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Category: Drama

All Hindi films released having Drama and melodrama

Citylights - Movie review
A touching film based on the life of Deepak Singh in Rajasthan who comes to the City of Dreams - Mumbai with his wife and daughter in hope of a better life. CITYLIGHTS - movie review... The film CITYLIGHTS is a remake of the BAFTA nominated British film Metro Manila (2013). Deepak Singh (Rajkummar Rao) was in the army much earlier. As he wanted to be with his family, he quits the job and sets up a cloth store in Rajasthan. Being unlucky, his debts go on piling on with compounded interest which finally leads to shutters down on the shop. He has nothing to do. Nowhere to go. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife Rakhi (Patralekha) and young daughter Mahi, hoping for a better life. Being naïve, Deepak has only a single lead as a source, that of his  friend Omkar who had come to Mumbai, some time ago. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers ....
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Fading Gigolo
It is about people’s endless and never fully satisfying quest to find happiness through sex and love. (FADING GIGOLO - Movie Review) Fading Gigolo starring John Turturro as Fioravante is a poignant movie that touches upon the growing aspect of sadness resulting from loneliness amongst the aging elite and even ordinary simple people. Murray played by Woody Allen meets Dr. Parker an aging cosmetologist, played by Sharon Stone, and discovers that there is no jest in her and suggests that she should pep up her life. He gets a call from her asking him to arrange for a gigolo. Murray talks to his friend Fioravante, a middle aged man who is a florist to adopt this new profession and offers to become his manager. Fioravante first refuses arguing that he is not an Adonis nor have the film star looks or the body, besides he is over the hill. Murray tells him women look for matu ....
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Yeh Hai Bakrapur
A social satire set against the back-drop of rural India. A multi-layered film, Yeh Hai Bakrapur dwells, at the primary level, on the relationship between Shahrukh, the rockstar goat, his young human friend Zulfi Qureshi and Jaffer, the village barber. A multi-layered film, it is primarily a hilarious take on the complex belief systems in our society and the conflicts that ensue thereon. It dwells, at the primary level, on the relationship between eight year old Zulfi Qureshi and his pet goat Shahrukh. By a strange set of circumstances, the entire village soon starts believing that Shahrukh, the goat, has divine or magical powers. Central topic of this film is a goat, the kid Zulfi and his parents. His mother has to payback the loan, while his father doesn’t seem to earn enough to meet the household expenses. Zulfi has an older sister who is in love with the son of a barber’ ....
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Purani Jeans
Friendship is like a pair of old jeans - the older it gets, the better it becomes - this is the belief that Purani Jeans is based on. Purani Jeans centres around Siddarth Ray (Tanuj Virwani) who learns this belief as he journeys from New York back to his hometown Kasauli, a small hill station in India, after 12 long years. The main hook of the film is friendship. Those unforgettable memories of old friends – somewhat similar to Rock On and Dil Chahta Hai, yet it appears fresh, courtesy the young, bubbly cast of this friendship flick. The film unfolds as a coming-of-age drama about a summer when Sidharth, his best friend Sam (Aditya Seal) and their gang of friends experience the agony & ecstasy of growing up, forming bonds of friendship, trust, jealousy, joy, envy & love. Though a bit unrealistic that the guy comes after 12 years from the US, to wind up everything in his home ....
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Kaanchi
A story of an innocent rural beauty and her fight against power. It is about the inner power of a strong girl who represents millions of suppressed youth against injustice in the country. Kaanchi is a dramatic journey of 18 years old girl from mountains to metro city from innocence to realization; evolution followed by a revolution, which wakes up, and inspires today youth against corruption of power. This film comes from Subhash Ghai who made memorable films like Kaalicharan, Karz, Vidhaata, Ram Lakhan, Hero, Meri Jung, Pardes and the last memorable one being Taal. Subhash Ghai disappoints with his latest release Kaanchi, which unfortunately, fails to go down as another memorable flick from the once upon a time, the showman of the Bollywood film industry of the nineties. Daughter of an ex-army man, Kaanchi (Mishti) is the stubborn girl who has given her heart to the local lad B ....
