.

Compartment is a docu-fiction movie which takes us into the life of two differently-abled children.

An auto driver becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders and has to race against time to save his loved ones and clear his name.

A desperate smuggler, Ravi, battles a corrupt police officer and his gang while trying to protect his love, Radha

Abhimanyu Kaul - a young, independent, Games Developer, living in Japan and the love of his life, Anwita Chauhan - a bubbly, passionate and full of life, summer intern. Their happy and content life faces the test of time, when blood ties and the pressure of being born into the first family of India tears a young Abhimanyu between his love for Anwita and a promise made to his dying father, the Prime Minister of India. Being a public figure, by reluctantly accepting to represent the governing party, much against his own wishes and at the cost of his private life, is a double-edged sword that Abhimanyu must walk on.

When his daughter's life is compromised because of delay due to rallies and protests while getting her to the hospital, a man calls upon to resist this system and recall its fundamental rights in front of the court and the rest of the country.

Vinay and Keerthi fall in love in college. When Vinay is attacked by Srikanth and his family, Dharma Teja rescues him. However, Vinay hates Dharma Teja.

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.

"HELP" is a supernatural horror thriller which draws upon the story of a malevolent spirit that refuses to leave the human world and is out to exact retribution for past crimes committed against it.

A young man, on the advice of an agent, lies that he is married, to go to America. But his visa application is rejected and now, he has to follow-up with a string of lies to hide one lie.

A girl learns that her father is tough in nature due to his bad past. She decides to take him on a trip to Ponmudi, which changes their lives forever.

A married woman, who has set aside her dreams for the sake of her husband and daughter, rediscovers her true self and becomes an achiever.

Story about two siblings who get separated by villains to get property. Their kids fall in love and solve the murder of the hero's father and clear his uncle of all wrong doings.

Chandini comes to India to attend Veer's sisters wedding. In those four days, she wins everyone's heart.

Siva and John, two best friends, get separated due to the atrocities of a gangster. Siva becomes Tiger and fights injustice, while John is hired by a mafia leader to kill Siva.

Cold-hearted and manipulative Kamla has fallen in love with a poor man and marries him and has a child named Santosh. She soon realizes that life is not fun living in poverty, and abandons her child and husband, and returns back to her father and his wealth. She re-marries millionaire Kailashpathi, and has a child named Kundan from him. Years pass by, Kundan and Santosh have both grown up. Kundan is the owner of the mill with his mom, while Santosh is a struggling mill worker, and a union worker. A confrontation ensues between the mill and the workers, and Kamla is able to negotiate a settlement and get the workers back to work, but fails to keep the promise. Santosh opposes this, and she sets her goons and Kundan against him. Santosh is abducted and held prisoner by Kamla and Kundan, and the only way he can be released is when he compromises with them.

After passing his prime years as a junior under a corrupt, dominant boss, Ravi becomes an independent solicitor. He takes on a challenge when he fights against his former employer in a murder case.

Mohan is a starving boy who witnesses his mother die at the hands of villains. He grows up to become Rotiwala, a Robin Hood for the people of Mumbai. Along the way, he meets friends like the lawyer Arjun, and the dancer Sharda. They team up to take down the villains ruining all their lives together.

A larceny leads to murder and Roopesh Raghavan, a young man who has cleared police recruitment tests and awaits posting.

Disabled Sreekuttan and his buddy Bhavyan are a simpletons without many dreams. However, the duo will not tolerate insults and humiliation. After being disgraced by a newly-joined police officer in their village, they set out to take revenge.

Kondapalli Raja is a 1993 Telugu film directed by Raviraja Pinisetty. The film stars Venkatesh, Nagma, Srikanth and Suman in lead roles.

Geetha is a 1981 Indian Kannada romance drama film directed by and starring Shankar Nag in the lead role, alongside Padmavathi Rao. The supporting cast features K. S. Ashwath, Ramesh Bhat and Gayathri. Ilayaraaja composed the soundtrack and the background score for the film that and was declared a blockbuster musical hit. The track "Santhoshakke" from the film became widely popular in Karnataka and is still performed for in concerts and other events

It's love at first sight for Anjali and Jai Walia. However, after Anjali gets an anonymous tip-off about Jai's alleged infidelity, cracks begin to appear in their once happy marriage.

Guddu Ki Gun is the tale of Govardhan aka Guddu (Kunal Kemmu), a Bihari settled in Kolkata. He is a door-to-door washing powder salesman, whose sales pitch is "Ek washing powder ke saath Guddu free". While sharing a room with his close friend Ladoo (Sumeet Vyas), Guddu leads an amorous lifestyle in Kolkata. His travails begins when he ditches one of his girlfriends, Bholi (Aparna Sharma). Furious for forsaking his granddaughter, Bholi's grandfather casts a black magic spell on him. The only way Guddu can get rid of the curse is to find true love and by staying faithful to her.

Aparichithan movie revolves around three college girls who are very close friends. Meenakshi (Kavya), Devi (Manya) and Simi (Karthika) are very good friends. Once they get caught for stealing the question papers for the exam and were expelled from the college. As they did not want to go home.

Kunjimalu, a maid, falls in love with Haridas, her employer's son. However, she is in for a rude shock when she learns that his marriage is fixed with his cousin, Ratnam.

Blade Babji (Allari Naresh) is a pickpocket who takes up the mission of earning 4 crores to rescue the slum dwellers in his area from a builder. He and his gang go to Vizag and rob a bank. And they hide the loot in a building under construction. They were forced to go away for a month and when they return they find a police control room at the spot where they hidden their loot. In order to retrieve the loot, Blade Babji takes the position of newly joined Krishna Manohar (spoof of Pokiri) by kidnapping him. The rest of the story is all about the comedy of errors that followed.

Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.

Gowtham finds himself in need to overcome an increasingly dire predicament after accidentally killing a motorcyclist, hiding the body in his car trunk and feigns drunk driving to avoid suspicion at a police checkpoint.

Roshni, a self defense instructor is clear on her objective- to equip girls with training to protect themselves and take on the world. Her life takes a drastic turn when her brother commits a crime. Will the sister follow the known path or will she take matters in her own hands?

When Shiva finds an unconscious stranger on the beach, he unknowingly begins a journey that leads to Japan's sumo rings. With truth and loyalty, he helps his friend reclaim his identity and honor, showing that bonds of the heart can rise above borders and power.

Thakur and Sehgal get into a fight that leads to Sehgal's death and creates a rivalry between the two clans. Years later, Jai and Durga, each from the opposing families, fall in love with each other.

Bobby (Suresh Gopi) comes to high range as a helicopter pilot working for Robinson (Sreenivasan). His job is to spray copper sulphate (thurisu) in the rubber plantations. He is assisted by Venkidi (Manian Pillai Raju), Nandu and Indrans. He faced some resistance from local workers like Chako (Jagathy Sreekumar). He also had to save Robinson from many troubles.