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Plot Summary:
Raju comes from a middle-class family, and lives with his mother. He meets with nurse Shobha, and both fall in love. The only problem is that Raju somehow or other always gets mixed up in problems, and ends up getting in trouble with the police. As a result, he ends up getting in jail very often. One day he really gets into trouble by antagonizing a notorious gangster, and has to run for his life. Due to his "trouble maker" character no one really believes him, and it is upto him to save himself from this problem, without ending up in prison again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
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Casanovva (2012)
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A group of fugitives end up killing an international businessman Casanovva's girlfriend, after entrapping the couple in a reality show. Furious, Casanovva sets out to avenge her death.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
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Hum Dono (1995)
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Vikram Sehgal (Alok Nath) a renowned businessman has two sons. The legitimate Vishal (Nana Patekar) and the illegitimate Raju (Rishi Kapoor). Vishal's uncle Shrichand (Mohan Joshi) and his friend Arjun Chaudhry murder Vikram Sehgal for his property. But he learns that Vikram had willed his assets to be divided equally among Raju and Vishal. Vishal has to bring Raju back to the house if he wants his share of property. But the journey back home is precarious for apart from the innumerable scraps between the two; they have face Shrichand's various attempts to murder them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
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Janasheen (2003)
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Australian based Lucky Kapoor (Fardeen Khan) has no interest whatsoever in his dad's, Virendra Kapoor's (Harsh Chhaya) business in India. Saba Karim Khan (Feroz Khan), however, does have an interest in the property of Mr. Kapoor, but Mr. Kapoor is not willing to sell. This angers Karim Khan, and he has Mr. Kapoor killed, and makes it look like an accident. Lucky's childhood sweetheart, Jessica Periera (Celina Jaitley), has the proof of Mr. Kapoor's death, but decides to keep it to herself. When Karim Khan meets with Lucky to re-negotiate the property, he finds that Lucky is willing to sell; he also finds that Lucky resembles his dead son. Karim Khan will give anything to make Lucky the heir to his vaste wealth and properties, but Lucky is not willing. Karim Khan turns on all the machinations he has in his power to force Lucky to be his heir.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
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Varsham (2004)
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Venkat and Sailaja are youngsters at Warangal who fall in love. Bhadranna is the most dreaded and ruthless landlord in Nizam area. Bhadranna also likes Sailaja and wants to marry her. Ranga Rao, Sailaja's dad, is a typical black sheep having all kinds of bad habits. In the process, he is ready to marry off his daughter to Bhadranna for money. Ranga Rao plants certain ego problems in the minds of Venkat and Sailaja and then paves a way for their love to break up. Later on Bhadranna kidnaps Sailaja. The rest of the story is all about how Venkat brings back Sailaja from the bastion of Bhadranna and how he clears off the misunderstanding with Sailaja in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Action
Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 344
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Country: India
Duration: 181 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Drama
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 625
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Bewafa Sanam (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 149
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 722
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Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 122
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 348
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Country: India
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Hulchul (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 504
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Country: India
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IMDB Votes: 136
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
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Police Commissioner Suryadeo Singh hires Karan, a trained weapons expert, to protect his daughter Kajal. Later, Kajal, who is unaware of Karan's secret agenda, falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: India
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: India
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Khaidi (1983)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 503
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A romantic drama which aims to allure the urban crowd, stars Nithiin Reddy and Adah Sharma. With a tagline `I need one hour kiss to burn 300 calories` - that suggests the film is high on romantic quotient.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, captivating
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Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who wastes no time in entrapping Kishan in a web of lies and deceits and gets him imprisoned for life. While in jail, Kishan reaches up with his long lost elder brother Karan who has been sentenced for life charged with murdering the Police Commissioner son, Vijay Sinha. Together they both plotted a scheme which will only benefit them in granting revenge from there perpetrators. Written by gavin ([email protected]).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
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Acid (1988)
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Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him falling in love with Mohini, who subsequently realizes that he indeed has fallen in love with her, and she too reciprocates. Mohini's dad is an alcoholic and wishes that Mohini takes up dancing and prostitution so that he can get his daily dose of alchol. Mohini attempts to take refuge with Mahesh, however, cirumstances tangle Mahesh to such an extent that he is arrested, charged, and sentenced to stay away from Bombay city limits. When Mahesh returns, it is no longer the honest, and patriotic Mahesh, but a gangster named Munna, who has many old scores to settle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
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Coolie No. 1 (1995)
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Shaadiram Gharjode (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) is once humiliated by Hoshiyar Chand (Kader Khan) when Shaadiram goes to inform him about a family wanting to marry their son to Hoshiyar's daughter. Hoshiyar Chand insults them as he wants both his daughters to marry into the richest family. Gharjode decides to teach Hoshiyar Chand a lesson: He meets a coolie called Raju (Govinda) and they go to Hoshiyar Chand's village pretending to be a rich family. Hoshiyar is impressed and he wants his daughter Malti (Karisma Kapoor) to marry Raju. This leads to humorous situations in the climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious