Sanjay Batra

Supari (2003)

, 2h32
Genres Drame, Action, Policier
Acteurs Uday Chopra, Rahul Dev, Nandita Das, Purab Kohli, Nauheed Cyrusi, Irrfan Khan
Note44%

Aryan Pandit lives a middle-class lifestyle with his family in Nasik, India, where the entire family depend on his salesman father's earnings. He relocates to Mumbai's St. Andrews College with big dreams of being wealthy and driving a red Ferrari. He befriends three other middle-class youth: Papad, Mushy, and Chicken. He borrows money from Matka Rajan, gambles it, loses everything, and is unable to re-pay. As a result, Rajan sets his goons on him.

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Hathyar: Face to Face with Reality (2002)

Réalisé par Mahesh Manjrekar
Thèmes Gangsters
Acteurs Sanjay Dutt, Shilpa Shetty, Sharad Kapoor, Sanjay Batra, Shakti Kapoor, Usha Nadkarni
Note57%

Hathyar is a narrative which probes into the household of Raghunath (Sanjay Dutt), a dreaded gangster. His bereaved son Rohit (Sanjay Dutt) has to face a lot of flak from the outside world, repeatedly reminding him of the stigma attached to his family because of his father's past. Just like his father, circumstances force Rohit to become a gangster and he gets the name Boxer Bhai. Rohit has weaknesses, he cannot stand any woman being called a prostitute, because his mom, Sonu was one, and he has fallen hard for a married woman, Gauri (Shilpa Shetty), who is enduring a marriage with a phsycially abusive spouse. Rohit snatches her out of this abusive relationshisp and remarries her. But Rohit's problems are far from over. There is a change in the political scenario and Rohit does not find support from any godfather. He is ordered to be arrested - dead or alive.

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Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke (2000)

, 2h47
Réalisé par Raj Kanwar
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Amrish Puri, Sonali Bendre, Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor
Note35%

Karan Khanna (Abhishek Bachchan) est capitaine dans les forces de l’armée de l’air. Il est fou amoureux de la belle top modèle Nisha, avec laquelle il prévoit de se marier à sa prochaine permission. Sur la route vers sa bien-aimée, il croise Sahiba Grewal (Aishwarya Rai), une fille un peu fofolle témoin d’un meurtre, qu'il sauve des hommes de main du meurtrier. Sahiba confie à Karan qu'elle est issue d'une puissante famille d'industriel rajasthani très traditionnelle et que son père projette de la marier avec le fils de son meilleur ami. Pour éviter cette union, la jeune femme a annoncé à ses parents qu'elle s'est déjà mariée et demande à Karan de l'accompagner et de se faire passer pour son époux. Karan accepte et il est immédiatement adopté par la famille Grewal. Mais, toujours amoureux de Nisha, il abandonne Sahiba qui doit se résoudre à avouer la vérité et épouser l'homme choisi par son père. Or celui-ci n'est autre que le meurtrier qui a cherché à la faire tuer.

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Mela (2000)

, 2h52
Réalisé par Dharmesh Darshan
Genres Drame, Comédie, Action, Aventure, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Aamir Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Faisal Khan, Johnny Lever, Tinu Verma, Navneet Nishan
Note37%

