Javed Khan Amrohi

Rahul Malhotra (Aamir Khan) is the manager of the heavily in debt family business. He is also the guardian of his dead sister`s mischievous kids. Rahul hires Vaijayanti (Juhi Chawla) as governess. Vaijayanti is a runaway from home as she does not want to marry the man her orthodox family has chosen for her. Predictably, Rahul and Vaijayanti fall in love. Meanwhile, Maya (Navneet Nishan), a rich girl in love with Rahul tries to ruin his family and his business.

The village of Dhauladhar is situated in the mountains set among some of most scenic beauties that nature has to offer. Inder (Tinnu Anand) is a TV serial director who arrives in Dhauladhar to film his latest episode. He hires a guide (Sudhir Pandey) who helps him scout for potential shooting locations. He takes Inder to a large banyan tree which has 2 graves under its vast canopy. An old Medicant (Sanjay Dutt) lives under the banyan tree, who says that the graves belong to Sahibaan and Gopi and proceeds to narrate their story. Sahibaan (Madhuri Dixit) lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in rural India along with her mom (Anjana Mumtaz), dad Balakram (Satyendra Kapoor), and a mentally challenged cousin Kheru (Javed Khan). Balakram makes a living selling dolls. Sahibaan is in love with a homeless laborer, Gopi (Rishi Kapoor), who lives near temples and eats whatever the villagers give him. Gopi plays a melodious tune on his flute, which attracts Sahibaan to him. Gopi works as a shepherd to earn some money for his sustenance. Sahibaan is childish in her behavior and doesn't realize that she is a grown woman now. Sahibaan is 18 years old but insists that her father carries her on his shoulders and plays marbles with the children of the village. Gopi admonishes her and one day she falls into a river. Gopi looks at her water drenched body and sends her home. Gopi is very afraid of the water and says that he doesn't know how to swim. That day she grows up, throws her marbles away and starts helping her mother around the house. Sahibaan learns to cook food and sew clothes as well. She expresses her love to Gopi, who accepts. The area is ruled by ruthless killer, alcoholic and womanizer Kunwar Vijay Pal Singh (Sanjay Dutt). He is sympathetic towards the poor and has a rivalry with the landlord of the nearby province Tikka (Kiran Kumar). Tikka is considered ruthless towards his workers and Vijay stands up to him and his goons and fights for the rights of his village's workers. Vijay increases the daily wages for his workers from Rs 1.5/day to Rs 3/day. Due to this all of Tikka's workers come to work for Vijay and this enrages Tikka. Tikka forcibly takes the workers back to him lumber mills by whipping them and torturing their families. In retaliation, Vijay kills one of Tikka's supervisors. Mrs Tikka (Beena Banerjee) & Tikka's sister Rajkumari Razee (Sonu Walia) live with Tiika. Every night Vijay ravishes a new prostitute and sends her away the next morning. Tikka sends an assassin to Kill Vijay, but Vijay kills him instead. Tikka bribes Inspector (Mangal Dhillon) to open a murder investigation against Vijay. Inspector tries to get Vijay's fingerprints on his gun, in order to frame him, but Vijay is too clever and had already worn gloves. One day while chasing a rabbit, Sahibaan ends up in the palace ground of Vijay & is abducted by his guards and left at the mercy of Vijay, but Sahibaan manages to escape. Vijay, however, is unable to get her out of his mind and asks Diwan Durga Singh (Bharat Kapoor) to search high and low for her. The Diwan is able to find her during a Mela and takes several men, sweetmeats, jewelry and clothing to propose to a delighted and disbelieving Balakram and his wife. The same day Gopi was planning to ask for Sahibaan's hand in marriage from her dad. Meanwhile at the Mela, Razee was also present and was attracted to Gopi. Sahibaan's parents are angered when Sahibaan refuses to marry Vijay and asks them to get her to marry Gopi. When Gopi proposes to Balakram, Gopi is humiliated, beaten and asked to leave. Diwan returns to Vijay, who decides to kill Gopi. Vijay locates Gopi, beats him, and throws him in the river. Razee finds Gopi at a riverbank, barely alive and persuades Tikka to take him home. When Sahibaan says that Vijay had attempted to molest her, Balakram refuses to permit her to marry Vijay, despite of the fact that Vijay promises to stop drinking alcohol and having his way with women. Vijay forbids Durga Singh from abducting Sahibaan again, as he truly loves her. Both Balakram and Sahibaan set out to try and locate Gopi, as Sahibaan is convinced that he is alive. They find Gopi's clothes near a funeral pyre (these clothes were discarded by Razee as they were drenched in blood) and assumes that Gopi is now dead. Meanwhile Gopi gains consciousness under Razee's care. Tikka finds that Vijay is in love with Sahibaan. Gopi overhears this and runs after Sahibaan. Razee stops him and tells him that she loves him, but Gopi has already promised himself to Sahibaan. She convinces Gopi to come back and promises to take him to Sahibaan once the rains subside. Tikka agrees to help Razee as he wants to deny Vijay at all costs. Meanwhile Sahibaan gives up and agrees to marry Vijay. Tikka confronts Vijay but is instead beaten up by Vijay. But this gives time for Gopi to reach Sahibaan. Razee helps Gopi and Sahibaan escape, but Vijay pursues them. Durga stops Gopi and Sahibaan by putting rocks in their horse carriage path. Razee dies when the carriage overturns. Durga tries to convince Sahibaan, but she jumps into the river to escape. Vijay arrives and shoots Durga. Gopi jumps after Sahibaan. Vijay jumps to save both but can only flush out their dead bodies.

