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1. Chhappad Phaad Ke

Meet the Gupchups, a typical Indian middle-class family, financially weak but morally rich. Their ordinary life takes an extraordinary twist when they find a bag containing Rs. 5 crores. Will they give up ethics for money?

Director: Sameer Joshi

Cast: Siddharth Menon, Vinay Pathak, Ayesha Raza, Sheetal Thakur

 2. Kanpuriye

Jaitun, Jugnu and Vijay's dreams are hanging by a thread. While they struggle to prove their mettle, life keeps taking them for a spin. WIll the Kanpuriye overcome the odds and win at life?

Director: Ashish Aryan

Cast: Aparshakti Khurana, Divyendu Sharma, Vijay Raaz, Harsh Mayar

3. Bala

Bala is a hilarious film that follows Balmukund Shukla. His pride lies in his hair, but premature baldness robs him of more than just his looks. With love at stake, will Bala ever have a 'hairy'tale ending?

Director: Amar Kaushik

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Yami Gautam

4. Badhaai Ho

The unexpected ‘good news’ of his parents being pregnant turns into an embarrassment for the 25-year-old Nakul. Bogged down by societal norms, will he come to terms with this new development?

Director: Amit Sharma

Cast: Ayushmaan Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao

5. Housefull 4

The film follows a set of six lovers that had to part ways in 1419. Six centuries later, they meet again only to realize that they are marrying the wrong partners. Old villains and a series of mishaps turn this reincarnation drama into a comedy of errors!

Director: Farhad Samji

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Bobby Deol, Kriti Sanon, Pooja Hegde, Kriti Kharbanda

6. De De Pyaar De

50-year-old Ashish has fallen in love with Ayesha, who is half his age. Their romance turns into a comedy, when he takes her to meet his parents and ex-wife.

Director: Akiv Ali

Cast: Rakul Preet Singh, Ajay Devgn, Tabu

7. Jolly LLB 

Jolly Tyagi, a small-town lawyer accepts a widely publicised hit-and-run case. To win, he has to take on celebrity lawyer, Tejinder Rajpal, a big fish in the city court. Will the truth prevail?

Director: Subhash Kapoor

Cast: Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Amrita Rao

8. Fukrey

Four friends dream to make it big with a 'get-rich-quick' scheme. Chaos and mayhem ensues when they get involved with a local gangster.

Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba

Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Ali Fazal, Richa Chadha, Varun Sharma, Manjot Singh, Priya Anand, Vishakha Singh, Pankaj Tripathi

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1. The President Is Coming

A satire that follows the lives of six youngsters, who share one common aspiration - to be the face of ‘New India’ and meet President Bush.

Director: Kunaal Roy Kapur

Cast: Ira Dubey, Konkona Sen Sharma, Shivani Tanksale, Anand Tiwari, Namit Das, Shernaz Patel

2. Borat

Borat follows the story of a Kazakh TV anchor who is sent to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. However, Borat has an agenda of his own and becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.

Director: Larry Charles

Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell

3. The Lego Batman Movie

In the irreverent spirit of fun that made the LEGO Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble - LEGO Batman - stars in his own big-screen adventure. There are big changes brewing in Gotham, but if Batman wants to save the city from the Joker’s hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing and try to work with others. Maybe his superhero sidekick Robin and loyal butler Alfred can show him a thing or two.

Director: Chris McKay

Cast: Will Arnet, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson

4. Why Him?

While his lover’s parents are visiting him at his mansion, Laird asks her father, Ned, for his assent to marry her. Disgusted by his behaviour and display of wealth, Ned tries to stop him.

Director: John Hamburg

Cast: James Franco, Bryan Cranston

5. The Other Woman 

Carly is shattered when she discovers her boyfriend is married, when she bumps into the wife he’s been cheating on. The two women realize they have a lot in common and also a mutual enemy.

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Cast: Cameron Diaz, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj 

6. War Dogs

The movie ‘War Dogs’ depicts the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a 3000 million dollar contract from the pentagon to arm America’s allies in Afghanistan.

Director: Todd Phillips

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana De Armas

7. Monster-In-Law

The love life of professional dog walker Charlotte “Charlie” Honeywell consists of an endless string of disastrous blind dates... until she meets the perfect guy, Kevin. Her dream man seems too good to be true, especially when he proposes marriage. Engaged to marry Kevin, Charlie has second thoughts after meeting his overbearing mother, who thinks no girl is good enough for Kevin, and especially not Charlie. With her future mother-in-law aiming to destroy the relationship and Charlie’s dream of a perfect wedding, can the would-be-bride tame her merciless future Monster-In-Law?

Director: Robert Luketic

Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan

8. Love, Simon

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online

Director:

Cast: Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner

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1. Kidding

Jeff, a famous children’s television icon, struggles to retain his sanity as his family falls apart. No fairy tale, fable or puppet with guide him through the crisis.

Director: Michel Gondry

Cast: Jim Carrey, Judy Greer, Catherine Keener

2. Avenue 5

The show is set 40 years into the future where the solar system is everyone’s oyster. Space captain Ryan Clark of the Avenue 5 tries to get along with others in the space tourism industry, which leads to hilarious outcomes.

Director: Armando Iannucci

Cast: Hugh Laurie, Joshua Viner, Josh Gad

 3. Curb Your Enthusiasm

Larry David stars as… Larry David, living the good life out in Los Angeles and stumbling through one faux-pas after another.

Directors: Bryan Gordon, Robert B. Weide, Alec Berg, Jeff Garlin, Larry Charles, Jeff Schaffer, David Steinberg

Cast: Larry David, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman

4. Last Man Standing

The story follows a man, barely surviving, in a household full of women. He wonders how far the modern woman has come and wonders what has become of all the men.

Director: Jack Burditt

Cast: Tim Allen, Nancy Travis, Hector Elizondo

5. Outmatched

A blue-collar couple from Atlantic City struggles to get by while raising four kids, three of whom just happen to be certified geniuses. 

Creator: Lon Zimmet

Cast: Jason Biggs, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Maggie Lawson 

6.  Veep

Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone warned her about.

Director: Armando Iannucci

Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Timothy Simons, Matt Walsh, Reid Scott, Gary Cole

7. Silicon Valley

In the high-tech gold rush of Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. From Mike Judge comes this satire about a programmer whose algorithm becomes the subject of a valley-wide bidding war.

Creators: Mike Judge, John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky

Cast: Thomas Middleditch, Zach Woods, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, T.J. Miller, Amanda Crew, Matt Ross, Jimmy O. Yang, 

8. 2 Broke Girls

A lot of young girls move to New York City to “make it.” Max and Caroline are trying to make their rent. In this fun, outrageous series written by Emmy Award winner Michael Patrick (Sex And The City) and white-hot stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings, two girls from very different backgrounds - Max, poor from birth, and Caroline, born wealthy but down on her luck - wind up as waitresses in the same colourful Brooklyn diner and strike up an unlikely friendship that could lead to a successful business venture. All they need to do is come up with $250,000 in start-up expenses. Starring Kat Dennings (Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, Thor) and exciting new discovery Beth Behrs, 2 BROKE GIRLS infuses classic comedy with something new, current and young, proving life can be fun even if you’re broke.

Director: Fredrick Aaron 

Cast: Kat Dennings, Beth, Beth Behrs, Jennifer Coolidge