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Satyagraha- The revolution has begun! Prakash Jha’s ‘Satyagraha’ is the story of a son who yearns for a father. Of a father, who grieves for his lost son. Of a young woman who fights so hard with life that she has forgotten to love. Of an ambitious rabble-rouser, for whom action is the knee-jerk mantra. It is the story of how these four discover one another, and come together to raise hell, shaking the powers that be to their very roots! But, Satyagraha is also the story of an influential power-hungry despot who will stop at nothing to destroy them. The story revolves around Dwarka Anand (Amitabh Bachchan), a retired teacher, is an idealistic man, somewhere in the heartland of India. He is a satyavadi and believes that one should give back to the society, the country, all they have given to us. His son Akhilesh is an civil engineer who dream is to build the best fly over in th ....
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Stories of India’s economic growth, affluent middle class appear daily. Western world looks at India, as a shining nation on the rise. Stories of economic growth dot our consciousness. But in the underbelly of the world’s largest democracy, far away from the glitz of the big cities, a war is brewing. In the name of development, thousands of tribals are being displaced. The state needs control over their land and the natural resources. But the tribals and villagers who have seen neither development nor compensation for this displacement, have decided to protest. They will not give up their forests, their rivers and their homes. CHAKRAVYUH focuses on the Naxalite movement, besides focusing on the plight of tribals caught between the Naxals on one hand and police-politicians on the other. It raises the burning issue of development against displacement of the tribals. There is a ....
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Gangs of Wasseypur Depicts the illegal coal trading and the coal mafia in Bihar. The film is directed by Anurag Kashyap and it stars Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Piyush Mishra, Reema Sen, Jaideep Ahlawat and Richa Chadda as main leads. It was initially a single film of duration of five hours, but for its release in India, it is being released in 2 parts of about 2 and half hours each. Throughout the film coarse language and bloody violence is depicted. Gangs of Wasseypur is the story of two families from Wasseypur and one from Dhanbad. Amidst the backdrop of the larger chunk of the coal and mafia activity the film depicts actual shots of sand mining. Everything in the story are the real shots. It begins more than half a century back in the heartland of India when Shahid Khan (Jaideep Ahlawat) loots British trains, impersonating the legendary Sultana D ....
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