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Beyond All Boundaries

As India, host of the 2011 World Cup of Cricket, begins its campaign to win the Cup after a 28-year drought, three ordinary Indians seek their salvation/escape from a difficult life through their passion for cricket – Sudhir, a penniless superfan who cycles across India to cheer the team; Prithvi, a 12-year old boy wonder who is a cricket prodigy; and Akshaya, a girl cricketer from Mumbai’s slums. We follow Sudhir to see what drives the man who has renounced so much, including marriage, for his dream of cheering Team India forever; Akshaya as she competes in the trials for selection to the Mumbai Women’s Team, and Prithvi as he copes with the unique pressures of being a cricket phenom in a cricket-crazy nation.

Sairat

Sairat is a love story, as advertised. Aarchi , a rich upper class girl falls for her classmate Parshya , a poor but smart boy from the lower social strata. The magic happens, and they start seeing each other. Secretly at first, but they get bolder with passing time. The problem is that Aarchi is not just from the upper class, her father is a powerful politician, and her brother Prince is following in on his footsteps. The entire affair is a recipe for trouble, and as expected, trouble arrives. With the help of Parshya’s friends, Baalya and Salya, they decide to make a run for it, but fate has other plans.

Poshter Girl

Tekavade is a perfect, quaint, little village in Maharashtra, known for its rich culture and heritage. It’s rich and fertile soil has the capacity to grow crops and keep its farmers happy and prosperous. But the one thing which has put this village on the map and brought it to the country’s notice is not this, it is the fact that there are no girls left in the village and all the eligible and wealthy boys are left high and dry with no hope of ever getting married or having a family. The village is famous for female infanticide and for turning women out who bear a girl child . As a result of which there are no girls left within the village and nobody from the neighboring villages is willing to marry their daughters into Tekavade due to their malpractices against women. One day Rupali, a young, educated and beautiful girl comes visiting her uncle to the village and everything changes overnight. Every bachelor in the village starts vying for her attention and starts to shower her poor uncle with undue gifts and favors. Rupali decides to use this opportunity and transform this regressive village and the people who inhabit it. What ensues is a mad roller coaster ride where she asks the final five “eligible” bachelors to do the impossible and perform beyond their capacities in a swayamwar of sorts. As these men stumble towards winning her heart they also transform into men of substance.

B.A. Pass

After losing his parents in a car accident, Mukesh stays at his Aunt’s house in Delhi. Enrolled in a good for nothing course in college he finds peace by playing chess at the local cemetery, the rest of the times he worries over ways to make a living and taking care of his sisters. ‘B.A.Pass’ is a story looking at the fatal promise of a new life. When Mukesh meets Sarika ‘auntie’ at a kitty party, little does he know of the city and it’s ways and means to survive. Sarika seduces Mukesh, shy and inexperienced he falls for her. What follows is a twist of destiny, a kind of story that appears in the tabloids as ‘heinous acts of crime’.

Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost

Umber Singh, is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.