Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.
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Kira Young, a successful novelist, returns to her hometown in order to escape bad press after Tyson, her cheating fiance, is accused of murder. She rekindles a romance in the form of a one-night stand with her high school sweetheart Weston Wade. Soon after, Weston develops an unhealthy obsession with Kira.
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
John Clem heads north to investigate the disappearance of his estranged father. Upon arriving at the family cottage, John feels a sense of home, something he hasn’t felt since he was a child. Running into Avery (Ray Wise – Twin Peaks, Reaper) his father’s colleague, he receives no help on his dad’s disappearance, but instead, a new set of eyes in which to view the living world around him.
Ask any parents and the most common problem being faced by them in the current times will bring out the real picture of the educational institutes functioning in our present social system. Fast moving towards the extreme commercialism of this noble profession, the schools and colleges of every major city are no-where less than any corporate business houses running with the sole motive of profits. Have they forgotten their actual task of imparting education to the future generation and Have they completely given up the nobleness of the profession….are the questions raised by this well intended project aptly titled “Paathshaala”.
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