Ananth Narayan Mahadevan

Ananth Narayan Mahadevan

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Ananth Narayan Mahadevan

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Phule
Director
A biopic on Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule, considered to be a pioneering couple in India’s societal history. They are often credited for underlining the importance of the girls’ education and self-dependence.
Mission Raniganj
A real-life story of additional chief mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill who helped in the rescue of people when a coal mine in Raniganj, West Bengal, was flooded. The incident dates back to 1989.
Mission Majnu
RK
Set in the 1970s, an undercover Indian spy takes on a deadly mission to expose a covert nuclear weapons program in the heart of Pakistan.
Salaam Venky
Guruji
Sujata, an ideal mother, who battles the most challenging situations one can ever face with a smile.
The Storyteller
Director
After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having declined his son’s invitation to come to the United States. Then a friend shows him a help-wanted ad. Although he has never published a book, Tarini used to tell made-up stories to his friends in his youth, and the ad for a storyteller in Ahmedabad in western India piques his interest.
Forensic
Little girls begin to disappear and their bodies are found soon after in the town of Mussoorie. Police officer Megha and forensic officer Johnny join hands to nab the killer.
The Knocker
Director
Aata Vel Zaali
Producer
A true story of existential crisis in the life of an elderly couple who feel that they are leading unproductive and obsolete lives, and hence seek active euthanasia as an unusual  remedy.
Aata Vel Zaali
Director
A true story of existential crisis in the life of an elderly couple who feel that they are leading unproductive and obsolete lives, and hence seek active euthanasia as an unusual  remedy.
Kaadan
Kurinjinathan/ Kanakamedala RajaGopalam /Jagannath Sevak
When a wealthy real estate company, backed by a powerful minister decides to build a township in a reserve forest area, it cuts off access to the water body to the elephants living in the area, endangering their lives. An eco-warrior decides to fight for their cause at a time when nobody else would.
Durgamati: The Myth
In the skullduggery world of politics and crime, an innocent Chanchal has to pull all on the line to prove her innocence and bring justice to Shakti and the people that he loved so much. As she gets embroiled deep in a web of deceit, Chanchal must face powers both natural and supernatural to fulfill her destiny.
Bittersweet
Director
Saguna, a sugarcane-farm worker, discovers the practice of hysterectomy prevalent among the women working in the fields.
Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005
Director
The true story of a mother's protracted 13 year fight for justice for her son who was tortured to death in custody ,resulting in a historic death sentence for the guilty policemen.
One Day: Justice Delivered
Lawyer Joshi
A Crime Branch Special Officer Investigates serial disappearances of high profile individuals in a state capital.
The Gandhi Murder
Professor Jain
Three Senior police officers in different parts of India, who, well aware of the intelligence that Gandhi’s life in under threat, must take key decisions that would eventually either save the Mahatma, or the country.
2.0
Meeting Chairperson
An ornithologist who commits suicide returns as fifth force to wreack vengeance on mankind for harming birds with mobile phone radiation. The only thing that is standing in his way is 2.0, the upgraded version of Chitti, the robot.
Vishwaroopam II
Easwar Iyer
RAW agent Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri prevents an al-Qaida terrorist from executing a massive attack on New York. He must now wade through further traps and conspiracies to thwart a new plot against three democratic nations.
Evening Shadows
Set in South India and Mumbai, Evening Shadows is a tender heartwarming story about a mother-son bond that has to withstand the ravages of time, distance and truths. On a road trip that the mother and son take, truth spill out, ripping the ties apart.
Aksar 2
Writer
A love triangle where everybody is blackmailing the other two gets a nasty upset when one of them is suddenly found murdered.
Aksar 2
Director
A love triangle where everybody is blackmailing the other two gets a nasty upset when one of them is suddenly found murdered.
Love Day
Life without friends is like living in hell but when you have friends who are no less than devils, your life can be a living hell. Love Day - Pyaar Ka Din explores the journey of three childhood friends; Monty (Ajaz Khan), Sandy (Sahil Anand) and Harry (Harsh Nagar). Sandy and Harry often fall into trouble due to Monty’s antics. Sandy’s and Harry’s families do not approve of their friendship with Monty and separate the three friends. However, Monty returns to his friend’s lives after five years with a plan that would make them all rich. Monty’s plan backfires and his friends land into trouble again. Will Sandy and Harry regret their lifelong friendship?
Gour Hari Dastaan
Director
Gour Hari Das, a freedom fighter who works in Khadi Kraft and lives along with his wife & son, lives a content life in his neighborhood. However, one day when his son is unable to secure college admission for lack of a Freedom Fighter's Certificate, he feels the need to establish his identity. In the quest for this piece of paper to prove his authenticity to his son, his neighbors & to the world, he begins a journey that sucks up almost his entire life.
Papanasam
Prabhakar
A cinephile tries to protect his family by hiding a heat-of-the-moment murder committed by his daughter by taking cues from the films he has watched. With the victim the son of a cop, can he get away with it?
The Xposé
Director
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.
The Xposé
Subba Prasad
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.
Bhadaas
A detective with training in criminal psychology aids the local police's hunt for a female serial killer who seduces unfaithful husbands before murdering them.
Staying Alive
Director
Staying Alive is a movie which is based on a true story of a reporter Aditya (Anant Mahadevan). When he experiences heart attack for the third time, he is sent to the intensive cardiac care at a hospital. But fate brings him on the neighboring bed of an underworld kingpin, Shaukat Ali (Saurabh Shukla). Actually it was his love of kebabs which had led him to experience his first heart attack. The 2 inmates of a hospital, who have opposite nature and opposite profession, strike a love-hate relationship with Aditya relaying a few truths about life to Shaukat. Shaukat gets thankful for the pleasure of staying alive even in a life underprivileged of kebabs. The end of the motion picture deals with life as it reveals for a man from the wrong side of the law trying to set things right...would he or would he not succeed? This comedy of black type is all about being thankful at the pleasure of just Staying Alive…
Staying Alive
Staying Alive is a movie which is based on a true story of a reporter Aditya (Anant Mahadevan). When he experiences heart attack for the third time, he is sent to the intensive cardiac care at a hospital. But fate brings him on the neighboring bed of an underworld kingpin, Shaukat Ali (Saurabh Shukla). Actually it was his love of kebabs which had led him to experience his first heart attack. The 2 inmates of a hospital, who have opposite nature and opposite profession, strike a love-hate relationship with Aditya relaying a few truths about life to Shaukat. Shaukat gets thankful for the pleasure of staying alive even in a life underprivileged of kebabs. The end of the motion picture deals with life as it reveals for a man from the wrong side of the law trying to set things right...would he or would he not succeed? This comedy of black type is all about being thankful at the pleasure of just Staying Alive…
I Am Sindhutai Sapkal
Editor
This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when she was 12 years old. What could have been a predictable life took a much different course when Sindhutai was unjustly accused of carrying another man's child and was thrown out of the house by her husband and his family.
I Am Sindhutai Sapkal
Plane passenger sititng next to Sindhutai
This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when she was 12 years old. What could have been a predictable life took a much different course when Sindhutai was unjustly accused of carrying another man's child and was thrown out of the house by her husband and his family.
I Am Sindhutai Sapkal
Writer
This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when she was 12 years old. What could have been a predictable life took a much different course when Sindhutai was unjustly accused of carrying another man's child and was thrown out of the house by her husband and his family.
I Am Sindhutai Sapkal
Director
This is the journey of Sindhutai Sapkal, a poor village girl who grew up tending buffaloes while craving an education, but her unsympathetic mother had her married off to an older man when she was 12 years old. What could have been a predictable life took a much different course when Sindhutai was unjustly accused of carrying another man's child and was thrown out of the house by her husband and his family.
