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Avtaar is one of the 80’s critically acclaim movie directed by Mohan Kumar who has made several successful films.Avtaar not only was a huge commercial hit, but it is a film that was very highly reviewed.It is unfortunate that Rajesh Khanna had to miss out on the Best Actor award to another great acting performance of 1983, Naseeruddin Shah for Masoom.Avtaar in my opinion was one of the three best films of 1983 and is a must see, specially for Rajesh Khanna fans.

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This film rocks.It is possibly the best Indian remake of the Godfather and I believe that Mr. Ram Gopal Verma’s Sarkar is a copy of this film.It has fantastic performances by Govinda, Dharmendra, and all others.The film opens with an introduction to our characters and then shapes up pretty good.Pitamber Kohli lives a upper middle class existence with his wife, & two brothers, Yeshwant and Pratap.The trio get in the bad books of an underworld don named Swami, who soon they launches a vendetta against them.As a result, Pitamber gets killed, and both Yeshwant and Pratap swear to avenge his death.

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Traffic Signal is a Bollywood film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar.It stars Kunal Khemu, Konkona Sen Sharma and Neetu Chandra .Bhandarkar won National Film Awards in 2007 as Best Director for this film, also won, Anil Moti Ram Palande, the first National Film Award for Best Make-up Artist A Bollywood movie titled Silsila was released during the year 1981. This was the very day that a son was born to a patron, who decided to name him Silsila. This child would end up on the streets of Bombay straight into the arms of a destitute woman named Maushi, who is also mother to a woman named Sushma. Silsila would grow up on this street, and eventually would become a collector of ‘haftas’ or weekly bribes, from local businesses as well as beggars, pimps, flower-sellers, eunuchs, et Al.

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Tom Dick & Harry is a Bollywood comedy film released on May 12, 2006. It had music by Himesh Reshammiya. The sequel titled “Tom, Dick and Harry Rock Again” is currently in production, directed by Rahul Kapoor and starring Nisha Rawal, also featuring the song “Tere Pyar Mein” by Mika Singh produced by Vikas Kohli at FatLabs studio.This is a comedy with three physically impaired people: Tom (Jaiyant - deaf), Dick (Deepak - blind), and Harry (Debraj - dumb or mute).

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Refugee is a Bollywood film directed by J. P. Dutta, released on 30 June, 2000. The film marked the debut of Abhishek Bachchan, son of legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan and Kareena Kapoor, the sister of actress Karisma Kapoor and part of the famous Kapoor family. Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty and Anupam Kher also star. The film performed moderately well at the box office and was the fifth highest grossing film of that year.Bihar-based Manzur Ahmed, his wife, his mother, and his daughter, decide to re-locate to East Pakistan after the partitioning of Hindustan during 1948, following the tussle between Sheikh Mujib Rehman and Pakistan’s General Bhutto, which led to the formation of Bangladesh, where Manzur and several other Muslims were forced to re-locate to Pakistan. In order to do this, they cross two borders, one with India and Bangladesh, and the second with India and Pakistan.

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Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) after being hit on head suffers from a short term memory loss. He cannot recollect anything beyond 15 minutes. He has various phone numbers and names tattooed on his body all hinting at one thing, seek revenge for the murder of his girlfriend, Kalpana (Asin). The only clue he has is the name that he remembers his dying girlfriend uttered in his ears - Ghajini. What obstacles Sanjay encounters in his hunt for Ghajini forms the rest of the film.

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Tere Naam is an Indian Bollywood film. A remake of the Tamil hit Sethu, the film was directed by Satish Kaushik and released on August 15, 2003. The film stars Salman Khan and Bhoomika Chawla in leading roles.A woman comes from a Hindu high caste family. Her name is Nirjala. Her family want her to get married to a Hindu upper caste man. She agrees to do so. But before the wedding, she meets with a poor Indian. This man belongs to a very low caste.

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