The only soldier brother (Ayub Khan) of a young woman, Roopa (Twinkle Khanna), returns to Chandanpur village to arrange her marriage. A festival is arranged in the happiness of Roopa's marriage, however Chandanpur's happiness is short-lived, as the village is raided by a group of terrorists. The leader of the terrorists, Gujjar, (Tinu Verma), murders a politician, and to make matters worse, Roopa's beauty catches the eye of Gujjar. However, as Gujjar attempts to escape with the terrified Roopa, her brother comes to her rescue, only to be slain, much to the horror of the village, especially Roopa. Also, her best friend, Gopal (Master Om Kapoor), is killed too, much to the dismay of Gopal's mother (Tanvi Azmi) who tried to prevent her son from rescuing Roopa (Due to his young age) which is what led Gujjar to kill him. Roopa, enraged by the fact that her brother and Gopal are no more, vows vengance. Gujjar threatens Roopa that she will only be his mistress and will never be able to have a brother nor lover. Enraged, Roopa attempts to commit suicide by jumping into a waterfall as she finds it better to kill herself rather than be a mistress. Destiny has other plans as Roopa survives and she steals the clothes of Kishan (Aamir Khan), a theatre actor. Kishan works with his best friend, truck driver, Shankar (Faisal Khan). When Kishan meets Roopa for the first time, he is smitten by her beauty and falls in love with her. Kishan decides to make Roopa the heroine of their dance show, however, Shankar warns him that Roopa will bring them in trouble. With no option, Roopa travels with them, and she tries to escape, but returns when chased by the gang and a drunk who tries to rape her. However, Roopa is saved by Shankar and Kishan. Roopa feigns love for Kishan, who wants to marry her, and the two men agree to help her return to Chandanpur. When Kishan is going to marry Roopa, who feels guilty over her betrayal, led, she tells them her story. Shankar becomes her brother, while Kishan, heartbroken, leaves in disgust. Roopa and Shankar return to Chandanpur, where Shankar mobilises the village, attempting to set a trap for Gujjar who has learnt of Roopa's survival and terrorizes the village to find out her whereabouts. The trap backfires horribly until Kishan returns with a suspended cop Pakkad Singh (Johny Lever). The trap is re-set with another carnival and the villains' attack as planned. Roopa is kidnapped and Kishan and Shankar give chase and are captured and taken to Gujjar's hideout where they are forced to fight him and his men. Eventually with the arrival of Chandanpur's villagers, good prevails and the terrorists meet a glory end. Roopa is united with her brother Shankar and her lover Kishan.

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Ghatak: Lethal (1996)

, 2h38
Réalisé par Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drame, Action
Acteurs Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri, K. K. Raina, Sanjay Batra
Note74%

Kashi (Sunny Deol) is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful son of Shambhu Nath (Amrish Puri) living in Banaras. Shambhu Nath who was a freedom fighter awarded with Tambra Patra, is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi comes to Mumbai with his father for his medical treatment of throat and stays with his brother Shiv Nath (K. K. Raina). Kashi meets Gauri (Meenakshi Seshadri) and starts liking her. He learns that the colony is being terrorized by a tyrannical gangster named Katya (Danny Denzongpa) along with his other six brothers. Before Kashi's arrival, a resident named Sachdev (Om Puri) tries to initiate revolt against Katya but gets ruthlessly killed by him, thereby making Malti (Ila Arun), wife of Sachdev, go mad. Katya and his brothers become enemy with Kashi when he beats up their goons when they were beating up Malti. Shambhu Nath is later diagnosed with throat cancer and has only a few days to live.

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Barsaat (1995)

Réalisé par Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drame, Action, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Bobby Deol, Twinkle Khanna, Raj Babbar, Mukesh Khanna, Danny Denzongpa, Harish Patel
Note56%

Badal (Bobby Deol) is a naive but intelligent young man who comes from a small village to the big city. He is introduced to city life by Damru (Harish Patel) who calls himself Danny. When Badal attends college, he meets pretty and precocious Tina Oberoi (Twinkle Khanna) and, after a few misunderstanding and misadventures, they fall in love.

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Andaz Apna Apna (1994)

, 2h40
Réalisé par Rajkumar Santoshi
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Comédie, Comédie romantique, Romance
Thèmes La musique, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor
Note79%

Le film narre l'histoire de deux escrocs interprétés par Salman Khan et Aamir Khan qui tentent de séduire une riche héritière (Raveena Tandon) dans le but de lui voler sa fortune, se doutant de la supercherie Raveena décide d'échanger son identité avec sa secrétaire Karishma Karishma Kapoor.

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Mammo (1994)

, 2h10
Réalisé par Shyam Benegal
Genres Drame
Acteurs Farida Jalal, Surekha Sikri, Sanjay Batra, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Himani Shivpuri
Note77%

13-year-old Riyaz (Amit Phalke) lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, India, with his grandmother, Fayyuzi (Surekha Sikri), and her sister, Mehmooda Begum alias Mammo (Farida Jalal). Quite outspoken and embittered over his dad abandoning him, Riyaz does not have many friends, save for Rohan. When Mammo plans a surprise birthday party for him, Riyaz is offended as he believes his friends will make fun of him as his lifestyle is not as good as theirs. Fayyuzi and Riyaz have an argument with Mammo, and she leaves for the mosque at Haji Ali; she returns when they apologize. Although Mammo was born in Panipat during the British Raj, she was one of thousands of Muslims who left for Pakistan after Partition. She and her husband automatically become Pakistani citizens. Although childless, her marriage is a happy one until her husband's death. Over property matters, Mammo is thrown out of the house by her relatives.

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