24 January, 2017

Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006)

Starring:
Anupam Kher
Boman Irani
Parvin Dabbas
Tara Sharma

Director: Dibakar Banerjee

Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami (2014)

Synopsis:
Follows two brothers and their quest to fulfill their father's last wish, a twenty-one gun salute.

Starring:
Anupam Kher
Neha Dhupia
Divyendu Sharma

Director: Ravindra Gautam

Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga... (2013)

Synopsis:
A satire on inflation-hit middle-class Indian family from a small city in North India. The story revolves around our protagonist who is struggling to survive in this spiraling inflation and how he comes up with a solution to battle it, only to find himself in an even bigger mess due to their innocence and naivety. The story is laced with undertones of sociopolitical issues as well traditions that reflects struggle of the 'average' man, while entertaining that makes you laugh ( and cry) at yourself and the situations that one faces on a daily basis.

Starring:
Vishwa S. Badola
Ranjan Chhabra
Zakir Hussain

Director: Anshul Sharma

Mixed Doubles (2006)

Synopsis:
Mumbai-based Sunil Arora is in Marketing, while his wife of 10 years, Malti, is in Sales Division. Both have a son, Avi, who studies in Arya Vidya Mandir. When their U.S-based friends, Shefali and Harsh, come to visit, Sunil finds out the secret behind Harsh's attitude - which is spouse-swapping. He attempts to convince Malti to do the same - in vain initially - but succeeds rather dramatically after a few days. He goes through a number of classified advertisements and subsequently meets a couple, Kalpana and Vinod Khanna. He then convinces his wife to accompany him to their residence - with hopes that this joint meeting will not only spice up but also change their lives forever.

Starring:
Konkona Sen Sharma
Ranvir Shorey
Koel Purie

Director: Rajat Kapoor

Ankhon Dekhi (2013)

Synopsis:
Raje Bauji (Sanjay Mishra) is a man in his late fifties, living out a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi- where he lives with his extended family. A random incident is going to change his life in a dramatic way- though he does not realize at the moment. Bauji's daughter has been seeing a boy of ill repute. When that fact is revealed to the family, after much deliberation they decide to do the obvious- lock up the girl and go beat the willful boy. It is a funny old journey of this man, this old fool- who is both Lear and the fool.

Starring:
Sanjay Mishra
Seema Pahwa
Rajat Kapoor

Director: Rajat Kapoor

23 January, 2017

Nil Battey Sannata (2015)


 

Synopsis:
Appu is a class 10th student and is giving up on studies, because she knows her mother will not be able to provide for her higher studies. Her mother tries hard and even enrolled her for maths tuition but Appu thinks only children of rich parents become doctors or engineers and believes she'll end up being a maid too like her mother. But one day her mother gets a chance to continue her Education.

Starring:
Swara Bhaskar
Ratna Pathak
Pankaj Tripathy

Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Jugaad (2009)

Synopsis:
Delhi-based Sandip Kapoor, who lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife, Priya, had started his business, Promodome, with just Rs.15000/-, which, after a lot of hard work and diligence, has now grown to Rs.15 Crores. Just when he was preparing to make presentations to overseas clients, Commissioner I.M. Gupta issues demolition orders under the Urban Land Ceiling Act after determining that the business was located in a residential zone. Unable to even enter the premise, Sandip, with the assistance of a con-man, Bakshi Jugaad, rents a building without any water supply and electricity. He makes arrangements for tankers to deliver water and has diesel generators provide electricity. Hoping to make a stand until his lawyer resolves this issue, he is unprepared when his employees resign after informing him that they simply cannot stand the stress of seven hours travel back and forth. As if that was not enough of a shock, he is then informed by an enraged Commissioner that the matter is now.

Starring:
Manoj Bajpayee
Hrishitaa Bhatt
Vijay Raaz

Director: R. Anand Kumar

Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010)


Synopsis:
Om Shastri, a recession victim comes to India to sell his ancestors property to clear is debt. On reaching he comes to know that selling the property will make his family homeless in India. Later he is kidnapped by goons thinking a rich NRI.

Starring:
Rajat Kapoor
Neha Dhupia
Sanjay Mishra

Director: Subhash Kapoor

Wild Child (2008)

Starring:
Since Malibu brat Poppy Moore's mom passed away, she has pushed her rich, usually absent dad Gerry shamelessly. When his patience wears out, she's shipped off to her mother's former English boarding school for girls, Abbey Mount. On her first day she makes enemies of most dorm mates, especially dominant lacrosse school captain Harriet, and of staff disciplinarian Mrs. Kingsley. Unwilling to accept the strict regime, she decides to misbehave and take the blame for everyone until she's dismissed. The school only appealing feature for her is Kingsley's dashing son Freddie. When the dream prince transfers his favor from ambitious, uptight Harriet to unruly Poppy, that changes everything.

Starring:
Emma Roberts
Aidan Quinn
Natasha Richardson

Director: Nick Moore

xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (2017)

Synopsis:
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang (Donnie Yen) and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.

Starring:
Vin Diesel
Donnie Yen
Deepika Padukone

Director: D.J. Caruso

Anthropoid (2016)


Synopsis:
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.

Starring:
Jamie Dornan
Cillian Murphy
Brian Caspe

Director: Sean Ellis

Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Synopsis:
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

Starring:
Jason Statham
Jessica Alba
Tommy Lee Jones

Director: Dennis Gansel

20 January, 2017

Erste Liebe (1970)

AKA:
First Love

Synopsis:
Based on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.

Starring:
John Moulder-Brown
Dominique Sanda
Maximilian Schell

Director: Maximilian Schell

13 January, 2017

La sorella di Ursula (1978)

AKA: The Sister of Ursula

Synopsis:
While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Starring:
Barbara Magnolfi
Stefania D'Amario
Anna Zinnemann

Director: Enzo Milioni

12 January, 2017

Höhenfeuer (1985)

AKA:
Alpine Fire

Synopsis:
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

Starring:
Thomas Nock
Johanna Lier
Dorothea Moritz

Director: Fredi M. Murer