"SLC-S25/W3-Movie Snapshots|Hidden Gems"

Mohenjodaro

• Movie Story: In Mohenjodaro, the main character is a farmer named Sarman and this farmer falls in love with the daughter of the king's priest. This story is about the Indus Valley Civilization. There was a tyrannical prince in a city called Mohenjodaro. Sarman unites everyone to free everyone from this tyrannical prince and saves everyone by fighting against various obstacles and dangers from the prince. Apart from this, his thrilling love story with the king's priest's daughter unfolds. In that disaster, the tyrannical prince dies and Salman saves all the people of the kingdom. Later, Salman takes the responsibility of the prince of all the people.

Movie Name	Mohenjo Daro
Country	India
Director	Ashutosh Gowariker
Production	Ashutosh Gowariker Productions Private Limited
Release	2016
Running Time	155 Minutes

Bombay Velvet

• Movie Story : Bombay Velvet The main character of the movie was Balraj (Johnny). He was a character in the crime world and fell in love with the singer Rosie. Balraj was a fighter and later got into a good relationship with a businessman and that businessman gave him the responsibility of managing the Bombay Velvet club. Balraj and
  Chimman Khambatta did business together. At one time, Chimman Khambatta wanted to blackmail him by taking an unwanted picture of an influential minister. Later, Jimmy Mistry who is a media reporter and he asked Rosie to take a picture of the minister in a club.

Later, when the minister is blackmailed, the minister realizes that it is Rosie's work. So they decide to kill Ruji. But Johnny realizes that, Ruji pretends to be dead and later introduces her as his twin sister Rita. The main villain here is Chimman Khambatta because he has relationships with big ministers. Later, the hero Bal Raj has many fights with all of them and at one stage Rita (Rosie) becomes old and Bal Raj takes her to the hospital. While going to the hospital, Bal Raj is shot but later they both survive.

Movie Name	Bombay Velvet
Country	India
Director	Anurag Kashyap
Production	Vikash Bahl Vikramaditya Matwane
Release	2015 May 15
Running time	149 minutes

Baabul

• Movie Story: The main character of this movie is the heroine. The heroine has a childhood friend and later she goes abroad. Later the heroine falls in love with a boy and later the two families get them married. Their family lives happily and they have a cute boy. In a cruel twist of fate, the heroine's husband dies and the heroine becomes a widow. Later the heroine's father-in-law gets her married to his childhood friend. This story mainly explores the theme of social resistance against widow remarriage, a father encourages his daughter-in-law to find love again in order to give her a healthy and prosperous life.

Movie Name	Baabul
Director	Ravi Chopra
Country	India
Production	BR Chopra
Release	28 December 2006
Running time	169 minutes

Dil Bole Hadippa

• Movie Story: Here the main heroine is a common girl from a village. Whose dream was to become a very good cricketer. That is, the heroine plays the main character of the story. Here the hero's father is the captain of a cricket team. The hero's father gets upset every time he sees his team lose and brings Naik from abroad to manage the cricket team. Later the hero comes to the village and recruits players for the cricket team. There the heroine of that village comes to audition in disguise as a boy to play. Later she goes and plays like a boy in that team and wins many games. Later the hero realizes that she is not a boy, but it is too late because both the hero and the heroine are in love by then. Their last championship game was that day when the hero was angry and did not let the heroine play but later he let her play and they won that game. When the hero goes to bring the prize, the heroine can go in her form. Then everyone started treating her badly but then the heroine talks about all her emotions and wins everyone's heart along with the award. The story of a girl from a small village who can fulfill her dream through her first hard work is revealed through this movie.

Movie Name	Dil Bole Hadippa
Country	India
Director	Anurag Singh
Production	Aditya Chopra
Release	2009 September 18
Running time	148 minutes

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Discuss your reasons for saying these movies you have mentioned are lesser known or underrated movies.

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All movies are made with good and bad stories. However, there are different reasons why movies flop, but it is not right that different movies flop for the same reason. Some of the given reasons for this are lack of promotion, attractive hero and heroine, expensive production, lack of good story. There are many films that are made at a high cost but cannot be promoted well, in which case the film flops.

On the other hand, there are still many films today that do not have a hero or heroine that the audience likes. For example, one film I mentioned above is Udaan. The story of this film is very good, but if the main character had an attractive hero, this film would have benefited from the promotion and would not have flopped. Also, I think the film Mohenjodaro could not make good profits only due to the lack of promotion. Because the main story and the hero and heroine of this film were all good.

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What do you think can be done to make these movies better known or valued more.

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This is a great question for a film. Because there are some good aspects to bring success to a film. Some of these good aspects are given below,

Any film lover likes an interesting story or a good story. Because a film emerges through its story. If the story is good, the audience wants to watch that film again and again. I am saying from my experience that I have seen many movies that I watch again and again for the story. I have also seen many movies that have a good story but after watching it once or half, I don't want to watch that movie again.

Then, a skilled hero or heroine is needed to portray the story. Because the story is revealed through the character, if the character is not acted well, then that story remains incomplete. Then, if the script is not good, then that movie cannot be completed beautifully.

Besides, photography and video editing are key aspects in a movie. The story of the movie and skilled hero and heroine are all there, but if there is no good photographer and video editing, then that movie will never attract the audience. In short, a movie director has to think about many things and make a movie, such as a good screenplay, skilled hero and heroine, interesting story, and video editing, lack of use of technology in this digital age, etc.

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