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Delhi Belly

Delhi Belly is an Indian Bollywood comedy film shot primarily in English with little Hindi,directed by Abhinay Deo, starring Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Poorna Jagannathan, Vir Das and Shenaz Treasurywala. The film, written by Akshat Verma, is produced by Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures. The theatrical trailer of the film premièred with Aamir Khan's Dhobi Ghat on January 21, 2011 while the film was released on July 1, 2011.The film was given an 'A' certificate for its adult language and content.

Plot:

The film revolves around three room-mates, Tashi Malhotra (Imran Khan), Nitin Beri (Kunaal Roy Kapur) and Arup (Vir Das) leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life. Tashi's girlfriend Sonia (Shenaz Treasurywala) agrees to deliver a package for Vladimir Dragunsky (Kim Bodnia). Sonia then asks Tashi to deliver the package. Tashi, in turn, asks Nitin to do so. But Nitin is unable to do so as he is experiencing 'Delhi Belly'. The Package keeps floating around and is finally handed to the recipient, a gangster named Somayajulu (Vijay Raaz) by Arup. Apart from the package, Arup also has to deliver another package which contains Nitin's stool sample to Nitin's doctor. He mixes up the two which makes Somayajulu furious and he starts the investigation by interrogating Vladimir. Meanwhile Nitin manages to photograph his landlord with a prostitute. So he sends a parcel to his landlord which contains a copy of the photographs. Sonia is with Tashi when his co-journalist Menaka (Poorna Jagannathan) calls him for an important work. When he reaches the place he realizes that it is just a party and Menaka had called him just to have fun. Menaka's ex-husband Rajiv has an altercation with Tashi and hits him on the eye. Tashi retaliates and knocks Rajiv out. As Tashi and Menaka leave they are chased by furious Rajiv and his friends. Tashi and Menaka manage to barely escape.

Vladimir informs Somayajulu that the mix-up must have been caused by Sonia as she didn't know what she was carrying in the package. Somayajulu calls Sonia, informs her about the mix-up and asks her to give him the address of the person who was delivered the package. When Tashi arrives at his apartment he notices that Somayajulu has taken the place under his control making Arup stand on a stool whilst his neck is tied with a tie to the ceiling. On interrogating, Somayajulu discovers the location of his package.

Nitin gets the package from his doctor's office which Somayajulu snatches and opens. Inside it are thirty diamonds. He examines them and orders his men to kill everyone. One of them pushes the stool on which Arup was standing. The other one gets ready to kill Tashi. Meanwhile, the fan to which Arup was tied falls down along with the ceiling and injures most of Somayajulu's men. Tashi, Arup and Nitin escape along with the diamonds and spend the night at Maneka's place. The next day they sell the diamonds to a local jewellery shop owner. They celebrate their good fortune which is cut short by Somayajulu's call saying if he doesn't get his diamonds back, he will be killing Sonia. The trio, feeling disgusted, goes to get the diamonds from the jewellery shop owner, only to be told that they will have to pay him double.

The trio starts worrying when Tashi comes up with a plan. Nitin, Arup, Tashi and Maneka disguise themselves in burqa and go to the jewellery shop. They con the owner, take back and their diamonds and gives him back his money. They then go the hotel where Sonia is held by Somayajulu. On the other hand the police is after Tashi's car. Tashi, Arup and Nitin reach the hotel room and see Sonia. They ask Somayajulu to leave her and take the diamonds. Meanwhile the police arrive at the hotel room and start shooting. Somayajulu and his gangsters fire in return.

In the end, only Nitin, Arup, Tashi and Sonia survive the gun fire. Menaka is upset to learn about Tashi's engagement and leaves him. Tashi breaks off his engagement to Sonia. Later it is revealed that Nitin managed to keep the real cash with him while duping only blank papers to the jewellery shop owner. The film ends when Menaka comes over to Tashi's to hand over his car's wheel cover lost during the escape form Rajiv and tells him that she is returning forever. Tashi however manages to jump into her car through the open window and kisses her.

Producer-actor Aamir Khan is seen performing an item song during the closing credits of the film.

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Monpura

Monpura also (Bengali: মনপুরা), is a Bengali language film set in Bangladesh.[2] Directed by Gias Uddin Selim,.[3] Monpura is film based on romance in a rural scenario. The debut film of Gias Uddin Selim received huge media hype even before its release. The shooting of the film was started in June 2007. It was shot in different places including Dhunot (Bogra), Kushtia and Dhaka.

The film 'Monpura' has the star casting which is not based on glamour of face but the glamour of acting. Chanchal Chowdhury plays the role of Sonai. New Actress Farhana Mili plays the role of Pori (daughter of a boatman). And the young couple are well supported by veteran actors Mamunur Rashid and Fazlur Rahman Babu.

