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Vachan

Kamla lives a poor lifestyle in a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India, along with her widowed dad, Dinanath, who works as an Accountant with Sarpanch Journal, and two younger brothers, college-going Kumar, and school-going 12 year old brother, Kishore. Dinanath's main aim is to get Kamla married to her lover, wealthy Prem, and ensure that Kumar and Kishore get a proper college education. When Dinanath's eyesight becomes very weak, he starts making errors, and loses his job. He does manage to persuade his employer, Laxmidas, to hire Kumar once he gets his degree in Arts. On the day of the results, Kumar has an accident and passes away, a devastated Dinanath bangs his head, injures himself, is hospitalized, recovers but loses his vision completely. As a result, Kamla's wedding is canceled, Prem reluctantly gets married to Shyama; while Kamla gets a job and starts to look after her dad and Kishore.

Rowdy

Anna is a much revered Rowdy who is law onto himself. He opposes the construction of a dam that would displace villagers from 30 villages. His enemies plan to eliminate him by manipulating Anna's elder son. But they have to contend with the younger son Krishna.

Jadu Ka Shankh

Shyam and Soni live with their mother in a village. They are very poor. The children give away the only bread piece to a hungry saint, who in turn gives them a magical conch. The children somehow discover that the conch reveals something foul concerning the listener. While patrolling, the disguised king reaches the kids and the children give the conch to him, requesting to pass it to the king, saying that this is magical. The king, using the conch, finds that his cousin wants to poison him. The king reaches his palace and confirms the plot against him and punishes the culprits. The king sends jewelery, garments, sweets, fruits etc for the kids and punishes the moneylender, and comes to take them along. The message "Good deeds do not go unrewarded".

Kalathur Gramam

A devastated youngster awaits a chance to take revenge on his father's murderer, who is seen as a leader in a village.

Kanavu Variyam

A studious and ambitious youngster tries to set up a device to solve the frequent power crisis in his village despite constant discouragement from the public

Kuthuoosi

A well-educated youngster drops his plans of settling down in the US to develop agriculture in his village, but faces threat from many people.

Babylon 5: In the Beginning

Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.

Runaway

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

Dhoni Kabadi Kuzhu

A group of youngsters in a villagers who are crazy about cricket learn about the history of kabadi and take up the sport, but a rivalry with a neighbouring village poses a life-threatening challenge.

Drama

The film starts in a village in Mandya where two youngsters Venkatesha and Sathish, who have failed their pre-degree courses seven times, create problems. Nandini, an ultra-modern girl comes to the village and attracts Venkatesha, who is prepared to do anything for pleasing the girl. Both Venkatesha and Sathish follow Nandini to Mysore, where she is pursuing studies. A strict principal of the college humiliates Nandini when she crosses the limits. Meanwhile, the principal gets murdered and a police officer suspects Venkatesha and Nandini to be behind this murder. There is a lot of confusion when it is revealed that Nandini is the daughter of a Dubai-based don, who is trying to kill a Mangalore-based don. What happens in the end is revealed in an interesting climax.

Mapla Singam

Youngsters belonging to two rival factions in a village fall in love with each other. Will this romance add fuel to the enmity or result in peace?

Akhil

A cruel business official attacks a tribal village for a stone which the people treat it as something special a guy who thinks he is somehow related to the stone comes to their aid.

Damini

The theme revolves around the character Damini who represents truth and innocence. After her marriage in renowned wealthy family, Damini happens to see a cruel act done by her brother-in-law. She wants the victim to get justice, but the family including her husband oppose her, which leads her to leave the house. Soon she is helped by a drunkard, an ex-advocate, who helps her in all respect to reach to her aim and therefore justice

Dildaar

Banke wants to marry the daughter of the village sarpanch, Parvati, but is turned down because he is an illiterate person. Thereafter, Banke vows to marry a woman who is more educated than Parvati.

A Bothered Conscience

Deep in the remote Arkansas backwoods, a father passes on the traditions of the Ozark mountain men to his 5 year-old son. Under his strict and cruel guidance, young Lucas learns to protect the family land at all costs, and hones the skills of the hunt that have been handed down from generation to generation. But their prey is no ordinary game. . .

Shamantakamani

A 5 Crore INR worth of vintage Rolls Royce car called Shamanthakamani owned by a millionaire Krishna gets stolen from the parking lot of a 5 Star hotel which leads into an aftermath. Inspector Ranjith Kumar is assigned with the job of finding the missing car. During the investigation, Ranjith Kumar suspects three people as accusing; a car mechanic Uma Maheswara Rao / Mahesh Babu, a villager Siva and a middle-class youngster Karthik and arrests them. Rest of the story is what happened to the car? Who is the actual culprit? How does Ranjith Kumar solve the crime?

Bedurulanka 2012

Set in a small island village of Yedurulanka, faces the looming uncertainties of 2012, Shiva, a pragmatic youngster along with his girlfriend Chithra and friends, devise a scheme to disprove the end of the world theory and expose the plan by the trio of fake god-men, to fleece the people.

Thottal Poo Malarum

A happy-go-lucky youngster falls in love with his wealthy classmate. However, the girl's mother is opposed to their relationship and arranges her wedding with a gangster's son.

