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Filmfare Award for Best Art Director – South

The Filmfare Best South Art Director Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for South Indian films.

Ghar Mein Ram Gali Mein Shyam

Ghar Mein Ram Gali Mein Shyam is a 1988 Indian film.

Hippie trail

Hare Rama Hare Krishna is a 1971 Indian film directed by Dev Anand, and starring himself, Mumtaz and Zeenat Aman.

Maseeha

Maseeha (English: said to describe 'Jesus Christas (the divinely angel;a person who cures others like a doctor), is a 2002 Hindi Indian film written by Pradeep Ghatak and directed by Partho Ghosh.

Nazia and Zoheb

The group initially gained prominence with their music single "Aap Jaisa Koi" first featured as a soundtrack for the Indian film Qurbani.

NTR National Award

NTR National Film Award is an award instituted by the state of Andhra Pradesh in the honour of an Indian Film Actor, director, producer, and a politician N.T. Rama Rao who also served as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.

Our Films, Their Films

The book is presented in two sections (hence the title) - Ray first discusses Indian film, before turning his attention towards Hollywood and specific international filmmakers (Charlie Chaplin, Akira Kurosawa) and movements like Italian neorealism.

Paap Ko Jalaa Kar Raakh Kar Doonga

Paap Ko Jalaa Kar Raakh Kar Doonga is a 1988 Indian film.

Shree Pundalik

Shree Pundalik, which was released on 18 May 1912 at the Coronation Cinematograph, Girgaum, Mumbai, is one of the candidates for the first Indian film (silent film).


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A Serbian Film

The film had a limited release in UK theaters on 10 December 2010 in the edited form (99 minutes), with 00:04:11 of its original content removed by the British Board of Film Classification due to "elements of sexual violence that tend to eroticize or endorse sexual violence." A Serbian Film thus became the most censored cinema release in Britain since the 1994 Indian film Nammavar that had five minutes and eight seconds of its violent content removed.

Aadharshila

Aadharshila portrays the struggles of young people - especially graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India - to find a foothold in the Indian film industry.

Aaj Ka Boss

Aaj Ka Boss is a 2008 Hindi-language Indian film directed by T L V Prasad, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Swati, Urmi Negi, Rami Reddy, Dalip Tahil, Raza Murad and Manvi Goswami

Agnipankh

Agnipankh (The wings of fire in Hindi) is an Indian film directed by Sanjiv Puri about pilots in the Indian Air Force.

Alliance Air Flight 7412

Vidya Malvade (Indian film actress), wife of Capt. Arvind Singh Bagga

Amardeep Jha

Amardeep Jha (born Patna, India) born in a Maithil Brahmin Family is an Indian film actress and a television personality.

Ambika

Ambika Mohan, an Indian film actress of Malayalam films in the the 2000s acts mainly in character roles.

Anand Aur Anand

Anand aur Anand is an Indian film from 1984 which is most famous for being the debut movie of both Dev Anand's son, Suneil Anand as well as of Natasha Sinha.

Anusha

Anusha Rizvi (born 1978), Indian film director and screenwriter

Assi Nabbe Poorey Sau

The film is a remake of the bilingual South Indian film Neethaane En Ponvasantham (Tamil) / Yeto Vellipoyindhi Manasu (Telugu).

Attingal

1. Prem Nazir: Prem Nazir was a very popular Indian film actor, who is considered one of the all time super stars in Malayalam cinema

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay

It was the only Indian film other than Devdas selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival.

Bijaya Jena

Jena had entered the Indian Film Industry in the 1980s, when Industry was going through a transition and the New Wave Cinema or Serious Cinema (or Art Cinema) which had flourished through the 50s and 60s (under the aegis of Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen and Shyam Benegal) was floundering and dying in the 80s.

Chutti Chathan

The movie is a digitalized sequel version to the 1984 Malayalam hit, first 3D Indian film My Dear Kuttichathan, added with some extra footages.

Cinema Is Everywhere

Toward the end of film there are brief commentaries by Indian film director Sudhir Mishra and Chinese director Fruit Chan.

Dalip

Dalip Tahil (born 1952), Indian film, television and theatre actor

Dattani

Mahesh Dattani (born 1958), Indian film director, actor and playwright

Dev Benegal

He directed several documentaries, including Shabana! (2003) with Indian film star Shabana Azmi and Abhivardhan: Building for a New Life (1992).

