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The Burning Train
An engineer's dream of making the perfect train for Indian Railways is given hope when the company commissions his prototype. After years dedicating himself to his dream, his family has suffered, but now he hopes to make it all up to them with the train's triumphant inaugural journey. However, an embittered fellow employee has other ideas.
Apocalypse Now
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Babruvahana
Babhruvahana, like Arjuna at the beginning of the Kurukshetra war, faces a moral dilemma. Can he risk harming his parents? While Chitarangada alerts Arjuna to shoot an arrow at their son and take advantage of Babhruvahanaβs momentary lapse due to a sense of devotion towards them (as Arjuna did with Karna), Uluci, the Naga princess and yet another abandoned wife of Arjunaβs, reminds Babhruvahana of the teaching of the Kurukshetra battle that in the battlefield there is no space for feelings even towards parents. What Babhruvahana must do is to establish his motherβs good name and thereby his own character. This film captures this conflict spectacularly. The eerie parallels with the moral dilemmas of the great Mahabharata battle aside, here all the familial relationships (in particular, strong mothers and dutiful sons) become exaggerated and demand our attention.
The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Anjan Hai Koyee
Anand (Feroz Khan), traveling by rail to meet his future bride, Sima (Aruna Irani), discovers a dead man in his train compartment. Arriving in his fianceeβs village, Anand witnesses another killing, this time a young woman (Noorjahan) he sees in an old, abandoned haveli. Reaching Simaβs home, he finds that his bride-to-be has been crippled in an accident and is under the care of a Dr. Prakash (Rakesh). Simaβs brother, Suraj (Suraj), and best friend, Sandhya (Nalini) are also staying with her. At a party for Sima, Anand spots the woman he saw murdered in the old shack and chases after her. But she suddenly disappears. A few days later he sees her again, swimming in a pond, but then she vanishes just like before. Meanwhile, it appears that someone is trying to kill Sima, and it also turns out that Anand is not who he claims to be.
Dhoomakethu
Dhoomakethu is a 1968 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by R. N. Jayagopal. The film stars Rajkumar, Udaya Chandrika, Udaykumar and Narasimharaju. The film has musical score by T. G. Lingappa. This is the debut movie of R. N. Jayagopal as a director.V.Ravichandran had revealed that he had made his first on screen appearance in this movie.
Baazi
Elizabeth's uncle is in deep financial crisis. He somehow manages to prove his own death and cremate someone else's body in order to claim Rs.250,000 (a huge amount during 60s) from the insurance company. Inspector Ajay unfolds the mystery.
Bombay Ka Chor
Randhir has been an orphan, and lived all his younger life in an orphanage. When he grew up, he took to stealing as a career, and has been on the run from the police since then. One day he comes across a dead body, which resembles his face, and he assumes that person's identity, leaving the police to conclude that Randhir is dead. Randhir, now with a new identity finds out that his name is Kishore, who is wealthy beyond his imagination. He begans to live the easy life, and even has a pretty girlfriend, who he indeeds to marry. But then murphy's law steps in, and Randhir soon realises that he has landed himself in a soup, when the police come looking for Kishore, to charge him with murder.
Dr. Shaitan
The power mad Dr. Shaitan (Sheikh Mukhtar) uses atomic energy to create an army of zombies in an effort to destroy the world. It is up to Dr. Ashok (Prem Nath), and others of goodwill, to try and stop him; but the fight between good and evil results in great destruction.
Gateway of India
The happenings of one night. A young heiress, on the run from her murderous uncle, roams the streets of Bombay where she runs into a series of shady characters. To escape from them, she makes a rendezvous with all of them to meet her early next morning at the Gateway of India, which also happens to be the locale for some covert criminal activity involving her uncle, the idea being to nab the crooks red-handed.
Milap
Film starring Dev Anand, Geeta Bali and K.N. Singh Rajendra Sayal (Dev Anand) becomes a millionaire from a poverty-stricken situation with the help of his friend Kalu (Johnny Walker). Jealous of his sudden elevation in status, a lawyer named Karamchand (K. N. Singh) plots to rob Sayal of all his property. For this reason, he hires Asha (Geeta Bali) to seduce Sayal and make him fall in love with her, but she ends up falling for him.