Table of Contents
760 relations: A Better Tomorrow, A Kiss Before Dying (1991 film), A. R. Rahman, Aamir Khan, Aan, Abrar Alvi, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Action film, Addictive (song), Addis Ababa, Afghanistan, Agneepath (1990 film), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ajay Devgn, Akhtar ul Iman, Akshay Kumar, Al Pacino, Alam Ara, Alka Yagnik, Amar Akbar Anthony, Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime Video, American Cinematographer, Amit Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Amsterdam University Press, Andhra Pradesh, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anti-establishment, Antihero, Anu Malik, Anupama Chopra, Anurag Basu, Anurag Kashyap, Apradh, Arab world, Ardeshir Irani, Arri, Art film, Asha Bhosle, Asian Underground, Aurat (1940 film), Australia, Austria, Auzaar, Awaara, Aziz Mirza, Baahubali: The Beginning, ... Expand index (710 more) »
- 1913 establishments in India
- Economy of Mumbai
- Hindustani language
- Indian film industries
A Better Tomorrow
A Better Tomorrow is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed, co-written and co-produced by John Woo, co-produced by Tsui Hark, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat.
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A Kiss Before Dying (1991 film)
A Kiss Before Dying is a 1991 American romantic thriller film directed by James Dearden, and based on Ira Levin's 1953 novel of the same name, which won the 1954 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.
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A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in international cinema.
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Aamir Khan
Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan (born 14 March 1965) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, and television personality who works in Hindi films.
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Aan
Aan (Hindi: आन, Urdu: آن, translation: Pride), released as The Savage Princess in the United Kingdom and United States, is a 1952 Indian Hindi language adventure film, produced and directed by Mehboob Khan.
Abrar Alvi
Abrar Alvi (1 July 1927 – 18 November 2009) was an Indian film writer, director and actor.
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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.
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Action film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.
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Addictive (song)
"Addictive" is a song by American R&B singer Truth Hurts.
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Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa (fountain of hot mineral water, new flower) is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Agneepath (1990 film)
Agneepath is a 1990 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Mukul Anand, written jointly by Santosh Saroj and Kader Khan, and produced by Yash Johar.
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Rai; born 1 November 1973) is an Indian actress who is primarily known for her work in Hindi and Tamil films.
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Ajay Devgn
Vishal Veeru Devgan (born 2 April 1969), known professionally as Ajay Devgn, is an Indian actor, film director, and producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema.
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Akhtar ul Iman
Akhtar ul Iman (12 November 1915 9 March 1996) was a noted Urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who had a major influence on modern Urdu nazm.
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Akshay Kumar
Akshay Hari Om Bhatia (born Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia; 9 September 1967), known professionally as Akshay Kumar, is an Indian actor and film producer working in Hindi cinema.
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Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American actor.
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Alam Ara
Alam Ara is a 1931 Indian Hindustani-language historical fantasy film directed and produced by Ardeshir Irani.
Alka Yagnik
Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema.
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Amar Akbar Anthony
Amar Akbar Anthony is a 1977 Indian Hindi-language masala film directed and produced by Manmohan Desai and written by Kader Khan.
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Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime (styled as prime) is a paid subscription service of Amazon which is available in various countries and gives users access to additional services otherwise unavailable or available at a premium to other Amazon customers.
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.
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American Cinematographer
American Cinematographer is a magazine published monthly by the American Society of Cinematographers.
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Amit Khanna
Amit Khanna is an Indian film producer, director, writer, and journalist.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (born Amitabh Srivastava; 11 October 1942) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.
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Amsterdam University Press
Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is a university press that was founded in 1992 by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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Anti-establishment
An anti-establishment view or belief is one which stands in opposition to the conventional social, political, and economic principles of a society.
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Antihero
An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero) or anti-heroine is a main character in a narrative (in literature, film, TV, etc.) who may lack some conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality.
Anu Malik
Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer.
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Anupama Chopra
Anupama Chopra is an Indian author, journalist and film critic who served as the festival director of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival from 2015 to 2023.
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Anurag Basu
Anurag Basu (born 8 May 1970) is an Indian director, screenwriter, actor and producer in Hindi Cinema.
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Anurag Kashyap
Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian film director and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema.
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Apradh
Apradh is a 1972 action thriller romance Hindi film produced and directed by Feroz Khan.
Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Ardeshir Irani
Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani (5 December 1886 – 14 October 1969) was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema.
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Arri
Arri Group is a German manufacturer of motion picture film equipment.
Art film
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema.
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Asian Underground
Asian underground is a term associated with various British Asian, South Asian Canadian, and South Asian American musicians (mostly Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan) who blend elements of Western underground dance music and the traditional Asian music of their home countries in South Asia.
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Aurat (1940 film)
Aurat, also known by its English title Woman, is a 1940 Indian film directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Sardar Akhtar, Surendra, Yakub, Kanhaiyalal and Arun Kumar Ahuja.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Auzaar
Auzaar is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Sohail Khan and written by Anwar Khan.
Awaara
Awaara, also written Awāra and known overseas as The Vagabond, is a 1951 Indian Hindi crime drama film, produced and directed by Raj Kapoor, and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas.
Aziz Mirza
Aziz Mirza (born 15 August 1947) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Bollywood and Indian television.
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Baahubali: The Beginning
Baahubali: The Beginning is a 2015 Indian Telugu-language epic action film co-written and directed by S. S. Rajamouli, and produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni under Arka Media Works.
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Baazigar
Baazigar is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film directed by Abbas–Mustan and produced by Venus Movies.
BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards.
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Bajrangi Bhaijaan is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Kabir Khan, based on an original story by screenwriter V. Vijayendra Prasad, and produced by Salman Khan, Rockline Venkatesh and Kabir Khan.
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Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai
Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai is an unreleased Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Ravi Chopra, starring Govinda, Tabu, Lara Dutta, and Boman Irani.
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Bang Bang!
Bang Bang! is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Parth Arora of Star Studios.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappida was an Indian singer, composer and record producer.
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Barfi!
Barfi! is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language period romantic comedy film written and directed by Anurag Basu, edited by Akiv Ali and backed by UTV Motion Pictures.
Baz Luhrmann
Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director, producer, writer, and actor.
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Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England.
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
Belarusfilm
Belarusfilm (Беларусьфільм) is the main film studio of Belarus.
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Bengal
Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.
Bengal famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a man-made famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.
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Bengal Presidency
The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Bengali literature
Bengali literature (Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo.
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Black Friday (2004 film)
Black Friday is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language crime film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap.
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Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
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Blockbuster (entertainment)
A blockbuster is a work of entertainment—typically used to describe a feature film produced by a major film studio, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful.
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Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.
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Bollywood Hungama
Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is a Bollywood entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000.
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Bombay (film)
Bombay is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala (in her Tamil film debut).
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Bombay Dreams
Bombay Dreams is a Bollywood-themed musical, with music by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Don Black and the book by Meera Syal and Thomas Meehan, originally produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Box Office India
Box Office India is an Indian film website.
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Box-office bomb
A box-office bomb, box-office flop, box-office failure, or box-office disaster is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run.
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Breaking Away
Breaking Away is a 1979 American coming of age comedy-drama film produced and directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich.
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British Asians
British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) are British people of Asian descent.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor.
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Bullock cart
A bullock cart or ox cart (sometimes called a bullock carriage when carrying people in particular) is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen.
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Business Standard
Business Standard is an Indian English-language daily edition newspaper published by Business Standard Private Limited, also available in Hindi.
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Business Today (India)
Business Today is an Indian fortnightly business magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1992.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Caméra d'Or
The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week).
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Caravan (1971 film)
Caravan is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller film directed by Nasir Hussain and produced by his brother Tahir Hussain, under the Nasir Hussain Films and T.V. Films banners.
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Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor.
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Casting couch
The casting couch is a euphemism for the practice of soliciting sexual favors from a job applicant in exchange for employment in the entertainment industry, primarily acting roles.
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Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
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Central Board of Film Certification
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India.
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Central Bureau of Investigation
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the domestic crime investigating agency of India.
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Chak De! India
Chak De! India is a 2007 Indian sports drama film directed by Shimit Amin, written by Jaideep Sahni, and produced by Aditya Chopra, under the banner of Yash Raj Films.
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Chalte Chalte (2003 film)
Chalte Chalte is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama starring Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji in lead roles, directed by Aziz Mirza.
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
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Chennai Express
Chennai Express is a 2013 Indian masala film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Red Chillies Entertainment.
