Ankahee

• Ankahee

Subhrojeet Chakraborty is given the assignment of enhancing the t.r.p of a programme "Kabhi Yeh Kabhi Woh" within 52 episodes by the queen of Indian television ms Anekta Kapoor. Upon seeing through the earlier episodes of the serial to incorporate a new track, he finds himself in jam, since all the necessary tracks of twenty year leap, saas bahu saga, dead man coming back, extra marital affairs, etc. Have already been used several times by anekta. He is in dearth of new ideas when he meets a bunch of people around him. T.V. Mirchandani, an avid television viewer, karuna sindhu jagatpati an ex forest officer and now secretary of the building in which he lives, and of course Sumana Roychowdhury, a television hater, who becomes the girl of his dreams.

Success will give subhrojeet a secure job in anekta's company 'Lalaji Telefilms' with a hefty pay package and failure will send him back! to his home town kolkata. What will subhrojeet do...?

How he finishes the episodes going through unexpected situations is what the story is all about...It has now been two years and the police have not been able to crack a serial murder case. Arjun Sherawat is a man who is unseen and is the criminal. No one has his identity. This case has been granted to Sanjana who is a Police Officer. She has been trying too hard since the past 2 years but all her efforts have been in vain. Sheetal, a press reporter, a very vibrant girl who is full of life and loves her profession to the core, works with a known news channel and has each and every information about the case as she follows it very closely. She is always nagging Sanjana about thee case and keeps questioning her from time to time.

Rahul is also a press reporter but with a different news channel and has been following the case step by step. Sheetal and Rahul are deeply in love with each other. There are many incidents th! at point out that may be Rahul is actually with Arjun Sherawat! . One da y, there comes a news that Arjun Sherawat has died, so the case has now been solved. This also removes the suspicion which was on Rahul.

Everyone is in a joyous mood until they hear Arjun Sherawat s latest audio clip on television, which says he will kidnap 3 people in front of the police. Here, we realize that Sheetal was actually involved with Arjun Sherawat. We also learn that Rahul is actually an undercover CBI Officer who posed as a news reporter to crack this mystery case.

A lot of twists and turns along with conflicts now begin till the case is actually solved.Jawani Diwani is a story of complicated choices,the outcome of these choices which are but of course, ruled by the ultimate power of unconditional love! Mann, a wannabe singer, is a hard-core opportunist. The beautiful and trusting Radha, daughter of a successful music company owner - walks into his life. Mann does not hesitate in ""choosing"" Radha as his love interest for a purely selfish cause. An agreeme! nt for Mann's music is signed and marriage with the daughter of the business tycoon planned. The reason is big enough to justify the demand by Mann's friends for a treat in Goa. His frivilous one night stand with Goan beauty, Rama, brews trouble for him and his career.Caught red handed, he is forced to tie the knot with her. Realising marriage means nothing for him, she walks out on the marriage, making things easier for him. A divorced yet happy Mann flies down to Mumbai where Radha and more importantly stardom awaits him.A luck would have it, Roma enters his life yet again featuring as a model and a co-star for his music video. With the wedding bells ringing close,Mann's dilemma worsens when he realises that he is truly in love with Roma! What follows is a tryst with fate for Mann. Will he sacrifice fame and money for the woman he loves?Don Muthu Swami is one of Bombay's most fearsome gangsters. On his deathbed, his father forces him to make a promise: that from now on he! will lead a decent life. From that moment onwards, the don ha! s a new purpose in life: to become Sir Muthu Swami instead. On of his new goals is to become fluent in Urdu, for which purpose he hires the young Jaikishan as a teacher. Don Muthu Swami has a beautiful daughter, Sanjana, whom he wants to get married to Pradhan, the son of his close friend. However, the don's right hand man, Preetam, asks for her hand as well. To impress Don Muthu Swami, he claims to be very rich by stealing millions from his employer. Sanjana herself, on the other hand, is desperate to get married to Jaikishan, and to scare off Pradhan, she fakes to be pregnant. The Don believe Preetam must be the culprit, but as it turns out, the girl Preetam loves is not Sanjana, but another girl who claims to be Don Muthu Swami's daughter, Ranjana.He committed his love to one woman. And fell in love with another. Pritish Nandy Communications' first offering for the year is a romance unlike any other. Inspired by the events of his life, Vikram Bhatt puts to celluloid a film after his own heart, Ankahee. The truth is that Shekhar (Aftab Shivdasani) was a common man. Happily married to his wife Nandita (Ameesha Patel) of several years. The relationship was sealed as special by the coming of their child. They were a happy family. Till one day, the reigning Miss World and Bollywood's biggest star, Kavya Krishna (Esha Deol), walked into his hospital armed with a slit wrist and what Shekhar believed to be, true love. Kavya was beautiful, stunning in fact. She was smart and alive and Shekhar, like the rest of the world, fell in love with her. Days hurried past as he cleared the rest of his life, his wife, his daughter, his friends, his work to make way for his love. Nothing was more important than Kavya and his need to be her constant. Kavya Krishna. The reigning Miss World. The most beautiful woman in the world. Or maybe the most beautiful woman in a pageant of 60 girls. Bollywood's biggest upcoming star. Beautiful. Powerful. Successful. Alone. Lonely in a world where she was the most popular woman. For her Shekhar was the lifeline, she'd always sought. Her anchor. Her man. The only person in the world who could make her happy. And Kavya wanted, needed, struggled to be happy. Nandita, of course, was the woman stuck in the middle. Shekhar was her husband. The only man she'd ever loved. And yet, he'd found it only too easy to walk away. From her. From their home. And from Sheena, their 6 year old daughter. Ankahee is about the truths that were left unspoken between a man, his wife and his daughter. And the lies that need to be uncovered. It is a film about brutal love, deception, betrayal and the desperate loneliness that accompanies all three.

