Harbans Darshan M. Arora

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

A father and son are conning the whole city of Bombay. Petty thief and con-man brings up his son, Prasad, in his footsteps. On the run from their victims and the police, they end up in Umargaon where his traumatized sister, Gayetri Singh, used to live with her now deceased and honest Customs Officer husband, Pratap. Raman takes advantage of the situation, has his sister institutionalized, abandons his nephew, Ravi, in a train, sells the property, and embarks on an unstoppable spree of amassing more wealth and property. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Raman lives life by conning people and also wants his son Prasad to follow the same.His sister Gayetri married to custom officer Pratap lives in Bombay along with their son Ravi and feels Raman will change someday.After conning many people Raman and Prasad elope to Bombay and see that Pratap is no more whose killed by a goon Gullu Daada and Gayetri is gone insane and needs to be admitted to asylum.Raman takes Ravi along but abandons him mid way years later Raman and Prasad have made it big by conning people.While Ravi has turned a street goon he was taken care by a kind lady an looks after his daughter Anita who loves Anil an orphan.Anil pretends to be Gayetri's son Ravi and wants to revenge on Raman and starts harassing him.Raman and Prasad decide to take help of Gullu Daada to eliminate Anil but see Ravi has overpowered him in a fight and hire Ravi.Anil whose critical is admitted to hospital by Ravi's love interest Rosy and revels to Anita that Ravi is actual reason for Anil's state.Ravi repents his mistake and teams up with Anil to teach Raman and Prasad a lesson.The only way to teach father and son duo a lesson is by separating them. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com

A widower has a run of good luck; a sudden increase in his fortunes, and a new woman in his life whose resemblance to his late wife seals the deal. However, the new bride may not have the best intentions towards him.

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

In post Partition Kashmir, rivals Ahmed and Aslam compete for Salma's love. After Aslam reforms and joins the Home Guard, raiders kill his mother and Salma's family, kidnapping her. He pursues them, unaware his cousin is involved. Tensions run high in Kashmir after the Partition of the late 1940s. On the Indian side, two warring hoodlums, Ahmed, and Aslam, have something else to fight over: beautiful Salma, the daughter of Hakim Mohammad Hussein. Salma is attracted to Aslam but wants him to mend his ways; he heeds her advice, joins the army, and returns as a Home Guard. When his mom Zainab goes to talk to Hussein about their marriage, she is killed by raiders disguised as Darvashis (Islamic Holy men) from Pakistan, who also kill all of Salma's family and abduct her. Aslam decides to track them down, arrange for the release of Salma, marry her, and bring the killers to justice. What Aslam does not know is that one of the killers is none other than Maula Khan, his Pakistan-based paternal cousin. Watch what happens when Aslam and his uncle realize this and the impact it will have on their relationship. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Inspector Dinesh goes undercover in order to infiltrate a gang that is counterfeiting banknotes. In the course of his investigation he becomes romantically entangled with a female reporter and makes a discovery of shocking personal significance. —van Goethem Dinesh lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his mother in Bombay. On his 5th birthday his father leaves them never to return. Now Dinesh has grown up, is working for the Criminal Investigations Department and has been assigned to stop the circulation of fake currency notes. His investigations take him to Sunderdas, who gets killed. He then masquerades as Social Worker Abdul Rashid to try and get some information from a jailed convict, Banwarilal, to no avail. Finally, he dons the disguise of wealthy Kunver Vijay Bahadur, rents a suite in Hotel Paris and befriends Manohar and several other gangsters. He gets himself arrested and lodged in the same cell as Banwarilal. From there both men break out and join Manohar and the rest of the gang. It is here Dinesh will find out the king-pin behind this racket but before he can do anything he will not only find himself confronting his past, but will be trapped in an underwater fortress along with his sweetheart, Press Report Renu. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Wealthy father sends promiscuous son to outside of Delhi with teacher for guidance. Son falls in love with a village girl who is set to marry another. Secrets unravel as the father and the groom-to-be discover their forbidden relationship.