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Plot Summary:
Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is the bodyguard of Sartaj Rana's (Raj Babbar) daughter Divya Rana (Kareena Kapoor). He is very devoted to his duties but irritates her all the time by following her everywhere. Consequently, Divya and her friend (Hazel Keech) call Lovely and start a prank love affair. Lovely starts loving the mystery person but doesn't realizes that it is Divya (who also falls in love with him) who was behind all of this. Sartaj Rana (Raj Babbar) suspects him and Divya to be in love and sends criminals to kill him in case his lover turns out to be Divya. Sensing this, Divya sends her friend to Lovely to tell him her true identity. In a twist, it is revealed that the friend is also in love with Lovely. She falsely accepts that she is her strange lover. They marry and have a child. She dies early and reveals to her son about her fraud and asks him to unite Lovely and Divya.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, romantic, scenic, fast
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Style (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jeetendra Kumar Makwana is employed full-time at a Call Center and works part-time teaching English. He is recruited by an attractive young woman, Pooja, to teach her Hinglish-speaking boss, Bhaiyaji, English. Jeetendra agrees to do so, falls in love with Pooja, and joins forces with her to steal a bag containing 25 Crore Rupees in cash. He will soon find out that Bhaiyaji is a hoodlum and extortionist known to the Police as Lakhan Singh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, realistic, fast
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Dabangg (2010)
Plot Summary:
A troubled relationship with his younger half-brother and stepfather compels Chulbul Pandey to become a corrupt but fearless cop whose life changes when he locks horns with a corrupt political leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, stylized, masala, entertaining, fast, humorous, realistic, freeze frame
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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015)
Plot Summary:
While recovering from an assassination attempt four days before his coronation, a stern prince is replaced by a romantic lookalike.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, exciting, captivating, tense, fast, humorous, realistic, stylized
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Kill Dil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in North India, two killers – Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar) - roamed free. Abandoned when young and vulnerable, Bhaiyaji (Govinda) gave them shelter and… nurtured them to kill! All is normal in their lives until destiny throws free-spirited Disha (Parineeti Chopra) into the mix. What follows is a game of defiance, deception and love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, realistic
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Deewane Huye Paagal (2005)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Karan and Tanya. Karan is in love with Tanya but is too shy to tell her. One day Tanya witnesses the murder of a scientist by his evil twin brother, the underworld don Mehboob, and needs to flee the country. When Karan's friend coaxes him to track Tanya after she migrates to Dubai, he enlists the aid of a deceptive investigator, Rocky to track her down. Rocky ends up falling in love with her at first sight and tries to stop Karan from wooing her. Meanwhile, Tanya's physically disabled friend, Sanju also has a soft spot for her and tries thwarting Rocky's attempts at getting close to Tanya. The plot thickens when Don Mehboob and his gang track Tanya down in Dubai.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, offbeat, slapstick, surprise ending, remake of american film
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Singham Returns (2014)
Plot Summary:
Singham Returns is an Indian action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment. The sequel to the 2011 film Singham, actor Ajay Devgn reprises his role from the previous film, as well as co-producing the project, while Kareena Kapoor Khan plays the female lead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, suspenseful, political, fast, exciting, rough, realistic
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Gardener (2003)
Plot Summary:
Raj Malhotra and wife Pooja have four sons. The sons have settled down professionally and are quite independent. However, when Raj Malhotra retires, none of his children want to be burdened with the responsibility of taking care of their parents. Strangely, it is the adopted son who proves to be the most kind hearted of them all. Salman's girlfriend eventually marries him. The question is, will Raj and Pooja's sons learn the folly of their ways and turn over a new leaf?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, captivating, touching, gloomy, inspirational, entertaining, sad, crying, romantic drama
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Coolie No. 1 (1995)
Plot Summary:
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
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Run (2004)
Plot Summary:
This action movie is filled with romance and adventure. As Abhisek fights for his life against the forces of crime and injustice, he meets Bhoomika, who captures his heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Born to Hate... Destined to Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
While fighting for the political supremacy of their respective families, a Hindu man and a Muslim woman share a forbidden romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, romantic, tense, captivating, entertaining, sad, exciting
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Let's Fall in Love... Again (2006)
Plot Summary:
College nerd, Agastya Rao alias Champu, has a crush on Piya Goel, and is thrilled when she invites him to a dance, only to be heart-broken when he finds out that she really digs another guy. Years later, when he finds out that his college sweetheart is about to divorce her husband, decides to try his hand at wooing her. He gets the unsolicited help of one-time Bollywood wonder Suhaan Kapoor, who accompanies Agastya to New York, assists him in successfully wooing and proposing to Piya. On the night of their engagement, Agastya will find out that Suhaan only wanted to help him because of Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act - so that could relieve him of the financial burden of paying alimony to Piya, who was the girl he had secretly married much against the wishes of the entire Goel clan. Watch what happens when Suhaan finds out that he has a daughter named Suhaani - and that he still has strong feelings about Piya.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious, romantic, crying, powerful, spoof, parody
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Son of Sardaar (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jassi Randhawa (Ajay Devgan) is an unemployed good-for-nothing man who receives a letter from the Punjab government about buying his property in Punjab. To sell the property, Jassi leaves for Punjab. On the train, he meets and falls in love with Sukhmeet (Sonakshi Sinha). In Punjab, Jassi accidentally meets Billu (Sanjay Dutt) and, seeing he is new to the area, Billu invites Jassi to his home, where he treats Jassi like a god. There, Jassi realises that Billu is Sukhmeet's brother. Soon enough, it is revealed that Billu is Balwinder Singh and Jassi is short for Jaswinder. However, Billu's family has to follow one Punjabi rule: A guest in the house should never be harmed. Now, Billu must wait for Jassi to leave the house to kill him. Jassi learns about it and comes up with a hilarious plan to foil Billu's shenanigans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Kaavalan (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi is introduced to us as a person who gets into many local fights. Worried about his future, his family sends him to Muthuramalingam (Raj Kiran), a much respected personality in his place Semmanur, to put Bhoomi's life on the right track. But things don't go as planned. Muthuramalingam's adversary threatens to kill his daughter Meera (Asin) as a revenge against his own daughter's fate. So Bhoomi is given the job of Meera's bodyguard at college. Meera goes to college with her friend Madhu but is irritated by Bhoomi's presence everywhere. So she devises a plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania (2014)
Plot Summary:
A girl from Ambala, Kavya Pratap Singh, is about to be married. When she visits Delhi to shop for her 'dhai lakh ka Ghagra'(wedding dress worth Rs. 2 Lakh), she meets Humpty Sharma, a carefree Delhiite, and falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny
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Crazy (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kajal is a beautiful and talented young woman who loves songs and dances and attends various shows. At one of the shows she attended she gets to meet Ravi, a popular singer and both are head over heel in love with each other and they soon got married. Kajal relocates to Ravi's parental mansion and is all welcome as a bride there. But soon her marriage life goes over the board when Ravi's scheming cousin and uncle has him killed. Unable to bear the shock Kajal relocates to a different city and gets to meet the wealthy and care-free Raja Sahai, who proposes marriage to her but she refuses and wants to live as Ravi's widow but destiny has other plans for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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When Love Calls (1989)
Plot Summary:
Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. He decides to leave his daughter with his friend, Kishen Kumar choudhury (Rajiv Verma), wife Mrs. Kaushalya (Reema Lagoo), and son Prem (Salman Khan). Prem is supposed to marry Seema (Pervin Dastur), who is the only daughter of Kishen's business partner, Ranjeet (Ajit Vachani). But Prem falls in love with Suman. He woos her until she also falls in love with him. Kaushalya approves of Suman, but Kishan does not, and asks her to get out of his house and life, as he feels that she has taken advantage of his hospitality. Karan returns and is enraged at Kishan's behaviour. Prem is unhappy with his dad's decision, and he decides to leave home and be near Suman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic drama, mesmerizing, touching, captivating, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama
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Partner (2007)
Plot Summary:
The only male child in the family that sired six daughters, Prem has empathy towards the fair sex and decides to assist males to woo women so much so that he becomes popular as the 'Love Guru'. Amongst the men he assists are Bhaskar Chaudhry and Neil Bakshi. Klutz-like Bhaskar has fallen head over heels with his boss, a model and heiress, Priya Jaisingh. A disbelieving Prem refuses to assist him, but subsequently relents. Bhaskar uses his own charm to woo Priya successfully, and is introduced to her dad, Raj. Prem himself falls in love with a widowed single mother, Naina Shahani, a Journalist. Both men are satisfied with her respective lives not knowing that a scandalous secret will surface in the media - changing their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, powerful, remake of american film
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Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Playboy's past catches up with him, when he wants to get married.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Golmaal 3 (2010)
Plot Summary:
Golmaal 3 highlights the story of hatred between two bunch of siblings within a family. One of nature's masterpieces, this is a family that eats together, prays together, lives together and a family 'that can't stand each other'. This quirky unique family will certainly deliver you with some rib tickling moments, ageless romance and some heartwarming scenes. A beautiful journey full of madness, love and excitement. A film with the perfect blend of just every emotion that will set in your heart with thrice the fun, thrice the magic, and thrice the laughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, funny, fast, powerful, parody, cult film