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Chetan Anand (director)
Chetan Anand (3 January 1921 – 6 July 1997) was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose first film,, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize (now Golden Palm) at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946.
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Chicago (2002 film)
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
China Gate (1998 film)
China Gate is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi.
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China News Service
China News Service (CNS) is the second largest state news agency in China, after Xinhua News Agency.
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China–India relations
China and India have historically maintained peaceful relations for thousands of years of recorded history, but the harmony of their relationship has varied in modern times, after the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, and especially post the Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China.
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Chinese martial arts
Chinese martial arts, commonly referred to with umbrella terms kung fu, kuoshu or wushu, are multiple fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in Greater China.
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Ching Siu-tung
Ching Siu-tung (Chinese: 程小東, born October 31, 1953), also known as Tony Ching, is a Hong Kong action choreographer, actor, film director and producer, who has directed over 20 films, including the critically acclaimed supernatural fantasy A Chinese Ghost Story (1987).
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Chori Chori Chupke Chupke
Chori Chori Chupke Chupke is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Abbas–Mustan, with screenplay and story from Javed Siddiqui and Neeraj Vora respectively.
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Ciara
Ciara Princess Wilson (Harris; born October 25, 1985) is an American singer and songwriter.
Cinema of Asia
Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia.
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Cinema of China
The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
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Cinema of Egypt
The Egyptian film industry is today based mainly in Cairo, which is sometimes referred to as Hollywood on the Nile or Hollywood of the East, despite having its beginnings in the city of Alexandria in the early 20th century.
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Cinema of Hong Kong
The cinema of Hong Kong (t) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese-language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan.
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Cinema of India
The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.
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Cinema of Indonesia
The cinema of Indonesia refers to films produced domestically in Indonesia.
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Cinema of Italy
The cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors.
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Cinema of Japan
The, also known domestically as, has a history that spans more than 100 years.
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Cinema of Nepal
Nepali Cinema, also referred to as "Nepali Chalachitra" (नेपाली चलचित्र) is the filmmaking industry in Nepal.
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Cinema of Pakistan
The film industry of Pakistan, consisting of motion pictures, has had a large effect on Pakistani society and culture since the nation's independence.
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Cinema of South India
Cinema of South India, refers to the cinema of the four major film industries in South India; primarily engaged in making feature films in the four major languages of the region, namely Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam.
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Cinema of South Korea
South Korean films have been heavily influenced by such events and forces as the Korea under Japanese rule, the Korean War, government censorship, the business sector, globalization, and the democratization of South Korea.
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Cinema of Spain
The art of motion-picture making within Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema.
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Cinema of the Soviet Union
The cinema of the Soviet Union includes films produced by the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, albeit they were all regulated by the central government in Moscow.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal, also known as Tollywood or Bengali cinema, is an Indian film industry of Bengali-language motion pictures. Hindi cinema and cinema of West Bengal are Indian film industries.
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Cinematography
Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
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CNN-News18
CNN-News18 (also known as Cable News Network News18 and originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Colloquialism
Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.
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Committee on Public Undertakings
The Committee on Public Undertakings (COPU) is one of three financial standing committees within the Parliament of India, composed of selected members of Parliament with the stated purpose of examining the reports and accounts of public sector undertakings (PSUs).
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Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.
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Company (2002 film)
Company is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language crime film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and written by Jaideep Sahni.
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Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
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Copyright infringement
Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.
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Cornell University Press
The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.
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COVID-19 pandemic in India
The COVID-19 pandemic in India is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
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Crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre.
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Crore
A crore (abbreviated cr) denotes ten million (10,000,000 or 107 in scientific notation) and is equal to 100 lakh in the Indian numbering system.
Cuckoo Moray
Cuckoo Moray, also credited as Cuckoo or Cukoo (1928 – 30 September 1981), was an Anglo-Indian dancer and actress in Indian cinema.
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Cult following
A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.
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Dabangg
Dabangg is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Abhinav Singh Kashyap and produced by Malaika Arora and Arbaaz Khan under Arbaaz Khan Productions with Dhilin Mehta under Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision.
Dacoity
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in the Indian subcontinent.
Dadasaheb Phalke
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: d̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke), popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of Indian cinema".
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Daily News and Analysis
The Daily News and Analysis, abbreviated as DNA, is a Hindi-language news program on Zee news that was earlier a newspaper with multiple local city editions across India.
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Dama Dam Mast Qalandar
Dama Dam Mast Qalandar is a spiritual Sufi qawwali written in the honour of the most revered Sufi saint of Sindh, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177–1274) of Sehwan Sharif.
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Dangal (2016 film)
Dangal is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao under Aamir Khan Productions with Siddharth Roy Kapur under The Walt Disney Company India.
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Danny Boyle
Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer.
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Darr
Darr: A Violent Love Story (Fear) is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological thriller film directed and produced by Yash Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films.
De Montfort University
De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England.
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Deewaar
Deewaar (Wall) is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action crime film written by Salim–Javed and directed by Yash Chopra.
Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
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Dev Anand
Dev Anand (born Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand; 26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011) was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema.
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Devanagari
Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Devdas (2002 Hindi film)
Devdas is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language period romantic drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bharat Shah under his banner, Mega Bollywood.
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Dharma Productions
Dharma Productions Pvt.
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Dharmatma
Dharmatma is a 1975 Hindi thriller movie and the first Bollywood film to be shot in Afghanistan.
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Dharti Ke Lal
() is a 1946 Hindustani film, the first directorial venture of the noted film director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (K. A. Abbas).
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Dhoom 2
Dhoom 2, also known as Dhoom 2: Back in Action, is a 2006 Indian caper action film directed by Sanjay Gadhvi and written by Vijay Krishna Acharya, based on a story by Aditya Chopra, who produced the film under Yash Raj Films.
Dhoom 3
Dhoom 3, stylised as Dhoom: 3, is a 2013 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written and directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya and produced by Aditya Chopra, who co-wrote the story.
Diction
Diction (dictionem (nom. dictio), "a saying, expression, word"), in its original meaning, is a writer's or speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression in a piece of writing such as a poem or story.
Die Tageszeitung
Die Tageszeitung ("The Daily Newspaper"), stylized as die tageszeitung and commonly referred to as taz, is a German daily newspaper.
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Diet Coke
Diet Coke (also branded as Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Diet or Coca-Cola Light Taste) is a sugar-free and low-calorie soft drink produced and distributed by the Coca-Cola Company.
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Dil Jo Bhi Kahey...
Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... is a 2005 Indian romantic drama film directed by Romesh Sharma.
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Dil Se..
Dil Se.. is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language romantic thriller film co-written and directed by Mani Ratnam who produced it with Ram Gopal Varma and Shekhar Kapur.
Dil To Pagal Hai
Dil To Pagal Hai (The Heart Is Crazy) is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film directed by Yash Chopra.
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Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema.
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, also known by the initialism DDLJ, is a 1995 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film written and directed by Aditya Chopra in his directorial debut and produced by his father Yash Chopra.
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Dimple Kapadia
Dimple Kapadia (born 8 June 1957) is an Indian actress predominantly appearing in Hindi films.
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Dinesh Raheja
Dinesh Raheja (born 31 March 1957) is an Indian author, columnist, TV scriptwriter, film historian.
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Directorate of Film Festivals
The Directorate of Film Festivals in India was an organisation that initiated and presented the International Film Festival of India, the National Film Awards and the Indian Panorama.
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Disco Dancer
Disco Dancer is a 1982 Indian dance-action film, written by Rahi Masoom Raza and directed by Babbar Subhash.
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Disney+ Hotstar
Disney+ Hotstar is an Indian subscription video-on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Disney India, a subsidiary of Disney Company, featuring domestic Indian film, television and sports content for India itself and its worldwide diaspora.
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DJ Quik
David Marvin Blake (born January 18, 1970), better known by his stage names DJ Quik or Da Quiksta, is an American rapper and record producer from Compton, California, known for his production in the G-funk style of West Coast hip-hop.
Do Bigha Zamin
Do Bigha Zamin is a 1953 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Bimal Roy.
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Don (1978 film)
Don is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Chandra Barot from a story written by Salim–Javed and produced by Nariman Irani.
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Don 2
Don 2: The King Is Back is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written, co-produced and directed by Farhan Akhtar.
Don't Phunk with My Heart
"Don't Phunk with My Heart" censored as "Don't Mess with My Heart" is a song recorded by American group the Black Eyed Peas for their fourth studio album Monkey Business (2005).
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Donation
A donation is a gift for charity, humanitarian aid, or to benefit a cause.
