Lalita Pawar

Girdharilal (Kader Khan) is a very rich and wealthy man. He has made a number of enemies. One of his enemies asks a beggar to masquerade as Girdharilal for a price, to which the beggar agrees. The switch takes place, with the real Girdharilal being abducted. A series of hilarious and comical events take turn as the beggar attempts to pretend to be a rich, left-handed tycoon. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A rich and wealthy couple, Shankarlal and Parvati (Sanjeev Kumar & Raakhee) are appalled at the problems of the world, especially in households, so they decide to try and make things right - one household at a time. They first go the household of alcoholic Rajesh (Rakesh Roshan); his domineering mom (Lalita Pawar); and uneducated wife, Veena (Deepti Naval). Their second task takes them to the household of Vishwanath Gupta(A.K. Hangal); his son, Madhu (Amol Palekar) who has taken to drinking; and his attractive, outgoing, and wealthy wife, Aruna (Sarika). The couple go to work on these families to turn them around and improve and better their relations with each other. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sunil (Shashi Kapoor) are burglars who are assigned to kidnap the son of Seth Mathur (Shreeram Lagoo), Bittoo. They get enrolled in the school to get close to the kid. There Vijay meets Anju (Parveen Babi) and Sunil meets Shalu (Hema Malini). Unaware of their background, the girls fall in love. However as time comes close, the boys realise they cannot kidnap Bittoo due to their affection towards him. Sunil`s boss Uncle Jagdish (Kader Khan) loses hope on him and he himself comes up with a plan and abducts the boy. Whether or not the two are able to protect their friend from their uncle, forms the rest of the story.

Amar (Sanjeev Kumar), is a wealthy widower (he runs a successful toy store in the city) (he is empathetic and considerate to other feelings, especially to the treatment meted out to step children by mothers in 2nd marriages) who shares his house with his daughter Aarti and a servant Dayal (Mehmood) in the city of Bhopal. He is constantly bothered by his sister and brother-in-law (Anwar Hussain) (who was himself brought up by a stepmother), who want him to remarry - if not for his sake, then for the sake of his young daughter who needs the love of a mother. Amar having had enough reluctantly agrees to marry. They scout for potential wives, and decide to choose between two sisters-Shobha (Madhu Malini), and Sheela (Meena T.) who reside in Bombay. Since Amar has never met either of them, he is not sure if they will be the appropriate choice. In order to test them, when he visits them in Bombay - he decides to swap places with his servant Dayal. The party (Amar, Aarti and Dayal) arrive at the prospective-in-laws house, which features Durga (Lalita Pawar), as the arrogant and abusive prospective mother-in-law and her weak and helpless husband Shanti Swarup (Manmohan Krishna) and father of the two daughters. Shobha is dumb, while Sheela is a dancer, but doesn't like a groom who has a kid from the first marriage. Dayal (as Amar) is given a spacious room, and Amar (as Dayal) is settled into the servant's quarters, which consists of an untidy room with no electricity. Soon, Amar (the real one) realizes that he is in fact attracted to Geeta, played by Jaya Bhaduri, (the household servant). Geeta is an orphan who works in the house, and is mistreated by everyone except Shanti Swarup. Geeta sees that Aarti is very attached to Amar (as Dayal).. Amar (as Dayal) tells her that he considers Aarti as his own daughter and seeks a wife who will also treat her like a mother. The cooks (Shibban and Bansi) of the house befriend Amar (As Dayal). Durga had told the cooks to serve food cooked in oil, but the cooks ignore her and cook it in ghee. They inform Amar (As Dayal) that the whole house is full of deceptions. Shanti Swarup has no say and Durga runs the show. Shibban befriends Dayal (As Amar), who tells Shibban to go on strike to demand a pay rise from Durga, who has always refused it in the past and only pays them rs 50. But Durga is adamant and decides to fire them instead. She asks Dayal (As Amar) to deploy Amar (as Dayal) as the cook for the house. soon, Geeta realizes that Amar (as Dayal) cant cook and bails him