Farida Jalal

About the movie What fate awaits a stone-hearted gangster, a bloodthirsty womaniser, when true love claims him, helpless and unguarded- a gang war that shakes the entire underworld and crime syndicate to their very roots. A forbidden love, the tale of an unrequited passion.

A carefree, middle-aged man who spends most of his time at parties with beautiful women, suddenly finds himself the father of a young girl. She introduces him to her `hippie` mother, and just when he thinks things can`t get worse his daughter delivers yet another shock - she`s pregnant!

Suhani, a modern Mumbai girl, suffers from Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) that leads to unreasonable and uncontrollable rage. In love with Swaagat, son of her father`s business partner, she calms down when with him. Looking at Suhani and Swaagat`s proximity and care for each other, their parents announce their engagement. Suhani is ecstatic while Swaagat accepts this only to fulfill his parents` wish. For the engagement, her father Rashmikant`s elder brother Mansukh arrives with his English wife and very traditional desi daughter Rumzum. Post engagement, Swaagat, Suhani, Rumzum along with their friends go for a fun trip to Rajasthan. During the trip love blossoms between Swaagat and Rumzum. Although, they both are well aware that it is wrong to fall in love because Swaagat is already engaged to Suhani, their proximity rises with each passing day. And on one fateful day, Suhani witnesses this. Enraged, she attempts suicide. Swaagat and Rumzum decide to maintain their distance. Will Swaagat marry Suhani and live happily there after? Will Rumzum find her true love in Swaagat? Bezubaan Ihsq unravels the beautiful story of unspoken love and sacrifice with pure from realistic characters.

`Student Of The Year` is set in a school called St. Teresa`s which is one of India`s premiere academic institutions. Every year the students compete with each other to win `Student Of the Year`s trophy. Three competitions take place and the student with the highest score in all the competitions emerges as the winner. Our story begins with two boys Abhi and Rohan who meet each other in St. Teresa`s in their final year. Soon their gang of their friends extends to Shanaya and her friends. They become friends and it appears that nothing can tear them apart until things turns upside down when Abhi and Shanaya fall for each other and the `Student Of the Year` competition begins. As friendships are tested and passions run high, `Student Of The Year` rushes towards an exciting climax.

Chaar Din Ki Chandni is a comedy with the essence of romance, set against the backdrop of Rajasthan at a four-day wedding. A complete family entertainer, the film revolves around a Rajput family and a family from Punjab, who are caught in a situation that creates a comedy of errors.

Love BreakUps Zindagi is an exploration of obvious yet confusing questions about modern day relationships. Jai (Zayed Khan) and Naina (Dia Mirza) are settled in life but are missing a special something or someone who will complete them. Jai feels that magic and serendipity have passed him by while Naina has taught herself that a less than fulfilling life is enough for her. But is it?

The film revolves around a Muslim man Hussain who is put behind the bars for the offense he never made and the lady officer who is on hunt for the murderer who killed the chief minister. But unable to trace the culprit, she falls in trap of the dirty games of the goons. Will hussain and the lady officer be able to clear the complications and problems forms the rest of the story.

The story revolves around Rahul Singh (John Abraham), a compulsive gambler who wins Rs. 20 million from a bet and throws a party to celebrate. Everyone has a good time drinking and partying till late night during which Rahul proposes to Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal). He announces their engagement to all present, then collapses on the floor. When in the hospital, he learns that he has only 90 days to live. Wanting to make the most of his last days, he leaves everything behind and moves into a soothing hospice. The people he meets in the hospice add color, both dark and bright, to his journey, which is a journey about love, hate, life, death and above all, hope.

Four friends wishing to make a quick buck, decide to marry a rich girl. Their plan backfires after they meet Ritu.

Inspector Samar Singh is about to retire, however he changes his mind upon discovering that a recently elected official has ties with the underworld.

In 1992, Deven Chaudhary (Ajay Devgn) lives with his mother Suhasini (Farida Jalal) and 10 year-old only son Raj (Vatsal Sheth). Deven spends considerable time designing the perfect car, calling it DC - which is very futuristic and more advanced than any other car in the market - and registering its patent. The SUV car is said to have 400BHP and 500NM of torque, as well as making it from 0-60 in 5.2 seconds. He also looks after an older Morris Minor MM, handed over to him by his late father, and calls it "Taarzan", which is based on the car's mirror ornament of the Disney character Tarzan. He meets with Rakesh Kapoor (Pankaj Dheer) and his partners, who praise his design but decline dealing with him, as they do not want to give royalty as part of the deal. Later, Deven finds that Kapoor and his partners conned him and registered his design under their name. Deven reports this to a police officer, Inspector Sanjay Sharma (Deepak Shirke), but the latter turns out to be on Kapoor's payroll. Kapoor, along with his cronies and Sharma, attack, and lock Deven in his car. The car is then pushed into the river, causing a bound and gagged Deven to die. Unaware of the truth behind Deven's death, his mother decides to bring up her grandson alone. 12 years later, in 2004, Raj Chaudary (Vatsal Sheth) is now a 22-year-old boy, living with Suhasini, and studies at a college where he falls in love with a rich girl named Priya Rakesh Kapoor (Ayesha Takia). Priya had recently transferred to the college from London and is attracted towards Raj's simplicity and honesty. Rocky (Sikandar Kharbanda) is the college Romeo cum bully and harasses Priya. The young Raj now works in the garage of Kartar Singh (paji) (Amrish Puri) as a mechanic. One day, Raj discovers Taarzan and recognizes it immediately. He somehow pools money and buys it at a throwaway price, which was 5000 rupees. Raj wants to update the car that reminds him of his father Deven. Little does he know that with the car, he has also brought back his father, whose soul is trapped inside the car. Rocky spikes Priya's drink in a bid to rape her, but Raj accidentally drinks that and proposes his love to Priya, which she finds charming. Kartar is moved on learning this and aides Raj in repairing Taarzan. Taarzan is totally revamped into a car even more advanced than Deven's design and Raj decides to rename it DC (as Raj's father's name Deven Chaudhary), to honor Deven's memory. Rocky and his entourage attacks Raj when they see that Raj has a spanking new car and Priya with him. That night the car drives itself and attacks Rocky and his goons and injures them badly. Rocky gets really scared and thinks Raj was behind the attack. Here, Deven's spirit possesses Taarzan and starts killing all those who were responsible for the murder: He kills Kailash Chopra (Mukesh Tiwari) when the latter is on his way to Palghar (The car is badly damaged in this, but it completely self-repairs back to its pristine new condition), he then kills Mahesh Saxena (Shakti Kapoor) during New Year's Eve (by drowning him in the same lake where Deven was killed), he kills officer Sanjay Sharma, in the latter's police jeep by pushing it down a ravine & when Sanjay tries to hide in his garage, Deven spills motor oil all over it and sets fire to it which consumes Sanjay. and finally, he kills Anthony D' Costa (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) when D' Costa decides to stay away from the car, by going to Nagpur. Since the car now belongs to Raj, he becomes a suspect in eyes of Inspector Khurana (Gulshan Grover), the investigating officer. Khurana has traced the car tracks to the location of Kailash's death and its license plate was recorded by Mahesh's wife before Mahesh was killed. But Khurana is unable to pin Raj since he has a solid alibi for both instances. But at the time of D'Costa's death, Raj and Priya find his car missing and go to Khurana. Khurana receives a call from D'Costa, saying that the car is trying to kill him, while Raj and Priya are sitting in front of him. The mystery deepens. Here, Kapoor returns to India after learning that all his partners have died. Kapoor is revealed to be Priya's father. When the car returns to Raj's garage, he chains it to avoid any further murders. Khurana threatens to crush the car if it is connected to any further deaths. On Priya's insistence, Kapoor goes to meet Raj, but after learning that Raj is Deven's son, Kapoor assumes that Raj has somehow found the truth and is using Priya as a pawn. Kapoor decides to kill Raj and take Priya back with him to London. Priya and Raj are both clueless, but Raj is shocked when Kapoor tells him the truth. Here, Taarzan comes alive again and in front of disbelieving eyes of Kapoor and Raj, jumps in the ocean to save Raj. Deven's spirit now becomes visible to everybody. In front of Raj, Suhasini, Priya, and Inspector Khurana, a terrified Kapoor confesses the crime. Khurana arrests Kapoor, while Deven says his last goodbye to Suhasini and Raj. With Raj, Suhasini, and Priya united, Deven's spirit becomes free, and he ascends to heaven, with Raj and Priya living a happy life afterwards. Later Raj marries Priya.

