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List Of Multilingual Indian Films
This is a list of multilingual Indian films. The majority of films listed have been shot simultaneously alongside each other as a part of the same project—rather than being remade or dubbed at a later date. Largest number of bilinguals have been made between Telugu and Tamil Languages. Bilingual films Bengali and Hindi Bengali and English Bengali and Odia English and Hindi English and Malayalam English and Tamil English and Telugu Hindi and Tamil Hindi and Gujarati Hindi and Marathi Hindi and Odia Hindi and Telugu Hindi and Russian Hindi and Persian Hindi and Turkish Hindi and Kannada Kannada and Tamil Kannada and Telugu Kannada and Malayalam Malayalam and Tamil Malayalam and Telugu Odia and Telugu Tamil and Telugu Trilingual films Partially reshot films See also * Pan-Indian film * Multiple-language version A multiple-language version film, often abbreviated to MLV, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiple-language Version
A multiple-language version film, often abbreviated to MLV, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, produced in several different languages for international markets. To offset the marketing restrictions of making sound films in only one language, it became common practice for American and European studios to produce foreign-language versions of their films using the same sets, crew, costumes, etc. a BrentonFilm.com retrieved 7 July 2015 The first foreign-language versions appeared in 1929 and largely replaced the |
Shalimar (1978 Film)
''Shalimar'' (Hindi : शालीमार) is a 1978 Bollywood film, written and directed by Krishna Shah. The movie starred Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Shammi Kapoor, Prem Nath and Aruna Irani. English actor Rex Harrison and American actors John Saxon and Sylvia Miles appear in supporting roles in their first and only Bollywood film. Jayamalini does a dance number in the film. This was the last time that Mohammed Rafi's voice was picturized on Shammi Kapoor. Its English version is known as ''Raiders of the Sacred Stone''. Rex Harrison's voice was dubbed by Kader Khan. The plot is inspired by the novel ''The Vulture is a Patient Bird'' by James Hadley Chase, The film's script was novelized by Manohar Malagaonkar Plot On the run from the police, S.S. Kumar (Dharmendra), a thief, comes across a private invitation to the island of Sir John Locksley (Rex Harrison) addressed to Raja Bahadur Singh. When the Raja is shot, Kumar takes him to a nearby hospital, dons a Sikh's turban, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramanujan (film)
''Ramanujan'' is a 2014 biographical film based on the life of Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The film, written and directed by Gnana Rajasekaran, was shot back to back in the Tamil and English languages. The film was produced by the independent Indian production house Camphor Cinema, ventured by Srivatsan Nadathur, Sushant Desai, Sharanyan Nadathur, Sindhu Rajasekaran. The cast consists of Indian and British film, stage and screen personalities. It marks the Tamil debut of Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actors Gemini Ganesan and Savitri, as the protagonist. Featuring an ensemble cast of Suhasini Maniratnam, Bhama, Kevin McGowan, Abbas, Nizhalgal Ravi, Michael Lieber, amongst others in supporting roles, the film was set in the early 1900s, tracing the life of Ramanujan, and shot across five different locations, across India and England, which includes Kumbakonam, Namakkal, Chennai, London and Cambridge. The film features, music and background ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santosh Sivan
Santosh Sivan (born 8 February 1964) is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and has to date completed 55 feature films and 50 documentaries. Career Santosh, a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers and the most awarded Director of Photography in India, graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India and completed 45 feature films and 41 documentaries. As a director, Santosh won his first National Award in 1988 for the ''Story of Tiblu'' (1988). His film ''Halo'' was honoured at the 43rd National Film Awards as the Best Children's Film and Best Sound. Santosh became the first cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific region to join the American Society of Cinematographers membership. As a cinematographer, he has won five National Film Awards – including four for Best Feature Film Cinematography. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceylon (film)
''Ceylon'', titled ''Inam'' in Tamil, is a 2013 Indian war film written, directed, filmed and produced by Santosh Sivan. The story revolves around a group of teenagers in an orphanage set during the civil war in Sri Lanka. The film premiered at the 2013 Busan International Film Festival and had a theatrical release in India on 28 March 2014. Although it was positively reviewed by critics, the film was withdrawn by Linguswamy(who bought the distribution rights for the film) from theaters, after it was met with protests from various Tamil groups in Tamil Nadu. The film was a "U" censored, and had a Govt Tax free tag. Cast * S. Karan as Nandan * Sugandha Ram as Rajini * Saritha as Tsunami Akka * Karunas as Stanley * Shyam Sundar as Ravi * Janaki as Stella * Soumya Sadanand * Vikram Chakravarti * M. K. Vijayan * Malini Sathappan Production In 2009, it was first reported that Santhosh Sivan's next film would be "a hard-hitting political film scripted around the LTTE (Liberation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Anchal
Rajiv Anchal (born 20 December 1956) is a film director, screenwriter, and sculptor who works in Malayalam language cinema. In 1997, he made ''Guru'', India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His first English language film was ''Beyond The Soul'' (2003). Sculptor He contributed to the construction of the Parnashala at the Santhigiri Ashram and the large Jatayu bird sculpture in Jatayu Earth’s Center, Chadayamangalam, Kollam. Filmography * '' Butterflies'' (1993) * ''Kashmeeram'' (1994) * ''Guru'' (1997) * ''Rushy Vamsam'' (1999) * '' Pilots'' (2000) (also as writer) * ''Beyond the Soul'' (2002) (also as writer and producer) * '' Nothing But Life'' (2004) (also as writer) / ''Made in USA A Made in USA mark is a country of origin label affixed to homegrown, American-made products that indicates the product is "all or virtually all" domestically produced, manufactured and assembled in the United States of America. The label i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nothing But Life
