The Umesh Chronicles (2024)

Haider

A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.

Karam

A hitman quits the killing business when a hit goes right but at the same time produces unfortunate results. Soon, he is forced to return in order to save his wife from the clutches of his boss who won't spare her unless some targets are executed within the limited time period.

Bobby Jasoos

A film that celebrates the aspiration of Bobby, who wants to become the number one detective in the old city area of Hyderabad.

The Fable

Spring 1989. High up in the Indian Himalayas, where even the birds fly low to avoid getting lost in the clouds, the soft-spoken Dev owns a sprawling estate of several orchards and lives in a colonial-style house with his family. He spends a lot of his time building human-sized wings which he puts on to take a quick morning flight over his land. One day, while walking through the estate, he discovers a single burnt apple tree. A few days later, more trees are burnt. Dev and his manager monitor the workers on the plantations and this leads to unrest. A group of nomads comes under suspicion and a corrupt police officer gets involved, while loyal men camp out in the orchards to keep a vigilant watch at night. Despite all these measures, a massive fire breaks out a week later and engulfs an entire mountainside of trees. In his search for the culprit, Dev resorts to armed violence. The slow burning of the orchards forces him to face the truth about himself and his family.

Black Bud

Sanya, a rebellious contemporary girl but a poet at heart, escapes her strict orthodox father's house in search of a new life.

Haseena Parkar

Haseena is very close to her brother Dawood, who turns to a life of crime and rises to power in the Mumbai underworld. After the bomb blasts of 1993, Dawood escapes to Dubai and she falls in trouble.

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignoring the ridicule he might have to face for this, he takes his wife to Italy in search of her love.

Farz

A 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.

Daddy

This is the gritty and sensational true story of Arun Gulab Gawli, a mill worker’s son who grew up in Mumbai’s impoverished Dagdi Chawl, to become an infamous don, politician and chief rival of the most powerful crime boss of the day, Dawood Ibrahim. Daddy realistically charts Mumbai’s true crime history from the 1970s and 1980s until 2012, when Gawli was finally sentenced to life imprisonment.

Kanyadaan

Two small children, Rekha and Amar, undergo a marriage ceremony under the guidance of their respective parents. Years later, Rekha and Amar have grown up, and are now capable of fulfilling their marriage vows and living together.

Agneepath

A young boy's father is lynched before his eyes; fifteen years later he returns home for revenge.

Road, Movie

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.

Raavan

A bandit leader kidnaps the wife of the policeman who killed his sister, but later falls in love with her.

Dybbuk

Mahi, a newly married woman, brings an antique Jewish box into her home. When Mahi and her husband Sam begin to have paranormal experiences, they soon learn that the box is a dybbuk containing an evil spirit. The couple then seeks the help of a rabbi to unravel its mystery. Will they survive this ordeal before their child is born?

Char Diwari

Sunil leads a poor lifestyle along with his widowed mother, and two school-going siblings, Anu and Tikku. He gets married to Lakshmi, who soon gets pregnant. Anu graduates from school and each of the family make individual sacrifices so that she can attend college. During Diwali, Lakshmi falls down the stairs, is hospitalized, has a miscarriage, and will never be able to conceive. Sunil decides to keep this a secret from the rest of the family, but subsequently confides in his mother. When Lakshmi finds out she wants him to re-marry, but he refuses. Then Tikku is sent to live with his maternal uncle for a few days. Shortly thereafter the family will be faced with three crises as Anu prepares to elope with a wealthy fellow collegian, a death, and a theft.

Dastak

Tells the story of newly weds Hamid and Salma. They move into a rental flat next door to the local red light district. The flat had been the former home of a well known mujra and qawali singer, Shamshad. Men still come to the door in the hope of seeing Shamshad and do not seem too put out by seeing Salma despite her protestations. The couple struggle to live within the bounds of their own moral code while the earnings of prostitution seem to be flaunted around them. Hamid gets more and more angry and seemingly unable to reconcile his morality with the immorality of the world and at one point beats his wife and then rapes her making her into a 'whore' of his fantasy. The story here bears resemblance to the later 'Ek Chadar Maili Si' by the same director and seems to explore the complex world of women and sexuality as viewed by Indian men: mother, goddess, whore. This film also explores the ethos of prostitution in its reality and as a metaphor for the outside world.