Volver

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Handsome womanizer C?esar is disfigured in a car wreck, and as he attempts to pick up the pieces of his life, bizarre situations and events seem to occur as a result of his accident.
Genre: Foreign Film - Spanish/misc SA
Rating: R
Release Date: 18-DEC-2001
Media Type: DVDImagine if an actor's director like Eric Rohmer--whose films consist almost entirely of conversation between pairs or small groups of people--made a film that incorporated elements from movies like Dark City, eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, The Truman Show, and Total Recall. The result might resemble Alejandro Amenabar's remarkable second feature, Open Your Eyes, which favors ideas over effects and offers twist upon twist with mind! -warping agility. This film rewards multiple viewings, pushing the viewer toward one perception of reality, then switching to another until reality itself is called into question. Melodrama, love story, and psychological thriller combine with a dash of science fiction, forming a plot that is both disorienting and deceptively precise.

Set in Madrid, the story defies description, but this much can be revealed: young, handsome Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) is vain, rich, charming, and--following a botched suicide-murder scheme by a jilted lover--horribly disfigured. He'd fallen in love with Sofia (Penélope Cruz) but is now an embittered husk of his former self, stuck in a "psychiatric penitentiary" on a murder charge and hiding behind an expressionless mask. His reality has crumbled, but as the film's agenda is gradually revealed, we realize that there are other factors in play. Exposing that agenda would be a criminal offense against those who haven't seen the film; suffice it! to say that Open Your Eyes takes you into the twilight! zone an d beyond, and does so cleverly enough to prompt Tom Cruise to produce and star in an English-language remake, Vanilla Sky. The 2001 remake, directed by Cameron Crowe, costars Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz, who reprises her original role. --Jeff ShannonVOLVER - DVD MovieSpanish for "Coming Back," Volver is a return to the all-female format of All About My Mother. Unlike Pedro Almodóvar's previous two pictures, the story revolves around a group of women in Madrid and his native La Mancha. (The cast received a collective best actress award at Cannes.) Raimunda (a zaftig Penélope Cruz) is the engine powering this heartfelt, yet humorous vehicle. When husband Paco (Antonio de la Torre) is murdered, Raimunda makes like Mildred Pierce to deflect attention away from daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo). After telling everyone the lout has left, she struggles to conceal his body. The other women in her life all have secrets of their own. Her sister, Sole (Lola! Dueñas), for instance, has taken in their mother, Irene (a sprightly Carmen Maura). Since Irene perished in a fire, is this person a ghost or simply a woman who looks like her? Then there's their childhood friend, Agustina (Blanca Portillo), who is desperate to find out why her mother disappeared after the blaze. Was she responsible? Almodóvar deftly blends the ghost story with the murder mystery in his tribute to the Italian neo-realist films of the 1950s. The resilient Raimunda is a throwback to the earthy heroines of Sophia Loren and Anna Magnani. The latter appears in Luchino Visconti's Bellissima, which shows up on Sole's television one night (thus confirming the link). If Almodóvar’s 16th feature lacks the emotional punch of the more audacious Talk to Her, it's less heavy-handed than Bad Education and Cruz is a revelation. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

They Wait

• After living in Shanghai for three years, Sarah (King), her husband, Jason, and their young son, Sammy, return to North America for a family funeral. But something strange is going on. Sammy starts seeing ghosts and then falls gravely ill. Traditional western medicine offers no hope. Sarah turns to a mysterious pharmacist who warns that her son is being held in a death grip by a living corpse. Sar

After living in Shanghai for three years, Sarah (King), her husband, Jason, and their young son, Sammy, return to North America for a family funeral. But something strange is going on. Sammy starts seeing ghosts and then falls gravely ill. Traditional western medicine offers no hope. Sarah turns to a mysterious pharmacist who warns that her son is being held in a death grip by a living corpse. Sarah must find out what the spirits want if she is to save her child. Time is of the essence; once the sun! rises the next day, the last day of Ghost Month, Sammy will be lost forever. The spirits have spoken.