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Four intimate friends who dream to make a film. Plot The film traces the journey of four friends as they strive to give life to their dream cinema. And how their lives are upturned as the cinema becomes their life.

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

Murali returns to his home in Kerala after working in the Gulf for seven years. He decides to settle in his hometown, but things do not go as expected.

Kumar Agnihotri belongs to a wealthy family, consisting of his dad, Madan, and mom, Janki. He is in love with beautiful Mala Bajpai, and they hope to marry soon with the blessings of their respective parents. Kumar's other passion is boxing, which Janki loathes, and hopes that he will give this up soon. When the Agnihotris bring home a woman named Ganga, and introduce her to Kumar as Janki's childhood friend, Kumar finds out that Ganga is his biological mother, and his father, Ajay Kumar, was the National Champion in boxing, who was killed by three men for refusing to lose a fight. While Janki is afraid that she is going her son to Ganga, Kumar has decided to avenge his biological's father's death by any means, little realizing that he may face the same fate his father did years ago.

Madhava Padayachi (Sathyaraj) narrates his life to a young man who saves him from shame. He goes to his home village by a bus and feels for Madhava Padayachi who was a rich farmer long time back in his village. Madhavar, as he is fondly called, his wife Velayi (Archana) and their three sons live a happy life in their village. He is an honest and hard working farmer who will do anything for others. And he is well respected by everyone in the village. Velayi is his strength but the others in the family do not approve his nature especially in money matters.

An army officer investigates the murder of his brother.

Young Arjun is brought up by his Daddu (paternal grandfather). His Daddu decides for him to go to the city in search of a new job and life. While in the city he meets up with Bhairon who guides him into an interview in a 5-star hotel owned by Raja.

After a long exile, Rahul returns to his village in the Himalayas. It causes commotion amongst the villagers, who have never forgiven him for his sins in the past.

The two prominent families in town, that of Pareil Pappu's (Janardanan) & that of Mampalli Chackappan's (V.K. Sriraman), were always at loggerheads, with most conversations resulting in fisticuffs. Pappu's dreaded nephew Antony (Suresh Gopi) poses a constant headache for Chackappan, but Chackappan's daughter Nimmy (Divya Unni) & Antony fall in love. Chackappan & Pappu forget their differences & unite, but soon after, Pappu is shot dead by a mysterious sniper & Antony sets out to find the killer.

Chandru, a medical student, saves a dying man by operating him, but soon, the police are knocking on his doors for helping Wolf, a paid killer. And, worse, they want him to kill Wolf.

Colonel Sahab is a doctor in a psychiatry ward and Nurse Radha (Waheeda Rahman) is heart-broken after a civilian patient, Dev Kumar (Dharmendra), whom she cared for, pouring out her love and affection, leaves the hospital, as she had been unable to keep her heart separate from her professional work and had fallen in love with her patient. Next Arun Choudury (Rajesh Khanna), a writer and poet enters as a patient, suffering acute mania after being rejected by his lover, Sulekha. After refusing to take his care, Radha relents and starts nursing him. In between while caring for Arun she reminisces her past and tells a story of how she took care of injured brave army soldiers when she was posted in Laddakh during the Sino-Indian war of 1962.

Jaipur-based Durga has been blind as far as she can remember, and helps her dad make clay statues of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. When her dad passes away, she and her mom continue making clay statues to make a living. Then one day Durga is involved in an accident and is rescued by a young man named Babu. Both of them fall in love with each and want to get married. But before that could happen, Dubai returned Rana, another man who wants to marry Durga, kills her mom and then Babu himself. A devastated Durga undergoes eye surgery through Swiss-based Dr. R.K. Prasad and regains her sight. Dr. Prasad takes her with him to live in Switzerland and this is where multi-millionaire Raj enters her life and wants to marry her.

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.

A man reforms the mind of his former ladylove, who neglects her husband by getting preoccupied with his memories.

