Anang Desai

Inspired by true events, Kaagaz 2 stars Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumaar, Satish Kaushik and Neena Gupta in prominent roles.

A blind woman is taken care by a wealthy nobleman after her fiancee is presumed to be dead. Things takes a turn when her former fiancee comes back to her, which puts her in a dilemma. Durga (Amisha Patel) is a beautiful blind woman with a talent for shaping pottery. She is poor, and lives with her widowed mother in a simple home. By chance Durga crosses paths with Babu Rohit (Arjun Rampal) who saves her life when she is about the fall over a cliff. The pair spend time together and fall in love. At one point Durga creates a clay bust of her Babu ("sir") but weeps because she cannot see it. Rohit tells her that he will find a way to help her see again. But before anything could happen between the two Dubai returned Rana, another man who wants to marry Durga, kills her mom and then Babu himself. A devastated Durga undergoes eye surgery through Swiss-based Dr. R.K. Prasad and regains her sight. Dr. Prasad takes her with him to live in Switzerland and this is where multi-millionaire Raj (Bobby Deol) enters her life and wants to marry her. Dr. Prasad persuades her to let go of Babu's memory and marry Raj, which she does. At their engagement party, Raj's friend, Rohit, who was missing in India, is found. His appearance disrupts Durga's life as she thinks that her Babu has returned back. Rohit however recognize her and convinces her that her "sir" where in Babu has returned. On a coincidence Raj comes to know of the entire pass between Durga and Babu and he decides to reunite the couple once again. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Jaipur-based Durga has been blind as far as she can remember, and helps her dad make clay statues of Hindu Gods and Goddesses. When her dad passes away, she and her mom continue making clay statues to make a living. Then one day Durga is involved in an accident and is rescued by a young man named Babu. Both of them fall in love with each and want to get married. But before that could happen, Dubai returned Rana, another man who wants to marry Durga, kills her mom and then Babu himself. A devastated Durga undergoes eye surgery through Swiss-based Dr. R.K. Prasad and regains her sight. Dr. Prasad takes her with him to live in Switzerland and this is where multi-millionaire Raj enters her life and wants to marry her. Dr. Prasad persuades her to let go of Babu's memory and marry Raj, which she does. At their engagement party, Raj's friend, Rohit, who was missing in India, is found. His appearance disrupts Durga's life as she thinks that her Babu has returned back. But how can a young woman, once blind, who has never seen her lover, be sure that he has returned? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Beautiful, blind & poor Durga lives with her widowed mother in a Shanty house. She has a special talent for shaping pottery and does this to make a living. One day while traveling with a little boy, Durga accidentally misleads her path and was about to fall over a cliff when a young man named Babu comes to her rescue. Hereafter both became friends and spend beautiful moments together and this has blossomed to love. The pair expresses there love to each other and promises to get married but before this could take place, a jealous suitor who wants to marry Durga apparently kills Babu and get rid of his body down a deep ravine. Durga secures enough money, and goes to Dr. Prasad's hospital and perform an eye surgery and eventually regains her sight. Soon after she is adopted by Dr. Prasad and they relocate to Switzerland. There she meets Raj, who falls in love with her and proposes marriage to her, through persistence and kindness, Durga finally accepts Raj's marriage proposal. Unknown to Durga that her lover, Babu is alive and is known as Rohit, who is also Raj's childhood friend. But even if he comes back to her she will have to forget the past and think about her future, tying the knot with Raj. —gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com)

Shankar (Anil Kapoor), an actor of sorts (has done a make up course from London and has acted in 80 plays), loves Urmila (Juhi Chawla). They had met by accident when Shankar was dressed as a driver for a play and Urmi sat in his car by accident, thinking that her uncle had sent the car for her. Shankar admits that he knew Urmi sat in his car by mistake, and promises to drop her home. But Urmi gives him a wrong name and address, so Shankar doesn't stalk her later. But Urmi leaves her specs in Shankar's car and returns the following day to collect. She meets Shankar's brother and Bhabhi. They start dating. Urmila is the daughter of a conservative and orthodox retired police officer Abhayankar (Amrish Puri) & wife Savitri (Reema Lagoo). Abhayankar hates people who lie. Rashid Khan (Anupam Kher) runs a grocery shop in the locality and a good friend of Abhayankar. Abhayankar wants Urmi to marry the son Chunky (Sajid Khan) of his good friend Dr Narmada Prasad. Chunky has just returned after completing his studies abroad. Narmada is treating Savitri for asthma and says that her condition is psychological, after the death of her son at the age of 10 yrs. Abhayankar is worried that his meager savings would not be enough to cover Urmi's marriage expenses. So, Rashid convinces him to take on a paying guest in the large house (which also has a side entrance) for some extra income. Abhayankar likes the idea and asks Urmi to put an ad in the city papers Urmi returns home from college and brings applications for the paying guest ad. She convinces Abhayankar to take on the application for a banker named R P Sharma, who wants to stay for a month with his wife and kids. A few days later, a guy arrives saying he is Ramanuj, younger brother of RP Sharma. RP Sharma has sent a letter to Abhayankar saying he cant come to stay, and hence is sending his younger brother. Ramanuj is Shankar. Abhayankar is against letting Ramanuj to stay, but Savitri takes pity on him and convinces Abhayankar (she starts crying that she has no say in the house) and Abhayankar relents as he is afraid that her asthma will re-surface. Ramanuj is allowed to stay. House servant is Shanker (Kavi Kumar Azad). Turns out Shankar and Urmi had colluded to get him into the house as a paying guest. Shankar's mission is to convince Abhayankar to allow him to marry her. They meet in secret. Ramanuj presents himself as an innocent, God loving Hindu and tries hard to impress Savitri. Savitri looks at Ramanuj as her lost son. Ramanuj also considers Savitri his mother. Ramanuj also says that he is a patient of asthma. Abhayankar is very tough to please and is not taken in by any of the sympathetic angles used by Ramanuj. Ramanuj doubles his efforts and even does odd jobs for Abhayankar late at night in a bid to impress him. Ramanuj copies some notes for Abhayankar, but Urmi asks him to get the notes back as Abhayankar is an handwriting expert and would find out that Ramanuj is the person who wrote the letters, posing as RP Sharma. Shanker also finds out that Shankar and Urmi love each other. They bribe Shanker to spill tea all over Shankar's notes so Abhayankar cant read them. Meanwhile Chunky is preparing for his wedding to Urmi. Urmi tells Chunky that she loves someone else. Chunky is supportive of Urmi, but says that the engagement is in 3 days. Now, Urmi decides to pull in Rashid into the situation and figure out a plan. Rashid suggests to get a foreign woman to pose as Rashid's wife in front of Narmada and thus forcing the cancellation of engagement. Since time is less, Ramanuj decides to pose as Margaret himself. Margaret arrives in front of Narmada and says she has come to get Chunky back as he has written to her asking for a divorce. Narmada kicks Chunky out of the house. As Narmada refuses Abhayankar, Ramanuj steps in and tries to convince Savitri that he might be the right match for Urmi. Savitri is OK with Ramanuj's match with Urmi and wants him to bring his family for talks. But Abhayankar asks Ramanuj to leave (as he finds Ramanuj unnecessarily polite and distrusts him), as his stay period is over. Urmi wants Shankar to bring in his brother and Bhabhi to ask for her hand in marriage. Ramanuj dresses as Margaret and goes to meet Narmada to get him to forgive Chunky. But she is pulled in to meet Abhayankar when Savitri calls and asks Narmada to come asap as Urmi has high fever. Savitri asks Margaret to stay for dinner and then asks her to stay overnight. Margaret vomits the next day due to the Kachori's fed by Savitri and Savitri thinks Margaret is preggers. Ramanuj thwarts Abhayankar's plan by injuring his ankle while collecting Jamuns (Abhayankar likes Jamuns). Abhayankar asks Ramanuj to stay for a few more days and says that he is going to the city and would meet his family while he is there. Abhayankar smells something crooked when Ramanuj discourages Abhayankar from visiting his family. Abhayankar tells about his suspicions to Rashid. Rashid decides to go with Abhayankar. Meanwhile Ramanuj is sent by taxi to warn his brother and Bhabhi about Abhayankar's visit. While Chunky covers for Ramanuj in front of Savitri (he pretends to have been given an injection that has rendered him sleepy for next 15 hrs). Ramanuj explains everything to his Bhabhi, when Abhayankar arrives with Rashid. Ram Prakash was not at home, so when he arrives, Bhabhi introduces him as her brother-in-law Om Prakash (twin to Ram Prakash). Abhayankar leaves after giving news of Ramanuj's injury, but asks Om, Ram and his wife to come visit them Meanwhile as Ramanuj returns home, Savitri figures out that Chunky was sleeping in his place. Ramanuj admits the truth, but Savitri is afraid Abhayankar wont. To stop Abhayankar entering the house, Savitri fakes an asthma attack and Abhayankar goes to fetch Narmada, who has received a letter from Margaret. Abhayankar looks at the letter and finds that the handwriting matches the one on the original letters he received in response to his ads. Abhayankar returns home and announces to Savitri and Ramanuj that he is marrying Urmi to Chunky. Shankar admits the truth, but Abhayankar starts slapping him. Savitri has a real asthma attack. Shankar takes his car to fetch Narmada, even though Abhayankar has police waiting to arrest him at the house. Rashid admonishes Abhayankar for not forgiving Shankar, when Shankar goes to surrender himself to the police. Shankar begs Abhayankar not to tell Savitri that the police has arrested him, as she would die. But Abhayankar refuses to lie to Savitri. This is when Savitri comes out of bed to tell Abhayankar that he is not realizing that Shankar could have done a lot more, but never misused their trust. The next morning, RP Sharma and Bhabhi arrive with the wedding proposal for Urmi