But Ranjit's golden life in the desert crumbles when Iraqi forces invade Kuwait.
Rich Indian-origin businessman Ranjit Katyal(Akshay) loves profits and dislikes the idea of India. (All figures have been sourced from movie website Bollywood Hungama).Airlift has one of Akshay Kumar's best performances - along with other sterling acts. Actor Seema Biswas, then a debutante, played the title role and the movie won multiple awards besides making ₹ 9 crore at the box office. Bandit Queen (1994): The Shekhar Kapur film was based on the life of bandit and later member of Parliament Phoolan Devi who took to crime after several years of poverty, abuse and injustice. After touring the international film circuit, the movie settled for collections of over a crore in India.ġ0. Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Shahana Goswami and others, the film conquered the international festival circuit and managed collections of about ₹ 39 lakh in India.ĩ.Bawandar (2000): Filmmaker Jag Mundhra directed Nandita Das in this film based on the public humiliation and legal injustices suffered by Bhanwari Devi, a gang-rape victim from Rajasthan. Firaaq (2009): Actor Nandita Das made her directorial debut with this anthology film set in Gujarat tracing the aftermath of the 2002 riots. Also featuring Deepika Padukone, the Ashutosh Gowariker-directed film performed disappointingly at the box office with collections of less than ₹ 5 crore despite positive reviews.Ĩ. Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010): Abhishek Bachchan played the lead role in this period drama set during the Chiittagong uprising against British rule in India in 1930.
The Rajkumar Gupta-directed film was a clear winner with generous praise and box office collections of ₹ 24 crore pouring in.ħ. No One Killed Jessica (2011): The drama starring Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan was based on the controversial Jessica Lal murder case and closely followed the public outrage and media coverage that led to the killer’s sentence. Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, the film won national awards for best actor (Khan) and feature film, besides making ₹ 12 crore in box office collections.Ħ.
Paan Singh Tomar (2012): The Irrfan Khan-starrer was based on the life of a real-life athlete by the same name who went from being an Indian Army soldier to a gold medallist at the National Games to a notorious bandit. The Neeraj Pandey-directed film featured Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayi and Anupam Kher in lead roles and garnered box office collections of ₹ 66 crore.ĥ. Special 26 (2013): The heist caper was inspired by a 1987 case where a gang posing as Central Bureau of Investigation officers raided the Mumbai branch of a famed jewellery brand. The film, a ₹ 3 crore-earner at the box office, won National Awards for Mehta and lead actor Rajkumar Rao.Ĥ. Shahid (2013): The biographical film directed by Hansal Mehta was based on the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi who was assassinated in 2010 in Mumbai.
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