BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 198 (2011)

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दुई पटक गरी संविधान सभाको म्याद १५ महिना थपिए पनि यस अवधिमा संविधान बनेन। संविधान निर्माणका लागि सहमतीय सरकार चाहिन्छ भने पनि बहुमतीय सरकार बन्न र ढाल्न मै समय खर्च भयो। सर्वोच्च अदालतले संविधान सभाको म्याद २ वर्ष मात्र भएको र त्यसभन्दा बढी समय थप्न परे विशेष परिस्थितिमा जम्मा ६ महिना मात्र थप्न सकिने व्याख्या गर्यो। यही बेला संविधान सभाको म्याद ३ महिना थप्न सरकारले प्रस्ताव गरेको छ।
संविधानसभा भित्रकै केही दल ३ महिनाले समय नपुग्ने; ६ महिना वा ९ महिना थप्नु पर्ने तर्क गर्दै छन् तर आलोचकहरु नयाँ चुनावमा जाने वा विज्ञ टोलीलाई नयाँ संविधान बनाउन दिनुको विकल्प नभएको धारणा राख्छन। संविधान सभाको म्याद थपेमा कति समय थप्ने वा नथपेमा के गर्ने ? आज हामी यो विषयमा बहस गर्दै छौं ।छलफलका लागि हामीसंग हुनुहुन्छ: एकीकृत नेकपा माओवादीका सभासद् तथा अधिवक्ता खिमलाल देवकोटा र संविधानसभाको म्याद थप्न हुन्न भनेर वकालत गर्दै आउनुभएका संवैधानिक कानूनका ज्ञाता भिमार्जुन आचार्य ।

Guests: Khimlal Devkota, Bhimarjun Acharya
Date: 28.08.2011

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 197 (2011)

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जव गाउँको विकासको कुरा आउँछ, तव बाटो, पुल पुलेसा, धारापानी, स्कूल निर्माणको कुरा आइहाल्छ । सरकारले गाविसलाई प्रत्येक बर्ष एकमुस्ट १५ लाख र त्यो भन्दा माथि अनुदान दिने गरेपछि गाउँ गाउँमा डोजर लाने र सडक खन्ने डोजर खेती शुरू भएको छ । सडकसँगै विकास पनि आउँछ भनिन्छ । तर त्यसरी बनाइएका सडकको गुणस्तर के हो त? सडक विकास होइन, विनासको पुर्वाधार बन्यो भने के गर्ने? स्थानीय निकायमा जनप्रतिनिधी नभएका बेला अन्य विकास खानेपानी, पुल, तुइन पनि कसरी निर्माण भइरहेका छन् त?
यस पटकको साझा सवालमा गाउँको विकासका लागि भौतिक पुर्वाधार निर्माणका प्रयास र त्यसको अप्ठेराका बारेमा छलफल हामीले धादिङको विशालटारबाट गरेका छौं । छलफलमा हामीसँग भौतिक योजना तथा निर्माण राज्यमन्त्री देवी खड्का र स्थानीय विकास मन्त्रालयका सहसचिव एवं प्रवक्ता दिनेश थपलिया हुनुहुन्छ ।

Guests: Devi / Debi Khadka and Dinesh Thapalia / Thapaliya
Date: 21.08.2011

Biological weapon Warfare Today ()

The Men Who Killed Kennedy, "The Guilty Men" ()

Nepali (2008)

AKA:
Nepaali

Starring:
Bharat
Meera Jasmine
Prem
Raja Ravinder
Govind Namdev

Director: VZ Durai

Sniper: Reloaded (2011)

Starring:
Billy Zane
Richard Sammel
Chad Michael Collins
Patrick Lyster
Annabel Wright

Director: Claudio Fäh

Backwoods (2008)

Synopsis:
While camping in Jasper Park up North California, the couple Tom Alan Smithee and Gwen Marie Holden are attacked by a group of strangers; Tom is immediately killed and Gwen is abducted by the men to an underground facility to breed. A couple of months later, in Los Angeles, the manager of a video game company Johnny Dash invites the employees Adam Benson, Lee, Maggie, Perry, Chris Basso, Paul and Mike Chen to participate in a 'Battle Royal' paint-ball game at a corporate retreat in the Jasper Park to practice executive tactics. When they arrive at a gas station, they refuel their trucks and see a poster saying that Gwen and Tom are missing since 30 February 2008 and have been last seen in Jasper Park. They head to a former military reservation area in the national park and camp. During the night, Adam has the sensation that the group is under observation and he unsuccessfully warns his colleagues. When the game starts on the next morning, the group finds that their training is more than a paint-ball game.