The story revolves around a boy named Guppy(Master Chethan) who finds his living out of rearing and selling the small fish Guppy. Guppy has this dream of buying an automatic wheel chair for his ailing mother (Rohini). Things gets into turmoil when Engineer Thejus Varkey (Tovino Thomas) comes to the seaside village for the construction of a railway bridge. Many unexpected things occur when a small rivalry starts between Guppy and Engineer.

An investigating officer, Inspector Achuthankutty, suspects the involvement of three women while trying to find the culprit behind the murder of a popular director and writer.

Thampi, a retired old man, leads an isolated life in the village and is excited for his grandson Pachu's return. He welcomes Pachu and his friends, but his happiness is short-lived.

Five youngsters, who are on the verge of committing suicide, happen to encounter zombies in a forest and a girl who comes to their rescue. Will they manage to escape?

Varma, a senior government official, who is about to expose an anti-corruption racket, is found dead under mysterious circumstances. Officer Chandrashekhar investigates the case to find the culprit.

A stage actor from Bombay becomes entangled in a murder mystery after he falls in love with a mysterious woman in Darjeeling and marries her.

Bachelor Shankar Saxena lives with his elder brother, Chief Engineer Vinay, his wife, Kavita, and their daughter of marriageable age, Pooja. Shankar is an undercover CBI Officer, a fact that was hidden from the rest of the family, until only recently. Vinay would like Pooja to get married to Deepak Malhotra, who works in his office, and is quite unaware that Deepak and Pooja have already met and are very much in love. Although Deepak comes from a poor family, and lives with his widowed and blind mother, Vinay does not foresee this as a problem. Then suddenly things change dramatically when Vinay suspects Deepak of accepting bribes from a corrupt builder named Shaadilal, fires Deepak, pending a police investigation. And to make matters worse, Shankar too is aware of Deepak - not as a groom for his niece, but as a suspect for murder!! But before he could arrest Deepak, he must execute a warrant for the arrest of none other than Vinay himself.

When Venugopal, a medical representative gives a girl who runs into his cab a ride; he unknowingly gets involved in a murder.

A sex erupting thriller.

Bombay-based Anil Agarwal lives a very wealthy lifestyle, mostly from wealth, estate, and business inherited from his grandfather, along with his wife, Anju, and a school-going son named Jimmy. One day while at the beach a stranger named Vijay Sohni, rescues Jimmy from drowning, refuses to accept any compensation, but is invited to live in the palatial house of the Agarwals indefinitely, which he accepts. Anil's garage owner friend, Daver, cautions him against Vijay, as he has been seen making advances to Daver's wife, Suman. Anil decides to pay close attention to Vijay, and does find him getting closer and closer to Anju. He decides to ask Vijay to leave, and even gives him some money, when Daver bursts in accusing Vijay of having an affair with Suman, an argument ensues, which regresses into fisticuffs, Anil hits Vijay on his head which leads to his death. Daver disposes of the body, and both decide not to tell anyone about Vijay's disappearance...

Phool is a 1993 Bollywood film directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao starring Kumar Gaurav and Madhuri Dixit in lead roles along with Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar in supporting roles.

Bobby is a story of a 21-year old boy, who gives up his Seminary Studies and falls in love with a lady who is 7 years elder to him. The movie showcases the funny events, romance and the love life of the couple.

It's not just a matter of one spirit, it's a matter of multiple possessions in one body.

Circa British Raj in India, in a small village, Bansiram has owned and maintained a plot of land donated to him by a kind-hearted Zamindar. The Zamindar passes away, and his lecherous, womanizing, and alcoholic son views this plot, and describes it as heavenly, and wants it at any cost. Bansiram refuses to sell, and the Zamindar's son wants it by hook or by crook. Bansiram appeals to the British for protection, which they provide, and Bansiram is thus able to save his property. Shortly thereafter the Zamindar's son passes away, and his look-alike son, Devraj comes to take-over the estate. Devraj does not consider taking-over Bansiram's land as a priority, and years go by. The Zamindar's soul, unable to complete it's task during this life-time, wonders around in anguish and pain - waiting. When Devraj finally goes to see Bansiram, he finds an elderly semi-senile man...

