Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

Total Credits at Criticker: 32 (Actor), 3 (Director), 7 (Writer)

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    Dor
    Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal grandmother, Laxmibai, his mom, Gowri, and dad, Randhir. The family feel that they are blessed after Meera's entry in this family. Shankar must go and abroad in Saudi Arabia and bids farewell to Meera, promising to keep in touch, which he does, and also sends them a large portion of his earnings, which is used to pay off the family's debts... (imdb)
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    Hey Ram
    The film starts with Saketh Ram as a very old man and almost immediately goes into flashback. As a young man he is among his friends, in conviviality. He has taken a Bengali wife, Aparna, and everything is wonderful in his life. But the year is 1946, and the imminent independence of India from British suzerainty is complicated by religious antagonism between the Hindu majority and the large Muslim minority... (imdb)
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    Sapnay
    This is the story of Priya (Kajol) and her life. She is friendly, outspoken, sensitive, yet percocious and apt to get into trouble, brought up by her dad, Amal Raj (Girish Karnad). In her senior school days, she has an admirer in the name of Thomas (Arvind Swamy). She starts to like Thomas as well, the only problem is that her dad does not like Thomas' dad. How will Priya be able to convince her dad to change his mind? Why does Amal Raj dislike Thomas' dad? (imdb)
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    Guna
    Guna (Kamal Hasan) is a mentally challenged person who, while undergoing treatment in a mental asylum, gets told by someone in the asylum about a fictitious character named Abirami. Guna starts obsessing with the idea of finding Abirami and marrying her. After coming out of the asylum, he believes the story to be true and searches for his Abirami. One day, in the midst of being an unwilling partner to a robbery at a temple, he mistakes a rich girl Roshini (Roshini) to be Abirami and kidnaps her.
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    Tarang
    Sethji is a widowed, a businessman and lives a comfortable life with his only daughter, Hansa, his son-in-law, Rahul, and a grandson, Munna. He has Rahul as his right-hand man, and a nephew named Dinesh who also assists in running the business. Petty rivalries and jealousies have grown in the family, and Sethji and Rahul feel that Dinesh is now trying to undermine the business. (imdb)
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    Kadhalan
    Prabhu is asked by his Principal to invite the Governor of Tamil Nadu, Kakarla to be the chief guest on the annual day of the college.When he goes to invite Kakarlal, he bumps into his daughter, Shruthi (Nagma), and instantly falls in love with her. To propose his love for her, he joins in the same dance class as her. She too subsequently gets to know more about him, and falls in love with him. The question of whether Prabhu will become a victim or a victor drives the rest of the story.
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    The Prince
    Jeeva (Mohanlal), son of dreaded crime lord Vishwanath (Girish Karnad) & a mobster himself, falls in love with & marries village girl Swarna (Prema), by keeping his real identity a secret. Swarna finds out in due course, & gets Jeeva to promise to change his ways, but Vishwanath threatens to not let them be. Complicating Jeeva's plans to leave the world of crime is Suryadas (Prakash Raj), their arch rival, out to avenge his father Rajasekharan (Sphadikam George), who was killed by Vishwanathan.
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    China-Gate
    Ten former army officers court-martialed in disgrace see a way to redeem themselves in their plans to rescue a village from an evil bandit named Jagira (Mukesh Tiwari). (Netflix)
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    Manthan
    Dr.Rao (Girish Karnad) is a Veterinary doctor who comes to a village with the aim of starting a Milk Co-operative society for the welfare of the villagers. But the wealthy businessman Mishra (Amrish Puri) and Sarpanch (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) are unhappy about this. Does Dr.Rao succeeds in his mission to make the villagers self reliant with the help of Bindu (Smita Patil) and Bhola (Naseeruddin shah)? (imdb)
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    Nishaant
    Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest son of the powerful, and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. (imdb)
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    Ek Tha Tiger
    RAW agent Tiger is on a mission to retrieve information from a scientist in Dublin.
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    Mugamoodi
    Bruce Lee is a martial arts specialist but unluckily he is unable to use those skills to make a living. Instead, he falls in love with Police Commissioner Gauravs daughter Shakthi, and tries to impress her and her sisters kids with his martial art skills.
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    Aashayein
    A man meets with assorted characters in a nursing home after being diagnosed with cancer
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    Umbartha
    After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comfortable lifestyle with her two sons - Dr. Mohan and his wife, Maya; and Advocate Subhash Mahajan, his wife, Savitri, and their daughter, Rani. Savitri is unhappy as she wants a career for herself. She finally gets a chance to prove her skills in social services when she gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in distant Sangamwadi. (rAjOo)
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    Pukar
    Indian army Major Jaidev Rajvansh lives a wealthy lifestyle in India. He is in love with and expected to get married to Anjali. Before the marriage could take place, Jaidev is assigned to rescue a politician, which he not only does so, but also apprehends his abductor, and returns home triumphantly as a national hero. (imdb)
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    Iqbal
    Iqbal, the deaf and mute son of a farmer, has a passion for the game of cricket and seeks the tutelage of washed-up, alcoholic ex-player. (imdb)
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    8 x 10 Tasveer
    A man with the ability to visit the past by looking at photographs, must solve the mystery behind his father's sudden death. (imdb)
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    24
    A Sci-Fi family revenge drama happening between a scientist, his evil brother and the scientist's son, over a time travel gadget. (imdb)
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    Aparoopa
    The story is set in the colonial period in Assam. The film deals with a young woman who has to give up her university education for her arranged marriage with a rich tea-planter. The plantation and its social routine become a prison of boredom for her since her husband completely neglects her for his business. Things get worse when she discovers, outraged, that her marriage was for the sake of wiping off a huge debt owed by her father. She considers herself as having been sold to her husband. Th (wikipedia)
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    Akarshan
    Priya is an actress whose life gets saved by the hero played by Akbar Khan while shooting. She then falls in love with him. however, this does not auger well with Priya's Didi (elder sister), who dislikes Akbar. But Priya is adamant in her love and attraction for Akbar, and the marriage takes place. The two live harmoniously for quite some time. Then tragically Akbar gets paralyzed after an accident. (imdb)
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    Sutradhar
    Prerna is the only daughter of the local school's headmaster. She gets to meet her childhood friend, Kumar, who is now one of the teachers at the same school. Prerna is attracted to Kumar, and admires his courage and determination to stand-up against the local and cruel zamindar, who had severely beaten-up Kumar's father several years ago. Soon both get married. Kumar is ambitious, and wants to become the head of this town. (imdb)
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    Anveshane
    In the mid-1980s, Shaam (Anant Nag) and Revati (Smita Patil) live in a 'vothaara' with a host of other families and two little girls. A 'vothara' is a set of houses that are usually owned by one person and inhabited by many families. Shaam works for a travel agency while Revati is a school teacher. Both are working hard to make ends meet in a social structure that has been making it increasingly difficult for the middle class. (imdb)
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    Shivaay
    Shivaay is a Himalayan mountaineer who is an innocent and yet is capable of transforming into a mean destroyer when he needs to protect his family. (imdb)
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    Zamana
    Poona-based Satish is a professional photographer and lives with his pregnant wife, Sudha, and son named Vinod. While developing some photographs with his friend, Shyamlal, they come across one that shows a man strangling another. They report this to the police, and shortly thereafter several men show up at Satish's house, take the photos,the negative, kill Satish, then go to hunt and kill Sudha, Vinod and Shyamlal, but they manage to escape and travel to Bombay, albeit separately. (imdb)
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    Badrinath Ki Dulhania
    Badrinath Bansal from Jhansi and Vaidehi Trivedi from Kota belong to small towns but have diametrically opposite opinions on everything. This leads to a clash of ideologies, despite both of them recognizing the goodness in each other.
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    Chalk N Duster
    The film is the emotional journey of two teachers Vidya (Shabana Azmi) and Jyoti (Juhi Chawla) who serving at a Mumbai-based high school. Their passion and love for teaching bonds them in a special relationship with their students. Their gratification is good grades and the moral values they strive to impart to students. However, in an evil turn of events, a wicked lady, Kamini Gupta (Divya Dutta), is appointed as the principal, thus changing the fate of the administration. (Wikipedia)
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    Meri Jung
    Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle. (imdb)
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    Mil Gayee Manzil Mujhe
    A naive young man's tryst with the corrupt world. (imdb)
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    Shama
    Widower Nawab Yusuf Khan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Sultanpur, British India, along with his school-going son, Shahnawaz, and a college-going brother, Aslam, When he finds out that Aslam has fallen into wrong company and is frequenting a courtesan by the name of Pheroza, he gets him to return home and arranges his marriage with Shama, who is the only daughter of Maulvi Karrimudin. On the day of the marriage, Aslam runs away, elopes and gets married to Pheroza... (imdb)
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    Swami
    After she enters into an arranged marriage, a spirited and intellectual young woman tries to adjust to life with a man who was not her choice (netflix.com)
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    Paanch Qaidi
    Once upon a time in a village, a dacoit named Daku Mangal Singh (Ranjeet) harasses the villagers for Lagaan, When Inspector-in-charge Vijay gets transferred to that village he encounters Daku Mangal Singh and makes a plan to set the village free of the menace. This story is about five criminals who were taken by the inspector-in-charge Vijay for help to the village. Inspector Vijay takes those criminals at his own risk as the higher authority denies his approval...
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    Aatank
    Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the death of his mother. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and ...
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