Birbal

Featuring Gurdas Mann, Mini Punjab has all the flavors required for a masala flick- action, comedy, love, revenge, tragedy, etc. But what makes it stand out from the rest is that it also has a social message that shouldn't be missed.

Laxmikant Kabadiya aka LK, is one of India`s richest industrialists, a self made man who`s risen from selling scrap to become a construction magnate. His conglomerate is on the verge of a 5000 crore IPO that should make them one of the largest companies in the country. LK`s family - comprising of his spinster twin sister Prerna, his two sons Ranjeet and Sameer, their wives Shruti and Anju respectively and Ranjeet`s daughters Sanjana and Namrata, and Sameer`s son, Pawan, can`t stop salivating at the thought of all that money. Unfortunately for all of them fate displays a wicked sense of humour. On the night before the IPO opens, LK dies while copulating with a starlet who`s aspiring to become the heroine of a film that LK plans to produce. The family is distraught and horrified. Not because a loved one has died but because now no one will buy their shares. So, on the advice of their family guru - Vidyut Baba, the family decides to hide the death of LK for a period of two days till the shares are all sold out. Little do they realize the crazy series of events that will follow on account of this duplicity.

Dushyant and Jaya are childhood friends. In spite of his familys poverty, Dushyant has one great ambition in life: to become a successful singer. Will he achieve his ambition? Dushyant and Jaya are childhood friends. In spite of his family's poverty, Dushyant has one great ambition in life: to become a successful singer. Jaya encourages him all she can and helps him to realize his dreams. But when Dushyant finally obtains the recognition he has craved for, his career becomes all-important to him. Will the relationship shatters under the strain of his newfound celebrity status? —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com

A tough and rowdy look-alike takes the place of a rich young man, who has family problems and enemies. Police Officer Bheem Thapa comes across a local thug of Mumbai called Raja and asks him to pose as London based Nirmal whose his lookalike and having a huge property in Palanpur.Nisha learns about Thapa's offer and warns Raja ,while Nirmal has returned for vacation in Palanpur and comes across Sandhya whose working in his tea estate.Nirmal and Sandhya fall in love and find that Nirmal's father was actually killed which was termed as car accident.Nirmal tires to unfold the mystery but before that the masterminds of the plan his stepmother and her lover Diwan also eliminate Nirmal.Raja turns to Palanpur and starts living in Nirmal's identity. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Nirmal (Sanjay Kapoor) studies in London, and his dad (Anant Mahadevan) lives in a palatial home in India with his mom (Navneet Nishan). Unknown to both Nirmal and his dad, mom is having an affair with an employee, Baldev Diwan (Dalip Tahil). When caught in the act by dad, they kill him and his driver, Satpal (Mushtaq Khan) and arrange an accident with the help of another employee Manikchand (Tinnu Anand). When Nirmal returns he is informed of the accident, and he believes his dad dies of a car accident. One day while romancing with his girlfriend Sandhya (Mamta Kulkarni), he comes across Satpal, who is now confined in a mental institution. Curious to see what Satpal has to say about the accident, Nirmal arranges for more qualified doctors in the big city to examine Satpal. Unknown to Nirmal, Superintendent of Police Thappa (Raj Babbar) is plotting with Raja (also played by Sanjay Kapoor) to kill Nirmal and take his place, Raja's girlfriend, Nisha (Manisha Koirala) overhears this and questions Raja, but Raja lies to her. Things start to change for the worst for Nirmal's dad and Diwanji when Raja is introduced to the family, and with the help of Thappa establishes his identity and fools everyone. But is Raja really what he claims to be? Is Nirmal really dead? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Durga Devi has three sons, Ram, Laxman and Bharat. She wants a heir to carry the family name forward. Ram and Laxman are married and have so far only produced girls, much to their mother's disgust. So when Bharat marries Priya, she is expecting them to have a son. But Priya delivers a baby girl. Anticipating the mother's anger, they hide the gender of the child initially, and subsequently; switch their child with another male child, thus giving rise to more conflicts. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Durga Bhatnagar runs her household in a very strict and orthodox manner. She has three sons: Ram, Laxman, and Bharat, and her husband's name is Dashrath - all linked to Ramayan. She wants her sons to marry and bear sons, so that there is a male heir for the next generation also. Both Ram and Laxman incur her wrath when they do not sire males. When Bharat marries Priya, their first child is a female, so both decide to hide the gender of the child initially, and subsequently switch her with a male to satisfy Durga. But how long will they continue with this charade, and pulling wool over her eyes? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Amar lives a middle-class life with his Police Inspector brother, Suryaveer, and sister-in-law, Beena. Suryaveer is assigned to handle the task of apprehending a group of terrorists, headed by Jumbo, who have made their hideout in a dense forest in Central India. Suryaveer's partner is Inspector Satpal, who is an alcoholic. Suryaveer is also told that six other police inspectors have lost their lives in this assignment. Nevertheless, Suryaveer and Satpal get ready to tackle this task and do penetrate deep into the forests. Then Beena gets the devastating news that Satpal has been injured and her husband has been killed. The police assign this matter to another Police Inspector by the name of Vikas, and Amar and Satpal lend a hand to support him. The question remains will the trio succeed where so many have already failed and been killed? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Dharamraj dislikes women and has told his younger brothers to stay away from them. Shatranj, the hindi film released in 1993 isstory of three brothers Dharamraj (Kader Khan), Dinky Mithun Chakraborty) and Dino (Jackie Shroff). Dharamraj runs a garage with his two younger brothers and has remained a bachelor all his life as he hates women. He also forbids his brothers from falling in love and getting married. Tension between the brothers arises when Dinky and Dino meet and fall in love with Radha (Juhi Chawla) and Renu (Divya Bharti). After Dharamraj stops them from marrying Renu and Radha, the brothers leave home. They soon discover the real reason Dharamraj hates women. They are actually the real heirs of a wealthy business empire that was run by their father (Vikas Anand) before his death. Their father had remarried after their mother's death and their stepmother (Usha Nadkarni) ill treated them. They also have a stepbrother Robin (Shakti Kapoor). This was the reason why Dharamraj left home and took his two brothers with him. He vowed to never marry as he feared his wife would also ill treat his brothers. Dino and Dinky return home to their brother and he slowly starts to approve of Renu and Radha. Meanwhile their stepmother has left her business in the hands of the corrupt Prajpati (Kiran Kumar) who is also the actual killer of their father. The brothers soon unite with Robin to save their stepmother when Prajpanti plans to steal their wealth and frame them for his crimes. Dharamraj Verma and his two younger brothers, Dinki and Dino, run a garage with the help of a trained monkey and a "Herbie-type" car named dhug dhug. Since Dharamraj dislikes woman, he has not married and will not also permit his brothers to woo any woman, leave alone marry them. But when Dino & Dinki fall in love with Air India Hostesses Renu and Radha respectively, things come to a boil between the brothers and as a result they decide to split. Dinki and Dino board dhug dhug, who takes them to a bungalow. Puzzled they come out of the car and wonder why dhug dhug would stop here of all places. Then a servant named Ramu, who they have seen with Dharamraj on several occasions, tells them why dhug dhug stopped outside this bungalow. It is here all mysteries will be clarified for these two brothers, and it is here they will learn why Dharamraj distrusts women, and why he refuses to marry or permit them to marry any woman. They do not know that from this point on things will never be the same for the three brothers and their garage. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Ashok Bansal (Jackie Shroff) is a strict industrialist, inspired by the British 'stiff upper lip'. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to become rich because his mother abandoned him with his two other siblings and left for a richer man in the past. Karim (Deven Verma) is Head Servant of the house. In the process of acquiring wealth, he becomes an unbearable disciplinarian and neglects his family consisting of his younger brother Anil (Shahrukh Khan) and sister Suneeta (Nivedita Saraf). Anil has returned home after many yrs of studies. Ashok is out of town on business and Anil throws a party to celebrate. But Ashok returns unexpectedly and yells at Anil for wasting time and money on parties as he does not like it. The next day he yells at Suneeta for being few minutes late for breakfast as she was preparing the Thali for Rakhi. Anil loves Kavita, who is a poor girl. One day Ashok sees Anil with Kavita and is livid. That night Ashok confronts Anil and says that Kavita is only after Anil for Ashok's wealth. Anil tells Ashok that he or Kavita do not care for his wealth. Anil goes against his brother's highhanded ways and marries Kavita (Nagma), a poor girl and opting to leave the house. Fenni Fernando (Anu Agarwal) is Ashok's secretary in office. Ashok gets his sister Suneeta married to a man who turns out to be a gold digger Pradeep Mallik (Dalip Tahil), although she is in love with Ashok's manager Kamal (Vivek Vaswani) (neither had the courage to go against Ashok and admit their feelings for each other). Pradeep was guided by Mr. Mallik (Bharat Kapoor), Pradeep's brother and his wife (Madhu Malhotra). They send Jairam (Viju Khote), as Marriage Mediator of Sunita and Pradeep. The wedding takes place in double quick time and Anil is not invited to it. Ashok travels to Ranigarh for a new auto-parts plant. There an orphan named Munna makes fun of him and the way he walks (while he was out touring the town). Munna lives in an orphanage under the eyes of evil caretaker Shanti (Sushmita Mukherjee). Pratap (Paresh Rawal) is Shanti's boyfriend and also runs a car theft business in town. Shanti uses the orphanage money to fund her drinking binges. Ashok finds out where Munna lives and visits the orphanage to take revenge. At the time, some journalists are visiting the orphanage. Kamal suggests Ashok should donate, but Munna advises Ashok not to donate too much as Shanti will spend it on her drinks. Ashok gives her rs 50, which makes her angry. That evening Shanti thrashes Munna badly, who has no option but to escape and who decides to hide in Ashok's car and leave for town with him. Munna (Pooja Ruparel), an orphan arrives at Ashok Bansal's house. Initially the servants think Munna is a boy and are ordered to give him a bath, but they find Munna has long hair and that she is a girl. Fenni is summoned to give Munna a bath and to get her ready. Ashok has to allow her to stay for a few days as his sudden appearance at the orphanage has done wonders for his PR and sending her back will create negative press. She creates havoc in Ashok's home (She forces Ashok to spend time with her and Fenni (who is Munna's caretaker), watch movies and so on). Meanwhile Shanti figures out that Munna is living with Ashok and calls him to threaten that he has "stolen" Munna from the orphanage and she will go to the press with this. Ashok decides to take Munna back to the Orphanage, but his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Ashok, Fenni and Munna are forced to take a lift in a truck. They are dropped 20 Kms from Ranigarh. They are forced to spend the night in an abandoned cottage. Fenni manages to forage some food from the local area, but Ashok refuses to touch it. The situation leads to many amorous encounters between Fenni and Ashok (including Ashok seeing Fenni completely naked). Ashok returns Munna to the orphanage the next day. Munna says that she left on her own choice, and forces Shanti to take the lawsuit back, causing a loss of millions. Ashok is happy now but misses Munna terribly. He shares with Fenni the reason why he hates the word "love" so much in his life. On the way back, a trashed Munna again blocks his car, and this time Ashok hugs Munna and brings her back with him to his estate. Ashok is much more relaxed now and values love in his life. He trims his mustache and dresses more informally. Fenni is shocked at his transformation. At her birthday, Ashok gets drunk and openly admits her love for Fenni. Meanwhile Suneeta is in hell as Pradeep sleeps with other women in front of her. Ashok misses Anil and puts out an ad in the newspaper calling him back. as luck would have it, Anil works in an auto garage owned by Pratap. Anil tells Pratap that Ashok is not his brother. On Rakhi, Ashok goes to meet Suneeta. Ashok meets Anil there. Ashok begs for forgiveness to Anil, but Anil refuses to forgive Ashok as he has done a grave injustice to Suneeta by marrying her to Pradeep, as she is treated like a servant in the house and beaten badly. Ashok beats up Pradeep black and blue and brings Suneeta home. Ashok forces Pradeep to sign the divorce papers by threatening to reveal his tax frauds and other thefts with the Govt. Ashok unites Suneeta to Kamal. Meanwhile Anil finds out that Pratap is dealing in stolen cars. As Pratap decides to kill Anil, Ashok intervenes to save him. Pratap is defeated and escapes. Shanti finds Munna is at Ashok's house. Ashok has sent an application to adopt Munna. Anil and Kavita return home. Shanti meets Ashok at his house and says Munna parents have resurfaced and want her back. Shanti offers to buy off the parents for Rs 25 Lakhs, but Ashok now senses that Shanti wants the money for herself and refuses to pay. Ashok puts a notice out in all newspapers that he is adopting Munna. Pratap and Shanti find a piece of locket in the storeroom, that Munna carries in her neck. This would be conclusive proof that whoever carries that piece is her parents. The orphanage kids hear this plan of Pratap to kill Munna after they get the money from Ashok. Pratap and Shanti disguise themselves and reach Ashok as Munna's parents. They say Munna was lost is a carnival many years ago. The piece matches and Ashok sends Munna away with them and Rs 50 Lakhs. The orphans meanwhile go to the police and ask the inspector to call and warn Ashok. The orphans tell Ashok about Shanti and Pratap's plan. Munna escapes and hides in the carnival. She had hidden the money suitcase. Ashok reaches on time and gives Pratap the money, and he wants Munna back. Anil attacks and together they both rescue Munna, while Pratap and Shanti are killed.

