INDIAN FEATURE FILMS 2018
1] A GAME CALLED RELATIONSHIP
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
DIRECTOR: VIVEK SHARMA
DURATION: 01:49:00
SYNOPSIS
Shana and Kabeer are a celebrity couple. They have a live-in relationship. They happen to meet a bunch of new people who are from different walk of life. And a fun of flirting starts. Boyz start to try on Shana and Girlz eye hot Kabeer. Shana and Kabeer fake their break-up to see how far these people can go. And A Game Of Relationship Begins … Raw, Real and Candid… A film through youngster’s point of view. To take you in the world of love flirt … Who Cares…Cum Flirt.
2] EVENING SHADOWS
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
DIRECTOR: SRIDHAR RANGAYAN
DURATION: 01:42:00
SYNOPSIS
In a small town in Southern India that lives within a cocoon of traditions and social morality, when a young gay man Kartik, comes out to his mother Vasudha, her entire world comes crashing down. She has no one to turn to dispel her fears and doubts, to understand her loving son’s truth. Moreover as a woman, trapped within a patriarchal conservative society, her biggest challenge is to deal with her dogmatic husband Damodar, and the conservative society around her. ‘Evening Shadows’ is a universal story about a motherson bonding and its emotional strength to withstand the ravages of time and harsh realities.
3] GAUR HARI DASTAN
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
DIRECTOR: ANANTH NARAYAN MAHADEVAN
DURATION: 01:54:00
SYNOPSIS
Based on Hari Gaur Das’ memoirs, is a telling comment on a country’s present that has failed to justify the past. It’s the dramatic tale of two generations locked in a see saw battle…one extolling values, the other groping in the dark. And it’s the future that’s at stake!
4] LAXMAN GOLE
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
DIRECTOR: RAJIV PRASAD
DURATION: 01:30:10
SYNOPSIS
An adventurous life story of a boy who grew up amidst underworld goons of Mumbai. One chance encounter with his victim of extortion lands him in prison where he gets introduced to Gandhi’s autobiography. The book leaves a heavy impression on his mind and transforms him with interesting sequence of events.
5] THREE AND A HALF
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, HINDI, MARATHI
DIRECTOR: DARIA GAIKALOVA – Dar Gai
DURATION: 01:59:12
SYNOPSIS:
The story of one house in three different eras. Where 50 years ago it was divided between a school and an apartment, in which a young boy struggles with the pressures of pre-pubescent school life, coupled with being compelled to share a tiny room with his paralysed, disconsolate grandfather. Who in turn has devious plans for the child’s 12th birthday which happens to fall on a leap year. The same building 20 years later becomes home to a brothel, where a young unexploited concubine is dealing with her self-proclaimed “first” client who has a strange inability to fulfil his physical desire unless obligated to the duress of a transaction to do so. Now, 30 years later these same walls surround a sublime home which belongs to a soul-stirring 75 year old couple who love, laugh and dance together. They whisper the secrets of time forgone and seemed to have overcome the undying need for love and escape which seems to have plagued the inhabitants of this house in the past. The story is narrated from the perspective of the walls of the house, which are witness to all the struggles and success which encompass human life. The walls do not blink, they are not stirred, and their omnipresence is one of the defining reasons for the treatment of the long take.
6] SADHO
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
DIRECTOR: DANISH IQBAL
DURATION: 01:31:11
SYNOPSIS:
In a harsh world where lives and bills change hands every day, a man who deals with the dead comes face to face with Life in its purest form. A cruel car accident suddenly brings Sadho, a lower-caste grave digger, face to face with something he couldn’t have possibly imagined – a new-born child, alive in miraculous circumstances. In a complex world where good and evil are two sides of the same coin, Sadho must make a choice that will define his life and another’s: whether to return the child to its parents or succumb to the wicked temptations of the world of human trafficking. Forced with the choice to keep the baby alive in a land rife with the evil of men, Sadho goes through many trials and tribulations in a journey of unparalleled emotion. The audience is faced with one overwhelming question – Can a man come face to face with what he really is, rather than what the world forces him to be?
7] TARPAN -THE SALVATION
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
NEELAM R SINGH
01:43:09
SYNOPSIS
The word ‘TARPAN’ is derived from the root word ‘Trupt’ meaning to satisfying others. Tarpan literally means offering water to God. Sages, souls of ancestors to satisfy them through it. The story of the film – Tarpan deals with this sensitive subject and treats it with a difference… A young girl Rajpatiya is molested by a boy Chander. The issue quickly gets political mileage and predictably, Chander gets bail and other benefits that accompany lack of witness in the case. Girl’s brother gets provoked and slices off the nose of Chander…but the girl’s father claims responsibility and accepts the blame of slicing off the nose of the accused. Though the father pretends that he is saving his son. He actually chases the glory of getting his name mentioned in the newspapers and being the pioneer who engineered the plot to slice off the nose of the accused and successfully executed it.
8] MY DEAR WIFE
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH, HINDI
CHANDAN KUMAR
02:06:59
SYNOPSIS
Saajan and Ila a middle aged married couple, who keeps fighting with each other because over the years their marriage has turned so sour that the only way they can keep their passion alive is by taking jibes at each other all the time. Which underlies that they cannot live together but also don’t want to live apart. Later one Saturday evening after a company party, Ila invites Vinit, an ambitious young finance head in Specter Ltd (Ila’s Fathers company) were he’s also promised to be promoted soon. And his trophy wife Amy, over few late night drinks. Vinit and Amy, after few drinks get caught up in Saajan and Ila’s games of insulting each other.
9] MI’RAJ
COUNTRY: INDIA
LANGUAGE: HINDI
DIRECTORS: TARIQ ANWAR KHAN & SAPAN NARULA
DURATION: 01:30:10
SYNOPSIS:
A redemtive tale about a soulless shill, who embarks alone into the wilderness, trying to lose himself. Yet he ends up findiing himself and the meaning to life. Mi’raj – I’m everything that you are!
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