out by helping to cook. When Dayal (As Amar) finds out, he goes rushing to the kitchen to help Amar (as Dayal) in the cooking. But then Durga arrives and starts helping out. Eventually Durga, Shobha and Sheela start working in the kitchen. Amar (as Dayal) has a sick stomach and is ordered out and Geeta helps Dayal (as Amar) to set up his bath. Amar cannot reveal himself and openly propose marriage to her, since he is posing as a servant. Amar (as Dayal) finally conjures up courage to face Geeta and admits his feelings for her and says he wants to marry her. Geeta is overjoyed and wants to meet Amar (as Dayal) but is afraid that Durga will never agree to the match. Jaggu (Jalal Agha) is a local grocer who supplies the Durga kitchen and is close to her. Jaggu always flirts with Geeta, which she does not like, but this time Amar (as Dayal) stands up for her and tells Jaggu to keep within his limits. Amar (As Dayal) figures out that while Shobha likes Dayal (as Amar), but Sheela doesn't. Durga suspects something is wrong & tries to get Aarti to tell the truth, but when Amar (as Dayal) tries to intervene, Durga is offended and slaps him hard. Meanwhile Amar (as Dayal) sees how Aarti is getting closer and closer to Geeta and now feels comfortable even sleeping with her. But Durga breaks all the toys that Geeta had made to entertain Aarti. Geeta is devastated. A side story features Dayal's younger brother Vijay, who is studying in Bombay and is supported by Dayal. It turns out in a fateful co-incidence, unbeknownst to her parents and to Dayal, that Vijay (Shailendra Singh) is Sheela's secret college boyfriend. Dayal (as Amar) discovers this by accident when on a date with Shobha; the two couples accidentally bump into each other in a club. Sheela introduces Dayal to Vijay as Amar. Vijay is intrigued. Dayal visits Vijay at his hostel and tells him the truth. Dayal tells Vijay that Amar might select Sheela as Aarti's mother and hence begs him to forget Sheela. Durga takes everyone out for sightseeing, but Geeta is at home. Jaggu arrives and tries to flirt. Geeta slaps Jaggu and then he tries to force himself upon her. Amar (As Dayal) intervenes and beats up Jaggu badly. eventually Geeta learns from Aarti that Amar (As Dayal) is her real dad and Dayal (as Amar) is a servant. When Aarti speaks to Amar, he says he likes Geeta, but says she is a maid and hence perhaps cant be her mother. Jaggu meanwhile speaks to Durga and asks for Geeta's hand in marriage. Durga accepts when she learns that Geeta loves Amar (as Dayal). Geeta decides to leave the house, but Durga is adamant that Geeta's mother left her in her care and as such it is Durga's right to marry her away to whomever she sees fit. Shanti SWarup asks Amar (as Dayal) to get Geeta back. He tells Amar (as Dayal) that Geeta is not a servant, but the daughter of Durga's friend. Geeta lost both her parents as a kid and Durga promised to bring her up as her own child. But over years, Durga treated Geeta only like a servant. Amar (as Dayal) catches up to Geeta and requests her to stop for Aarti's sake. Geeta addresses Amar as Amar and accepts his proposal. Thats when Jaggu shows up with goons. Amar beats them up, which is when police arrives as Durga had complained that Geeta had run away with house servant Dayal Meanwhile Amar's sister arrives at Durga's and recognizes Dayal as Dayal. Now Police arrives with Jaggu, Amar and Geeta. Shanti Swarup tells police to arrest Jaggu for harassing Geeta and recognizes Amar as Amar. Amar reveals that Sheela loves Vijay and Shobha loves Dayal. Durga is livid that both her daughters are wedding servants. Amar then accepts Geeta as his wife. Amar transfers his toy factory to Dayal and Vijay to make them his equals. Amar says that Dayal's dad died when he was young. Dayal sacrificed his life to educate Vijay and in the process brought up Amar as well. Dayal is a God to him. even then Durga refuses to marry her daughters to Dayal and Vijay. Now Shanti Swarup gets up and starts beating Durga to put her in her place. Geeta stops him. Durga apologizes for her behavior and agrees to the weddings.

An honest lawyer gets imprisoned because of a powerful crime lord. After his release, he decides to take revenge and hires men to form his own gang. Soon, he becomes a wanted criminal by the police.

Rich playboy Anupam Verma (Dharmendra) loves flirting and romancing with girls, but as far as marriage is concerned, he has vowed to marry his dream girl, someone like the painting of the girl he once brought from a roadside shop. Anupam lives at his palatial house with Daima (Lalita Pawar), Anupam's nurse maid, and now the matron of the house. Luckily, on a fine day he actually came face to face with his dream girl (Hema Mailini). The face of the painting is not made of colors now, but with flesh. An excited and astonished Anup rushed to her and told her about his feelings. But his dream girl, to his great shock, stole his money (from a briefcase inside Anup's car) and ran away!!! Greatly shaken Anupam now promises to himself to find the girl at any cost, and there is only one clue for finding her, the shop from where he brought the painting. That day Anup was going to meet Khanna for a business deal that was set up by his brother Prem. But due to chasing his dream girl, Anup never made it to the meeting, and Khanna believes that Prem betrayed him. Dream girl's real name is Sapna (Hema Malini) who runs an orphanage & steals from the rich, like Anup, to support her brood. One of her children, Chintoo, is a painter, who made a portrait & sold it to a vendor where Anup bought it. Sapna has a brother, Chandu (Asrani) who supports her in this noble cause. Prem Verma (Prem Chopra) is Anup's cousin brother & has got a girl named Roopa pregnant and forces her to leave the child at Sapna's orphanage. Prem also has debts with a loan shark Khanna, who wants to partner with Anup. Prem has promised to deliver Anup to Khanna in exchange of the debts. Prem wants Anup to sign on the partnership documents with Khanna. The company accountant (S. N. Banerjee) tells Anup that Khanna is selling Anup's goods to multiple parties even without having the goods in possession. So, if Anup signs the deal, the company will not be able to deliver the goods, and it will cost them Rs 8 Lakhs in losses. Anup confronts Prem, but still loves Prem & continues to support him without the knowledge of his grandfather Ashok Verma (Ashok Kumar). Prem is the son of Ashok's daughter, while Anup is Ashok's grandson. Anup sees meeting his dream girl as a good sign, as that prevented him from signing the partnership documents and causing a huge loss to the company. Sapna and Chandu team up to scam rich people out of their money to support the orphanage. Sapna poses as an unmarried mother (with Roopa's baby) and interrupts the wedding to claim that the groom is the father. The groom's father (D. K. Sapru) wants to pay off Sapna, but their family friend Colonel (Satyendra Kapoor) wants the groom to marry Sapna instead. This prompts Sapna and Chandu to run away, and to avoid detection by the police, Chandu hides the kid in a car. The car belongs to Anup, who unknowingly brings the baby home. Chandu and Sapna follow and pose as saints to get the baby back. They claim that the boy is an incarnation of the Lord. They distract Anup and Daima and escape with the baby. Sapna is in financial difficulty & decides to allow adoption of kids to survive. She even gives away Chintoo to Dr Kapoor (Ramesh Deo) (who lives in America and claims that Chintoo's disability can be cured with proper treatment in the US), but then can't see the kids being all sad as one of them is given away. She goes & gets Chintoo back. Ashok admonishes Anup for supporting Prem even when he knows of Prem's association with his hooligan friends. He is also sick of Anup's womanizing ways & wants to marry him off. Anup says he is in love & Ashok wants to meet the girl. Anup meets Sapna when she tries to swindle him again with the car hitting the pram trick. But this time Anup catches her red handed & gets her to pose as Princess Sapna, & his girlfriend in front of Ashok. Ashok is instantly fond of Sapna & refuses for her to leave the house. Now Chandu is caught by Colonel whom they duped earlier & is handed over to police. There is no one at home to care for the kids. The kids wander the streets to find Sapna & finally locate her. But Sapna is forced to refuse them due to the fear of disappointing Ashok & the money promised by Anup, which can pay for the well-being of all the kids. But Anup finds out the truth & helps to bail out Chandu & takes care of the kids. When Sapna finds out, she loves Anup. But Prem also finds Sapna's real identity. He tries to blackmail Sapna for money, but she refuses to play along, even though Prem knows that Sapna was once a call girl by the name of Champabai. Prem reveals the truth at the engagement party for Anup & Sapna. Ashok is furious but finds that Sapna has already left the house leaving a letter behind. Ashok refuses to allow Anup to marry Sapna, but his mind is made. Then Daima reveals that Ashok's son didn't have a son, he had a daughter before both husband and wife died in an accident. Daima wanted to save the wealth from going to Prem's evil dad, so gave the daughter to a woman named Ratna & brought Anup from an orphanage. Prem knows this Ratna & immediately connects that Sapna is Ashok's real granddaughter. Prem finds the real Ratna & pays her to identify Roopa (Alka) as the granddaughter. He then kidnaps Ratna, Sapna & the kids & plans to kill them all to remove all proof against Roopa. But Anup follows & rescues them. Ratna accepts the truth in front of Ashok. He accepts Sapna & her entire brood & marries her off to Anup.

Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later, he is living with a wealthy couple who have adopted him as their son and is now named Naresh Dutt. One day (after a car accident on the roads) he wakes up and cannot recognize his parents and has no recollection of his recent past. Mr Sumesh Dutt (Pradeep Kumar) and Mrs Dutt (Urmila Bhatt) had lost their 8 year old son Naresh 20 years ago in the Kumbh Mela. Sumesh tells Naresh that 6 yrs ago, while travelling to Nasik, they found a man injured on the railway tracks and Mrs Dutt adopted him as her own son, Naresh. When the man woke up, he had lost his memory and easily accepted MR and Mrs Dutt as his parents. Mr Dutt reveals to Naresh that his real son's dead body was found the very next day in Sangam river, but he never told his wife as she would have committed suicide. Naresh begins to regain his memory when he watches a film and realizes that the actress in the film is related to him somehow. It is then that he discovers the actress in the film is none other than his wife Rekha Roy (Rekha). In flashbacks Naresh remembers that Rekha was a small time dancer in Calcutta when he met her for the first time. He got married to her, but she was not happy as she was ambitious and wanted to earn both respect and fame in her career. right from the beginning Rekha makes it clear with Amit (which is his real name) that she wont do housework and is dis-satisfied with his rs 500 a month salary. She wants luxury and status... Amit takes 2 loans on his PF and money from his friends to fund his wives lavish lifestyle and her dancing classes. To the extent that this comes in notice of his boss, who decides to cut 50% of his pay towards his PF loan. Meanwhile Rekha wants to increase the salary of her dance teacher to Rs 100/month. The teacher brings a movie producer, who wants Rekha to perform a cabaret in his next movie. But Amit refuses and Rekha is angry. Then they realize that Rekha is pregnant and she is furious at Amit for destroying her life and her career. Amit's neighbor (Lalita Pawar) stokes the marital discord for her own entertainment. Due to his hard work Amit receives a promotion at work and his PF loan is excused. Mithun is born and is now 4 yrs old. Ranjeet Malik (Prem Chopra) is Amit's US returned friend, whom he introduces to Rekha. Rekha is attracted to Ranjeet's flashy cars and expensive clothes. He offers Rekha a dance performance for charity, which Amit allows. Rekha liked a pearl necklace but it costed rs 1500, so Amit wants to borrow money from Ranjeet to gift the necklace to Rekha on her birthday. But Ranjeet refuses the money to Amit and gifts Rekha the necklace himself. Amit starts to think that something is on between Rekha and Ranjeet. The charity show is a hit and Ranjeet tells Amit that he is getting movie offers for Rekha. Amit gets more and more jealous and Rekha goes to Ranjeet to complain. Ranjeet suggests they all take a vacation in Mumbai and takes them by train. In the train, Ranjeet gets Amit drunk and when Amit again talks about why Ranjeet is being so generous to him and Rekha, Ranjeet pushes him off the train. Amit travels to Calcuuta and finds out that Rekha is now a very successful film actress, having changed her name to Sunita Devi and her manager is none other than Ranjeet. Amit befriends director Mr Sanyal (Utpal Dutt) who tells Amit (who poses as a film financier from Mumbai) that Rekha's first husband committed suicide and that his young son who is now 10 years old has been sent to a boarding school and regains custody of his son. He first makes sure that his son recognizes him, despite the disguise, which he does. He plans on taking revenge against Ranjeet. Amit comes up with a plan to re-enter Rekha and Ranjit's lives by disguising himself as a film producer. He meets with Rekha and Ranjit and offers Rekha the opportunity to act in his new film titled Do Anjaane. Rekha and Ranjit grow suspicious of Naresh Dutt as they start to realize that he bears a striking resemblance to Rekha's supposedly deceased husband Amit Roy and the story line of his film eerily mirrors Rekha's past life. Amit uses his wealth to lure Rekha away from Ranjeet and drive a wedge between the two. Ranjeet and Rekha do their own investigation but only find that Naresh is indeed the sole son of wealthy businessman Sumeet. After shooting one of the scenes, Rekha realizes that Ranjeet had pushed Amit out of the train, and he had not committed suicide as Ranjeet had claimed. Ranjeet threatens Rekha that if he is arrested, she will be too. Ranjeet attacks Amit, but Amit is ready and records his confession and hands him over to the police. Rekha arrives and Amit tells her that he will take away Mithun from her. The next day they both arrive at the boarding school and Mithun decides to go with Amit. In the end, Amit pretended to go back to Mumbai with his son, instead came back to Rekha's home with his parents. It is concluded that he forgave her halfheartedly and they got back together again.

Mala witnesses a murder and escapes on a bus from Bombay to Goa. She ends up on a road trip with people from all over India, including Ravikumar, a man who vows to protect her.

Two men find an elderly millionaire who had gone missing and plan to get rich off him. But when his associates are killed, the duo end up under police scrutiny as prime suspects.