Dotdash Meredith
Dotdash Meredith (formerly The Mining Company, About.com and Dotdash) is an American digital media company based in New York City.
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Douban
Douban.com, launched on 6 March 2005, is a Chinese online database and social networking service that allows registered users to record information and create content related to film, books, music, recent events, and activities in Chinese cities.
Dr. Dre
Andre Romell Young (born February 18, 1965), known professionally as Dr.
Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani
Dr.
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Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Dreamgirls (film)
Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
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Dubbing
Dubbing (re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, often in concert with sound design, in which additional or supplementary recordings (doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.
East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
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Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Economic and Political Weekly
The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust.
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Economic liberalisation in India
The economic liberalisation in India refers to the series of policy changes aimed at opening up the country's economy to the world, with the objective of making it more market-oriented and consumption-driven.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Ek Tha Tiger
Ek Tha Tiger is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and co-written by Kabir Khan.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electropop
Electropop is a popular music fusion genre combining elements of the electronic and pop styles.
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Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence (EI) is defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon (t) is a 1973 martial arts film directed by Robert Clouse and written by Michael Allin.
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Ephemera
Ephemera are items which were not originally designed to be retained or preserved, but have been collected or retained.
Epic film
Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.
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Escape from Taliban
Escape from Taliban is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjwal Chatterjee.
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Escapism
Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination or entertainment.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Exploitation film
An exploitation film is a film that tries to succeed financially by exploiting current trends, niche genres, or lurid content.
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Farewell My Concubine (film)
Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.
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Fashion in India
India is a country with an ancient clothing design tradition, yet an emerging fashion industry.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean.
Film and Television Institute of India
The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India.
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Film City, Mumbai
Film City; officially Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari is an integrated film studio complex situated near Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Goregaon East, Mumbai in India.
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Film distribution
Film distribution, also called film exhibition or film distribution and exhibition, is the process of making a movie available for viewing to an audience.
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Film Federation of India
The Film Federation of India (FFI) is an apex body of the Indian film producers (around 18,000), distributors (around 20,000), exhibitors (around 12,000) and studio owners, headquartered in Mumbai.
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Film genre
A film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for motion pictures based on similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film.
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Film studio
A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films.
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Filmfare
Filmfare is an Indian English-language fortnightly magazine published by Worldwide Media.
Filmfare Awards
The Filmfare Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language film industry of India (Not all Indian Cinema).
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Filmi
Filmi music soundtracks are music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry and written and performed for Indian cinema.
Filmi-ghazal
The filmi-ghazal is a genre of filmi music based on ghazal poetry in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), used in Indian films, especially the music of Bollywood (Hindi cinema).
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Filmmaking
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.
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FiveThirtyEight
538, originally rendered as FiveThirtyEight, is an American website that focused on opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging in the United States.
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Foley (filmmaking)
In filmmaking, Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality.
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Folk art
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture.
Folk dance
A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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Frontline (American TV program)
Frontline (stylized in all capital letters) is an investigative documentary program distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.
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Gabbar Singh (character)
Gabbar Singh is a fictional character and the antagonist of the 1975 Bollywood film Sholay.
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Gadar: Ek Prem Katha
(transl. Rebellion: A Love Story) is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language romantic period action drama film directed by Anil Sharma from a story written by Shaktimaan Talwar and was set during the Partition of India in 1947.
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Gangubai Kathiawadi
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language biographical crime drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bhansali and Jayantilal Gada.
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Gazeta Wyborcza
(The Electoral Gazette in English) is a Polish nationwide daily newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland.
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Geeta Dutt
Geeta Dutt (born Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri; 23 November 1930 – 20 July 1972) was an Indian classical and playback singer.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Ghajini (2008 film)
Ghajini is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed and co-written by A. R. Murugadoss in his Hindi film debut.
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Ghazal
The ghazal is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry.
Ghulam (film)
Ghulam is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language action film, directed by Vikram Bhatt, and starring Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherji in lead roles.
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Global North and Global South
Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics.
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Gopi
Gopi (गोपी) or Gopika in Hinduism are worshipped as the consorts and devotees of Krishna within the Vaishnavism and Krishnaism traditions for their unconditional love and devotion (Bhakti) to god Krishna as described in the Sanskrit scriptures like Bhagavata Purana and other Puranic literature.
Govind Nihalani
Govind Nihalani (born 19 December 1940) is an Indian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema, particularly the movement of parallel cinema.
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Govinda (actor)
Govind Arun Ahuja (born 21 December 1963), better known by his stage name Govinda, is an Indian actor, comedian, dancer, singer and politician, who has appeared in more than 165 Hindi-language films.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.
Gulzar
Gulzar (born Sampooran Singh Kalra; 18 August 1934) is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema.
Gunga Jumna
Ganga Jamna (ISO 15919: Gaṅgā Jamunā), also transliterated as Ganga Jamuna or Gunga Jumna, is a 1961 Indian crime drama film, written and produced by Dilip Kumar, and directed by Nitin Bose, with dialogues written by Wajahat Mirza; Kumar later said that he also ghost-directed and edited the film.
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Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt (born Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone; 9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964) was an Indian film actor, director, producer, choreographer, and writer.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Guzaarish (film)
Guzaarish is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film written, composed and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
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H. S. Bhatavdekar
Harishchandra Sakharam Bhatavdekar (15 March 1868 – 20 February 1958), also known as Save dada, was the first Indian to make a film in India.
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Hachette Livre
Hachette Livre (or simply known as Hachette) is a French publishing group that was based in Paris.
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Haji Mastan
Mastan Mirza (1 March 1926 25 June 1994), popularly known as Haji Mastan or Sultan Mirza, was an organised crime gang leader, originally from Tamil Nadu and based in Bombay.
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Handwriting
Handwriting is the personal and unique style of writing with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil in the hand.
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Hansal Mehta
Hansal Mehta (born 29 April 1968) is an Indian filmmaker.
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Happy New Year (2014 film)
Happy New Year (sometimes abbreviated as HNY) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language heist comedy thriller film directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Haruomi Hosono
, sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.
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Haus Publishing
Haus Publishing is a London-based publishing company which was established in 2002.
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Hausa people
The Hausa (autonyms for singular: Bahaushe (m), Bahaushiya (f); plural: Hausawa and general: Hausa; exonyms: Ausa; Ajami: مُتَنٜىٰنْ هَوْسَا / هَوْسَاوَا) are a native ethnic group in West Africa.
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Hay House
Hay House is a publisher founded in 1984 by author Louise Hay, who is known for her books on New Thought.
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He Ping (director)
He Ping (7 May 1957 – 10 January 2023) was a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and producer born in Shanxi whose main filmography consists of a hybrid genre of Western-wuxia movies.
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Helen (actress)
Helen Ann Richardson Khan (née Richardson; born 21 November 1938), known mononymously as Helen, is an Indian actress and dancer.
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Hema Malini
Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol (born 16 October 1948) is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014.
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Hemant Kumar
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar was a legendary Indian music director and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian languages like Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu.
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Heroic bloodshed
Heroic bloodshed is a genre invented by Hong Kong action cinema revolving around stylized action sequences and dramatic themes, such as brotherhood, duty, honour, redemption, and violence that has become a popular genre used by different directors worldwide.
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Heyy Babyy
Heyy Babyy is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language comedy film produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by Sajid Khan.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. Hindi cinema and Hindi are Hindustani language.
Hindi Belt
The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region.
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Hindi film distribution circuits
Hindi film distribution circuits comprise territories which have been created by film distributors for releasing Hindi cinema or Hindustani cinema (as it was earlier known) across India.
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Hindi film music
Hindi film songs, more formally known as Hindi Geet or filmi songs and informally known as Bollywood music, are songs featured in Hindi films.
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Hindi literature
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems.
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Hindi Medium
Hindi Medium is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Saket Chaudhary, and produced by Dinesh Vijan and Bhushan Kumar under their respective banners Maddock Films and T-Series.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).
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Hindutva
Hindutva is a political ideology encompassing the cultural justification of Hindu nationalism and the belief in establishing Hindu hegemony within India.
Hindutva boycott of Hindi films
Several boycotts have been started against Hindi films by Hindu nationalists in recent years, with the term Urduwood being used to characterise the Hindi-language Bollywood film industry as a Muslim-dominated, anti-Hindu industry which favours the use of Urdu over Hindi. Hindi cinema and Hindutva boycott of Hindi films are Hindustani language.
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Hinglish
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of South Asian English and the Hindustani language. Hindi cinema and Hinglish are Hindustani language.
