Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Haider is Vishal Bhardwaj`s adaptation of William Shakespeare`s Hamlet. It follows Haider, a young man who returns home to Kashmir on receiving news of his father`s disappearance. Not only does he learn that the security forces have detained his father for harboring militants, but that his mother is in a relationship with his very own uncle. Intense drama follows between mother and son, as both struggle to come to terms with the news of his father`s death. Soon, Haider learns that his uncle is responsible for the gruesome murder and he sets out to avenge his father`s death.

Nandu (Bobby Deol) is an orphan turned assassin. He`s framed for a politician`s murder and is on the run. While travelling on a train, he meets Puran (Akshay Kapoor), who is on his way to his hometown after fourteen years. They talk through the journey and Puran tells Nandu all about his joint family and the wedding of a cousin that he is on his way to attend. Soon, the police catch up with Nandu and shoot him. But unfortunately Puran takes the bullet while shielding his new friend and dies on the spot. Nandu goes to Puran`s family home to return his grandfather`s watch and also to inform his family of his tragic death. But, in their joyful state amidst the celebrations, they presume that Nandu is Shekhar and drag him full on into it. Preet is a friend of the family and falls in love with Nandu on first sight. Nandu also likes her but CBI Inspector Rane is all out to look for the politician`s murderer. Will Nandu ever ride over the crisis? Who is the actual killer? What happens to Nandu and Preet`s love?

The patients at a hospice for senior citizens leave for their final destination. Pierre Creton provides the follow-up to his film Maniquerville.

