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Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, a part of Viacom 18 (a Viacom and Network 18 joint venture) based in Mumbai, is one of the first studio model based motion picture business in India, with an operation that involves acquisition, production, syndication, marketing and world wide distribution of full-length feature films.
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Queen (2014)
, 2h26Directed by Vikas Bahl
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Political films
Actors Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon, Yogendra Tiku, Alka Kaushal
Rani Mehra (Kangana Ranaut) is an under-confident young Punjabi woman from Delhi. One day prior to her wedding, her fiancé Vijay (Rajkummar Rao) tells her that he no longer wishes to marry her. He explains that his lifestyle has changed after living abroad, and her conservative habits would be a wrong match for him. Stunned at the development, Rani shuts herself in her room for a day. Wanting to take control of the situation, she asks her parents permission to go alone on her pre-booked honeymoon to Paris and Amsterdam. After initially hesitating, her parents agree, thinking that a vacation might cheer her up.
Anaamika (2014)
, 2h25Directed by Sekhar Kammula
Genres Thriller
Actors Nayantara, Vaibhav Reddy, Pasupathy, Harshavardhan Rane, Naresh Vijaya, Sriranjini
There was a bomb blast in a beach at Chennai before. Anaamika, (Nayantara) an IT professional, comes to Hyderabad in search of her husband. As soon as she arrives in Hyderabad, she goes to the police station and waits to give a complaint. The police officers could not understand her language, and she couldn't theirs. One policeman in the station named Sarathy, (Vaibhav Reddy), decides to help her realizing that she spoke Tamil, as he was a Tamilian as well; and the search for her husband begins. She manages to get into the lodge where her husband was apparently staying and she enquires the manager.
Manjunath (2014)
, 2h9Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Seema Biswas, Divya Dutta, Yashpal Sharma, Asif Basra, Kishor Kadam, Anjori Alagh
Today’s hinterland of Uttar Pradesh and state-of-the-art campus of the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIM-L), India, 'Manjunath' is the story of a 27-year-old man, Manjunath Shanmugam. After passing out from the IIM, Manjunath joins a petroleum company as a sales officer. He is posted in Lakhimpur Kheri, a remote district in rural Uttar Pradesh. One day Manjunath goes missing. His friends, who know and work with him, panic, because they know that off late he had been very disturbed and was behaving very strangely. He had become very serious and scared. And this was very different from the Manjunath they knew in college, who was always jovial, fun-loving, very friendly and a great entertainer.
The Royal Bengal Tiger (2014)
Actors Jeet, Abir Chatterjee, Priyanka Sarkar, Shraddha Das, Kharaj Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma
Abhi (Abir Chatterjee) is a typical meek & docile Bengali familyman and doesn't know how to protest. He lives in Kolkata with his wife Apu (Priyanka Sarkar) and his son. He has a tenant who doesn't pay his monthly rents past six months and everytime he is refused whenever he asks for the payment of dues.He simply walks away doing nothing, In his office Abhi is a hardworker but his own colleague Deepankar (Shantilal Mukherjee) is jealous of him and plans his downfall in every other way more when Abhi gets recommended for promotion,but his other colleague Nandini (Shraddha Das) is a very good friend and sympathiser of Abhi. Things goes past good one day during Abhi's birthday morning when he asks his tenant Mr. Pakrashi (Kharaj Mukherjee) to pay his dues, he gets slapped in the middle of the road by him. Shattered Abhi goes to his office only to learn that all his files have been messed up by someone and one important file of payment is missing.He sits whole night and works on them only to be tampered by Deepankar again. That night when Abhi was returning with Nandini she gets molested by some goons in metro station, she cries to Abhi for help but Abhi cannot protest.Nandini boards the metro crying leaving Abhi at the metro station. Depressed and dejected Abhi meets his friend Anjan (Jeet)) at metro entrance and narrates whole story and about his helplessness of