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2 States - Hindi film review
Love marriages around the world are simple. The boy and girl fall in love and get married. With its vast 'unity in diversity, it becomes a complicated issue in India. Based on Chetan Bhagat's novel - 2 States, it is a story of culturally opposite couple - Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan who are from two different states of India, deeply in love and want to get married. The film begins with Krish having a consultation with a pyschiatrist. He is contemplating to commit suicide as he "has Google-searched on best ways to commit suicide. He then begins with his story of how met Ananya while studying for a Management Degree. Both of them are pursuing for Masters in a prestigious management institute of India. Krish is a Punjabi, from Delhi and Ananya is a Tamilian brahmin from Chennai. Problems arise when their parents come to Ahmedabad to attend Krish and Ananya's convo ....
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Jal - Water - Hindi film
With backdrop of water scarcity in Rann of Kutch, Jal tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character. Jal movie review... It is a high-octane, action- drama with a shocking climax. Shot on an epic scale, the film is a visual treat and has managed to capture ‘Rann Of Kutch’ like never before. Set in the Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat in Western India, the story of Jal revolves round a water diviner named Bakka (Purab H. Kohli), who tries to solve the drought problems in his village. Bakka has the sixth sense to detect water in the parched desert. Yet he faces unforeseen circumstances when he tries to help a female ornithologist Kim (Saidah Jules) to save the flamingos. Bakka is blessed with the ability of finding water in the parched desert. The film revolves around the drama surrou ....
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Dhag - Marathi film
A young boy wanting to break the succession of traditional jobs in his low caste family. Dhag (Fire or Blaze) is a Marathi film directed by Shivaji Lotan Patil. It is an emotional, serious film. Fire in the stomach usually makes a man shielded. It makes him fight against destiny and in this war, happiness, peace and satisfaction appear too distant like stars in the sky, what you just can see but can never achieve. Death due to hunger and poverty takes its toll on large scale in emerging countries, but all lies behind it is lack of education. This is a story of a boy Krishna (Hansaraj Jagtap), whose struggle against destiny amuses us. It is also a story of father Shripat (Upendra Limaye) who is uneducated and helplessly accepted the profession cremation since his childhood after death of his father to fulfill hunger of the family. Death of a person in village brings smile on S ....
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Queen - Hindi Movie
Story of a simple Delhi based girl who’s life changes unexpectedly.  Rani Mehra, a simple middle class, conservative girl has her dreams shattered when her to be husband leaves her stranded at the altar. She then goes into depression, and then with her will power, goes out all alone in the world and comes home with a transformed personality of that of self confidence and living life her way. Rani (Kangana Ranaut) is a young Delhi girl, getting married in a couple of days. The film opens with her mehendi ceremony and the preparations for staging her marriage. Rani Mehra is engaged to a London returned fiance Vijay (Rajkumar Rao) who is her father's friend's son and she has known him for quite a while. In flashbacks it is shown how Vijay is interested in the girl and applies all the tactics of a North Indian guy who wants to impress the girl of his liking. Rani is often disturbed wh ....
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Dee Saturday Night
Inspired by Mumbai Police Force's most feared officer Vasant Dhoble, famous for his 'moral policing' and strict zero tolerance attitude towards immoral activities in the nightclubs and bars in Mumbai, Dee Saturday Night is a draama based on the backdrop of deceit and crime in the city's glamour lifestyle. A highly ambitious girl, aspiring to make it big in her career, wants to fulfill her big dreams. The journey of her life has many interesting highs and lows. Shiwani Dixit (Mahi Khanduri), a highly ambitious girl from Meerut, has some big dreams to fulfill. Armed with strong aspiration to make fortune she sets foot in Mumbai where she thinks her dreams will be realized. Her expedition begins as a computer operator in a renowned construction company. While doing this job she is befriended by Neha, who is personal secretary to D.K. Raheja (Nasir Abdulla), the owner of the cons ....
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