Discoveries from India World Cinema

Sajjala, an orphan, is raised by Appakaka, her father's friend. When Appakaka is falsely charged with killing Jayantrao, Sajjala's betrothed, she vows to prove his innocence.

A man tries to bring together his girlfriends' parents, who have been estranged for fifteen years because of disagreements, misunderstandings, and pride.

Mani, a hot blooded and aggressive villager, had earned many enemies, waiting for a chance to eliminate him. On his wedding day he is lured into a trap and brutally assaulted and killed. As the family grieves, arrives Raja the new cop on the block and Mani’s look alike.

Aman Khanna, a once successful singer, is drowning his life into alcohol, despair and self- destruction after his 6 years old son died in a freak accident. Aman's wife, Meera who has an autobiographical bestseller to her credit is trying to cope with their financial burdens and Aman's lack of responsibility.

A college student who thinks that he is a playboy, gets himself into trouble with his white lies and loud-mouth.

A man can no longer tolerate injustice and corruption and he becomes a vigilante to fight for a better society.

Aadi and Yamini's love story takes a tragic turn when Yamini is kidnapped and brutally murdered, plunging Aadi into despair. Struggling with PTSD, he undergoes a memory-erasing treatment and starts anew, reuniting with his childhood friend Bhuvi. However, their lives are upended when Bhuvi's family is taken hostage by a dangerous man named Sadhik. In a tense showdown, Sadhik traps Aadi, Bhuvi, and others in a deadly game, revealing the dark motives behind a string of murders, including Yamini's. Will Aadi uncover the truth and find redemption amidst the chaos?

Arishadvarga is a character-driven neo-noir, about an aspiring actor who opens a Pandora's Box when he seeks out an anonymous client who rewards him with a surprise gift, "A murder and a witness to his crime".

Vamsi, a thief adept at scaling high-rises, is hired by Maya along with two others to carry out a huge burglary. The events unfold to reveal Maya's true motives as well as Vamsi's painful past.

Chandramohan Azad, a union leader, is framed for a murder and gets sentenced. However, after getting exonerated, he decides to fight against his brother-in-law who is now a corrupt MLA.

Rajat, a young man, meets Manju, a rich girl whose father is looking for her. Though Rajat initially slyly tells her father her whereabouts, he ends up falling in love with her.

Aagathan is the love story of Gautham and Shreya that turns sour because of Shreya's father, Major General Hareendra Natha Varma's one deed that comes back to haunt his family.

Harinath, a carpool driver and Harry Potter fan, loves storytelling and performing magic tricks. Will true magic make its way into Hari's life and solve his problems when he loses his job?

An NRI enlists the help of his cop-friend to sell off his ancestral home, but later hears rumours of it being haunted. Unwilling to let go of the property at a throwaway price, he asks a team of four quirky guys to spend a night in the house and prove that it isn’t a ghost den.

Selva (Arun Vijay) owns a travel agency in Chennai. He dreams to make it big in life and is all set to marry his lover Priya (Mamta Mohandas). The city is under the grip of dreaded baddies Maha (Maha Gandhi) and his brother Kumar (Krishnavamsi). They are loan sharks who go to any extent to wield their clout in the city. Selva comes across Maha and soon Maha gets killed in mysterious circumstances. The blame falls on Selva. Kumar and his men want to bump off Selva. A perplexed Selva runs for cover. He sets out to find the real killer. But there is a twist in the tale and Selva takes a new avatar as he decides to wage a bloody war with baddies.

Indian remake of “The Omen”.

A foreigner runs a drug racket on the beach with help of locals and the coast guard.

Opting for a stable fiancé over genuine romance, a food blogger experiences sexual satisfaction for the first time at her engagement party. However, she must find out who her mysterious lover is.

Bharathi's parents refuse to accept her after discovering that she is pregnant with Suresh's child, the man who cheated her.

