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Bholaa(2023)

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

An ex-convict must undertake a perilous, violent journey in order to meet his daughter after ten years of imprisonment.

Kantara(2022)

2h 28min | Mystery, Action, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Shiva, a tribal vagabond lives with his mother in hamlet, stays away from the traditional Daivaradhane and Bhoota Kola legacy due to an unforgettable childhood incident. He is happy loafing around with his friends and doing petty jobs for his landlord. When Forest officer Murali enters the scene, it gives a fresh dimension to the man-vs-nature fight. Can Shiva save the forest from Murali? Or is Murali just a dummy bait cast by bigger fish?

Directed by Rishab Shetty - With Rishab Shetty, Achyuth

Ram Setu(2022)

2h 20min | Action, Adventure, Drama
2.6/5 (with 10 votes)

An atheist archaeologist turned believer must race against time to prove the true existence of the legendary Ram Setu before evil forces destroy the pillar of India’s heritage.

Firaaq(2009)

1h 41min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.

Directed by Nandita Das - With Naseeruddin Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Deepti Naval, Paresh Rawal, Shahana Goswami, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, ...

The Least of These(2019)

1h 52min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

The story of missionary Graham Staines who was martyred in India in 1999. “The Least of These” shares the story leading up to the murders of the Australian Christian missionary and his sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 6, who were helping a community of lepers in India.

Devi(1960)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

The life of a woman happily married to the son of an upper-class family in 19th century Bengal is turned upside down when her father-in-law has a vision that she is the Goddess Kali returned to earth. He convinces her to fulfill her role as a living deity and transform her house into a temple.

Daana Veera Sura Karna(1977)

4.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Daana Veera Soora Karna (Telugu: దాన వీర శూర కర్ణ) is a 1977 Telugu Hindu movie produced and directed by N. T. Rama Rao. He played three pivotal roles: Karna, Duryodhana, and Krishna. One of his sons, Balakrishna, played a short role of Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, who in the later years became one of the popular movie actors in Telugu films. Another son, Hari Krishna, played the role of Arjuna.

Directed by N. T. Rama Rao - With Nandamuri Balakrishna, Nandamuri Harikrishna, Sharada, Tammareddy Chalapathi Rao, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, ...

Akhanda(2021)

2h 47min | Action, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Murali Krishna and Akhanda are separated at birth because one of them has a destiny to fulfil and a war to fight. What brings these two together?

Directed by Boyapati Srinu

Tiyaan(2017)

2h 48min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

The lives of a vedic scholar Pattabhiramagiri and his family come under threat after a godman and his goons try to displace him from his centuries-old ancestral home as part of building an ashram. The “curse” that befalls Pattabhiraman in the face of opposition leaves him broken, till a mysterious ally lends him his support. Their fight against the evil forces forms the rest of the plot.

Dashavatar(2008)

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Two children are transported through time to learn about the 10 avatars of Lord Vishnu and discover that Vishnu took on various incarnations to combat evil in every era.

Thunaivan(1969)

2h 35min | Kids & Family
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Velayutham is a devotee living in one of the Murugan Temple. One day pearl gemstone missing from Murugan Idol. Velayutham is blamed so he forced to leave the place.He comes to Coimbatore for livelihood. Velayutham then get companion of Paramashivam and he become fruit-seller with help of Bama. One day Velayutham get 10,000 bucks for remuneration. He married to Maragatam. Both are in the different edge of the world,ideology. So they always have dialectical relations which forced Maragatam to accept the almighty god.She refused to pick it up.Velayutham disappointed and both are not speaking to each other,meantime Maragatam gives birth to child.The child is unfortunately born paralyzed. Distressed Maragatam step out from her believes take the child to all the Murugan Temple and deeply praying for child.

Directed by M. A. Thirumugam - With A. V. M. Rajan, Sowcar Janaki, Sridevi, K. B. Sundarambal, Nagesh

Shri Krishnavataram(1967)

3h 31min | Drama, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

After Sisupala completes his 100 sins, he defeats and kills him, thus regaining his entry back to Vishnu's abode. Kuchela's episode is followed by Draupadi's humiliation where Krishna saves her honour. The great war of Kurukshetra takes place after the negotiations (Rayabharam) between the cousins fails. Krishna's Geetopadesam to Arjuna is also shown. Finally he saves Bheema from Dhritarashtra's ire after Bheema kills Duryodhana. Balarama wades deep into the ocean after the gory war, while Lord Krishna ends his Avataram owing to a hunter's mistake.

Directed by Kamalakara Kameshwara Rao - With N. T. Rama Rao, Devika, Sobhan Babu, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Rajanala Kaleswara Rao, Chittoor Nagaiah, ...
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Jagadguru Adi Shankara(2013)

2h 30min | Drama, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 1 vote)

Jagadguru Adi Sankara is a 2013 ensemble cast Telugu biographical-devotional film directed by J. K. Bharavi. It is the cinematic of life of Adi Sankara. The crux of the story forms the clash between Chandaludu and Lord Siva.

Directed by J. K. Bharavi

Meera(1979)

2h 35min | Drama, History

Meera, a devotee of Lord Krishna, believes she is married to the lord and rejects her marriage to a Rajput prince. However, her spirituality leads her to face many hardships.

Kandhan Karunai(1967)

2h 30min | Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The film revolves around Lord Murugan, his birth, marriage and his acceptance of the post of the head of the army of heaven.

