Aadi Sheshagiri Rao Ghattamaneni

Arjun, a Hindu boy, and Khushboo, a Muslim girl, fall in love. Despite their families being good friends, they need to keep their romance a secret due to the religious intolerance of society. The film follows Arjun, a Hindu man played by Morea, and Khusboo, a Muslim woman played by Basu. Their fathers (portrayed by Vikram Gokhale and Alok Nath, respectively) become good friends. During a marriage ceremony, Arjun comes across Khusboo and falls in love with her. However, he decides to hide his feelings from her and his family because of their differences in religion.When Arjun is about to confess his love to Khusboo, Arjun's father has a sudden kidney failure and is admitted to a hospital. The second time he musters the courage to express his feelings, Khusboo's father has a fake heart attack. Khusboo's parents arrange a marriage for her, and she, unaware of Arjun's love, obeys. This finally prods a desperate Arjun to admit his love for Khusboo. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Over the years the friendship of Usman and Pandit has flourished, despite of their different religion and cultural backgrounds. Their children have now grown and are of marriageable age. While attending the marriage of Usman's daughter, Arjun meets with Khusboo and falls in love with her. They meet after the marriage, and Khusboo too feels attracted to Arjun. Arjun is unable to bring this matter up before his parents and Usman for fear of being rejected as he is not a Muslim. He, however, confides in his paternal uncle, Raj Narain. Raj Narain agrees to approach Usman on this behalf, but dies tragically. Now Arjun thinks that his love affair is jinxed, and is unable to talk to anyone about this. Khusboo is relying on Arjun to make the next move, but when he doesn't, she agrees to marry the man of her parents' choice, leaving Arjun even more depressed and alone. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A boy and a girl who started liking each other while studying abroad and decided to get married. They came back to India and both the families agreed to the alliance. The story takes a turn when the boy refused to marry the girl. New Zealand settled Esha (Esha Deol) is attracted to fellow-student Rahul (Tushar Kapoor). Rahul too is attracted to Esha. Esha returns home to India and tells her parents (Raj Babbar, Nina Kulkarni) about her love for Rahul. The family is pleased, and proceeds to finalize the marriage. They accompany Esha to Rahul's house. Rahul's parents (Rajesh Khanna, Smita Jaykar) approve of Esha. But when they ask Rahul, to everyone's shock, he refuses to marry Esha under any circumstances. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

In order to make ends meet, three women steps out from their houses for earning. However, this irks their jobless husbands who can go to extreme lengths to stop them. Jhoomri and her husband, Bhimsha, move into a new neighbourhood. Their immediate neighbours are three squabbling couples, namely Vijay and Anjali who are newly married; Appu Khote and Vimla, who are married and have 4 children; and Ravi and Meena, who are also married and have one child. With their wages unable to keep up with inflation and high cost of living, unable to pay even rent to the landlord, B.K. Kakkad, the wives decide to seek employment to augment their income, with hilarious results from their spouses, who will go to any extent to keep their wives at home, even if means to bring a dancing girl home to cook and look after the children!! —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Sitadevi lives a comfortable life with her husband and two sons, Rakesh and Rajesh. While celebrating the birth of one of her son's, her husband gets killed in an automobile accident, and his friends, Dhartiraj and Malpani capriciously take over his estate and ask Sitadevi and her sons to leave. While leaving by train, Sitadevi and Rakesh are separated from Rajesh during an accident. Years later, Rakesh grows up to be a singer, while Rajesh lives a life of crime, and is the hit-man of none other than Dhartiraj. When Dhartiraj's only daughter, Jyoti, falls in love with Rakesh, Dhartiraj arranges to meet with him, and tentatively agrees to this marriage. Rakesh does not know that Dhartiraj has already finalized Jyoti's marriage with Malpani's son, and has made arrangements for Rakesh to be killed by none other than Rajesh. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Dharam Murti is a much respected school master in Shaktinagar in India, where he lives with his young son, Ravi, daughter, Padma, and wife, Savitri. One day he witnesses a man being being killed at the hands of Sher Singh Bandookwala, the Zamindar. He reports this matter to the police and Sher is arrested and prosecuted. Sher uses all his financial might to convince the courts of his innocence, and is set free. Then a few days later, Dharam is found in a compromising position with a new lady school-teacher, Menaka, is summoned by the local Panchayat, and asked to leave Shaktinagar for 30 days. Dharam leaves and does not return, leaving his wife and children alone and destitute. Savitri toils hard to provide education for Ravi, and for this she scarifies everything she has owned, and sends Ravi to her brother`s place. Years later, Ravi is now an Engineer and returns home to Shaktinagar, is appalled to learn of his mom`s and sister`s destitute condition and vows to avenge this ...

A wicked stepmother and her brother attempt to kill her stepson but he survives, and years later re-enters their lives. On the other hand, a smuggler assumes the identity of an honest man who looks like him, in order to evade the police.