Rahul Bose

Rahul Bose

Born: July 27, 1967
in India
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rahul Bose (born 27 July 1967) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.

Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English, August and Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. He is also notable for his social activism: he participated in the relief efforts that followed the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and is also the founder of the anti-discrimination NGO, The Foundation. Bose is also a former member of India's international rugby team, the National Orange Indian Rugby Team.

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Metro... In Dino
Title: Metro... In Dino
Released: November 29, 2024
Type: Movie
Sequel to Life in a Metro.
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Binodini: Ekti Natir Upakhyan
Title: Binodini: Ekti Natir Upakhyan
Character: Ranga Babu
Released: August 15, 2024
Type: Movie
Biopic of Binodini Dasi known as Nati Binodini, who had a successful career as a theater artist in Bengal between the age of 12 to 23, known for her innovations in creating a stage make-up style that blended European and Indian techniques.
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Berlin
Title: Berlin
Character: Sondhi
Released: October 14, 2023
Type: Movie
New Delhi, the winter of 1993. A deaf mute young man is arrested by "Bureau" and accused of being a spy. A sign language expert is brought in to act as an interpreter for the Government’s agent and the “spy”. The unravelling of the mystery is the journey that sucks the sign language expert into the dark vortex of rivalry between intelligence agencies, deceit, and corruption, where the horizon line between innocence and guilt gets hazy.
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Iraivan
Title: Iraivan
Character: Brahman
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
Arjun, a tough cop along with his friend Andrew embark on a mission to track down a truly gruesome psychopathic killer called Bhramma a.k.a The Smiley Man. They eventually manage to apprehend Bhramma at the cost of losing Andrew makes Arjun resign from the police force. However, tragedy hits home when Bhramma escapes from prison and resumes his killing spree.
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Neeyat
Title: Neeyat
Character: Jimmy Mistry
Released: July 7, 2023
Type: Movie
When an exiled billionaire mysteriously dies at his birthday party at a Scottish castle, the prime suspects are his close family and friends, each with a motive to kill him.​ CBI officer Mira Rao must use all her skill to unravel the mystery where nothing is what it seems and everyone hides a secret or two.
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Title: Taj
Character: Mirza Hakim
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: TV
In his quest to find a worthy successor for his grand legacy, Emperor Akbar sparks a war among his sons. What follows is a terrifying battle for power, filled with politics, betrayals, and bloodshed.
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Salaam Venky
Title: Salaam Venky
Character: Lawyer
Released: December 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Sujata, an ideal mother, who battles the most challenging situations one can ever face with a smile.
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Title: Eternally Confused and Eager for Love
Character: Gaurav
Released: March 18, 2022
Type: TV
Often (mis)guided by a cheeky imaginary wizard, an awkward and lonely 20-something struggles to get out of his own way in his quest for a girlfriend.
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Title: Robindronath Ekhane Kawkhono Khete Aashenni
Character: Nirupam Chanda
Released: August 13, 2021
Type: TV
The enigmatic Mushkan Zuberi is known for cooking up a storm. But as the secrets pile up, someone else turns up the heat on her. Watch the mystery unravel only on hoichoi.
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Title: Bombay Begums
Released: March 8, 2021
Type: TV
From boardrooms to society's margins, five ambitious women from various walks of life navigate dreams, desires and disappointments in modern Mumbai.
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Bulbbul
Title: Bulbbul
Character: Indranil / Mahendra
Released: June 24, 2020
Type: Movie
A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.
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Vishwaroopam II
Title: Vishwaroopam II
Character: Omar Qureshi
Released: August 9, 2018
Type: Movie
RAW agent Wisam Ahmad Kashmiri prevents an al-Qaida terrorist from executing a massive attack on New York. He must now wade through further traps and conspiracies to thwart a new plot against three democratic nations.
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Under Construction
Title: Under Construction
Character: Imtiaz Ilahi
Released: October 27, 2015
Type: Movie
Roya is a middle-class Muslim woman that struggles to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. When she discovers that she will be replaced by a younger actor for the role of Nandini —a central character of Rabindranath Tagore’s political play Red Oleanders —she battles to reconstruct the part, reclaiming her identity and sexuality in the process. As she sets the play in a modern day ready-made garment factory in Dhaka, her journey to establish her individuality is juxtaposed with the journey of her housemaid Moyna, who later joins the industrial workforce.
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The Last Poem
Title: The Last Poem
Character: Amit
Released: August 7, 2015
Type: Movie
The film recounts the love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labanya in a car accident and the romance builds up in the misty hills of Shillong. The iconoclastic Amit clashes with the sincerely simple Labanya. Labanya releases Amit's own submerged depth of sincerity, which he finds hard to adjust to. The struggle makes him a curiously pathetic figure. The tragedy is understood by the girl who releases him from his troth and disappears from his life.
