In the end, I think I want to get people interested in the actors and the mad, crazy but overall great world of Bollywood and give them a nudge to look further into it.
Here I just looked into the popular actor "Akshay Kumar" as a starting point for plots and songs etc.
I could also probably tally up the names actors play as in movies as they seem to be the same handful of about 5-10 names! Could have "most popular filmi name" section.
Nazar Ke Samne - Plot (source)
Umesh, a photographer is arrested for the murder of his newspaper editor. The fact that they had an altercation earlier and that he was found at the murder scene with the murder weapon (a knife) in his hands lead to his arrest. However, in court the lawyer- Sahni(Kiran Kumar), almost wins the case for Umesh. Enters an eye witness- Jai (Akshay Kumar) whose statement results in a sentence to be hanged till death for Umesh. Jai Kumar is a fraud who can be paid to become an eye witness. Sarita- Umesh's sister comes to know about her brothers predicament and that Jai is a liar. She makes Jai realize how his lies can destroy families. He has a change of heart, falls in love with Sarita and promises to save Umesh. However, the court rejects Sahnis request to re-open the case. They come across a photograph which was taken accidentally at the murder scene. However, only the murderer's shoes are seen. Jai tries to find the man who had paid him to lie and to find the owner of the shoes. Turns out that the lawyer is not such a nice man after all. He murdered the editor who was blackmailing him. Now as Jai is trying to find him, he has to make sure there is no proof or witnesses (Badshah Khan Sharbatwala) to prove he is the murderer. In the end they get married and live happily ever after.
Waqt Hamara Hai (source)
One-time rival collegians, Vikas Sabkuchwala and Sunil, are now friends and in love with sisters Ayesha and Mamta Vidrohi, who they would like to marry. But their politician father wants a size-able dowry as well as well-placed sons-in-laws, and refuses to have to do anything with them. The foursome get together and arrange the fake kidnapping of the sisters so as to extort a large sum of money from Vidrohi. Things go completely out of control and awry, when Vikas and Sunil find out that the kidnapping has taken place - not by them - but by notorious international terrorist and seemingly invincible Colonel Chikara.
Dhadkan (source)
Dhadkan is about Anjali (Shilpa Shetty), a young woman who hails from an extremely rich and influential family. Her father Mr. Chauhan (Kiran Kumar) is a renowned businessman and has many dreams for his daughter. Anjali is in love with Dev (Sunil Shetty) who is very poor and often cannot even afford to clothe himself properly. Dev loves Anjali and wants to marry her — so has to meet her father.
When Anjali puts forward to her parents the proposal of marrying Dev, she is rebuked and gets an outright refusal. Moreover, her parents have chosen for her a wealthy suitor from Delhi. Not wanting to hurt her parents Anjali finally gives in and marries Ram (Akshay Kumar) who her parents believe will be a perfect match for her.
Ram is a man of great ideals, who believes in giving a rightful place to his wife and respects her sensibilities. Despite this, he is unable to win Anjali’s love at first and their marriage remains on the edge. However, after seeing the magnanimity of her husband’s heart in forgiving and accepting her, she realises she has fallen in love with him.
Anjali leads a life of bliss and becomes an ideal wife. But suddenly, at their third wedding anniversary party, Dev returns and reveals his intent of winning Anjali back. Dev is now a wealthy businessman, and Anjali finds herself at a crossroads where she has to fight for her husband with her former love. Anjali is in love with her husband and has no wish to return to her former lover. When she tells him this, he sets out to ruin Ram's business. But the truth wins in the end when Anjali tells Dev she is pregnant with Ram's child. Dev realises his folly and decides to marry his friend and business partner Sheetal Varma (Mahima Chaudhary) who has secretly loved him for a long time.
Ajnabee (source)
Raj Malhotra (Bobby Deol) and Priya (Kareena Kapoor) meet by chance and fall in love. They marry with Priya's father's (Dalip Tahil) consent. After marriage, they reside in Switzerland, where they meet an Indian couple: Vikram Bajaj (Akshay Kumar) and Sonia (Bipasha Basu). The couples quickly become friends and decide to go on a Christmas vacation to Mauritius.
All is well until Vikram begins to speak to Raj about wife swapping. This upsets Raj and a fight breaks out between them, and the four return home. A couple of days later, the two couples again become friends. On Vikram's birthday, the two men get drunk and find themselves in each other's house. The next morning Sonia is found dead, and Raj is accused of her murder. Raj manages to escape from court, and the Swiss police chase him. When he decides to confront Vikram, he finds the evidence to prove his innocence and win back his wife.
In the climax, Vikram himself tells the whole plan to Raj that the girl he saw was his real wife Sonia Bajaj (Mink) and the girl with him is his college girlfriend Neeta (Bipasha). At first he was only a drummer and Neeta was dance-girl. She wanted to get rich that's why he married a rich woman and approved an insurance of her wife of 100 million dollars. He thought of a plan to kill his wife to get the amount of insurance. At last, Raj tells him that everything he said is recorded now and he has already sent the amount of insurance to the insurance company from his account, because now he knows his password. Neeta dies in the conflict that follows and it aggressives Vikram, but at the end he also dies and Raj and Priya move back to India happily.
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (source)
Sameer (Salman Khan) is a hot tempered guy who is also very unlucky in love. His fiance (Amrita Arora) left him because of his aggression, and to get away he leaves for Goa. There he meets Rani (Priyanka Chopra) and instantly falls in love with her. After many attempts at befriending her and a rough start with her father (Amrish Puri), Rani and Sameer become friends.
Sunny (Akshay Kumar) then moves into the same house as Sameer and manages to cause a lot of trouble between the two. It is evident that Sunny is out to ruin Sameer's relationship with Rani so he can steal Rani away from him. Sunny is constantly doing bad things and blaming Sameer, while he takes credit for all of Sameer's good deeds. His actions aggravate Sameer and also his temper. Near the end, Sameer is chasing Sunny and they run onto a cricket ground. Sameer steals the microphone and expresses his love for Rani, asking in front of the crowd if she will marry him. She agrees, and Sunny then reveals that he is really Sameer's childhood best friend Arun. They reunite with a hug. The movie ends on a song with Sameer and Rani getting married and Arun conducting the marriage.
Jaan-E-Mann (source)
Suhaan (Salman Khan) and Piya (Preity Zinta) fell in love in college and eloped. However, he has to keep his marriage a secret in order to further his career as a movie star and, when his career hits a low, he returns home to find out that she has left him. She does not answer his calls or letters, and he soon receives divorce papers in the mail.
The film begins when Suhaan receives a notice saying his ex-wife Piya, who has settled in New York and wants a divorce settlement of 50 lakh rupees, since he failed to make his alimony payments due to his poor financial condition. Suhaan appeals to his uncle Boney (Anupam Kher), a midget lawyer, for help. As they try to figure out a solution, Agastya Rao (Akshay Kumar) lands at their doorstep searching for Piya. He reveals to them that he fell in love with Piya during his college days but could not express his love to her because she was in love with someone else, unaware that the person he lost her to was Suhaan. Piya had ignored Agastya then, a nerd, a nobody, and even broke his heart by blowing him off to be with Suhaan at a concert that Agastya had taken her to. A heartbroken Agastya left the college as a result and eventually wound up in Houston working for NASA.
Suhaan and Boney hatch a plan to get Agastya and Piya together, so that Suhaan need not pay alimony to Piya and Agastya gets the girl of his dreams. Suhaan accompanies Agastya to New York City to help Agastya win Piya over. They rent an apartment opposite Piya's and watch her every move, literally, using telescopes, binoculars, and surveillance techniques. Using a headset, Suhaan feeds Agastya lines to woo Piya with and eventually succeeds in getting Piya and Agastya together.
One night, Suhaan finds out Piya has a baby girl, Suhaan's daughter. He realizes that she left him since she did not want her and the baby to ruin Suhaan's film career. Suhaan realizes his mistake and tries to make amends and start a new life with Piya and his daughter, Suhani. Unfortunately, before he can act, Piya gets engaged to Agastya.
It later emerges that Piya's brother, Vishal, had been hiding letters that Suhaan wrote to her and was responsible for initiating the divorce process. Agastya realizes Piya is still in love with Suhaan and not him; so he reveals the truth and tells her to be with him. Piya flies back to India where Suhaan is trying to find work a small-time actor. They express their love, reuniting their broken family.
A few years later, Agastya is on a NASA space shuttle and initiates a video conference with Suhaan and Piya. He introduces them to his new girlfriend who looks strikingly similar to Piya, Preity Zintakova (a spin-off of Preity Zinta, who plays Piya).
Singh is Kinng (source)
Lakhan Singh (Sonu Sood), also called "Lucky," is the "kinng" of the Australian underworld, and is the first "Singh Is Kinng" of the film's title. He is accompanied by his associates, Julie (Neha Dhupia), Mika (Jaaved Jaffrey), Pankaj Udaas (Yashpal Sharma), Raftaar (Sudhanshu Pandey) and Dilbaugh Singh (Manoj Pahwa). In a small village in Punjab, the birthplace of Lucky, lives a criminal more notorious than Lucky himself—Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar). Happy has caused many problems and disastrous situations in the village, and the villagers are fed up with him. They decide to send Happy on a long trip to Australia with his friend Rangeela (Om Puri) to bring Lucky back to Punjab, which will keep Happy out of the village for some time and bring peace to the village.
But at the airport, Happy's and Rangeela's tickets to Australia are accidentally exchanged with that of a man named Puneet (Ranvir Shorey) who was hoping to use to fly to Egypt. In Egypt, Happy helps Sonia (Katrina Kaif) and falls deeply in love with her. But he does not express his love to her. Leaving her behind, he heads to Australia to meet Lucky. Lucky refuses to return to his hometown and throws Happy and Rangeela out of the house. Penniless, Happy finds warmth and affection in an elderly lady (Kirron Kher) who provides him with food in spite of being a stranger.
Lucky winds up in hospital, paralyzed, after a series of violent incidents that Happy causes. (In one of these incidents, his head is bumped severely, and the trauma from the resultant concussion is what paralyzes him.) Happy unexpectedly receives the title of Kinng—thereby becoming the other "Singh Is Kinng" of the film's title. Alas, Happy is not proud of his rank and is kind-hearted. The lady who helped Happy is really worried and depressed as her daughter is returning from Egypt with her wealthy boyfriend, Puneet. The daughter does not know that after the death of her father years ago, her mother became poverty-stricken and was reduced to work as a flower seller. Happy gives the flower-seller his spacious house and makes all his mafia associates work under her.
The lady's daughter arrives—and to Happy's horror, she is none other than Sonia. Happy, heart-broken, is forced to make a show of happiness to Sonia. Puneet says that he too would have had a good time with Happy and Sonia in Egypt had his ticket to Egypt not been exchanged in the airport, because of which he had ended up in Australia. Puneet had always been jealous of Sonia being with Happy. However, he doubts anything is going on between them. He and Sonia squabble about this topic; it is Happy who handles it.
In spite of herself, Sonia falls in love with Happy—and the truth becomes difficult to hide. Sonia becomes aware of her poverty. Puneet sets his heart to marry Sonia. Sonia gets trapped in an emotional tug-of-war between Puneet, who loves her, and Happy, whom she loves.
Puneet meets Mika, who is also the brother of the Kinng, and who agrees to kill Happy. Puneet's motives to kill Happy, however, differ from Mika's: Puneet wants to kill Happy to keep Sonia away from him, whereas Mika wants to kill Happy to make himself Kinng.
The wedding day dawns and there is firing (all because Julie drops some guns). Puneet hides while the pandit chants the mantras, his head totally covered by a pot, amidst gunfire all around. Meanwhile Happy takes Sonia's hand in order to save her and unknowingly both run around the fire seven times essentially getting married. (During all this, Lucky's head is bumped, and the trauma-induced paralysis he had suffered from is relieved.) Suddenly, Mika turns up on the spot, ready to kill Happy, armed with a gang and his new special glasses and hearing aid. As he is about to shoot, Lucky steps up and stops him. Then a dialogue ensues between Mika, Happy, Lucky and the associates of the kinng (sic). Then Happy tells him that being the "king" is no great thing. Lucky confesses that he always found sadness being Kinng, because a true king does not fight for himself, but for others. Overcome with remorse, Mika drops his revolver. The movie ends happily, with Happy and Sonia's marriage.
Songs and patterns picked up
Some(most of these are absolutely ridiculous but fun to watch for that exact reason)
Alot of outfit changes and shocking dance moves in this one and probably switching continents a few times in a song.
Not as much environment changes but alot of dodgy air humping going on here. Maybe if there's a pattern, I can tally these up too in Akshay's career.
Counted 5 outfit changes in this one
Need more tree running, I think maybe these are a pattern in the older Bollywood movies from the 50's 60's and 70's so it would be good to have a mixture. Would also at the same time maybe show change in cinema too, with newer films having less "games of chase round trees" tallied, and so on.
It's also a Bollywood habit to sing in the rain. There must be a consistent pattern of these, a fair amount anyway.
Not much kissing, definitely not in older movies but it is a little more common now. I think this is possibly because of the indian culture and taboo of public affection, think this could be good to put in. A tally of kisses? It would contrast against the shocking number of songs and dances in the rain and all the rest of it maybe...
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