''Nothing but Life'' is a 2004 bilingual English and Malayalam film directed by Rajiv Anchal for an Indian production house dealing with matters of health. The experimental film featured actors R. Madhavan, Neha Pendse, Kaveri, Nassar and Sreenivasan. The film had been made simultaneously in Malayalam and released later on as ''Made in USA'' on May 6, 2005. Plot Roby Thomas migrates to the U.S. with the help of a priest and works as a barman in a casino in Las Vegas. Roby is a simple youngster who believes in helping people in distress but he has a suicidal tendency. The film focuses on the inner turmoil of a youngster who seems to have a positive attitude towards life and emphasizes the importance of inter-personal relationship and friendship. Cast Production Madhavan signed the film in June 2004 and began shooting for the film almost immediately. The film was initially titled ''Life in Las Vegas'', before the makers decided on different titles in English and Malayalam. Actr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhinay Deo
Abhinay Deo is an Indian filmmaker. Life and career Abhinay Deo is an Indian commercial director turned film director. Abhinay's first movie was ''Game'' (2011). His second, '' Delhi Belly'', was released on 1 July 2011. Before directing commercials, he graduated with a degree in architecture. His parents are the actors Ramesh Deo and Seema Deo. He is younger brother of Ajinkya Deo, who is also a well-known actor in Marathi films. He made his mainstream directorial debut through ''Game'' and followed it with '' Delhi Belly'', for which he received Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director and is also known for directing works such as ''Game'' (2011) and ''Force 2 ''Force 2'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Abhinay Deo, which features John Abraham, Tahir Raj Bhasin and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead roles. It is a sequel to the 2011 film ''Force'', and the second installme ...'' (2016). In 2018 he made comedy thriller ''Blackmail'' with Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delhi Belly (film)
''Delhi Belly'' is a 2011 Indian action comedy film written by Akshat Verma and directed by Abhinay Deo. It stars Imran Khan, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Vir Das, Poorna Jagannathan and Shenaz Treasurywala. It is a Hinglish-language film, with seventy percent of the dialogue in English and thirty percent in Hindi. The film is produced by Aamir Khan Productions and UTV Motion Pictures. The theatrical trailer of the film premiered with Aamir Khan's '' Dhobi Ghat'' on 21 January 2011 while the film was released on 1 July 2011, along with a Hindi dubbed version. The film was given an 'A' certificate for its profanity, intense violence and sexual content. The film was remade in Tamil as '' Settai''. Plot The story revolves around three roommates, journalist Tashi, photographer Nitin Berry and cartoonist Arup, leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shady apartment in Delhi. Tashi's ditzy fiancée, Sonia, is an air hostess who agrees to deliver a package for Vladimir Dragunsky to So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kites (film)
''Kites'' is a 2010 Indian romantic action thriller film directed by Anurag Basu, with the story written and produced by Rakesh Roshan, starring Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, and Kabir Bedi. Presented in English as ''Kites: The Remix'' by Brett Ratner, the film was released in India and in North America on 21 May 2010. Its 208-theater opening in North America made it the largest Bollywood release up to that time. It was also the first Bollywood film to reach the weekend top ten, though ''My Name is Khan'' had a larger first-weekend North American gross. Despite a strong opening, the film only managed to collect net in its lifetime run following a critical loss. Domestically, one of the major criticisms aimed at the film was towards the multilingual narrative that featured the majority of dialogue in English and Spanish, while it was advertised as a Hindi-language film in India. Plot Jay Ray ( Hrithik Roshan) is a dance teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, (; born 1 January 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth'' (1998), and ''Water'' (2005). ''Earth'' was submitted by India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Water'' was Canada's official entry for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film '' A Bullet to the Head'' and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature '' Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner''. She co-founded Hamilton-Mehta Productions, with her husband, producer David Hamilton in 1996. She was awarded a Genie Award in 2003 for the screenplay of '' Bollywood/Hollywood''. In May 2012, Mehta received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood/Hollywood
''Bollywood/Hollywood'' is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy drama film directed by Deepa Mehta and starring Rahul Khanna and Lisa Ray. The film was lighthearted, humorous, and family-oriented. The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at Indian cinema (it features several Indian film-style song-and-dance numbers). Multiple award winning Indian actor Akshaye Khanna – the brother of Rahul Khanna – makes a cameo appearance in the film. Plot Rahul Seth, is a young and rich Indo-Canadian living in Toronto whose widowed mother is eager to get him married after the freak-accidental death of his white pop singer girlfriend, Kimberly. Rahul's mother disapproved of her son's relationship with a non-Indian woman. Furthermore, the mother proclaims that the impending wedding of her daughter Twinky and Bobby will not take place until Rahul has found himself an Indian bride first. The pressure mounts on Rahul as he finds out that Twinky must marry to preserve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |