Bharti Achrekar

Insulted by Rosario, a rich businessman, Jai Kishen a Matchmaker teaches him a lesson by getting his daughter married to Raju, a Coolie, who poses to be a millionaire. They sense something fishy and Raju`s deceptions are discovered. In an attempt to cover it up, he cooks up a story of having a filthy rich twin. One lie leads to another and things start to go awry culminating in a comedy of errors.

Me Shivaji Park narrates the tale of 5 retired friends named Digambar Sawant, Vikram Rjyadhyaksh, Dilip Pradhan, Rustum Mistry, and Satish Joshi. All of them are regular joggers at Shivaji Park. They spend the leisure time having heart-to-heart conversations about their families and discussing current affairs. As the story unfolds, Satish's granddaughter dies after falling from the balcony. There are several rumours doing the rounds regarding her death, which prompts Satish and his friends to investigate about it even if they have to go on the wrong side of the law. Things become difficult when Dilip doesn't agree and stands as an obstacle in their way. Will Satish and friends be able to solve the mystery around the death?

`Chashme Baddoor` is a remake of the 1981 comedy starring Farooq Sheikh and Deepti Naval. Sid (Ali Zafar), Jai (Siddharth) and Omi (Divyendu Sharma) live together in a small house in Goa. Large on life, wants and everything else, the only thing that seems to keep Omi and Jai going are the women in Goa. Sid, on the other hand, lives a straight and normal life. The two womanizing slackers now attempt to woo the new girl Neha (Taapsee Pannu).

The life of a private investigator with a rocky marriage takes a dangerous turn after he takes up a case that is highly complex and deeply personal.

Based on a true story of Zekarias Tibebu Mesfin. Major Tibebu Mesfin has two children including myself. He was working for the Dergue Regine in Ethiopian. During the time he was working, there was big ideological struggle and disagreement among his higher leaderships and administrations. Due to unforeseen situations, my father disappeared and his whereabouts was unknown. the result of his disappearance, his higher officials went after my mother and put her in jail. They torched her to confess. the hardship she was facing, my mother decided to get out to Dire Dawa. She escaped from Dire Dawa and went to Gonder to live with my father's relatives. As I grew older, my ambition to help my mother grew deeper. I left Gonder and went to Addis Ababa looking for work. I started working as a barber; and i was just about ready to help my mother. However, my mother was sick; and her older brother had to come from Sundan to take her to Tigray for a better treatment. My mother died and l left with no options, my last resort was migration with the help of my uncle. I planned a long trip to Israel. I started my journey from Metema travelled through Sudan; and then to Egypt. During my journey, i had faced many problems in the Sinai Desert and Egyptian prisons for two years. I tried everything to survive. during my stay in the Egyptian prison, i tried to get opportunity to immigrate to Canada. I managed to overcome all the problems i faced and travelled to Canada to start my new life.

Its the year of economic recession and the whole world has been struck by the financial meltdown except Nick Mathur and Jerry Patel who don`t feel any discomfort in their lives in London. Nick gloats about his job as an investment banker and his beautiful fianc, Radhika while Jerry is too used to living off his friend Nick that there is no question of feeling any financial crunch. But life has its own way of teaching us how not to get complacent with what we have today for it may not remain tomorrow. Nick and Jerry stop smiling smugly the day Nick`s company starts downsizing and unceremoniously fires him. Desi Boyz is the story of two men who are compelled to go beyond the usual and do something extremely bizarre to fetch them instant gratification but the repercussions tear them apart jeopardizing their friendship.

Rascals is a comedy about two conmen competing with each other and trying to out-scheme each other in amusing yet surprising setups till they fall in love with the same girl.

A documentary delving into the journeys of five women athletes after competing in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

"Hello" inspired by Chetan Bhagats "One night@ call center". As the name of the novel suggests, it enlightens upon the unseen aspects of Call center agents lives. There are 6 main characters played by renowned star cast like Esha Kopikar, Sharman Joshi, Sohail Khan, Amrita Arora, Gul Panag and Sharad Saxena. The cinematography is exact as per the expression of events mentioned in the novel. The location, the outfits of characters, the lingo and the flair of emotions in every scene is outstanding. The Director, Atul Agnihotri was inspired to make the movie by his 7year old who was astounded by the word "God" in the novel. Now when does God walk in the cal-center scenario is your part of the job to figure out. A must watch!

The movie revolves around a man who is frustrated with all the women in his life but one day gains the ability to hear their thoughts, changing his life forever.

A group of young boys and girls grapple with moral issues in a changing world. The film speaks of society's unchanged outlook towards the women - especially rape victims - despite modernization, the movie centers around the rape of a college girl by an impostor cop. While tackling the issue of morality, the film also discusses the pub-crawling, body-piercing, jeans-clad youth culture. —Everest Entertainment

The marriage of NRI Rad (Anupam Mittal) to his American fiance Jenni (Jicky Schnee) brings his Hindi-speaking parents Mr. Gopalakrishna (Anjan Srivastav) and Mrs. Gopalakrishna (Bharati Achrekar) to the US where they quickly adapt to American ways. Mr. Gopalakrishna is scandalized to see women smoking in America and Mrs. Gopalakrishna wishes that Rad had chosen a nice Indian bride to wed. Mr. & Mrs. Gopalakrishna go for long walks while Rad is away for work. In time, Rad introduces Jenni to his parents. Her parents are divorced (her dad remarried and has an art business, while her mom moved to California. It was her mother who left her father) and the Gopalakrishnas are not able to follow what she says as she has an accent. The Gopalakrishnas want Jenni to wear a Saree and family jewels to the wedding ceremony, but she tells Rad that she bought her wedding dress months ago. Plus, they want an Indian ceremony. On a trip to the museum, they learn that Jenni had a boyfriend before Rad. Mrs. Gopalakrishna tries to explain to Jenni that she should try and workout her problems with Rad rather than opting for divorce. For a group photo that Mrs. Gopalakrishna wants to share with her family back home, she makes Jenni cover up her top with a sweater. Gopalakrishnas have a parcel to deliver to the son of a family friend, but Rad keeps putting it off. So, Mr Gopalakrishna decides to take matters into his own hands and decides to deliver the parcel by himself. Meanwhile, Kartik (Reef Karim), tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with his friend Rachna (Pooja Kumar) while her aunt (Sangeet Sharma) tries to set her up with a well-educated man Ramana (Manan Katohara). Karthik is based on the US East coast, while Rachna is on the West Coast. Ramana is a software consultant and doesn't talk much. Rachna has not chemistry with Ramana and narrates the dull and boring meeting with him to Kartik. Rachna is frustrated at work when coworker Randy Sandy (Tushar Unadkat) is promoted over her, simply because he plays golf with the boss. Kartik tries to cheer Rachna by taking her out on a phone date, as they have a candle lit dinner in their respective homes, at the same time, while talking on the phone. Kartik wants Rachna to come to the East Coast, but she is not ready yet. Later, Ramana calls again and says that he was not ready to meet Rachna as her aunt suddenly invited him. He apologizes for the awkward meeting and proceeds to have an interesting conversation with Rachna. In reality, this time he had notes on interesting topics for a conversation with a woman. Threatened by Ramana, Kartik comes over to meet Rachna. Even then, Rachna goes for a date with Ramana. A bored housewife Sangita (Sireesha Katragadda) is neglected by her workaholic husband Nikhil (Gaurang Vyas). She calls her Telugu-speaking mother and spends her time doing household chores. Unbeknownst to her, Sangita's husband lost her job and been laid off a while back but was too embarrassed to tell her. Before leaving office, Nikhil sent off a nasty email, and deleted all the technical documentation of his project. Nikhil and Rad are good friends. Sangeeta watches the Gopalakrishnas on their daily walks around the neighborhood. Candy (Rishma Malik) has to deal with her roommates Vivek (Gaurav Rawal), Ashok (Punit Jasuja) and Jas (Gaurav Rawal). The roommates are messy and no amount of rule-making by Candy and bring them into line. Candy is the HR manager of the company, and the guys stay in the company guesthouse by paying rent to Candy. Vivek is depressed after he lost his job (as he did not complete his code testing in time). Vivek keeps calling his girlfriend Gita in India and every time her father picks the phone. The father threatens Vivek with dire consequences and warns him not to call anymore. Turns out Rad is friends with Vivek too and manages to get him a job. It also turns out that the parcel that the Gopalakrishnas got from India was for Vivek. The parcel is a care package, which also contains a wedding invitation. This is how Vivek learns that his lover from India, Gita, has already got married with someone else. Vivek is distraught and heartbroken. Meanwhile, the Gopalakrishnas lost Rad's address. Flavors is the name of the bar where Rachna and Ramana are having their date. Rad and Nikhil meet here all the time. While Candy brings the 3 guys Vivek, Ashok and Jas to the bar to get Vivek drunk and to cheer him up. Vivek ends up falling in love with Candy instead. Her real name is Chandramukhi. Candy tells Vivek to grow up. Rad finally learns from Nikhil that he lost his job. Gopalakrishnas run into Kartik and Rachna outside the bar (where Kartik was waiting for the date to be over). Kartik offers to drop the Gopalakrishnas to their home. Gopalakrishnas invite Kartik and Rachna to the wedding. Nikhil returns home and tells Sangita that he lost his job, and she is nothing but supportive as she says that now they can finally spend some time together. That night Kartik finally tells Rachna that he loves her and that he cannot let Rachna go to Ramana that easily. Rachna considers Kartik as a friend and cannot digest all this new information thrown at her. All these characters convene at Rad and Jenni's marriage. Karthik's phone keeps ringing non-stop and interrupts the wedding proceedings. Jenni wears an Indian traditional wedding dress. Turns out that Vivek;s Gita is Nikhil's Sangita. Gita didn't even remember Vivek's name. Turns out Vivek had never spoken to Gita in college, and it was only an one-sided love. It was Rachna calling Kartik all the time. Rachna makes Kartik propose to her and then she accepts.

Murad Hussein and Gul Baloch have been enemies for years. Murad would like to propose a truce so that the two families become friends again, and for this occasion he has chosen to marry his brother to Gul's sister. The wedding is arranged and Gul and his family are accordingly invited. Gul does attend the wedding, bless the couple, and when night came, he and his accomplices brutally kill every male in the household, including his very own brother-in-law. Gul's sister loses her sanity, and is taken back home, where he lives with his daughter, Jameela. Gul's sister gives birth to a baby boy, Yusuf Zayed. Years later, Jameela has grown up, albeit disabled with a thinking of a one year old in the body of a nine year old. She is fascinated by aspiring Bollywood singer, Amar, and Gul abducts him and makes him Jameela's companion. In the meantime, Yusuf finds out that his mother has been feigning mental illness, and is able to recollect everything that happened on her wedding night. She asks Yusuf to kill Gul and Jameela, to which Yusuf agrees. The question remains, will Yusuf be able to kill his very own maternal uncle, and cousin, with the same cold-bloodlessness as Gul had displayed several years ago, or will employ some other means? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Two friends Vasu and Radhika get involved in a murder investigation of a man they made up to prank Radhika's aunt, now they have to prove their innocence. After the passing away of her parents in an automobile accident, Radhika moves in to live with her aunt, Malathi, and studies Zoology in Lexicon Science College. She is very friendly with Basu Subtankar and both, along with other girls, create quite a ruckus, much to the chagrin of their teachers and the College Principal. In addition to this, they are also staunch rivals of NRI Geetha Damodar, who wants to be the Student Chair. Radhika competes, there is a tie, but the teachers overturn Radhika's votes due to many complaints against her, and elect Geetha as the Chair. When Malathi wants Radhika to wed, both girls create a fictional character, name him Ramesh, and tell Malathi that Radhika is in love with Ramesh. Complications arise when a real male named Ramesh surfaces, is subsequently killed, and the duo become suspects amidst a web of deceit and lies created by one of four persons in their lives, namely Malati herself, Geetha, a mysterious woman who sometimes poses as Ramesh's mother and other times as Geetha's guardian, and an fourth unknown person - leading the duo to a roller-coaster ride with both the police and the real killer on their tails. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Beta is the story of Raju (Anil Kapoor), the only child of a widowed multi-millionaire Prem Chaudhary (Akash Khuranna). Raju's father can provide him anything he wants but Raju's only desire is to get mother's love. Raju had lost his mother at birth and feels deeply deprived of a mother's love. On Raju's 5th birthday party, to please him, his father gets married to Laxmi (Aruna Irani), thinking that she will take care of Raju more than his real mother would. However, Lakshmi Devi turns out to be greedy, shrewd and cunning. She married Raju's father only for his vast fortune, money and property. Together with her brother Totaram (Anupam Kher) and his wife Mynavati (Bharati Achrekar), they conspire on how to transfer all property to Lakshmi Devi's name. However, Lakshmi Devi and Totaram are enraged when they find out that Prem's first wife had prepared a will before her death transferring all property to Raju, and that Prem is only a trustee to all the wealth. In the will, it has been written that Raju will have full control of his property only after marriage and unless his wife jointly consents with him, he will not be able to transfer his wealth and property to another name. Raju becomes completely devoted to his stepmother, doing whatever she wishes. He showers Lakshmi Devi with love and respect, ever-ready to obey her every word. Raju refuses education for his mother as she explains that despite education, man can only achieve a job for others, but he should work for his own self. When his father finds out that Raju stopped going to school at Lakshmi Devi's instructions, he calls out to her to question her. Lakshmi Devi and Totaram, hearing Prem, pours oil on the steps causing him to fall down the flight of stairs and hurting his head severely. Using this opportunity, they prove that Prem has become mentally unstable, and they lock him up in a corner room of the house. Raju being naive and uneducated, believes every word of his step-mother and her brother. Over the years, Lakshmi Devi increasingly isolates his aging father from the family and mainly Raju. Raju, meanwhile, meets Saraswati (Madhuri Dixit) and the two fall in love after Raju sees her being abducted, slapped and assaulted at a fair. After Raju saves her from being assaulted, the two fall in love and Raju marries Saraswati after everyone in the village believes that she is no longer chaste. In the meantime, Lakshmi Devi fixes an alliance for Raju with an equally uneducated girl from their own village, so that she too can be manipulated and can finally succeed in transferring the property in Lakshmi Devi and her son, Ramesh (Adi Irani), Raju's step brother's name. Lakshmi Devi is shocked to learn about Raju and Saraswati's marriage as Lakshmi Devi knows that Saraswati was not only educated but also a very intelligent girl. As usual, Lakshmi Devi puts on an act of a doting mother in front of Saraswati. Saraswati discovers that Laxmi's motherly love for Raju is fake and all what Laxmi is interested in, is capturing Raju's wealth. She is horrified to find Raju's father being treated as a mentally ill patient. Only after speaking to him does, she realizes that the reason for Raju's naive nature and uneducated status is because his stepmother manipulated him into being uneducated so that she can take advantage of him. Laxmi already has another son who is being educated but also seeks Raju's wealth which his mother Laxmi intends for him to inherit. And thus begins a battle within the household between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law which involves Saraswati trying to outdo Laxmi. Initially, Saraswati allows Raju's father to come out of his prison and insists that there is nothing wrong with him. She voices her concerns to Raju about his mother, resulting in Saraswati being slapped repeatedly around the courtyard of the house in front of all the family members. Saraswati is ready to leave the house at this point but wisely decides to apologize to her mother-in-law, only to take an oath to protect her husband and her house from Laxmi's immoral intentions. This humiliation does not deter Saraswati who cleverly starts exposing Laxmi's every step in a dignified manner for the sake of her husband. She publicly exposes the fact that Raju's younger step-brother has not received a degree in Medicine, rather that he has bought a fake one. In one incident, Saraswati, along with Prem and their faithful servants Pandu (Lakshmi Devikant Berde) and Champa (Priya Arun), planned for Lakshmi Devi to slip and fall, forcing her to be bedridden. Promptly, the responsibility of the entire household is handed over to Saraswati. Upon discovering that Saraswati is pregnant, Laxmi finally decides that enough is enough and tries to poison Saraswati by mixing poison with saffron which she knows that Saraswati will mix with her milk before she drinks it. Champa, who witnessed Lakshmi Devi mixing the poison, runs to Saraswati's rescue, narrating everything that happened and warns her against drinking the poisoned milk. Saraswati approaches Raju and tells him the truth once again. Raju refuses to believe Saraswati, even when she takes an oath upon her unborn child's life and decides to prove Saraswati wrong by offering to drink the poisoned milk himself. Only when Raju begins to cough up blood, does he realize that Saraswati was telling the truth after all. He confronts his mother in his usual innocent manner and asks her why she had forsaken him and tells her that had she simply asked him for his wealth, he would have happily agreed to give her all he had. He tells Laxmi that his last dying wish will be that he would request his mother to at least once with a clean her to call him 'her son', so that he may now die in peace. His words touch Laxmi deeply and she realizes the cruelty that she has shown her son who has only ever loved her. There is a brief altercation between Laxmi and her real son who still wishes to procure Raju's wealth. Raju, in his deteriorating state still manages to save his mother from his stepbrother. Raju recovers following treatment and agreeing to give up his worldly possessions to his mother and leaving home with his wife and father. However, at the last moment, Laxmi begs him not to leave, claiming to have learned the error of her ways; she tears up all the property papers and tells him that she does not want his wealth, all she wants is 'her son' and nothing more.

