3.5

Apartment: Rent at Your Own Risk

2010, India

• Actors: Savita Bhargav, Neetu Chandra, Tanushree Dutta, Mushtaq Khan, Anupam Kher, Rohit Roy
• Genre: Thriller
• Director(s): Jag Mundhra
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Employed as an Air Hostess with Spice Jet, Mumbai-based Preeti Sengupta has a boyfriend in Karan Malhotra. Both decide to rent an apartment near Oshiwara and share the rent. But when she notices that he is paying more attention to other females, she breaks up with him, and decides to rent a room to a female paying guest. She does find one in Neha Bhargav, an employee from a book store, who calls her 'Didi', agrees to pay the rent on time, and even does all the housework and cooking. Preeti does make up with Karan at the intervention of her neighbor, Madhusudan, but feels threatened by Neha, who is getting overly friendly with Karan. After Madhusudan's cat dies unexpectedly he decides to probe further into Neha's past - and it is this decision that will change everyone's lives forever.

  6.4

Wanted

2009, India

• Actors: Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia, Vinod Khanna, Govind Namdeo, Mahek Chahal, Prabhu Deva, Govinda, Anil Kapoor, Mushtaq Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Inder Kumar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Raju Mavani, Asseem Merchant, Manoj Pahwa, Vijay Patkar, Om Puri, Sajid, Salman, Anupam Shyam, Prakash Raj
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
• Director(s): Prabhu Deva
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

Mumbai-based middle-classed Jhanvi, who lives with her widowed mother and younger brother, has three suitors. The first is much older and considerably overweight - Sonu Gates. The second is Police Inspector Talpade, who is already married to Nandini, but lusts after Jhanvi so much so that he creates circumstances that will force her to marry him. The third is a male named Radhey - who often comes to her rescue - but breaks her heart when she finds out who is really is - a cold-blooded killer who works for a gangster named Ghanibhai. The later is a ruthless gangster who challenges Police Commissioner Ashraf Taufeeq Khan with impunity, and even abducts his daughter to ensure his personal safety.

  5.4

Welcome

2007, India

• Actors: Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Mallika Sherawat, Katrina Kaif, Feroz Khan, Paresh Rawal, Malaika Arora, Asrani, Snehal Dabi, Adi Irani, Supriya Karnik, Mushtaq Khan, Mishra Mahesh, Om Puri, Vijay Raaz, Ranjeet, Sunil Shetty, Sherveer Vakil, Christina Sampson
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Anees Bazmee
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

After the passing away of his dark-skinned wife, from who they sired Uday, Dubai-based criminal don, Shankar Shetty re-married a fair-skinned woman, who gave birth to fair-skinned Sanjana. After the couple's passing, Uday takes over in his dad's footsteps, and takes it upon himself to try and get Sanjana married - in vain, as no one wants to be associated with a crime family. Then Uday's associate, Sagar Pandey, aspiring live-action painter, who had loved Iravati, got beat-up by her brothers, and was re-named Majnu, assists in finding a young man, Rajiv, who lives with his maternal uncle, Dr. Ghunghroo and aunt, and through extortion compels Ghunghroo to accept this alliance. But Ghunghroo, at the very first opportunity, gets Rajiv to fall in love with another young woman in Sun City, South Africa. When the time comes to get Rajiv formally engaged to this woman, he finds out that Sanjana and she are the very same woman. With no escape from this predicament, the wedding is planned, invitations are sent out, and even Ranvir Dhanraj alias RDX, an Italian-based criminal don, also makes an appearance. On the day of the engagement, a woman claiming to be Rajiv's child-hood betrothed shows up, makes a successful plea to Ranvir, and gets the engagement annulled. When Dr. Ghunghroo finds out that Rajiv and Sanjana have fallen in love with each other, he decides to accept Sanjana into the family on the condition that Uday gives up on crime. Rajiv and Sanjana attempt to get Uday to take up acting in a Bollywood movie - with considerable success - so much so that Uday has no time for crime. Things get complicated when Ranvir's son, Lucky, gets wind of Rajiv's scheme and arrives in India with one mission - get Uday back on track with crime - and if necessary do away with Rajiv - once and for all.

