Lalit Parimoo

Neelkanth Chaturvedi, a constable in Bilaspur Central Jail, is on a duty to serve food to the prisoners when he comes across Padam, the Naxalite who killed his daughter. Will he curtail his fatherly instincts or will he avenge his daughter's death?

A small village in North India has no electricity, and the villagers live in darkness. Things take a turn when the villagers procure a gas lamp, but no one knows how to light it. The only person who can light it is Godhan, an outcast who was falsely accused and asked to leave the village.

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.

Vinod, who a secret agent is on a mission to find the reason why his colleague, Rajan was murdered, unfolds a bigger conspiracy.

Parmino is a small village in Central India, headed by a Village Committee comprising of all males. When the Government of India notifies the Committee that a third of them must be women, including people in schedules caste and tribes, the Sarpanch, Ratan Singh, decides to let women run for the election as well have seats in the Panchayat. After the meeting gets over, he asks his son, Inder, to get Manju, his wife, to sign the nomination papers. Also asked are the wife of another Panchayat member, as well as Vidya, the newly marred bride of a poor store owner, Bhanwar, who is indebted to Inder and Ratan Singh. In this way, Ratan and Inder hope to control the women through their respective husbands, and rule over the Panchayat as they have done before. They are in for a surprise when Vidya turns the tables on them, asking them to account where the funds for the partially built school were misappropriated as well having the rest of the village attend Gram Panchayat meetings and voice their concerns and grievances. Watch what happens when Ratan and Inder decide to use their influence in the community as well as over Bhanwar to throttle Vidya's voice. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)