The Maanikesseri family burn their maid Ganga alive after she falls in love with one of the members. Later, she returns as a spirit to take revenge against the perpetrators.

Haridas (Jayaram) moves to Trivandrum for a government job arranged by a local politician. He is provided accommodation by a retired major (Thilakan), a friend of his father, at his house. Haridas gets cheated by the politician and ends up working odd jobs to make ends meet. He initially shares his situation only with the major's daughter (Ranjini) towards whom he starts to grow romantic feelings. Eventually the major comes to know about his job and helps him out to get an alternate one. Meanwhile, Haridas realises that his original government job is now occupied by an old-time adversary Manu (Suresh Gopi), with whom he gets into multiple altercations.

7½ Phere: More Than a Wedding is a 2005 Bollywood comedy film directed by Ishaan Trivedi and produced by Sonal Malhotra and Nimit Modawal. It stars Juhi Chawla and Irfan Khan in lead roles. The film was released in India on 29 July 2005 with mixed response

Amidst strictly enforced curfew by Bombay Police during December 1992 following Hindu-Muslim riots, Suryakant - one of four siblings from Malad's Malvani slums, heads home.

Three young people decide to commit suicide and go to a beach house to die, not realizing that a ghost haunts the place…

Thulasi is a wife caught up in marital discord. Her husband Muralikrishna, is a movie director who has an extra-marital affair with his star heroine, Kavitha.

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.

The semi-autobiographical film was written by Mahesh Bhatt about his extramarital relationship with actress Parveen Babi.

Two friends wake up in their office to find the city overrun by zombies after a mysterious outbreak. As they struggle to survive, hidden tensions, broken relationships, and selfish choices turn their escape into a deadly game. Will they make it out alive?

Raghava, who runs a breakfast center in his village, dreams of starting a small hotel in the city. Against his father's wishes, he plans to buy an old shop with his friend Gopal. The shop happens to be owned by Nageswara Rao, father of his love interest Sandhya. How will Raghava's love life and his dream to establish his own hotel clash?

Feel-good movie about a college life of couple of friends and the consequences of a turning point which changed the life of each one of them.

The film is about seven young men, passionate about football – sevens football to be precise – and how they inadvertently get involved in a crime.

Seedan (Tamil: சீடன்) (English: Disciple) is a 2011 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Subramaniya Shiva. The film stars newcomer Unni Mukundan and Ananya of Naadodigal fame in the lead and features Dhanush in an extended guest appearance, while Suhasini, Sheela and Vivek appear in supporting roles. The film, a remake of the 2002 Malayalam hit film, Nandanam, released on 25 February 2011 to mixed reviews. The whole film is shot inside a palacial set created by art director Jacki. The whole house including the exterior and interior was built in Prasad Studios. After more than a few decades a full traditional house set is made for a Tamil film.

A story-writer attempts to convince a producer to accept four erotic stories from the Panchtantra.

A woman who hails from a middle-class family background aims to excel in the competitive world of cricket with the help of her supportive father.

Prantabh and Anand, associated with a news channel in Delhi, are in search of a big scam to prove a point to their senior. A dead body accidentally lands up in their car.

Suraj, who is a police officer, discovers that Yash, his friend's father, runs an illegal business. He must now convince Yash to make his father mend his ways or face criticism from his superiors for not confronting him.

Nihal Singh is a young man from a village in Nabha, who in an attempt to get rid of an unwanted marriage proposal, ends up lying to his entire village that he loves somebody named 'Jasneet Kaur' (Surveen Chawla) from Vancouver. In reality, Jasneet is a girl, who Nihal and his friend and partner in crime, Taari (Binnu Dhillon) find on the web and keep a picture of her to show as proof to the village. Coaxed by his mother and a nagging village 'Taayi', Nihal Singh sets out for Canada to stay with Taari's Chacha (B.N. Sharma) and get his help in finding the whereabouts of Jasneet. There he also meets a girl named, Simrat (Japji Khaira) who informs him that Jasneet belongs to one of the wealthiest family in Vancouver and that it would be very difficult for him to reach her.