Ajay Singh meets with pretty Asha Chibber, and is led to believe that she is wealthy. After a few misunderstandings, he does find out that she is from a poor family. Both do fall in love, and Ajay goes to meet with Asha's brother, Dr.O.P. Chibber, and his wife, Shanti. They are pleased with this alliance, and arrangements are made for Ajay's mom, Gayetridevi to visit them and approve of Asha, which is done. Subsequently, Ajay and Asha are married, and settle down. Asha is expected to give birth to a baby boy as a heir to the Singh family. Unfortunately, she is unable to do so, and even worse -loses her eye-sight and becomes dependent on Ajay. Frustrated at this, Gayetridevi decides to ask Asha to leave the house, and arranges a second marriage for Ajay, with results that will change the lives of everyone around them. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Tale of a female nurse trying to maintain a balance between her professional life and her emotions who falls victim to the natural feeling of love and compassion when a person takes care of another person. Colonel Saab is also a doctor in a psychiatric hospital in India. His particular interest is in treating patients with a acute mania, which he describes is caused by the male child's longing for the unconditional love he gets from his mother, and after he separates from her, he searches for this love in other women, until he meets the one who he feels is capable of offering the same. But when that does not happen, the male child becomes cynical, full of hatred, and distrust and develops acute mania. His hospital nurse, Radha, had successfully treated one such patient by the name of Dev, and now they have another one by the name of Arun Choudhury. A reluctant Radha is asked to act as his caring mother-like nurse, to gain his trust, love him, and then make him ready to face everyday life. What Colonel Saab, Dev, and Arun do not realize what this is doing to Radha herself when she feels that she cannot act anymore and becomes more and more involved in her patients' lives, knowing fully well that she has to keep up a professional attitude, and that the patient is going to be discharged soon, and may not even remember the care, love and treatment he received from Radha. Radha has now to decide to carry on being a nurse, without being a woman, who is quite capable in falling in love with Dev, and again with Arun. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Shortly after independence India faces terrorists attacks in Assam, resulting in many deaths and casualties. A group of concerned citizens then decide to do something to stop this carnage. Shortly after independence India faces terrorists attacks in Assam, resulting in many deaths and casualties. A group of concerned citizens, who are not connected with the Government, decide to do something to stop this carnage. While Salim is already at work in Beirut, his cover is blown and he is shot dead. Now Sunil Mehra must travel to Beirut and take over from Salim. Once there, he meets a former flame, Meenakshi Mehta, and also a female admirer by the name of Zenab. The terrorists are headed by a man named Syed, who deputes one of his assistants, Madame, to spy on Sunil's dad, Diwan Chand Mehra, by posing as Mehra's daughter's aunt, forcing her to obey by abducting her son, Babloo, and holding him captive. Soon Syed and his associates, including Doctor X and Captain find out all secrets of Mehra, as a result of which Sunil is trapped and held by Syed. Then Diwan's world is shattered when Meenakshi telephonically informs him that Sunil has been killed. The question remains what will happen to Babloo, Diwan, and the rest of the concerned citizens, especially when they have become vulnerable due to Madame's presence in their very household. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Sleepwalker Sita Raichand (Waheeda Rehman) is rescued by Ram (Manoj Kumar) while walking on a railway track. Shortly thereafter Guruji (David) and Mr. Raichand (Balraj Sahni), approach Ram's mom (Lalita Pawar) with a marriage proposal. Finding the proposal suitable both Ram and his mom agree, and as a result Ram and Sita are married. After the marriage, Sita displays very strange behaviour, like walking away during the night for long durations. This increases the suspicions of everyone in Ram's household. Ram subsequently finds out that there is a lot more to Sita's disappearance than sleepwalking, as Sita seems attracted to someone else from a previous birth. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Beautiful Meena lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widowed dad, Thakur, in a small town in India. When her dad hires a new Manager, Rajesh, she and her friend, Taruna, decide to tease him and make him believe that both are in love with him. He finds out and pretends that he has fallen in love with both. As a result both women end up falling in love with him with the Thakur ready to permit Meena to wed with him. Acrimony sets in between Meena and Taruna when Meena makes it clear that she wants Rajesh for herself as well as reminds her that her marriage has been finalized with their Contractor, Lala Bhagatram, when Taruna was a child. Then Rajesh is assaulted by some men and his mother, Shanti, attends to look after him. It is her presence that will not only unleash a dark secret from their past, which included a murder, but also lead to another homicide. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Bipinchandra breaks family tradition by marrying a city girl, Hemangini, much to the chagrin of his sister-in-law, Kadambini, and her husband, Navinchandra. Things are delicate even after both women give birth to two children each. Then Hemangini testifies against Navinchandra in Court, leading to the division of the property. Things got worse by the arrival of Kadambini's orphaned school-going step-brother, Kishan, who is beaten and abused by not only by Kadambini and Navinchandra, but also by their overweight son. When Hemangini objects to Kishan's ill-treatment, Bipin takes the side of the rest of the family, and may probably force her to abandon Kishan to his fate or divorce her. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Noor Jahan, the empress of the Mughal empire, becomes the favourite wife of Emperor Jahangir and steadily begins to exert more influence on the throne through her love for him.

Mohini Saxena is the only child in the Saxena household, which consists of her Professor dad, Kishanlal, and bed-ridden, ailing mom. She is a medical student, quite free-willed, and friendly with everyone, including young men. And it is for this reason that she has a fainting spell, which when diagnosed results in a pregnancy. Kishanlal is devastated, all the more when his wife finds out and dies suddenly. Alone, and with a pregnant daughter, who is expelled from college, Kishanlal attempts to find out who the father is, for Mohini has decided not to reveal the name of the father. Is he their neighbor's son, Bipin Bose with whom Mohini was quite friendly with? Or is he, Ravi Kumar Mehra, the son of wealthy Amarchand Mehra, Kishanlal's business partner, with whom Mohini spent quite a few romantic moments? or is it some other young man that Mohini has been seeing on the sly. Watch what transpires as the hapless Kishanlal attempts to plead with Mehras and Boses' in an attempt to ensure a better future for his now black-listed, visibly pregnant, daughter. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A criminal young man decides to reform himself for a left away widowed woman. But their relationship faces challenges. Circumstances have made Shaka a career criminal. When plague empties a town of its inhabitants, he takes the opportunity to burgle a house. He finds nothing except Shanti, a widowed daughter-in-law who has been left to die by her cruel relatives. Shaka nurses her back to health. When her relatives return they are not pleased to find her alive and even less pleased to discover that someone has tried to rob them. Shanti gets the blame and a beating. Shaka saves her from worse, at the hands of brother-in-law, and the pair flee. They set up home in Shaka's house, much to the displeasure of the respectable neighbours who are all too ready to think the worst. Shanti's relatives are dismayed when a lawyer arrives to announce that Shanti has been left a legacy. They hatch a plot to get her back. Meanwhile, Shaka's rehabilitation is proceeding - much to the chagrin of his former criminal associates. Fire and redemption for some, death and handcuffs for others is what fate has in store. —van Goethem Widowed Shanti lives with her wealthy but parsimonious father-in-law, Jeevan Ram; her mother-in-law, who is cruel and beats her black and blue; and an unmarried brother-in-law, Kalicharan, who would like to have a sexual relationship with her. When the town is over-run with plague, the family takes all their wealth, and leaves an ailing Shanti at the mercy of the disease. Unable to move or take care of herself, Shanti knows now that her end is near. Then a thief, Shaaka alias Shakti Singh, breaks into the house, looking for jewelery and cash. When he searches the house from top to bottom and is unable to find anything of value, he hears Shanti coughing, and goes up to her room, hears about her plight, brings the local doctor, Alopinath, ensures that she takes her medication, and when she is able to walk, takes her with him to his house. It is then Shanti finds out that despite his civility, he is feared and hated by the local townspeople - and it is then she realizes that she may have jumped from the proverbial frying pan into the fire as Shaaka is not likely to let go of her anytime soon. Watch what happens when Jeevan Ram and his family find out that Shanti has inherited some wealth from a distant relative, and the manner they attempt to woo Shanti back to their household. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A group of poor and helpless tenants are left to fend for themselves when the selfish daughter of their kind-hearted landlady decides to sell the property in order to afford a luxurious lifestyle. Seema lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed mom in Bombay, India. Her mother is a compassionate soul who rents out several rooms in a self-owned building, which is occupied by very poor and nearly destitute people like Chandu - who sells Rotis for a living; Rammurthy - who sells milk; as well as Murari who is physically handicapped, and Manglu who is unable to find employment nor food for his wife and malnourished children. Seema's mom often ends up looking after her tenants financially and also gives them ample time to find money to pay the rent. While returning home from a picnic in Khandala, Seema ends up in the wrong train compartment and meets a young man by the name of Rajan. She finds out that he wants to rent a room in Bombay and asks him to approach his mother. Upon arrival he does locate Seema's mom, and is permitted to share a room with Chandu and Rammurthy - much to his displeasure as he had expected a room to himself. Eventually both he and Seema fall in love. Seema's mother wants to retire and as a result transfers the property to Seema's name and goes for a Tirth Yatra. When she returns nothing is the same anymore as Seema, who wants a luxurious lifestyle, has sold the building to Bihari, and is all set to evict the tenants forcibly. Watch what happens when Seema's mother and Rajan decide to confront her to try and stop this sale. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Ashok, a smooth-talking con artist, falls in love with Seema. But when he is exposed to her, he must not only win back her love but also protect her from the ghosts of his past.