Mangal Saves Munna A Rich Businessman's Son From His Conniving Relatives Who Seek To Usurp The Entire Estate. The Boys Grow Up To Be Best Friends And Set Out To End The Evil Reign Of The Culprits. Multi-millionaire Balwant Rai is a widower who lives with his daughter Uma and a school going son Amar alias Munna. Since Uma is of marriage-able age, Balwant decides to get her marry to Sunderlall's son Raghuveer and they all move in to live with Balwant at his estate. In order to take cover of Balwant's entire property Sunderlall and Raghuveer first have him killed, locked up Uma in a den and attempt to kill Munna who is saved by a village boy named Mangal. Years later Mangal and Munna have now matured, and Munna has decided to make his friend Mangal the managing director of the entire Rai group of industries much to the disappointment of Sunderlall who has all time been the M.D of Rai industries. All is well until Managal is framed for the rape and murder of a prostitute and Munna is attacked with a deadly weapon. It certainly looks like Sunderlall and Raghuveer won't rest until they usurp the entire Rai's property and do away with all its family members. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Anil is an ethical man who lives by his principles. This impresses Dwarka, a millionaire, who wants to make him his son-in-law. However, after marriage, he insists that Anil move in with his in-laws.

After being falsely accused of theft from the village temple, Gangu is beaten to death by the village masters including Raghuveer Singh, Bhairav Singh, and Sampath. Shattered by the death, his wife, Paravati along with her son, Suraj swears to avenge the death of her husband but her plans fall apart when Suraj falls in love with Raghuveer's daughter.

An aghoori is on a hunt for a snake couple; in the greed for a `mani` he kills one of the snakes. The love between the two snakes is eternal and therefore the `icchadhaari nagin` returns to revenge the death of her husband.

A truck driver reports his criminal brother to police, leading to tragic consequences when a gang member kills him and his wife. Their two sons seek revenge while the released brother plots to divide them. Truck-driver Dharam Singh lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with wife, Banto, and son, Raja. He adopts an orphan, Veer Singh. When his brother, Kaalia, returns after being discharged from jail, he asks him to leave. Then he turns in some smugglers, who are arrested and imprisoned. But their boss, Mangal Singh, confronts Dharam, and ends up killing both Dharam and his wife. With the police hot on his tail, Mangal disappears, leaving Veera to bring up Raja with the help of Mehar, their neighbor. Years later, Veera and Raja have grown up with Veera looking after the trucking business, and Raja studying in college. The Police have been unable to even locate Mangal Singh. Veera would like to avenge his foster father's brutal killing, but before he could do so, Kaalia re-enters their lives, instigates Raja against Veera. As a result Raja accuses Veera of theft and asks him to leave. The question does remain: Will Veera and Raja ever reconcile? What exactly was Kaalia's motive in separating Veera and Raja? And where exactly is Mangal Singh? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Truck-driver Dharam Singh red-handedly catches his brother, Kaalia committing a crime and turn him over to the police. In retaliation Kaalia's colleague Mangal Singh confronts Dharam killing him and his wife Banto in the process; Dharam leave behind two sons Veer and Raja to avenge this killing. After completing his jail term; Kaalia re-join Mangal Singh with an agenda of separating the two brothers. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Dharam Singh is honest truck driver living with his wife and son Raja.H adopts an orphan Veera.When his brother Kaalia returns from jail Dharam Singh asks him to leave.Kaalia gets into the gang of smugglers and is jailed again.Mangal Singh Kaalia's boss kills Dharam Singh and his wife and is on the run from police.Years later Veera runs a truck business and takes care of college going Raja as his brother and on the lookout for Mangal Singh whose now known as Santhal.Lives are going well until Kaalia re enters their life. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Laxmi devi, a strict disciplinarian and stern mother, rules over her palatial house with an iron hand. She has two daughters of marriageable age, Leena, and Isha. She wants to get them married to two brothers from a decent and well-off family, so that both sisters can be together for life. But fate decides otherwise, for her daughters are not all that interested in her choice of their grooms, but prefer two down-and-out thieves named Omi and Vikram Doshi, who are orphaned at a very young age, and come from poor families. Now Laxmi devi must decide about the fate of her two daughters and her prospective son-in-laws.