not protesting to any one. Anjan assures him takes him to a coffee house and encourage him motivationally causing him to shrug his fear. They both raid his office for the missing file and when nothing is found they rampage the office and run away. While returning home he find out that his tenant Mr. Pakrashi is boozing with other friends, angrily he enters the house and beats Pakrashi to blue and black and forces him to pay all the dues. Parkrashi is stunned to see the change of character in Abhi. Next day when Nandini rejects Abhi's proposal for boarding a metro and taunts him, Abhi tells Anjan and they both run towards the metro station and Abhi start beating the molestors badly.Abhi drops his office bag accidentally in the road.Next day he meets Anjan once again and Anjan gives him his contact number.Once in office Abhi is shocked when he learns that Deepankar/Dipu has been promoted, unable to bear that Abhi suspect that he has been tricked and hunts him down that night and beats him so Dipu confesses it was he who stole the payment file and hid it in his home Anjan asks Abhi that since Dipu has disappeared his file he should in turn make Dipu disappear from this world. Abhi ties Dipu and throws him in main highway only to be get crushed under heavy vehicle. Meanwhile Priyanka and her dad,a prominent psychologist, reaches police station where they recover the bag and tells them he is still missing, here Priyanka's father discloses that Abhi is a psychiatric patient suffering from a depression disease called Schizophrenia or split personality disorder. As the discussion was going on Police officer receives the news of Abhi sitting with the dead corpse of Dipu. The police brings him down where it is revealed that actually Anjan is an alter ego of Abhi only as a result of the mental disease whom he fictionalized as a human being and shrugged all his fears.
Mary Kom (2014)
, 2h4Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Priyanka Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Shishir Sharma, Sunil Thapa, Kenny Basumatari, Rajni Basumatary
The movie opens with a pregnant Mary Kom (Priyanka Chopra), heading towards the hospital with her husband Onler Kom (Darshan Kumaar). Onler is mistaken for an insurgent and beaten when he tries to find a vehicle despite a curfew. The film then shifts to a flashback with Mangte Chungeijang Kom, finding boxing gloves in the remains of an air crash in 1991, which prompted her interest in boxing despite her father's disapproval. During an early fight, she chases a boy and ends up in a boxing gym. The coach of the gym, Narjit Singh (Sunil Thapa) is the coach of the Asian Champion Dingko Singh, and Kom tells him about her boxing aspirations. He asks her to visit the gym for next thirty days and says that he will only teach her if she is deserving enough. She starts visiting the gym, telling her mother but not her father. Days pass but her father does not enquire about her. Due to Kom's dedication and stubbornness, Coach Singh starts training her, suggesting she change her name to Mary Kom.
Bombay Talkies (2013)
, 2h8Directed by Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Musical films, Bollywood, LGBT-related film
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Rani Mukherjee, Randeep Hooda, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Directed by Karan Johar
Hungame pe Hungama (2013)
Directed by Neeraj Vora, Kabeer Kaushik
Actors Arshad Warsi, Diya Mirza, Amrita Rao, Nandana Sen, Minissha Lamba, Boman Irani
Inkaar (2013)
, 2h13Directed by Sudhir Mishra
Actors Arjun Rampal, Chitrangada Singh, Deepti Naval, Kanwaljit Singh, Rehana Sultan, Vipin Sharma
Inkaar is the love story of Maya Luthra (Chitrangada Singh) and Rahul Verma (Arjun Rampal) set against the backdrop of sexual harassment. When misunderstandings are created between the two lovers Maya and her mentor Rahul, she files a case of sexual harassment against him. A committee is set up by the advertising agency they work in to investigate their case and find out the truth. Rahul denies that he ever had any such intentions to sexually harass Maya, but she insists that he makes her feel insecure and unsafe in her own office. The committee is unable to reach a clear conclusion as they do not know who to believe. The climax of the film brings an unexpected twist to the story, and in a final confrontation the two protagonists' love emerges victorious.
