6.5

Dabangg

2010, India

• Actors: Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Tinnu Anand, Malaika Arora, Mahie Gill, Dimple Kapadia, Arbaaz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar, Amitosh Nagpal, Om Puri, Romeo Sharma, Sonu Sood
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Abhinav Kashyap
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

Set in Uttar Pradesh, Chulbul Pandey is a young boy who lives with his mother Naini, stepfather Prajapati, and younger half-brother Makkhi. Chulbul is constantly angry that his step-father is always partial towards his own biological son. 21 years later, Chulbul is a rowdy, mischievous, and sometimes crooked cop, who refers to himself as "Robin Hood." He does everything in his own indomitable way; whether it's dealing with corrupt politician and thug Chedi Singh, fighting a family feud, or romancing stunning Rajo.

  6.4

West Is West

2010, UK

• Actors: Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh, Thomas Russell, Jimi Mistry, Vanessa Hehir, John Branwell, Yograj Singh, Vijay Raaz, Karamjit Anmol, Sanjeev Attari, Raj Bhansali, Dhanalaxmi Padmakumar, Sheeba Chaddha, Ila Arun, Emil Marwa, Nadim Sawalha, Kamal Arora, Sunil Soni, Kalra Chander, Zita Sattar, Sujata Kumar, Enid Dunn, Lesley Nicol
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Andy De Emmony
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Salford, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.

  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.

  4.9

Singh Is Kinng

2007, Australia, India

• Actors: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Kiron Kher, Ranvir Shorey, Javed Jaffrey, Neha Dhupia, Yashpal Sharma, Manoj Pahwa, Kamal Chopra, Sudhanshu Pandey, Sonu Sood, Vivica Mitra, Ingrid Breitfelder, Joel Amos Byrnes, Sanchita Choudhary, Snoop Dogg, Alain Grootaers, Gurpreet Guggi, Khayali, Avelino 'El Rico' Lescot, Brad McMurray, Ryctor, Chayan Sarkar, Tara Jade Ross
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
• Director(s): Anees Bazmee
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

Happy Singh lives in a small village in Punjab. He is always compassionate and helpful, but often ends up causing more damage so much so that the Village Panchayat gets together to reprimand him. When the community gets news that one of their residents, Lakhanpal Singh, is an underworld don in Australia, they decide to delegate someone to counsel him. The villagers chose Happy, so that they can get rid of him. Happy's ticket and other costs are paid for, and the Panchayat even asks a reluctant Rangeela to accompany him. Due to a mix-up, both end up in Egypt, leading to romance in Happy's life when he meets with Sonia, a Criminologist, who would prefer to have criminals killed than reform them. Both friends do find their way to Australia, where they locate Lakhanpal, who humiliates them and asks them to leave. Both befriend a boutique owner and live in her house. When rival goons attack Lakhanpal, Happy rescues him, and gets him hospitalized. Lakhanpal does recover, but is paralyzed. His goons comically misunderstand that he wants Happy to be Don, and he undergoes a transformation and moves in to live a wealthy lifestyle in Lakhanpal's mansion. When the boutique owner's daughter returns home along with her fiancé, Punit, Happy plans a charade to make her believe that the mansion belongs to her. Happy's life will soon be turned upside down when the daughter turns out to be none other than Sonia herself. Being aware of Sonia's dislike for criminals, he will have no option but to plan a lavish wedding for her, while rival gangsters, and even some of Lakhanpal's goons, plan to get rid of him.

  6.0

Shoot on Sight

2007, USA, UK

• Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Brian Cox, Stephen Greif, Om Puri, Tony Devon, Gulshan Grover, Chris Wilson, Sadie Frost, Mikaal Zulfikar, Laila Rouass, Jayson Whiteley, India Wadsworth, Arrun Harker, Tolga Safer, Clifford Samuel, San Shella, Julian Glover, Ralph Ineson, Josie Kidd, Avtar Kaul, Robert Lowe, Taru Devani, John Warman, Alex McSweeney, Cloudia Swann, Clemency Burton-Hill, Sylvester Williams, James Harrington, Jamie Doyle
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Jag Mundhra
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London. Tariq's task gets complicated as an innocent Muslim is killed by the commando shooters of Scotland Yard. On the other hand, Tariq - a British citizen is himself a suspect in the eyes of his boss, despite his long service in the Scotland Yard.

  7.2

Charlie Wilson's War

2006, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terry Bozeman, Brian Markinson, Jud Tylor, Hilary Salvatore, Cyia Batten, Kirby Mitchell, Ed Regine, Daniel Eric Gold, Emily Blunt, Peter Gerety, Wynn Everett, Mary Bonner Baker, Rachel Nichols, Shiri Appleby, P.J. Byrne, John Slattery, Thomas Crawford, Joe Roland, Patrika Darbo, Carly Reeves, Salaheddine Ben Chegra, Om Puri, Faran Tahir, Rizwan Manji, Maurice Sherbanee, Salam Sangi
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Director(s): Mike Nichols
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. With the help of the maverick CIA agent, Gust Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union. However, Charlie Wilson eventually learns that while military victory can be had, there are other consequences and prices to that fight that are ignored to everyone's sorrow.