Hari (Ravi Baswani) and Giri (Satish Shah) are 2 detectives who suspect Brigadier (Amjad Khan) of leaking defense secrets to outsiders (Boss # 2 (Sudhir)). Constable (Viju Khote) is after Hari and Giri as both have escaped from a mental asylum. Navratan (Rajesh Puri) Is brigadier's house servant. Roma (Roma Manik) is his daughter. Brigadier meets Boss # 2 secretly and passes him maps in exchange for money. Giri and Hari have been tracking him for 3 months but have no evidence against him yet. So, the duo decides to start tracking Roma instead. Kandhanath (Rajendranath Malhotra) runs a shop for supplies for last rites. His son is Vijay (Farooq Shaikh). Vijay doesn't want to join his dad's business. Vijay and Roma are dating each other secretly. Brigadier has a personal bodyguard by the name of Chus Lee. Brigadier knows that Roma is in love and asks her to invite Vijay for dinner. His plan is to have Vijay fight Chus Lee, in which Vijay is sure to be beaten up badly. Roma convinces Vijay to fight Chus Lee as she plans to drug him with Navratan's help. The plan works, as after a little while (during which Vijay takes a beating), the drugs take effect and Vijay is able to beat Chus Lee easily. Now Brigadier wants to meet Vijay's father to fix the wedding, but Vijay is embarrassed with his dad and wants to avoid bringing them together. So, together Vijay and Roma decide to dress up Vijay as his own dad. Vijay is very nervous to meet Brigadier and tries to run away. But Roma stops Vijay and Navratan offers him a drink, after which Vijay gets overconfident and goes back in the house to meet Brigadier. Brigadier wants Vijay to stay in his house as a house husband. when Kandhanath reaches the Brigadier's house, Hari and Giri had stolen his clothes and Brigadier doesn't believe him and thinks Kandhanath is an escaped mental patient. When Vijay comes out, Hari and Giri take his photo while he is removing his makeup, as proof that Vijay told lies to Brigadier. Hari and Giri want Vijay to spy on Brigadier on their behalf, by being his house husband. As Vijay gets married to Roma, Kandhanath has no clue. When he finds out via neighbors, he tries to go to the hotel to disrupt the weeding. But he is deterred by Hari and Giri. Finally, Kandhanath reaches the Mandap, but Vijay had anticipated this, and Hari had replaced him in the Mandap. His face was covered with flowers and hence nobody noticed, while Vijay appeared in front of Brigadier as his own dad. Kandhanath looks at Hari and realizes that's not Vijay. After Kandhanath leaves, Vijay switches place with Hari (after exchanging clothes in the bathroom) VIjay and Roma are about to on their honeymoon. Navratan loses the suitcase which gets mixed up with the same style suitcase that Brigadier was taking to meet Boss # 2. Roma and Vijay get Brigadier's suitcase, which is full of toffees. They eat some and end up stoned. Meanwhile Boss # 2 is angry with Brigadier for not bringing the drugged toffees. He escalates the matter to Boss # 1 (Anupam Kher), who wants to meet Brigadier. A few days later, at a hotel, Vijay finds Brigadier delivery a package to Boss # 2. He follows Brigadier, who notices Vijay following him and hides inside a hotel room. The hotel room belongs to Film actress Kalpana who was hiding there from her producer, who wants to shoot her scenes in skimpy clothes, which she is resisting. Brigadier was hiding in a closet, while Kalpana was in the bathroom. Vijay comes in and finds Kalpana in the room. Vijay also hides in the closet and finds Brigadier there. Eventually Vijay is caught there and has to admit the truth to Roma, that Hari and Giri have forced him to spy on brigadier. Roma advises Vijay to plant a bomb under Hari and Giri to incapacitate them and get them off their backs. The plan works as they both land in the hospital. They try to tell Vijay that Brigadier is a traitor. Vijay overhears Brigadier fixing a meeting with Boss # 1 on the phone and decides to follow him. Hari and Giri also escape from the hospital and capture Roma. Brigadier has promised secret military installation plans in exchange for large amounts of cash. As Brigadier decides to hand over the plans, Vijay intervenes and takes the plans and tries to escape but is captured. Brigadier refuses to identify Vijay, even though he insists that Brigadier is his father-in-law. Boss # 1 calls Brigadier's home and finds Roma (under custody of Hari and Giri) and asks her to come to his lair. Brigadier refuses to identify Roma as well. Kandhanath arrives at Roma's house and finds the lair address written in lipstick on a mirror and decides to go there. As Boss # 1 prepares to kill everyone, Kandhanath arrives and frees Vijay, and the usual melee ensues. At the end, the police arrive and reveals that Brigadier is on an undercover mission to expose Boss number 1 (Anupam Kher) who is a terrorist.

Thakur (Madan Puri) was a cruel man in the past. Then over the passage of time he changed to normal life and lives with his daughter peacefully, but suddenly a mysteries killer starts to take an avenge, and everyone is puzzled by a clever mind game. —Vividprince

Sunny meets his childhood friend Roma and romance blossoms between them. But Roma`s father rejects the match due to the economic disparity between their families.

Vidhaata is a Hindi film which revolves around a boy who loses his father in a tragic accident and loses his mother soon after she delivered him. The boy grows up under his grandfathers supervision and years later, problems arise when his grandfather disapproves of his relationship with the girl he loves.

Locust attack has created havoc in some villagers where crops are being destroyed and human life is in danger Anand and Rosie who are investigating the case get killed by Shakti.The chief officer then decides to appoint his smart officer Gopi (Gunsmaster G 9) on the mission,Gopi is in holiday mood and in no mood to take the case.But soon Gopi returns back and finds some grains bought by assistant Kabaadi which relates to weaken immune system of human body.Shakti and his associates mixes these grains with a substance which makes human body addicted to it and weakens their immune.Shakti also makes Anand's sister Dr Anuradha believe that Gopi killed her brother and asks her to seduce him for revenge.But Gopi is smart enough to to understand he finds that the locust attack is not natural but controlled by a force and Shakti is not the head of the gang but its operated by a scientific mastermind. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Large locusts attack the farmers and farmlands resulting in hefty damages. The Indian Government suspects that this is the work of some terrorists and assign this case to their best agent Gunmaster G-9 alias Gopinath, who takes charge and begins the investigation, that will lead him to the dark secret world of underground scientists who are quite capable of harnessing nature to make their ends meet. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Recently widowed Thakur Vikram Singh left India the same time the British did along with his son, Anand, for England. Years later, Anand has grown up to be a doctor and travels to Bombay, India, to work together with Dr. Pradhan for six months, thereafter he must return home and get married to Lalita, who is the daughter of Thakur's Legal Advisor, Jackson. Six months go by and Anand does not return, the Thakur, along with Jackson and Lalita, also travel to India to bring him back. This is where they find out that Anand has been romancing Rajkumari Sanyogta and both are expected to get married soon. The Thakur is pleased with Anand's choice and gives his blessings to the young couple. Watch what happens when the Thakur finds out that Rajkumari is in fact a flower-selling belle from his hometown of Balrampur, and Anand may not be his son after all. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A young man must deal with a broken engagement ceremony, while his to-be fiancée waits to be treated for blood cancer. Arun is the son of Barrister Mahtur.Lily is the daughter of a Nurse Ruby who study in the same college.Arun is the leader of male students while Lily is the simple middle class girl.Arun who was a topper in college for long time is beaten by Lily in terminal examination which hurts his ego. Arun and Lily start to knowing each other an fall in love.Despite their different faith and status their marriage is approved by their parents.When all is going well Lily is diagnosed with Leukemia advanced stage of cancer. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Arun Mathur and his college sweetheart, Lily Fernandes, even though of different faiths, Hindu & Catholic respectively, are thrilled when their parents agree to the marriage. Ruby Fernandes welcomes Arun and encourages him to call her "mommy", while Arun's dad is already making preparations for the marriage. Then the doctor announces that Lily has blood cancer and may not have very long to live. She and her mom not only suppress this news from Arun, but also cancel the engagement ceremony. Arun's dad is shocked when Ruby informs him, and he and the doctor discuss various ways of getting her treated. One of them is to let a doctor from abroad examine Lilly. But will this doctor be able to reach Lily in time? and will Arun ever come to know of Lily's illness? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Indu, the eldest daughter of a family, falls for the doctor treating her father. But disaster strikes and she must choose between her duty to her family or a happily married life.

