Mahanagar (1963), Shahid (2012), Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), Mother India (1957), PK (2014), Masaan (2015), Super 30 (2019), Poorna (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Indian Society movies.
Storyline: An Indian woman (Madhabi Mukherjee) becomes the breadwinner when her husband (Anil Chatterjee) loses his banking job.
Plot Keywords: indian cinema, social realism, family drama, female protagonist, urban life, middle class, gender roles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shahid traces the true story of slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi. From attempting to become a terrorist to being wrongly imprisoned under a draconian anti-terrorism law to becoming a criminal lawyer Shahid traces the inspiring personal journey of a boy who became an unlikely messiah for human rights while following the rise of communal violence in India. This story of an impoverished Muslim struggling to come to terms with injustice, inequality and rising above his circumstances is an inspiring testament to the human spirit.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, true story, indian cinema, human rights, legal, social justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
Plot Keywords: crime, gangster, violence, revenge, indian cinema, epic, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film begins with the finishing of a water canal for the village set in the present. Radha (Nargis), as the mother of the village, is asked to open the canal and remembers back to her past when she was newly married, mirroring the new independence of India. The wedding between Radha and Shamu (Raaj Kumar) was paid for by Radha's mother-in-law, who got a loan from the moneylender Sukhilala. This event starts the spiral of poverty and hardship that Radha endures. The conditions of the loan are disputed, but the village elders decide in favor of the moneylender, after which Shamu and Radha are forced to pay three-quarters of their crop as interest on the loan of 500 rupees. While trying to use more of their land to alleviate their poverty, Shamu's arms are crushed by a boulder. He is shamed by his helplessness and is humiliated by others in the village. Deciding that he is no use to his family, he leaves and does not return. Soon after this, Radha's mother-in-law dies. Radha continues to work in the fields with her children and gives birth again. Sukhilala offers to help alleviate her poverty in return for Radha marrying him, but she refuses to sell herself. A storm sweeps through the village that destroys the harvest and kills Radha's youngest child, and the villagers start to migrate but decide to stay and rebuild because of Radha's urging. The film then skips forward several years to when Radha's two surviving children, Birju (Sunil Dutt) and Ramu (Rajendra Kumar), are young men. Birju, embittered by the exactions of Sukhilala since he was a child, takes out his frustrations by pestering the village girls, especially Sukhilala's daughter. Ramu, by contrast, has a calmer temper and is married soon after. He becomes a father ,but his wife is soon absorbed into the cycle of poverty. Birju's anger finally becomes dangerous and, after being provoked, attacks Sukhilala and his daughter and violently lashes out at his family. He is chased out of the village and becomes a bandit. On the day of the wedding of Sukhilala's daughter, Birju returns to exact vengeance. He kills Sukhilala and takes his daughter--but Radha, who had promised that Birju would not do harm, shoots Birju, who dies in her arms. The film ends with her opening the canal and reddish water flowing into the fields.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: drama, family, rural, motherhood, sacrifice, poverty, indian society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: P. K. is a comedy of ideas about a stranger in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People who are set in their ways for generations, are forced to reappraise their world when they see it from PK's innocent eyes. In the process PK makes loyal friends and powerful foes. Mends broken lives and angers the establishment. P. K.'s childlike curiosity transforms into a spiritual odyssey for him and millions of others. The film is an ambitious and uniquely original exploration of complex philosophies. It is also a simple and humane tale of love, laughter and letting-go. Finally, it is a moving saga about a friendship between strangers from worlds apart.—Abhijat Joshi
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, drama, social satire, alien, bollywood, human nature exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy hopelessly in love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, social issues, life and death, coming of age, tragedy, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anand Kumar, a Mathematics genius from a modest family in Bihar who is made to believe that only a King's son can become a king is on a mission to prove that even the poor man can create some of the world's most genius minds. He starts a training program named 'Super 30' to help 30 IIT aspirants crack the entrance test and make them highly successful professionals.—Santhosh
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, inspirational, education, mathematics, indian cinema, based on true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history to climb Mount Everest.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, inspirational, adventure, true story, female protagonist, indian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An SP Amit Kumar who is given charge of Tezpur police station in Bihar. The area is full of corruption, inefficiency, bribery, nepotism, favoritism and crime with help from the local police. Gradually Amit realizes that the local politician Sadhu Yadav is the one who benefits the most out of it. Amit arrests Sunder Yadav, Sadhu's son. While Sunder is released soon, some police officers, get frustrated with the system, and pour acid into the eyes of two of Yadav's men, blinding them. A hue and cry is raised by the media, crime almost comes to a standstill, and the police are regarded with respect. SP Amit Kumar must now put an end to this kind of situation.
Plot Keywords: crime, action, drama, indian cinema, police, corruption, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mumtaz is a village girl whose family is killed in communal riots. She moves to Mumbai with her uncle, the only family member she has left. They are desperately poor and her uncle persuades her to become a bar girl at Chandni Bar. This is merely temporary, he promises, until he gets a job. Mumtaz is a shy girl who loathes the work, but she forces herself to dance and flirt. However, the uncle doesn't keep his promise; he lives on her earnings, drinking them away, and never gets a job. He adds one final, unforgivable crime to the list when he gets drunk and rapes her. By this time she has caught the eye of a gangster called Potiya Sawant. When she tells Potiya what her uncle did to her, Potiya decides to "defend her honor." Potiya shoots the uncle. Mumtaz, bereft of any male protection in the dangerous slums, marries Potiya. She is determined to make the best of things. She leaves the bar and stays home to raise her two children, whom she carefully protects from the world of prostitution and gangs. However, her world unravels again when Potiya is killed. She has to return to the bar to support her children. In the end, she cannot protect them from their sordid surroundings. Her son becomes a killer, her daughter becomes a bar dancer in her turn, and Mumtaz turns to prostitution in a tragic attempt to save her son.—gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, social issues, poverty, prostitution, underworld, mumbai ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rajpal a top lawyer is defending Rahul Dewan son a business tycoon in a hit and run case.Jolly is a small time lawyer who comes to stay with his uncle in Delhi and consider's Rajpal his idol.When he finds hi fellow lawyer has gained fame after filing a PIL in-court against a case.Jolly decides to file against case if Rahul Dewan which will lead to a long a battle between Rajpal and Jolly.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, comedy, satire, legal thriller, indian cinema, bollywood, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following riots in Gujarat, Arati experiences guilt when she did not open her door to shelter an injured Muslim woman. Her husband, Sanjay, had looted merchandise from shops, and his brother, Devan, had even sexually molested Muslim women. A young lad, Mohsin, leaves the safety of an army-guarded camp to look for his father. Meanwhile Music maestro, Jahangir Khan, faces isolation. Sameer Shaikh and his Hindu wife, Anuradha, decide to re-locate to Delhi. Muneera suspects her Hindu friend, Jyoti, of setting her house on fire, while biased police officers continue oppressing Muslims and five Muslim men find a gun and attempt to seek vengeance.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: violence, religious conflict, indian society, genocide, trauma, humanity, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film is a remake of the 2012 Hindi film OMG and is about an atheist Gopala Rao who sues god after losing his shop in an earthquake and the consequences face by him when religious organisations revolt against him and Krishna visits him as a human to guide him.—Dinesh Reddy
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, indian cinema, remake, faith, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Devastated when she is told that that her sister, Jessica Lall, is shot dead by Manish Bhardwaj, the son of Pramod, a Congress party Member of Parliament in Haryana, Delhi-based Sabrina Lall, in the company of her parents, attends the Court to view a charade that will lead to the acquittal of the accused and his accomplices seven years after the incident. Disillusioned by rampart police corruption and inefficiency; a stagnant British introduced legal system; the passing of her mother & the hospitalization of her father, she retreats unto herself. Then foul-mouthed NDTV employee, Meera Gaity, known for being more of an activist than a Journalist, takes an interest in this incident, and uncovers conspiracy & corruption that led to the accused' acquittals - leading to a near India-wide protest. While preparing herself to participate in a candle-lit procession at Delhi's India Gate, Meera will confront Sabrina and will come to know the reasons why the latter refuses to be involved in this situation any more.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: based on a true story, crime, drama, thriller, social justice, murder case, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Keshav and Jaya are from two villages near Mathura where at least 80% of households have no access to lavatories. Conflict comes knocking on the first day of their marriage, when Jaya discovers that Keshav's home has no toilet and she leaves. Distraught and desperate, Keshav embarks on a mission to win back his love by battling against the age-old traditions, mindset, and value system of his country.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, social issue, indian cinema, marriage, cultural conflict, rural life ...
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