  6.8

Don

2006, India

• Actors: Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Isha Koppikar, Boman Irani, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra, Rajesh Khattar, Tanay Chheda, Kareena Kapoor, Chunky Pandey, Sushma Reddy, Diwakar Pundir, Sandrine Verrier Seth, Sidhart Jyoti, Shamsher Sidhu, Shakeel Khan, Nor Zamshuri Ramli, Shaharuddin Thamby, Aman Shah Abu Kassim, Rahim Omar, Darleep Singh, Kuldeep Sareen, Raakesh Maudgal, Micky Makhija, Nishith Ranjan, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal, Vijayanthi Iyer, Avani Batra, Naeim Ghalili
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Farhan Akhtar
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

In 2006, the drug trade is booming; trafficking between Asian and Europe is at an all time high. It is at this time that the Malaysian intelligence and Anti-Narcotic department are called upon for assistance by their Indian counterparts. There are rumors that the gang recently moved their operational headquarters. The cartel is headed by the dreaded Singhania, but what many people do not know is that the business is truly managed by his lieutenant, Don. A man who lives life on the edge, Don is constantly expanding the size of his empire while evading arrest or death at the hands of his enemies, both within and outside the law. He is unstoppable in his pursuit of absolute power. His chief pursuer is an Indian police officer, Desilva. He is a man who has sworn to put an end to this nexus of evil and knows that in capturing Don lies the key to unlock this puzzle. And one day he succeeds. Don is captured and Desilva puts his plan into action. Unknown to even his own department, Pesilva has recruited and trained a man who is a spitting image of Don. His name is Vijay. Vijay infiltrates the cartel and manages to give Desilva all the information he needs to bring it down. But in a bizarre twist of fate, Desilva is killed during a raid and the secret that Don is in fact Vijay, a police informer, is buried within him. The only people who realize that he is in fact an imposter are the members of Don's cartel, and they want their revenge. Vijay manages to escape and is now on the lookout for the one last piece of evidence that can get him out of this mess. Helping him on the quest are two people. The first is a Roma, a young woman who was working in the gang, but only to avenge her brother's death. He had been mercilessly killed by Don when he had decided join the gang. The other is Jasjit, the real father of Vijay's adopted son, Deepu. He owes Vijay for having looked after the boy while he was in prison. Wanted by the police, hunted day and night, forever on the run. The chase has begun.

  6.3

Code 46

2003, UK

• Actors: Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa, Nabil Elouahabi, Samantha Morton, Sarah Backhouse, Jonathan Ibbotson, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Om Puri, Emil Marwa, Nina Fog, Bruno Lastra, Christopher Simpson, Lien Nguyin, David Fahm, Jeanne Balibar, Mick Jones, Taro Sherabayani, Nina Sosanya, Shelley King, Tuyet Le, Benedict Wong, Nina Wadia, Essie Davis, Teo-Wa Vuong, Jennifer Lim, Archie Panjabi, Paul Barnes, Louis Lin, Nabil Massad, Kerry Shale
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" (papers in Spanish; words and sentences in many languages, especially Spanish, French and Chinese are mixed with English in this new world), a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his visa: 24 hours. Back home, William is obsessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.

  6.3

The Parole Officer

2000, UK

• Actors: Steve Coogan, Emma Gilmour, Susan Jane Tanner, Iain Mitchell, James Smith, Om Puri, Steven Waddington, Ben Miller, Emma Williams, Stephen Dillane, Bruce McGregor, Lena Headey, Justin Burrows, Marc Goodhall, Clive Kneller, John Henshaw, Buster Reeves, Brian Nickels, Terence Mann, Jake Abraham, Jo-Anne Knowles, Eiji Kusuhara, Togo Igawa, Kate Deakin, David Nicholls, Francesca Hall, Olga Grahame, Jenny Agutter, Hazel Douglas, Victoria Gould
• Genre: Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): John Duigan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Failed parole officer Steve Garden (Coogan) is framed for a murder committed by one of Manchester's leading police constables. The only evidence proving his innocence is a CCTV video tape locked inside a bank vault. With the help of four inept ex-criminals and token love interest Emma (Lena Headey), Garden must break into the bank and steal the CCTV footage in order to clear his name.

  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?

  6.7

East Is East

1998, UK

• Actors: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, Raji James, Ian Aspinall, Lesley Nicol, Emma Rydal, Ruth Jones, Ben Keaton, Kriss Dosanjh, John Bardon, Gary Damer, Albert Moses, Jimmi Harkishin, Rosalind March, Kaleem Janjua, Gary Lewis, Roger Morlidge, Ralph Birtwell, Madhav Sharma, Saikat Ahamed, Bruce McGregor, Margaret Blakemore, Thierry Harcourt, Leena Dhingra, Tallat Nawaz
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Damien O'Donnell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

  6.0

Wolf

1993, USA

• Actors: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce, Om Puri, Ron Rifkin, Prunella Scales, Brian Markinson, Peter Gerety, Bradford English, Stewart J. Zully, Thomas F. Duffy, Tom Oppenheim, Shirin Devrim, Allison Janney, Kirby Mitchell, Madhur Jaffrey, William Hill, Cynthia O'Neal, Timothy Thomas, Lisa Emery, Leigh Carlson, Alice Liu, Max Weitzenhoffer, Irene Forrest, Jennifer Nicholson
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Mike Nichols
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Worn down and out of luck, aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches both his job and wife out from under his nose. But after being bit by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself energized, more competitive than ever, and possessed with amazingly heightened senses. Meanwhile, the beautiful daughter of his shrewd boss begins to fall for him - without realizing that the man she's begun to love is gradually turning into the creature by which he was bit.

  8.1

Gandhi

1982, UK, India

• Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Günther Maria Halmer, Saeed Jaffrey, Geraldine James, Alyque Padamsee, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Rohini Hattangadi, Ian Bannen, Michael Bryant, John Clements, Richard Griffiths, Nigel Hawthorne, Bernard Hepton, Michael Hordern, Shreeram Lagoo, Om Puri, Virendra Razdan, Richard Vernon, Harsh Nayyar, Prabhakar Patankar, Vijay Kashyap
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Richard Attenborough
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.