A woman raised by her uncle and aunt finds out that she was adopted because her real father has become an alcoholic and her real mother has been institutionalised due to a tragedy before she was born.

This is a story of two lawyer brothers Advocate (Utpal Dutt) & Harish (Girish Karnad), their half-brother Chandranath (Amol Palekar) (son of their father's brother), their wives and children. Siddheshwari (Ashalata Wabgaonkar), wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela (Shabana Azmi), wife of the half-brother Chander. Chander is a happy go lucky musician, who fails in successive business ventures (like selling mustard oil. He lost Rs 8000 in selling rice & jute previously. He wants another rs 6000 for the mustard oil business). Sheela ensures that the household runs smoothly, while Siddheshwari is the fount of love and affection in the joint household. Chander has kids Ramu (Master Vikas), Pappu (Master Pappu), Kanhaiya (Master Rajesh). Neela (Manisha) Siddheshwari's daughter and Mahendra (Gopi Sapru) plus Hari are her sons. Harish and his spouse Naintara (Bharati Achrekar) rejoin the household. Atul is their son. Naintara gets expensive clothes for Atul and expects Siddheshwari to pay for them. Naintara wants control over the house money, but the house keys have been entrusted to Sheela. Atul makes fun of the way Hari dresses and Sheela scolds him badly. Naintara is offended, but Siddheshwari won't say a word. Naintara complains to Siddheshwari that she will escalate the matter to Harish. Siddheshwari is alarmed and calls Sheela and scold her for her behavior. Sheela shows maturity, apologizes to Naintara and organizes a party for Atul. But Atul is also offended that Sheela yelled at him and is no mood to compromise. Atul enters the kitchen with his shoes on and won't back down when Sheela asks him to get out. When Atul starts insulting Sheela, Mahendra intervenes, and a fight breaks out between Atul and Mahendra. Harish tries to intervene and tells Sheela to come to him if she has a problem with Atul. Siddheshwari shuts up Harish by saying that in that case, he should bring all complaints against Sheela to her. This is a women's matter and asks him to back down. Naintara & Harish decide to leave the house, but Siddheshwari tells them to stay. Naintara says that Sheela has told all the kids to ignore Atul and that is unacceptable. Siddheshwari asks the kids, who tell her that until Atul apologizes to Sheela, they will ignore him. Siddheshwari is convinced at Naintara's allegations. When Siddheshwari confronts Sheela, she says Atul is a spoiled brat and she will not allow any kid of the house to be influenced by him. Siddheshwari speaks to Sheela alone, but she refuses to budge. Siddheshwari gets angry and says that she cannot ask her blood relation (Hairsh & Naintara) to leave the house for the fear of society opinion. Siddheshwari escalates the matter to Advocate and tells him that Chander needs to start earning his share around the house. due to this insult, Sheela stops speaking to Siddheshwari, but continues to perform all her duties around the house. Naintara sweet talks Siddheshwari and tries to take over the kitchen. She gets Siddheshwari to admit that they are blood relations and need to care for each other. Sheela is hurt even further. But even Siddheshwari knows that she is saying these things to make Naintara happy and doesn't really believe in them. Advocate tries to handle the situation in his own way. He scolds Chander in front of Harish for being a failure at Mustard business but gives him Rs 10,000 more to start the sawdust business. But Harish tells Advocate that he should not destroy another Rs 10,000 on Chander as he doesn't know anything about business. Advocate is convinced and asks Chander to start teaching the kids as the teacher also charges Rs 50/month. Despite the coldness, Siddheshwari pines for Sheela's care and warmth, which she never gets from Naintara. One day Harish brings Rs 500 from his work. Naintara gives this money to Siddheshwari and makes her point that Harish is contributing to the house, but Chander is not. Sheela is so hurt that she gives back the house keys to Siddheshwari. Siddheshwari is also hurt at Sheela throwing the keys at her and asks Sheela when she is leaving the house, and how much money she has stolen already. Sheela decides to leave the house and tells Chander that they will stay in the village house from now on. Siddheshwari believes that Sheela will not leave if she doesn't allow her to touch her feet, and shuts the door. Sheela pays her respects at the doorstep and leaves with her family. Chander and Sheela reach the village house with their kids, where Manohar Lal (Manik Dutt) was the sole caretaker of the property. Manohar was in charge of growing crops on the family land, but he was selling a portion of the produce on the side and profiting personally from it, without declaring that income to the family. To get rid of Chander, Manohar decides to stop sending money to Calcutta, and plans to create a hue and cry in front of Advocate that Chander has decided to take over the farms himself. Meanwhile Manohar asks Chander that the repair of the house is due and asks Chander to visit Advocate and ask for money. Advocate gives Rs 1000. Manohar now meets Harish and tells him that Chander has ordered not to send any money to Calcutta. Harish sends a letter to Chander to vacate the house. Chander and Sheela shift into a hut in front of the house but refuse to go back to Calcutta. Chander also decides not to use the farm income for home repairs. Chander and Sheela decide not to respond to Harish's letter. Harish takes this as a declaration of war and proceeds with a court case against Chander. Harish even sends the police to search for stolen money in Chander's possession. Siddheshwari is alarmed at these allegations but backs off when even her husband calls Chander a thief. Meanwhile Manohar tells the village grocer to stop giving supplies to Chander on credit. Sheela starts selling her jewels to keep the house going. Siddheshwari is very close to Pappu and senses that he is not well. This is when Pappu is indeed very sick. She tells the advocate to go to the village and check on the family. Advocate reaches the village and finds Pappu was indeed sick. He was not aware that Chander was fighting a case that Harish had started against him. He also finds that Chander and his family stay in a hut opposite the family house. He finds that Sheela has sold off all her jewels. Sheela breaks down saying that Chander always followed the orders given to him. He came to the village and stayed in the servant's quarters. He was accused of falsehoods and even a police search was conducted against him. He fired Manohar since he caught him stealing from the family farms and income. Advocate is heartbroken and transfers all the property to Sheela. As a result, Harish loses the case in court. Harish decides to go back to Patna with his family. Advocate brings Chander and his family back from the village. Siddheshwari thanks advocate for fixing her family. Advocate knew that Chander was depositing all the property income in advocate's bank account, and that Manohar was stealing from them, and Chander fired him.