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Dil Dhadakne Do
Title: Dil Dhadakne Do
Character: Manav Sangha
Released: June 4, 2015
Type: Movie
On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.
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Sondhey Namaar Aagey
Title: Sondhey Namaar Aagey
Released: November 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A young woman sets out to find the truth behind her mother's death after she receives a letter from her father, 16 years after his execution for her murder, claiming he was framed.
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Vishwaroopam
Title: Vishwaroopam
Character: Omar Qureshi
Released: January 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is happy in his marriage with Nirupama, a nuclear oncologist who married him to pursue higher studies in the USA. Deciding to cut ties with her husband, Nirupama hires a private detective to monitor his activities. To her utter shock, certain truths about her husband are subsequently revealed, setting off a chain of events that will change both of their lives irreversibly.
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Midnight's Children
Title: Midnight's Children
Character: Zulfikar
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.
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Laptop
Title: Laptop
Character: Indra
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a stolen Laptop which becomes a witness of the lives of those who own it from time-to-time, connecting all of them in the process.
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Kucch Luv Jaisaa
Title: Kucch Luv Jaisaa
Character: Raghav Passport
Released: May 27, 2011
Type: Movie
After getting bored with her love less marriage life, a wife decides to get a breathe of fresh air and meets a hit man.
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I Am
Title: I Am
Character: Jay Gowda
Released: April 29, 2011
Type: Movie
I Am is a 2011 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares the common theme of fear and each is also based on real life stories. The film was financed by donations from more than 400 different people around the world, many of whom donated through social networking sites like Facebook. There are four stories but the characters are interwoven with each story. "Abhimanyu" is based on child abuse, "Omar" on gay rights, "Megha" is about Kashmiri Pandits and "Afia" deals with sperm donation. I Am was released with subtitles in all regions as six different languages are spoken in the film: Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Kashmiri.
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The Japanese Wife
Title: The Japanese Wife
Character: Snehamoy Chatterjee
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Snehmoy and Miyage are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a young widow, Sandhya, comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife.
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Fired
Title: Fired
Character: Joy Mittal
Released: January 29, 2010
Type: Movie
At the H.W.L.S HEAD OFFICE in LONDON, the egotistical maniac Joy Mittal the CEO of the company, decides to repair his scandal-ridden work record and prove to himself and his partners that he can, indeed, care for his family and be an able leader in an economic meltdown that effects everyone. He is responsible of firing almost half the employees in London and implement major cut-downs. In the turmoil that follows he decides to sack the manager RUBY, a 29-year-old seductress with whom he has been having an affair that affects his personal as well as his professional life. After a day of ultimate stress Joy finally decides to finish off all his paperwork and stand proud in front of his partners for a board meeting that will definitely change his life. Almost after 5 hours of the firing incident, the final two hours in the office is a stressful event.
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Dil Kabaddi
Title: Dil Kabaddi
Character: Rishi Sharma
Released: December 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Rishi Sharma and his wife, Simi, are hoping for news of a baby when their friends Samit and Mita call them together. Shockingly however, they are announcing their separation.
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Tahaan
Title: Tahaan
Character: Zafar
Released: September 5, 2008
Type: Movie
A tender fable about childhood innocence amid the realities of war is set against the rugged landscape of Kashmir, so long a flash point for the territorial claims of neighboring India and Pakistan. The title character, an eight year old mountain boy, often hears distant gunfire. But it is not until he goes on a quest to reclaim his beloved donkey, which has been confiscated as payment of his poor family's debts, that he is drawn toward a violence he has no capacity to understand.
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Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam
Title: Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam
Character: Arjun Rastogi
Released: August 21, 2008
Type: Movie
When the Kalakar Theatre Company, a theatre group in Goa, attempts to stage a political drama, the local authorities close down the play and force them to perform a more traditional play, a stage version of Mughal-E-Azam. The company then discovers that an underworld don is engineering a bomb blast to shake confidence in the Indian government. The drama company forms a plan to save the entire city from the blast.
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Title: Khatron Ke Khiladi
Character: Contestant
Released: July 21, 2008
Type: TV
Twelve celebrity contestants face their worst fears and perform a series of death-defying stunts under the supervision of a host to win the coveted title.
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Shaurya
Title: Shaurya
Character: Major Siddhant Kumar Chaudhary
Released: April 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Maj. Siddhant Chaudhary, an Indian Army lawyer, attempts to defend Capt. Javed Khan who is accused of killing a decorated officer. The problem is that Khan does not wish to be defended and freely admits to his crime.
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Antaheen
Title: Antaheen
Character: Abhik
Released: January 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain each of them goes through.
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Before the Rains
Title: Before the Rains
Character: T. K. Neelan
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.