Hiralal Sen
Hiralal Sen (হীরালাল সেন, Hiralal Shen; 2 August 1868 – 26 October 1917) is generally considered one of India's first filmmakers.
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Historical drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.
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Hitch (film)
Hitch is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Andy Tennant and starring Will Smith in the title role, along with Eva Mendes, Kevin James, and Amber Valletta.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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Hong Kong action cinema
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame.
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Hong Kong Cinemagic
Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual (French and English) website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people who created them.
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Hong Kong University Press
Hong Kong University Press (abbreviated as HKU Press) is the university press of the University of Hong Kong.
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Hooker with a heart of gold
The hooker with a heart of gold is a stock character involving a courtesan or prostitute who possesses virtues such as integrity, generosity and kindness.
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Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan (born 10 January 1974) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema.
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Hum (film)
Hum is a 1991 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed by Mukul S. Anand.
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Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (HAHK) is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film written and directed by Sooraj Barjatya and produced by Rajshri Productions.
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Ibn-e-Safi
Ibn-e-Safi (26 July 1928 – 26 July 1980) (also spelled as Ibne Safi) (ابنِ صفی) was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad (اسرار احمد), a fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan.
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Imran series
The Imran Series (Urdu عمران سیریز) is an Urdu spy fiction novel series created by Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Safi.
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Inder Raj Anand
Inder Raj Anand (died 6 March 1987) was an Indian film dialogue and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who worked on many Raj Kapoor films, starting with Aag (1948), Aah (1953), Anari (1959) and Sangam (1963).
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
India Today
India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited.
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India–Pakistan cricket rivalry
The India–Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most intense sports rivalries in the world.
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Indian classical dance
Indian classical dance, or Shastriya Nritya, is an umbrella term for different regionally-specific Indian classical dance traditions, rooted in predominantly Hindu musical theatre performance,, Quote: All of the dances considered to be part of the Indian classical canon (Bharata Natyam, Chhau, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi, Sattriya, and Yakshagana) trace their roots to religious practices (...) the Indian diaspora has led to the translocation of Hindu dances to Europe, North America and the world." the theory and practice of which can be traced to the Sanskrit text Natya Shastra.
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Indian classical drama
The term Indian classical drama refers to the tradition of dramatic literature and performance in ancient India.
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Indian classical music
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.
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Indian diaspora
Overseas Indians (ISO), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are Indians who reside or originate outside of India. According to the Government of India, Non-Resident Indians are citizens of India who currently are not living in India, while the term People of Indian Origin refers to people of Indian birth or ancestry who are citizens of countries other than India (with some exceptions).
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Indian epic poetry
Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Indian literature
Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter.
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Indian martial arts
Indian martial arts refers to the fighting systems of the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian nationalism
Indian nationalism is an instance of territorial nationalism, which is inclusive of all of the people of India, despite their diverse ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds.
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Indian South Africans
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.
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Indo-Persian culture
Indo-Persian culture refers to a cultural synthesis present on the Indian subcontinent.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Indosphere
Indosphere is a term coined by the linguist James Matisoff for areas of Indian linguistic influence in the neighboring Southern Asian, Southeast Asian, and East Asian regions.
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Information technology in India
The information technology (I.T.) industry in India comprises information technology services and business process outsourcing.
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International Federation of Film Critics
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium.
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International Indian Film Academy Awards
The International Indian Film Academy Awards, popularly known as IIFA, is an annual awards ceremony for Indian Hindi movies.
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Irrfan Khan
Irrfan Khan (born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan; 7 January 196729 April 2020) was an Indian actor who worked in Indian cinema as well as British and American films.
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Islamic culture
Islamic culture or Muslim culture refers to the historic cultural practices that developed among the various peoples living in the Muslim world.
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Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jab We Met
Jab We Met is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Dhilin Mehta under his banner Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision.
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Jagged Edge (film)
Jagged Edge is a 1985 American neo-noir legal thriller film written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand, the last of his films to be released during his lifetime.
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Jai Santoshi Maa
Jai Santoshi Maa is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language devotional film directed by Vijay Sharma and written R. Priyadarshi.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Japan Academy Film Prize
The, often called the Japan Academy Prize, the Japan Academy Awards, and the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association (日本アカデミー賞協会, Nippon Akademii-shou Kyoukai) for excellence in Japanese film.
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Jasoosi Dunya
Jasoosi Dunya (Urdu: جاسوسى دنيا) is a popular series of Urdu detective stories created by Ibne-Safi.
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Jatra (theatre)
Jatra (origin: Yatra meaning procession or journey in Sanskrit) is a popular folk-theatre form Bengali theatre, spread throughout most of Bengali speaking areas of the Indian subcontinent, including Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal, Assam, Odisha and Tripura As of 2005, there were some 55 troupes based in Calcutta's old Jatra district, Chitpur Road, and all together, is a $21m-a-year industry, performed on nearly 4,000 stages in West Bengal alone, where in 2001, over 300 companies employed over 20,000 people, more than the local film industry and urban theatre.
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Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is an Indian screenwriter, lyricist and poet.
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Jaya Bachchan
Jaya Bachchan (née Bhaduri; born 9 April 1948) is an Indian actress and politician.
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Jaya Prada
Jaya Prada Nahata (born Lalitha Rani Rao; 3 April 1962) is an Indian actress and politician known for her works majorly in Telugu cinema in addition to Hindi and Tamil films in late '70s, '80s and early '90s.
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Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
() is a 1955 Indian Hindi-language dance film directed by V. Shantaram.
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Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar
Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar also abbreviated as JJWS is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age sports film, directed and co-written by Mansoor Khan, and produced and co-written by Nasir Hussain.
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John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.
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John Woo
John Woo Yu-sen (born 22 September 1946) is a Hong Kong film director known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre.
Judaai (1997 film)
Judaai is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy drama film directed by Raj Kanwar.
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K. Asif
K.
K. L. Saigal
Kundan Lal Saigal, often abbreviated as K. L. Saigal (11 April 1904 – 18 January 1947), was an Indian singer and actor who worked in Hindi cinema, which was centred in Calcutta (Kolkata) during Saigal's time, but is currently based in Bombay (Mumbai).
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Kaagaz Ke Phool
Kaagaz Ke Phool.
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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, also abbreviated as KANK, is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Karan Johar, who also wrote it with Shibani Bathija, and produced by his mother Hiroo Yash Johar under the Dharma Productions banner.
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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...
(Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness…), also known by the initials K3G, is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language family drama film written and directed by Karan Johar and produced by Yash Johar under his banner Dharma Productions.
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Kabul Express
Kabul Express is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language adventure thriller film written and directed by documentary film maker Kabir Khan (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films was released on 15 December 2006.
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Kader Khan
Kader Khan (22 October 1937 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film producer.
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Kahaani
Kahaani is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
Kaho Naa...
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KAIST
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea.
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Kal Ho Naa Ho, also abbreviated as KHNH, is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy drama film directed by Nikhil Advani in his directorial debut with a story written by Karan Johar with dialogue by Niranjan Iyengar, and produced by Yash Johar.
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Kalyanji–Anandji
Kalyanji–Anandji were an Indian composer duo: Kalyanji Virji Shah (30 June 1928 – 24 August 2000) and his brother Anandji Virji Shah (born 2 March 1933).
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Kamal Amrohi
Syed Amir Haider Kamal Naqvi (17 January 1918 – 11 February 1993), popularly known as Kamal Amrohi, was an Indian film director and screenwriter.
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Kannada cinema
Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood, or Chandanavana, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Kannada language widely spoken in the state of Karnataka. Hindi cinema and Kannada cinema are Indian film industries.
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Karnataka
Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.
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Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Kasoor
Kasoor is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language psychological thriller film produced under Mukesh Bhatt's Vishesh Films and directed by Vikram Bhatt.
Katrina Kaif
Katrina Kaif (born Katrina Turquotte, 16 July 1983) is a British actress who works in Hindi-language films.
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Kavita Krishnamurti
Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer.
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Kelly Poon
Kelly Poon (born 11 July 1983) is a Singaporean singer, songwriter and actress who was the runner-up on the first season of the Project SuperStar singing competition held in Singapore.
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Kerala
Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.
Ketan Mehta
Ketan Mehta (born 21 July 1952) is an Indian film director who has also directed documentaries and television serials since 1975.
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Khans of Bollywood
The term Khans of Bollywood refers to several actors of Bollywood, the Mumbai-based Hindi language Indian film industry, whose surnames are Khan.
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Khuda Gawah
Khuda Gawah (also translated and released as God Is My Witness) is a 1992 Indian epic drama film written and directed by Mukul S. Anand.
