Un génie musical défiguré, caché à l'Opéra de Paris, terrorise la compagnie d'opéra au profit involontaire d'une jeune protégée qu'il forme et aime. Le 25e anniversaire de la première représentation publique du Fantôme de l'Opéra a été célébré par une grande représentation au Royal Albert Hall de Londres.
Un jeune couple, Ganga (Shobana) et Nakulan (Suresh Gopi), arrive dans le Tharavadu (le manoir, au sens de maison familiale ancestrale noble) de Nakulan, appelé Madampalli avec l'idée de s'y installer. Issu d'une famille qui suit la tradition et les superstitions, Thampi (Nedumudi Venu), l'oncle de Nakulan, proteste contre l'idée du couple de s'installer dans le manoir, connu pour être hanté. Nakulan l'ignore et le couple s'installe. Mais rapidement des événements, qui semblent surnaturels, commencent à se produire.
Venakteswarlu alias Venky (Venkatesh) comes to the house of Murthy (Prakash Raj) on recommendation of his father Sekhar (Chandra Mohan) who is a childhood friend of Murthy. Nandini alias Nandu (Arti Agarwal) is the daughter of Murthy. Venky enters that place when Nandu is about to get engaged to a software professional from the USA. Soon, Venky bonds with everyone from Murthy's family. Murthy helps Venky secure a job. The relationship between Venky and Nandu starts with hatred and turns into friendship. Nandu confessess her love for Venky to him. Venky, who does not want to spoil the relationship between their parents, decides to leave the house. But Murthy goes to the railway station and talks to Venky, which causes Venky to return. On his return, Nandu stops speaking to him. When Venky accompanies Nandu and Pinky (Nandu's cousin) to Nandu's friend Asha's wedding, sparks fly between them.Even though Venky also is in love with Nandu, he does not express it and pretends to not have feelings for Nandu.When they get back, its time for Nandu's wedding! Venky takes the onus of running the show of marriage. The demure Nandu is shattered.Circumstances lead to everyone finding out about Venky and Nandu. What follows, and how Nandu and Venky end up together forms the climax of the story.
Balakrishna (Kamal Haasan) is an economically disadvantaged but multi-talented dancer, adept at the Indian classical dances of Kuchipudi, Bharatanatyam, Kathak, etc. Fondly called Balu, his simple and honest soul does not permit him to attain professional success in the commercial world that requires a certain level of moral laxness. Madhavi (Jayaprada), a wealthy young woman and a dance patron, notices his talent and acts as his benefactress, helping him secure an opportunity to participate in a high-level classical dance festival.
Balan Mash (Mammootty) is an art teacher who lives in a tiny hamlet in Kerala. He has a serene life, with two children, a wife, a mother and a revolutionary brother - Gopi(Mukesh), a typical kootu kudumbam, or joint family, of Kerala. Balan Mash has an uncle who is mentally challenged. His uncle became a mental patient after a separation with his lover; this underlines the deep-rooted belief among their family that one male from each generation will go mad as a person from their past generation had sinned by throwing the idol of 'Devi' in a well.He was cursed by the goddess and became a lunatic.This curse would pass down through generations.
Partie 3 : La Prière du soldat - Tandis que l’armée japonaise est en déroute, Kaji parvient à survivre aux assauts de l’armée soviétique et tente, avec un groupe de rescapés, de regagner le Sud de la Mandchourie dans l’espoir de retrouver Michiko. En cours de route, il est arrêté par les soldats soviétiques et fait prisonnier dans un camp militaire. Alors qu’il risque d’être envoyé en Sibérie, Kaji parvient à s’évader et, seul, s’enfonce dans les étendues neigeuses de Mandchourie.
The film opens in Kanchi with Mayura, a Brahmin youth challenging an arrogant wrestler and defeating him. Mayura had never been formally trained and had only learned techniques of wrestling by observing other wrestlers. As a Brahmin, he was required to study Vedas, yet he was deeply interested in martial arts and after this wrestling encounter, Ranga Jetti (M. P. Shankar), the premier wrestler in Kanchi, takes him under his wing and trains him. After becoming proficient in all the martial arts, one day, while observing the training of Pallava princes, Mayura accidentally gets into a fight with and gives a thrashing to Vishnugopa (Vajramuni), the Pallava prince, thereby earning his enmity.
Gundamma (Suryakantam) is a rich widow who has a daughter Saroja (Jamuna Ramanarao), and son Prabhakar (Haranath) and a step daughter Lakshmi (Savitri). Both the girls are beautiful and intelligent. Saroja is a teen spoiled by her mother's pampering whereas Lakshmi is treated as a servant in her own house. Ramabhadraiah (S. V. Ranga Rao), who has two sons of marriageable age, is searching for suitable brides. Gundamma is interested in pursuing an alliance with Ramabhadraiah’s family for her daughter Saroja and sends a word through a middle man. It happens that he used to be a good friend of Gundamma's late husband. She wants to overcome the obstacle of her elder step daughter by getting her married to a down-and-out guy so she doesn’t have to get jeered for neglecting her step daughter. Kanchu Gantaiah (Ramana Reddy), Gundamma's manager and a cousin somehow wants Saroja to marry his son Bhupati (Rajanala) who happens to be a delinquent and is in a prison.
1947. Andy Dufresne, un banquier américain, est jugé coupable du meurtre de sa femme et de l'amant avec qui elle le trompait. Pour ce double meurtre, et bien qu'il ait clamé son innocence depuis le début, il est condamné à deux peines de prison à vie consécutives. Il est ensuite emprisonné au pénitencier fédéral de Shawshank dans l'État du Maine où il est « accueilli » avec les autres nouveaux détenus par Samuel Norton, le directeur de la prison. Norton, un homme ambitieux et pétri de valeurs religieuses traditionnelles, est épaulé par un gardien-chef brutal et sans pitié, le capitaine Byron Hadley qui ne craint pas de recourir à une violence aveugle (jusqu'à la mort de détenu, si nécessaire) afin de faire respecter la discipline.
En 1945, à New York, les Corleone sont une des cinq familles de la mafia. Don Vito Corleone, "parrain" de cette famille, marie sa fille à un bookmaker. Sollozzo, " parrain " de la famille Tattaglia, propose à Don Vito une association dans le trafic de drogue, mais celui-ci refuse. Sonny, un de ses fils, y est quant à lui favorable.
Afin de traiter avec Sonny, Sollozzo tente de faire tuer Don Vito, mais celui-ci en réchappe. Michael, le frère cadet de Sonny, recherche alors les commanditaires de l'attentat et tue Sollozzo et le chef de la police, en représailles.
Michael part alors en Sicile, où il épouse Apollonia, mais celle-ci est assassinée à sa place. De retour à New York, Michael épouse Kay Adams et se prépare à devenir le successeur de son père.
Bhootayya is a ruthless zamindar of a small village, who used to mercilessly occupy the land of the villagers to whom he had lent money, when they fail to repay their debts. He was very shrewd and talked the villagers into building a dam across the river in the outskirts of the village, which was prone to floods. He gets hold of the fertile land on the banks of the river and builds a house for his son Ayyu (Lokesh).
Cette mini-série met en scène la vie quotidienne des habitants de Schabbach, un petit village du Hunsrück, en Rhénanie, entre 1919, à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale et 1982.