  6.7

A Mighty Heart

2006, USA, UK

• Actors: Dan Futterman, Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Mohammed Afzal, Mushtaq Khan, Daud Khan, Telal Saeed, Arif Khan, Tipu Taheer, Amit Dhawan, Saira Nasir Khan, Aliya Khan, Sarah Mone, Bushra Parwani, Zafar Karachiwala, Danish Iqubal, Ali Tejani, Azfar Ali, Ahmed A. Jamal, Denis O'Hare, Perrine Moran, Jeffry Kaplow, Ishaque Ahmed, Alyy Khan, Irrfan Khan, Adnan Siddiqui, Shah Murad Aliani, Imran Paracha, Imran Patel, Jean-Jacques Scaerou
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.

  8.0

Hera Pheri

2000, India

• Actors: Paresh Rawal, Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Tabu, Om Puri, Gulshan Grover, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Mukesh Khanna, Asrani, Sulabha Arya, Dinesh Hingoo, Mushtaq Khan, Kashmira Shah, Snehal Dabi, Anna Edwards
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Priyadarshan
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

Baburao is a landlord in India, who is very near-sighted, and always in financial trouble. He has a tenant named Raja, who has not paid his rent for several months. He also has anther tenant named Shyam, who has come to the city to look for a job in his late father's place, but is unable to find employment. The three men quarrel amongst themselves frequently. Then one day, the three men get a phone call from a kidnapper named Kabira, and decide to make use of this phone call to overcome their financial problems - pretend to be the real kidnappers, increase the ransom amount, keep the incremental amount for themselves, and then give the original ransom demanded to Kabira. Will they get away with this idea?

  6.2

Sir

1993, India

• Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Pooja Bhatt, Atul Agnihotri, Paresh Rawal, Avtar Gill, Soni Razdan, Sushmita Mukherjee, Gulshan Grover, Abha Ranjan, Suhas Bhalekar, Mushtaq Khan, Mahesh Anand, Makrand Deshpande, Anang Desai, Anant Jog, Viplove Rai, Vikas Anand, G.P. Singh, Gopal Poojari, Kamal Malik, Deepak Sinha, Anjana Mumtaz, Banjara, Kunal Khemu, Brownie Parasher
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Mahesh Bhatt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bombay-based Professor Amar Verma lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Shobha, and 6 year old son, Kunal. When a gang-war breaks out between Veljibhai and Chhapan Tikle alias Jimmy, a number of innocent bystanders fall victim, one of whom is Kunal. This devastates the Verma family, with Shobha walking out on Amar, who devotes his life to his students. When he finds out one of his students has a stammering problem, he decides to help her, and finds out that she is the only child of gangster Veljibhai. He meets with Veljibhai, discusses the gang-war scenario, then meets with Chhapan Tikle and gets the gangster to agree on a truce so that he can take Pooja and the rest of the students on a field trip to Bangalore. Amar will soon find out that neither Veljibhai nor Chhapan Tikle have any intention of keeping any truce - and he may well have jeopardized his, Pooja's, as well as the lives of his students - as the two gangs set out to kill each other - and anyone else who gets in their way.

  7.4

Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke

1993, India

• Actors: Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Master Sharokh, Kunal Khemu, Baby Ashrafa, Tiku Talsania, Mushtaq Khan, K.D. Chandran, Javed Khan, Veeru Krishnan, Navneet Nishan, Zubaida, Robin Bhatt, Ramesh Goyal, Merlin Lucian, G.P. Singh, Amrit Patel, Mahesh Raj, Anjana Mumtaz, Ramakant Burman, Aslam, Navin Kumar, Birbal, Dalip Tahil
• Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Mahesh Bhatt
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

Rahul Malhotra (Aamir Khan) is the manager of the heavily in debt family business. He is also the guardian of his dead sister's mischievous kids. Rahul hires Vaijayanti (Juhi Chawla) as governess. Vaijayanti is a runaway from home as she does not want to marry the man her orthodox family has chosen for her. Predictably, Rahul and Vaijayanti fall in love. Maya (Navneet Nishan), a rich girl in love with Rahul tries to ruin his family and his business, but all ends happily.

  7.0

Sadak

1991, India

• Actors: Sanjay Dutt, Pooja Bhatt, Deepak Tijori, Neelima Azim, Soni Razdan, Avtar Gill, Mushtaq Khan, Javed Khan, Pankaj Dheer, Manohar Singh, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Suhas Bhalekar, Kumud Tripathi, G.P. Singh, Gavin Packard, Yogi, Jahangir, Narendra Banjara, Hanif, Kirpal Singh, Jai Kumar
• Genre: Drama, Family
• Director(s): Mahesh Bhatt
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

A young man falls in love with a young prostitute, and must overcome the social stigma, as well as face her pimps and criminal elements, to succeed in his love for her.