Bangkok-based Tara Mishra and Nikhil Singh meet at a wedding ceremony and fall instantly in love with love with each. They move in together and continue to live a fairly blissful lifestyle until Tara is invited to India to attend a wedding. Nikhil not only refuses to accompany her but also refuses to introduce his widowed mother, Meera, who is now living with another male, Dilip, to her. Tara, a talented singer/dancer, feels neglected as he is always focused on his business, is not prepared to make any long-time commitment, and forgets important events. An encounter with a taxi-driver compels Nikhil to change his mind, but things do no work out, Tara leaves him and shortly thereafter passes away in an accident. A devastated and guilt-ridding Nikhil returns home, cradling her photo and falls asleep. He wakes up the next morning with Tara alive and well next to him. Was he hallucinating the events from the previous day or was he being warned by fate to change his ways? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Kohinoor is 5 yrs old, and has the ability to speak to animals. He lives with his mother (Aparajita Bhushan) and dad Devkaran (Ishrat Ali) (the Maharaja of the kingdom). Hanuman Baba (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) is a confidant of the King and has witnessed Kohinoor's unique powers. Devkaran is working to convert the Kingdom's vasts lands into a designated sanctuary for wild animals. Ranbir Singh (Salim Ghouse) & his wife (Kunika) want to exploit the natural forests for the wood and the antlers of deer, and growing opium. Ranbir is the manager of the Kingdom's vast estates and plans to take possession of the whole Kingdom, by marrying Devkaran's sister and pressing his claim to the Kingdom. Suryamani (Prem Chopra) is the cousin brother of Kohinoor's mom. Amina Bi (Aruna Irani) is Kohinoor's nanny. Ali (Raj Babbar) & Aslam are Amina's own sons. A fortune teller, who is also Ranbir's mother (Shashikala) tells Ranbir that Kohinoor will be his death. Fearing his death, Ranbir Singh (Salim Ghouse) decides to kill Kohinoor when he is a child. Ranbir attacks the palace in collusion with Suryamani. Ranbir kills his wife, Devkaran, his wife and his 2 daughters. Amina escapes with Kohinoor and Ali, sacrificing her other son Aslam (by making him pose like Kohinoor, whom Ranbir kills) Amina hands over Kohinoor to Hanuman Baba, and promises to send Ali 20 yrs later to take Kohinoor back to the Kingdom. But Amina is captured and tortured for 20 yrs by Ranbir. Ali grows up to be a resistance fighter against Ranbir's plan to grow opium in the cleared forest lands. Meanwhile Kohinoor grows up in the jungle and uses his powers to protect animals against poachers and hunters. Hanuman Baba protects Kohinoor's magical powers from being exposed to the outside world. Shaili Mathur (Manisha Koirala) is a reporter and runs a segment on people with unique abilities in India. Bhalu Prasad Bihari Orey (Shakti Kapoor) is her future fiance and the son of the owner of the channel. Shaili is ordered to track down the story on Kohinoor and verify its facts and bring it in front of the people. At the railway station, Shaili runs into Ali, who says that he is also headed to the Madhuban jungle to meet Kohinoor. Shaili gets Ali arrested for entering the wrong class of carriage (first class when he had a general ticket) Shaili heads to a village fair where all young men from the neighboring areas arrive in the hope to meet their life partner. She hopes that Kohinoor might also be there. Kohinoor indeed comes and falls in love with Shaili. He wants to marry Shaili, but she is offended that an uneducated villager wants to marry her. a policeman tries to fraud Shaili of Rs 5000 by passing off a random guy as Kohinoor and Shaili thinks the story has no merit. But there is no train till the next day. They decide to spend the time in a jungle safari. They are attacked by a herd of elephants, who end up overturning their jeep. Kohinoor arrives in time and saves them. Shalini decides to play a damsel in distress to seduce Kohinoor. Shalini says she loves him, since he saved her life. Kohinoor reciprocates the love when Shalini confirms that Orey is not her fiance.. Kohinoor introduces Shaili to Hanuman Baba, who advises Kohinoor against marrying this girl from the city. The news of Kohinoor's find reaches the papers and Ali rushes to Madhuban to stop him before he leaves with Shaili. But before he can get there, Kohinoor leaves with Shaili for the city. Ali meets Hanuman Baba, who sends Ali after Kohinoor to the city. Ali and Hanuman Baba intercept the train before it reaches the city and tell the truth to Kohinoor. Hanuman Baba tells Kohinoor about his past and how Ranbir slaughtered his entire family. Kohinoor leaves. Hanuman, Ali and Kohinoor reach the Kingdom. Ranbir dangles Amina's freedom if Kohinoor agrees to meet him alone. Kohinoor agrees since Amina sacrificed her own son to save Kohinoor once. Meanwhile Shaili reaches Devpur with Orey. Kohinoor and Ranbir meet and trade insults. Ranbir has chained Amina in a circular cage structure, and unleashes lions on her. The lions are blind and hence cannot be hypnotized by Kohinoor. Turns out the lions are the ones that Kohinoor played with when he was a kid. The lions refuse to attack him or Amina. Ranbir reneges on his promise and attacks Kohinoor with his army. But Ali arrives in time to thwart the attack and rescue Amina and Kohinoor. Ranbir and Suryamani take refuge in a local police station as Ali's forces surround the village. Kohinoor and Ali rescue all the animals in Ranbir's farm and set fire to his opium fields.. Shaili pursues Kohinoor, but he continues to ignore her due to her betrayal. Shaili tries to commit suicide, Kohinoor saves her but is still unconvinced about her proposed love for him. Eventually though Kohinoor relents and reciprocates her love. Meanwhile the village kids have withdrawal symptoms due to lack of opium as Ranbir had them addicted on the stuff. The doctors give up as they have no anesthetics. The only solution is to put all the kids to sleep.. If Kohinoor uses his powers to hypnotize kids, he will loose them, but he does so anyways, as he wants to save the kids of the village. Kohinoor loses his powers (unknown to him, this was all planned by a mole planted by Ranbir) and promptly Ranbir's forces attack. Hanuman is shot and Kohinoor withdraws to save him. Meanwhile Ranbir captures the entire village including Ali and Shaili. Ranbir's mother tells him that marrying Shaili would make him immune to Kohinoor. Shaili uses this to her advantage and drive a rift between Ranbir and his wife existing wife Lady Helen (Kunika). Kohinoor assembles his forces around Ranbir's palace. By the grace of God, Kohinoor retains the love of all animals, who come to his aid during the attack. In the end the animals and Kohinoor defeat Ranbir, rescues Amina, Ali and Shaili.. Kohinoor kills Ranbir by throwing him off the roof.