Red Alert: The War Within
Director
While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, Chinna; and son, Mohan, but Velu keeps on putting it off. Narasimha gets to know and sympathize with members of this band, and befriends Lakshmi, who was gang-raped by several policemen. He is then asked to prove his loyalty by killing an informant/plainclothes police inspector - which he does - and even accompanies the band on an assault on a school, resulting in the death of some children. Traumatized after this incident, he decides to flee - and it is this decision that will not only estrange him from his family but also force him to be on the run from the band as well as the police.
Anamika
Director
Anamika is a Bollywood film starring Dino Morea, Minissha Lamba and Koena Mitra in the lead roles. It is written and directed by Anant Mahadevan and produced by Bhanwar Lal Sharma. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's film Rebecca (1940)
Aggar
Director
With strong suspicions that her husband is cheating on her, successful businesswoman Janvi (Udita Goswami) begins an affair with her co-worker Aryan (Tusshar Kapoor). But when Janvi decides that she's done fooling around, she learns her new lover has other ideas. Because Aryan doesn't want the relationship to end, he's willing to completely destroy the lives of Janvi and her husband to have his way.
Aap Kaa Surroor
While on tour in Germany, a rock star falls in love with concert promoter. But when the police arrest him for murder, he must escape and prove his innocence to win back his beloved's heart.
Sandwich
Mr. Rao
Shekar has moved to Mumbai from his home in Punjab and has fallen in love with Nisha. However, he is called back to his home to hear that his disabled sister is to marry a young man named Harpreet, but on the condition that Shekar marry Harpreet's sister. Unable to refuse, Shekar must lead a double life until matters come to a head many years later.
Aksar
Screenplay
A love triangle where everybody is blackmailing the other two gets a nasty upset when one of them is suddenly found murdered.
Aksar
Director
A love triangle where everybody is blackmailing the other two gets a nasty upset when one of them is suddenly found murdered.
Dil Maange More!!!
Writer
Nikhil is a simple young man . He loves his hometown Samarpur , football matches , and the college his grandfather passed down to him as a legacy ...
Dil Maange More!!!
Director
Nikhil is a simple young man . He loves his hometown Samarpur , football matches , and the college his grandfather passed down to him as a legacy ...
Joggers Park
Special Appearance
The film opens at a Rotary Club function to honor the recently retired Justice Jyotin Chatterjee. The judge has served the profession all his life with honor and spotless integrity. As he is about to retire, he recognizes there will now be a void in his life. His wife remarks to reporters that neither he nor she knows what he would do after he retires. Retired life is not easy for the aging judge. The younger generation is bolder and quicker than he was in his time.
Dil Vil Pyar Vyar
Director
Three friends, who have known each other for a long time, decide to enter a singing and musical competition. The events that lead to this competition, and their personal lives, including their romantic ties, is the theme of this movie. Included are popular Burman Movie songs, a delight to hear any time.
Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta
Anand Mhatre
Inpired from the movie "Liar Liar", this movie is about a lawyer (Govinda) who lies his way through marriage and career. His wife (Sushmita Sen) falls in love with him because of his honesty and when she finds out of his dishonesty she threatens to divorce him. Their son, to avoid the divorce, wishes on a shooting star that his father should lose the ability to lie. What happens after that is an enjoyable journey.
Rhythm
Temple priest in Mumbai
Karthikeyan, a photo editor in Mumbai, is a widower whose parents wish to see him settled and happy. Chitra, a widow with a son, gives them hope, unaware that their pasts are intertwined.
Mann
Creditor
A young woman falls in love with a handsome playboy, while aboard a Singapore to India cruise. They make plans to meet again, but fate may have other plans...
