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Kaun Bane Ga Crorepati (2002)
Synopsis Kaun Bane Ga Crorepati is based on Dabir ul Hasan’s (Shamim Ara’s husband) shamelessly plagiarized script that has two young men trying to woo a rich girl who exchanges personal status with a girlfriend to test the sincerity of people professing love and find out if they were attracted to her person or her ...
Nikaah (1982)
Each of B. R. Chopra’s films addresses a serious topic, but they are always entertaining. Nikaah looks at the issue of Muslim divorce, arguing that to be able to get a divorce merely by uttering the three words ‘Talaq, talaq, talaq’ is not in the interests of women or even of men. To address this ...
Daera (1953)
Kamal Amrohi’s Daera is a deeply experimental look at a young and frail woman’s mis-marriage with a man old enough to be her father and the suicidal fascination that her young neighbor (played by Dilip Kumar’s brother Nasir Khan) develops for this silently suffering woman. From the outset, when the mismatched couple arrives at the ...
Sara (1993)
Dariush Mehrjui is one of the most accomplished filmmakers of Iran, and earned international recognition in the 1970s with Gav / The Cow (1969) which heralded the Iranian New Wave. Mehrjui gained the reputation as a ‘women’s filmmaker’ in the 1990s with films such as Sara (1993), Pari (1995), Leila (1997) and Bemani (2002), all ...
Two Women (1998)
Two Women tells the story of two school friends, intelligent and beautiful Fereshteh from a modest background and the more privileged Roya. (Their names, respectively, mean ‘angel’ and ‘dream’ in Farsi.) Fereshteh’s student life in Tehran becomes a nightmare when a demented stalker carrying a knife and a vial of acid begins to harass her. ...
Khamosh Pani – Silent Waters (2003)
Khamosh Pani / Silent Waters (2003), a Pakistani film made mostly with European money, is focused on religious intolerance. Sabiha Sumar has previously made several documentaries on the plight of women in her country. Silent Waters takes place in 1979 during the regime of Zia, at the height of fundamentalism. However, the film is not ...
Waris (1954)
An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Rana Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunwar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcing him to join the army during WW2. When he is reported lost and presumed dead, a repentant Rana invites Shobha to stay with him. However, it is Kanta (Nadira), a young woman betrayed ...
Afsar (1950)
Synopsis The journalist Kapur (Dev Anand) comes to a village run by corrupt politicians led by the village tehsildar (Kanhaiyalal). They mistake him for a government inspector and treat him like a VIP. The expose of rural politics is intercut with a love story between Kapur and the tehsildar’s sister Bimala (Suraiya). Review Afsar, Navketan’s ...
Aina (1977)
Aina, a musical love story with a tinge of social comment, created history for having the longest combined run in Karachi—almost 250 weeks. The record for the business that it grossed at the box-office was surpassed in 1995, almost twenty-two years later, by Munda Bigra Jaey. Starring Shabnam, Nadeem, Rehan, Qavi, Bahar, Hanif and ...
Waqt (1965)
Waqt was a landmark in many ways: it is a multi-starrer with four main heroes and two major heroines; it set a trend for showing the lifestyles of the super-rich; it is a ‘lost and found’ film, a storyline that became a favorite in the 1970s; and it has memorable songs. A prosperous merchant, Lala ...
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