6.3

Bachna Ae Haseeno

2008, India

• Actors: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, Deepika Padukone, Kunal Kapoor, Hiten Paintal, Puneet Issar, Menekka Arora, Sumit Arora, Ntasha Bhardwaj, Pratik Dixit, Bidyut Dumra, Karan Gill, Avantika Hundal, Willi Jezler, Brad Kennerley, Rashmi Kulkarni, Andy Kumar, Roy Lange, Bhanu Mehra, Cameron Pearson, Florian Philip, Ramandeep, Gurbhej Randhawa, Jay Ruparelia, Gurpreet Sandhu, Andrea Santarelli, Shyam Mashalkar, Ravprit Singh, Sukhmeet Singh
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Siddharth Anand
• Available languages:
  • Hindi Hindi.

During 1996 Raj Sharma, while in Switzerland, meets with Amritsar-based Mahi Pasricha, successfully woos, then dumps her. Then during 2002, he meets with aspiring model, Radhika, who is also attracted to him, and both move-in to live together in a small apartment in Mumbai. When he gets the opportunity to settle in Sydney, Australia, he dumps her and re-locates there. Now it is 2006, and Raj has met a brilliant taxi-driver, Gayatri, who he falls in love with. The question remains, will his attraction again be temporary? And what will be the consequences if Gayatri finds out about his past?

  6.1

Salaam Namaste

2005, India

• Actors: Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Arshad Warsi, Tania Zaetta, Jugal Hansraj, Javed Jaffrey, Kunal Vijaykar, Ravi Khote, Kavita Kapoor, Maria Goretti, Siddhant Ashar, Zeke Zidaan, Azaan Ali Khan, Padam Bhushan, Bonnie Hill, Leima Popal, Nikita Bhatt, Deepak Shroff, Bidyut Dumra, Prakash Sawant, Rishi Oberoi, Ismail Shaikh, Darshan Aulakh, Yunus Hussain, Jezebel, Eknath Chalke, Akshai Puri, Suhail Farooqi, Danish Aslam, Siddharth Anand
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Siddharth Anand
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The new millennium has begun and one must accept the reality that East Indians have immigrated everywhere on Earth. One such place where a number of Indians have made their new homes is Australia's Melbourne. A doctor, who does have problems translating some words into Hindi; Jignesh Pandya, who has come from Surat, India, where his parents operate and run "Archana Sarees" and has become a doctor; Ranjan Mathur who has recently immigrated, is now on the look-out for a wife, and does find one, after many hilarious misadventures, including one with a gorgeous hooker, Lisa; Then there is Ambar Malhotra or Ambi, who lived in Bangalore with her parents, quarreled with them because she did not want to marry someone of their choice, ended up coming to Australia on a student exchange program, studies medicine, but lands a job as a radio announcer with 101.5 FM "Salaam Namaste"; and finally there is Nikhil Arora alias Nicki, who came here to become an Architect, did get his qualifications, but ended up as Head Chef with "Nick of Time" restaurant. Watch what happens when two completely different people, from different backgrounds, habits and culture, meet and decide to live together to see if they can maintain a long-term relationship.