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Keshav and Jaya are from two villages near Mathura where at least 80% of households have no access to lavatories. Conflict comes knocking on the first day of their marriage when Jaya discovers that Keshav’s home has no toilet and she leaves. Distraught and desperate, Keshav embarks on a mission to win back his love by battling against the age-old traditions, mindset, and value system of his country.
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Raazi
Sehmat, an Indian Kashmiri woman, who married a Pakistani officer, as instructed by her father, during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war. She carefully devised methods to get closer to the military in Pakistan, and saved millions of lives of Indian soldiers, by informing them about enemy positions, troop movements and strike blueprints across the border.
Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran
In 1995, Ashwath Raina (John Abraham) an IAS officer, suggests that India conducts its own set of nuclear tests to stay ahead in the nuclear race with China and Pakistan. After the initial test fails under pressure from America, Raina gets a second chance in 1998 under the new reign of then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Zakhm
Ajay (Ajay Devgan) and his wife, Sonia (Sonali Bendre), are unsure whether they should risk having a child in India in the midst of widespread turbulence. After Ajay’s mother (Pooja Bhatt) is seriously injured by Muslim demonstrators, she tells him about her marriage to a Hindu, Raman Desai (Nagarjuna). As a Muslim, Ajay’s mother was unable to marry Raman without pretending to be a Christian. Her dying wish is to be interred as a Muslim — which draws the anger of Hindu nationalists.
Force 2
Force 2 is a high octane action thriller with a dose of drama. It is partly set in China and India and a big part of the movie takes place in Budapest. The movie opens with three undercover agents of RAW (Indian External Intelligence agency) being killed under mysterious circumstances. An emergency meeting is called by the top brass of RAW. They conclude that the killings were not random but deliberate. After an investigation, they find out that the leak came from the embassy in Hungary. The task to uncover the spy and bring him back is handed to Yash, a RAW officer with a turbulent past and Kiran, the head of the Eastern Europe desk of RAW. They arrive in Budapest and with a clever plan discover the identity of the spy, Shiv. He is ruthless and manipulative with an evil streak. As Yash and Kiran set about to find Shiv, they start uncovering the reason why Shiv is betraying his country. Will Yash and Kiran find Shiv? Will they stop Shiv’s evil plan? Or does Shiv have another surprise in store for them?”
Poorna: Courage Has No Limit
Poorna Malavath (Aditi Inamdar) belongs to a Telugu speaking tribal family in Pakala village of Nizamabad district in the combined Andhra Pradesh state of India. Her parents (mother Lakshmi and father Devidas) are farm laborers. She joins the State Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society for her education. Her talent is spotted by the un-corrupt secretary of the Society Dr. R. S. Praveen Kumar (Rahul Bose). The chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy (Harsha Vardhan) authorizes her for Operation Everest along with a Dalit mountaineer, Sandhanapalli Anand Kumar (Manoj Kumar). In preparation for climbing Mount Everest headed by Coach Shekhar Babu (Gyanendra Tripathi) and Colonel Khan (Arif Zakaria), she treks to mountains of Ladakh and Darjeeling. On 25 May 2014, Poorna scales the highest peak of Mount Everest and, aged 13 years and 11 months, becomes one of the youngest girl in the world to have reached the summit of Everest.
Begum Jaan
Begum Jaan transports us to the communally-charged time of the Partition, and the ‘butchering’ of India into two parts. The film tells the story of a brothel which lies right in the middle of the proposed Radcliffe line. When two officials, one from the Indian National Congress (Ashish Vidyarthi) and another from the All-India Muslim League (Rajit Kapoor), tell the madam of the brothel, Begum Jaan (Vidya Balan), that she has to vacate, she is defiant and determined that nothing can displace her and her girls from their home.
Begum has full faith in the Raja (Naseeruddin Shah), whose patronage she enjoys, but her hopes are eventually dashed when he tells her the reduced authority of royalty in the new, democratic India. Begum Jaan also subtly shows the ‘what if’ side of the Partition. What if men had taken up arms and refused to be divided on the parochial basis of religion?
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.
Siddharth
After sending away his 12-year-old son Siddharth for work, Mahendra (a chain-wallah who fixes broken zippers on the streets) is relieved – his financial burdens will be alleviated. But when Siddharth fails to return home, Mahendra learns he may have been taken by child-traffickers. With little resources and no connections, he travels across India in pursuit, with the hope that whatever force arbitrarily took his child away will return him unharmed.
Rough Book
The Rough Book is a hard look at the education system in India. Though one of the finest systems in the world, the lacunae in the system have created issues which are threatening to clog the channels of learning in contemporary India today. The Story based on actual experiences of parents, teachers and students is told through the eyes of a teacher, Santoshi Kumari, who rallies through a divorce with a corrupt income tax officer to become a teacher of physics in school. Her pupils are in D division – “D” sarcastically referred to as Duffers within the school by both the students and other teachers. How Santoshi tackles a system to set her own terms for her students, forms the bulk of a simply told, yet completely thought provoking and urgent film. The rebellion of the teacher and her students are internalized to make a relevant and contemporary movie.