Ek Nadir Galpo: Tale of a River

Ek Nadir Galpo: Tale of a River is a 2008 Bengali-language Indian film directed by Samir Chanda, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Shweta Prasad, Jisshu Sengupta, Anjan Srivastav, Nirmal Kumar and Montu Moha Patra.

Gauthami Nair

Gauthami Nair is an Indian film actress who started her acting career by starring alongside Dulquar Salman in the Malayalam film Second Show.

Good Luck!

Good Luck! is an Indian film directed by debutant Aditya Datt and produced jointly by Karan Sharma and Jagdish Sharma.

Hitmaker

J. Sasikumar, Indian film director of Malyalam movies known as Hitmaker Sasikumar

Hum Hain Bemisaal

Hum Hain Bemisal is an Indian film directed by Deepak Bahry and released in 1994.

Jaisalmer Fort

The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote the Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress), a detective novel, based on the fort and he later filmed it here.

Janam

Janam was created after Bhatt's acclaimed early films Arth (1982) and Saaransh (1984), and established him as a promising new director of the Indian film industry, long before he ventured into more commercial endeavours.

Kalyanji Virji Shah

He and his brother, Anandji Virji Shah have been famous Indian film musicians, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, for Kora Kagaz.

Maurice Koechlin

Kalki Koechlin is an Indian film actress and through her father Joel a descendant of Maurice Koechlin.

Millimeter wave scanner

Claims that images are immediately destroyed were questioned after Indian film star Shahrukh Khan said that his image was circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

Mohsin Khan

Mohsin later married Bollywood movie star Reena Roy and had a short career as an actor in the Indian film industry.

Mumbai Cutting

Mumbai Cutting is a 2010 anthology Indian film comprising eleven short films, telling eleven different stories based on life in Mumbai, which are directed by a host of eleven directors: Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra, Rahul Dholakia, Kundan Shah, Revathy, Jahnu Barua, Rituparno Ghosh, Shashanka Ghosh, Ruchi Narain, Ayush Raina and Manish Jha.

Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence

Naga Story: The Other Side of Silence is a 2003 documentary film by Indian film maker Gopal Menon.

Paap Ki Duniya

Paap Ki Duniya is an Indian film directed by Shibu Mitra and released in 1988.

Parakh Madan

Parakh Madan is Indian film and television actress who appeared in Hindi films such as Dev.D (2009) and Jai Santoshi Maa (2006).

Prithvi Zutshi

Prithvi Zutshi is an Indian film and television character actor who is best known for his television roles of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Pradhanmantri (TV Series),Apaharan,Sahara One's Haunted Nights.

Punjabi drama

Famous people such as Cricket players, Pakistani and Indian film stars and even celebrities from Western culture such as Jackie Chan, Michael Jackson, Colonel Sanders of KFC are used in humor, sometimes becoming racist on the way.

Quick Gun Murugun

Quick Gun Murugan has been exhibited at the London Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, the New York Asian Film Festival and in The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMa).

S. Krishnaswamy

(with Erik Barnouw) Indian Film (Columbia University Press 1963, Oxford University Press 1980)

Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi is an Indian film from 1970 starring Sanjay Khan, Leena Chandavarkar, Om Prakash, and Jagdeep among others.

Sandeep Pampally

Sandeep Pampally, usually credited as Pampally, is an Indian film director and screenwriter from Kerala.

Sanjay Chauhan

Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan (born 1975), Indian film director and screenwriter

Satyanweshi

Indian film director Sujoy Ghosh portrayed the character Bymomkesh Bakshi in this film.

Shyam Palav

Shyam Palav is an upcoming Indian film cinematographer.He came into recognition with his work for the Telugu film Johnny(2003) starring Pawan Kalyan.

Sonam

Sonam Kapoor (born 1985), Indian film actress and fashion icon

Tamil

Tamil cinema, the Indian film industry in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which produces feature films in the Tamil language

Urvashi

For the Indian film actresses with the name Urvashi see Urvashi (actress) and Urvashi Sharma

Vidyullekha Raman

The actress is the daughter of Indian film and television actor Mohan Raman, while her grandfather was the prominent lawyer V. P. Raman.

Vinod Sukumaran

After his course in FTII he has worked with the eminent Indian Film Editor Late Ms. Renu Saluja in several Hindi films like Papa Kahte Hain by Mahesh Bhatt, Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin by Sudhir Mishra, Pardes by Subhash Ghai etc. within a span of four years.

Won Ho Chung

Chung covered the red carpet at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2008 where he interviewed the likes of Goldie Hawn and Danny Glover and in 2009 as well where he interviewed Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan and numerous Arabic celebrities.