Annadata

A rich man wanders off from his affluent life when he gets disillusioned by his greedy relatives. He finds true happiness after meeting a poor woman in a small town amidst simple folks.

Sabse Bada Sukh

Village born Lalloo re-locates to Bombay, and returns a wealthy man. He goes to meet his friend, Shankar alias Bhompu, and together they meet and share tales, mostly about women, sex, and playboy magazines' pictures. A Bollywood movie director is shooting a film nearby, and they go and meet him and his beautiful actress, Urvashi. After meeting Urvashi, Shankar feigns a racking cough, and tells his family that he must go to Bombay, and seek medical treatment. Together he and Lalloo take the next train to Bombay to see if they can find the biggest happiness in life.

Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se

A young man must deal with a broken engagement ceremony, while his to-be fiancée waits to be treated for blood cancer.

Babloo Bachelor

Babloo bachelor is a comedy genre film, in which Sharman Joshi is playing the protagonist. The story of the film is based on UP, where a well to do family had always dreamt of their son's wedding with great pomp and show.

Torbaaz

At an Afghanistan refugee camp, an ex-army doctor seeks to bring children joy through cricket and soon realizes that the stakes go beyond the sport.

Darbaan

Based on the 1891 short story by Rabindranath Tagore, follows life of a caretaker whose life is disturbed due to a single act of carelessness.

Kill Dil

Once upon a time in North India, two killers – Dev and Tutu - roamed free. Abandoned when young and vulnerable, Bhaiyaji gave them shelter and nurtured them to kill! All is normal in their lives until destiny throws free-spirited Disha into the mix. What follows is a game of defiance, deception and love.

3 Storeys

3 Storeys is an intriguing film full of twists and turns. Over the course of 3 acts, dark secrets and past regrets are revealed, and it becomes clear that life in this small community is not quite what it seems.

Raton Ka Raja

Raja is hired to steal the Anarkali, a 5000-year-old sculpture, from the "SAFEST" museum ( which is HOLLOW from the top!!).

Junction Varanasi

It's the story of unconditional love between two brothers Amar and Prem.

Qaidi Band

A riveting tale of undertrials who are brought together to form a band in jail for a social event. As their popularity grows through social media, they use their music to protest against jail authorities & the Indian judicial system. Eventually, when all hope fades, music becomes their only hope but will it set them free?

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?

Shukriyaa

Young and playful Neema's prank with a live electric wire kills her mother, and leaves her dad, Dayal, angered and devastated by Neema and his wife's death respectively. Dayal begins to resent his daughter so much so that he cannot stand the sight of her. Neema grows up to be nervous and insecure young woman, klutz-like, and terrified of her father. Things change for the better , when she meets the owner of a restaurant, Ajay Singh, and both fall in love w When Dayal comes to know of this, his anger knows no bounds, and he forbids her to ever see Ajay again. When Ajay finds out about Dayal's plan to marry Neema elsewhere, he is determined to marry Neema at all costs - and so is Neema, who now seems to have given up her timidity. What Neema does not know is that Ajay does not love her - all he is interested is humiliating and possibly killing Dayal - to set right a devastating incident that changed his life forever when he was a child. Will Ajay be able to carry out his deadly task?

Aakraman

Drama about a major in the Indian army and his impending arranged marriage.

Char Dil Char Rahen

Three love stories that take place simultaneously but do not intersect, because the characters do not interact with each other, even though they all live in the same neighborhood. Govinda, a gloomy Airai boy who was cruelly separated from his beloved girlfriend, Chalvi, who was expelled from the village. Johnny Braganza, a waiter who has just been released from prison after being unjustly accused of falsifying the accounts of the hotel owner, Ferrara, who successfully seduces Johnny's girlfriend, Stella. Now he is setting up a car garage at the same intersection.

Gauraiya Live

A 30-hour survival, gripping struggle and the drama-packed journey of a girl name Gauraiya.

