Change of heart for an underworld boss

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Thursday, February 02, 2012
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A film based on a true story hits the screen in the form of black comedy Staying Alive – a life-affirming tale, told from a hospital bed.

Journalist Anant Mahadevan ends up in hospital with his third heart attack and finds himself next to an underworld don, played by Saurabh Shukla, who has suffered his first.

Saurab is petrified at what has befallen him and he is confronted with a few life truths from the seasoned heart-attack victim Anant.

During a love-hate relationship, Saurabh literally has a change of heart and changes his attitude to life.

Their respective wives also strike up a relationship and Saurabh emerges from hospital a reformed man determined to step away from is life of crime – but can he achieve it?

An outrageous comedy about therapies, complexes, anxieties and botched murder attempts comes your way in Love You to Death.

This Hinglish film is about an assortment of characters, all oddballs in their own rights, who come together with disastrous consequences.

Akshaye Khanna returns to the screen in Gali Gali Chor Hain, a story about local politics and a petty crime that suddenly makes national headlines.

The story about the archetypal Indian 'common man' forced into snapping under the weight of a corrupt criminal justice system, it also stars Shreya Sen.

Also due out is Jackie Shroff's Married 2 America – a film about a US firm's contract to build a new dam in India which leads to disastrous consequences.

The company sends an employee to investigate and he discovers a shocking truth. But before he can file a report, he disappears.

His wife, who was on the brink of separating from him, goes on a quest to search for him in India and in the process rediscovers her love for him.

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