An arrogant heiress becomes amnesiac after her greedy uncle attempts to kill her. A hard-working farmer, who bears a grudge against her, impersonates her husband and brings her to his home as revenge. After her parents' deaths, U.S.-based Renu is called to Indian by their estate's lawyer to sign the necessary documents so that she can be the legal owner of her deceased parents' assets and the estate. Upon arrival there, she finds that the estate has been managed by her uncle Bhagwati Prasad and his wife, assisted by his brother-in-law Mudkaate/Markutey. For years, Bhagwati has been embezzling the business' money to meet his personal needs, thus when the lawyer instructs Renu to scrutinize the accounts she finds 15 lakh rupees missing. As he cannot account for this, he decides to sabotage parts from a speedboat and give it to her; the spoiled, rude Renu takes a ride without knowing that she is heading for her death. She manages to survive, except for losing her memory; she finds herself in the care of young bachelor Raja, who has the responsibility of looking after his three nephews. Meanwhile, Bhagwati is all set to take over the estate when the lawyer informs him that the court has frozen all the cash, bank accounts, and assets until Renu or her body is located. Time passes with Bhagwati informing his men to hunt for her; eventually luck favors him when he finds out that she is still alive. Bhagwati then plans to murder her again; this time he wants to utilize every resource to make sure she is dead. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Bhagwati Prasad looks after the vast estate of his deceased brother, assisted by his wife and her brother Mudkaate/Markutey. Bhagwati has got into debt and has been embezzling money to pay his debtors. His spoiled, rude niece Renu who resides in the United States decides to pay them a visit. Bhagwati welcomes her and makes her feel at home, but she is not easily satisfied until she gets a speedboat so she can be on her own. Alerted by her lawyer, she starts to scrutinize recent transactions and finds 15 lakh rupees missing. She asks Bhagwati to provide her with an explanation within 2 days. Then she gets into her speed boat, only to get involved in an "accident"--planned by Bhagwati--and disappears. Bhagwati is all set to take over the estate when the estate's lawyer gets a Court Order freezing all the cash, bank, and assets until Renu is found or her body is located. The months go by, Bhagwati hires men to look for Renu, and they soon find her and lead him to her. Bhagwati finds out that she has lost her memory, and is living with a man named Raja and his three nephews. This time Bhagwati will make sure that she will not escape alive, even if it means killing Raja and his nephews as well. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