Phir Se

The paths of a man and a woman, who have both been recently divorced from their spouses, intersect at an art exhibition in London.

TGB's Prayash

A boy who is struggling with this poverty and managing his family and also trying to achieve his dreams of being IAS

Paathshaala

A new English school teacher ends up leading both teachers and students to revolt against the school management.

Bumm Bumm Bole

Khogiram and his wife are poor and can barely afford to get school uniforms and books for their children Pinaki and Rimzim. Things worsen when Pinaki misplaces Rimzim's only pair of shoes. Pinaki begs Rimzim not to tell about this to their parents and promises to fix his mistake by coming third in a marathon for which the prize is a brand new pair of sneakers.

Kites

A wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.

O Teri

Prantabh and Anand, associated with a news channel in Delhi, are in search of a big scam to prove a point to their senior. A dead body accidentally lands up in their car.

The Xposé

This is a dramatic chain of events in the most glamorous ,swinging era of Hindi films... the 1960s. It was a decade when film stars tasted success and carried their larger than life screen image on to real life with unbridled pomp and splendour. It was during this time that two ambitious films were made... Ujwal Nirmal Sheetal and Reena Mera Naam. The latter became a runaway hit while the former was struggling at the box office.

Bhouri

A tragic love story of Bhouri, a 23-year old who is married to a 55-year old, the film highlights the exploitation of women in male dominated society.

Bypass Road

The story revolves around a young man, Vikram, who is a fashion prodigy. The story is layered with a murder in town.

Lal Baadshah

Lal Baadshah is a 1999 Bollywood film directed by K.C. Bokadia and starring Amitabh Bachchan in a dual role, Raghuvaran, Manisha Koirala, Shilpa Shetty and Amrish Puri. Nirupa Roy also appears in her last film playing Bachchan's foster mother. This was Bachchan's third film since his comeback after a five-year hiatus; it failed at the box office but hit in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Children of War

Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power, become animals? A genocide; neglected! The first use of rape as a weapon of war; undocumented! The lives of millions; unaccounted! The culprits; unpunished!

Talaash: The Hunt Begins

Babu works for three underworld dons and must go to prison to protect them. When his sentence is over, he returns home to find that Purnima (his wife), Arjun (his son) and Pooja (his daughter) live a destitute life. When he confronts his bosses, he is beheaded in front of his wife and children, and his daughter is abducted. Purnima (Raakhee) loses her mind, and is hospitalized in a mental hospital. Growing up, Arjun (Akshay Kumar) becomes a high profile vigilante. As for Purnima, she becomes terribly ill and can be saved only if she sees her daughter again. Thus, Arjun decides to re-unite his mother and sister. In order to do so, he must discover the identity of his father's killers.

The Knot

Shirish and Geeta run a rickshaw driver over and have dramatically opposing reactions to the tragedy. Shirish moves on, hiding behind the invisible protections afforded to him by class structure, and the visible walls and locked gates of his home. In parallel, Geeta’s guilt drives her to surreptitiously employ Manoj, the victim’s younger brother, intertwining two lives otherwise separated by class and power. The small collision quickly turns into a dramatic suspense, spurred by greed, betrayal, guilt, as the nocuous effects of grave inequality threaten to unwind the very fabric of each of their lives.

Santosh

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

Kal Hamara Hai

Kal Hamara Hai is a 1959 Indian Hindi film, directed by S.K. Prabhakar and produced by K. Amarnath. The film stars Madhubala, Bharat Bhushan, and Jayant in lead roles. The film has a musical score by Chitra Gupta.

Dastak

Dastak (English: Knock) is a 1996 Hindi language Indian feature film directed by Mahesh Bhatt, starring Sushmita Sen in her debut film supported by Mukul Dev with Sharad Kapoor as the psychopath.

Dil Bechara

Kizie and Manny, two ordinary people brought together by a tragic twist, embark on a bittersweet and extraordinary journey into the heart of that crazy little thing called 'life'.

Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl

Inspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War

Street Dancer 3D

Two rival dance groups from India and Pakistan who are always competing against each other, join forces when it comes to competing at an international dance competition.