A suspended cop ends up in Calgary searching for a criminal, where he falls in love with daughter of a successful Indian businessman and a protective father who takes a while to accept his future son-in-law. Calgary-based wealthy Pakhi meets and falls in love with Samar Dev, who claims to be Pepsi's Additional General Manager. He is introduced to her dad, Sam, and aunt Asha; and a lavish wedding is planned much to Sam's chagrin who feels that he has met Samar before. It is just before the marriage that Sam's suspicions will be well-founded after he finds Samar in the womens' restroom. Close questioning will reveal that Samar is not who he claims to be, and Pakhi will have nothing but a canceled wedding and broken heart to mend, and no way of knowing who Samar really is nor what his motive was in befriending her. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

When his girlfriend is kidnapped by Kashmiri terrorists, a commando is tasked with kidnapping the Home Minister's daughter in order to secure his lady love's release. Major Amrish Kaul resides in Kashmir, India with his family consisting of his wife, Sudha, a daughter and his unemployed son, Ajay. Ajay meets with an accident on 2 occasions as a result of the carelessness of Neha Pandit, a school teacher. Ajay then takes a liking to her and arranges their meeting at a near-by restaurant. They both gets acquainted with each other with Ajay getting to find out that Neha is a widow. She eventually reciprocates his love and they begin to plan their wedding. Neha's father-in-law, R.K. Sharma is against this relationship at first and refuses to permit the couple to marry but eventually they convince him. A few days later Neha is abducted by a group of terrorists and Jihadis headed by the notorious Juned Afghani who is on a mission to free their leader, Naved Rabhani. Ajay is tasked with kidnapping Anita, the only daughter of India's Home Minister, Bhagwat Saxena, in exchange for the safe return of Neha. Anita is under strict security in New Zealand under Ajay's father's watchful eye. Ajay does manage to successfully carry out this task only to learn that he has been double-crossed.

Pinjar tells the story of Puro, a young woman of Hindu background, living a lovely life circling the time of the partition of 1947 with her family. Puro is betrothed to a wealthy, sweet young man, Ramchand, from a promising family. Puro's bliss is shattered one day as a leisurely trip with Rajjo, her younger sister, turns traumatic as she is kidnapped by a mysterious Muslim man, Rashid. Rashid's family has an ancestral dispute with Puro's family. Puro's family had made Rashid's homeless by taking over their property. Puro's grand-uncle had even kidnapped Rashid's grand-aunt and then released her after defiling her. Rashid's family made him swear that he would kidnap Puro to settle the score. It is clear that Rashid is drawn to Puro and would do anything for her. One night, Puro manages to escape back to her parents. Her parents woefully turn away their daughter, explaining that if Puro were to stay, Rashid's extended Muslim clan would arrive and slaughter everyone. Left with no support, Puro returns to Rashid who is well-aware of Puro's escape; he knew she wouldn't be let in by her parents and had been waiting for her nearby. After a few months, Puro's family marries their son Trilok to Ramchand's younger sister, Lajjo. Rajjo is married off to Ramchand's cousin. Parallel to the celebrations of the new marriage is a celebration of Rashid: Puro is pregnant. Puro is greatly depressed as she has conceived from rape. She miscarries but learns somewhat of Rashid's love for her and his repentance for his evil deed. The British colonialists leave India and the subcontinent reels under the effects of partition. Ramchand's uncle, cousin and Rajjo leave for India and are safe. Ramchand, his parents and Lajjo are caught in the riots. Ramchand hurriedly leaves to India with his younger sister and mother; his father is already missing. Shortly after, Lajjo is kidnapped by thugs. Puro meets Ramchand, who woefully tells her of Lajjo's situation. Puro finds Lajjo and helps her escape with Rashid's assistance. They conduct Lajjo to Lahore where Trilok and Ramchand come to receive her. Trilok has a tearful reunion with Puro and explains to her that she can start life anew as Ramchand is ready to accept her even now. Puro surprises Trilok by refusing and saying she is where she belongs. Ramchand responds with tremendous empathy to Puro, as he sees that she has accepted Rashid. Rashid slowly tries to fade, making it easy for Puro to leave with her folk, but is heartbroken, as he is deeply in love with her. However, Puro seeks Rashid out and the two tearfully bid Ramchand, Trilok, and Lajjo farewell forever.

Bombay City lives in fear of a notorious thief who calls himself Chindi Chor, and steals whenever and whatever he desires without any regard to security, and police protection. When Ghoshal announces the exhibition and subsequent auction of Emperor Babushah's crown, Chindi challenges him that he is going to steal this priceless crown, and Ghosal accepts the challenge, and hires private security guards. Chindi carries out the theft, and two of the security guards, Vikram and Ajay, and an accomplice, John D'Souza, become prime suspects, and are on the run. They must apprehend Chindi and recover the crown to absolve themselves of this crime. While being chased by security guards, the trio crash into a wall, and are transported back to the 10th century, straight into the palace of Emperor Babushah himself. The trio think they are on the sets of a Bollywood movie, and take nothing seriously, until they are imprisoned. It is then the hapless trio realize that they must not only escape, but must also take the crown, back with them to the 21st century to absolve themselves of this crime. They do realize that only an miracle can get them back to the 21st century. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

The movie tells the story of Bhagat Singh, who witnesses the atrocities of the British and grows up to become a fierce freedom fighter and revolutionary.

The D'Souza and Chaddha families are neighbors and have been good friends for as long as they can remember; despite their diverse religious and cultural beliefs, they celebrate Diwali and Christmas with cheer and gusto. Then Anjali Chaddha and Steven D'Souza fall in love, and this brings an end to the friendship. Anjali and Steven elope, marry, and re-locate, leaving the two families to live with bitterness the rest of their lives. 27 years later, a young man claiming to be the son of Anjali and Steven comes to visit his paternal and maternal grandparents, and is cold-shouldered by both families. He persists and wins over the hearts of all his grandparents, but before he can win over his Jassi mama and Moses chacha, they find out that Raja is not who he claims to be. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A villager pretends to be disabled in order to be near an NRI (Non-Resident Indian). Naive, easily influenced and illiterate Sunder re-locates from a village to the city. His attempts to woo girls are mocked, and he is ignored and made fun of by his room-mates. One day he befriends an NRI, Payal Khurana, who thinks he is disabled and dumb. She feels sorry for him and decides to assist him get his voice back - albeit in vain. Sunder is thrilled at the attention he is getting, and decides to continue to pull wool over her eyes to be near her. The question remains how long will he continue to fool her? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A man and woman are in love with each other but cannot pursue their relationship due to the feud between their families. In order to save his love, he decides to reunite the families. Two feuding neighboring families are brought together to celebrate the wedding anniversary of Vishnupratap Singh (Vikram Gokhale) and his wife (Farida Jalal), much to the dislike of Rudra Pratap (Sharad Kapoor). During this get together Abhayendra Singh (Fardeen Khan) falls in love with Mangala Solanki (Richa Pallod). Abhayendra comes to know of the background of the two families' feud, and makes attempts to reconcile the two families - with disasterous results. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A lawyer tried to defend a person accused of murder who is diagnosed with Split personality disorder. Raj is one of city's top lawyer known never to loose a case.He his introduced to Sargam during the launch of her new album by Ashwin Mehta owner of a music company.Next day Ashwin is found murdered and Tarang is held for the murder,Sargam and Tarang are childhood friends and she approaches Raj to fight for his case. During this period Raj notices that Tarang suffers from mental illness of split personality and when he suffers the attack he is not Tarang but Ranjeet and doesn't remember things he does when he turns Ranjeet.Tarang had killed Ashwin as the previous night he saw him forcing on Sargam but doesn't remember killing him as he was Ranjeet that time.Raj wins the case in court by proving Tarang innocent as he is suffering from mental illness.Tarang is due to release and gives Raj a shock to that he had planned everything regarding split personality as he was caught red handed on the site of murder.

