Discoveries from India World Cinema

A sleazy film director's decision to shoot his latest erotic horror movie in a notorious haunted house angers the vengeful spirit of its past inhabitant.

When her husband Sunny gets cursed by the terrifying ghost, Kakuda, Indira joins hands with a ghost hunter to find a solution.

Rahul Joshi wants to be a successful businessman so he works hard for his boss Siddharth. One day Rahul meets Seema, an up and coming model, and he feels like he's finally met his match. Will Seema fall for Rahul?

A law student witnesses the struggles of the Rajputs, deception, homicide and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.

When serial killer Carl Bhojraj escapes prison and resurfaces in Mumbai, the determined Inspector Zende steps up to nab the cunning fugitive once more.

Vinod, 29, is a man of routine. Living in Karunagappally and working at the Planning Office in Thiruvananthapuram, he spends his days in a carefully controlled cycle of train commutes, meticulous work, and an almost obsessive adherence to order.

At an elite engineering campus, students must survive a sudden zombie outbreak while navigating academic pressures and social hierarchies, blending horror with comedy and biting satire of privilege and competition.

A content man's life turns chaotic when money fever strikes. His newfound greed leads to a series of amusing situations that unfold in this humorous tale.

Alisha Khanna, 30, ambitious, now finds herself at crossroads in life. Her six year long relationship has grown monotonous, her career seems to be going nowhere. But just when she had begun to accept this reality as unchangeable, her life is usurped by the arrival of her cousin, Tia and her fiancé, Zain, with whom she bonds over a troubled past and a common wish to break from its confines.

An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.

In a zamindar household, a watchful aunt becomes the quiet witness to a mystery that slowly exposes injustice.

A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.

Rajkumar, an aimless youth, works for a drug baron and is sent to kill a rival dealer. His life is changed forever when he meets Chanda, and has no idea she is the adopted daughter of the man he is supposed to kill.

Rajashekar (Chief Minister of Karnataka) is framed, so his secretary recruits Krishna, a kindhearted lookalike, to impersonate the violent heir Dhanush. When the real Dhanush returns, both men clash for political power and Rukmini’s love. Krishna must protect Rukmini from Dhanush while also rising as a leader the people trust.

A young scion of a powerful family with a long history of violence decides to put an end to the bloodshed which leads him to a path of self discovery.

When two overlooked women hit their breaking point, they take bold, reckless steps to change their lives. With limited power and unexpected allies, they dive into a chaotic plan that quickly turns into a comedy of errors.

A crime novelist is approached by a group of bereaved women to help them plot revenge against those responsible for the loss of their loved ones.

A man who loves to make "to-do lists" makes one last bucket list when he realizes he is about to die.

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

In a world with odds stacked against him in every step of the way, Srikanth defies norms, blazing a trail from rural India to becoming the first visually impaired student at MIT. As he builds Bollant Industries, his success brings challenges for which he would not only chase personal dreams but safeguard a shared future for the ones just like him. This is the tale of an entrepreneur's triumph and sacrifice, both which he welcomed with open arms and a smile.

A past ridden with crime, death and pain is recounted to Freddy, a juvenile criminal, who has been assigned to eliminate his estranged uncle Sulaiman, an aging patriarch, while behind bars.

A humble singer's brash lyrics ignite fame and fury across Punjab as he grapples with soaring success and brutal criticism before his untimely death.

Eenadu is Krishna's 200th movie with huge star cast. It's almost on the same lines of his 100th movie ALLURI SEETHA RAMARAJU. But in this movie, he fights against the politicians and industrialists who are looting the poor, the movie is about Ramaraju (Krishna) a social reformer who fights against the injustice by the political system and stands in support to the poor and down-trodden.Kantha Rao, Jaggayya, Rao Gopal Rao played the villains in the movie. Rao Gopal Rao is a small-time politician and brother-in-law of Krishna and husband of Krishna Kumari. His brother-in-law being a selfish and cruel man, Krishna stays away from them. Jaggayya is a businessman and and old friend of Krishna because of him Krishna lands in Jail without a fault of his. Kantha Rao is a criminal and after coming out of Jail, he enters into politics and becomes a minister.These three create havoc and play with the lives of the poor.

An anthology of four stories that explore the surprising ways in which unexpected catalysts inflame the uncomfortable emotions simmering under fractured relationships.

A surveillance expert who wants to help people comes across a foe who is the very definition of evil. Can he stop the man before he destroys everything?

A violent outlaw takes a job as a personal driver in order to protect the life of a little girl.

Set in 1971 Calcutta, a jazz club becomes the backdrop for a revolutionary awakening as music intertwines with language, identity and the birth of a nation during a pivotal historical moment.

A rave party off the coast of Goa goes horrifyingly and hilariously wrong when the island is overrun with zombies.

A hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.

After a head injury, cowardly newspaper cartoonist Sathya hears a voice in his mind, foretells events and puts him in precarious situations and forces him to take on a corrupt politician.

A notorious smuggler Waltair Veerayya is hired by a CI Seethapathi, reaches Malaysia with the ostensible mission of kidnapping a drug mafia leader named Solomon, who escaped India after wreaking havoc on the RAW agents and local policemen. Veerayya manages to pummel Solomon, who is fiercely protected by his ruthless gang-lord brother Kaala. Tables are turned, when Veerayya reveals that he shares a turbulent past with Kaala & an ACP Vikram Sagar who is hell-bent on ending his smuggling activities.

In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?

A beautiful lady turns up in an architect's masterpiece.When he founds that she is real, he realizes that she is haunted and hunted by the reasons they have to find out

It is the story of a fiercely fought election campaign, where money power and corruption are the accepted norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used weapons. As the personal drama of these conflict-ridden characters unfolds against this gritty backdrop, love and friendship become mere baits, and relationships get sacrificed at the altar of political alignments. The darkness that rises from their souls threatens to envelope all that they hold precious. Until eventually, in the crescendo of increasing violence, the line between good and evil blurs, making it impossible to distinguish heroes from villains. Raajneeti is the story of Indian democracy. And its ugly underside. It is about politics. And beyond.

The Singh family comprises of Shamsher his step-son Sikandar, twins Suraj and Sanjana. They run a business of illegal arms and trade with the help of their friend Yash. Things get dramatic when Jessica meets Sikandar and the family ties are strained under each character’s ulterior motives.

Paan Singh Tomar goes from celebrated runner to star brigand and rebel when life after sports fails to unfold as planned.

Indian Air Force officer Tejas sets out on a dangerous mission to rescue an Indian spy from Pakistan. While she faces the terrorists that come her way, she must also fight the ghosts of her past.

Set in the 1970s, an undercover Indian spy takes on a deadly mission to expose a covert nuclear weapons program in the heart of Pakistan.

Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.

Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.

A man and woman from feuding families each pretend to fall in love, as part of a revenge plot. Chaos ensues when their fake romance becomes a reality.

Badrinath Ki Dulhania is a story of Badrinath Bansal from Jhansi and Vaidehi Trivedi from Kota and what happens when the two of them meet. Even though they both belong to small towns, their mindset about gender roles in society and about life in general are diametrically opposite. This leads to a clash of ideologies, despite both of them recognising the goodness in each other. Will they be able to overcome circumstances to accept their love for each other? Will they be able to surpass the expectations and pressures of their small town families to be together? Answers to these and many more such questions make for an interesting journey of love, laughter, emotions and madness called Badrinath Ki Dulhania.

What if for one night your mobile phone was a public property? 7 friends at a wedding after-party decide to play a seemingly harmless but as it turns out, a dangerous game which might have earth-shattering consequences with relationships, marriages and identities being at stake.

A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.

On a Christmas night, a guilt-ridden hospital attendant and a determined rookie cop race against time to recover a kidnapped newborn, unaware that the woman who took the baby is fighting a heartbreaking battle to finally call a child her own.

Two professional robbers, an illusionist, an expert make-up artist, a gadget expert and a hacker come together to steal Romanian gold ingots while it is in transit.

When a rowdy Shiva’s world collides with that of a demure Aastha’s, whose family has just moved into the chawl he resides in, sparks fly between them. But given their completely different backgrounds, is there any scope for their romance to bloom and survive?

A righteous young man who helps everyone gain their rightful justice, gets recruited as an undercover agent to work on a high profile case that involves a crime lord working for a corrupt minister who also happens to be the father of his romantic interest.

Set in Pollachi, the story follows a powerful landlord, Sivalingam Mandradiyar, who becomes obsessed with a rising actor, Kukanth Kumar, believing he is the next M.G.R. He pours his wealth into shaping the actor's career and political future. But as ambition and fame grow, so does the risk of downfall. Will it lead to power or ruin?

Desire and greed intertwines the lives of a Bollywood star, his chauffeur, a prostitute and her pimp in an unlikely love story.

Shyam comes from the remote areas of Purulia to work as a laborer in the coal mines of the Damodar Valley. The story of Mohan and Shyam will proceed with their rise, reckoning of friendship.

An ordinary man becomes trapped between warring criminal factions and law enforcement, forcing him to use his wits to survive while shielding his loved ones from the deadly crossfire that threatens to consume them all.

An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.

Two gangs fight for control of the streets: the Scorpions, led by Prakash and the Eagles, fronted by Max. When Prakash's brother Rahul comes to visit, he meets and quickly falls in love with Shirley, not realizing she's the sister of his brother's rival, Max. Though Rahul tries to keep their relationship secret, it's only a matter of time before it brings the gang rivalry to a head.

A former cop looks back on the case which left him disabled and forced him to quit the force.

Rajkumar, an aimless youth, works for a drug baron and is sent to kill a rival dealer. His life is changed forever when he meets Chanda, and has no idea she is the adopted daughter of the man he is supposed to kill.

Aladin, an orphan tormented by bullies, discovers a magic lamp that grants him incredible powers. Later, with the help of a genie, he embarks on thrilling adventures to defeat the evil Ringmaster.

In a dystopian future, Ganapath, a relentless and skilled vigilante, embarks on a mission to dismantle a powerful criminal empire that has gripped the city in fear. Ganapath becomes a symbol of hope for the oppressed in which leads dark.

In a Mumbai theater, a producer, his son, and two intruders clash during one night over hidden treasure. As they search for gold, deception grows, secrets emerge, and past wounds resurface.

At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.