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Advaitham is a 1991 Malayalam film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Mohanlal, Jayaram, Revathi Menon and Srividhya in lead roles.

Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded by the planes occasionally heard flying over the countryside), and a major famine is under way. As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community.

Cabaret is an Indian romantic dance film directed by Kaustav Narayan Niyogi and produced by Pooja Bhatt and Bhushan Kumar under the banner of Fisheye Network private limited.

The king of Mullai nadu appoints Veera Mohan as the General of the army. Raja guru, the head priest and Parthiban, his son are enraged by this decision. This turns Parthiban into a bandit.

Lakshman, a middle class youth, struggling in every aspect of his life has strained relationships with his girlfriend, parents, and friends. In a twist of fate, Lakshman is faced with a situation that turns his life upside down.

A political background based musical love story set in 80's. Vishwas Patil's Chandramukhi is an excellent novel that weaves together the worlds of Politics and Tamasha

Gumnaami is a film based on the Mukherjee Commission Hearings which happened from 1999 to 2005 where the three theories about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death were discussed and debated. It is a dramatization of the hearings where an investigative journalist supporting the Gumnaami Baba theory locks horns with the official lawyer who supports the plane crash theory. In their clash, the Death in Russia theory also comes up.

After his wife dies, a doctor keeps seeing her image and refuses to believe she is dead.

A martial arts coach struggles to earn money through fights in order to save his wife suffering from blood cancer.

A very efficient cop, whose entire family has served India at some time, must coax a terrorist to reveal information.

Kalvakra is rescued by the sorceress and they team up to unleash the indestructible Nivatkavach army which is locked up inside the deep confines of the earth. By controlling that army they plan to defeat Krishna Balram and then conquer the entire earth.

The film revolves around a guy and three others earn their living by stealing bicycles and selling them.

Driven by the devastation of a famine, a patriotic landlord joins a secret brotherhood of warrior monks to lead a fiery revolt against the British East India Company, embracing the motherland's freedom as a sacred and ultimate sacrifice.

Old Kochu Thresia's family is irked by her childlike behaviour and does not comply with her bizarre demands. She finds an unusual friend in Reji, a down-to-earth young man, who fulfils her demands.

Vijay is a story about various characters that are bound by relationships of love and friendship. How they become foes and take up weapons against each other. When Arjun and Vicky meet, they are oblivious to the fact that they are cousin brothers.

Symphony Zachariah, a musician, has gone missing. His unaccounted disappearance raises questions till letters in his name start showing up addressed to his wife. But the letters raise suspicion and his wife Jessy sets out to find answers.

The main story of the movie is about two step brothers Saikumar and Sampath Raj. They are two big shots in a village and both of them are rivals. Karthika Nair and Milana Nagaraj are cousins from the Saikumar and Sampath Raj families. Karthika Nair stays in village, but Milana Nagaraj relocates to the city for her studies. Darshan lives in the same city. In an incident, Darshan helps Milana Nagaraj and they both become friends & finally fall in love. Meanwhile, Karthika Nair 's marriage is settled with some goonda whom she does not want to marry. So, she asks the help of Milana Nagaraj. Milana Nagaraj tells the whole story to Darshan and asks his help. Darshan enters into the village with the intention to stop the marriage using some clever tricks. While doing that, he fixes many issues in the village and finally he makes both Saikumar and Sampath Raj to stop their rivalry and they all join together at the end.

Maanav is an orphan who was brought up by a Catholic Priest. After completing his M.A. he returns home and finds out that his mentor is dead. He re-locates to Bombay and a man named Gopichand Sharma attempts to steal his luggage. The men become friends - Gopichand eventually changes his lifestyle, decides to be honest. Maanav gets him a job with Hercules Milk Foods. Maanav meets with and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of Hercules Milk Foods, much to the chagrin of her Dad. Then one day Maanav disappears from Gopichand and Kaajal's lives. He re-locates to Simla and it is here that he learns that things have spiraled out of control.

An honest and diligent inspector is murdered with his family. However, he survives the attack and is in coma for a while. When he exits coma, he takes revenge by murdering the villains one by one to avenge his loved ones who died at the hands of the villains.

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.

Set between 1945 and 1951 in the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the film tells the story of a young peasant, Ramiah, who rebels against the corrupt rule of the Nizam. Baring witness to the oppression and hardship faced daily by those around him, Ramiah leaves his village. However, after befriending a Marxist activist and participating in the Independence struggle, he eventually returns to wage guerilla warfare against the landlord class.

Tenkasi, the creator of a hit television show, finds himself in the house of Julie, a fan, after an accident. However, she reveals herself to be emotionally unstable and potentially dangerous.

Balakrishnan and Ashok are two childhood friends who lose touch with each other. One of them goes on to become a national figure and the other, a village barber.

Rajvir Singh, a young athlete, dreams of winning a gold medal, but tragedies always prevent him from achieving his goal. After losing his hearing due to an accident, he gets admission to an athlete academy where he betrays by angad.

Nithya, an IT professional, gets abducted and locked up inside a room by masked strangers. A random call connects her to Bala Subramaniam, a youngster with intellectual disability. Can Bala with his low level of understanding save Nithya?

Divya, an archeologist, is tasked with helping the investigators understand the geology of the crime scene of mysterious death of a foreign national. She along with Forest Ranger Bobbili Raja unearths skeletal remains of the woman belong to a bygone era. When the forensic experts reconstruct the face from the skull, it resembles Divya and leaves all shell shocked.

Shadhika must travel to Chennai for a personal, clandestine chore. Before she can reach the city, however, unexpected danger strikes.

