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Ashok Banthia, sometimes referred as Ashok Bathia or Ashok Bhatia, is a Hindi film and TV and theatre actor and director. He is a NSD (National School of Drama) alumnus known for his roles in Australian TV miniseries Bodyline as Nawab of Pataudi Sr.
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Ashok Banthia, sometimes referred as Ashok Bathia or Ashok Bhatia, is a Hindi film and TV and theatre actor and director. He is a NSD (National School of Drama) alumnus known for his roles in Australian TV miniseries Bodyline as Nawab of Pataudi Sr.
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Khoobsurat (2014)
, 2h7Directed by Shashanka Ghosh
Origin Inde
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Sonam Kapoor, Fawad Afzal Khan, Fawad Khan, Kiron Kher, Ratna Pathak Shah, Ashok Banthia
Roles Ram Sevak
Rating64%
Mrinalini 'Milli' Chakravarty (Sonam Kapoor) is a physiotherapist who works for the IPL. Her mother Manju (Kirron Kher) hopes that she will find a man someday, stating that it will be even better if he belongs to royalty. As fate would have it, her services are called for by a royal family whose King's legs are failing him.
Maazii (2013)
, 2h10Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Mona Vasu, Manish Prakash Chaudhari, Pankaj Tripathi, Mohit Chauhan, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Zakir Hussain
Roles Satbeer Singh
Rating48%
Maazii is essentially a thriller that travels from the hills of Mussoorie to the plains of western UP. It is a story about a couple Tarun (Sumit Nijhawan) and Shrishti (Mona Wasu) who have a near perfect relationship. However, by a twist of fate, an unfortunate accident occurs which brings Tarun's life into the limelight and turns him into a hero overnight.
Arjun: The Warrior Prince (2012)
, 1h36Origin Inde
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films based on mythology, Poésie, Films about religion, Mythologie hindoue, Adaptation d'un poème, Children's films
Actors Aanjjan Srivastav, Sachin Khedekar, Ashok Banthia, Vishnu Vishal, Ila Arun, Rajeshwari Sachdev
Roles Bheem
Rating67%
The story is based on the early life of the Pandava brothers, loosely taken from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata. The storyline begins with Arjun as a nine-year-old boy, and follows him until he grows into the warrior that the world knows him as. It explores his life with his brothers in Hastinapur, his training and education, and his ultimate discovery of the warrior within himself.
Cigarette ki Tarah (2012)
, 1h47Directed by Akashaditya Lama
Genres Romance
Actors Prashant Narayanan, Sudesh Berry, Ashok Banthia, Yuvika Chaudhary, Madhurima Tuli
Roles Nikhil Dabur's Father
Rating49%
A guy falls in love blindly with a young beautiful girl. This blind love leads him into deep trouble, and further separates him from other people like one man versus the entire world. In these dark situations, where one surely gives up on everything, he doesn't, and thus keeps on believing and trusting on his blind love, which eventually shows him all the ways to be out from all the difficulties.
Rush (2012)
, 1h46Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Emraan Hashmi, Neha Dhupia, Sagarika Ghatge, Aditya Pancholi, Rahul Singh, Murali Sharma
Roles Raja Choudhary
Rating39%
The story follows media, politics, crime and sex at the point of life and death. Samar Grover (Emraan Hashmi) is a struggling news reporter. Even though his talk show is at the pinnacle of success, his personal life has turned upside down due to problems with his wife (Sagarika Ghatge). Seeing no way out, he accepts an assignment offered by a dynamic media tycoon named Lisa (Neha Dhupia), which he believes can make him millions. However, along with Lisa, one of India's most richest man, Roger Khanna (Aditya Pancholi), together play a game on Samar, which plunges him into a vortex of violence in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Beneath the veneer of glamour, money, power and the enviable life of media, lays a truth that is at once unbelievable and shocking.
Chase (2010)
, 1h43Directed by Jag Mundhra
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Udita Goswami, Samir Kochhar, Anuj Saxena, Ashok Banthia, Tarina Patel, Rajesh Khattar
Roles Vishwajeet Rana - Udyog Mantri
Rating50%
The main players in Chase to get to the "truth" are Sohail Ansari, a man on the run. DIG Ranveer Tyagi who has vested interest in getting to the bottom of a murder in which Sohail is involved. Insp. Siddharth, right hand of the DIG who is monitoring Sohail's actions. In this scenario enters Nupur Chauhan who is Involved with Sohail closely. The other players of this Chase are Surabhee, Sohails love interest and industrialist Mr. Khanna to whom money is the solution of all problems. Added to this there is Anthony D'Costa who is also in search for the truth. The hunt for Sohail and search for truth takes us through the streets of Mumbai in an exciting and thrilling Chase. The truth has the potential of blowing up the entire political system apart. The line between truth and lies gets blurred. Who is the victim and who is the criminal? What you see may not be the truth. Do the criminals get caught? Does the victim come up the winner? Who is Sohail Ansari and what is the role of Anthony D'Costa? This Chase for the truth ends in nail biting, tense and unusual climax which will leave you spell bound.
7½ Phere (2005)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Juhi Chawla, Irrfan Khan, Neena Kulkarni, Ninad Kamath, Manoj Pahwa, Shrivallabh Vyas
Rating53%
After having tasted great success with soaps based on traditional families, a national TV network is getting into the next phase of programming - that is 'Reality TV' so they decide to go for the evergreen subject of marriages in Indian family. Channel asks their blue-eyed guy to produce the show. Asmi Ganatra (Juhi Chawla), the first time director, and her team finds out that at present the only family in Mumbai that meets the programming brief is Joshi's.