Businessman Rai Bahadur Laxmi Narayan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with his wife, Lakshmi. Although they have been married for several years, they have no children. While on a trip to Simla, they get adopt their servant, Diler's son, re-name him Vicky, and bring him back home, much to the dismay of Diler's wife, Parvati. Aometime later, Lakshmi gets pregnant and re-visits Simla, meets with an accident and passes away, leaving behind a new-born son, Amar. Diler wants to kill Amar, but Parvati wants to return him to Laxmi Narayan, and runs away to Bombay. Diler informs his employer that both his wife and son have passed away and have been cremated. Diler re-locates to Bombay, follows her but is unable to locate Parvati. She does reach Bombay along with Amar but she, in turn, is unable to locate Laxmi Narayan. Years later Amar has grown up, lives with Parvati in Versova, works as a Police Inspector in Sion Police Station, and is in love with Priya, the Superintendent of Police's daughter, while Diler is a taxi-driver, and Vicky is an alcoholic and wants to wed Priya. Their lives will soon interline and become complicated with blackmail, deceit, and murder. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Industrialist Rai Bahadur Laxmi Narayan lives in Bombay, India. Although he has been married to Lakshmi for years they have no children. On a trip to Simla; the couple adopt the son of their employee, Diler much to the displeasure to Diler's wife, Parvati. On their return to Bombay they decides to name the child, Vicky. Time passes with Lakshmi becoming pregnant; the duo then returns to Simla where Lakshmi give birth to a son and passes away. Diler wants to kill Rai Bahadur son resulting in Parvati running away with the child to Bombay and in turn fails to locate Rai Bahadur. Diler then informs his boss about his wife and new-born baby's death and their cremation. Eventually years passed by with Diler following Parvati to Bombay but is unable to locate her yielding him to take up profession as a taxi driver. Parvati raises Rai Bahadur son, Amar and together they resides at Versova with Amar taking up the job of a police inspector and is in love with the Superintendent of Police daughter, Priya while Vicky grows up to be an alcoholic and amateur gambler and he too aspire to marry Priya. Time intertwine their lives in the dark world of deceit, lies, blackmail and murder. —gavin (racktoo@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.

Ajay is framed by Balwant Rai for his brother's murder and sent to prison. Later, he befriends three convicts and sets out to seek revenge against Balwant Rai. Ajay Mehra lives with his elder brother Ashok and sister-in-law Indu. He leaves for Bangalore in order to train to become an international boxer. On his return to New Delhi, he finds that Ashok is missing. He lodges a complaint at the police station but to no avail. He decides to search for his brother himself but still does not find him. Later on, Ashok's body is found and Ajay is accused of killing him as well as having an illicit relationship with his sister-in-law. While in jail, Ajay makes friends with some other hardcore convicts, who are good at heart. Then one day, they escape the jail by overpowering the guards. Ajay only has one thing on his mind: to kill Balwant Rai, a wealthy, powerful and corrupt businessman who had used Ashok's business as a front for his illegal activities. Ajay's new friends and his love interest Varsha, a journalist, help him in his mission. —Soumitra Amateur boxer, Ajay Mehra return home only to learn that his elder brother, Ashok is missing. His searches and a police complaint only leads to frustration and violence outburst. Eventually Ashok's dead body is found and Ajay is charged with killing him as well as having an illicit relationship with his sister in law Indu. Then Ajay along with three other inmates escape from jail in order to punish the real culprit, Balwant Rai. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Ajay Mehra is a boxing champion living with his brother Ashok and his wife Indu.He is marriage to Varsha has been approved by his brother and his wife.Ashok is facing losses in business and hides it from Ajay.When Ajay goes for a boxing camp in Bangalore and finds Ashok comes to meet him he realizes that he is in trouble.When Ajay returns from Bangalore he finds that Ashok has been missing since many days.The cops to don't take action on his complaint.Ajay somehow meets Balwant Rai his business partner who promises to help him.But he finds that Balwant Rai is the actual culprit who has held Ashok captive as he came to know about his illegal activities.Balwant Rai is attacked by Ajay following which Balwant Rai kills Ashok and Ajay his held for the murder.During the court sessions Pramodsharan Gupta a lawyer and family friends also testifies that Ajay killed Ashok as he was having illegitimate relationship with Indu.Indu then commits suicide and Ajay his jailed fro killing Ashok.While in the prison he befriends inmates Rajan,Mitwa and Bashir who plan their escape from jail and support Ajay to fight against Balwant Rai. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Honest and diligent Forest Officer Kishan Srivastav (Jackie Shroff) and his wife Jaya (Jaya Pradha) come to the rural area of Ramgarh, and upset the criminal activities of Thakur Dayalu (Anupam Kher), a corrupt Police Inspector Kiran Kumar (Kiran Kumar) and their croonies, which include capture and death of wild life, so that Dayalu can decorate his palatial home. Kishan attempts to disrupt their criminal activities, he finds that Dayalu Singh has by-passed him and complained to his superiors, thereby getting him dismissed from employment and being framed and imprisoned for a murder. Apparently, this is not the only time that Dayalu has got away with murder. He had also killed Gopal (Sunny Deol) in the presence of his to-be bride, Jugni (Sridevi), making her lose her sanity. Dayalu frames Jugni's dad, Jwalaprasad (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) for the murder of Gopal. And with Jaya all by herself, Dayalu turn his lustful eyes on her. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Honest and diligent Forest Officer, Kishan Srivastav attempts to curb the exploitation of wild-life in the jungles surrounding a rural area called Ramgarh. The culprit behind this crime is the powerful and influential Thakur Dayalu who after capturing and death of these wild-life are using them to decorate his mansion. Dayalu attempts to bribe Kishan on one occasion and then another by making Kishan's wife, Jaya and young son a target; when he is unsuccessful he takes the help of a corrupt police officer, Kiran Kumar to frame Kishan for committing a murder and have him sent away to jail. Dayalu is also responsible for killing Gopal in-front of his fiancée, Jugni, making her lose her sane and in the process framing Jugni's father, Jwalaprasad for this killing. Meanwhile Jaya finds it hard to lead a normal life without Kishan and to worsen matters Dayalu continues to torment her as he has his lustful eyes on her. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985), directed by Raj Kapoor, is a bold film that explores themes of purity, love, and social morality against the backdrop of rural India. The film marked Raj Kapoor`s return to filmmaking after a long gap and became one of his most talked-about works. The film stars Rajiv Kapoor, Raj Kapoor`s younger son, in the role of a simple and idealistic young man, Ram, who sets out to bring back his fiancee, Ganga (Mandakini), whom he had promised to marry. Ganga is symbolically portrayed as the "pure" Ganga river, but her journey is fraught with exploitation, corruption, and tragedy. The film contrasts Ganga`s purity with the dirty waters of the River Ganga, metaphorically suggesting that society often taints what it considers pure.

Shakti is a Hindi movie starring Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee Gulzar, Amrish Puri and Smita Patil in prominent roles. It is directed by Ramesh Sippy.

Devdhar, a poor orphan, and Manorama, the daughter of a rich man, are childhood friends but their social status keeps them apart. Years later, when tragedy strikes Manorama, Devdhar vows to being a smile on her face.

A veterinarian, Dr. Rao, visits a village where he intends to commence a cooperative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people.