Ajay Nath comes from a wealthy family, and is prone to playing practical jokes and pranks in order to get his way with this mother and father. In one case he asked one of their family doctors', Dr. Panjabi, to lie to his dad that he has cancer, so that he can accompany his college friends to a outing to Kashmir. He falls in love with fellow collegian Geeta Chopra, who is in love with Shyam. But Ajay's dad, fooled by his illness convinces her to be kind to him, and she becomes friendly with Ajay, both eventually fall in love with each other and want to get married. Then their family gets the news that Ajay really has cancer and has only a few more months to live. Under the changed circumstances, both the Nath and Chopra families are against the marriage of Ajay and Geeta. Will Ajay and Geeta get married? Does Ajay really have cancer or is this another prank?

Vijay Chatterjee is a lonely widower and a successful restaurateur in Montreal. His thoroughly Westernized son Ashish works at his father's eatery but is more interested in the rock band that he started with his friend Michael. One day, Vijay meets the elegant, strikingly beautiful Maarya, who recently emigrated from Calcutta. He immediately hires her for his restaurant and introduces her to Ashish, thinking that she would make the perfect wife. Though Maarya soon realizes that the young Chatterjee has a closer relationship to Michael than she originally thought, she plays along, keeping the secret from Ashish's dad so that she can remain in the country. When the elder Chatterjee starts to pursue Maarya and her jealous knife-wielding brother arrives on the scene, this volatile situation turns downright explosive.

Bhagwan Shri Indra must assume human form to overthrow the tyrannical Demon King Lord Raavan. VIllagers across India burn effigies in support of their chosen leader. The story becomes personal for Ganga, who loves Raavan and wishes to tame him.

A father does not hold a very good opinion about his son, Kannan, who works at his factory. Things take a turn for the worse when Pakkiri creates misunderstanding between the father and son duo.

The road ahead might be straight and even, but human character is shaped by the journey thereon. Sagar and his father set out to invite their far-off relatives to Sagar's wedding. But the venture is not as easy. Sagar has left his job in Pune in order to live with his parents in the village and work as a farmer. "Farmers are not good suitors", yet somehow Sagar has found a bride and they are about to be married. Sagar and his father are always at odds against each other for no particular reason. This father-son tension characterises their journey, their relationship in the hands of the dust and the soil of the road.

Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty) is sentenced to live outside the limits of the city due to a Police case. One day he happens to rescue a woman in distress from some hoodlums and finds out that her name is Namkeen, who resembles a missing multi-millionaire Mohinidevi (Pooja Bhatt). Shankar asks Namkeen to impersonate Mohinidevi to embezzle her wealth. Namkeen agrees to do so, but the question remains: where is Mohinidevi, and what will happen to Namkeen when she is found?

Jaga, who is unemployed, marries Gowri, a rich girl who has an intellectual disability. However, things take a turn when he starts liking Ragini, unaware that she is Gowri's sister.

Kathir comes from a poor family and aspires to study hard and start earning. After turning down many girls, he falls for Shweta, a rich girl, but both do not confess their feelings to each other.

The movie revolves with a story of innocent young man who is entrapped and convicted in a murder case. After release from jail he knows the truth and he takes revenge on those person behind the plot.

After her husband, Baburam Yadav, travels to Bombay to try and re-pay his loan to the local money-lender, Lala Sukhilal, his wife, Laxmi, and three children Sheila, Shakti, and Shankar, are...

This movie starts with a college boy, Ganesh (Pawan Kalyan), who had been following a girl, Sandhya (Devayani), for the past four years; trying to express his love. Many times before Sandhya had warned Ganesh not to follow her so often. Ganesh tries to take help from Sandhya's friend (Sadhika) but fails. Ganesh, on his birthday, tries to express his love to Sandhya but was caught by her father, (Prakash Raj), who was a police officer who puts him away for harassing his daughter. Later Ganesh's father (Raghuvaran)bails him out. Ganesh's father goes to Sandhya's father with a marriage proposal for their offsprings.

Ghost is a horror flick with an element of romance in it. It is set in a hospital with Sayali Bhagat playing a doctor and Shiney Ahuja playing a debonair detective. The movie has been directed by Puja Jatinder Bedi.

Rafiq and his family are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan,to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day when he accidentally finds his brother's old camera.

While on vacation, children and their father are terrorized by their mother and wife respectively.

Hari, a government employee, lives with his wife Sujata, their son Sankaran, and his brother Murali. When Hari's colleague Reji and his family visit for two days, the families celebrate, despite Murali being tired from work. The next day, Hari and Reji attend a wedding with their wives, leaving the children—Helen, Maria, and Sankaran—at home. Maria invites Sankaran to play a game, but as they play, the mood and intensity of the game shift dramatically.

Movie starring Vijaya Naresh, Vani Viswanath, Rao Gopala Rao and directed by Vamsi.

A woman goes to a police station claiming she had murdered one person. Though the police suspect foul play, the investigation starts.

Onde Guri is a 1983 Indian Kannada film, directed by H. R. Bhargava and produced by M P Shankar. The film stars Vishnuvardhan, M. P. Shankar, Ramakrishna and Madhavi in lead roles. The film had musical score by Rajan-Nagendra.

Tanu accidentally hits a man with her car on a stormy night but decides not to inform the police—however, a mysterious stranger surfaces who claims to be a witness and blackmails her.

Pavithran, a police constable, has been assigned to investigate the murder of union leader Ajayan. He disguises himself as a coir merchant to unravel the case.

When Madhu proposes to a pious Mercy, she refuses. However, Madhu continues to follow Mercy and reaches her hometown. Things go wrong when Mercy's bold friend Esther comes to the village.

The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.

Anand grows up in a remand home after his parents are brutally killed by his uncle, Mohan Raj. He soon sets out to avenge the death of his parents and bring the culprit to justice.

Arjun and Karna, two happy-go-lucky friends who have resigned from their jobs, start a bad news delivery service and one of their assigments ends up in a marriage getting cancelled. And the bride happens to be the sister of Arjun’s girlfriend Anjali! Can they undo the damage?

Vasu is a forest officer who falls in love with the tribal girl, Indu. As time passes, Indu also loves Vasu. As things are going fine, One fine day, Indu gets killed and she becomes a ghost. Vasu must find out what happened.

The relationship between two childhood friends is tested as they grow up and discoveries are made. Mirza Yusuf Changezi has known Jahan Ara since childhood, and both have been good friends. After they grow up, things are not quite the same, as Jahan Ara's dad is none other than Emperor Shah Jahan, and men are not permitted to meet with the princess under any circumstance. But Jahan and Mirza do meet secretly and promise to marry each other.

When Sita’s husband, Ram, is diagnosed with cancer, their lives are thrown into a tailspin—only to be further complicated when his treating physician turns out to be Dharmesh, Sita’s former lover.

Ajay Arya, spurned in love by Sonia, takes to a life of crime and has an affair with a young woman under her tutelage.

Krishna, a talented basketball player, moves to a new college after a fatal accident on court. There, he clashes with the college team's egomaniacal cricket team captain, Vamsi, who will not have any other game sharing the limelight with his own sport.

Rasool Akthar, a hardcore terrorist wants to cause confusion and chaos among the people of India by killing VIPs and destroying important buildings with bombs to separate Kashmir from India. How Narasimha destroys the terrorist and saves the country is the story.

After a seven year absence, Dr. Ram Singh returns to his village intending to sell his land and go back to the city. He finds that the peasants are being mistreated by the local landlord and the landlord's sister, Sushma.

Two movie actors are confronted by startling and hilarious obstacles.

Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.

Five people from varied strata of society – a slum dweller who works as a cable operator, a runaway prostitute, a desperate woman drowning in debt, a rising musician, and a grief-stricken Muslim man – end up together in the same hospital, at a time when it is attacked by terrorists.

Raju's father leaves no stone unturned in helping him find true love. Things go awry when he falls in love with Sudha, a young woman in love with someone else.

When her joint family breaks apart, daughter-in-law Uma solves everyone's problems and unites the family again.

After losing her parents in an accident, Aisa lives with her grandfather, who tells her stories of Santa Claus to cheer her up. Soon, Santa arrives to meet her, making her wishes come true.

Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which produces exotic flowers. Soon, her secret is spotted by Kumar, the son of the village head.