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Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
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Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Meet Karthik: an introvert by nature and shy by choice. Karthik suffers with huge confidence issues and is miserable at his just average job that yields less than average results.His boss treats him like dirt. Shonali, his colleague who he secretly loves doesn’t even know he exists. Karthik is a loser, knows it, and accepts it.Karthik believes his life cant get any worse and then suddenly one night, it happens; The phone rings. And Karthik speaks to someone he never though he would - He speaks to a man who also claims to be Karthik. The man on the phone says that he is here to change Karthik’s life.Karthik accepts the phone in his life and soon it becomes his guide, his mentor, friend and guardian. And most importantly it becomes the ticket to the love of his life, Shonali and Karthik’s life changes in ways that he hadn’t imagined.
Style: suspense, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, dark, tense, romantic, eros, cult classic, crime thriller ...
Plot: schizophrenia, couples, ambition, false accusation, fall in love, hidden identity, mistaken identity, identity crisis, disorder, against the odds, wooing, couple relations, suicide attempt, strained relationship, whodunit, twists and turns, murder, puzzle, illness, murder mystery, alter ego, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, plot twist, brain capacity ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, asia, mumbai india

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Fault (2001)
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Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
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Country: India
Duration: 94 min.
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Kill Dil (2014)
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Duration: 128 min.
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Duration: 175 min.
Story: The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children ...
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45%
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Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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