A wealthy businessman, Yashvardhan Raichand, disowns his adopted son, Rahul, after he marries a middle-class girl, Anjali, against his will. Years later, Yashvardhan's younger son, Rohan, vows to reunite his family.

A 2001 film, directed by Shyam Benegal, is a story written about the ill fate of the actress Zubeida Begum by her own son Khalid Mohammed. This is a story of a son`s attempt to understand his mother, Zubeidaa. It basically portrays the life of Zubeiga begum and the choices she made.

Police officers Karan and Arjun work in their own ways to protect the public, risking their own lives.

The story is about young vikram saigal (arjun rampal), a brilliant law student. Despite the fact that he secured his degree with distinction, he refused to hold the brief, because he felt convinced that the ideals he stood for, clashed irreconcilably with those being practiced by the establishment. He knew he couldn't ever hope to change the order of the establishment but he certainly could aim at and strive for the founding of an institution as distinct from the vicious mainstream where corruption was the order of the day. And it was as if he had given a promise to himself that he wouldn't wear the gown and enter the portals of justice, until he achieved what he aimed for, yet, the moment came where he was obliged to don the gown and fight a case, his first and last, and strangely enough, in defense of himself.

Raj Malhotra (Salman Khan) and Priya (Rani Mukerji) are members of high society. Raj is grandson of wealthy industrialist Kailashnath Malhotra. Raj's parents are Ranjit Kumar Malhotra (Dalip Tahil) and Asha (Farida Jalal). Pappu Bhai (Johnny Lever) is the manager of Kailashnath's estate. Pappu has the habit of blinking involuntarily. Dr Balraj Chopra (Prem Chopra) is the family physician. Raj and Priya meet at a wedding, where Raj gets the impression that Priya has a child. In reality the child belonged to Priya's sister-in-law (Sheela Sharma). Kailashnath dearly wants Raj to get married. Priya's sister-in-law reaches out to Kailashnath for a meeting between the families. After a misunderstanding, where Raj understands Priya's sister-in-law to be his prospective bride, all doubts are cleared and the marriage is set. They get married and soon Priya gets pregnant. Soon after, Priya trips, miscarries, and becomes permanently infertile. On the doctor's advice, the couple conceal this fact from their family. Kailash has had 2 heart attacks already and he would not be able to take the strain of another attack. Priya knows how much a child means to the family. Raj says that they will adopt a child while they are abroad, but Priya says that an adopted kid will never look anything like Raj. Priya wants Raj to marry again, but he refuses. Priya convinces Raj to have a child with another woman. They decide to secretly look for a surrogate mother to bear Raj's child. No normal girl would agree to Raj's inquires on the matter. Raj forms a business partnership with Ajay Sharma (Adi Irani), who will market all of Raj's products in Europe. Raj meets Madhubala aka Madhu (Preity Zinta), a prostitute whom he brings to a hotel room. He discusses his situation with Madhu, who agrees to have Raj's baby, for the Rs 10 Lakh compensation offered by Raj. Raj lodges Madhu in a 5-star hotel. But Madhu is very raw and loud. She is rejected by the entire elite ecosystem. Ajay sees Raj with Priya and understands that he has hired a prostitute. After some much-needed grooming (He makes Madhu give up smoking and changes her entire wardrobe. He teaches her how to use cutlery, and gives her a makeover), Madhu meets Priya--who will be left unaware that Madhu was a prostitute--and the three depart for Switzerland together to carry out their plan. Priya stays in the guest room and asks Raj to sleep with Madhu. But Raj sleeps on the couch. One night, in a heavy snowstorm, Priya makes sure that she gets in a church, giving the entire night to Raj and Madhu alone in the house. Raj finally has sex with Madhu. Soon Madhu is pregnant with Raj's child, and he happily tells his family that Priya is expecting. Ajay is in Switzerland as part of the business deal with Raj. Ajay starts sexually harassing Madhu until she's ready to leave, upset at the thought that Raj told his friend that she is a prostitute (he didn't). Although Priya finds out about Madhu's past, she still believes that Madhu should carry their child, and she begs her to stay. Finally, the partner assaults Madhu while (he thinks) she's home alone, but Raj returns in time to save her. Overwhelmed by Raj's kindness, Madhu falls in love with him. Raj's family suddenly arrives in Switzerland. While Priya reaches for pregnancy-simulating pillows, the family meet the heavily pregnant Madhu and Raj tells them that she's a friend who's staying with him and Priya while her husband is business-traveling. The whole family takes the same care of Madhu, as they do for Priya. Madhu is emotional at being treated as a part of such a loving and caring family. Raj's grandfather Kailashnath Malhotra (Amrish Puri) arranges a religious ceremony and tells Raj and Priya that they are going back to India; this also includes Madhu. The ceremony is very important, so Priya sends Madhu dressed as herself and her face fully covered. The emotion at the ceremony is too much for Madhu and she becomes conflicted about giving up her child. Priya finds Madhu's room empty and the money dumped on the bed, and pursues her to the train station, only to slap Madhu when she confesses that she loves Raj. By the time Raj gets there, Madhu has gone into premature labor. The doctor announces that only one--Madhu or her child--can be saved, and Priya asks him to save Madhu. However, both mother and baby survive and seem likely to thrive. Madhu gives the baby to Priya, who quickly settles into a hospital bed with "her" baby. The doctor tells the family that Madhu's child was stillborn. When Madhu is ready to leave, she promises Raj that she won't go back to prostitution. When he takes her to the airport, he realizes that she loved him and kisses her forehead. Madhu leaves happily, ready, and able to start fresh, as Raj and Priya start their own new lives as thankful and proud parents.

Priya falls in love with her college friend Rahul but he jilts her when she becomes pregnant. While everyone ostracizes Priya, her best friend Ajay stands by her.

Sonia and Rohit`s love story begins unexpectedly, but tragedy strikes, leading Sonia to New Zealand. There, she meets Raj, a man who looks exactly like Rohit. As secrets unravel, Sonia is forced to confront the mysteries of love, loss, and destiny.

Sapna has lost her parents at an early age and lives with her three quirky uncles - Bhola Nath is a fitness freak, Prabhu Nath is a deeply religious fellow and Vicky Nath is a disco-savvy dude. Sapna is fed up of their quirks and runs away to Europe where she meets Raja. Her purse is stolen and hence she has to depend financially on Raja. During the course of the tour they fall in love after much bickering. When Raja comes to know that to marry Sapna he has to convince her three uncles for their support, he sets off on his mission.

