David Dhawan

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.

Raj Saxena (Salman Khan) goes to London, expecting his long-lost dad (Rishi Kapoor) to warmly greet him, but things do not go as planned. Yeh Hai Jalwa is the story of happy-go-lucky Raju. Street-smart and worldly-wise, Raju's life takes a turn when he finds out he is the illegitimate son of seriously rich, UK-based businessman Rajesh Mittal. Raju of course sets off to London to claim his rightful place in the Mittal family and a happily-married Rajesh Mittal living with his wife Smita and daughter Rinke is rudely confront with an adult illegitimate son. While Raju is busy trying to make a place for himself in his adamant father's heart, he also finds a soulmate in Sonia, the daughter of Mittal's most trusted advisor. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Raju runs a successful business in India and finds that his father Rajesh Murthal is very much alive and among London's top businessmen. Raju travels to London hoping his father will accept him but finds that he has another family with a wife and two children and refuses to accept him. Raju is adamant that his father will accept him someday and thus enters the Mitthal Mansion by pretending he considers Rajesh his idol and wants to be like him by learning from him. But Rajesh and his friend Robin Singh plan different ways to keep him away from the family. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com London-based Rajesh Mittal (Rishi Kapoor) of Indian origin receives the award for the best businessman in the world. All is well in his world: his dad Purshotam Mittal (Kader Khan) is happy; his pretty wife Smita (Rati Agnihotri) is satisfied, and so are his two children, Rinke (Rinke Khanna), and Bunty. Rinke is soon to be married to Vicky (Sharad Kapoor). And then along comes Raj Saxena (Salman Khan), disrupting his delicate equilibrium by claiming that he is his son from a previous "indiscretion" in India over 20 years ago. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Separated from their wealthy father and each other, two brothers (Sanjay Dutt, Govinda) try to win the hearts of their dream girls. Sonu and Monu sons of wealthy Amirchand do nothing but only enjoy his wealth and often land him in trouble his PA Kunj Bihari suggests him to separate both brothers in order to make them responsible.Amirchand sends Sonu to Goa for work purpose and asks Monu to join the office.Monu gets bored in office and connects to ladies hostel where he meets Ritu,while in Goa Sonu mistakes Gulzarilal as creditor of his father and slams him but ends up falling in love with his daughter Pooja. Sonu calls Monu to Goa and asks him to pretend as his wealthy uncle Rai Bahadur so that Gulzarlal agrees to his and Pooja's marriage.But twist in tail happens when they find Ritu and Pooja are sisters and Monu has to live dual life in the same house .While to make it worse Gulzarilal's unwed sister Santo falls in with Monu whose pretending to be Rai Bahadur. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Wealthy Seth Amirchand (Kader Khan) has two problems, namely his two good-for-nothing sons, Sonu (Sanjay Dutt), and Monu (Govinda). Their time is mainly spent on comically attempting to extort money from their hapless dad, by hook or by crook, by threats or blackmail. Amirchand decides that the best way to deal with them is to separate them, he then asks Sonu to proceed to Goa; and Monu to look after work in Bombay. Sonu gets to the wrong party in Goa and antagonizes the Verma family, consisting of Gulzarilal (Anupam Kher), his unmarried sister, Santho (Aruna Irani), and eligible daughters, Pooja (Pooja Batra) and Ritu (Karisma Kapoor). Sonu challenges the family that he is going to marry Pooja by any means possible, and calls upon Monu to act as his Paternal uncle, which he does so, and ends up falling for Ritu. Unknown to him, Santho has also developed a crush on him. To complicate matters even more, underworld don, Bhai (Ashish Vidyarthi) demands money from Amirchand, only to have Amirchand mock and ridicule him, thinking it is another prank by his sons, this is when the family realize that pranks can indeed turn deadly, with Bhai who has sworn to avenge this humiliation. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Chaos ensues when a small time crook and a mental patient tries to win heart of a beautiful woman with comical outcomes. Raja small time crook blacks railway tickets along with his friend Gafoor.They try to make something big and elope with the railways money and land in Mumbai.Raja meets Madhu a psychiatrist and falls in love with her pretending to be Raj Kumar from America.But trouble arises for him when he finds Madhu is close to his phobic patient Bhunnu.Bhunnu and Raja both are in love with Madhu and try to impress her by pretending to be one above the other. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Raja is a minor league crook who sells railway tickets on the black market at Amirpur station. Tired of his job he looks for new ways to make a quick buck. One day, along with his friend Ghafoor and a police inspector, he robs Rs 2.5 million from the railway treasury. Later, Raja and Ghafoor bump off the inspector and run away with the loot to Bombay. At Bombay airport, Raja sets eyes on Dr Neha and promptly falls in love with the psychiatrist, for that's what she is. Raja and Ghafoor quickly find out where she lives. Ghafoor pretends to be a psychiatric patient while Raja takes on the name Raj Kumar and befriends her, telling her he has just returned from the US. However, Ghafoor cautions Raja not to hurry and be patient in matters of love. The trouble begins when Bunnu, the son of a wealthy businessman, is sent to Neha for treatment. He is really crazy, and terrified of fire, heights, running and water. Soon, he too falls for Neha and discovers he has a rival in Raja. Suddenly, Neha has to leave for Ooty with her father to attend her uncle's wedding. She does not leave behind a forwarding address. However, both Raja and Bunnu impersonate policemen and intimidate her secretary into revealing where she's vamoosed. Dr Neha is thrilled to see them in Ooty, but is drawn closer to the ill Bunnu rather than Raja. Things take an ugly turn when Ghafoor tires to kill Bunnu, who escapes. Bunnu contacts contract killer Pappu Pager to bump off Raja. However, that plan too comes a cropper. Armed with a gold ring and garland, Neha calls Bunnu and Raja to court, ostensibly with the purpose of marriage. Both are surprised to see the other there. —<aliyah@portal.connect.ab.ca> Established shrink Neha Kapoor is courted by two suitors, one Raj Kumar or Raja, who claims that he has businesses in the U.S., and by her patient, Bunnu, who is terrified of fire, heights, and water. Things become hilariously complicated when both discover they are rivals, and initially try to out-do; and then even try to kill each other. The saga reaches a climax when Neha asks both of them to accompany her to the Registrar's office for a Court Marriage. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Two con-men, Inder alias Eena and Deeka has an encounter in a bank. Eena commit the crime but because of Deeka's bad record with the police they are misunderstood and thus Deeka gets a long jail term but manages to escape. He then begins a manhunt for Eena in order to take him to the police station so that he can confess to his crime thus clearing his name; he does manages to get his hands on Eena but he refuses to accept his crime. Watch how Deeka makes Eena's life miserable to get him to comply with his wish. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Deeka (Vinod Khanna) had been in jail for several crimes, including bank robberies. When his prison sentence is over, Deeka decides to go straight. Unfortunately, while in a bank, he becomes a victim of a bungling bank robber, Inder or Eena (Rishi Kapoor), who needs money to get medical treatment for his mother (Dina Pathak). When the police arrive, they witness Eena with the notorious bank robber, and come to the conclusion that Deeka has gone back to his criminal ways. Deeka's attempts to convince them are in vain, and he must escape together with Eena for now, and he does so. The police are after Deeka, and he must get ahold of Eena and get him to confess to his crime, and therefore clear his name. But Eena is unwilling to confess, and runs away from Deeka. With the police on his tail, will Deeka be able to able to capture Eena, and will he be successful in getting him to agree to confess? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Kishen Malhotra (Rishi Kapoor) is an industrialist who heads the Malhotra empire. His relatives are his mother Sumitra (Sushma Seth), his uncle Shanti (Alok Nath) and his cousin Bhanu (Mohnish Behl). Kishen is lazy and doesn't start work before noon. The business is mainly run by Shanti and his son Bhanu. Sumitra forces Kishen to start attending office and to take an interest in his own business affairs. Kishen hits on his secretaries at work. He has a loyal dog named Sheru. One day Bhanu asks Kishen to sign some checks for him. The next day Sumitra calls Kishen to the board meeting and asks about the Rs 5 Lakhs he withdrew from the bank the day before. Kishen is astounded but Bhanu claims that he gave the money to Kishen. Due to Kishen's flamboyant lifestyle everybody believes Bhanu, till Sheru gets the money bag from Bhanu's home. The bag also has Bhanu's markings. Shanti banishes Bhanu from the house. Kishen realizes that he needs to take more responsibility for the business. To expand his business, Kishen decides to investigate business prospects in a village. Kishen's father had promised a tea factory to the village while he was alive, but after his death the project went on a back-burner. Sheru stays back with Sumitra. Here, he meets a village belle named Radha (Juhi Chawla). Kishen bumps his car into Radha leading to a fight between the 2. Village Sarpanch (Tiku Talsania) is also Radha's father. Radha complains to her father and the entire village beats up Kishen when he arrives in the village. Kishen stays at a guest house managed by Jugnu (Kader Khan), who cannot see at night. Jugnu realizes that Kishen was beaten up by the villagers and tells the Panchayat who Kishen is, the next morning. Radha is asked to apologize to Kishen as all villagers want the factory to be started. Radha also offers to help Kishen heal from his