Plot:
Shonai Mia is a servant at a rich man’s house. The rich man lives with his wife, mentally challenged (crazy) son Halim. Halim’s legs are tied every day so that he doesn’t do anything wrong. One day, Halim requests his mom to take off the cuffs and she asks Shonai to take them off. Halim kills a young woman. When, Shonai tells this to his master (Halim's dad), he said that Shonai will go to jail for opening his cuffs.  He puts Shonai in a deserted island (named Monpura) where he lives with goats, cows and birds and lives in a small hut. One day a fisherman comes to catch fish in a boat in his island with his young daughter whose name is Pori. Shonai and Pori fall in love with each other at first sight. Pori keeps pushing her father to go fishing in Shonai’s island. One day, she comes to Monpura alone in a boat. Shonai and Pori tell each other that they love each other. They meet few times and have a romantic and great time together.
On the other hand, Halim’s dad introduces his son to a spiritual priest. The priest suggests him to marry his son to a girl and that will make him better. When Halim’s dad (Shonai’s master) visits Shonai in Monpura, he sees Pori with Shonai and he wants Halim to marry Pori. Shonai protests that he should go to Pori’s dad with marriage proposal for Shonai. But, he goes to Pori’s dad with marriage offer for his own son Halim. Pori’s dad is hesitant at first to get Pori married to a crazy man but he gives two conditions. He wants to see Halim first and Halim’s dad has to give all his properties to Pori’s dad. Shonai and Pori decide to runaway together. On the night of their planned escape, Pori lights fire so that Shonai can see which direction to swim to and to swim to her village. But, unfortunately police comes and takes Shonai to jail. Pori’s dad sees Halim and agrees on the marriage and he is given all properties by Halim’s dad.
   Pori is forced to marry Halim. She is scared of her husband’s crazy, childish and immature behaviors. She sleeps with her mother-in-law in fear of her husband. Few days later, Pori is asked to sleep with her husband Halim. Halim is excited and starts bothering his wife and she threatens him not to come near her. Shonai spends depressing time in jail waiting to be released. Pori’s mother-in-law lies to Pori that Shonai will be hung to death on Friday at 12, so that she forgets him forever. After not finding evidence against Shonai, he is released from jail. Pori becomes more and more depressed everyday. At 12, when Pori thought Shonai would be hung, she drinks poison and commits suicide. Shonai comes to Pori’s in-law’s house to say few things to Pori, before he leaves. But, he is heartbroken when he knows that she has committed suicide for him. After she is buried, Shonai cries, rows out to the ocean and lets go of his oars, floating wherever the ocean takes him.

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Six Days Seven Nights

Six Days Seven Nights is a 1998 romantic comedy film interspersed with elements of an adventure film. The screenplay was written by Alan Miller. The movie, filmed on location in Kauai, is directed by Ivan Reitman. It stars Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, and Temuera Morrison. It was released on June 12, 1998.

Plot:
Robin Monroe (Anne Heche), a New York journalist working for Dazzle, a fashion magazine, is invited by her boyfriend Frank (David Schwimmer) to spend a week holiday with him on the island paradise of Makatea in the South Pacific. The final leg of their journey, the couple fly to Makatea in a small dilapidated aircraft (DHC-2 Beaver) piloted by middle-aged American Quinn Harris (Harrison Ford) and accompanied by his girlfriend, Angelica (Jacqueline Obradors).

Frank has told Robin that they are doing this because he "wants to increase the romance in our relationship."

Thus romance is postponed as Robin, a workaholic, is called away to Tahiti by her boss, to supervise a fashion event. She hires Quinn to fly her there, but an unexpected thunderstorm forces him to crash-land them on a deserted island.

Fighting for survival on the island, Quinn and Robin inadvertently become witnesses to modern-day piracy.

The vast majority of the film deals with the adventures (often comic in nature) of Quinn and Robin as they try to evade the pirates and survive in the island's jungle wilderness. In the process, Quinn and Robin fall in love, despite their initial dislike towards one another.

Meanwhile, Angelica and Frank are forging their own relationship.

After a narrow escape, Quinn and Robin eventually succeed in getting their plane airworthy again and they fly back to Makatea, where decisions await them.

Quinn and Robin reveal their feelings for each other after Frank and Robin break up. The movie ends with Quinn and Robin embracing and kissing each other.

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Ice Age

 Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated film created by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge from a story by Michael J. Wilson. The story follows three Paleolithical mammals attempting to return a lost human baby to its parents. The film stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, and Goran Visnjic.

The film was originally to be directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, and produced in 2D by Fox Animation Studios, but the rise of CGI animation and the failure of Titan A.E. destroyed Fox's traditional animation division; hence, Bluth and Goldman transferred their duties for Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha from Fox's CGI division Blue Sky. The film was met with mostly positive reviews and was a box office success, starting a series with three sequels, Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Ice Age: Continental Drift.