Directed by A. P. Nagarajan - With Sivaji Ganesan

Bhaktha Prahlada(1967)

2h 31min | Drama

Prahlada, Lord Vishnu's staunch devotee, is born to Hiranyakashipu (S.V. Ranga Rao) his father. Hiranyakashipu is determined to dissuade his son from worshipping Lord Vishnu, as the Lord killed his brother, Hiranyaksa. To prevent Prahlada's devotion, Hiranyakashipu is willing to go to any extent.

Directed by Chitrapu Narayana Rao - With Roja Ramani, S. V. Ranga Rao, Anjali Devi

Return Of Hanuman(2007)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A young boy, Minku, ridiculed by his friends, begs the gods to send him down to Earth, and his wish is granted.

Directed by Anurag Kashyap - With Pinky Rajput

Religion(2007)

1h 45min | Drama, History
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but due to requests from his wife - the family adapts the child; only to know after 4 years that the child is a Muslim. The family gives away the child and Chaturvedi engulfs himself in the purification process to cleanse his body, mind and soul due to contact with a Muslim soul. By the time, Chaturvedi thinks he is fully purified – the child reappears – seeking refuge, due to Hindu- Muslim riots. This is the time Chaturvedi finally realizes that the true religion is - religion where humans help humans – humanity.

Directed by Bhavna Talwar - With Pankaj Kapur, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Supriya Pathak

Shut The Temple(2015)

3h 1min | Drama
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young scientist at NASA who is an atheist lands in India and notices that a lot of people believe in God. He aims to prove to people that God doesn't exist, but is challenged by God himself.

With Gashmeer Mahajani, Girija Joshi, Nabilah Ratna Ayu Azalia, Mohan Agashe, Nivedita Joshi- Saraf

Dasavatharam(1976)

2h 59min | Kids & Family, Drama

The story revolves around the portrayal of the ten different avatars of Lord Vishnu namely Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parashurama, Rama, Krishna, Balarama and Kalki.

The Eunuch and the Flute Player(2019)

1h 53min | Drama
4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a flautist in kirtans. The love blossoms even as Puti dreams of raising the money required for the sex reassignment surgery.

Directed by Kaushik Ganguly - With Riddhi Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty

Badrinath(2011)

2.2/5 (with 8 votes)

Trained by a religious martial arts guru, Badri becomes the protector of Badrinath temple and tries to revive Alakananda's faith in God, unaware of the fact that she has fallen for him.

Directed by V. V. Vinayak - With Allu Arjun, Tamannaah Bhatia, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorji, Ashwini Kalsekar, Santhanam, ...

Diksha(1991)

2h | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Circa British Rule in India, a man vows to make his only surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of five of his children. He takes this child to a remote village in Karnataka, South India, where he leaves his 11 year old son in the care of a learned Archarya, Udup Pandit. Here Nani gets to meet two other disciples of the Archarya, as well as his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and another male by the name of Shrikar Upadhyay, who also teaches the British how to read and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a few days, and when he returns nothing is the same anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to remove her from the village, they are also angry with him for refusing Yamuna to follow the traditional way of a Hindu widow.

Directed by Arun Kaul - With Manohar Singh

Thirumalai Thenkumari(1970)

2h 25min | Drama

Ten to twelve families from different walks of life, different age groups and different languages get together for a pilgrimage tour, starting from Tirupati and extending till Kanyakumari. The movie captures their experiences in the trip and how they develop oneness, with the common thread of religious bonding among them. The movie also highlights small anecdotes from mythology, thereby giving the movie a spiritual fervor.

Directed by A. P. Nagarajan - With Sirkazhi Govindarajan, Sivakumar

Girl From Sahyadri(1966)

1h 54min | Drama, Thriller

Ladki Sahyadri Ki is a 1966 bilingual social drama starring Shalini Abhyankar, Sandhya, Vatsala Deshmukh and others. Rani is asked to join a theatre troupe but her family does not allow girls to work. The village temple needs to be repaired and to help pay for it, she takes it on. She gets into trouble when the stage-owner makes advances towards her and she snubs him. This man is responsible for the temple repair work and he stops it out of spite. Can she make sure the temple is restored?

Directed by V. Shantaram - With Sandhya Shantaram

Adi Parasakthi(1971)

2h 48min | Drama, Fantasy

A man saved from death by God and told how God help others.

Swami Vivekananda(1998)

4h | Drama

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Directed by G. V. Iyer - With Mithun Chakraborty, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, Jaya Prada, Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, ...

Agathiyar(1972)

2h 33min | Drama

In an adventurous journey of spreading goodness on earth and by contributing to Tamil literature, Sage Agathiyar faces challenges at various phases of his journey.

Directed by A. P. Nagarajan - With Sirkazhi Govindarajan

Sant Tukaram(1936)

2h 11min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

This classic film chronicles the life of Tukaram (17th C.), one of Maharashtra’s most popular saint poets, activating the 20th century resonances of his turning away from courtly Sanskrit towards vernacular rhythms of religious poetry.

Banaras(2006)

NR
| 2h 2min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Banaras: A Mystic Love Story is the name of an Indian Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar released in 2006. The film takes place in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi (the city, once known as Banaras, serves as a destination for the pilgrimage of millions of Hindu worshippers annually) and is centered around the relationship of a young woman with her parents and her lover. The storyline also has a strong religious dimension. Most of the film was shot in Varanasi, with some scenes shot in Mauritius.

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