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List Of Indian Films Without Songs
This is a list of Indian films that have no songs. Although songs and dance often play an integral part in the majority of Indian films, some films (mostly experimental films) choose to exclude them, mostly to focus on the main story. List * Ab Tak Chhappan * Adhu * Agadam * Agni Devi * Airport (1993 film) * Akku (film) * Aligarh (film) * Amrutham Gamaya * Andhagaara * Anukshanam * Aparajito * Aparan (film) * Apur Panchali * Ashoka (2008 film) * Atithi (2002 film) * Attahasa * August 1 (film) * Awe (film) * Bhagavan (2009 film) * Bharathchandran I.P.S. * Bhoot (film) * Bhoot Returns * CandyFlip * Chander Pahar (film) * Chennaiyil Oru Naal 2 * Chokher Bali (film) * Chupp * Commissioner (film) * Court (film) * Curfew (1994 film) * Cyanide (2006 film) * CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel * Devaki (2019 film) * Dollar Dreams * Dweepa * Eeb Allay Ooo! * Ek Ruka Hua Faisla * Ekalavyan (film) * Elippathayam * F. I. R. (1999 film) * Fired (film) * Frozen (2007 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of India
The Cinema of India consists of motion pictures produced in India, which had a large effect on world cinema since the late 20th century. Major centers of film production across the country include Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Kochi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack and Guwahati. For a number of years the Indian film industry has ranked first in the world in terms of annual film output. In terms of box office it ranked third in 2019, with total gross of around (US$2.7 billion). Indian cinema is composed of Multilingualism, multilingual and Multiculturalism, multi-ethnic film art. In 2019, Hindi cinema represented 44% of box office revenue, followed by Telugu cinema, Telugu and Tamil cinema, Tamil film industries, each representing 13%, Malayalam cinema, Malayalam and Kannada cinema, Kannada film industries, each representing 5%.Other prominent languages in the Indian film industry include Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali, Marathi cinema, Marathi, Cinema of O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubi Matthu Iyala
''Kubi Matthu Iyala'' is a 1992 Indian Kannada-language comedy drama film directed and produced by Sadanand Suvarna and written by Poornachandra Tejaswi based on his own story. The film featured Charuhasan , Raghubir Yadav, Lalithanjali and Vaishali Kasaravalli in the lead roles along with a large number of theater artistes in key supporting roles. The film's music was composed by L. Vaidyanathan and cinematography is G. S. Bhaskar. The plot revolves around a remote village which is filled with superstitious beliefs and a doctor stationed in the village tries to wipe out all the superstition among the villagers. The film featured in various film festivals both domestically and internationally. The film also won many awards including Karnataka State and Filmfare Awards. Cast * Charuhasan * Raghubir Yadav * Lalithanjali * Vaishali Kasaravalli * A. B. Jayaram * Rudramurthy * Savanth * Seetharamachar * Ashwath Narayana * A. R. Chandrashekar * Balakrishna Rai * B. S. Achar * Umes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visaranai
''Visaranai'' () is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language crime drama film written and directed by Vetrimaaran. It is based on the novel ''Lock Up'' by M. Chandrakumar. The film stars Dinesh, Anandhi, Samuthirakani, Aadukalam Murugadoss, Kishore, Pradheesh Raj, and Silambarasan Rathnasamy. The film deals with lives of two men before and after thrown into a kafkaesque scenario in which they get tortured for confession. The film premiered in the Orrizonti (Horizons) section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where it won the Amnesty International Italia Award. The film was released in India on 5 February 2016 and received highly positive reviews from both critics and audience alike. Many issues arose regarding the film in Tamil Nadu among the police force. At the 63rd National Film Awards, the film won three honours: Best Feature Film in Tamil, Best Supporting Actor for Samuthirakani and Best Editing for Kishore Te. It was selected as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U Turn (2016 Film)