A notorious terrorist manipulates an Indian army major's jilted lover into helping him obtain a classified military code. Major Jaidev Rajvansh and his fellow officer Hussein manage to rescue a leading politician as well as capture his kidnapper, Abhrush. The terrorist has been searched for years and he is finally captured by the two officers. Jai returns to a joyous welcome, and is declared a national hero. He takes a break from the army and returns to his hometown. There he meets his childhood friend Anjali who has always harboured love for Jai. Anjali is determined to make sure she and Jai stay together 24/7. At a party, he meets Miss India, Pooja Mallapa. As they spend more time together, he begins to love her and she too begins to love him. In the mean time, Jai's parents are arranging his marriage to Anjali but when they find out about Jai's love for Pooja, they realise that they have to tell Anjali everything. Anjali, heartbroken and jealous swears revenge on Jai for rejecting her. Realising her hatred for him. Abrush takes advantage and together they plot to destroy Jai's reputation and life. Anjali manages to steal some important documents regarding Abrush's plans. The events following leads to Jai being dismissed from the army and he is declared a traitor to the country. Jai, determined to prove his innocence and redeem himself, decides to pursue Abrush alone. Will Jai find out about Anjali's betrayal? —gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com) Indian army Major Jaidev Rajvansh lives a wealthy lifestyle in India. He is in love with and expected to get married to Anjali. Before the marriage could take place, Jaidev is assigned to rescue a politician, which he not only does so, but also apprehends his abductor, and returns home triumphantly as a national hero. At a reception, he meets with and fall head over heels in love with Pooja Mallapa, and makes a commitment to get married to her, little knowing that both their lives will be turned upside down as associates of the politician's abductors and Anjali team up against him. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Major Jaidev Rajvansh is a competent officer within the Indian armed forces who is called in to rescue a politician named Mr. Mishra. Jaidev not only manages to free him but capture one of his abductors - a terrorist called Abhrush. Then Jai is declared a national hero and to celebrate a function is held for him. At this function he gets to meet Pooja Mallapa only to make a commitment to get marry to her; eventually he gets to find out that his childhood friend, Anjail is also attracted to him and will go to any length to marry him. Jai finds himself in hot water when certain confidential information from his office is leaked to Abhrush's gang leading to his escape while Jai himself is being tortured, discharged and imprisoned for being a traitor. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Jeeva (Bobby Deol) is from a struggling family. He falls in love with Kiran (Malaika Arora Khan). Due to their differences in social class, Kiran's father does not approve of their relationship. To punish Jeeva, Kiran's father frames his mother Neha (Farida Jalal) and two sisters for prostitution and bribes the police into arresting them, which leads to the three of them committing suicide (by setting themselves up on fire) due to pressure from the society. Kiran also kills herself, ashamed of what her father has done. Jeeva seeks revenge by killing Kiran's father (Mohan Joshi). Jeeva later becomes one of India's most dangerous assassins in Bombay with Madan Bhai as his handler, and the only person who knows his identity. Jeeva is a conscientious killer when he takes the contract to eliminate Pankaj Kharbanda (Pramod Moutho), who wanted to grab the slum land by displacing poor people. The slum dwellers gathers Rs 5 Lakhs for Jeeva's fees, but he charges them only Rs 1 per bullet. Jeeva then craftily lures Pankaj out of his secure office by mounting an attack and then eliminates him with ease. Jeeva stays in a society and is known to the neighbors as a doctor. Jeeva lives with Scorpions in his apartment. Jeeva lives next to the Bali family. The father Vikas Bali (Ishrat Ali) works for a corrupt police officer named Devraj Khatri (Ashish Vidyarthi) who works in the drug trade. Devraj confronts Vikas for adulterating drugs by 50% and supplying that to Devraj's customers. Devraj finds this out when one of his regular customer complains about the quality of the drugs supplied. Devraj wants Vikas to admit how much money he made, but Vikas maintains that he did nothing of the sort. But secretly Vikas admits to his wife that he mixed the drugs to earn some extra money to fulfill her desires for material possessions and to separate her and Kiran (by getting Kiran a different apartment as he cannot stand the daily bickering between Kiran and her stepmother. Kiran Bali (Rani Mukherji) is the youngest daughter of the family and strongly dislikes them. She has a stepmother (Dolly Bindra), who mistreats Kiran and has a bias in favor of her own daughter Nikki. Kiran's brother Vijay (Sachin Khedekar) is coming to town to meet her. Kiran tries to befriend Jeeva many times, but he is too engrossed in his killing to have any time for her. S.K. Puri (Police Commissioner) (Avtar Gill) wants to arrest this unknown assassin who is causing deep embarrassment to the police department as he is able to take-out high-profile targets with ease, without being seen, and without leaving any evidence for the police to lead to him. One day, Kiran is in Jeeva's apartment delivering milk to him. While she is there Devraj Khatri comes to Bali's apartment and brutally kills them all (including her brother Vijay) - Kiran is the only one to survive as she was in Jeeva's apartment. Kiran saw Devraj shoot her brother and father from Jeeva's keyhole in the front door. She faints while witnessing the shooting, but later regains her consciousness, after the police has done their job and carried the dead bodies away. Kiran calls Puri and says she can identify the shooters. A mole inspector Khan (Mahavir Shah) informs Devraj, who figures out that Kiran was hiding in a neighbor's apartment. When Kiran reaches home, she tells Jeeva that she called the police. Jeeva immediately sets fire to the apartment and escapes with Kiran. Kiran figures out that Jeeva is an assassin, and she begs Jeeva to train her. Jeeva soon finds himself taking Kiran under his wing and so, he trains her in handling weapons to get revenge against the men who had brutally murdered her family. It's not easy as Kiran insists that she will stay with Jeeva. Jeeva is unable to carry out his missions as Kiran keeps delaying him. One day she takes him shopping, one day she washes all his guns and so on. But he likes Kiran and cares for her. Madan Bhai (Veerendra Saxena) is Jeeva's friend and his handler. He figures out that Jeeva is now in love and hence not as efficient as he used to be. Slowly both Jeeva and Kiran figure out that they both love each other. Devraj launches many attempts to kill Kiran, but Jeeva is able to save her every time with his alertness. Meanwhile Puri investigates and finds that Vikas Bali was twice arrested on drug possession charges but released on Devraj's testimony to the court. Puri summons Devraj and he is alerted to Puri's investigations. Jeeva starts training Kiran so she can defend herself. Meanwhile he investigates the death of Vikas Bali and finds out that Devraj is responsible. He organizes a counterattack on Devraj, and even hits his target, but unfortunately Devraj survives. Now Kiran goes after Devraj, but he is alert and captures her. Jeeva rescues Kiran, while Devraj is away. But Devraj tortures Madan Bhai and finds where Jeeva is hiding with Kiran. Devraj attacks Jeeva with full force. Jeeva is able to get Kiran to escape through the back pipes of the apartment and sacrifices himself to kill Devraj with a lethal grenade blast. Madan Bhai meets Kiran and hands her the entire wealth that Jeeva had accumulated over the years.

An assassin is sent to kill the witness from testifying against the killers. In the process, the assassin falls in love with the witness. Assistant Commissioner of Police Jaidev Singh gets burned to death by a group of people leaving behind a witness who is an air-hostess called Neha Verma. The police manages to recover her Identification Card at the scene of crime where-by they call her in to name the assailants; she does manages to provide them with a name, Samrat Singhania, who happen to be the son of Mr. Singhania, the Minister within the state's ruling party. While in Mauritius, Neha happens to meet with a young man named Vicky and is in love with him. Unknown to her that Vicky is not what he claims to be but a dreaded killer, Babu whose duty is to prevent her from harming the Singhanias by turning her upright life into a disaster. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) While returning home from the marriage of her friend, Ritu Pereira, Neha Verma, an air hostess, witnesses the brutal death of Superintendent of Police Jaidev Singh, at the hands of several persons. She accidentally drops her identification card, which is located by the police, and she is brought in for questioning. She is able to identify the killer, who turns out to be Samrat Singhania, the son of a prominent Minister in the state's ruling party. While in Mauritius, Neha meets and falls in love with a young man named Vicky, and they have a quiet wedding ceremony. After the marriage, Neha comes to know that Vicky is not really who is says he is, but a killer who has been hired to prevent her from testifying against the Singhanias. So Neha begins her new life - a life full of fear. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Small-time crook Sanju (Sanjay Dutt) has no idea about a real family-life as he grew up in an orphanage which he even today still supports with regular donations as a token of his gratitude. Sanju is connected to the underworld and sometimes passes on critical information to the police, so that he can earn a 10% commission on all illegal materials confiscated. When he one day spoils a deal of drug boss Jogiya Seth (Paresh Rawal), the latter abducts a little girl from the orphanage and thus blackmails Sanju to make up for his loss: Within one month, Sanju has to pay five million rupees to him. Sanju's buddy Natwar (Johny Lever) suggests that Sanju should pose as Sanjay Shastri, a remote American relative of the wealthy industrial family Choudhary, thus gain access to their house and then rob them. The real Sanjay Shastri is in Natwar's custody. The extended family, headed by Dadaji Dinanath (Anjan Srivastav) and Dadiji Sudha (Farida Jalal), takes Sanju in. Soon the whole family loves this maverick guy who effortlessly manages to solve big and small family problems. The Chaudhary Parivar has three brothers. The elder one is Dilip (Om Puri), who is an honest man and takes care of the family business. Mahesh (Ashok Saraf) is the second one who is a gambler. The third, Satish (Jatin Kanakia) has the habit of stuttering and is absent minded. Savita (Himani Shivpuri) is Mahesh's wife and Ratna (Supriya Pilgaonkar) is Satish's wife and cannot stand each other. Dilip's wife passed away during childbirth of Shivani due to which Shivani believes she is bad luck. Bela is Mahesh's daughter. Raju is Satish's son who cannot walk. Shivani (Urmila Matondkar) is the daughter of Dilip. Shivani is beautiful but without self-esteem or confidence. This makes the whole family anxious about Shivani's marital prospects. Sanju also starts laying the groundwork by receiving calls from Natwar about an impending transfer of $ 10 million into his Indian bank account, which he needs to start a project, which is the main purpose of his travel to India. Sanju wins everybody's hearts by solving their problems. He creates an impromptu underwear ad to satisfy Mahesh & Satish's client. He also starts helping Raju, with his disability. He also promises Dadi that he will make Shivani smile one day. Sanju realizes that the family has no money. The business has been running in losses as Dilip is way too friendly to the employee Unions, which Mahesh hates. Mahesh says that he has been supporting the house for the last 3 years and now demands a split of the business between the brothers. Dadaji believes that Mahesh is selfish and a vagabond, while only Dilip is working hard to keep the business afloat. Mahesh asks Sanju to invest in the family business, but Sanju says that getting Shivani married to a rich businessman is a better route to success. Sanju asks for 15 days to complete Shivani's makeover. Sanju convinces Mahesh to invest in Sanju's business instead. Sanju transforms Shivani from a simple girl to a beautiful woman. And, in the process, unites the rest of the family. He brings Dadi and Ratna close to each other by getting them to see that they do care for each other. It was only the lack of communication that was keeping them apart for so long. Sanju gets Shivani out of her world of books and teaches her to life her life to the fullest. Sanju then gives Shivani a makeover with a hair cut and whole new modern wardrobe. He then prepares Shivani for interviews with potential grooms. Shivani needs a little help the next a boy named Mayur comes to meet her, but she does extremely well. Mayur finds her funny and engaging and decides to bring his parents for a formal discussion in the next meeting. Meanwhile, Sanju stakes the family jewels kept in Dadi's safe. Shivani has now fallen in love with Sanju. Shivani tells Dadi that she does not want to marry Mayur, so Dadi sends Sanju to convince Shivani. Sanju then brings Dadaji and Mahesh close together and makes them realize that they still love each other. Sanju then cures Satish of his stutter. Sanju wants Shivani to marry Mayur, as Mayur comes from a rich family. After the marriage, Mayur's family will help support Dilip's businesses and Mahesh promises to get funds for Sanju's business investment as well. More and more, Sanju realizes how dear this family has become to his heart. But still the little orphan Munni is at the mercy of Jogiya. There is trouble at Dilip's factory. The union workers go back on their word and demand more money to keep the factory open. The workers have been paid by Dilip's business rival and when his factories are shut, the rivals will take Dilip's orders and cause a loss of Rs 2.5 Crores to Dilip. Dilip bets Sanju to convince Shivani to Mayur, as his family can handle the business. Shivani is not OK to be sacrificed at the altar of family unity and happiness. Shivani challenges Sanju that she will agree to the marriage when Sanju admits that he loves Shivani. Sanju is forced to admit that he loves Shivani. The marriage between Shivani and Mayur is finalized and Sanju is given Rs 5 Lakhs to start the wedding preparations. Sanju is disgusted at how he has betrayed the trust of the family and admits the truth to Shivani. Sanju asks Shivani to forget him forever. Sanju robs the family safe that night and exits the house, but Raju follows Sanju and tries to stop him by walking after him. This is momentous as Raju could never walk prior to this. The family is indebted to Sanju and hail Raju's recovery as a miracle. Shivani tells the whole family that she loves Sanju. But this is when the real Sanjay Shastri reaches home and exposes Sanju's truth. He is closely followed by Jogiya, who arrives with his goons. Jogiya finds that Sanju had stolen nothing from the house, but only a few things that would remind him of the love and respect he got in the family. When Jogiya threatens Munni, Sanju attacks him and his goons and defeats them. The family asks Sanju to stay back. Shivani and Sanju reaffirm their love to each other.

A pair of twins separated at birth. One grows up as a Hindu in India, while the other is raised a Muslim in Pakistan. They are forced to battle each other during an Indo-Pak war. A mother gives birth to twins. Unfortunately, they are separated. One of the children ends up in neighbouring Pakistan and grows up a devout Muslim named Tauheed, while the other grows up as a Hindu named Ajay. With the on-going rivalry and hatred between the two countries, both find themselves on the opposite side, and must battle each other. The only way they can unite is by saving the life of the Pakistani Prime Minister, who himself has become the target of terrorists. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Dil Kya Kare is the poignant saga of three individuals who are thrown into the pathos of emotional turmoil at the merciless hands of fate. It is a story about unconditional love - love between child and adult, love between a husband and wife, love between tow lovers - love that knows no parameters, no restrictions. Anand Kishore (Ajay Devgan) is a successful architect who leads a blissfully content life with his wife Kavita (Mahima Choudhary), five-year-old daughter Neha (Akshita Garud) and close friend Somu (Chandrachur Singh) - a billionaire by lineage, poet by choice. A picture perfect family, full of love, laughter and sunshine - life for them is one happy dream. Trouble begins when Kavita discovers that some 'aunty' has been visiting Neha at home and showering her with gifts - without her knowledge. She also learns from Neha's school principal that the same 'aunty' has been visiting Neha regularly at school as well. Kavita gets very disturbed by these happenings, and just when she is at the end of her tether, the mysterious 'aunty' surfaces in person, in the form if Nandita Rai (Kajol). A series of startling revelations - the biggest one being that Nandita is in fact the biological mother of Neha, leaves Kavita disillusioned, Nandita traumatized, Anand devastated and little Neha confused. The once happy and peaceful Kishore family is left shattered and anchor-less. What ensues is a series of events that tests not only the integrity and strength of the Kishore family, but also question the so called set norms of society, and of what is 'right and what is 'wrong'. Nobody is really at fault and everybody wants to see each other happy. The question is... who will finally make the supreme sacrifice and get at least one family together?

This is the story of Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) and Anjali (Kajol) who are best friends in college. Being so close to each other, Rahul and Anjali would probably fallen in love, however the reason why this did not happen was because they were having a very good time being best buddies and then Tina (Rani Mukherji) the Principal`s daughter came into their lives. For Anjali, Tina was a third member of their gang, however, for Rahul - his life was never the same - he fell in love with her.

While trying to stop some of corrupt army officers, Major Vijay Malhotra is killed by a drug mafia. Years later, his son Raju avenges his father`s death.

A playboy falls in love with a girl who will accept him if he gives up all his vices. Just as he is trying hard to do so, a boy turns up at his doorstep claiming to be his son.

When an honest school teacher testifies in a rape case against a prominent businessman's son, he is psychologically tortured and forced to commit suicide. His young son then takes the law into his own hands in order to avenge his father. School-master, Sachidanand Agnihotri lives a middle-class life-style with his family consisting of his wife, Gayatri and son, Vishal. Sachidanand is honest to the core and thus he is unable to keep any permanent job as his honest policy is regarded as a liability. One day he witnesses Nagesh the son of a wealthy, influential and corrupt social worker, Jaspal Rana raping a female. His attempts to involve the police in this matter only leads to frustration; unable to witness the injustice done to his father Vishal decides to take a stand only to be thrown behind bars. The case is then called up in court and on the advice of advocate, Ashok Pradhan, Jaspal and his men decides to create such situations that Sachidanand find hard to comprehend which weakens him making him unable to explain things in the right manner; thus Pradhan is able to prove to the court that Sachidanand is mentally unfit and under intense pressure Sachidanand commit suicide. Vishal then escapes from prison with an objective of bringing to justice all those who were responsible for his dad's death. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

In order to evade the law, a ruthless don tries to kill his lookalike; a chef and tries to take his place. Bablu (Shah Rukh Khan), an aspiring chef, works in a hotel where Sonia Kapoor,(Juhi) works with him as banquet manager at the restaurant. His look-alike Manu (Shah Rukh Khan), a gangster, robs a bank along with his friend (Gulshan Grover) but gets caught. He comes out of prison and discovers that his cohort has double-crossed him. He murders his partner and escapes from the scene of the crime...without the money. Bablu stumbles on the money and keeps it. Manu's lover Lily (Sonali Bendre) mistakes Bablu to be Manu and spirits him away. Manu takes shelter in Bablu's house and realizes that he can use their resemblance to his advantage.Then starts the fun-ride with Babloo constantly being mistaken for Manu. With both Sonia and Lily after him, Manu furious and the Law taking him to be Manu, Babloo faces a tough time. And then, Manu kidnaps Bibi (Farida Jalal) Babloo's mother and holds her hostage. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Shahrukh Khan plays the roles of Bablu and Mannu. Bablu wants to become a great chef and win the heart of Sonia(Juhi Chawla) while mannu is a criminal who wants revenge. Lily (Sonali Bendre) plays mannu's love interest. When mannu finds out that bablu is his look-alike, he tries to kill bablu and take over his life so that he can escape the law. —Neo Simple minded, naive and somewhat of a klutz, 26 year old Bablu Chaudhary (Shahrukh Khan) lives with his mom (Farida Jalal) and calls her "Bebe". Though his ancestors have been body-builders and wrestlers, he wants to be a chef. On the way to an interview he meets with Sonia Kapoor (Juhi Chawla), who happens to be the Banquet Manager at the very same restaurant where he is headed for theinterview, and she hires him. Both start to fall in love with each other. One day Inspector R.K. Thakur (Tiku Talslania) arrests Bablu on a variety of criminal offences. Bablu is shocked and in disbelief, and baffled because the police keep on refering to him as "Manu". At the intervention of his mom, along with identification papers and photographs, Bablu is released and provided with an identity card so that the police know he is not Manu. Manu, who is the exact look-alike of Bablu, comes to know of this, and takes away Bablu's id. card, and takes on the identity of Bablu, leaving the hapless Bablu to be arrested again by the police. This time they will not release him under any circumstances. Meanwhile, Manu carries on with his "business" as Bablu, and he seems unstoppable. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Judaai is a story of a simple and honest man who is happily married with two kids. The wife though always complains about his low income and wants a luxurious life. Their life changes when the wife, in lure of money, convinces her husband to marry a rich man's daughter.

It is the story of a hot-tempered and stubborn man Deva, who is feared because of his ruthless ways and severe punishment to the local hoodlums. Later, Deva avenges the death of his brother and sister. Omnipresent Bollywood acting dynamo Sunny Deol stars as Deva, the son of an honest lawyer (Anupam Kher) who lives with his brother, Aakash (Sachin Khedekar), and his beloved sister, Guddi (Richa Behl). Imprisoned after a man touches Guddi and sets off his violent, jealous rage, Deva falls into a life of crime, quickly rising to the top of the city's criminal underworld--much to the chagrin of the other crime bosses, who plot his murder. Their attempt to frame him for the murder of an important Minister doesn't go as planned, and Deva suddenly finds himself on the run, with the minister as a hostage, and his brother and sister murdered. —hEmRaJ (gavin_coolhgr@hotmail.com) Deva Pradhan comes from a middle-class family consisting of his advocate dad Ashok, sister Guddi and brother Akash. Deva gets a long jail term for murdering a man who attempt to molest Guddi; after returning from jail Deva's life changes into that of a gangster albeit with a good heart. His adventures leads him to not only get trapped in the murder of Akash and Guddi but of abducting the Chief Minister - with Deva all set to clear his name he must prove to the authorities that all the accusations laid against him are false. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Deva, after a turbulant youth as a dispenser of violent street justice (including going to jail for ripping a man's arm off for the crime of grabbing Deva's sister's hand) has emerged from jail and risen to become one of the lords of the underworld. The top isn't so lonely, however, as three other crime bosses are all looking to put him out of business and take over his gold smuggling operation. Police chief Inder, the brother of the man Deva maimed (and now husband of Deva's sister) is also intent on putting an end to his brother-in-law's criminal ways. —Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net> Deva Pradhan lives with his Advocate dad, brother Akash, and sister, Guddi, and comes from a middle-class background. Deva is known and feared for his uncontrollable temper, stubbornness, in particular being overly protective of Guddi. One day he witnesses a man attempting to molest his sister, and he brutally beats him. As a result he is arrested by the police, shunned by his father, and imprisoned. On his return, Deva has acquired new skills in prison, and becomes a dreaded gangster. His sister gets married to Asst. Commissioner of Police, Inder Saxena, and this increases the rift between him and his family. Then Akash is killed, and the only clue left behind is the topper of a ballpoint pen - but before that Deva must himself prove to the authorities that he was not involved in this murder. Before he could even do that, Guddi is killed, and the evidence points at Deva. The police launch a manhunt for him, and in response, Deva abducts the State's Chief Minister. Deva must now unravel the mystery behind the deaths of his brother and sister, and clarify to the world as to how the Chief Minister became his hostage. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Trouble ensues when Raja is framed for crimes that actually committed by his evil lookalike Rocky, and the former must prove his innocence and eliminate his nemesis. Mistakenly appointed as a college professor, happy-go-lucky Raja finds the rich girl of his dreams - but must confront a look-alike con man named Rocky to win her father's approval. The plot thickens when Raja pretends to be Rocky, and Rocky pretends to be Raja. But both does not know that this mistake will engulf them for years to come. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Con-man Raja has hopes of hitting it rich at warp speed; his intentions materializes when he assumes the identity of Parimal Chaturvedi in order to get employed as a professor in a college for the affluent where he fall in love with one of his student multi-millionaire, Pooja. Pooja also acknowledges his love but they can only get married on condition that Raja assist her dad, Vidya Prakash in nabbing a dreaded criminal and blackmailer, Rocky who is the look-alike of Raja. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Petty thief and con man, Raja (Akshaye Kumar) decides that the easiet way to get rich is to get married to a wealthy girl, and in doing so, he decides to change his identity to Professor Parimal Chaturvedi and teach in a college. Once there, he meets with rich and pretty Pooja (Urmilla Matondkar), and both eventually fall in love with each. Unfortunately, his true identity is revealed and he is fired from the college. Aware of Pooja's anger, Raja dramatizes this situation to his advantage, turning Pooja's anger, to sorrow; and then even more love for him, to the extent of introducing him to her dad, Vidya Prakash (Anupam Kher). When Vidya Prakash meets him, he recognizes him as Rocky, a dangerous criminal, who will not stop at anything, including killing anyone who will stand in his way. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A young taxi driver and a rich city girl fall head over heels in love. Defying her family, she marries him but they weave a web of deception to split the couple apart.

Diljale is an Indian Hindi action romance film released in the year 1996

Ravi, an unemployed man who constantly gets into fights, is framed for the murder of a gangster. With no support from his family, he must now fight to prove his innocence. For years Ravi Kumar is considered as the black sheep of the Kumar's family; is unemployed, does not have a stable future and gets himself involved in fights at the drop of a hat. In spite of these bad qualities there exists one good quality in him that is he is willing to fight against injustice so much that when a gangster is killed he is accused, charged and placed before the court. Ravi's parents and the witnesses know that he is innocent but unfortunately no one comes to testify in favor of him resulting in Ravi getting incarcerated.

Disowned by his parents at a young age, Pratap Narayan Tilak finds a second home in Mumbai, where he goes through certain experiences that transform him. Inspired by a journalist named Megha Dixit, Pratap soon becomes the champion of the poor and downtrodden. But can he succeed in his crusade against the corrupt and powerful?

When ACP Ramakant's elder son is killed, his attempts to find justice the legal way meet little success. His younger son, Vishal, decides to take the law into his own hands. Assistant Commissioner of Police Ramakant Chaudhry lives with his wife, Revati and younger son, Vishaal. His eldest son Vikas was murdered by criminals who are still at large. Vishaal tends to be hot-headed and cannot stand injustice in any form which often gets him into trouble now and again. Ramakant's honesty and dedication towards his job starts to create problems for the criminals in Mumbai city so much that he eventually stands accused of killing one of his fellow officers, is arrested and placed before the court of law. In court, Ramakant is proved mentally unstable with orders to be confined to a mental asylum. The same day the police also arrests Vishaal for physically assaulting the Police Commissioner, Desai. Looks like a criminal gang is coming down heavily on the Chaudhry family to get them out of their way. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Mammo moves to Pakistan during the Partition. Years later, with nowhere else to go, she visits Bombay to meet her sister and grandson but struggles to extend her visa. 13 year old Riyaz lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, India, with his grandmother, Fayyuzi, and her sister, Mehmooda alias Mammo. Quite outspoken and embittered over his dad abandoning him, Riyaz does not have many friends, save for Rohan. When Mammo plans a surprise birthday party for him, Riyaz is offended as he believes his friends will make fun of him as his lifestyle is not as good as their's. Fayyuzi and Riyaz have an argument with Mammo, and she leaves for the Mosque at Haji Ali, but returns when both apologize to her. Although Mammo was born in Panipat during the British Raj, she was one of thousands of Muslims who left for Pakistan. She was married over there, could not conceive, was branded a "barren woman", and asked to leave. Having nowhere else to go, she came to live with her widowed sister in Bombay on a temporary Visa. Every month she would walk to the nearest Police Station and get an extension. She finally paid a Rs.4800/ as a bribe in order to get a permanent visa through Inspector Apte. When Apte was transferred, a new Police Inspector took over, processed her papers, held her to be an illegal immigrant, arrested her, had her escorted to the Bombay Central Railway Station, board the Frontier Mail, which would return her to Pakistan. Riyaz and Fayyuzi make every possible attempt to trace and bring her back, which was all in vain. Now 20 years later, Riyaz has grown up and has written a book about his Mammo, hoping that someday, somewhere she will find it and they will be reunited again. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Laadla (The Beloved Son) is the story of Raju (Anil Kapoor) who lives with his disabled mother Gayatri (Farida Jalal). Raju is a dock worker who always looks out for the welfare and interests of his colleagues and saves them from frauds who are after their hard-earned money. Sheetal is the daughter of businessman Laxminarayan. She runs the company and the factory with an iron hand. Kaajal is her assistant. Sheetal admonishes her staff for being 5 minutes late to their job. Tilak Bhandari (Shakti Kapoor) is the production manager whom she often slaps and insults for trivial issues like production dropping from 50 tons to 49 tons for one day due to 5 workers being on holiday. Sheetal has studied in London and is responsible for turning around a financially sick enterprise into a profit-making machine. It is now the best factory in the entire country. Laxminarayan wants to get Sheetal married but she has already rejected every match that came her way. Laxminarayan is worried that there is no man who can reign in Sheetal. Banobi (Aruna Irani) is the house maid at Laxminarayan's house and has seen Sheetal grow up over the years. Sheetal's competitive attitude and open insults result in her making several enemies in her industry. This includes her immediate rival Suryadev, and his brother Hiravat Bajaj (Paresh Rawal), Suryadev's son Vikram "Vicky" Bajaj (Mohnish Behl) among others. Suryadev was sick of losing contracts to Sheetal, so Hiravat suggests to get Sheetal married to Vikram and this way they would get control over Sheetal's factory. When they bring the marriage proposal home, Sheetal insults Suryadev and Vikram for even thinking about this match. Raju decides to give up his docks job and shift to Bombay to take care of his mother. He needs to find a new job to support his mother. One day Raju on his way to a job interview saves the life of a rich textile mill owner Laxminarayan Jetley (Anupam Kher). The goons were sent by Hiravat to extract their revenge on Sheetal, but Raju intervenes and saves Laxminarayan by taking him to the hospital. Turns out Raju's interview was at Sheetal Industries. Laxminarayan tells Raju to visit the company which is run by his ambitious daughter Sheetal (Sridevi) and says that he will get a job. Previously, Raju ran into Sheetal at the airport and Sheetal believes that he bumped into her on purpose. Sheetal and Raju exchanged insults, and Sheetal already makes her mind about Raju. When Raju arrives at Sheetal's office for his interview, they both recognize each other from the airport. Sheetal throws Raju out of her office. Raju goes back to Laxminarayan who reveals that he is Sheetal's father and the owner of the company. Laxminarayan asks Raju to return to the office and promises that this time he will get a job. Meanwhile Tilak Bhandari joins hands with Suryadev and Hiravat and plots Sheetal's downfall. Suryadev bribes Bhandari to cause accidents inside Sheetal's factory to malign its reputation. Raju gets a job as a mechanic in the mill at a salary of Rs 3200 per month. Raju confronts Sheetal several times to get the workers proper treatment. One time Raju uses Sheetal's car to transport an injured worker to the hospital. Due to Raju's timely action, the worker's arm is saved from being amputated. Sheetal fires Raju but all the mill workers threaten a strike as they believe what Raju did is fair. Sheetal is livid and sets fire to her car as it was covered in blood. Raju's fairness for workers results in him being elected as the union leader. Raju meets Kaajal (Raveena Tandon), who also works in the company, and they fall in love. One day, Raju saves Sheetal's life during an attempt by a competing textile mill owner Suryadev (Prem Chopra) to eliminate her. Raju saves her by pushing her out of the way of an oncoming crane. Though he saves her, Sheetal enrages as Raju touches her and slaps him in front of all workers. Later Raju goes to Sheetal's cabin and slaps her for five times with a cause for each time. Sheetal cannot fire Raju as then she has to tell all of her workmen she was slapped by Raju. For taking revenge, Sheetal wants to win over Raju and makes an offer to marry him. When Raju turns her down, she forces his mom to agree to the marriage. Raju accepts his mom's wishes and decides to sacrifice his love for Kaajal. Sheetal expects Raju to move in with her after their marriage and live in luxury, but Raju refuses and continues to work in the mill. Raju starts to live in Sheetal's house upon her mother's order though he continues his job as a mechanic in mill which is now his own. Raju starts to recognize Sheetal as his wife and starts loving her. Raju also saves Sheetal again when some henchmen of Suryadev try to kill her. When Sheetal thanks Raju for saving her, Raju tells her that he also saves her maid servant also if she is fallen in this kind of situation. Tension arises between Raju and Sheetal, when she fires Kajaal out of jealousy as Sheetal sees Kajaal to visit Raju's house frequently, though Kajaal goes there to take care of Raju's lonely mother only. When labor issues cause the workers to go on strike. The competing mill owner plans to take advantage of the situation and hires goons to set the mill on fire. Raju in his attempt to stop the fire is mistakenly arrested. Raju's mom goes to Sheetal's house to clear matters but is insulted and taunted by Sheetal, and collapses, until Raju arrives to save his mother and slaps Sheetal for taking it out on his mother and breaks his ties with her. A guilty Sheetal who truly is in love with Raju decides to kill herself until the rival mill owners kidnap and decide to kill her themselves, until Raju arrives to save her life. Also, she becomes a good wife to Raju and both of them lives happily ever after with each other love in Raju's house. Sheetal improves herself. Kajal turns managing director of her company, as Sheetal quits her job.

Laila, a cabaret dancer, brought up in a brotherl, finds out that the woman she`s been thinking of as her mother had actually adopted her. Laila leaves in search of her mother and Karan helps her in her quest.

The son of the chairman of a bank is abducted and held for ransom. DSP Ali intervenes, but is unable to save the child. Later, his world is turned upside down when his daughter is kidnapped. India is plagued with kidnappings of young children from wealthy backgrounds with their abductors demanding huge ransoms or brutally killing their victims. After the retirement of Police Commissioner Hamza Sheikh, DSP Ali Haider Jaffri takes over. Shortly after this, he displays his abilities when he successfully apprehends a gang of bank robbers - albeit by jeopardizing the life of a bank customer. Then the son of the Continental Bank Chairman, Srivastav, is abducted and held for ransom. Ali comes to know about this, intervenes, but is unable to save the child, resulting in considerable criticism of mishandling this incident. Then Ali's very own world is turned upside down when his daughter, Shagufta, who is to marry Naseerudin, the son of the Home Minister, Syed Noorudin Ahmed, is abducted along with Naseerudin. The question remains - with the lives of his loved ones in jeopardy - will Ali compromise with the kidnappers? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Heena is the story of a girl who lived with her widowed mother. One day she found a body of a guy, who had lost his memory and she nursed him back to health. The story moves on when she falls in love and wanted to marry him. The story takes a turn when the tribe came across the truth and the guy was suspected to be a spy.

After the death of his father, hot-headed Thakur Jaswant Singh assumes control over the region. He has no pity or empathy towards the poor. His interest lies in money, women and alcohol. On slipping on the wet floor, he beats up the maid till her son Jeeva intervenes. Soon, the village conspires against Jeeva and banish him from the village with his mother. After his mother passes, Jeeva returns to avenge her death.

Set on the eve of the Indian rebellion of 1857, the film depicts two noblemen who devote themselves to endless rounds of chess, while their kingdom gets annexed.

