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Plot Summary:
Lilaram sells lottery tickets and one customer has hit the jackpot but dies of shock upon finding out that he has won. Now, Lilaram wants all the money, and so does everyone around him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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The Pope's Toilet (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small South American village is in a flurry over the Pope's 1988 visit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Brazil, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, hispanic, biting, suspense
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Bluffmaster! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Roy is a professional conman, who has raised his work to the level of an art. The only true thing he has is his love for Simmi someone who is so rooted, honest and sincere, that he can't bring himself to tell her the reality of who he is. But when his past catches up with him, she cannot forgive him for the deceit their relationship is built on. He loses her forever. That's when Aditya Srivastav enters the picture. He is the counterpoint to everything that Roy is as frantic as Roy is calm, as dumb as Roy is smart, as messy and untidy as Roy is smooth. They have only one thing in common. Aditya is a conman too. At least he thinks of himself as one. In Roy's book, he's an embarrassment. But one that won't go away!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, psychological thriller, dark, clever, surprise ending, buddy comedy
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One Two Three (2008)
Plot Summary:
Laxminarayan lives a poor lifestyle in Mumbai along with his widowed mother, Kanta, who wants him to be a successful gangster like Batlabhai, and would like him to kill a few people, make enough money, then get married to Khujli's daughter, Meena. In order to fulfill his mother's wish, Laxminarayan accepts a contract to kill D'Mello Yadav, a Pondi-based gangster, who has stolen a diamond from Batl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, funny, realistic, semi serious
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Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his astrologer uncle (Satish Kaushik) predicts a favorable future for Raja (Akshay Kumar), he decides to nothing until the prediction comes true. When he meets Shalu (Juhi Chawla) the daughter of a millionaire (Kadar Khan) he decides his predicted future has arrived. However his lazy lifestyle does not meet with his future father-in-law's standards, and he insists that Raja does some hard work for a change. Written by gavin@[email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Khiladi 786 (2012)
Plot Summary:
The 8th installment in the Khiladi series.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, light, realistic
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Dedh Ishqiya (2014)
Plot Summary:
Khalujaan (Naseeruddin Shah)and Babban (Arshad Warsi), the two romantic thieves are back in Dedh Ishqiya, sequel to the acclaimed and successful Ishqiya with their romantic adventures. And this time love will take them through the SEVEN STAGES OF LOVE... with the beautiful and dangerous Madhuri Dixit as Begum Para and Huma Qureshi as Munniya.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, queer cinema, extraordinary
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Hanky Panky (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ramprasad a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job, things take a whacky turn.A fake mother and a hilarious chase are enjoyable features in this comedy.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: funny, light, retro, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Game (1992)
Plot Summary:
Widowed Sulakshana Devi is a wealthy industrialist and lives a very wealthy, though hectic lifestyle with her only son, Ravi, and nephew, Balwant. While returning from overseas, she is told that Ravi has met with an accident and has been killed. This news does devastate her, but she soon recovers. Then years later, she meets with a young man, Arun Kumar, who was able to retrieve her purse from a thief. Sulakshana finds out that he is unemployed and has not eaten for days. She decides to hire him, not knowing that Arun is a actually a con man, who will do his best to woo her to inherit her estate and Crores of Rupees. Sulakshana also does not know that Ravi did not die accidentally, but was killed by someone who sabotaged his car. Things will get more complicated when a woman named Seema and her uncle enter her life - for a devious reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, Kenya
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Listen Father-in-Law (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Raj K. Saxena is known for his parsimony. Everything he does and thinks is valued with money, and ways he can accumulate it. His daughter, Kiran, is the opposite, a spendthrift. Mr. Saxena borrows money from elderly people, assuring them of returning the loan with a handsome rate of interest after about 20 years, knowing fully well that none of them will survive 20 years. Then he meets with the son of one of such lender, aptly named after him viz. Raj K. Saxena. Mr. Saxena refuses to repay the amount, swallows the proof, the only evidence, and asks Raj to get out, which he does so. Raj is determined to get his money, and wants Kiran to fall in love with him. Kiran does so, and brings him over to introduce him to her shocked and speechless dad. Things change when Raj inherits a large amount of money, ironically left by Mr. Saxena maternal grandmother, and it is Mr. Saxena who is now anxious to get in the good books of Raj, with hilarious results.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Action, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Chameli's Marriage (1986)
Plot Summary:
Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love with her. A hilarious take on the caste system of India, as both of them come from different castes and try hard to marry each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Total Chaos (2014)
Plot Summary:
Total Siyapaa is an upcoming Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Eshvar Niwas and written by Neeraj Pandey.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young couple who struggle to rediscover love after their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his humble occupation, Mahadev has the potential to impact numerous lives. The movie is a satirical, but warm-hearted portrait of life in rural India.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Housefull (2010)
