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Kyon Ki (क्यों की)
Kyon Ki (क्यों की), also titled Kyon Ki..., is a 2005 Hindi drama by Priyadarshan starring Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, and Rimi Sen. A remake of Thalavattam set in a psychiatric hospital, it was released 2 November 2005 and flopped, earning ₹12.71 crore net in India.
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (लागा चुनरी में दाग)
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (लागा चुनरी में दाग), Journey of a Woman, is a 2007 Yash Raj Films Hindi drama directed by Pradeep Sarkar, starring Rani Mukerji as a Banaras woman who secretly works as a call girl in Mumbai; it opened poorly despite a Rs 15 crore budget.
Lagaan (लगान)
Lagaan (लगान), full title Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, is a 2001 Hindi sports-drama musical directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, starring Aamir Khan as villager Bhuvan, who leads a 1893 cricket match against British officers with land tax at stake; Oscar-nominated, A.R. Rahman score.
Lajja (लज्जा)
Lajja (लज्जा, "Shame, Modesty") is Rajkumar Santoshi's 2001 Hindi drama weaving four women's stories, each named for an epithet of Sita, facing dowry, abuse, rape, and patriarchy; a multi-starrer with Manisha Koirala, Madhuri Dixit, Rekha, and Mahima Chaudhry that failed in India but did well overseas.
Life in a... Metro
Life in a... Metro (लाइफ इन अ मेट्रो) is a 2007 Hindi drama directed by Anurag Basu, produced by Ronnie Screwvala for UTV, interweaving nine Mumbai characters' stories of infidelity and love, with music by Pritam and the on-screen Metro band.
London Dreams
London Dreams (2009), also called by that English title only, is a Hindi musical drama directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, starring Ajay Devgn, Salman Khan, and Asin, about childhood friends turned rivals in London's music scene, released 30 October 2009.
Luck by Chance
Luck by Chance is a 2009 Hindi drama, Zoya Akhtar's directorial debut, starring Farhan Akhtar and Konkona Sen Sharma as film-industry strugglers; produced by Excel Entertainment and BIG Pictures, released 30 January 2009.
Matrubhoomi (मातृभूमि)
Matrubhoomi (मातृभूमि), also released as Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, is Manish Jha's 2003 France-India Hindi drama about a future Indian village with no women after female infanticide; Venice FIPRESCI and Thessaloniki Audience Award winner starring Tulip Joshi as Kalki.
Mumbai Meri Jaan
Mumbai Meri Jaan (मुंबई मेरी जान), also called Mumbai My Life, is a 2008 Hindi drama directed by Nishikant Kamat, his Hindi debut, about five Mumbaikars after the 11 July 2006 train bombings, starring Paresh Rawal, Irrfan Khan, Kay Kay Menon, Madhavan, and Soha Ali Khan.
Nishabd (निशब्द)
Nishabd (निशब्द, "wordless") is a 2007 Hindi drama by Ram Gopal Varma starring Amitabh Bachchan as 60-year-old photographer Vijay, who falls for Jiah Khan, his 18-year-old daughter's friend; released 2 March 2007, it flopped at the box office.
Paa (film)
Paa (पा) is a 2009 Hindi comedy-drama directed by R. Balki, starring Amitabh Bachchan as Auro, a 13-year-old with progeria, with real-life son Abhishek Bachchan playing his father; it won four National Film Awards including Best Actor.
Page 3 (पेज थ्री) (2005 film)
Page 3 (पेज थ्री) is a 2005 Hindi-language drama film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, starring Konkona Sen Sharma, that won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
Parzania
Parzania is a 2005 English-language Indian drama by Rahul Dholakia about a Parsi family whose son vanishes in the 2002 Gujarat riots; released 26 January 2007, banned unofficially in Gujarat.
Pinjar (पिंजर) (film)
Pinjar (पिंजर), 2003 Hindi film directed by Chandraprakash Dwivedi, adapted from Amrita Pritam's Punjabi Partition novel; stars Urmila Matondkar as Puro/Hamida and Manoj Bajpayee as Rashid; released 24 October 2003, National Film Award winner.
Rang De Basanti (रंग दे बसंती)
Rang De Basanti (रंग दे बसंती), also Paint It Yellow, is Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's 2006 Hindi drama starring Aamir Khan, in which Delhi students cast as 1930s revolutionaries turn to real activism after a friend's MiG crash; it won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film and was India's 2006 Oscar entry.
Rang Rasiya (रंग रसिया)
Rang Rasiya (रंग रसिया), also Colours of Passion, is Ketan Mehta's 2014 Hindi biopic of painter Raja Ravi Varma, starring Randeep Hooda and Nandana Sen; delayed from 2008, it flopped with ₹4.8 crore nett and has no TV serial connection.
Rock On!!
Rock On!! is a 2008 Hindi musical drama directed by Abhishek Kapoor about the rock band Magik's breakup and reunion, starring and sung by debutant Farhan Akhtar, with music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and a 2016 sequel.
Shabd (शब्द)
Shabd (शब्द) is a 2005 Hindi psychological drama, Leena Yadav's debut film, starring Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai, and Zayed Khan; a blocked novelist urges his wife into an affair for his novel, and it flopped at the box office.
Shaurya (शौर्य)
Shaurya (शौर्य) is a 2008 Hindi courtroom drama directed by Samar Khan, starring Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, and Javed Jaffrey, adapted from A Few Good Men and set in an Indian Army court martial.
Swades
Swades (स्वदेस), or Swades: We the People, is Ashutosh Gowariker's 2004 Hindi drama starring Shah Rukh Khan as NASA project manager Mohan Bhargava, who returns to village Charanpur; a box-office flop later reappraised as a classic.
Ta Ra Rum Pum
Ta Ra Rum Pum is a 2007 Yash Raj Films Hindi sports drama directed by Siddharth Anand, starring Saif Ali Khan as racer RV and Rani Mukerji, released 27 April 2007.
Taare Zameen Par (तारे ज़मीन पर)
Taare Zameen Par (तारे ज़मीन पर), aka Like Stars on Earth, is Aamir Khan's 2007 Hindi drama debut about a dyslexic boy, Ishaan Awasthi, and teacher Ram Shankar Nikumbh; National Award winner, India's 2009 Oscar entry, followed by 2025's Sitaare Zameen Par.
The Blue Umbrella (Chatri Chor) (2005 film)
The Blue Umbrella (Chatri Chor, छतरी चोर) is Vishal Bhardwaj's 2005 Hindi film adapted from Ruskin Bond's novella, starring Pankaj Kapur and Shreya Sharma, shot in Dalhousie, winner of the National Film Award for Best Children's Film.
Traffic Signal (2007 film)
Traffic Signal (2007) is a Hindi drama by Madhur Bhandarkar, third in his Page 3–Corporate trilogy, about beggars, vendors, and criminals around a Mumbai traffic signal; it won the National Film Award for Best Direction.
Wake Up Sid
Wake Up Sid (वेक अप सिड) is a 2009 Hindi coming-of-age film, Ayan Mukerji's directorial debut, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Konkona Sen Sharma; produced by Dharma Productions, released 2 October 2009, a Semi-Hit grossing ₹27.95 cr net in India.
Water (2005 film)
Water (2005) is Deepa Mehta's Hindi-language drama, third in her elemental trilogy after Fire and Earth, about Hindu widows in 1938 Varanasi; its 2000 set was destroyed by protestors before completion in Sri Lanka, earning an Oscar nomination.
Yaadein (यादें) (2001 film)
Yaadein (यादें) is Subhash Ghai's 2001 Hindi family drama starring Jackie Shroff, Hrithik Roshan, and Kareena Kapoor, about a widowed father and his three daughters; a domestic flop that set Hindi film opening records overseas.
Zubeidaa
Zubeidaa (ज़ुबेदा) is Shyam Benegal's 2001 Hindi drama starring Karisma Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, and Rekha, written by Khalid Mohamed about his mother Zubeida Begum, concluding his Muslim-women trilogy with Mammo and Sardari Begum, and winning the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.