injuries. Besides his work, Kishen also starts teaching English to Radha and some other people of the village. Jugnu gets married to his crush Bijlee (Neelam Mehra). Unknown to Kishen, somebody is stalking him and reading his mail. The factory is inaugurated. The villagers are indebted to Kishen and want to give a gift. Kishen asks for Radha, but Radha says that she does not love Kishen. She says that she only befriended Kishen for the villagers. Kishen wants to know why Radha rejected him. She reveals that she has a friend Banno who went mad after her suitor from the city abandoned her after a romance and a promise to come back. Radha rejects Kishen and he drives away but ends up crashing his car. Radha is distraught and prays for Kishen's recovery. Kishen survives. Kishen and Radha slowly fall in love with each other, and Radha agrees to marry Kishen. Kishen leaves the village (and Radha) and promises her that he will come back. On reaching home, Kishen is surprised to see a mourning at his home. He is even more confused to see people looking astonishingly at him. But he gets a shock of his life when he sees the portrait of his mother, signifying that his mother is dead. The real sucker punch comes when he sees his duplicate mourning next to his mother's portrait. When he says that he is Kishen, his duplicate claims the same. When he prods the duplicate to tell something about real Kishen, the duplicate astonishes him by telling him about his life (Jugnu, Sarpanch and others) as well as about Radha. The duplicate also has the letter that Sumitra had sent to Kishen in the village. Kishen is unable to think as to how the duplicate could know about Radha, but he knows that his pet dog will identify the real master. When the dog, too, goes to the duplicate, Kishen is thrown out of his own home. Meanwhile, Kishen learns about the sudden death of one of his old servants, and he smells foul play. He somehow succeeds to infiltrate into his own office, which is now run by his duplicate, but he gets arrested. Another servant named Daddu tells Kishen about his mother's accident, which probably killed her as her body was not recovered. Kishen also notices that Bhanu is back at home. Daddu is killed when he sees "Kishen" taking to Bhanu and Inspector Dholak and revealing that his real name is Tony. Bhanu and Dholak kill Daddu by drowning him. When Kishen infiltrates his office, the duplicate has him arrested. Kishen learns that the duplicate even terminated the village factory and is preparing to sell of company assets. Meanwhile, Radha comes to meet Kishen in the city after the village factory is closed. But, when she sees "Kishen" partying with some girls, she thinks that Kishen has forgotten her. She turns to go back, but the real Kishen has escaped police custody. He stops her and explains the whole story. He, Radha and Goonga (Shakti Kapoor), a dumb convict who has escaped with Kishen, plan to set things straight. The trio hide themselves in a boat which takes them to Goa. Here, Kishen meets a girl who calls him Tony. Slowly, he comes to realize that his duplicate's name is Tony Braganza. Tony works as a saxophonist in a Goan club called Three Aces and has a girlfriend there. Kishen starts gathering every information about Tony. The trio returns to Mumbai. Radha pretends to be a girl named Rita and gains access to Kishen's home. Kishen has identified the key players by now: Bhanu, Tony and Inspector T.T. Dholak (Kiran Kumar). He creates a rift between the trio. An enraged Tony threatens to expose his partners by what he calls his trump card. The angered partners take him to the real head behind the game, who is revealed to be Kishen's uncle Shanti. Now, Tony shows his trump card - he tells them that Kishen's mother is still alive and his men have kept her in captivity. She knows nothing about Tony or the events happening. Meanwhile, Kishen discovers the depth of the trio's planning. He finds that his dog could not identify him as it was not his dog. Like Kishen, his dog, too, had been replaced. Now, Kishen comes back, impersonating Tony and makes Tony's partners throw Tony out the same way Kishen was thrown. Tony comes to the place where he has hidden Kishen's mother and convinces her that he is Kishen. Kishen arrives there, too. Kishen's mother tricks the duo and finds out who is her son. Just then, all the villains show up at Tony's den. Kishen's uncle goes on to explain that he never liked the way his dead brother left the entire estate to Kishen's mother. He explains that Bhanu was not the only one looting the money. When Bhanu was thrown out, he went to Goa to find him, where he met Tony. As the whole plot is explained, Kishen surprises everyone by saying that he had anticipated this. The money he used to lure out the villains was fake. In another twist, Dholak comes out holding a gun on Radha's head. Even Kishen is surprised when Goonga re-introduces himself as Inspector Bhinde. He explains that he was sent undercover by the commissioner (Jagdish Raj) as even he smelled a rat. In the melee that ensues, the villains are overpowered and arrested. Tony surprises everyone by acknowledging his true identity and saying that there can be only one Kishen. Kishen and Radha are united.