Balakrishnan is a lawyer who hasn't been able to achieve much in his professional life due to his stammer. His life takes an interesting turn when his brother-in-law entrusts him with a complex case involving a rich businessman.

Two close friends get into trouble when another friend intrudes into their lives with a personal motive.

Radha decides to leave her home permanently after learning that she has a life-threatening illness. She later falls in love with a man named Ravi and agrees to marry him on a certain condition.

Neil, a showroom executive, finds a bag full of money after a party. He receives a call to meet at a secluded spot where he finds four strangers and gets involved in a dangerous deal.

A brilliant lawyer turns alcoholic due to failure in love and ends up losing his job. His life changes for the better when a young woman approaches him to save her life and wealth.

A mysterious illness declared as dumb flu spreads in a quaint hill station forcing the town's residents from speaking. Will the problems in the place increase due to this or will it lead to better communication?

In order to immortalize his love, a groom decides to create conflict between his and his to-be bride's families.

Adhipan is a 1989 Malayalam film directed by K Madhu. The film stars Mohanlal, Parvathy Jayaram, Monisha and Devan in lead roles.

Anwar becomes entangled with a terrorist group after personal tragedy leads him down a dark path. As he infiltrates their network, his true motives and loyalties are revealed in a tense battle between faith, vengeance, and redemption.

Michael and Saravanan love Mamta though she loves Vijay. However, Vijay, who is brought up by a single father, hates the idea of love and rejects Mamta.

This Valentine's, Naag & Pammi will redefine romance for you in Kala Shah Kala, an upcoming Indian-Punjabi romedy film which celebrates the much maligned and universal butt of jokes the colour black. Lovely (Binnu Dhillon) a happy go lucky & charming guy struggles to find the love of his life because of his dark complexion. Pammi (Sargun Mehta) is everything he dreamt of, and for a while it sure seems like a match made in heaven, but alas Lovely will have to prove yet again that it's not the colour of the skin that matters but your heart and soul that matter and always wins!

A lonely, married woman bonds with a younger man over their shared love of unusual foods. As their excursions become more adventurous, their relationship begins to take a dark turn.

Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising the money required for the sex reassignment surgery.

A dishonest officer Madhavankutty, is determined to get back the 15 Lakh bribe he spent to become an officer by indulging in dirty work and bribing those who seek his help.

A demon torments the family and friends of Anita in order to take revenge on his death, which was caused by her police-officer father.

Sree Kumar, a middle-class IT employee with a conservative upbringing, is deeply in love with Sindhu Jha, his colleague at work with a broad-minded approach towards life. When Sree's parents want to see him married and actively seek a bride, he pursues Sindhu to marry, she has her eyes set on achieving her dream and prefers a live-in. Will they ever reach a common ground in this conflict of ideologies?

To track down his friend's sister, who has eloped with her lover, a young man kidnaps her friend who knows about their whereabouts.

Four friends head off to Bombay and get involved in the mother and father of all gang wars.

A simple man is caught in a web of deceit. He is blackmailed into participating in his bank’s robbery.

The film revolves around the lives of two people: Arjun, a wealthy man in the construction business in Kochi who has an affair with his subordinate Sonia , even though he is preparing to be engaged to his family friend's daughter Ann ; and Ansari , who lives in a slum and works in a supermarket doing odd jobs who is mocked for his appearance and has a crush his co-worker Nafiza .

A sensitive and manipulated video clip is circulated amongst the co-workers of the factory where the couple work, which unleashes unexpected emotional, social and marital imbalances in their relationship.

A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it.​

A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.

When Kerala CM Achuthan Nair and his Leftist party are preparing for their third consecutive term in the Kerala Assembly, Party high command surprises everyone by nominating a wealthy businessman named David John Medayil as the CM candidate.While the entire party’s Kerala cadre does not want David to become CM and conspire against him and repercussions of high command's decision and gets David kidnapped.

Meenukutty is an ardent Mohanlal fan, whereas her husband, Sethumadhavan, struggles with the usual family life due to Meenukutty's celebrity worship syndrome.

A slacker falls in love with a rich girl. Now he must impress her father to marry her.

The film Jackie is based on the ancient goat fighting tradition of Madurai. In a village in Madurai, Ramar and Karthi enter their goats into a goat fight competition. Ramars goat wins the competition. Envious, Karthi tries to take revenge on Ramar and his goat, causing various troubles for Ramar. Ramar thwarts these attempts and protects his goat.

A young man with dreams of making it big in the USA falls in love with an NRI woman residing there. She breaks up with him for reasons unknown to him but serendipity plays cupid.

As a young boy Raja turns to a life of crime after the death of his mother. Years later Raja, now a hardened thief, uses a marriage as an escape ploy but shortly after he is caught.

The story revolves around Selvam, an easygoing youngster who befriends many girls without the intention of marrying any of them.

Operating a Television Network from Vancouver, Sardar Jasbir Singh Grewal, arranges the marriage of his only child, Simar, with Mulhapur-based, Inder Veer Singh, the son of his friend, Arjun, much to the chagrin of his snobbish wife, Kuldip. Simar and Inder find themselves compatible, and an engagement ceremony is arranged. It is during this event that they find out that Inder has no intention of re-locating to Canada, and the ceremony is canceled. After sometime, Inder decides to visit the Grewals in order to try and convince Simar to return to India, and also visit his married sister, who he has not seen for over 7 years, as well as a former girlfriend, Jaspreet, who also live in Vancouver. Once there, he witnesses the plight of his sister, Jaspreet, and other Punjabis, making him question whether Canada is really the perceived 'heaven on Earth'; what C.B.C.D. really means; little knowing Simar has no intention of ever settling down in India.