3 Movies Set Page 3 (2005) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2005 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Madhavi Sharma (Konkona Sen Sharma) arrives in Mumbai and soon lands a journalist job. Her boss Deepak Suri (Boman Irani) gives her the task of reporting celebrity news. She begins her journey in the glitzy and glamorous world of celebrity lifestyle.
Her roommate Pearl Sequiera (Sandhya Mridul) is an air hostess and wants to marry for money. Gayatri Sachdeva (Tara Sharma) later joins them. She is an aspiring actress and gets involved with a leading actor Rohit Kumar (Bikram Saluja). When she tells him she is pregnant he suggests she have an abortion; depressed and shattered, she unsuccessfully tries to kill herself and in the process loses her unborn child. Meanwhile, Pearl marries a wealthy old man and moves to the United States. Madhavi plans to expose Rohit Kumar (by writing an article on his relationship with Gayatri), but her editor kills the article and she is forced to apologise to Rohit Kumar.
Madhavi finds out that her boyfriend is gay when she surprises him in bed with her best friend Abhijeet (Rehaan Engineer).
As soon as Madhavi begins to get disillusioned with her job of covering lives of these celebs she declares that "the party is over" for her. She soon realises that the glamorous world of celebrity life is not as glamorous as it seems. As well her roommate Gayatri who supposedly returned to Delhi sleeps with a director and gets put in a movie.
Cast: Konkona Sen, Atul Kulkarni, Sandhya Mridul, Tara Sharma, Boman Irani, Bikram Saluja, Upendra Limaye, Jai Kalra, Soni Razdan, Anju Mahendru, Suchitra Pillai, Kunika, Navni Parihar, Madan Jain, Suhasini Mulay, Maya Alagh, Mukesh Tyagi, Nassar Abdulla, Bobby Darling, Kurush Deboo, G K Desai, Rehaan Engineer, Manoj Joshi, Pradeep Velankar | Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Music Director: Shamir Tandon | Chandni Bar (2001) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2001 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description The story begins with an orphaned girl forced to work in one of Bombay's adult bars, lacks the usual Bollywood trimmings of musical numbers, flashiness and happy endings. Realism rings out with coarse dialogue, a seedy setting and a brave performance by Tabu.
Cast: Tabu, Atul Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav, Vinay Apte, Abhay Bhargav, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Ananya Khare, Suhas Palshikar, Varun Vardhan, Uma Shankar Pandey, Manoj Joshi, Promodini Kadam, Sujata Naik, Shradha Naval, Upendra Limaye, Seema Adhikari | Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Music Director: Raju Singh | Traffic Signal (2007) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2007 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Take a walk down its mean streets and one gets the essence of Mumbai; pause a while at one of its Traffic Signal and one gets the essence of life. In a day scores of people go past multitudes of Traffic Signal's scattered all over the city. People sitting in their vehicles impatiently wait to get going. Though this waiting lasts but a few minutes it feels like a lifetime to them.
However unknown to them there thrives an industry that derives its livelihood from these people waiting at the Traffic Signals. The work force of this industry is not less than that of an average sized multinational. It comprises of a gamut of people thrown in together by fate or hunger. There are oddities to the likes of eunuchs, handicapped and impaired beggars, lepers, street kids, drug addicts, and prostitutes, vendors selling flowers, fruits, sunscreens to sunglasses.
Traffic Signal is a story of one such signal, which is representative of all other signals around the city.
Cast: Kunal Khemu, Neetu Chandra, Upendra Limaye, Ranvir Shorey, Konkona Sen, G K Desai, Sandeep Mehta, Sandeep Kulkarni, Lalit Parashar, Nassar Abdulla, Manoj Joshi, Mukesh Tyagi, Bobby Darling | Director: Madhur Bhandarkar Music Director: Shamir Tandon | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD M 2281 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 3 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | |