East Is East (1999)
Comedy | Drama
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi, Jimi Mistry, Lesley Nicol, Albert Moses
Director: Damien O'Donnell
A Death in the Gunj (2016)
Drama | Thriller
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Starring: Vikrant Massey, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome, Gulshan Devaiah, Jim Sarbh, Om Puri, Tanuja
Director: Konkona Sen Sharma
The Ghazi Attack (2017)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
A Pakistani submarine, Ghazi plans to secretly attack Vizag port. For doing so, it has to get past Indian submarine S21.
Starring: Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri, Nassar, Rahul Singh, Milind Gunaji, Tapsee Pannu
Director: Sankalp Reddy
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Drama
A story centered on an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Charlotte Le Bon, Manish Dayal, Rohan Chand, Juhi Chawla
Director: Lasse Hallström
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Thriller
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Starring: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri, Haluk Bilginer
Director: Mira Nair
My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Parvez was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and as a child was asked to study the Holy scriptures through a Maulvi. When the Maulvi started his sermon, Parvez would fall asleep, this lead to the Maulvi devising a unique punishment, which ultimately compelled Parvez to stop attending. When he grew up, his marriage was arranged with Minoo and they immigrated to a small town in Britain, where Parvez started to make a living driving a taxi, and found himself free from all religious activity. 25 years later, Parvez is an alcoholic, still driving a cab, while people who had immigrated after him have their own businesses and are wealthier. Parvez now has a grown son, Farid, who is the apple of his eye, and is to be engaged to Madeleine Fingerhut, who is the daughter of the local Chief Inspector. After the two families' meet, Farid has a sudden change of heart when he notices that the Chief Inspector detests his family, and it slowly dawns on him that he and his girlfriend are quite different, and he cannot be part of a culture that relies solely on filth, porn, is soaked in sex, along with a mix of Caucasian (white) and Jewish propaganda against Islam. He starts reciting the Holy Quran, and asks permission from his dad to invite some religious leaders from Pakistan, after receiving consent, they do arrive to live in Parvez's home. It is here that Parvez will find that Farid has broken off the forthcoming engagement with Ms. Fingerhut, and has become a born again Muslim. His wife, Minoo, has taken to wearing the Hizaab, remains in the kitchen all day, and is not even permitted to sup or dine with her family, while Parvez finds that he cannot even sleep in his bedroom. Things start to heat up when Farid finds out that his dad has been patronizing a prostitute by the name of Beltina, whose real name is Sandra, and he also notes that his dad is her pimp. Then he and his colleagues set about to cleanse this town of its prostitutes – leading to a confrontation between him and his dad – a confrontation that may well split this family forever.
Starring: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård, Gopi Desai, Harish Patel
Director: Udayan Prasad
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OMG: Oh My God! (2012)
Comedy | Drama
A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri
Director: Umesh Shukla
City of Joy / La cité de la joie (1992)
Drama
Hazari Pal lives in a small village in Bihar, India, with his dad, mom, wife, Kamla, daughter, Amrita, and two sons, Shambhu and Manooj. As the Pal are unable to repay the loan they had taken years ago from a moneylender, their land and property are auctioned, and they are rendered homeless. Hazari and his family re-locate to Calcutta with hopes of starting life anew, save some money and go back to Bihar, as well as get Amrita married. Things do not go as planned, as they lose their entire savings to a con-man, Gangooly, who took their money as rent by pretending to be a landlord. Then Hazari gets an opportunity to take up driving a rickshaw manually through a local godfather, Ghatak. He gets to meet a American, Dr. Max Lowe, and together they strike up a friendship along with a local social worker, Joan Bethel. Misunderstandings crop up between Joan and the Godfather, resulting in the shutting down of their shanty medical clinic…
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri
Director: Roland Joffé
Don 2 / Don 2: The Chase Continues (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Having conquered the Asian underworld, Don now has his sights set on European domination. In his way are the bosses of the existing European underworld and all law enforcement agencies. The action shifts from Kuala Lumpur to Berlin as Don must avoid assassination or arrest, whichever comes first, in order for his plan to succeed.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Florian Lukas, Om Puri, Lara Dutta, Boman Irani
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Don (2006)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A huge Indian contingent embarks on a dangerous cat-and-mouse trail of capturing DON – the ruthless drug mafia in Malaysia. When DON gets seriously injured in a police encounter, the word that he is dead begins to do the rounds. The reality, of course, is that DON is held captive in a secret location, while his bumpkin of a look-alike, Vijay, is polished and sent to take down DON's gang. In a bizarre twist of fate, when the man shielding the humble and streetwise Vijay, is killed, the latter comes to terms with the horrifying realization that both the police and the gang are out to nab him for different reasons. In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, he is aided by the glamorously staggering Roma, and handsomely striking, Jasjit, who owes Vijay a favor for care-taking his son during his imprisonment. But will Vijay be successful in his mission? Based on the successful erstwhile classic of the same name.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Rampal, Isha Koppikar, Boman Irani, Om Puri, Pavan Malhotra
Director: Farhan Akhtar