The Lost Tape

Five youngsters went into the woods of Chail, Himachal Pradesh to explore an old urban legend's story. They were completely unaware of the fact that they were slowly becoming part of the story. The more they found out, the closer they got to the unexplained reality, of what they thought was merely a myth. After entering into the woods, they were never seen again. The search went on for 6 months and the case was closed. Until one day, police recovered a digital video recorder, which held the unexplained secret. This film unfolds the mystery of those 5 youngsters' mysterious disappearance. A tale of Love, friendship, betrayal and fear. Fear of the devil and fear of the Lord himself. - Written by Ashwani Shukla (Publicist)

The Creepy Witch

Jasper Jackson is a 13 year old boy from a fishing village in the Kingdom of Stoneland. When he discovers that Princess Sophie has been possessed by a cruel witch, he must embark on a quest to save both her and his kingdom.

Swabhoomi

Four youngsters and a couple take matters into their own hands when a few felonious individuals encroach upon innocent people's land in their village.

Clive Boomer's Success

It is an unbearably hot Friday when the bank's air conditioning overheats and causes the computer system to go awry. Set in a typical, close-knit neighbourhood, Peter Pisa, the fish store owner, is having a torrid affair with Rita Decroot, a bank teller with big dreams. She is also the girlfriend of reigning local gangster, Toto. Clive Boomer is a budding stand-up comedian and bank teller who owes a small fortune to Toto. Clive turns to Peter for assistance, and Peter agrees to take over the debt. In a cruel twist of fate, Toto seeks repayment by assigning Peter the task of killing Rita for her illicit liaison. Unable to do the deed, Peter gets Clive to handle it insisting she be allowed the luxury of one last sumptuous evening out. However, Rita is no fool. And things don't always go according to plan. Sometimes life just ain't that funny.

Confusion in The Street, Dance in Delhi

Kolsewadi has never seen any progress in the village, thanks to the bickering and fights between MLA Chandrakant Tope and Sarpanch Bajirao Dole. Narayan Wagh, a villager, makes the most of this to his advantage. He manages to coax the villagers and enters the electoral fray to fight the upcoming village elections. He gets help in the way of Rebecca who has come from America to study Maharashtra Folk Art and Dance. He convinces her to study the Lauvni and perform for him at his political rally.

Jo & Jo

Jo & Jo is a coming of age comedy-drama that tells the story of how a few youngsters in a village enjoy their life when the world itself shuts down due to covid19 pandemic and how their life fell apart after an unexpected event happened.

Arjuna Phalguna

Arjun, an unemployed youngster, with his friends plan to start a soda factory, but a lack of money hinders their plans. By taking smuggling route, they agree to transport Ganja as a quick route to earn money and land in a mess. A cat and mouse game between the police and the friends begin.

Shut Up And Dance

Suryabhan Tanaji Deshmukh, the sarpanch of Kharbujewaadi and an ardent follower of Shivaji Maharaj, tries his best to restore a decaying fort.

Jilebi

Jilebi is the down-to-earth story about a sour-sweet confrontation between a village youngster Sreekuttan and his city-bred nephewsSreekuttan, is a village guy whose life is happily confined to his farm and his pet crops. Far away, in the Dubai city , trouble brews for him in the form of his nephew and niece.

Tamil Kudimagan

Despite being at a respectable job of Village Administrative Officer (VAO), Chinnasamy, an enterprising youngster from an oppressed class has still been called by the upper caste people to perform the death rituals. However, the problem arises when he refrains to perform the last rites for a village elder.

Sikander 2

After leaving his dark past behind, Sikander starts afresh in a distant village, where he is welcomed by a loving family as one of their own. However, when the only son of the family gets mixed with the wrong crowd and finds his life in danger, Sikander is left with no choice but to return to his old ways in order to save the youngster.

Padai Veeran

A care-free youngster sets out to become a cop and comes back to his village to control a riot. He realises that he has to take on people, who are close to him, to manage the situation.

Swayamsiddha

Synopsis::: Chandi is a village girl. She is bold, brave, and extremely courageous. She is the protector of the underdog and punishes the wrongdoers of society in her own way. The zamindar of the estate witnesses Chandi at her act of justice and decides to marry her to his younger son. However, his wife opposes as Chandi hails from a not-so-rich household and proposes her marriage to the elder son Gobindo, a mentally challenged man and the son of Zamindar’s late first wife.

Sanshodhan

The amendment in the law, making it compulsory for one-third of the Gram Panchayat representatives to be women, is not received favourably by the ruling Sarpanch of the village, Thakur Ratan Singh. Although he puts up a front of being in favour of the idea, along with his son Inder Singh, he conspires to field wives of friends, whom he hopes he can control through their husbands and through the caste network. Vidya, wife of Bhanwar Singh who is indebted to the Thakur, is one of the newly elected women Panchayat members. Vidya, who is educated, notices that the political empowerment of women is only on paper and in reality decision-making still continues to be with the manipulative old guard. Vidya decides it is time for a change.

Aa Bhi Ja O Piya

When a city-educated Kaushal owns his own nursery in a picturesque Jharkhand village meets Kalpana, a city girl belonging to an army family is on a research tour with her mother and driver. Feelings develop between the youngsters but practical circumstances force them to rethink if they are actually made for each other.

Nanjupuram

Velu, a forward thinking youngster of Nanjupuram, an isolated, snake infested village located in the interior of South India, must win an internal battle between rationale and paranoia to unite with Malar, the girl he loves.

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