Acting

Benjamin Gilani

Acting credits

The Diplomat poster
6.5

The Deputy High Commissioner, J.P. Singh, faces an unusual crisis when a mysterious woman rushes inside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, claiming forced marriage in Pakistan and seeking a return to India.

The Diplomat

2025

Bhavni Bhavai poster
4.9

In a drought-stricken city in India, the emperor Maharaja Dhiraj Chandrasen, who has two wives, and no children, orders all kinds of rituals to appease the Rain Gods

Bhavni Bhavai

1981

Bajirao Mastani poster
7.2

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

Bajirao Mastani

2015

Laila Majnu poster
6.8

Laila is a free-spirited girl from a conservative family who firmly believes in living for the present. Qais, a spoilt brat, falls head over heels in love with her. Their families, however, are warring over property, which leads to self-destruction, pain and bleeding hearts.

Laila Majnu

2018

No artwork available
5.0

The Mess. The Madness. The Mockery of the greatest Democracy in the world by the writers of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Hail Democracy!

2015

Game poster
5.8

Four strangers are invited by the reclusive Kabir Malhotra, to his private island of Samos, Greece. They don't know each other and they don't know him ... and by the next morning they will wish they had never come.

Game

2011

Hum Dum poster
5.0

Sidhant De, Rrutu Joshi Two people who have never met in Life before are chosen to play the biggest game show ever 'HUMDUM', It's a game of love and money. 5 Rounds and 1 big final to get 10 Crores (100 Million) and all they have to do is? Not fall in love!

Hum Dum

2005

Alaap poster
8.3

Dedicated to the memory of the great singers K. L. Saigal and Mukesh, this charming and unpretentious film offers a palate-cleansing change from the spicy “masala” epics that dominated its era, and features their superstar Amitabh Bachchan in a decidedly offbeat role.

Alaap

1977

Abhay poster
NR

A happy family moved into a village and choose a Haveli as their abode. But they are not alone, a ghost is also there.

Abhay

1995

Mirch Masala poster
7.9

Early-1940s, rural British India. When a woman decides to fight against the village's despotic subedar and is supported by the guard of the local spice factory, more women join to defy the prevailing oppression.

Mirch Masala

1987

Party poster
7.4

Celebrities arrive at an extravagant party in Bombay to honour Divakar for his contributions to arts and cinema. However, gossip, uninvited guests and a dead body show up to mar the celebrations.

Party

1984

The Coffin Maker poster
NR

Based in a small village in Goa, "The Coffin Maker" is about Anton Gomes who comes from a family of accomplished carpenters and takes up coffin making when difficult circumstances render him jobless and penniless. Cynical and disillusioned Anton exists. Till one day Death challenges his life.

The Coffin Maker

2013

Barah Aana poster
5.8

Three impoverished roommates have the chance to change their fates when one of them stumbles upon a seemingly low-risk way to earn some extra cash.

Barah Aana

2009

Music School poster
6.0

Two contemporary and creative music teachers, Mary D'Cruz and Manoj who provide a glimpse of the rich culture and refinement of music and theater to students who are driven by an unimaginative educational system in the name of Math, Science and Technology.

Music School

2023

Sardar poster
6.5

Sardar is a 1993 Indian biopic on Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of India's greatest freedom fighters, directed by Ketan Mehta and written by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar.

Sardar

1993

Rise of the Zombie poster
3.7

Neil Parker is a passionate wildlife photographer who pays more attention to his wildlife than his human life. as a result his relationships with the real world suffer. When his girlfriend walks out on him he resigns himself to isolation and nature. But a chance occurrence changes all that. Changes that he can't seem to handle, changes that seem to take his humanity away... changes that seem unable to change back? The story follow his journey into a darkness that has to be seen to be believed. A monster that seems to be rising out of the depths of desolation and agony... soulless, depraved and out of control.

Rise of the Zombie

2013

No artwork available
NR

A seriocomic tale of spoiled youth.

My Story

1982

Wrong Number poster
8.0

A group of friends love to prank-call random people from the phone book...until a chance connection leads to a serious entanglement.

Wrong Number

2003

No artwork available
7.0

A 1986 Bollywood film.

Musafir

1986

Daamad Chaahiye poster
NR

Shiv Prasad Gupta wants his tenant Vinod Singhal to marry one of his three marriageable age girls. However, Vinod falls in love with his office colleague Manju. This angers Gupta and he vows to take revenge.

Daamad Chaahiye

1985

Twelve Months poster
NR

Baromas is a feature film in Hindi based on the Sahitya Academy award winning Marathi novel of the same name by Sadanand Deshmukh and directed by FTII-educated Dheeraj Meshram. The movie addresses the plight of dry land farmers and the educated unemployed in rural India.

Twelve Months

2016

The Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa poster
NR

VOLUME ZERO is an hour-long documentary on the work and the ideas of Charles Correa, one of the world’s most important architects. It deals with his childhood, architectural training, formative years and the paradigm underlying his large and complex oeuvre spanning over five decades – as well as his pivotal role in addressing issues of urbanization in the Developing World. It uses first person narration by the filmmaker, combined with extended excerpts of interviews with Correa, live action, stills, diagrams, animation and archival footage to open up the thought processes that generate architectural space and form.

The Volume Zero: The Work of Charles Correa

2008