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Rajjo is a love story of a nautch girl and a Brahmin boy. Kangana Ranaut is the star in this drama highlighting the decline and plight of the age old tradition of Mujras and Kothas. Primarily a love story, it also looks into the issue of the mujra houses that are dying a slow death in today's competitive world of high rises and corruption. There was a time when areas like Mumbai Central and Nagpada were known for kothewallis and their kothas. Due to the sudden rise in prices of real estate in South Mumbai, it is these age old structures which have fallen prey to the eyes of the real estate developers who have only one aim, to clean out these kothas and build multi storey apartment houses which are sold at exorbitant rates. Gradually and steadily they are all disappearing in the midst of a heart-wrenching romantic plot. Kangana Ranaut plays the nautch girl, at certain moments ....
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An explosive, true story of the first encounter killing in Bombay and the war between Dilawar, Manya Surve & Inspector Afaaque Baagraan. The story of Shootout at Wadala is primarily based on the book on the underworld of Bombay, written by S. Hussain Zaidi. In 1992, Bombay witnessed an infamous encounter in Lokhandwala. The news was telecast by the BBC and covered extensively by the media across the country and internationally. Till date more than 820 encounters have been recorded in the files of Mumbai police, but where did it all begin? Shootout at Wadala is a crime thriller film, a prequel to the 2007 hit movie Shootout at Lokhandwala. It outlines the rampant gang wars in Bombay and culminates in an explosive 3-way face-off between the dreaded gangster Dilawar, the notorious & charismatic gangster Manya Surve & Inspector Afaaque Baagraan. The first-ever registere ....
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Himmatwala is the official remake of the 1983 film of the same name , which was directed by directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and had Jeetendra and Sridevi in leading roles. This 2013 action comedy film is directed by Sajid Khan and features Ajay Devgan and Tamannaah in the lead roles. The story begins with Ravi (Ajay Devgn) shown as a street fighter who then learns about his widowed mother and sister who are shown to be in dire straits in his native village. Ravi embarks on a tran to Ramnagar where he is greeted by a peculiar ticket collector cum station master who is shocked to note that he is the first passenger in so many years to get down at the station. Ravi has come to avenge his father’s death and to get his father’s name cleared of the mud slinging done by the sarpanch (Head or mukhia) of the village - Sher Singh (Mahesh Manjrekar). It so happens that the Sarpanc ....
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Mumbai Mirror hindi movie review
There was an era in Mumbai when there used to be dance bars flourishing at almost every corner or a busy junction. The owners of these bars used this business to grease the cops and the civic administration. Mumbai Mirror - movie review... At times the business tilted towards sleaze and this is when an upright police officer is posted in Mumbai who cracks down the nexus between the bar-owners and the police force. He is now bent up ....
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