Shekhar marries Sharda, but soon he is arrested by the police for the murder of a woman named Hemlata, with whom he was involved. He is later tried in the court by his disapproving father. Shekhar is a Lothario. He's also the son of the Public Prosecutor. After his philandering has exhausted his parents' patience, he takes a fancy to Saradha and contrives to put her in a compromising position. She cannot escape from marrying him after her father accepts the Public Prosecutor's proposal of a union between their offspring. Shocked by his bride's contempt for his behaviour, Shekhar resolves to wait until his wife accepts him of her own volition. When she contracts pneumonia he gains the opportunity to win her love. However, an encounter with an old flame lands him in jail and Shekhar finds himself facing his father across a courtroom, charged with murder.

A mother and daughter create bitterness, hatred, acrimony and discord in a wealthy family. Businessman Rai Bahadur Ramdas lives a wealthy lifestyle in a mansion along with his wife, Shanta; two sons: Kailash and Kamal; Kailash's wife, Sita; and widowed Gauri, the wife of his late son and mother of two children, Gappu and Pappu. Kamal runs the business and ensures that everyone is happy - albeit in vain, as his mother physically and mentally abuses Gauri and Sita, while pampering her married daughter, Bhairavi, to no end, and even permitting her to leave her husband, Sarang, and live in their house. Sita gets pregnant, and Kamal, rather dramatically gets married to Usha Gupta, the daughter of wealthy Advocate Shyam Lal Gupta. Then things rapidly deteriorate after jewelry goes missing and Kailash is seen with another woman, and refuses to return home. Nothing will prepare the family for the shock and trauma when they find out the reason why Kailash has moved out. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Anjana (Madhubala), a wealthy rich girl returns to her home after completing her education degree. She is picked by at the station by her father's Dwarka Natha (Jayant) employee Ramesh (Anoop Kumar). Dwarka Nath is a tough task master, runs an estate and beats up his local tribal workforce with whips. The tribal dislike Dwarka's inhumane behavior towards locals, including tribal strongman Banno Singh (Sajjan) & Jhumroo (Kishore Kumar). Jhumroo and Banno are both contenders to be the next commander of the tribe. Jhumroo's mother Kamli defends Dwarka in front of the tribe and says that he should not be pronounced guilty without a fair trial. Jhumroo sings with a very sweet voice and Anjana is intrigued. Anjana also meets Bihari Kaka (M. Kumar) who earlier used to live with Dwarka in his estate but has lost his family since then and turned alcoholic. Bihari & Dwarka used to be best friends but have since drifted apart. Bihari now lives in the outhouse of Dwarka's mansion. Chamki (Chanchal) is a tribal who is in love with Jhumroo. Anjana visits their stall at a local fair, where Chamki tries to steal Rs 100 from Anjana (she refuses to give change for a 100, after she forced Anjana to buy stuff from her). Anjana had bought stuff worth Rs 21 and 5 Annas, and gave Chamki a Rs 100 bill, but Chamki claims that Anjana never gave her any money. Jhumroo intervenes and forces Chamki to return Anjana's Rs 100 bill. Chamki feels insulted in front of the entire tribe and punctures Ramesh's car tires (as Ramesh had driven Anjana to the fair) and Jhumroo offers to walk Anjana home. Anjana realizes that this is the same Jhumroo whom she heard singing. Jhumroo says that he learned the song from his mother and offers to take her home to meet her. Anjana says that she will come some other time. Meanwhile, Chamki warns Jhumroo to stay away from Anjana. Anjana comes to meet Jhumroo's foster Mother Kamli (Lalita Pawar), who taught him to sing. But every time Kamli sings, she has a nightmare, and she bursts into tears while lamenting the loss of her girl child. Dwarka hears Anjana singing the same song at his home and knows that she has visited the tribal colony. Dwarka bans her from visiting the tribal in the area. Jhumroo comes to visit Anjana and climbs into her room. They both realize that they share an interest in mountain climbing. Anjana starts dating Jhumroo by hiding it from her father. Meanwhile Ramesh has a crush on Anjana. Dwarka tells Ramesh not to allow her to visit the tribal colony. Ramesh goes with Anjana and realizes that she is meeting Jhumroo, which he comes back and reports to Dwarka. Tribal elections are at hand and Kamli wants Jhumroo to be elected as leader, which Banno contests. Banno says that Jhumroo is more interested in chasing girls from the city, than looking after the interests of the tribe. Kamli says that Banno is only trying to defame Jhumroo and that she is confident that Jhumroo will never go against his own mother's wishes. Kamli promises the tribe that Jhumroo will marry within the tribe and not outside of it. Dwarka can sense something brewing and announces Anjana's engagement to Ramesh. Dwarka gives a lavish engagement party. Chamki tell Jhumroo about the party at Dwarka's house. Jhumroo meets Anjana in secret and asks her to come to the tribal festival