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Dushman (1998): play Aandhdo Pato, the slick crime thriller
had Amitabh Bachchan playing the
mastermind. Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal
and Arjun Rampal played the pawns and
Sushmita Sen the teacher he forced to train
the three to pull off the near-impossible
feat. The heist is successful, but things go
wrong, and the stolen booty is hidden, as
the perpetrators fight over it.

Black (2005):
In Tanuja Chandra’s film, Naina (Kajol)
wants to hunt down her twin sister’s
rapist and killer, the sadistic Gokul Pandit
(Ashutosh Rana), who has been evading
punishment. Naina seeks the help of a
visually impaired army veteran, Suraj
Singh Rathod (Sanjay Dutt), who trains her
to fight and overcome her fear of Gokul.
When the villain strikes, Suraj and Naina
together have to put him down. Once the Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film adapted
mission is over, they realise they are in The Miracle Worker, about the devoted
love with each other and get together in teacher Anne Sullivan, who taught the
the end. Kajol played another visually- sight and hearing impaired Helen Keller to
impaired woman in Fanaa (2006), in communicate. Amitabh Bachchan played
which she inadvertently harbours a Debraj, the teacher, and Rani Mukerji was
terrorist. his student Michelle (played as a child
by Ayesha Kapur), whom he treats with
Aankhen (2002): endless patience to get an education and
become independent, forming a bond that
is only broken by his memory loss.

Margarita With A Straw (2014):

An ingenious heist, planned by a man
who uses three blind men to carry it out,
in the certainty that nobody would believe
such a thing. Directed by Vipul Amrutlal
Shah, based on Aatish Kapadia’s Gujarati

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