Barry John

M Cream (2016)

, 1h54
Genres Drame, Comédie, Aventure
Acteurs Imaad Shah, Ira Dubey, Tom Alter, Barry John, Lushin Dubey, Auritra Ghosh
Rôle Vishnu Das
Note55%

Figs is the typical cynic one finds lurking in the expansive lawns of Delhi University. Entangled in a web of drugged out delirium, he’s the quintessential rebel. His world is thrown into disarray when his conservative parents begin to chalk out a strategy for his future. Things only become worse when a sudden scarcity of hash deprives Figs of his favourite pastime. Unable to cope with the situation, Figs joins forces with his best friend Maggie on a quest to attain M Cream, a mythical form of hash. They hastily devise a plan to trek to the far reaches of the Himalayas in pursuit of this goal. Maggie ropes in her boyfriend Niz, who’s purportedly headed to the hills on a photo assignment. Unbeknownst to Figs, the trio is joined by Jay, a close friend of Niz. Chaos ensues as the reckless travelers journey across the Himalayan expanse. The road trip results in a series of unexpected encounters that begin to unravel the myriad realities of rebellion. Difficult choices are made and uncomfortable sides are taken as Figs and the others begin to comprehend the mysterious ways of the world we live in.

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Chittagong (2012)

Réalisé par Bedabrata Pain
Genres Drame, Guerre, Action
Acteurs Manoj Bajpayee, Vega Tamotia, Jaideep Ahlawat, Barry John, Alexx O'Nell, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Rôle Wilkinson
Note72%

The story is set against the backdrop of a little-known saga in 1930s British Colonial India (now Bangladesh) where a group of schoolboys and young women, led by a schoolteacher Masterda Surya Sen (Manoj Bajpai), dared to take on the Empire. Chittagong is the story of a diffident 14-year-old boy, Jhunku (Delzad Hiwale). Swept up into this seemingly impossible mission, the reluctant teenager battles with self-doubts to achieve an improbable triumph.

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Tere Bin Laden (2010)

, 1h34
Genres Comédie
Acteurs Piyush Mishra, Ali Zafar, Sugandha Garg, Rahul Singh, Barry John, Chinmay Mandlekar
Rôle Ted-ji
Note71%

Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar) is a reporter with Danka TV, a downmarket local TV channel in Karachi, Pakistan. He is keen to migrate to the US for a better life and wants to work for an American news channel. He gets a chance to fly to the US, but ruins it on board while filming his own audition. He recites the words "Hijack" and "Bomb" too many times; thus scaring his fellow passengers and flight crew. As soon as he reaches the USA, he is deported. Furthermore, because of this incident his visa application is rejected six times in seven years. While covering a local event for his channel, he comes across an Osama Bin Laden look-alike, Noora (Pradhuman Singh), and hits upon an idea to make a fake Osama tape. He manages to convince his assistant Gul (Nikhil Ratnaparkhi) about the merits of his plan. With help from his travel agent's assistant Zoya (Sugandha Garg) and a local radio jockey Qureshi (Rahul Singh), he is able to make the tape by tricking Noora into unknowingly posing as Bin Laden. He then sells the tape to the owner of his channel, hoping to raise money for a new false identity, a new passport and a renewed attempt at getting the elusive US visa. However, the gravity of their action strikes them when the US Government takes the tape seriously and gets involved, as do the Pakistani intelligence agencies. Noora, too, comes to know about the trick played upon him and goes into hiding in his house.

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Thanks Maa (2010)

Genres Drame, Comédie
Acteurs Alok Nath, Rasika Dugal, Raghubir Yadav, Sanjay Mishra, Ranvir Shorey, Mukta Barve
Note79%

A 12-year-old street kid named Municipality, while on the run from the reformatory, finds and saves a two-day-old abandoned child from being prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people he deemed responsible & respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the child's mother himself. Here onwards ensues his struggle in the urban jungle of Mumbai with just four of his friends from the streets - Soda (15), Sursuri (10), Cutting (8), & Dhed-shaana (6).

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Barah Aana (2009)

, 1h37
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Comédie
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Arjun Mathur, Naseeruddin Shah, Violante Placido, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Vijay Raaz, Jayati Bhatia
Rôle Yuri
Note66%

Barah Aana a pour personnages principaux trois amis et colocataires vivant à Mumbai : Shukla (Naseeruddin Shah) est chauffeur, Yadav (Vijay Raaz) surveillant à l'entrée d'un immeuble, Aman (Arjun Mathur) serveur dans un restaurant. Un jour Yadav découvre accidentellement qu'il peut être très rentable de kidnapper des gens riches puis de les libérer contre rançon. Ne supportant plus la pauvreté ni les humiliations qui l'accompagnent, les trois hommes décident d'en faire leur gagne-pain.