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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (خېبر پښتونخوا; Hindko and,; abbr. KP), formerly known as North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan.
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Kick (2014 film)
Kick is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film produced and directed by Sajid Nadiadwala in his directorial debut under the Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment banner and starring Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead roles.
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Kisan Kanya
Kisan Kanya was a 1937 Hindi Cinecolor feature film which was directed by Moti Gidwani and produced by Ardeshir Irani of Imperial Pictures.
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Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar (born Abhas Kumar Ganguly;; 4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor.
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Kismet (1943 film)
Kismet is a 1943 Indian drama film, directed by Gyan Mukherjee, written by Mukherjee with Aghajani Kashmeri, and produced by Bombay Talkies, during the Second World War, National Film Archive of India; accessed 15 October 2017.
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Knight and Day
Knight and Day is a 2010 American satirical action comedy film directed by James Mangold and starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
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Koi... Mil Gaya
Koi...
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Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Krishan Chander
Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels.
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Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco.
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Krrish
Krrish is a 2006 Indian superhero film directed and produced by Rakesh Roshan.
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language musical romance film written and directed by Karan Johar and produced by his father Yash Johar under Dharma Productions.
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Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs.
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Kumar Shahani
Kumar Shahani (7 December 1940 – 24 February 2024) was an Indian film director and screenwriter, best known for his parallel cinema films Maya Darpan (1972), Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).
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La Caution
La Caution is a French hip hop duo consisting of Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie, both of Moroccan descent.
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Laal Singh Chaddha
Laal Singh Chaddha is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Advait Chandan and written by Atul Kulkarni.
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Lagaan
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, or simply Lagaan, is a 2001 Indian Hindi-language epic period musical sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker.
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (translation: Keep Going, Munna Bro) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language satirical comedy drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Abhijat Joshi, and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films.
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Lahore
Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.
Lakh
A lakh (abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105).
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar (born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.
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Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Laxmikant–Pyarelal were an Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940).
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Lebanese people
The Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon.
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Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Lip sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced, the same as the word sink), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.
List of films voted the best
This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.
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List of highest domestic net collection of Hindi films
This is a ranking of highest domestic net collection of Hindi films, which includes films in the Hindi language, based on the conservative global box office estimates as reported by industry sources.
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List of highest-grossing films in China
This is a list of the highest-grossing films in Mainland China.
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List of highest-grossing films in India
The following is a list of highest-grossing films in India, with gross revenue in Indian Rupees.
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List of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union
This is the list of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union, in terms of box office admissions (ticket sales).
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List of highest-grossing Hindi films
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood, consisting primarily of films in the Hindi language.
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List of Western subgenres
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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Lists of Hindi films
This is a list of films produced by the Indian Hindi-language film industry, popularly known Bollywood, based in Mumbai ordered by year and decade of release.
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Lollywood
Lollywood is Pakistan's film industry, which has served as the base for both Urdu- and Punjabi-language film production.
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Lucky: No Time for Love
Lucky: No Time For Love, shortly known as Lucky is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language romance film depicting the story of two lovers in war-torn Russia written and directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru.
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M. F. Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian artist known for executing bold, vibrantly coloured narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style.
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Madhubala
Madhubala (born Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi; 14 February 1933 – 23 February 1969) was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi-language films.
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Madhuri Dixit
Madhuri Dixit Nene (née Dixit,; born 15 May 1967) is an Indian actress and television personality.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Mahesh Bhatt (born 20 September 1948) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Hindi cinema.
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Main Hoon Na
Main Hoon Na is a 2004 Hindi-language masala film directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment.
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Maine Pyar Kiya
Maine Pyar Kiya also known by the initialism MPK is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film directed by Sooraj Barjatya in his directorial debut, produced by Tarachand Barjatya, co-written by S. M. Ahale with Sooraj Barjatya and distributed by Rajshri Productions.
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Mala Sinha
Alda Sinha (born 11 November 1936), better known by her stage name Mala Sinha, is a former Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films.
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Malaika Arora
Malaika Arora (born 23 October 1973) is an Indian actress, dancer, model, VJ and television personality who appears in Hindi-language films.
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Malay world
The Malay world or Malay realm (Indonesian/Malay: Dunia Melayu or Alam Melayu) is a concept or an expression that has been used by different authors and groups over time to denote several different notions, derived from varied interpretations of 'Malay' either as an ethnic group, as a racial category, as a linguistic group or as a cultural group.
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Malayalam cinema
Malayalam cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Malayalam language, which is widely spoken in the state of Kerala, India. Hindi cinema and Malayalam cinema are Indian film industries.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Mani Kaul
Mani Kaul (25 December 1944 – 6 July 2011) was an Indian director of Hindi films and a figure in Indian parallel cinema.
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Mani Ratnam
Gopalaratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.
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Manmohan Desai
Manmohan Desai (26 February 1937 – 1 March 1994) was an Indian film producer and director.
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Manna Dey
Prabodh Chandra Dey (May 1, 1919 − October 24, 2013), known by his stage name Manna Dey, was a renowned Indian playback singer, music director, and musician.
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Marigold (2007 film)
Marigold (also known as Marigold: An Adventure in India) is a 2007 romantic musical comedy directed by Willard Carroll.
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Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor.
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and activist.
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Martial arts film
Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters.
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Masala film
Masala films of Indian cinema are those that blend multiple genres into one work.
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
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MBC Bollywood
MBC Bollywood (Hindi: एमबीसी बॉलीवुड) is a free-to-air television channel that broadcasts Indian dramas.
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McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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Medieval India
Medieval India refers to a long period of post-classical history of the Indian subcontinent between the "ancient period" and "modern period".
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Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; 1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972) was an Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films.
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Meenakshi Seshadri
Meenakshi Seshadri (born 16 November 1963) is an Indian former actress, model, dancer and beauty pageant titleholder.
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Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai
Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940) is an Indian-born naturalised British economist and former Labour politician.
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Mehboob Khan
Mehboob Khan (born Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan; 9 September 1907 at filmreference.com. – 28 May 1964) was a pioneer producer-director of Indian cinema, best known for directing the social epic Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director, two National Film Awards, and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Melodrama
A modern melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, typically sensationalized and for a very strong emotional appeal, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
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MenToo movement
#MenToo is a social movement in India which was started against false sexual harassment allegations in MeToo movement in India.
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Method acting
Method acting, known as the Method, is a range of rehearsal techniques, as formulated by a number of different theatre practitioners, that seeks to encourage sincere and expressive performances through identifying with, understanding, and experiencing a character's inner motivation and emotions.
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Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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Middlesex County, New Jersey
Middlesex County is a county located in the north-central part of the U.S. state of New Jersey, extending inland from the Raritan Valley region to the northern portion of the Jersey Shore.
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Mihir Bose
Mihir Bose (born 12 January 1947) is a British Indian journalist and author.
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Minsk
Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.
Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City.
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Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language language films.
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Mohabbatein
Mohabbatein is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language musical romantic drama film written and directed by Aditya Chopra and produced by Yash Chopra under his banner Yash Raj Films.
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Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer.
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Mohra
Mohra is a 1994 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written, edited and directed by Rajiv Rai and produced by his father Gulshan Rai.
Momtaz Begum-Hossain
Momtaz Begum-Hossain (মমতাজ বেগম-হোসেন; born 8 December 1981) is an English freelance journalist, craft expert and presenter.
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Mory Kanté
Mory Kanté (29 March 195022 May 2020) was a Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp.
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Mother India
Mother India is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar.
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Mother India (book)
Mother India (1927) is a polemical book by American journalist Katherine Mayo on the status of women and girls in Indian society as well as her perception of Hindu culture.
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Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.
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Mr. India (1987 film)
Mr.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.
Mughal-e-Azam
Mughal-e-Azam is a 1960 Indian epic historical drama film produced and directed by K. Asif.
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Mukesh (singer)
Mukesh Chand Mathur (22 July 1923 – 27 August 1976), better known mononymously as Mukesh, was an Indian playback singer.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Mumtaz (Indian actress)
Mumtaz Askari Madhvani (née Askari; born 31 July 1947) is an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Musical film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.
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My Cousin Vinny
My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, and written by Dale Launer, who also produced with Paul Schiff.
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Nargis
Nargis Dutt (born Fatima Rashid, also known as Nirmala Dutt; 1 June 1929 – 3 May 1981) was an Indian actress and politician who worked in Hindi cinema.
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor.
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Nasir Hussain
Mohammad Nasir Hussain Khan (16 November 1926 – 13 March 2002), better known as Nasir Hussain, was an Indian film producer, film director, and screenwriter.