The film is set in 1856 on the eve of the Indian rebellion of 1857. The British are about to annex the Indian State of Awadh (also spelled Oudh). The daily life of two wealthy men who are devoted to chess is presented against the background of scheming officials of the British East India Company, the history of its relations with the Indian ruler of Awadh, and the ruler's devotion both to his religious practice and the pursuit of pleasure. the Indian princely state of Awadh (whose capital is Lucknow) and its Nawab, Wajid Ali Shah (Amjad Khan). He lives with the Queen (Veena), Mother of Wajid Ali Shah. Awadh is rich and prosperous. The population is satisfied and have a large disposable income. Wajid Ali is a languid artist and poet (Dresses up like Krishna, composes his own songs, praising himself, and has 400 concubines and 29 Muta (enjoyment wives)), no longer in command of events and unable to effectively oppose the British demand for his throne. Wajid was not interested in ruling his kingdom but loved his crown none-the-less. Lord Dalhousie had his eyes on the Kingdom of Awadh and wanted to swallow it within the British empire. He also already swallowed Punjab, Burma, Nagpur, Satara and Jhansi. Historically Awadh's ruler Shuja-Ud-Daulah allowed the Brits in for trading. Eventually the Brits went to war and Awadh lost. But Brits allowed Shuja-Ud-Daulah to keep his crown for a penalty of Rs 50 MM and a promise to fund Brit wars, as and when needed. General James Outram (Richard Attenborough) is plotting against Wajid at the behest of Dalhousie. The role of Captain Weston (Tom Alter), Outram's aide De camp, so British in his ways, but in love with Urdu poetry, is also worth noting. Outram declares Wajid to be an incompetent ruler and gets Weston to support him by promising a plum position post the takeover. Parallel to this wider drama is the personal (and humorous) tale of two rich, indolent noblemen of this kingdom, Mirza Sajjad Ali (Sanjeev Kumar) and Mir Roshan Ali (Saeed Jaffrey). Inseparable friends, the two nobles are passionately obsessed with the game of Shatranj (chess). Munshi Nandlal (David Abraham) reaches out to both nobles and tells them that a British takeover of Awadh is imminent. Brits are bringing railways and wireless to India to speed up transportation and establish control over all of India. Mirza and Mir think this is only another ploy for the Brits to demand more money from the King. Both effectively neglect their wives (Khurshid (Shabana Azmi), Mirza's wife & Nafisa (Farida Jalal), Mir's wife). Khurshid is angry that Mirza won't spend time with her even though he is at home. She also curses Mir, that his wife is having an affair and yet he spends all of his time with Mirza. Khurshid wants to have sex with Mirza and calls his away from his game with Mir. But Mirza can only think about his unfinished game and goes back to Mir, after failing to perform in bed with Khurshid. She thinks that Mirza doesn't love her. In retaliation Khurshid steals Mirza's chess pieces. Hirya (Leela Mishra), Khurshid's maid helps her in this. Meanwhile on 31st Jan 1986, Dalhousie makes his moves and issues orders for the takeover of Awadh, from Calcutta. Outram delivers the orders to Prime Minister "Madar-Ud-Daula" (Victor Banerjee). The orders are justified by the "misrule" of Awadh by the King and include taking Wajid's title away from him. The orders are backed by the British armies at Cawnpore, who are straining at the least to be let lose against Awadh. Meanwhile Mir and Mirza are dying to play chess and decide to borrow pieces from their lawyer Abbajani (Bhudo Advani). But when they get to his house, they realize he is on his death bed, and quietly make their exit. It is Friday and the market is closed. PM delivers the news of the takeover to Wajid. The nobles decide to play chess with condiments and vegetables as their pieces, much to the disappointment of Khurshid. She throws the pieces back at Mirza. Mirza decides to play at Mir's going forward. Now Wajid is distraught at losing his titles and laments that he got rid of his formidable army at the insistence of the Brit officials a few years ago. Wajid contemplates his position (The Brits have an earlier treaty with Awadh in which they explicitly agree to let the King remain on the throne) and refuses to vacate the throne. The Brits, including Outram, know of the treaty and feel Wajid is entitled to challenge this forced abdication of the throne. Outram knows that a 100,000 pounds a month is generous compensation, but Wajid may decide to fight the abdication. Wajid has 5 days to respond and Outram is worried that there has been no response yet. Outram decides to meet the Queen mother. Meanwhile Mir's wife Nafisa is worried that Mir is playing chess with Mirza at home. Her lover is Aqueel (Farooq Sheikh). Mir catches them red-handed when he enters Nafisa's room, but they are able to convince him that Aqueel is hiding from the King's army, as they are forcibly taking youth to fight against the British. Queen mother refuses the compensation and demands justice for Wajid. She says she will advise Wajid to fight for his throne. The 2 nobles fail to fight the takeover of their kingdom by the East India Company. Instead, they escape their harangued wives and responsibilities, fleeing from Lucknow to play chess in a tiny village untouched by greater events. they are trying to find an abandoned mosque, where they can play in peace, but can't find it. They are invited to rest at the house of poor farmer. Ray's basic theme in the film is the message that the self-centered nature, detachment and cowardice of India's ruling classes catalyzed the annexation of Awadh by a handful of British officials. Wajid meanwhile agrees to meet Outram at 8 am the following morning. Outram presses Wajid to sign the new treaty. Wajid is willing to give up his crown, but refuses to sign the new treaty, which he feels is unjust. Meanwhile the chess match rages on and Mirza is losing for a change. He blames the mosquitoes for distracting him. Mirza then dawns on Mir that Nafisa is cheating on him, to throw him off his game. In the last scene, after which Mir shoots at Mirza and complains out loud "(If you die) I won't have a partner to play chess with", Mirza responds to him "but you have one in front of you!" (thus, making him understand that he forgives him). He finally concludes that "after nightfall, we will go back home. We both need darkness to hide our faces."

A generous multi-millionaire, who helps those in need, ends up being disappointed when the very people do not help him in times of crisis.

After a long murder investigation, a police investigator finds the killer closer to home than he imagined. Police Inspector Anand (Sanjeev Kumar) and Karuna (Sulakshana Pandit) are in love. They meet with the approval of their elders, and are married. Shortly after the marriage, there is a homicide, and the clues point toward Karuna. Anand disbelieves these, but noticing a change in Karuna, starts to actively pursue these clues. The rest of the family, including Anand's dad, a Judge by profession, side with the daughter-in-law, and Anand is left to pursue this against his family's wishes.

Kusum and Brindavan are two small children living in a small village in India. Both love each other, and decide to marry when they grow up. Kusum has his name tattooed on her arm. But fate has other plans - both are separated. Kusum thinks that Brindavan has betrayed her, and she burns her arm to eradicate the tattoo. Years later, Kusum has grown up and is looking after a wealthy woman in her village. The wealthy woman falls sick, and her son brings in a doctor to treat her. Kusum's hopes for meeting her beloved surface, when she finds out that the doctor's (Jeetendra) name is Brindavan. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A terminally ill man, Ravi frames himself for a murder so his family receives the reward money. When he is successfully cured, he looks for the real killer to vindicate himself.

Bobby (1973), directed by Raj Kapoor, is a landmark film in Indian cinema that revolutionized the portrayal of youthful romance on screen. The film tells the story of Raj Nath (Rishi Kapoor) and Bobby Braganza (Dimple Kapadia), two teenagers from different social and economic backgrounds who fall in love. Raj is the son of a rich Hindu businessman while Bobby is the daughter of a Goan Christian fisherman. Bobby`s parents have no objections to the relationship, but Raj`s father is dead set against the idea of his son being with the daughter of a poor fisherman. Matters turn sour when Raj`s father insults Bobby`s father. After several dramatic twists and turns which includes an attempted suicide bid by the young lovers, all`s well that ends well as both families reconcile and give their blessings to the young couple.

When circumstances force Pushpa into prostitution, she develops a relationship with one of her wealthy clients as well as a friendship with a young boy next door.

An Indian air-force officer Arun falls in love with Vandana and the two get married in secret, but a pregnant Vandana gets the shock of her life when Arun dies in a plane crash.

Dev Anand plays an out of work youth, who agrees to impersonate a rich mans' brother in law supposed to be ailing in an lonely mansion. He seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong as he gets implicated in the murder of the same man. Asha Parekh plays his love interest. How he unravels the mystery forms the rest of the plot.