''U Turn'' is a 2016 Indian Kannada-language supernatural thriller film written, produced and directed by Pawan Kumar. It stars Shraddha Srinath in the lead role. Roger Narayan, Dileep Raj and Radhika Chetan feature in supporting roles. The plot revolves around the death of motorists who break a traffic rule at a particular flyover in Bangalore and subsequent pinning down of the culprit by an intern journalist and police inspector duo. ''U-Turn'' was first remade in Malayalam in 2017 as '' Careful''. Director Pawan Kumar remade it into a Telugu-Tamil bilingual in 2018 with the same title - thereby making it the third Kannada movie to be remade in three other South Indian languages after '' School Master'' and ''Sampathige Savaal''. The movie was remade in Sinhala in 2019 also titled ''U Turn'' - thereby becoming the second Kannada movie to be remade in Sinhala after ''Anuraga Aralithu''. The Filipino remake with the same name was released on pay-to-view basis on 30 Octo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karma (2015 Tamil Film)
''Karma'' is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language murder mystery film directed, produced and written by R. Arvind in his debut. The features two characters namely a police officer and a crime writer throughout the entirety of the film. Cast *R. Arvind as Thamizhselvan and Ranganathan Production The film is an experimental film and unlike other Tamil-language films does not have a heroine, multiple songs, or comedy tracks. In 2012, Arvind held a casting call for the lead actor before ultimately he himself decided to play both of the lead roles. Soundtrack The soundtrack was composed by L. V. Ganesan and compromises of one song "Karma (Title Track)", which was written and sung by lyricist Vairamuthu. For the song, Vairamuthu wrote ten new tirukkuṛaḷs. The song also marks his debut as a singer. Release The film received a nomination at the Madrid International Film Festival in 2015 and is the first Tamil film to do so. The film was released online on 16 September 2016 on pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadunisi Naaygal
''Nadunisi Naaygal'' () is a 2011 Tamil-language experimental psychological thriller film written and directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon that stars Veera, Sameera Reddy and Deva, 4 Rottweiler dogs, with Swapna Abraham and Ashwin (in his debut) in other pivotal roles. The film notably has no score, instead featuring sounds designed by Renganaath Ravee. Produced by Photon Kathaas Productions and R. S. Infotainment, ''Nadunissi Naaygal'' released on 18 February 2011, simultaneously dubbed and released in Telugu as ''Erra Gulabilu''. The title ''Nadunisi Naaygal'' is taken from the title of a poem of Sundara Ramasamy. Plot Samar ( Veera), an eight-year-old motherless boy lives with his father in Mumbai. The father leads a colourful life indulging his sexual passions. Samar is sexually abused by his father and is rescued by his neighbour, a middle aged single woman Meenakshi Amma (Swapna Abraham). She names him Veera, takes him under her wing and protects him. Daunted and chased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaranya Kaandam
''Aaranya Kaandam'' (; English title: ''Anima and Persona'') is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language crime thriller film written and directed by newcomer Thiagarajan Kumararaja. It is supposedly the first neo-noir film in Tamil cinema. The story takes place in a day in the lives of the six protagonists, played by Jackie Shroff, Ravi Krishna, Sampath Raj and newcomers Yasmin Ponnappa, Guru Somasundaram and Master Vasanth. Produced by S. P. B. Charan's Capital Film Works, the film features critically acclaimed musical score by Yuvan Shankar Raja and cinematography by P.S. Vinod and editing handled by the duo Praveen K. L. and N. B. Srikanth. The film was launched on 18 December 2008, with its principal photography being completed by late 2009, which was followed by a lengthy post-production phase. It ran into difficulties as the regional censor board in Chennai raised objection against the film, giving it an adult rating besides demanding 52 cuts. After screening at and becoming approv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Wednesday!
''A Wednesday!'' is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey and produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Anjum Rizvi and Shital Bhatia under UTV Motion Pictures and Friday Filmworks. Though a work of fiction, the script is partly inspired by the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings. Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher, the only choices for the lead roles, star respectively as people on either sides of the system. Set between 2 pm and 6 pm on a Wednesday, the film depicts an about-to-retire police commissioner narrating a sequence of events that unfolded on a particular Wednesday. There does not exist any written record, as the awareness of the incident exists only in his mind and in those of several individuals who were involved, willingly and unwillingly, and how those events affected the lives of all the concerned people. It later inspired the Tamil and Telugu simultaneously made films '' Unnaipol Oruvan'' and ''Eeenadu'' (both 2009), and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Deewarein
3 Deewarein () is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language crime film written, directed and co-starred by Nagesh Kukunoor. Juhi Chawla, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, Gulshan Grover and Sujata Mehta form the rest of the cast. The film narrates the story of three prisoners and a documentary filmmaker who, while filming their reformation story in the prison, finds redemption with her own troubled marriage. The film was showcased among the Indian panorama section, at the 2003 International Film Festival of India. The film was also premiered at the Kolkata Film Festival. After having been screened at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, where it was well received, the film was screened at the Commonwealth Festival at Manchester, it was nominated as one of the top five films, at the gala presentation. Nagesh Kukunoor has also received the Filmfare Award for Best Story. Plot Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marma (film)
''Marma'' () is a 2002 Indian Kannada-language psychological thriller film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai. It stars Prema and Anand in the lead roles. Hiriannaiah, Kishori Ballal, Arun Sagar, Yashwant Sardeshpande feature in supporting roles. The film presents the story of a woman who suffers from a split personality and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Desai had revealed that the plot of the movie had been culled out from an English novel which he had read years before he conceptualized the film - from a short story he had read in 1982. Plot Anand has thrown a party to celebrate his engagement to Sudha and promises to pick her up from her residence. When he fails to turn up, she drives towards his place, but gets held up midway due to a downpour and knocks on the door of a nearby house. Upon entering, she discovers a corpse of a girl. Sensing an attack, she begins to run for cover, but in the struggle, falls off the roof of the house. She loses consciousness and is taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9 Nelalu
''9 Nelalu'' or ''Tommidi Nelalu'' () is a 2000 Telugu-language drama film directed by Kranthi Kumar. The film stars Soundarya and Vikram. The film opened to positive reviews from critics. The film was later re-shot and released in Tamil as ''Kanden Seethaiyai'' due to Vikram's newfound popularity post-'' Sethu''. The film was premiered retrospective at the Toronto International Film Festival. The director shot the film in 15 days. Noted director V. V. Vinayak worked as an assistant director for this film. The film was a box office flop although Soundarya's performance was praised. Plot The film revolves around Savitri (Soundarya), an innocent simple and loving orphan, and Surendra ( Vikram), an intelligent computer programmer. When Savitri has a marriage arranged with a drunkard, Surendra stops this alliance and graciously agreed to marry her. However, trouble starts when Surendra's brainchild, a virtual reality program on temples of South India is sabotaged, and he is ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prathyartha
''Prathyartha'' is a 1999 Kannada suspense-thriller film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai featuring Ramesh Aravind, Raghuvaran, Girish Karnad and Sudeep in the lead roles. The film features background score composed by Ilaiyaraaja. The concept of this movie is based on the 1995 movie '' Nick of Time''. Cast * Ramesh Aravind as Akshay / Robert * Raghuvaran as Rakesh * Girish Karnad as Home Minister of India Sheshanag Dixit * Sudeep as Sudeep * Avinash as Karthik, Home Minister's P.A. * Shivaram as Madhav * Kashi as Maruthi *Tharakesh patel *K. D. Venkatesh *Vinayak Joshi as Akshay (not the protagonist) *Sunil Kumar Desai as visitor in Lalitha Mahal Palace (Special appearance) Production The entire movie story revolves around the Lalith Mahal Palace in Mysore during Dasara season. Awards Karnataka State Film Awards :- * Best Screenplay - Won - Sunil Kumar Desai Sunil Kumar Desai is an Indian film director, writer and producer, known for his work in Kannada cinema. In most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