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Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii
Title: Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii
Character: Varun Roy
Released: June 22, 2007
Type: Movie
An orphan boy with dreams of finding a family and fame as a cricketer, finds a bat with magical powers and lands a spot in the Indian cricket team.
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Anuranan
Title: Anuranan
Character: Rahul Chatterjee
Released: November 28, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of two couples - each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as individuals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that creates a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future.
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Pyaar Ke Side Effects
Title: Pyaar Ke Side Effects
Character: Siddharth Bose
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Siddharth Bose lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Delhi along with his mother, and sister, Shalini. Their dad had abandoned them years ago. Shalini gets married to Kapil Sharma and moves in with him, while Siddharth works as a DJ with his friend, known simply as Nanoo. While performing for a ceremony, where Punjabi-speaking Trisha Mallick is about to wed India's youngest C.E.O., Vivek Chaddha, Siddharth sneaks in to use the bathroom and finds out that the bride does not love the groom and is about to run away. He manages to convince her to stay put, uses the facility and leaves. He meets her six months later in Mumbai, and he finds out that she did run away, both are attracted to each other and start living together fairly harmoniously, even though Trisha is taller than him.
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15 Park Avenue
Title: 15 Park Avenue
Character: Joydeep
Released: January 6, 2006
Type: Movie
An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta. The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for her family and carer for her sister Meethi whose progression into schizophrenia has been speed ed up by traumatic experiences. Anjali has always dominated the life of her attractive younger sister, and jealously warded off Meethi's handsome fiancé Jojo with fear of Meethi's impending illness. Years later when Meethi and Anjali are on holiday in the Hills there is a chance meeting with Jojo, now with his new wife and children. He is shocked to discover that Meethi does not now recognize him, but lives in a world visited by an imaginary husband and children of her own.
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15 Park Avenue
Title: 15 Park Avenue
Released: January 6, 2006
Type: Movie
An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta. The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for her family and carer for her sister Meethi whose progression into schizophrenia has been speed ed up by traumatic experiences. Anjali has always dominated the life of her attractive younger sister, and jealously warded off Meethi's handsome fiancé Jojo with fear of Meethi's impending illness. Years later when Meethi and Anjali are on holiday in the Hills there is a chance meeting with Jojo, now with his new wife and children. He is shocked to discover that Meethi does not now recognize him, but lives in a world visited by an imaginary husband and children of her own.
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Silsiilay
Title: Silsiilay
Character: Neil Kashyap
Released: June 17, 2005
Type: Movie
An account of the lives of three women who are not connected to each other.
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Memories in the Mist
Title: Memories in the Mist
Character: Son
Released: June 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A man struggles with his memories of his powerful father.
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White Noise
Title: White Noise
Character: Karan
Released: December 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A newly arrived film editor (Rahul Bose) in Mumbai, and his chance encounter with Gauri (Koel Purie), whose beauty and complexities intrigue him. Gauri seeks refuge in work and drink, suffering from depression after ending a long relationship with her former boss, Pawan (Aryan Vaid), who is now married. Headhunter Malhotra (Jatin Siyal) hires Gauri and hopes she will resurrect one of his fading on-going television soaps, Pavitra Aarti.
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Title: Koffee with Karan
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: TV
Celebrity host Karan Johar gets up close and personal with various Bollywood personalities and discusses their major career milestones.
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Chameli
Title: Chameli
Character: Aman Kapoor
Released: December 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general.
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Mumbai Matinee
Title: Mumbai Matinee
Character: Debashish (Debu) Chatterjee
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
Debu Chatterjee is in his 30s, and is chided by everyone he knows as a "virgin". Tired of being stereotyped in this manner, he confides in Baba Hindustani, and Pyarelal about his predicament, and they offer to help him out, with hilarious results. Then one day, while watching a movie in a theater, Debu is shocked to see himself in an adult sex film...
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Jhankaar Beats
Title: Jhankaar Beats
Character: Rishi Bhalla
Released: June 19, 2003
Type: Movie
This movie was a tribute to R. D. Burman. Jhankaar Beats is a story about love, friendship and music. Two copywriter brothers have lost in pop music contest called Jhankaar Beats for the last two years. They take the help of an apprentice to compete in a music contest.
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Ek Din 24 Ghante
Title: Ek Din 24 Ghante
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Set in a hectic world that takes place in 24 Ghante, this film features Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Kabir Sadanand, Vineet Kumar, Shiv Subramaniam, Shilpa Mehta, Jayant Wadekar and Baby Nidh. Hailed as a groundbreaking Bollywood opus, it takes chances with its structure, plot and storyline to deliver a breakneck drama in a conceptually challenging fashion.
