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Yaathrayude Anthyam

The film depicts a famous Malayalam writer's emotional relationship with an intellectual who leads the life of a simple farmer in a remote village. The story unfolds through the writer's bus journey to visit him.

Nadiya Ke Paar

Chandan lives with his elder brother and uncle. One day while going across the river to get some medications for his uncle, he meets with Gunja, and both eventually fall in love. Fate makes Gunja's sister, Roopa, get married to Chandan's brother. Roopa dies in a freak accident. The family decides that Chandan's brother should get married again, and they propose marriage to Gunja. Will Chandan sacrifice his love for his nephew, and brother? Will Gunja accept her brother-in-law as her husband?

Naseeb Apna Apna

Bhim Singh is a domineering father and husband. He lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle with his wife, and a somewhat submissive son, Kishan. He gets Kishan to marry a simple and plain-looking woman named Chanda, much to Kishan's chagrin and reluctance. After the marriage, Kishan goes to Bombay to look for employment, and soon finds one. When he returns home to visit his "ailing" mother, his father instructs him to take Chanda with him to Bombay, as her rightful place is with Kishan. Kishan agrees to do so. Upon arrival in Bombay, Chanda is shocked to find out that Kishan is married to an attractive woman by the name of Radha. Now Chanda must decide whether to expose Kishan's dual life; to simply return to her parents' home; commit suicide. Or will Radha opt for a fourth option?

Nurse on Wheels

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

Jabariya Jodi

Abhay Singh runs a syndicate of kidnapping greedy grooms, who demand dowry in Bihar’s Madhopur. He then, forcefully marries them off to the girl, calling it a ‘surprise party’. But when his childhood sweetheart Babli re-enters his life, he must choose between love and his long-term ambitions.

Jugni

Jugni (Firefly) is the beat of the soul, the free-flying spirit. Jugni is Vibhavari (Vibs). Vibs is a music director, working on her first big break in the Hindi film industry. When work and home affairs, with her live-in boyfriend Sid hit a high tide, Vibs hits the road with a glint of hope; to find music. The journey takes her to a village in Punjab in the search of a Bibi Saroop, whose voice holds the promise that Vibs is searching for. But as the twist of fate would have it, Mastana, Bibi's son and a proficient singer himself, is the voice and man who winds his way into Vibs' heart. From here on, Jugni is about striking balances, making tough decisions while trying to soften the blows and dealing with the studied dramatic turns and unpredictabilities of life and finding the place which one can call home; home of the heart, where the firefly is at her brightest.

Dheena

A local gangster and his adopted brother rule over a town together. However, their relationship turns sour after the man's sister dies due to the gangster's mistake.

Genesis

This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.

Maaveeran

A rude princess acts arrogantly towards everyone around her. However, when she meets a simple village boy, she falls in love with him and changes her view towards life.

Saamy

A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the local townspeople cherish him — especially restaurant owner Sarah McClellan. But when greedy real estate developers set their sights on Noah's land and he rejects their six-figure offer, this taciturn man is forced to summon all his strength in order to defend not only his property and way of life, but his sanity.

Veera

Veera Venkata Satyanarayana aka Veera is the son of a landlord. But his step mother and step sister stay in city away from them. Meanwhile, his father gets killed from a goon and Veera too murders him. However, a big industrialist plans for a power project in their village and wants to vacate the entire village and takes the help of a local don Rayudu. But Veera halts their efforts. At this juncture, Veera marries Kabaddi Chitti and his brother marries the daughter of commissioner of police.....

Aa Gaya Hero

An Ideal fearless cop becomes a nightmare for law breakers.The film revolves around a fearless cop, ACP Ravindra Varma (Govinda) who lays down a unique plan to nab the local goons by putting up a play act. He calls his technique, Abhinay Chakra. Through the film, we see him con goons and corrupt politicians into accepting their crimes by indulging them in fake situations.

Darvinte Parinamam

The film revolves around the life of an ordinary man and a local goon and how their lives get changed due to some unfortunate events.

Mirattal

Babloo (Vinay), a con artist, works for Shankar Dada (Prabhu), a local goon, whose rival Soori ( Pradeep Rawat), is planning to kill Deepika, Shankar's sister (Sharmila) to avenge the murder of his son. Meanwhile, Deepika falls in love with Babloo but her doting brother has other plans for her.

Sardaarji 2

Jaggi, a farmer, travels to Australia in order to save his village. Once there, he is chased by a few goons and ultimately kidnaps a girl from her own wedding.

Padayottam

The shenanigans of a good-hearted goon and his chums as they try to earn some quick money in the world of local crime in Kerala.

Disco Singh

Disco Singh is the story of a struggling singer who was named Lattu prasad in a moment of inspiration by his parents. However, there is nothing inspirational about his life, which basically involves him performing in marriages and parties for his living. Lattu is a failed singer who runs an orchestra named Disco Singh. He dreams of only two things - success and Sweety. Sweety is a beautiful and successful model. Lattu keeps on praying to god to send an angel who can make his dreams come true. And sure enough, God does send someone. Bhupinder Singh aka Paaji is a dreaded don who is not really an angel but Yamraj. He asks Lattu to do a job for him in return of which Lattu will get all the money that he wants. And so begins Lattu’s hilarious journey where he tries to woo Sweety while trying to save his life from Paaji. Things keep on getting more and more complicated for Lattu and how he manages to escape from all these pangas is what forms the rest of the story.

Dark Wind

In a village affected by climate change and scanty rainfall, a blind farmer strikes a deal with the debt recovery agent to save his son from a debt trap.

City Lights

Deepak Singh was an ex army person and owned a small garment shop in a Rajasthani village. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife and young child, hoping for a better life. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers the challenges of life in a big city.

COAT

This story is about a small village boy Madho, simple yet a big dreamer. He and his father are pig farmers, which holds the least respect in their village. In this era of fast-growing technological advancements in India, he also wants to look great and achieve a high level of success. But "how" is the question he tries his best to answer.

Fire in the Mountains

A mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy, but her husband, who believes that an expensive religious ritual is the remedy, steals her savings.

Parinati

Based on a folk tale from Rajasthan, "Parinati" deals with the inherent tragedy of human avarice, which must inevitably lead to self-destruction. Ganesh, the protagonist, is a potter who leads a happy and contented life in a remote village. The only ambition he and his wife Kurjan share is to get their only son Laxman married and bring a daughter-in- law home. Destiny, however, has ordained otherwise. Ganesh is hand picked for his honesty and dedication by a local charitable Seth to become the caretaker of his inn in the middle of the desert. There, Ganesh and Kurjan meet a wealthy couple, who are greatly pleased with their service and hospitality. They offer to take their son Laxman to distant lands, teach him trade and make him fabulously rich.

Phalguna Chaitra

Kabya is an architect who gets an assignment to renovate a vintage house in a remote hilly small town of Odisha. There he meets the chirpy and bubbly interior decorator Smruti who is also the granddaughter of the head of the house Das Babu. Kabya and Smruti fall in love while renovating the house together. But then something agonizing happens which changes the dynamics of all the relationships around.

Life of Josutty

Life of Josutty narrates the story of the struggles and life lessons learned by Josutty(Dileep), a simple farmer living in a village in Kerala who migrates to New Zeland after marriage.

Dil Diyan Gallan

Dil Diyan Gallan is a Punjabi language romantic comedy in which a student and a social media star fall for one another despite their clashing personalities.

Lines

Nazia is a simple girl from a village close to the borderlines who gets married to Nabeel, the grandson of Nooran from across the border. Nazia's happiness is quashed when a war starts between the two nations. Will Nazia be reunited with her love?

Muzaffarnagar 2013

An ace shooter returns to his village to spend time with his family. While his love life soars, with him falling for a girl preparing for IPS exams, he takes on local goons who are harassing the villagers. In the midst of all this, riots break out and now the young man has to fight to protect the ones he loves.

Dustbin

The happy married life of a simple man Sharma gets complicated when he finds a condom in his dustbin, which isn't his. The situation gets more confusing when he tries to solve the mystery and eventually decides to murder his wife.

Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan

A family living in a Punjab village deals with social and labor inequities until a fight breaks out during a lunar eclipse.

Kajri

Kajri was born in village Kadrava, from Bikaner district of Rajasthan. She was a simple but vibrant child and everyone in her village adored her. Her birth had brought good luck and happiness to the village. As she grew up into a vivacious and beautiful teenager, her troubles started.

Punjab Singh

Lali Sarkaria and his goons rule Amritsar, a holy city for Punjabis. A villager named Punjab Singh enters the holy city to make a living. But a tragic event changes him and he decides to rid the city of Lali Sarkaria and is men. Meanwhile, a honest cop tries to maintain law and order in the city.

Lover

Lally is madly in love with his school mate Heer. Things take an interesting turn when Heer and Lally are separated from each other.

In the Belly of a Tiger

Bhagole and Prabhata, landless farmers, try in vain to find work in the city but return home to a village in disarray following the tiger-induced death of a local farmer. The dispute over compensation becomes heated, fueled by suicide suspicions. Rejected for work from the local brick factory, the elderly couple relies on their son, Saharsh, who secures a job with the daunting task of producing 1,000 bricks daily for the ends to meet. Amidst struggles, occasional moments of beauty offer solace, including a village play depicting Lord Vishnu's arrival, a signal of hope. After an incident at the Brick Factory threatens the family’s survival, Bhagole, driven by desperation, decides to sacrifice himself to secure his family's future. Prabhata, unwavering, joins him, and the forest, which holds 40 years of shared memories, transforms into a surreal stage for their poignant final night together.

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