Plot Summary:
Believing himself to be a jinx and bringing bad luck upon himself and others, a man attempts to find true love, but ends up in very complicated relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexy, entertaining, gujarati
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Toilet: A Love Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Keshav and Jaya are from two villages near Mathura, where at least 80% of households are without any access to a lavatories. Conflict comes knocking on the first day of their marriage, when Jaya leaves Keshav's house for good, after discovering that there is no toilet in the home. Distraught and desperate, Keshav sets out on mission to win back his love- by battling against the age old traditions, mind-set and value system of his country.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, sincere, captivating, funny, satirical, fast, mind blowing, comedy drama
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Fukrey (2013)
Plot Summary:
FUKREY is one such crazy story of four restless and hapless souls, running after their individual desires, brought together by one dream, which turns their not so simple life upside down. From breaking school walls, to cross dressing dancers at the Ram Lila; from a Jugaad Baaz college watchman to leaking examination papers; from a female pimp, who runs her drug cartel through Nigerian henchmen to visionary dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Daddy Cool: Join the Fun (2009)
Plot Summary:
So, what can happen at a funeral? Even, if it's the funeral of Daddy Cool Douglas Lazarus? It's in Goa, tears, sad speeches, melancholia... right? Wrong! When... The coffin makers deliver the wrong body, all hell breaks loose in this witty comedy starring Sunil Shetty and many of B-Town's rich and famous as they try and find the body of their beloved.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, realistic
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OMG: Oh My God! (2012)
Plot Summary:
A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, sentimental, melancholic, motivational, parody, inspirational, thought provoking
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M.K.B.K.M. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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The in-Laws (1996)
Plot Summary:
A village-based singer attempts to find love and fame in the big city.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Turning 30!!! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Naina's story as she grapples with heartbreak, and a crisis in her advertising career in the face of her 30th birthday. And as she fights her anxiety and fears about being 30 years old, Naina realises there's a lot of growing up to be done. Set in the heart of urban Mumbai, Turning 30!!! is a humorous and heart-warming take on a single young woman's journey of finding herself, discovering love and blossoming into a woman of substance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, sincere, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, stylized
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Pyaar Impossible (2010)
Plot Summary:
romantic comedy in which a geek and the most sought-after college beauty are paired together by a twist of fate. And under all odds, an impossible love story begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, witty
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Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three people, each having different aspirations from life, are caught in a tangle of emotions and don’t know the way out. There’s a husband and wife with love eroding from their life. And there’s a single, happy-go-lucky dude who falls in love with the wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007)
Plot Summary:
Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, offbeat
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Let's Be Friends! (2002)
Plot Summary:
Raj has always had a unrequited childhood crush on a friend named Tina, but Tina's best friend Pooja has always had a crush on Raj. When Raj's family move to England to get involved in an internet business, Raj promises Tina that he will keep in touch with her and that their friendship will always be forever. However Tina disregards him and chooses not to respond to his first e-mail, in turn Pooja decides to keep in touch with him but signs under Tina's name. Fifteen years later, and their friendship has blossomed via e-mail, Raj believing that he's getting to know Tina when it's really Pooja. His family decides to go back on a holiday to India for 2 weeks, when Tina discovers the truth about Pooja's e-mails, they decide together that Tina will play along with the charade. When Raj arrives in India, he is struck by Tina's beauty but equally as struck to Pooja's personality. Who will he choose?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, realistic
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Aisha (2010)
Plot Summary:
Aisha is a girl with a simple diktat - everyone's business is her business. Arjun is a boy with even a simpler set of beliefs - Aisha should mind her own business. Caught in the Delhi upper class world with its own set of social rules, Aisha navigates her world with a great sense of style and even greater optimism. Caught in her web are her best friend Pinky, the small town girl Shefali, the west Delhi boy Randhir and the hunk Dhruv. Aisha will make sure everyone dances to her tune. And all Arjun wants to do is disentangle that web and get Aisha out of an impending sticky mess. Who will succeed and who will succumb? Welcome to Aisha's fabulous world where playing cupid is as easy as 123...if only that Arjun would stay out of her way!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, entertaining, light, captivating, touching, 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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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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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: emotional, feel good, romantic, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, inspirational, touching, entertaining
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Love Breakups Zindagi (2011)
Plot Summary:
Love Breakups Zindagi is a movie which tries to answer the question related to love, breakups and life. A couple and many of their friends experience changes and challenges in their respective lives after attending a wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, romantic, light