Special 26 (2013)
, 2h24Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Akshay Kumar, Kajal Agarwal, Jimmy Shergill, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Divya Dutta
The story opens on 18 March 1987, where a walk-in CBI interview is taking place, held by the characters of Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher. The film then goes into flashback.
Madras Cafe (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Shoojit Sircar
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Political films
Actors John Abraham, Nargis Fakhri, Jacqueline Fernandez, Rashi Khanna, Udhayabhanu Maheswaran, Rashi Khanna
The plot opens in Jaffna, where a bus full of passengers is stopped by armed men. They take all of them out and kill them mercilessly. A little girl tries to escape, but is shot and killed immediately.
Boss (2013)
, 2h23Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Akshay Kumar, Aditi Rao Hydari, Danny Denzongpa, Shiv Pandit, Johnny Lever
The film starts of with School Teacher Satyakant Shastri (Mithun Chakraborty) who has two children, Surya and Shiv. After Surya brawls with another child multiple times and eventually kills him, Satyakant kicks him out and disowns him. Years later, Shiv (Shiv Pandit) grows up as the only son to his father. It is revealed that after being disowned, Surya had saved the life of a transport businessman Tauji aka Big Boss (Danny Denzongpa) who had taken him in and raised him like a son for 15 years. Now, Surya (Akshay Kumar) has transformed himself into Boss, a suave, tough transport businessman who fights for justice.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
, 3h7Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Athletics films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Rebecca Breeds, Dalip Tahil, Meesha Shafi, Dev Gill
The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" The story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulting in him dropping to fourth. Partition of India in 1947 caused chaos which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab in British India, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing along with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor), but she asks him to live a life of honesty.
Zapatlela 2 (2013)
, 2h55Directed by Mahesh Kothare
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Adinath Kothare, Sonali Kulkarni, Sonalee Kulkarni, Sai Tamhankar, Laxmikant Berde, Makarand Madhukar Anaspure
The film opens within the mansion of Baba Chamatkar (Raghvendra Kadkol). Kubdya Khavis has secured the doll containing the soul of gangster Tatya Vinchu (shown in prequel Zapatlela) and orders Baba Chamatkar to revive Tatya Vinchu again. However, Baba refuses to commit the same mistake again. Infuriated, Kubdya tries to kill him using a trishul (a weapon which looks like a trident). However, Baba uses the same weapon to kill him. A drop of Kubdya's blood is accidentally transferred towards the doll, which resuscitates Tatya Vinchu. Tatya confronts Baba Chamatkar and forces him to tell how to migrate to a human form. Baba resists in the beginning and then falls unconscious. Tatya finds a book named 'Om Fat Swaha' and discovers that, to migrate to a human form, the victim (Tatya) must make use of the Mrutyunjaya Mantra on the person to whom he has confessed his true name. But now that the person (Lakshya, portrayed by Laxmikant Berde in Zapatlela) is dead, the same mantra can be used on his son. Tatya vows to find Lakshya's son and migrate into his body.
Bittoo Boss (2012)
Genres Comedy
Actors Pulkit Samrat, Amita Pathak, Mohan Kapoor, Wamiqa Gabbi, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sana Amin Sheikh
The movie is about a guy's journey (Pulkit Samrat) of a wedding videographer from Punjab who is young charming, ingenious calling himself a "Sesky Video Shooter".
Department (2012)
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Rana Daggubati, Nathalia Kaur, Vijay Raaz, Abhishek Bachchan
When Inspector Mahadev Bhosale (Sanjay Dutt) is asked by his seniors to form a hit squad to take on the Mumbai underworld, he recruits Shiv Narayan (Rana Daggubati), an honest and brave police officer who had been suspended for an encounter killing. Together, Mahadev and Shiv along with others in the "Department" take on underworld don Sawatya (Vijay Raaz) and his gang. Sawatya, in spite of many exhortations by his number two, D.K. (Abhimanyu Singh), and D.K.’s feisty girlfriend, Naseer (Madhu Shalini), does not hit back at the police.