Russell's avowed purpose with Whore was to avoid the glamorous depiction of prostitution common to such slick Hollywood products as Pretty Woman. As played by Theresa Russell (no relation to Ken), the eponymous character lives a hellish existence. Relating her story directly to the camera, Russell introduces us to her no-good former husband ...
Revenge drives this tale of an orphan taken in by a state police officer only to discover that the man who raised him as his own was also the man who savagely gunned down his family. Following the death of his parents in a violent raid by police who are on the trail of a rebel leader, eleven-year-old Altaaf is taken in by kindly officer Inayat ...
A program that deliberately and aggressively slices through widespread conservative attempts to dismiss global warming, ozone depletion and other environmental hazards, the three-hour documentary Planet in Peril finds a trio of broadcast journalists - Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Anderson Cooper of CNN, and wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin of Animal Planet ...
Sanjay Gupta's thriller Zinda offers a variation on the popular South Korean movie Old Boy. The film stars Sanjay Dutt as a software engineer named Balajit Roy whose life is turned upside down when he is kidnapped and held for over a decade by men who intend to frame him for the murder of his wife. During his incarceration he develops a talent for ...
In this remake of the 1997 Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy of the same name, a young career woman must choose between the love of her life and the job of her dreams. When Pooja (Kirti Reddy) takes a vacation in Agra and meets renowned artist Kabir (Abhishek Bachchan) it's love at first sight -- for the artist at least. Though Pooja is attracted ...
A short story by Pushpa S. Choudhary was the launching pad of the Indian Do Qaidi The "heroes," played by Sanjay Dutt and Govinda, are a pair of cheap crooks. As much as they hate the authorities, the two criminals hate each other more. They may be thieves, but they aren't murderers, and when they are framed by a drug cartel for the murder of a ...
Indian director Rajeev Manoj Virani's cross-cultural romance My Bollywood Bride follows the love affair that unexpectedly blossoms between a hunky, fair-haired American novelist named Alex (Jason Lewis) and an ebullient Indian tour guide named Reena (Kashmera Shah). The two fall in love in Los Angeles, but are then forcibly separated by ...
Seven ambitious performing arts students find their dreams of hitting the big time complicated by the sudden appearance of a talented beauty in director Raj Kaushal's tender coming of age drama. Everything was going smoothly backstage until Kushi showed up, now the heated backstage love triangle has everyone focusing on the drama unfolding behind ...
A rare attempt to marry the widely appealing standards of commercial cinema with the decidedly darker elements of realistic cinema, director Krishna Vamsi's bleak drama explores the horrific results of a marriage haunted by violence and dishonesty. A Canadian Indian orphan who resides with her two uncles, Nandini (Karishma Kapoor) is quickly ...
My Brother...Nikhil isn't the first Hindi film to deal with AIDS, but unlike, say, Phir Milenge, which was essentially a Bollywood remake of Philadelphia with a heterosexual woman in the Tom Hanks role, My Brother...Nikhil is about a closeted gay man who contracts HIV, shattering his seemingly perfect life. Nikhil (Sanjay Suri, who also produced ...
Six directors converge to film an ensemble epic detailing the love and companionship of two friends torn apart by the cruel mechanisms of fate. When a writer makes a shocking discovery about the woman he loves most, the grip of madness takes hold of his fragile psyche. Later, when an underworld don and his best friend attempt to navigate their way ...
After a seven-year self-imposed exile from cinema, acclaimed filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns to the director's chair for this tale about a Royal Guardsman and expert marksman whose loyalty to the crown is the stuff of legend. Eklavya (Amitabh Bachchan) lives for one reason and one reason only: to protect Devigarh at all costs. For nine ...
Bombay thug Munnabhai and his loyal pal Circuit are back in this blockbuster sequel to the popular hit Munnabhai M.B.B.S. Smitten by the voice of popular radio jockey Jhanvi, Munna sits by the radio all day long as dreams of marriage and romance drift through his restless mind. When Jhanvi invites Munna to meet her family under the false pretences ...
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