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The Great Indian Butterfly (2007)

, 1h34
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Koel Purie, Barry John, Shibani Kashyap
Note60%

A planned vacation to Goa goes awry for two stressed-out Mumbai-based employees, after Krish (Aamir Bashir) oversleeps, and as a result he and his wife, Meera (Sandhya Mridul) miss the plane. They, nevertheless, decide to make use of their time and drive there by car so that he can locate and view The Great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by the unknown Portuguese explorer Carodiguez, in a remote Karthikey valley located in erstwhile colonial Goa, the butterfly possesses a magical aura, granting immense happiness to the person who catches it.

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Miss Beatty's Children (1992)

, 1h52
Réalisé par Pamela Rooks
Genres Drame
Acteurs Jenny Seagrove, Faith Brook, D. W. Moffett, Barry John, Rituraj Singh
Rôle John Wescott
Note60%

The film is set in 1936 in South India, when Jane, an English schoolteacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mabel Forster, a Christian missionary, who runs a mission school, and works towards young girls from being sold into temple prostitution. She has Kamla Devi, a senior temple woman as her opponent. Once when Mabel has gone away Jane finds herself trapped in a local controversy. She rescues an ANglo-Indian girl and takes her to Ooty, but back in the town she is accused of kidnapping. However she manages to find help with an American doctor, Alan Chandler. Eventually she adopts Amber, and rescues several more children.

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Tamas (1987)

, 4h34
Réalisé par Govind Nihalani
Genres Drame
Thèmes Religion, Politique
Acteurs Om Puri, Bhisham Sahni, Amrish Puri, Deepa Sahi, Manohar Singh, Dina Pathak
Rôle Richard
Note88%

Nathu (Om Puri), a Chamar, is finishing his work in his shop when the thekedar (Pankaj Kapur) walks in and asks him to entice a pig from a nearby piggery into his shop and kill it for the Veterinary doctor who needs it for medical purposes. Nathu tries to decline saying he has never killed a pig before and doesn't have the necessary skill for it, offering instead to tan the hide if required provided the people from the piggery kill it. Thekedar insists that he wants Nathu to do it and gives him 5 rupees for it and leaves the shop saying that the work must be done by morning when the jamadar will come to take the carcass.

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Massey Sahib (1986)

, 2h4
Réalisé par Pradip Krishen
Genres Drame
Acteurs Raghubir Yadav, Barry John, Virendra Saxena, Arundhati Roy, Hemant Mishra
Note75%

The film is set in 1929, in a small town in Central India. Francis Massey (Raghubir Yadav) is a clerk in the Deputy Commissioner's office in the colonial administration of British India. He aspires to be like the colonial rulers, and thinks of himself as different from his Indian compatriots. In his wish to help the rulers – in particular, his immediate superior, Deputy Commissioner Charles Adam (Barry John) – he adopts methods that are irregular. Adam's dream project of building a road through the forest is stuck for lack of funds. Massey manages to get it completed using a mixture of manipulation, persuasion and threats. To his surprise, he is accused of corruption by the very boss whom he had meant to help, and who had condoned his earlier transgressions. His wife too is forcefully taken back by her family. He turns for help to his friend Banaji (Veerendra Saxena) to get his wife back.Banaji refuses to help him. In an act of frustrated rage, Massey kills Banaji. He is arrested for murder, and Adam advises him to plead guilty to accidental manslaughter. However, Massey refuses, secure in the belief that his Adam Sahib will help him out, leading to the tragic denouement.

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Gandhi (1982)

, 3h11
Réalisé par Richard Attenborough
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Biographie, Aventure, Historique
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale, Le racisme
Acteurs Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Martin Sheen, Edward Fox, Roshan Seth, John Gielgud
Rôle Police Superintendent
Note79%

Le film retrace différents éléments célèbres de la vie de Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi et de la lutte pour l'indépendance indienne. Ainsi, on assiste au combat pour les droits civils en Afrique du Sud au début du siècle, à la création de l'Ashram de Sabarmati, au massacre d'Amristar et au mouvement de désobéissance civile qui l'a suivie, à la marche du sel, à la mort de sa femme lors de sa captivité, à l'indépendance et la partition de l'Inde et enfin à son assassinat le 30 janvier 1948.

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