Plot
The film begins with a sabre-toothed squirrel (known as Scrat) who is trying to find a location to store his prized acorn. Eventually, as he tries to hide it, he causes an avalanche. He barely escapes, but finds himself stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals. The animals are trying to avoid the ice age by migrating south. Sid, a clumsy Megalonyx sloth left behind by his family, is attacked by two Brontops whom he angered. Sid is soon saved by Manfred ("Manny"), an agitated mammoth who fights them off. Not wanting to be alone and unprotected, Sid follows Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pride wants revenge on a group of humans by eating the chief's baby son, Roshan, alive. There is an attack on the human camp, causing Roshan's mother to be separated from the rest and jump into a waterfall. Soto's lieutenant, Diego, is sent to find and bring the baby back. Sid and Manny spot Roshan and his mother near the lake, having survived her trip over the waterfall. The mother only has enough strength to trust her baby to Manny before she disappears. After much persuasion by the sloth, they decide to return Roshan (nicknamed "Pinky") but when they get to the human camp, the humans are gone. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair to let him help by tracking the humans. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them to an ambush. Soon they reach a cave where Sid and Diego learn about Manny's past and his previous interactions with the humans, where his wife and son were killed, leaving Manny a cynical loner. At one time the group passes a flying saucer embedded in clear ice. At the end of the film, Diego, Manny and Sid battle Soto's pack and a short fight ensues. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego leaps and stops Soto, who wounds Diego in the process. Manny, in vengeance, knocks Soto into a wall of rocks, where sharp icicles fall on Soto, killing him. Manny and Sid manage to return the baby to his tribe, and Diego rejoins them, as the group begins to head off to warmer climates.

Subplot
There is also a subplot where Scrat the squirrel makes many comical attempts to bury his beloved acorn. His misfortunes include getting chased by an enormous glacier, being struck by lightning, attempting to thaw out the acorn by a fire too long so that it accidentally took the form of a kernel of popcorn, and finally getting frozen in ice along with his much sought after nut. At the end, 20,000 years later (the present), Scrat is frozen in an ice cube that washes up on the shore of tropical island. The sun slowly melts the cube, bringing Scrat back to life but the acorn, which is just out of his reach ends up being washed away by the tide. Scrat then explodes out of the ice cube in anger and hits his head repetitively on a tree, which drops a coconut. Believing it to be a giant acorn, Scrat's anger immediately turns to glee at this new find. He tries to pack it into the ground as he did previously with his acorns, but in the process causes a volcanic eruption, mirroring the opening scene when Scrat causes a break in the ice with an acorn.


The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same time periods or the same geographic regions.

Manfred "Manny", a woolly mammoth, is voiced by Ray Romano
Sid, a giant ground sloth, is voiced by John Leguizamo
Diego, a Smilodon, is voiced by Denis Leary
Soto, a Smilodon, is voiced by Goran Visnjic
Zeke, a Smilodon, is voiced by Jack Black
Oscar, a Smilodon, is voiced by Diedrich Bader
Lenny, a Smilodon, voiced by Alan Tudyk
Scrat, a fictional "saber-toothed" squirrel, is voiced by Chris Wedge
Carl, a Brontops, is voiced by Cedric the Entertainer
Frank, a Brontops, is voiced by Stephen Root
Rachel, a female sloth, is voiced by Jane Krakowski
Jennifer, a female sloth, is voiced by Lorri Bagley

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Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and the film won both the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Plot

The first half of the movie is a whimsical, romantic, somewhat slapstick comedy set in the years before World War II. Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), a young Italian Jew, arrives in Arezzo, where he plans to set up a bookstore, taking a job as a waiter at his uncle's hotel.

Guido is both funny and charismatic, especially when he romances a local school teacher, Dora, saying she is beautiful like the morning sunrise (portrayed by Benigni's actual wife Nicoletta Braschi). Dora, however, comes from a wealthy, aristocratic, non-Jewish Italian family. Dora's mother wants her to marry a well-to-do civil servant, but Dora falls instead for Guido where he ends up stealing her away at her engagement party from her aristocratic and arrogant fiancé.

Several years pass in which Guido and Dora marry and have a son, Giosuè (Giorgio Cantarini).

Dora and her mother (Marisa Paredes) are estranged due to the unequal marriage. Later on, a reconciliation takes place just prior to Giosuè's fourth birthday.

In the second half of the film, World War II has already begun. Guido, Uncle Eliseo and Giosuè are forced onto a train and taken to a concentration camp on Giosuè's birthday. Despite being a non-Jew, Dora demands to be on the same train to join her family and is permitted to do so.

In the camp, Guido hides his son from the Nazi guards, sneaks him food and tries to humor him. In an attempt to keep up Giosuè's spirits, Guido convinces him that the camp is just a game, in which the first person to get 1,000 points wins a tank. He tells him that if he cries, complains that he wants his mother or says that he is hungry, he will lose points, while quiet boys who hide from the camp guards earn points.

Guido convinces Giosuè that the camp guards are mean because they want the tank for themselves and that all the other children are hiding in order to win the game. He puts off Giosuè's requests to end the game and return home by convincing him that they are in the lead for the tank. Despite being surrounded by rampant misery, sickness and death, Giosuè does not question this fiction because of his father's convincing performance and his own innocence.

Guido maintains this story right until the end when, in the chaos caused by the American advance, he tells his son to stay in a sweatbox until everybody has left, this being the final test before the tank is his.

Giosuè manages to survive and thinks he has won the game when an American tank arrives to liberate the camp. In the film, Giosuè is four and a half years old; however, both the beginning and ending of the film are narrated by an older Giosuè recalling his father's story of sacrifice for his family.

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