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Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Iyer
Character: Jehangir "Raja" Chowdhury
Released: July 19, 2002
Type: Movie
A bus is setting out to Calcutta from a village in West Bengal. Meenakshi Iyer, who is from a strict orthodox Hindu background, is leaving to Chennai for her husband, with her young child, after the vacation with her parents. By chance, she gets a co-passenger who is also to Chennai, Rajah, a photographer, introduced by one of the friends of her father. During the journey they build a good relationship. But a Hindu-Muslim communal riot sets out in the meantime, in some areas they had to travel. Then she comes to face the fact that Rajah is not a Hindu but a Muslim whose real name is Jehangir. Even though she curses herself at that time while some Hindu fanatics evade their bus she saves him introducing as Mr. Iyer. But they have to reach their destination while the other passengers know Rajah as no one else but Mr. Iyer.
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Title: Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
Character: Himself
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: TV
Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.
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Everybody Says I'm Fine!
Title: Everybody Says I'm Fine!
Released: September 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Everybody Says I'm Fine! is an Indian English language film, released on 12 September 2001 at the Toronto Film Festival. It marks the directorial debut of Indian actor Rahul Bose. For his work on Everybody Says I'm Fine! Bose won the runner-up John Schlesinger Award for best directorial debut at the 2003 Palm Springs International Film Festival.The film revolves around a small group of elite Mumbaikars whose lives converge at a hairdresser's salon. The protagonist Xen owns the salon and has a unique gift of connecting with the minds of his clients and reading their thoughts while at work. Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.
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Thakshak
Title: Thakshak
Character: Sunny
Released: December 2, 1999
Type: Movie
Nahar Singh's (Amrish Puri) fore-fathers and he have sworn to protect the family and heirs of powerful underworld don, Jodhabhai and his heirs for generations. Nahar would like his son, Ishaan (Ajay Devgan) to continue this tradition, to which he is willing as he friendly with Jodhabhai's son, Sunny (Rahul Bose). Ishaan's vow begins to falter when he falls in love with Suman Dev (Tabu). Things gets even more complicated when Suman comes forward to testify that she witnessed Sunny's car being driven from the scene of a multiple homicide. Sunny finds this out and asks Ishaan to chose between him and Suman, and Ishaan choses Suman. Things escalate out of control when Nahar is killed; and Ishaan becomes a prime suspect in the multiple-family homicide.
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Split Wide Open
Title: Split Wide Open
Character: KP / Kut Price
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A search for a lost street girl in midst of exposés of modern sexual behaviour in Bombay and a water mafia in the city, this is a real 'split wide open' of the Indian glamour capital.
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Bombay Boys
Title: Bombay Boys
Character: Ricardo
Released: September 14, 1998
Type: Movie
Krishna alias Kris Sahani lives in New York, but decides to travel to his homeland in order to act in a movie. While Ricardo Fernandes leaves Australia to travel to Bombay in search of his missing brother, Roger. And finally, Zeres Mistry, from London also travels to Bombay to find his true love. The paths of all three NRIs cross in the taxi to Colaba, and they decide to stick together. They find an apartment, owned by a gay landlord, Pesi Shroff, who openly and lovingly eyes a visibly uncomfortable Zeres. Things do not go well for Kris as he is asked by Filmmaker, Don Mastana, to act in a movie that is slated to be the worst movie in Bollywood history. Ricardo finds himself at the mercy of the local police, who make it clear to him that they have better things to do than look for his missing brother. It is only a matter of time before the hapless trio to realize that their respective hopes and dreams are soon to turn to hopelessness and nightmares - from which there is no escape.
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Bomgay
Title: Bomgay
Released: December 22, 1996
Type: Movie
Based on the poetry of R. Raj Rao, Bomgay is a collection of six vignettes that depict the underground and complex nature of the gay identity in urban India. Part Genet, part Bollywood, this film combines acidic verse and insightful imagery to reveal the emerging gay community in the post-liberalized India of the 1990s.
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English, August
Title: English, August
Character: Agastya Sen
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Agasyta, an urban bengali who seamlessly shuttles between Ella Fitzgerald and Rabindra Sangeet, joins the Indian administration service and gets posted in the lap of India's hinterland - a dingy little town called Madna.
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Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama
Title: Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama
Character: Bharata (voice) (English)
Released: December 5, 1992
Type: Movie
In Ayodhya, the royal palace of Kosala Kingdom in Ancient India, four princes were born to three queens, each of whom grew to great stature. Banished for 14 years due to court intrigue, Prince Rama retreated to the forest with his beautiful wife Sita. When Rama vanquishes the demons of the forest, he invites the wrath of the demon king Ravana, who kidnaps Sita. Based on the Indian epic the Ramayana.
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Binodiini
Title: Binodiini
Character: Rangababu
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Binodini Dasi, a prostitute, who has a knack for theatre, manages to garner a lot of attention because of her performances.
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Madam Sengupta
Title: Madam Sengupta
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A famous cartoonist gets entangled in a mystery.