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

Mohan Kumar (Dilip Kumar) is a honest and conscientious man working as the General Manager of a shipping company owned by his friend, Dinesh (Pradeep Kumar). Dinesh is a widower and his daughter, Roma (Amrita Singh) is attached to Mohan Kumar, his wife Sumitra (Saira Banu) and young son Ravi (Rishi Kapoor). Assistant Mgr Jugal Kishore (Pran), Accountant Bhandari (Prem Chopra) and storekeeper Balwant (Amrish Puri) who work under Mohan Kumar, are into smuggling. When Mohan Kumar comes to know of their activities, the three men murder Dinesh and deviously frame Mohan Kumar for it. Mohan Kumar is helpless. Unable to prove his innocence in court (he was holding the gun when the police arrived at Dinesh's house.), he is sentenced to a 14-year jail term. After that Sumitra tries to attack the trio in the street but is thrown off by then and come under a commercial vehicle and dies. Mohan vows revenge against the trio after he returns from jail. After serving the jail term Mohan Kumar takes help from Puri (Ashok Kumar) whose life he had saved in prison, to take revenge on the three villains. Mohan searches for his son Ravi in orphanages and finds that he ran away several yrs ago. Puri has connections with the under-world. While Mohan Kumar is also unable to trace his son Ravi. Roma lives with her wayward uncle Jagdish (Satyen Kappu), a mean alcoholic. Unknown to Mohan Kumar, his lost son Ravi (Rishi Kapoor) is a sophisticated conman and steals money by betraying people's trust. Jugal, Bhandari and Balwant still run the smuggling business. Ravi is asked to deliver a few liquor bottles to a party at Bhandari's house. Bhandari is taking a bath, so the servant thinks Ravi is a guest and invites him in. Ravi sits at the table and plays cards, which JK sees and is impressed with his tricks. JK employs Ravi for Rs 10000 per night. Puri helps Mohan to track down JK as well as Roma. Mohan rescues Roma from Jagdish. Mohan starts by figuring out the Modus Operandi of JK's smuggling operations. He finds out the location where JK's smuggled gold is being offloaded in Bombay, by kidnapping JK's agent Teja (Kulbhushan Kharbanda). Mohan then confronts the trio and tells them that is going after their lives. JK asks Balwant to kill Mohan at the earliest. Balwant finds that Mohan is taking Roma out for dinner on her birthday. As luck would have it, Ravi was scouting the same hotel and sees Roma alone with a purse full of money. Mohan is running late and Ravi strikes a conversation with Roma. Mohan meets Ravi when he arrives & feels an unexplained affection for Ravi. when Balwant shoots at Mohan, Ravi sees it in time and pushes him away, thus saving Mohan's life. Balwant sees Ravi and reports the matter to JK. JK believes Ravi when he says that he doesn't know Mohan and agrees to be JK's spy in Mohan's house. Ravi pretends to be in love with Roma in order to get close to Mohan. Roma loves Ravi and recommends him to Mohan for a job in Mohan's office. Ravi figures out that Mohan knows the location of JK's warehouses and intends to attack. Ravi tries to warn JK but gets delayed in traffic and then his lift gets stuck. Mohan sets the warehouses on fire. Bhandari had moved all of his life's savings into those warehouses, based on threat from Mohan, that he would target his wealth. Bhandari is penniless now. Bhandari is distraught and jumps into the blazing fire to save his money and dies. Unknown to anyone, Mohan had already removed Bhandari's money bags from the warehouse and delivered them to Puri. Jugal Kishore and Balwant assign Ravi to kill Mohan Kumar For Rs 10 Lakhs. Ravi decides to kill Mohan at Puri's party that very night. Unable to do so (he hesitates while taking the shot), Ravi falls off the roof, and is ironically saved by Mohan Kumar. Kabir (Mac Mohan), one of Puri's henchmen, finds Ravi's gun. Suspicious, he spies on Ravi and finds out his connection to JK and Balwant. Mohan Kumar is enraged and throws Ravi out even though he begs that he loves Roma and respects Mohan. Balwant tries to kill Mohan Kumar but fails. Mohan Kumar chases him and hit by a truck, Balwant dies. Ravi runs into Jagdish, who tells Ravi how Mohan was convicted for Dinesh's murder. Ravi confronts Mohan in front of Roma, and Roma is devastated to know that Mohan hid this fact from her. She decides to leave with Ravi. Meanwhile JK's goon reaches Ravi's house, and they find that Ravi is in fact Mohan's son. JK decides to abduct Ravi. While abducting Ravi, JK finds that Roma is Dinesh's daughter and abducts her too. Now JK informs Mohan that his son and Roma are in his custody and demands Rs 50 Lakhs as ransom. When Mohan reaches the designated location, Ravi realizes that Mohan is his father (JK reveals the same). Ravi and Mohan team up to get the upper hand on JK, but Teja arrives to swing the equation again in JK's favor. At the end Puri arrives to disarm JK and Teja. After a huge fight, Mohan ends up shooting JK.