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 196 (2011)

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संविधान, सरकार र राजनीतिक अन्योलता कसरी हटाउने भन्ने विषयमा छलफल गर्न लागेको तीन बर्ष नाघ्यो । बहस जारी छ, तर उल्लेख्य परिणाम अझै निस्कन सकेको छैन । जब जब संविधानसभाको म्याद सकिने बेला आउँछ, सरकार परिवर्तनको कुरा पनि सँगै आउँछ । संविधानसभाको म्याद दुई पटक थपियो, तीन तीनवटा सरकार पनि बने तर नेताले न त शान्तिप्रक्रिया टुंग्याए, न संविधान नै बनाए । फेरि सरकार परिवर्तनकै मेलो छ । सँधैको किचलोको निकास के होला त?
राजनीतिले फड्को नमार्नुमा धेरैले, नेतृत्व सम्हालिरहेका अहिलेका नेताहरुलाई दोष दिन्छन् । उनीहरुको तर्क छ-- यतिखेर नेतृत्वमा रहेका नेताहरुसँग नयाँ विचार र जोशको अभाव छ । त्यसो भए युवा नेताहरुसँग अहिलेको संकट समाधानको उपाय छन् त? यस विषयमा छलफल गर्न आज हामीसँग चार पार्टीका युवा नेताहरु हुनुहुन्छ । नेपाल मजदुर किसान पार्टीका लीला न्याइच्याइ, नेकपा एमालेका गोकर्ण विष्ट, नेपाली कांग्रेसका गगन थापा र एकीकृत माओवादीका हेमराज भण्डारीसँगको बहस यसपटकको साझा सवाल ।

Guests: Lilal Nyaichyai, Gokarna Bista, Gagan Thapa and Hemraj Bhandari
Date: 14.08.2011

Blitz (2011)

AKA:
ブリッツ >> Korean

Synopsis:
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

Starring:
Jason Statham
Paddy Considine
Aidan Gillen

Director: Elliott Lester

Aarakshan (2011)

Synopsis:
Following the Mandal Commission report and the Supreme Court of India's decision to maintain a 27 percent reservation for Dalits and lower/backward castes, right-winged political parties organize protests. The Principal of Shakuntala Thakral Mahavidyalal, a non-government college which is exempt from this mandate, gets in the limelight when it's Principal, Prabhakar Anand, endorses the decision - much to the ire of the trustees as well as the newly appointed Vice-Principal Mithilesh Singh, who has invested Rs.1200 Crores in private coaching classes. Prabhakar refuses to change his stand and ends up tendering his resignation, taking his family, consisting of his wife, Kavita and daughter, Poorbi, to live near Shambhu Yadav's Tabela after they find their family home being taken over by Mithilesh's coaching classes. Attempts to evict Mithilesh's staff will be in vain.

The movie reminds the inspiring real story of Mr. Anand Kumar (OR).

Starring:
Vinay Apte
Amitabh Bachchan
Manoj Bajpai
Darshan Jariwala
Anita Kanwar
Saif Ali Khan
Hema Malini
Deepika Padukone
Gyanesh Pandey
Chetan Pandit
Prateik
Yashpal Sharma

Director: Prakash Jha

Final Destination V (2011)

AKA:
Final Destination 5

Starring:
Nicholas D'Agosto
Emma Bell
Miles Fisher
Ellen Wroe
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
P.J. Byrne
Arlen Escarpeta
David Koechner

Director: Steven Quale

Iqbal (2005)

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India - a Nation obsessed with cricket - and it is not very often one comes across anyone who loathes cricket as much as farmer Anwar Khan, who feels that it is a waste of time watching some grown men playing, not only getting paid, but costing the nation millions of lost work hours. His family, especially his wife, Saida, does not quite agree with him. As a matter of fact, she broke water when watching a cricket match with a TV set perched on a branch of a tree with almost the entire village in attendance. This is how Iqbal was born, followed by the birth of his sister, Khadija. Iqbal, though deaf and dumb, shared his mother's and sister's passion for cricket, he would tend to the buffaloes, who though all female, had been named after male cricketers, including Kapil Dev. While tending to them, he would stop and watch youngsters being trained by the renowned Guruji. When Guruji finds out about Iqbal's interest in the game.

Starring:
Naseeruddin Shah
Girish Karnad
Shreyas Talpade

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Birth of America ()

AKA:
National Geographic Naked Science: Birth of America

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The shape of the North American continent has changed radically over millions of years. During the great Ice Age, glaciers carved out the Great Lakes; as the Earth's temperature rose, they filled with glacier melt. The Great Salt Lake is just a shadow of its former self. And as tectonic plates continue to move, America moves closer to Europe each year.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)

Director: D. W. Griffith

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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Pretty much owning the title Best Movie Ever Made, this three hour epic silent drama with racist overtones is easily among the most influential films ever, and one of the very first feature length American films ever, and the original blockbuster.

The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent film co-written (with Frank E. Woods), co-produced (with Harry Aitken), and directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. It was released on February 8, 1915. The film was originally presented in two parts, separated by an intermission.
The film chronicles the relationship of two families in Civil War and Reconstruction-era America: the pro-Union northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons over the course of several years. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.
The film was a huge commercial success, but was highly controversial due to its portrayal of African American men (played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan (whose original founding is dramatized) as a heroic force.[2][3] There were widespread protests[4] against The Birth of a Nation, and it was banned in several cities. The outcry of racism was so great that D.W. Griffith was inspired to produce Intolerance the following year.[5]
The film is also credited as one of the events which inspired the formation of the "second era" Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia in the same year. The Birth of a Nation was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.[6]
It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was "... like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true". The attribution is disputed.

D. W. Griffith later attempted to redeem himself from the racism alligations by making Intolerance (1916), and as soon as I find a copy of that with public domain music, I will upload that too.

Director: D. W. Griffith

The Magic of Pakistani legendary singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi: نصرت فتح علی خان (Shahmukhi) (Hindi: नुसरत फतेह अली खान) (13 October 1948 - 16 August, 1997) a world-renowned Pakistani singer-musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam). He was featured in Time magazine's 2006 list of "Asian Heroes". Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded, he possessed a six-octave vocal range and could perform at a high-level of intensity for several hours. He is loved and listened to throughout the whole globe.

BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 195 (2011)

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संविधानसभाको म्याद दुइ दुइ पटक थपे पनि थपिएको समयभित्रै संविधान बन्ने लक्षण अझै देखिएको छैन । मस्यौदा संविधान जारी गर्ने दिन, भदौ १४, आउन तीन साता मात्र बाँकी छ । समय घर्किसक्दा पनि संविधानको मस्यौदाको त के कुरा, संविधानका महत्वपूर्ण मुद्दाहरूमा दलहरूबीच सहमतिको संकेत देखिएको छैन । जनतामा निराशा र नेताहरूप्रतिको दिक्दारी बढ्दो छ । सबैजसो नेपाली सधैजसो नेतालाई गाली गर्छन् । के नेताहरू साँच्चैको खराव र जनताचाहिँ असल हो त? यस्तो बेला ती नेताका ठाउँमा तपाईं भएको भए के गर्नुहुन्छ त? आजको साझा सवालको बहस ।

Guests:  None
Date: 07.08.2011

Saaransh (1984)

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Devastated to learn that their only son has been killed by muggers in New York City, former Headmaster B.B. Pradhan and his wife, Parvati, grieve. With their son dead, there is no source of income for the couple, so they rent out a room, in their Shivaji Park - Bombay apartment to a budding Bollywood actress, Sujata Suman, who has been having an illicit affair with the only son - Vilas of a politician named Gajanan Chitre. Vilas lacks the guts to tell his father that he is in love and would like to marry Sujata, and hence puts off any marriage plans. They do get intimate and as a result Sujata gets pregnant. When Pradhan finds out, he offers to take Sujata to meet Gajanan with the hope that he will permit her to become his daughter-in-law. But Gajanan not only refuses, he also threatens them, he warns them of dire consequences if Sujata does not abort the child, and moves away to another town. Pradhan refuses to let Sujata out of his house, and then begins the stalking and harassment by Gajanan's men. Pradhan goes to file a police complaint, but is told that the police cannot even touch Gajanan's men. Sujata has no choice but to continue to seek shelter with Pradhan and his wife. Sujata does not know that Pradhan and Parvati have a secret agenda of their own in keeping her within their sight.

Starring:
Anupam Kher
Rohini Hattangadi
Nilu Phule

Director: Mahesh Bhatt

Red Eagle (2010)

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Year 2013, Bangkok is a rotten capital infested with chaos and criminals. Widespread corruption by politicians has dipped the moral compass to a new low, and the government's hasty plan to construct a nuclear power plant has spread fears among villagers and enivironmental activists. Amidst the mood of despair, a hero emerges. He goes after filthy politicians and vile criminals, handing out his own brand of justice when the law fails to fuction. No one knows his true identity. Every time he kills, he leaves a name card which says: The Red Eagle. But Red Eagle is a hunter who's also being hunted. An assassin, called Black Devil, has been sent by a crime lord to kill him. As his past returns to haunt him, the tortured hero is facing a conflict that will decide not just his own destiny, but the destiny of his entire nation.

