INTEQAM - THE PERFECT MURDER
Cast: Manoj Bajpai & Isha Koppikar
Director: Pankuj Parasher
Avantika Suryavanshi (Isha Koppikar) is a rich and beautiful young writer. She is on a business trip to India. Her friend, Aditya Grewal, hosts a party in her honour. At the party, the host is brutally murdered. ACP Uday Thakur (Manoj Bajpai), a hot-blooded officer feared by the underworld but also criticised widely for ruthlessly killing criminals in encounters, is assigned the task of investigating the murder.
There are other murders too and the ACP is not sure, who the murderer could be. His prime suspect is Avantika who, however, is unperturbed. She claims, she is not the killer and, therefore, has nothing to fear. Is she really as innocent as she claims to be? Could the ACP be behind the series of killings? And there’s the police officer’s girlfriend who suspects him of two-timing her.
This film has been invited for the South Asian Foundation, a film festival at Tashkent. It will be screened there with Russian sub-titles.
MORNING RAGA
Cast: Shabana Azmi & Perizaad Zorabian
Director: Mahesh Dattani
Swarnalatha (Shabana Azmi), Pinkie (Perizaad Zorabian) and Abhinay (Prakash Rao) have all been affected in different ways by a road accident. They meet years later.
Swarnalatha is a talented singer who had a burning desire to perform in the city. She lost her child and a friend in that accident and holds herself responsible for the deaths. Today, she is a recluse in the village. Abhinay, who lost his mother in the accident, is a successful jingles composer but lacks job satisfaction. He wants to compose music that will stand the test of time. Pinkie is an urban girl who finds herself drawn to the village of Swarnalatha.
It becomes imperative that she redeems herself of the wrongs of the past by helping Abhinay succeed in his musical endeavours. Morning Raga is about the coming together of these three people. It is about the meeting of worlds. It has cinematography by Rajiv Menon, music by Mani Sharma and Amit Heri and editing by Sreekar Prasad.
KISS KIS KO
Cast: Sudanshu, Karan, Sherin, Chaitanya and Siddharth
Director: Sharad Sharan
Produced by an Indian based in Indonesia, this is the first band film of India. Directed by Sharad Sharan, it is the story of five best pals who comprise the Band of Boys. They are in perfect harmony with one another till they all fall in love – with the same girl, Rea (Bhumika Puri)!
Rea comes like a whiff of fresh air in their lives but leaves the best friends fighting for her. Sudhanshu, Karan, Sherin, Chaitanya and Siddharth can't dream of life without Rea. As the clock ticks, the boys need to search for the magic that brought them together and reunite once again for the performance of their lives. Ultimately, they discover that to be a band, they must first forge a bond so strong that nothing or no one can break it.
Besides Rea, the Band of Boys encounter in their journey of life, a number of people, important among them being BD (Aly Khan), Max (Raj Zutshi), Shyla (Aparna Kumar) and Divya (Shreya Das).
EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Izabella Scorupco
Director: Renny Harlin
In the years following World War II, Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is persistently haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated on the innocent people of his parish. In the wake of all he has seen, he has lost faith in his fellow men and the Almighty.
Merrin has travelled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors that he witnessed there. While drifting through Cairo, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities to join a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed a Christian Byzantine church in inexplicably pristine condition. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church.
But beneath the church, something much older sleeps, waiting to be awoken. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, and the horror has only just begun.
In the years following World War II, Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is persistently haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated on the innocent people of his parish. In the wake of all he has seen, he has lost faith in his fellow men and the Almighty.
Merrin has travelled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to escape the horrors that he witnessed there. While drifting through Cairo, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities to join a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed a Christian Byzantine church in inexplicably pristine condition. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church.
But beneath the church, something much older sleeps, waiting to be awoken. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, and the horror has only just begun.