
Om Puri
Actor · 1950 – 2017 · Ambala, Haryana, India
Om Puri (1950 -2017) was an Indian actor who has appeared in both mainstream Indian films and art films. His credits also include appearances in British and American films, including East is East and Charlie Wilson's War, and he was the recipient of an honorary OBE.
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Movie6.5ComedyDramaA Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid Afghan mujahideen rebels fighting the Soviets.
Charlie Wilson's War
2007 · 1.7K votes
Movie7.6DramaHistoryIn the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Gandhi
1982 · 2.6K votes
Movie7.3DramaComedyA story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
The Hundred-Foot Journey
2014 · 1.6K votes
Movie6.9AdventureThrillerSir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
The Ghost and the Darkness
1996 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.1HorrorDramaAn aging publisher becomes a demon wolf and, with this newfound youthful vigor, fights to keep his job.
Wolf
1994 · 1K votes
Movie6.6ThrillerIn New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013 · 251 votes
Movie6.2DramaScience FictionIn a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
Code 46
2003 · 413 votes
Movie6.7DramaHistoryIn 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Viceroy's House
2017 · 297 votes
Movie6.6DramaMax Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
City of Joy
1992 · 163 votes
Movie6.2ActionRomanceSuraj Saxena (Arjun Rampal) lives in a remote hill station in India with his dad (Om Puri), mom (Smita Jaykar), and sister, Asha (Amita Nangia). One day he meets with Kiran Choudhary (Diya Mirza), who has come on holiday trip with a group of girls. He offers to show her around and they fall in love with each other. Suraj is unable to see her home by the train as his dad has chest pains and has to be rushed to hospital. But Suraj is unable to get Kiran out of his mind and heart. After his sister get's married, the family decide to relocate to Bombay, where Suraj enlists in College and makes several new friends, as well as becomes a popular football player. He eventually meets Kiran and both renew their romance.
Movie7.8ComedyDramaA young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.
Movie7.1ComedyCrimeTwo tenants and a landlord, in desperate need of money, chance upon a ransom call via a cross connection. They hatch a plan to claim the ransom for themselves.
Hera Pheri
2000 · 325 votes
Movie7.1ComedyDramaAfter a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Movie7.0ActionThrillerHaving conquered the Asian underworld, crime boss Don sets in motion a plan that will give him dominion over Europe.
Don 2
2011 · 276 votes
Movie5.8CrimeComedyA hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
The Parole Officer
2001 · 127 votes
Movie6.9ActionDramaDCP DeSilva sees a way to bring to justice the feared head of a criminal empire by recruiting a man named Vijay, who looks exactly like the crime boss. The ruse works too well, and soon Vijay finds his life in danger when DeSilva, the only one who knows his true identity, dies.
Movie7.6ActionDramaKatya, a ruthless mobster, rules over the town with an iron fist. When newcomer Kashi dares to challenge his reign of terror, he faces brutal consequences.
Ghatak
1996 · 18 votes
Movie4.0ActionCrimeA veteran police officer becomes increasingly agitated when his partner is killed in the line of duty. To add to his woes, his daughter falls in love with his new daredevil partner.
Movie5.2ComedyRomanceA young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage by traveling to the 1970s when their romance was budding to help make it bloom: something more complex than he expects.
Action Replayy
2010 · 90 votes
Movie6.1MusicDramaStreet singer Anil is humiliated and—with his mother—driven out of Bombay. He soon becomes an acclaimed performer but the enemies from his past plot to destroy his hard-earned career.
Movie6.5DramaComedyIn 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
East Is East
1999 · 231 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryThe film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon. Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
2005 · 73 votes
Movie5.3DramaWarLaxman Singh Bisht is nicknamed tube light by his neighbours because he is feeble-minded. Despite being special, Laxman lives by one life-lesson; keep your faith alive and you can do almost anything, even stop a war.
Tubelight
2017 · 103 votes
Movie6.3ActionDramaArjun Singh is a dedicated police officer whose efforts to fight corruption and terrorism are all in vain when he keeps on running into obstacles created by his superiors and powerful politicians.
Zor
1998 · 3 votes
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TV5.7Action & AdventureCrimeA team of dedicated men and women in the Crime Investigation Department will risk everything to solve Mumbai's toughest, most complicated crimes.
TV7.1DramaSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985 · 7 votes
- TVTalk Show
Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.
TV9.4DocumentaryDramaBharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.
TV6.9DramaSix single dramas adapted from six of Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century Canterbury Tales, transferred to a modern, 21st century setting, but still set along the traditional Pilgrims' route to Canterbury.
Canterbury Tales
2003 · 8 votes
TV7.3Talk ShowThe show starts with Anupam Kher welcoming everyone on the show. Anupam Kher then welcomes Bollywood actress Kajol on the show. Kajol then open her heart out highlighting her fears, likes and dislikes. Later, a member of the audience is asked to come on the stage for a Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta moment. Watch the show to know the likes, dislikes and fears of Kajol.
The Anupam Kher Show
2014 · 5 votes
TV4.0DramaAn explosive two-part drama about love, family and identity - set around the tangled relationships of two Indian families with a deep-rooted, shared history.
Second Generation
2003 · 3 votes
TV7.0DramaComedyThe lives of three families are woven together across three decades in multi-cultural Britain.
White Teeth
2002 · 1 votes
TV4.3CrimeJulie Walters stars as a mother dealing with the impact of the sudden murder of her 21 year old son. Each episode follows her story and also focuses on specific characters whose lives are transformed by the event – the journalist who is covering the story; the Indian newsagent who used to sell the victim his fags; and the passerby who happened across his body.
Murder
2002 · 4 votes
TV9.5DramaBased on the novel by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas is an epic drama set against the backdrop of riot-stricken North India on the eve of Partition in 1947. Nathu, an outcast, is hired to kill a pig, whose carcass he’s later appalled to find in front of the mosque. A riot follows and, ridden with guilt, Nathu takes his ailing mother and pregnant wife and leaves town.
- TVComedyTalk Show
TV9.0ComedyKakaji Kahin is an Indian political satire that aired on Doordarshan in 1988. It was one of Basu Chatterjee's acclaimed works for Indian television, based on a book called Netaji Kahin by well-known author Manohar Shyam Joshi