Loknayak (2004)
, 1h52Directed by Prakash Jha
Genres Biography, Documentary
Actors Tisca Chopra, Tom Alter, Chetan Pandit, Ashok Banthia
Roles Ram Manohar Lohia
Aankhen (2002)
, 2h45Directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Sushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal, Paresh Rawal, Arun Bali
Rating73%
Obsessive and temperamental bank manager Vijay Singh Rajput (Bachchan) loses his job after badly beating up a bank clerk who tried to embezzle money. Angered at losing his job he plots revenge on the bank by intending to stage a heist. He employs three blind men – Vishwas (Kumar),a blind person who has the power of the sixth sense, Ilyaas (Rawal) and Arjun (Rampal) — when, after passing by school for the blind, he understands that blind people can be trained to do things like sighted people. He blackmails and enlists the help of Neha (Sushmita Sen) who is a teacher at the school to train the trio to do the seemingly impossible heist. He chose blind people because they as robbers would never be suspected as no one would believe blind people can rob a bank.
Kali Salwar (2002)
, 1h52Directed by Fareeda Mehta
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Sadiya Siddiqui, Irrfan Khan, Vrajesh Hirjee, Kay Kay Menon, Ashok Banthia, Rajat Kapoor
Rating60%
Sultana (Sadiya Siddiqui), a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Initially she is bewildered by the crowds and pace of the city. With the help of Anwari (a madam or perhaps a witch) she learns how to find her bearings. As she further encounters the city and its inhabitants new perspectives open up - sad, comical, ironical but always mysterious. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hands at many jobs but is unsuccessful. His faith in his camera is replaced by his belief in a holy man. Sultana finds herself bereft and turns pensive. Her loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for the 'kali salwaar' (black lower garment) that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning in Moharram.
Bawandar (2000)
, 2h5Directed by Jag Mundhra
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Deepti Naval, Nandita Das, Raghubir Yadav, Rahul Khanna, Laila Rouass, Govind Namdev
Rating69%
Bawandar is based on the true story of Bhanwari Devi's gang-rape case. The names of characters and places have been changed for legal reasons. For example, Bhanwari's character is called Sanwari, her husband Mohan's character is called Sohan, and their village is called Dhabri (Bhateri in real life).
Mission Kashmir (2000)
, 2h30Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Films about Islam, Bollywood
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, Jackie Shroff, Neha
Rating65%
Inayat Khan (Sanjay Dutt) is the Senior Superintendent of Police responsible for the security of Srinagar, Kashmir. One day, his young son Irfaan (Yogin Soni) meets with an accident and is taken to a hospital. Unfortunately, due to a fatwa instigated by the leader of a terrorist group forbidding doctors to treat policemen, the doctors refuse to treat Irfaan. Khan angrily threatens to kill the doctors if they don't treat his son, but they still refuse, saying they are willing to die rather than letting their families be killed by the terrorist group. As a result, Irfaan dies, and Khan personally swears to put an end to the threat of the terrorist group. After finding out that the group of terrorists is taking refuge in the village of Dalgate, Khan and his men manage to attack and kill the criminals. Unfortunately, a family is caught in the crossfire, and they are killed as well. A young boy named Altaaf is the only family member who survives the shooting. He is severely traumatized by seeing his parents and sister dying in front of his eyes and is haunted by the memory of the masked policeman who shot at his family: that police officer is Khan. Altaaf falls unconscious and is jailed by Khan's men, much to Khan's anger, who then berates his officers for placing Altaaf in jail. Khan's wife Neelima (Sonali Kulkarni), having just lost Irfaan and feeling sorry for Altaaf, attempts to persuade Khan to let them adopt the boy. Khan, despite his fear that Altaaf may one day discover the truth and get revenge for it, reluctantly agrees, feeling extremely remorseful for killing Altaaf's family.
Bedardi (1993)
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Urmila Matondkar, Naseeruddin Shah, Reena Roy, Upasana Singh Bharadwaj, Ashok Banthia
Roles Police Inspector
Rating44%
Mumbai-based Saxena family consists of Professor Nirbhay, his wife Preeti, their school-going daughter Ritu, Nirbhay's college-going brother and sister, Vijay and Suman respectively. Vijay meets with fellow collegian Honey, and after a few altercations they fall in love with each other. Vijay is introduced to Honey's maternal uncle, Bhagwandas, and he approves instantly. Honey's long-estranged brother, Kanhaiya, re-enters her life and asks her not to see Vijay anymore. Then the lives of the entire Saxena family change drastically when money allotted for Suman's marriage is stolen, and Vijay accepts a contract to kill a man named Gulla - not knowing that he is being set up to kill none other than Nirbhay himself.
Don't Cry for Salim (1989)
, 2hDirected by Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Pavan Malhotra, Makarand Deshpande, Ashutosh Gowariker, Rajendra Gupta, Neelima Azeem, Vikram Gokhale
Rating76%
The film is set in the period of the Hindutva mobilization of the 1980s, the consequent explosive communal conflict, and its impact on the lives of the young men of the minority Muslim community, represented by a working class Muslim family in Mumbai. Salim Pasha (Langda or Lame) is a small-time thief and goonda and lives with his parents and sister in a shady neighborhood where crime and illegal activities are accepted professions.
Bodyline (miniseries) (1984)
, 50minutesDirected by Lex Marinos, George Ogilvie, Carl Schultz
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Sweet, Hugo Weaving, Jim Holt, Frank Thring, Heather Mitchell, Ashok Banthia
Roles the Nawab of Pataudi
Rating83%
The events leading up to the England Cricket Team's 1932-1933 Ashes tour of Australia and the tactics, of bowling directly at the batsman, used by the English cricket team to counteract the extraordinary batting prowess of Australian cricketer Donald Bradman during the Ashes series.