Bombay Police are baffled when several bar girls and prostitutes are found brutally murdered by a scalpel.

Kallan Pavithran is in negotiation with God to save his great-grandchild, who is the latest victim of the curse the Maker had imposed on Pavithran's successors for a theft he committed. Switch to Earth, two suspended cops, Pappan and Joy, are tangled in love and war. How the duo and Pappan's girlfriend Malu, come out of the troubles makes the movie.

Kaththi (played by Raj Tharun) is a happy-go-lucky boy, who enjoys life with his friends. But, his father always scolds him as he fails Intermediate two times. One day, he falls in love with Parineeti (played by Avika Gor), who is the daughter of Somnath Chaterjee (played by Rao Ramesh). With his tricks and techniques, Kaththi makes Parineeti to fall in love with him. The twist in the tale rises when Somnath Chaterjee comes to know about their relationship. In order to get marry with his daughter, Somanath keeps a challenge for Kaththi and he promises that he will give his daughter to him, if he passes the test. What is the challenge given by Somanth Chaterjee? What did Kaththi do for his love? What is the twist in the story forms the rest of the story.

When Criminal Investigating Officer, Amarnath is murdered during the line of duty; Intelligence suspect it is the handiwork of foreign criminals who wants to destroy India with the help of some Indian traitors thus secret agent, Gopal is sent down to investigate. He meets and fall in love with Sunita who then introduces him to her dad, Damodar. Gopal also find out that Damodar is a mere pawn in the hands of the same criminals he is looking for and must continue his investigation to reach the mastermind.

A local gangster in Madurai bids adieu to his past life. Years after, in his mid-50s, he falls in love with a young girl, which changes his life.

The honey-extracting tribal folks of Kadambavanam, a village in the deep interiors of dense forests, enjoy their peaceful & humble lives with the philosophical company of their forefathers. Presence of limestone underneath earns the village some interest from unethical vultures. With multiple soft evacuation plans failing against the tribal resistance, they resort to uglier ways putting the villagers’ lives into complete disarray. Can they withstand when payback time presents itself?

The lives and friendship of two men involved in blood theft and trading are affected by greed, girlfriends, cops and an unexpected death.

Rahul and Riana meet each other for the first time, get drunk, and awake the next morning to find that they have gotten legally married to each other.

Seema Simham is a action based movie in which, Visweswara Rao (Raghuvaran) and Chandra Sekhar (Charan Raj) are the best friends. They have a kid each. Visweawara Rao is a business magnate and Chandra Sekhar is a police officer. Chandra Sekhar arrests a dreaded goon and the goon

College students Ravi and Sandhya are love birds. When Sandhya's mother and a village panchayat chief come to know of their affair, she puts spokes in their wheel, but the Ravi's father sends the pair to Chennai. Upon reaching Chennai, a corrupt police officer apprehends Ravi on a complaint that he had murdered his father when he put his foot down on their affair.

All a full-time bank employee and part-time kabaddi coach wants is to bring national relevance to the school his father built and help young kabaddi players in his village win the national championship. It might prove difficult than just coaching them though.

A journalist who intents to write an article on traffic rule breakers gets dragged into a whirlpool of murder cases and deception.

After witnessing the murder of his father by Eappachan, Kochu flees his village to escape him. Years later, Kochu, now a don, returns to the village to avenge his father.

The story revolves around two unemployed youths who are struggling to make ends meet. At one situation they blame the God for all their sufferings. The God appears and decide to stay with them. Realizing the power of God resides in a "Galaxy Box" the youths steal it. By stealing it they become God and God ends up becoming a normal man. While the youths misuse the power the God as a man works hard and progresses up the status ladder. Later he makes them understand that everyone's destiny is in their own hands. As God being the main protagonist there are many sequences that reflects the current world affairs.