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Golmaal: Fun Unlimited (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gopal, Lucky, Madhav and Laxman - four guys bound together by their child-like notoriety, aimlessness and petty business of conning people for fun and money. Laxman is an intelligent student who is not allowed to pass by his mischievous band of friends Gopal, Madhav and mute Lucky. This is because all four friends use his hostel room to conduct their activities. He is peer-pressured into running a series of scams in order to earn himself and his friends some money. Once thrown out of college bag-n-baggage, the naughty foursome finds refuge in the bungalow of a blind couple as their grandson. A cat mouse game unfolds as Laxman's body and Gopal's voice makes for Sameer (The grandson from US).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, funny, entertaining, powerful, realistic, cult film
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Raja Hindustani (1996)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a handsome young taxi driver, Raja, who falls in love with a beautiful rich girl, Aarti. Despite her family's disapproval Aarti marries Raja and goes to live with him in his village. Aarti's stepmother, uncle and cousin weave a web of deception to split them apart. Will Aarti realize that her stepmother is deceiving her? Will Raja and Aarti ever get back together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic, entertaining
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I Will Love Him Till the End of Time (2003)
Plot Summary:
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is the story of Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), a girl of today's generation full of life and vibrant ecstasy. She lives life on her own terms and gets very upset when her mother Susheela (Himani Shivpuri), arranges for her to see a boy leading to a marriage prospect.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 197 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, flamboyance
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Straight from the Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
Indian-based traditional family of Pundit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) gets a visit from Sameer Rafilini (Salman Khan), from Italy, who has come as a pupil to learn music and singing. Darbar and his family accept him. Sameer meets Nandini (Aishwarya Rai), Darbar's daughter, and both fall in love. But Darbar wants Nandini to wed Vanraj (Ajay Devgan), and has Sameer swear that he will leave India.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Hungary
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, romantic, touching, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, sad, crying, mesmerizing
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Short Term Shadi (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rahul and Riana meet each other for the first time, get drunk, and awake the next morning to find that they have gotten legally married to each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, romantic
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Milenge Milenge (2010)
Plot Summary:
Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you risk tempting fate with a test of that love or what is seemingly meant to be, or should you just follow your apparent destiny and embrace it? Such are the questions two people must face and answer in the romantic comedy/drama. "Milenge Milenge".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic
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Namastey London (2007)
Plot Summary:
Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth to Jasmeet. Manmohan was always embarrassed of Bebo, as she was overly healthy and not quite sophisticated, as a result he always left her at home, while he socialized. Bebo did not want Jasmeet to end up like her, so got her admitted in an English Medium school, encouraged to mingle with Caucasian friends, and as a result Jasmeet was transformed in to Jazz - a stunningly beautiful young woman, British in looks, talk, habits, and heart. Manmohan's plans to get her married to an Indian boy are all in vain. His friend, Parvez Khan, is in a similar situation with his son, Imran, openly romancing a Caucasian blonde, Susan. Manmohan decides to take his family for a tour in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, patriotic, cult classic, stylized
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Chennai Express (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, entertaining, fast, masala, humorous
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Tanu Weds Manu (2011)
Plot Summary:
Manu comes to India to find a bride for himself and falls for Tanu at first sight but Tanu, a free spirited girl has no plans of marrying him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, romantic, funny, inspirational, entertaining, realistic
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When We Met (2007)
Plot Summary:
Depressed after the passing of his father, Dharamraj; as well as his gorgeous girlfriend ditching him, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. This is where he meets Geet Kaur Dhillon, who is returning home to Bhatinda, and who pays for his ticket. At Bar Nagar, he decides to leave, but she follows him, missing her train. They manage to get a ride to Ratlam, miss the train again, but eventually make it to Bhatinda. Once there, he gets to meet her family; her pretty sister, Roop; as well as her to-be betrothed, Manjeet Singh Mann. Before the engagement could be finalized, she manages to convince her family that she wants to marry Aditya, and they welcome him with open arms. Before he could take stock of these new developments, she elopes with him - not to get married - but to re-locate to Manali - where her true love, Anshuman, is waiting, and who she hopes to get married to.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, sentimental, funny, touching, entertaining, melancholic