Raj and Poonam, poor lovers, face struggles. Raj takes job in affluent sphere, causing moral conflicts. They navigate circumstances, family duties, testing relationship and principles amid wealth-poverty divide. Raj(Shashi Kapoor) and Poonam (Sharmila Tagore) are sweethearts cursed with extreme poverty. Raj must provide for his family, and arrange for his sister's marriage. Poonam fights for pennies to nurse her ailing mother, while her father drinks away his earnings. A job offer takes Raj away into a world of wealth and intrigue, but creates a situation where both parties lose their moral compass. —L. Y. Hostrawser

Chor Chor ( 1974) is a crime thriller with Vijay Anand and Leena Chandravarkar in lead roles.Produced by Vijay Anand, the film was directed by his long time associate Prem Prakash. It is a two hour suspense thriller without any songs in it, which is surprising because one always expects the Vijay Anand films to have a number of melodious and artistically filmed songs. The only thing close to a song in Chor Chor is that Goldie himself sings two or three lines of the House Number 44 song- Phaili Hui Hai Sapno Ki Rahe- in a party, and his voice is used by the villain to frame him in an act of bank robbery. Aakash ( Goldie) is a bank manager, and his father (played by Iftekhar) is a retired police officer who tells his son one day that he saw a criminal named Chandan he thought had died twenty years ago. The same evening, the criminal attacks and kills Iftekhar who, before he dies, manages to tear a piece of the criminal's shirt collar. It is seen that the collar has the label of Stylo Tailor of Panchgani. Goldie gets himself transferred to the Panchgani branch of the bank so that he can investigate about the murder. There, he meets the beautiful girl Hema (Leena Chadravarkar) who , with her mother, runs a guest house. Goldie stays in this guest house as a paying guest which reminds the viewers of the film Kala Pani in which Dev Anand stays in a similar guest house in Hyderabad. Right from the beginning, the viewer knows the killer(played by Trilok Kapoor, brother of Prithvi Raj Kapoor, and known mostly for his role as Lord Shiva in the religious films) .The killer also knows that the hero is looking for him. So the suspense is how would the hero figure out who the killer is .There are two sub plots and about half a dozen red herrings to keep the hero confused. The first sub plot is that the killer has a dual identity. He was a criminal Chandan, accused of five murders, but he is also seen as Dr. Dharam Veer of Panchgani who has secret plans to rob forty lac rupees from the local bank . It is the same bank where the hero Aakash has joined as a replacement to the regular bank manager (played by Jairaj) who is faking illness because he is blackmailed by the killer which brings us to the second sub plot. The killer knows that Jairaj is the biological father of the heroine as he was in love with the heroine's mother Kamala whose parents arranged her marriage with someone else. As Kamala was pregnant with Jairaj's child, her husband had a fight with Jairaj in which the latter unintentionally killed the former . This knowledge gives the killer doctor Dharam Veer leverage over Jairaj to make him confine himself to his house pretending to be a heart patient, for one month , so that the killer can rob the bank and put the blame on the hero Aakash( Goldie) . There ensues a battle of wits between the hero and the killer and some interesting incidents take place like a threat letter typed from a typewriter with a defective key, and a letter shabbily written by a blind woman. The killer also manages that Aakash comes across a number of red herring suspects like an unknown lover of the heroine, a retired army colonel, the perpetual sharabi Keshto Mukherji, and the philanderer showroom owner, Vibhuti Bhushan (played by Mohan Sherry). The break through is when the hero comes to know that the killer , in spite of knowing who the hero is, doesn't kill him though he gets more than one opportunities to do so. He realizes that the killer wants to use him for some purpose before eliminating him. The hero changes his strategy and is able to outwit the killer in the end. The best part of the movie is the divinely beautiful heroine Leena Chandravarkar, and the way the director has shown her courtship with the hero Goldie. It has been presented in an absolutely natural and decent manner, without any flamboyance or aggression on hero's part and without any coyness or nakhra( attitude) on heroine's part and without any nok jhonk or ladai jhagda( lovers' tiff) between them. Their first two meetings are when the hero is driving his car and the heroine wants to cross the road and they very politely signal- you go first. The heroine conveys that she is attracted to the hero by cooking the vegetables that he likes which she comes to know when he orders from a menu in a restaurant .Their relationship develops in a very smooth and mature fashion, and the way the hero makes a marriage proposal and the way the heroine accepts it is absolutely unique. It was totally devoid of the usual romantic trappings, yet it was absolutely engaging. Maybe this reflects Goldie's idea of an ideal woman, and the ideal format of man -woman relationship which should be based on respect, mutual understanding, and commitment. Highly recommended.