Starring:
Yarinda Boonnak
Ananda Everingham
Wannasing Prasertkul

Director: Wisit Sasanatieng 

3 Hati 2 Dunia 1 Cinta ()

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Coming Soon (2008)

AKA:
Program na winyan akat >> Thai (Original)

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Coming Soon, which is basically the story of a movie actually haunted by the spirit being displayed on cinema screens, is another successful genre product. While it's no classic (and let's not fall into the trap of praising every Asian horror release to the skies, some of them can be just as bland as horror movies from elsewhere) it provides some impressively frightening images that may stay seared into your brain for a long, long time. It's also nice to see this particular sub-genre moved away from the stereotypes we have started to see lately (the put-upon schoolgirls, the phantom lass with the long black hair, etc) while still innovatively blending the spiritual with the modern world.

Starring:
Chantavit Dhanasevi
Vorakarn Rojjanavatchra

Director: Sopon Sukdapisit

Shutter (2004)

AKA:
ชัตเตอร์ >> Thai

Synopsis:
A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past. What it comes down to is figuring out that Tun is a total loser — a lowlife who thinks of himself. It's a horrifying discovery that only the watcher of the movies sees: Tun never realizes.

Starring:
Ananda Everingham
Natthaweeranuch Thongmee
Achita Sikamana
Unnop Chanpaibool
Chachchaya Chalemphol
Samruay Jaratjaroonpong
Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul
Binn Kitchacho
Jitrada Korsangvichal
Panitan Mavichak
Sivagorn Muttamara

Directors: Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom

Epitaph (2007)

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Browsing an old photo book in 1979, Park Jeong-nam travels back with his memories to 1942, when Korea was occupied by Japan, when he was a young and immature intern doctor in Anseong Hospital. During those four days, strange events will happen, when corpses brought to the mortuary aren't able to rest in piece.

Three intertwined stories follow, starting in reverse order (the second starts the day before):

One: While awaiting for his bride-to-be to arrive from Japan (the daughter of the hospital's director), Jeong-nam is fascinated by a recently diseased young woman. He spends time near the corpse in the morgue and draws her face. It's then time for the diseased to return his appreciation.

Two: Asako is a young girl who was the only survivor of a car accident which killed all her family. She doesn't speak and apparents to be in a state of shock, but what the doctors can't see is that she's drowning in guilt and being visited by the ghost of her mother.

Three: Serial killings of Japanese soldiers continue and a married couple, Kim Dong-won and Kim In-yeong, both surgeons, are involved in the autopsies. Meanwhile, Dong-won finds out that his wife has no shadow, and that the killer is much nearer than he could possibly imagine.

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Director: Beom-sik Jeong

Deadly Honeymoon ()

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Honesty (2003)

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Ren is Moses Tsang, a too-nice schmoe who could only exist in the movies. He's honest and righteous to the point of vomiting, and even has some silly disorder where he can't stop crying if he tells a lie. He's also a hellaciously bad singer, which is a plot device learned in the first few minutes—ergo, it must show up later in some obviously set up way. Moses is a veternarian who lives with longtime girlfriend Mi (Lee San-San). However, Mi has a fling with the pizza guy (Eric Kot in a cameo), so Moses moves in with nephew Barry (Raymond Wong Ho-Yin), a slimy player with many women on a string. This arrangement means Moses must help in the chicanery, thus he's going to cry a lot and generally complain about how terrible lying is. However, Moses' niceness gets him some goods. Every week he visits an aging retiree (Wong Tin-Lam), who decides to bequeath $25 million in US bills to Moses. Due to even more convoluted circumstances, the news filters all the way down to club girl Didi (Cecilia Cheung) before it ever gets to Moses. A mouthy, materialistic girl, Didi plans to worm her way into Moses heart, and gets her chance when she conveniently bumps into him at a cosplay party for an old teacher. Using the plot of her favorite book (a weepie featuring a heart-diseased heroine), Didi pretends to be sickly to win Moses' support. She ends up living with him, which equals shtick, shtick and more shtick.

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The Call (2003)

AKA:
Chakushin ari
One missed call

About:
This Japanese Film was later remade under the name "One missed Call" in 2008 directed by Eric Valette.

Synopsis:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters persue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.

Starring:
Kô Shibasaki
Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
Kazue Fukiishi
Anna Nagata
Atsushi Ida
Mariko Tsutsui
Kumiko Imai
Keiko Tomita
Kayoko Fujii
Yoshiko Noda
Azusa
Tetsushi Tanaka
Mitsuhiro Sato
Kaoru Hanaki

Director: Takashi Miike

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Kymatica ()

Iraq For Sale ()

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Putrudu ()

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Vanakanya ()

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Kalaratrilo ()

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Boy Friend ()

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Naa Manasukemaindi ()

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Needa Leni Adadl ()

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Kaama (2004)

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Abhisarika ()

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Viraham ()

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Baas Karo Thum ()

AKA:
Bas Karo Tum

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Agnipushpam ()

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Thuntari (2001)

AKA:
Tuntari

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Starring:
Shakila
Maria
Sindhu
Radhika
Sabita
Naushad Vikas
Sajid Ravi
Vijay

Director: S. P. Bhoopati

I Am Kalam (2011)

Synopsis:
Chhotu's peasant village is ruined by drought, so his ma drops the boy with uncle Bhati, who runs a tea stand at the city outskirts. Clever Chottu, who calls himself Kalam after the self-made Indian president, soon outsmarts uncle's adult assistant and makes friends with the loneliest boy in the palace, now a hotel, a prince his age.

Starring:
Harsh Mayar
Gulshan Grover
Pitobash
Hussan Saad
Meena Mir
Beatrice Ordeix

Director: Nila Madhab Panda

Gandhi to Hitler (2011)

Synopsis:
Chancellor Adolf Hitler assists Azad Hind Fauj, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, which include a group of Indians who are frustrated with the Gandhian manner of non-violence to compel the oppressive British to quit their country. Punjab-based Balbir Singh is one such member of the Fauj, who has left his wife, Amrita, and son, Veer, behind. Ironically, Amrita is a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and patiently awaits her husband's return home. Mohandas writes to Adolf, addressing him as 'dear friend', imploring him to end the violence. The allies, which include America, Russia, Britain and France close in on the Germans, while Adolf, a little perturbed by defectors, but still in company of many loyal supporters, is determined to continue, and even makes preparations to wed his mistress of 12 years, Eva Braun. Meanwhile Balbir and the rest of the Fauj must risk their lives through treacherous territory.

Starring:
Raghuvir Yadav
Neha Dhupia
Aman Verma
Nassar Abdulla
Avijit Dutt
Lucky Vakharia
Nikita Anand
Nalin Singh

Director: Rakesh Ranjan Kumar

Khap (2011)

Synopsis:
Khap,a contemporary tale of traditional massacre opens in the capital where two youths Ria and Kush fall in love. Meanwhile news channels highlight the death of Veer and Surili,who are found dead in Omkar Chaudhary's village.Ria has no idea that Omkar is her grandfather.Madhur, Ria's father,had left his native village due to differences with Omkar over the ruthless pratha (tradition) of honour killings, Madhur is chosen to lead a commission to investigate the suspicious deaths of young Veer and surili. Torn between his love for his son and his strong belief in the pratha, Omkar promises Madhur that he would put an end to these ruthless killings.

Starring:
Om Puri
Govind Namdeo
Manoj Pahwa
Anooradha Patel
Uvika Chowdhary
Sarrtaj
Mohnish Bahl
Yuvika Chaudhry
Sarrtaj Gill

Director: Ajai Sinha

Mississippi Burning (1988)

AKA:
Mississippi Burning - Die Wurzel des Hasses >> German

Synopsis:
As three civil rights activists drive down a desolate stretch of highway, headlights ominously draw near. Telling each other to stay calm, they have no way of knowing that in minutes they will disappear into the night and spark one of the most explosive murder investigations in history. Enter straight-laced Ward (Dafoe) and deceptively easy-going Anderson (Hackman). Can these two philosophically opposed FBI agents overcome their differences and uncover the chilling mystery of a small Ku Klux Klan-ridden community before an entire town is torn apart by racism?

Starring:
Gene Hackman
Willem Dafoe
Frances McDormand


Brad Dourif
Stephen TobolowskyGailard Sartain, Willem Dafoe, Michael Rooker, R. Lee Emery and Frances McDormand


Director: Alan Parker

The Echo (2008)

About:
This is the remake of the original Filipino movie with the same name The Echo in 2004 by the same director.

Synopsis:
An ex-con moves into an old apartment building, where he encounters a domestic problem involving a police officer, his wife, and their daughter. When he tries to intervene, however, a mysterious curse entraps him.

Starring:
Jesse Bradford
Amelia Warner
Carlos Leon

Director: Yam Laranas

The Amy Winehouse Story (2011)

Synopsis:
About Amy Amy Amy Winehouse.

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (2011)

Director: Callum Macrae

Singham (2011)

Synopsis: