M. K. Raina

M. K. Raina


in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
M. K. Raina is one of India's best-known theatre actors and directors. Since 1972, he has been freelance theater and film worker, and works all over India in many languages and with many traditional forms.

Movies for M. K. Raina...

Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
Title: Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa
Character: Baba
Released: October 30, 2023
Type: Movie
At an anniversary party, Sohrab Handa is found dead, with his throat slit in the hall. As the investigation unravels, friendships are tested, and secrets are revealed.
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Manu
Title: Manu
Released: August 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of bustling New Delhi, the story quietly follows a specific day in the mundane routine-driven life of a young boy called Manu. Manu is a nineteen-year-old, introverted, repressed boy who loves art, and belongs to a middle-class religious family in India. On this particular day, a series of events brings him finally to confront himself, and in the end, leaves him in a dilemma to bring the change in his life or not.
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Title: The Forgotten Army - Azaadi ke liye
Character: Old Sodhi
Released: January 23, 2020
Type: TV
The dynamic story of Lt. Sodhi and his daredevil band of men and women who fought a heroic battle for the independence of India as part of the Indian National Army which was forged out of British defeat in Singapore during WWII and led by the charismatic, indomitable Indian leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
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Prassthanam
Title: Prassthanam
Character: Jaiprakash Kedar
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: Movie
A rural politician marries a widow with kids and gains a respectable position and trusts his stepson more than his own in political matters; thus upsetting his son beyond limits.
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Three and a Half
Title: Three and a Half
Character: Man
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: Movie
The story of one house in three different eras. Where 50 years ago it was divided between a school and an apartment, in which a young boy struggles with the pressures of pre-pubescent school life, coupled with being compelled to share a tiny room with his paralysed, disconsolate grandfather. Who in turn has devious plans for the child's 12th birthday which happens to fall on a leap year. The same building 20 years later becomes home to a brothel, where a young unexploited concubine is dealing with her self-proclaimed "first" client who has a strange inability to fulfil his physical desire unless obligated to the duress of a transaction to do so. Now, 30 years later these same walls surround a sublime home which belongs to a soul-stirring 75 year old couple who love, laugh and dance together. They whisper the secrets of time forgone and seemed to have overcome the undying need for love and escape which seems to have plagued the inhabitants of this house in the past.
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Aisha
Title: Aisha
Character: Mr. Kapoor
Released: August 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Aisha, who loves playing matchmaker much to her friend Arjun's disapproval, finds a new target in the simple Shefali. But in the process, she ends up ruining her own relationship with close friends.
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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Title: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Character: Taani's Father
Released: December 11, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Like Stars on Earth
Title: Like Stars on Earth
Character: Boarding School (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
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Lakshya
Title: Lakshya
Character: Akhilesh Dutta
Released: June 18, 2004
Type: Movie
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
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Sardar
Title: Sardar
Released: January 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Sardar is a 1993 Indian biopic on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters, directed by Ketan Mehta and written by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar.
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Genesis
Title: Genesis
Character: The trader
Released: June 2, 1986
Type: Movie
This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.K. Raina), and a woman (Shabana Azmi). At the beginning of the story, the workers in a decaying village are offered food and water if they work for the local lords. The farmer and the weaver refuse. The farmer grows food for them both, and the weaver creates textiles that uses to barter with an itinerant trader. One day a frightened, lonely woman arrives on the scene and she is taken in by the two men. She cooks and cleans, and before long becomes a source of contention. Meanwhile, the trader is observing these events from the sidelines.
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Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Title: Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Character: Juror #7
Released: March 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men.
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New Delhi Times
Title: New Delhi Times
Character: Iqbal
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.
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Panchvati
Title: Panchvati
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
This is a story about having an extramarital affair within the family itself.
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Tasveer Apni Apni
Title: Tasveer Apni Apni
Released: December 7, 1984
Type: Movie
In this rather routine, made-for-television movie by famed Indian director Mrinal Sen, an employee (K.K. Raina) in a large office is suddenly facing unemployment because his bosses have found him guilty of negligence. He is devastated, but he cannot lose his job since he is the only support of his family. Interspersed with the employee's efforts to convince his boss, in several different ways, that he cannot be fired are direct dialogues with the author (Shyamanand Jalan) who created the character of the employee. In these latter conversations, the employee berates his creator for giving him an impossible, no-win situation — he has no control over his fate.
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Giddh: The Vulture
Title: Giddh: The Vulture
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Starring Om Puri, Smita Patil, and Nana Patekar
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Tarang
Title: Tarang
Character: Abdul
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Rahul, the son-in-law of an old industrialist and one of the heirs to his fortune, clashes with Dinesh, the industrialist’s nephew who is openly unscrupulous. Rahul, on his part, conceals his personal ambition under a cloak of liberalism and encourages indigenous production.
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Arising from the Surface
Title: Arising from the Surface
Character: Keshav
Released: February 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in voice-overs (poetry, essays, and stories), while the characters within the texts walk through real or imaginary landscapes.
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27 Down
Title: 27 Down
Character: Sanjay
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Sanjay wanted to study art, but his domineering father, an engine-driver in retirement after a crippling injury, insisted that a railway job, with its security, was the best thing for him. So Sanjay ended up as a train conductor, unhappy with the career forced upon him, and the mechanical, meaningless life that he lives. In the course of his duty on the train, he runs into a working girl, Shalini and feels attracted to her. His father hears about his interest in Shalini, strongly disapproves of it and intervenes in Sanjay's life once again. Unable to stand up to his father, Sanjay soon finds himself married to a village girl. Life becomes even more unbearable for Sanjay. He takes to wandering and seeks comfort in drink and brothels. One final chance comes his way to break loose from his shackles and plan a new life with Shalini.