After serving a jail sentence Ajit redeems himself with honest work in a village. There he falls in love with a village belle Anju and decides to save her community from a dacoit.

Alaknanda lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Dr. Verma. She is fond of dancing and singing to such an extent that she refuses to marry the groom her dad has chosen for, runs away to Laitpur, enlists in the song and dance troupe that Rajkumar Kailash runs in his palatial house called 'Lalit Mahal'. Both Kailash and Alaknanda meet and fall in love, but Kailash's mom wants him to get married to Rajkumari Rupmati. Then when Alaknanda is performing, she meets with an accident, is hospitalized with a fractured leg that may never heal. Afraid to show her face to Kailash, who still insists on marrying her, she uses her crutches to escape from the hospital, ends up with a gang of bandits, is rescued by Kailash and brought home - where circumstances will again put her on the stage to perform a dance. The question remains how can a cripple perform a dance? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Ajay Singh meets with pretty Asha Chibber, and is led to believe that she is wealthy. After a few misunderstandings, he does find out that she is from a poor family. Both do fall in love, and Ajay goes to meet with Asha's brother, Dr.O.P. Chibber, and his wife, Shanti. They are pleased with this alliance, and arrangements are made for Ajay's mom, Gayetridevi to visit them and approve of Asha, which is done. Subsequently, Ajay and Asha are married, and settle down. Asha is expected to give birth to a baby boy as a heir to the Singh family. Unfortunately, she is unable to do so, and even worse -loses her eye-sight and becomes dependent on Ajay. Frustrated at this, Gayetridevi decides to ask Asha to leave the house, and arranges a second marriage for Ajay, with results that will change the lives of everyone around them. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A stage actor becomes entangled in a murder mystery after he marries a woman with a secret past. Kumar is a well-known stage actor in Bombay. While on a trip to scenic Darjeeling, he meets with and falls in love with, Meena, the only daughter of wealthy military contractor, Verma. Shortly thereafter Kumar and Meena get married and return home to Bombay. Four years later Meena's dad passes away after telling her something that he had hidden from her for four years. Then a year later, Kumar notices that Meena does not accompany him to the stage anymore, and excuses herself on the pretext of being ill. Shortly thereafter, Meena gets killed, the Police assign this case of Inspector Ashok who starts his investigation - which will reveal that Meena was meeting secretly with Captain Mahendra; had been married to Captain Rajesh, and has a daughter by the name of Sarika in an orphanage. All Ashok knows is that the primary suspect is a bearded man by the name of S.N. Sinha who was lurking near Meena's residence on the night of the murder, and all clues so far seem to be pointing an accusing finger at Kumar. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)