Genre 
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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Pad Man
‘Padman’ aka Lakshmikant Chauhan, lives with his wife, widowed mother and two sisters in a small village. Appalled to see his new bride using grimy rags during her menstrual cycle, Chauhan decides he must find a way to make life easier for her. Sanitary napkins are expensive so he starts making his own by using cotton, plastic sheets, and soft cloth. But his experiments don’t go down too well with his wife and family, for whom talking about menstruation is taboo.
Manjhi: The Mountain Man
Dashrath Manjhi was a poor man from the lowest of the low castes, living in a remote village cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. Life for him was a daily struggle for survival. He loved his wife, Phaguniya, beyond belief. One day, while climbing the mountain to bring him food, his wife slipped, fell and died. Overwhelmed by grief, Dashrath decided to carve out a path through the mountain, so that no one else would suffer his fate. For 22 years, all by himself, with just a hammer and a chisel, he hammered away at the rocks, till the path was carved out from the mountain.
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.
Virasat
After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides. Accompanying him is his girlfriend, Anita, who he is in love with and wants to marry, much to the disapproval of his family. After a few days, Shakti starts to feel that nothing much has changed in this part of India and longs to return, as he is unable to bear the animosity between the townspeople, in general, and in particular between his Zamindar dad, Raja Thakur, and rival Zamindar Birju, none other than Raja’s crippled brother. When Anita leaves the town to meet her parents elsewhere in India, Shakti too wants to follow her, but his plans change suddenly when his father passes away, and the region is ravaged by unprecedented natural calamities. Following the funeral he decides to stay on to look after the family estate and business temporarily, and that is when he meets local town belle, Gehna, who has given her heart to him years ago, hopes to marry him, with approval from his very own family. Anita returns to find that nothing is the same anymore, and that her role may be reduced to that of a mistress, she must now make a choice to either return back home, or fight and win back Shakti’s love.
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
It starts as the love story of a self-absorbed son of a Tamil industrialist and daughter of a Punjabi social activist. While Sreeram (Imran Khan) loves to have chicken and keeps a crab as a pet, Dia (Kareena Kapoor) is vegetarian. But soon their relationship falls apart and the story shifts to a Gujarat village, where the two have to literally build a bridge to mend fences. There is very little substance in this farcical tale, for, Punit and his team of writers are dealing with a world they know little about.
CityLights
CityLights is the story of Deepak Singh (Rajkumar Rao) who lives in a small village in Rajasthan with his wife and daughter. Since he finds it difficult to make, he plans to move to Mumbai. His wife hesitate about aimlessly shifting to Mumbai. Eventually both agree and moved on. Soon after reaching they are cheated by some people who pretended to help them to get a small house. They lose their monumental support when they lose 10000 Rs. which they were carrying. Deepak gets hired as driver for a security bureau. Deepak’s senior realizes he is very innocent and so does various favors for him in order to gain his trust to loot the security agency. Deepak is extremely against the theft, but then the senior blackmails him. Than Deepak agrees to the risky plan of stealing the keys for this box when suddenly they are both robbed again and the senior is killed. The movie ends when his attempt to steal the keys from the agency cost him his life but was able to pass on the key to Rakhi.
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
A conspiracy is hatched to eliminate the prince, Vijay, days before his coronation is to take place, by his younger brother who eyes the throne, riches and power. A lookalike of the prince, Prem, steps in at this point, who loses his heart to the prince’s beloved, Maithili.
Iqbal
IQBAL is a story of an 18 year old boy from village who is deaf and dumb and whose only ambition in life is to become Indian Cricket Team’s lead and best fast bowler. You live every moment of the film. Rather Iqbal’s journey becomes your journey. He is born to a lower middle class farmer the only people who support him are Mom and sister . After being thrown out of the local cricket community by Guruji, he is trained by Mohit who is a failed fast bowler and the local drunkard.
