42 Films & TV Shows Set In India During The 2000s
-
2012
California District of Columbia Wyoming Nevada England 🇫🇷 France 🇻🇦 Holy See 🇮🇳 India Tibet Tokyo Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2010s The 2000sWe Were Warned. — Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
-
Aagey Se Right
🇮🇳 India The 2000sAage Se Right is the story of chance, co-incidence and real life humor based in the present day Mumbai. The film spans over five days of panic, chaos and mayhem!!!
-
Firaaq
🇮🇳 India The 2000sFiraaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.
-
Tum Mile
🇮🇳 India The 2000sAkshay and Sanjana, two estranged lovers, struggle to stay alive during the floods in Mumbai in 2005 and realise their true destiny during the calamity.
-
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida 🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. — I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
-
Slumdog Millionaire
🇮🇳 India The 2000s The 1990sWhat does it take to find a lost love? A. Money, B. Luck, C. Smarts, D. Destiny — Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
-
Mumbai Meri Jaan
🇮🇳 India The 2000sShortly after 1800 hours, 11 July 2006, Mumbai was shattered by seven bomb blasts on Western Railway stations: Matunga, Mahim, Khar, Bandra, Jogeshwari, Borivali, and Bhayandar. It took the Police and ambulance over an hour to attend at various sites. This incident changes lives of Thomas, originally from Chennai, who sells tea from his bike; Rupali Joshi, a TV News reporter, who has to deal with the death of her to-be spouse, Ajay Kumar Pradhan; Suresh, in debt, starts to suspect all Muslims, especially Yusuf; Inspector Tukaram Patil, about to retire, goes about collecting bribes as usual, much to the chagrin of his embittered, honest and soon to-be suspended subordinate, Sunil Kadam; while Nikhil Agarwal, a Nationalist and environmentalist, debates whether he should re-locate to the United States, along with his pregnant wife, Sejal.
-
Little Zizou
🇮🇳 India The 2000sThe story of a Pasie boy's view of his community in modern day Mumbai.
-
Parzania
🇮🇳 India The 2000sHeaven and hell on earth — Centered around the 2002 massacres in Gujarat, the film tells the story of a happy family that is torn apart by the loss of their son Parzan.
-
The Day After Tomorrow
🇦🇶 Antarctica New York District of Columbia California 🇲🇽 Mexico Scotland 🇮🇳 India Tokyo Prefecture The 2000sWhere will you be? — After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.
-
The Bourne Supremacy
New York 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇺 Russia 🇮🇳 India The 2000sThey should have left him alone. — When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
-
Madhoshi
🇮🇳 India The 2000sMadhoshi is a 2004 Bollywood film. It is directed by Tanveer Khan and stars Bipasha Basu, John Abraham, Shweta Tiwari and Priyanshu Chatterjee. Anupama Kaul (played by Bipasha Basu) is a woman whose sister lives in New York. One day she gets a call from her sister and while they are talking on the phone, her sister is killed by the 9/11 attacks. Anupama is devastated. A few years later Anu is happily engaged to Arpit Oberoi (played by Priyanshu Chatterjee); then Arpit leaves for America for business reasons and Anu is wooed by a man named Aman (played by John Abraham).
-
Veera Kannadiga
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 2000sA man protects a slum and strives to keep its inhabitants safe from the negative elements. He also aims to avenge his father's death against the criminals who killed him.
-
Maqbool
🇮🇳 India The 2000sThe Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
-
Bombaiyer Bombete
🇮🇳 India The 2000sLalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu − a sidekick of Feluda − gets invited to Mumbai (previously Bombay) to watch the shooting of a film based on a novel written by him. Once in Mumbai, he, along with Feluda and Topshe gets embroiled with underworld kingpins. He seems to have transported the Nana Sahib's necklace. But fortunately because of Feluda the real thief is caught and convicted. Although the original story was written in the 1970s, the movie is set in more recent times and depict the real problem of underworld involvement in Bollywood.
-
Crackers
🇮🇳 India The 2000sJust your average bunch of biscuits! — Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your typical Christmas with the Dredge family! Twelve-year-old Joey Dredge is in trouble again. Expelled for jumping off the school roof, he's haunted by his father's death and hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bullying son. Compounding his misery is the knowledge he has to spend Christmas with them at the family beach house. Things look grim until the unexpected arrival of great-grandfather Albert, fresh from a stint in prison. Forced to share the back shed with this swearing, farting and devious octogenarian, Joey's life changes. Between barbecuing the family dog, performing a self-burial and causing his intended step-father to consume a startling amount of hash, Joey learns a few life lessons from Albert, who despite his many vices may give Joey the strength to accept the past and embrace the future.
-
Major
🇮🇳 India The 2000sAttacks are always dangerous not safe — Based on the life of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was martyred in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks and was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, on 26 January 2009.