Dil Kya Kare
DCP Krishan Kumar
Anand Kishore, his wife, Kavita and only child, a daughter, Neha , live a happy and serene life in Delhi, India. Their lives are turned upside down when Kavita finds out that Neha is being stalked by a woman named Nandita Rai
Gaddaar
Mr. Saxena
Vijay (Harish) and Sunny (Sunil Shetty) are two friends, who are very close to each other. They study together in college and even fall in love with the same girl, Priya (Sonali Bendre). Sunny is rich and influential, and likes to control and dominate. Vijay comes from a poor family. Sunny wants to control the college scene using Vijay as a puppet, which does not work to Sunny's satisfaction. As a result, Sunny's dad (Mohan Joshi), who owns part of the college, steps in, to assert his and Sunny's position, as well as put pressure on the college authorities, and as well on the other hand, attempts to teach Vijay a lesson for betraying Sunny. But Sunny wants revenge in his own way, and he does so diabolically, by being even more friendly and close to his Vijay and his family. Will Sunny succeed?
Janam Kundli
Pandit Din Dayal Shastry
Film about a wealthy, religious man and his daughter who was talked into marrying another wealthy man.
Bedardi
Thakkar
Mumbai-based Saxena family consists of Professor Nirbhay, his wife Preeti, their school-going daughter Ritu and Nirbhay's college-going brother and sister, Vijay and Suman respectively. Vijay meets with fellow collegian Honey, and after a few altercations, they fall in love with each other. Vijay is introduced to Honey's maternal uncle, Bhagwandas, and he approves instantly. Honey's long-estranged brother, Kanhaiya, re-enters her life and asks her not to see Vijay anymore. Then the lives of the entire Saxena family change drastically when money allotted for Suman's marriage is stolen, and Vijay accepts a contract to kill a man named Gulla - not knowing that he is being set up to kill none other than Nirbhay himself.
Baazigar
Vishwanath Sharma
A young man with a vendetta against a business tycoon seduces and kills his eldest daughter and then proceeds to his younger daughter but she begins to suspect her new lover's ulterior motive.
Gardish
Constable Sawant
Naive and easily impressionable Vidya Bhalla would like her husband to be a dashing hero, one who is not afraid of anybody, one who can easily jump into a fire to rescue someone, one who is strong & romantic. She sees all of these qualities in Shiva Sathe (Jackie Shroff), the son of Havaldar Purshotam Sathe, whose only dream is to see Shiva become a Police Inspector. Vidya informs her dad, Prithviraj, that she has found her dream man, the Bhallas and the Sathes meet and get the couple formally engaged.
Khiladi
Neelam's Uncle
A group of friends, who love to make bets with one another, play a prank that goes horribly wrong when one of them is murdered.
Pyaar Ka Saaya
Uncredited remake of "Ghost". Dead man's spirit, unable to bear separation from his wife, communicates to her through a wacky medium.
Vishkanya
Bajrang
Inspector Rakesh Verma has been assigned the case of the mysterious deaths of Zoravar and his associate. His investigations take him to meet the other two associates namely Thakur Dhurjan Singh, and Lala Lachiram Chaudhary - both fearful for their lives. While Rakesh is aware that both are connected to the criminal underworld, he is required to provide protection to them. His investigations make him conclude that the suspects could be Wali Khan, a former jailbird; Trilokchand, another former jailbird, in jail for murder, but who is now crippled and confined to a wheelchair; and a mysterious woman who was fed venomous poison as a child - and is quite capable of administering it in lethal doses. Rakesh must now find who the real killer is - before he/she kills the Thakur and Lala.
Nachnewale Gaanewale
Prabhat Kumar
Jaggu and Maggu are two friends who live together; sing and dance at weddings, anniversaries, births, and parties for a living. Jaggu has a son named Chander, while Maggu has a daughter named Kamla. They decide to get the children married, and formalize their marriage when they are adults.
Isabella
Isabella, a guide, falls in love with one of her customers, Unnikrishnan. But every time they meet, he refuses to accept her. Moreover, she struggles to deal with the difficult situations at home.
Ottakomban
Sabaash Naidu
Bala
Sabaash Naidu is a cancelled Indian trilingual comedy-adventure film written, co-produced and directed by Kamal Haasan. Starring Haasan in the lead, he will reprise the role of Balram Naidu, one of the characters which he played in Dasavathaaram (2008). The film also stars his daughter Shruti Haasan and Ramya Krishnan in major roles.