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Nasreen Munni Kabir
Nasreen Munni Kabir (born 1950) is an India-born television producer, director and author based in the U.K. She is best known for producing an annual season of Indian films for the British terrestrial television channel Channel 4.
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National Film Awards
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India.
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National Science and Media Museum
The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum Group in the UK.
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Nautch
The nautch (meaning "dance" or "dancing" from Hindustani: "naach")Scott A. Kugle, 2016,, p.230.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Nawazuddin Siddiqui (born 19 May 1974) is an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi cinema.
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Neecha Nagar
() is a 1946 Indian Hindi-language film, directed by Chetan Anand, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari, and produced by Rashid Anwar and A. Halim.
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Neorealism (art)
In art, neorealism refers to a few movements.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.
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New Hollywood
The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Nimmi
Nimmi (born Nawab Bano; 18 February 1932 – 25 March 2020), was an Indian screen actress who achieved stardom in the 1950s and early 1960s in Hindi films.
Nollywood
Nollywood, a portmanteau of Nigeria and Hollywood, is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry.
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Noor Jehan
Noor Jehan, sometimes spelled NoorjehanAshish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, British Film Institute, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002, pp.
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Noorie
Noorie is a 1979 Indian romance film produced by Yash Chopra, and directed by Manmohan Krishna; this is his only film as director.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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North-West Frontier Province
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010.
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Northern Region, Nigeria
Northern Nigeria (or Arewancin Nijeriya) was an autonomous division within Nigeria, distinctly different from the southern part of the country, with independent customs, foreign relations and security structures.
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Nudity
Nudity is the state of being in which a human is without clothing.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (نصرت فتح علی خان,; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director.
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Nutan
Nutan Samarth-Bahl (Samarth; 4 June 1936 – 21 February 1991), known mononymously as Nutan was an Indian actress who worked primarily in Hindi films.
Ohio University Press
Ohio University Press (OUP) is a university press associated with Ohio University.
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Old age
Old age is the range of ages for people nearing and surpassing life expectancy.
Oldboy (2003 film)
Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean action-thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook.
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Om Shanti Om
Om Shanti Om (transl. literally to Peace Be With You) is a 2007 Indian romantic fantasy film written and directed by Farah Khan, co-written by Mayur Puri and Mushtaq Shiekh, and produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment.
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On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Organised crime in India
Organised crime in India refers to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world.
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Outlook (Indian magazine)
Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.
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Over-the-top media services in India
There are currently about 57 providers of over-the-top media services (OTT) in India, which distribute streaming media or video on demand over the Internet.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav
Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Mahesh Manjrekar.
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Padmini (actress)
Padmini Ramachandran (12 June 1932 – 24 September 2006) was an Indian actress and trained Bharatanatyam dancer, who acted in over 250 Indian films.
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Padmini Kolhapure
Padmini Kolhapure (born 1 November 1965) is an Indian actress and singer, who primarily works in Hindi and Marathi films.
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Paisa
Paisa (also transliterated as pice, pesa, poysha, poisha and baisa) is a monetary unit in several countries.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Palme d'Or
The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Pan-Indian film
Pan-Indian film is a term related to Indian cinema that originated with Telugu cinema as a mainstream commercial cinema appealing to audiences across the country with a spread to world markets.
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Parallel cinema
Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.
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Parsi theatre
Parsi theatre is a generic term for an influential theatre tradition, staged by Parsis, and theatre companies largely-owned by the Parsi business community, which flourished between 1850 and the 1930s.
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Partition of India
The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
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Partner (2007 film)
Partner is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan and, produced by Sohail Khan and Parag Sanghvi.
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Parveen Babi
Parveen Babi (4 April 1949 – 20 January 2005) was an Indian actress and model who worked in Hindi films.
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Pehlwani
Pehlwani, also known as Kushti, is a form of wrestling contested in the Indian subcontinent.
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Penguin Group
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
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Performance art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Persianate society
A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Pink (2016 film)
Pink is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language legal thriller film directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and written by Shoojit Sircar, Ritesh Shah and Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury.
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Pitchfork (website)
Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.
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PK (film)
PK (translation: Drunk) is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language science fiction comedy-drama film edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi and jointly produced by Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra under the production banners of Rajkumar Hirani Films and Vinod Chopra Films, respectively.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.
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Players (2012 film)
Players is a 2012 Indian heist action thriller film directed by the duo Abbas–Mustan and jointly produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Burmawala Partners.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Political sociology
Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis.
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Politics of Egypt
The politics of Egypt takes place within the framework of a republican semi-presidential system of government.
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Politics of India
Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution.
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Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Preity Zinta
Preity G Zinta (pronounced; born 31 January 1975) is an Indian entrepreneur and actress primarily known for her work in Hindi films.
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Press Trust of India
The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India.
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Prithviraj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor (born Prithvinath Kapoor; 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was an Indian actor who is also considered to be one of the founding figures of Hindi cinema.
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Product placement
Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique where references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.
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Professional
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity.
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Pune
Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.
Punjab
Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.
Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab (abbr. PB) is a province of Pakistan.
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Pushpa: The Rise
Pushpa: The Rise is a 2021 Indian Telugu-language action drama film written and directed by Sukumar, and produced by Mythri Movie Makers and Muttamsetty Media.
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PVR INOX
PVR INOX Ltd (formerly Priya Village Roadshow Ltd), formerly known as PVR Cinemas, is an Indian multiplex chain based in Delhi. It was formed as a result of the merger between PVR Cinemas and INOX Leisure Multiplex.
Pyaasa
Pyaasa is a 1957 Indian Hindi drama film directed and produced by Guru Dutt, who stars alongside Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, and Johnny Walker.
Qawwali
Qawwali (Urdu:; Hindi: क़व्वाली; Bengali: ক়াওয়ালী; Punjabiਕ਼ੱਵਾਲੀ.) is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing originating in South Asia.
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (QSQT), also known by the initialism QSQT, is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film, directed by Mansoor Khan in his directorial debut, and written and produced by Nasir Hussain.
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Quartz (publication)
Quartz is an American English language news website owned by G/O Media.
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Queen (2013 film)
Queen is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Vikas Bahl and produced by Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, and Madhu Mantena.
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R. D. Burman
Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) was an Indian music director and actor, who is considered to be one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry.
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Ra.One
Ra.One is a 2011 Indian superhero film directed by Anubhav Sinha and produced by Gauri Khan under Red Chillies Entertainment.
Raaz (2002 film)
Raaz is a 2002 Indian supernatural horror film directed by Vikram Bhatt.
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Raazi
Raazi is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language spy thriller film directed by Meghna Gulzar and produced by Vineet Jain, Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta under the banners of Junglee Pictures and Dharma Productions.
Rachel Dwyer
Rachel Dwyer is a professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema at SOAS, University of London.
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Radha
Radha (राधा), also called Radhika, is a Hindu goddess and the chief consort of the god Krishna. She is the goddess of love, tenderness, compassion and devotion. In scriptures, Radha is mentioned as the avatar of Lakshmi and also as the Mūlaprakriti, the Supreme goddess, who is the feminine counterpart and internal potency (hladini shakti) of Krishna.
Rahi Masoom Raza
Rahi Masoom Raza (1 September 1927 – 15 March 1992) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi poet and writer and a Bollywood lyricist.
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Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor (born Shrishti Nath Kapoor; 14 December 1924 2 June 1988), also known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor, was an Indian actor, film director and producer, who worked in Hindi cinema.
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Raja Harishchandra
Raja Harishchandra is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke.
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Raja Hindustani
Raja Hindustani is a 1996 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Dharmesh Darshan.
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Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna (born Jatin Khanna; 29 December 1942 – 18 July 2012) was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who worked in Hindi films.
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Rajinder Singh Bedi
Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915 – 11 November 1984) was an Indian Urdu writer of the progressive writers' movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer and he is grandfather to Rajat Bedi and Manek Bedi.
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Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman
Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy-drama film directed by Aziz Mirza starring Shah Rukh Khan, Amrita Singh, Juhi Chawla and Nana Patekar.
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Rakesh Roshan
Rakesh Roshan (born 6 September 1943) is an Indian film producer, director, screenwriter and actor who works in Hindi films.
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Rakhee Gulzar
Raakhee Gulzar (Majumdar; born 15 August 1947), professionally known as Raakhee, is a popular Indian actress who has appeared in Hindi and Bengali films.
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Ram Gopal Varma
Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma (born 7 April 1962), often referred to by his initials RGV, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Telugu cinema in addition to Hindi, Kannada language films, and television.
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Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.
Ramlila
Ramlila (literally 'Rama's lila or play') is any dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana or secondary literature based on it such as the Ramcharitmanas.
Rang De Basanti
Rang De Basanti is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language epic drama film written, produced, and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.
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Rasa (aesthetics)
In Indian aesthetics, a rasa (रस) literally means "juice, essence or taste".
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Rediff.com
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website.
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Rekha
Bhanurekha Ganesan (born 10 October 1954), better known by her mononymous stage name Rekha, is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi films.
Release print
A release print is a copy of a film that is provided to a movie theater for exhibition.
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Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item.
Rent (film)
Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus.
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Richard Corliss
Richard Nelson Corliss (March 6, 1944 – April 23, 2015) was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time.
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Rishi Kapoor
Rishi Raj Kapoor (4 September 1952 – 30 April 2020) was an Indian actor, film director, and producer who worked in Hindi films.
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Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer.
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Romance film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Rowdy Rathore
Rowdy Rathore is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Prabhu Deva and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala under the UTV Motion Pictures and Bhansali Productions banners.
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Royal Tropical Institute
KIT, formerly the Royal Tropical Institute (Dutch: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen), is an applied knowledge institute located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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RRR
RRR (subtitled onscreen as Roudram Ranam Rudhiram) is a 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic period action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad.
RTL Zwei
RTL Zwei (stylised as RTLZWEI), formerly spelled RTL 2 and RTL II, is a German-language television channel that is operated by RTL2 Television GmbH & Co. KG.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Russia Beyond
Russia Beyond (formerly Russia Beyond The Headlines) is a Russian multilingual project operated by RT (formerly Russia Today) parent ANO TV-Novosti, founded by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press (RUP) is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto
was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).
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S. S. Rajamouli
Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli (born 10 October 1973) is an Indian filmmaker who primarily works in Telugu cinema.
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Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam (née Ghanekar, born 7 March 1969) is an Indian singer known for her playback career in Indian cinema predominantly in Hindi, Bengali, Nepali and Tamil language films.
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Sadhana Shivdasani
Sadhana Shivdasani (2 September 1941 – 25 December 2015), known mononymously as Sadhana, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi films.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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Salaam Bombay!
Salaam Bombay! is a 1988 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed, co-written and co-produced by Mira Nair.
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Salaam Namaste
Salaam Namaste is a 2005 Indian romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Siddharth Anand in his directorial debut and produced by Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra under Yash Raj Films.
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Salim Khan
Salim Abdul Rashid Khan (born 24 November 1935) is an Indian actor, film producer and screenwriter.
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Salim–Javed
Salim–Javed were an Indian screenwriting duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, who worked primarily in Hindi cinema.
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Salman Khan
Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (born 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who predominantly works in Hindi films.
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Satya (1998 film)
Satya is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language crime film, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma; written by Saurabh Shukla and Anurag Kashyap.
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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.
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SBS (Australian TV channel)
SBS is a multicultural public TV network in Australia.
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Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.
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Screen (magazine)
Screen was an Indian weekly film magazine published by Indian Express Limited.
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Screen Awards
The Screen Awards was an annual awards ceremony held in India, honouring professional excellence in Bollywood.
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Screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.
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Secret Superstar
Secret Superstar is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film written and directed by Advait Chandan, and produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao under the studio Aamir Khan Productions.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
Serendipity
Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery.
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Sergey Kudryavtsev
Sergey Valentinovich Kudryavtsev (Серге́й Валенти́нович Кудря́вцев) is a Russian film critic and historian.
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Set construction
Set construction is the process undertaken by a construction manager to build full-scale scenery, as specified by a production designer or art director working in collaboration with the director of a production to create a set for a theatrical, film, or television production.
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Sexism in Bollywood
Sexism in Bollywood refers to gender discrimination and stereotyping prevalent in the Hindi film industry of India, commonly known as Bollywood.
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Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950) is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre.
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Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.
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Shahid Kapoor
Shahid Kapoor (born 25 February 1981) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films.
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Shammi Kapoor
Shammi Kapoor (born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; (pronounced ʃʌmːi kʌpuːɾ; 21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011) was an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi cinema. Kapoor is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, Kapoor worked in over 100 films.
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Shamshad Begum
Shamshad Begum (Hindi: शमशाद बेगम, IAST: Śamśād Bēgam; 14 April 1919 – 23 April 2013) was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry.
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Sholay
Sholay is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action-adventure film directed by Ramesh Sippy, produced by his father G. P. Sippy, and written by Salim–Javed.
Shree 420
Shree 420 (also spelled as Shri 420) is a 1955 Indian Hindi comedy-drama film directed and produced by Raj Kapoor from a story written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas whose use of Shree with the negative connotations of 420 caused controversy.
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Shreya Ghoshal
Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer.
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Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker.
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Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology (ICT) company providing telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services, and application integration services.
Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).
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Silent film
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue).
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Sina Corporation
Sina Corporation is a Chinese technology company.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
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Singh Is Kinng
Singh Is Kinng is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee from a screenplay by Bazmee and Suresh Nair.
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Singham
Singham is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment, based on a script by writers Yunus Sajawal and Farhad-Sajid.
Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup.
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Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture
Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album of the British drama film of the same name, directed by Danny Boyle.
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Smita Patil
Smita Patil (17 October 1955 – 13 December 1986) was an Indian film and theatre actress who primarily worked in Hindi and Marathi films.
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Social realism
Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.
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Social Scientist
Social Scientist is an Indian academic journal published by the Indian School of Social Sciences and Tulika Books in the areas of social sciences and humanities.
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Socioeconomics
Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.
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Soft power
In politics (and particularly in international politics), soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power).
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Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
Son of Sardaar
Son of Sardaar is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Ashwni Dhir.
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Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, dubbing artist and actor.
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SonyLIV
SonyLIV is an Indian subscription video-on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Culver Max Entertainment.
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
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Souten
Souten is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Saawan Kumar Tak, starring Rajesh Khanna, Tina Munim, Padmini Kolhapure, Prem Chopra and Pran.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South Asian diaspora
The South Asian diaspora, also known as the Desi diaspora, is the group of people whose ancestral origins lie in South Asia, but who live outside the region.
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South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.
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South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Spaghetti Western
The spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe.
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Sports film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme.
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Squad (film)
Squad is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film written, directed and produced by Nilesh Sahay.
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Sridevi
Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan (13 August 1963 – 24 February 2018), known professionally as Sridevi, was an Indian actress who worked in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada language films.
Stardust Awards
The Stardust Awards was an award ceremony for Hindi movies, which was sponsored by Stardust magazine.
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Stephen Alter
Stephen Alter is an American author of more than 20 books of fiction and non-fiction.
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Stereotypes of South Asians
Stereotypes of South Asians consist of various generalized beliefs about individuals from South Asia which derive from the region's history and interaction with other cultures and peoples.
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Steve Waugh
Stephen Rodger Waugh (born 2 June 1965) is an Australian former international cricketer and twin brother of cricketer Mark Waugh.
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Stunt performer
A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career.
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Sudhir Mishra
Sudhir Mishra (born 22 January 1959) is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for directing the films Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli.
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Sumitra Devi (actress)
Sumitra Devi (22 July 1923 – 28 August 1990) was an Indian actress who is recognised for her work in Hindi as well as Bengali cinema during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Sunny Deol
Ajay Singh Deol (born 19 October 1957), better known as Sunny Deol, is an Indian actor, film director, producer, politician and former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament.
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Supreme Court of India
The Supreme Court of India (ISO: Bhārata kā Sarvōcca Nyāyālaya) is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India.
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Suraiya
Suraiya Jamal Sheikh (15 June 1929 – 31 January 2004), mononymously known as Suraiya, was an Indian actress and playback singer who worked in Hindi films.
Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Sync sound
Sync sound (synchronized sound recording) refers to sound recorded at the time of the filming of movies.
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Taare Zameen Par
(), also known as Like Stars on Earth in English, is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language psychological drama film produced and directed by Aamir Khan.
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Tahir Hussain
Mohammad Tahir Hussain Khan (19 September 1938 – 2 February 2010), better known as Tahir Hussain, was an Indian film producer, screenwriter, actor and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema.
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Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Tajikistan
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.
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Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Tamil language, the main spoken language in the state of Tamil Nadu. Hindi cinema and Tamil cinema are Indian film industries.
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Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.
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Tania Zaetta
Tania Zaetta (born 17 November 1970) is an Australian actress and television presenter.
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Tawaif
A tawaif was a highly successful courtesan singer‚ dancer‚ and poet who catered to the nobility of the Indian subcontinent, particularly during the Mughal era.
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Telangana
Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.
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Telugu cinema
Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Hindi cinema and Telugu cinema are Indian film industries.
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Terukkuttu
Terukkuttu is a Tamil street theatre form practised in Tamil Nadu state of India and Tamil-speaking regions of Sri Lanka.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
Thanedaar
Thanedaar is a 1990 Indian Hindi-language action film, produced by Sanjay Ray, Sudhir Roy under the Shiva Arts International banner and directed by Raj N. Sippy.
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The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.
The Asian Age
The Asian Age is an English-language Indian daily newspaper with editions published in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
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The Bollywood Saga
Indian Cinema: The Bollywood Saga is a 155-page book overviewing the history of Bollywood published in 2004.
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The Brothers (1979 film)
The Brothers (Cantonese: 差人大佬搏命仔 Cha yan daai liu bok meng chai, Mandarin: Cha ren da lao bo ming zai) is a 1979 Hong Kong action crime-drama film directed by Hua Shan, written by Lam Chin Wai and Yuen Cheung, and produced by Runme Shaw under the Shaw Brothers Studio.
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The Diplomat
The Diplomat is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.
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The Dirty Picture
The Dirty Picture is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language biographical musical drama film inspired by the life of Silk Smitha, an Indian actress noted for her erotic roles.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Guru (2002 film)
The Guru is a 2002 sex comedy film written by Tracey Jackson and directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer.
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The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.
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The Italian Job (2003 film)
The Italian Job is a 2003 American heist action film directed by F. Gary Gray and starring an ensemble cast consisting of Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Mos Def, and Donald Sutherland.
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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros.
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The New Indian Express
The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Quint
The Quint is an English and Hindi language Indian general news and opinion website founded by Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapur after their exit from Network18.
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The Romantics (TV series)
The Romantics is a 2023 limited series English and Hindi language documentary, created by Smriti Mundhra and Michael T Vollmann.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Telegraph (India)
The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Tramp
The Tramp (Charlot in several languages), also known as the Little Tramp, was English actor Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character and an icon in world cinema during the era of silent film.
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The Tribune (India)
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.
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The Wire (India)
The Wire is an Indian nonprofit news and opinion website.
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Theatre of India
Theatre of India is one of the most ancient forms of theatre and it features a detailed textual, sculptural, and dramatic effects which emerged in mid first millennium BC.
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Tiger Shroff
Jai Hemant Shroff (born 2 March 1990), known professionally as Tiger Shroff, is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time's All-Time 100 Movies
All-TIME 100 Movies is a list compiled by ''TIME'' magazine of the 100 "greatest" films that were released between March 3, 1923—when the first issue of TIME was published—and early 2005, when the list was compiled.
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Titanic (1997 film)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron.
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Tollygunge
Tollygunge (Ṭaligonj; nicknamed 'Mini Mumbai' or 'Mini Bombay') is a locality of South Kolkata, in West Bengal, India.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
Town square
A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.
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Truth Hurts (singer)
Shari Watson (born October 10, 1971), known as Truth Hurts, is an American R&B singer.
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Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi films.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University of Minnesota Press
The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.
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University of Texas Press
The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. Hindi cinema and Urdu are Hindustani language.
Urdu alphabet
The Urdu alphabet is the right-to-left alphabet used for writing Urdu.
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Urdu literature
Urdu literature (ادبیاتِ اُردُو) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.
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Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry (اُردُو شاعرى) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms.
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Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.
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Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.
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Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
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Veer-Zaara
Veer-Zaara is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Yash Chopra, from a screenplay written by his son Aditya Chopra.
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VH1
VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.
Vigilantism
Vigilantism is the act of preventing, investigating, and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority.
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Vijay Bhatt
Vijay Bhatt (born Vrajlal Jagneshwar Bhatt; 12 May 1907 – 17 October 1993) was a producer-director-screenwriter of Hindi cinema, who made such films as Ram Rajya (1943), Baiju Bawra (1952), Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959) and Himalaya Ki God Mein (1965).
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Vijaya Mehta
Vijaya Mehta (born 4 November 1934), is a noted Indian Marathi film and theatre director and also an actor in many films from the Parallel Cinema.
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Viju Shah
Vijay Kalyanji Shah (born 5 June 1959) is a composer who works in the Indian film industry.
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Vikram Bhatt
Vikram Bhatt (born 27 January 1969) is an Indian director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
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Vyjayanthimala
Vyjayanthimala Bali (Raman; born 13 August 1933) known mononymously as Vyjayanthimala is an Indian parliamentarian, dancer and former actress.
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Waheeda Rehman
Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress.
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Wajahat Mirza
Wajahat Hussain Mirza Changezi (वजाहत मिर्ज़ा; 20 April 1908 – 4 August 1990) was an Indian screenwriter and film director who penned the dialogues of some of the most successful films in India during the 1950s and 1960s, best known for Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and the Academy Award nominee, Mother India (1957).
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Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Warriors of Heaven and Earth is a 2003 Chinese action adventure film directed by He Ping.
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Wealth
Wealth is the abundance of valuable financial assets or physical possessions which can be converted into a form that can be used for transactions.
Wedding Crashers
Wedding Crashers is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Christopher Walken with Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper and Jane Seymour in supporting roles.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
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West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Clark Gregg, based on a story by Sarah Kernochan and Gregg.
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Wimal Dissanayake
Wimal Dissanayake (born 1939) is a Sri Lankan writer, lecturer, and scholar of Asian cinema and Asian communication theory.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
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World cinema
World cinema is a term in film theory in the United States that refers to films made outside of the American motion picture industry, particularly those in opposition to the aesthetics and values of commercial American cinema.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Wrestling
Wrestling is a martial art and combat sport that involves grappling with an opponent and striving to obtain a position of advantage through different throws or techniques, within a given ruleset.
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Yaadon Ki Baaraat
Yaadon Ki Baaraat is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language masala film, directed by Nasir Hussain and written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar).
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Yaraana (1995 film)
Yaraana is a 1995 Bollywood romantic thriller film directed by David Dhawan and starring Madhuri Dixit, Rishi Kapoor, Raj Babbar, Kader Khan and Shakti Kapoor.
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Yash Raj Films
Yash Raj Films (YRF) is an Indian film production and distribution company founded by veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra in 1970 and being handled and led by his son, Aditya Chopra since 2012.
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Yé ké yé ké
"Yé ké yé ké" is a song by Guinean recording artist Mory Kanté.
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Yellow Magic Orchestra
Yellow Magic Orchestra (abbreviated to YMO) was a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals, occasional keyboards) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).
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You've Stolen My Heart
You've Stolen My Heart is a 2005 studio album from the Kronos Quartet, featuring arrangements of the music of Indian composer Rahul Dev Burman, with vocals by Asha Bhosle, she sang the original versions of the album's songs and was married to Burman until his death in 1994.
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Zaira Wasim
Zaira Wasim (born 23 October 2000) is an Indian former actress who worked in Hindi films.
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Zanjeer (1973 film)
Zanjeer is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language action crime film directed and produced by Prakash Mehra from a screenplay written by Salim–Javed.
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Zee Aflam
Zee Aflam (زي أفلام) (Hindi: ज़ी अफ़लाम) (Urdu: زى افلام) is an Indian & Pakistani pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises based in Dubai, UAE, which broadcasts movies and television series originally made in Hindi, either subtitled in Arabic, Bollywood films in the Arab world, where the channel shows Hindi films and programs subtitled in Arabic, Pakistani films and programs subtitled in Arabic, and broadcasts around the clock a variety of Bollywood films, including romance, comedy, action and drama, starting from the latest films to the classics.
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Zee Cine Awards
The Zee Cine Award (ZCA) is an annual Indian awards ceremony for the Hindi film industry.
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ZEE5
ZEE5 is an Indian subscription video on demand and over-the-top streaming service, run by Zee Entertainment Enterprises.
Zeenat Aman
Zeenat Khan (born 19 November 1951), better known as Zeenat Aman, is an Indian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder.
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Zinda (film)
Zinda (English: Alive) is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language action film written and directed by Sanjay Gupta, who co-wrote the film with Suresh Nair.
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1946 Cannes Film Festival
The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946.
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1988 Cannes Film Festival
The 41st Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 23 May 1988.
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20th Century Studios
20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.
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3 Idiots
3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, co-written by Abhijat Joshi and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
66th Golden Globe Awards
The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, was broadcast on January 11, 2009, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on the NBC television network.
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81st Academy Awards
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.
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