Maya is married to Anand in a full traditional Hindu wedding. It is emphasized that in Hindu religion, a marriage is a bond for 7 lifetimes. The neighbors are suspicious as the groom's family did not demand any dowry and the bride's family conducted the wedding as a very low-key affair. Maya (Padmini Kolhapure) attempts suicide on the day of her nuptial night. Dr. Anand (Naseeruddin Shah), Maya's husband, who is apparently a doctor, treats her, and finds out that she attempted suicide. When Maya gains conscience, she confirms her secret to Dr. Anand that she didn't want to get married and was forced. Dr. Anand wants to know the full story of Maya's life. Dr. Anand lives with his dad (Arvind Deshpande), Mother Savitri (Dina Pathak) and daughter Chanda (Suchita Trivedi). Anand used to be a widower before his marriage to Maya, which was insisted upon by Savitri. Savitri is on her death bed and is not expected to survive much longer. Anand is a very mature person and understands the situation with Maya. He tells everyone at home that Maya was tired from the wedding and hence fainted. He allows Maya to tell her story in her own way. The story moves to a flashback, where an aspiring new music director, Prem (Anil Kapoor) [Prem Pratap Patiala Wale] and his sidekick Raju (Master Raju) come to Maya's house. They are looking to rent a room. Maya lives with her Maternal Grandfather (Nana) (Nilu Phule) and mother (Ashalata Wabgaonkar). She has a school going sister Sheela, and a disabled brother Prakash. Maya finds Prem funny as the elastic from his Pyjama keeps showing from under his Kurta. Nanaji puts certain conditions that Prem has to return home before 10 PM, no cooking inside the room, Rs 300 deposit and Rs 60 per month rent. Prem keeps all his money inside a packet hidden in his underwear and Bombay is known for pickpockets. Nanaji is looking for a suitable groom for Maya but cannot afford to pay any dowry. The house is also mortgaged. Several incidents happen which bring Maya and Prem closer. It is love at first sight for Maya as she falls for the naive, innocent Prem. [Hamari Bhi Koi Ijjat Hai, Gharana Hai, Parampara Hai]. When Prem goes to take a bath in a bathroom without any lock & puts Raju on guard. Raju takes off for dancing in a passing religious procession & Maya comes along inside seeing Prem in the buff. Then Prem and Raju return home late at night. Maya opens the door, but only allows Raju to pass. Prem is told that no one is allowed to enter home beyond 10 PM & Maya forces him to kiss her to gain entry. Prem rips his pants & Maya offers to mend them to Raju. Maya was sewing her own bra at the time and forgot all about it as she sews her bra to Prem's pants. Prem is livid and makes an entire scene in front of Nana. Maya thinks that Prem is cheap, but Raju tells Maya that Prem has his whole family in Patiala. His mum is a housemaid & Prem sells his blood to send some money home each week, till he is able to succeed in Bombay. Prem, aspiring to be a true music director in Bombay, rejects Maya's advances. Maya tries to seduce Prem by taking a bath in an open roofed bathroom in front of Prem and sending him Samosas. Maya even sells her gold bangles to send money to Prem's mother without his knowledge. Maya goes to meet Prem in secret late at night and wants to share a kiss with him. But Prem barely escapes when Nanaji calls Maya. Furthermore, Prem also in love with Maya, but believes that he isn't worthy of her. They declare their love for each other, and plan to elope. But destiny has other plans in store for Maya and Prem. The same day Maya's grandfather fixes her wedding with Anand & informs Maya of his decision. Maya & Prem decide to run away. On the day of their elopement, the two lovers are caught by Maya's parents. As a result, Prem and his sidekick are kicked out of the house and Maya is forced to wed Dr. Anand. Back to the present time, Dr. Anand confides in her that he only married her due to his ill mother Savitri (Dina Pathak), who wanted to see him settle down before her death. Dr. Anand promises to unite the two lovers after his mother's death. During the time of her stay, Maya gets attached to Dr. Anand's daughter Chanda (Baby Suchita). Maya is a dutiful daughter-in-law and even helps to take care of Savitri's bodily functions when the nurses are not around. Savitri hands over all the house keys to Maya. She also hands over all the ancestral jewels to Maya. Meanwhile, Dr. Anand searches for Prem and successfully finds him outside a mall. Dr. Anand pretends to be a movie producer and hires Prem to be the music director for his new film. When his mother dies, Dr. Anand attempts to reunite Prem and Maya. However, Prem being a strong believer in the traditional Indian values of marriage and fidelity says he can accept if his lover becomes someone's wife but cannot accept if someone's wife becomes his lover. At this point Maya has lived with Anand for all of 7 days. Prem asks Maya to remove the Mangalsutra from her neck so that Maya would be his former Maya. Maya cannot, as she is a simple Indian girl with traditional values. Then Prem asks Dr Anand to remove the Mangalsutra from Maya's neck. When Dr Anand attempts to do this, Maya doesn't allow him to do so. Prem then, reaffirms that marriage is a lasting bond, and that Maya should be with Dr. Anand as they have married each other. He wishes both of them well and leaves. Prem makes his way with Raju in the dark to the sound of his harmonium. Prem sacrifices his love for greater values and returns to his life of poverty, simplicity and loneliness.

Najma and Akhtar are in love but need money to get married and start a life. Shakir Khan, a man from the Gulf, promises to help them but only if they can find him a young bride.