after the election of the tribal commander. Jhumroo is shocked to see that Anjana is now engaged to Ramesh. Dwarka discovers Jhumroo and has him whipped. As Jhumroo returns to the tribe, Banno makes fun of him and declares that Jhumroo is not fit to be the tribal commander. Next day is the tribal commander elections and Kamli forces Jhumroo to compete with Banno for her sake, even though Jhumroo has no desire to be commander as he has lost Anjana. Jhumroo beats Banno in all sports and hand to hand combat and is elected leader of the tribe. As per tradition, all tribal virgins dance for Jhumroo and whoever garlands him first will be his wife. Anjana enters the dance with a mask and garlands Jhumroo before Chamki. Jhumroo knows that Anjana loves him. Dwarka intervenes and forcibly takes Anjana back Kamli sees Anjana is the daughter of Dwarka and asks Jhumroo to bring her back, which he does by kidnapping her from her house. But Dwarka intercepts them and brings Anjana back and slaps her. That night Bihari Kaka visits Anjana and tells her that years ago Dwarka dated a tribal, who gave birth to Anjana. But Dwarka refused to marry her due to his social status. But Dwarka loved his child and stole Anjana from her mother. The tribal took their anger out on Bihari (who used to serve Dwarka back then) by stealing his son. Bihari's wife died due to the shock and Dwarka duped Bihari into signing all property over to him. Bihari tells Anjana to ask of her mother from Kamli. Dwarka knows Bihari spoke to Anjana and visits Kamli to warn her not to disclose her real identity, else Dwarka will evict all tribal from his land. Kamli does what she is told and refuses to meet Anjana when she comes. Meanwhile Bihari commits suicide and Dwarka uses this to his advantage by telling Anjana she Bihari lied to her, out of vengeance Jhumroo comes to meet Anjana and Dwarka tells Anjana that he will have Jhumroo shot, unless she refuses to acknowledge his love and refuses to marry him. Anjana does what she is told and tells Jhumroo to leave. Anjana admits the truth to Ramesh. Ramesh wants the lovers to unite and helps Jhumroo infiltrate his own wedding and take Anjana away. Jhumroo and Anjana get married in their tribe. As Dwarka attacks the tribal settlement, it is revealed that Jhumroo is Bihari's son and Anjana is Kamli's daughter. Dwarka is defeated in the fight, but Kamli saves him. Dwarka finally marries Kamli.

In Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960), Raj Kapoor plays Raju, an innocent and kind-hearted wanderer who unwittingly becomes part of a gang of dacoits. Raju falls in love with Kammo (Padmini), the daughter of the leader of the gang. Raju is persuaded by Kammo and her father that the gang looks out for the interests of the poor. But Raju witnesses a murder on one of the looting sprees and he leaves the gang. Conflict arises when a gang member Raka (Pran) kills the leader and attempts to forcibly marry Kammo. Raju approaches the police for help and finally convinces the gang of dacoits to surrender to the police so that they can reform themselves as respectable members of society.

After an hospital accident, a wealthy male is compelled to adopt a prostitute's son. Wealthy Thakur Jaswant Singh is thrilled that he is about to finally become a parent, and is pleased when his wife, Rukmani, gives birth to a son. Due to a hospital accident, the identification on his son, as well as the son of a prostitute gets misplaced and the Thakur is compelled to take both sons home. Circumstances compel Rukmani to nurse both of them, while they must also include Ustad Banke Bihari, a male who claims to be the maternal uncle of one of the boys, in their household. When the community blacklists Jaswant, his friend, Thakur Harnam Singh, supports him, and even promises to get his yet unborn daughter married to one of his sons. Harnam's wife passes away after giving birth to Asha, and the duo re-locate to live in Switzerland. 20 years later they return back and re-unite with Jaswant's family - who are still unable to tell the boys, Raja and Ramesh, apart. Then Raja starts showing his true colors, consumes alcohol, gambles, steals, and is arrested by the police. Grateful that he is finally able to get rid of the stigma, Jaswant and Harnam plan to get Asha and Ramesh married - little realizing that more shocks are in store for them - starting with the refusal of Asha to marry Ramesh. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

City-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal-dada asks him to go to the village and look after his mother, and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After he comes to know both mother and daughter, they decide to re-locate to the big city to be with Gopal. In the process, Ramu and Chanda fall in love with each other. Chanda wants Ramu to give up his life of crime; Ramu agrees to do so, but will his crime partners allow Ramu to lead a normal life? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Jaya lives in a village called Chandangaon in India along with her widower dad, Gokul, who works for a living as a compounder, but calls himself a Homeopathic doctor and dispenses Arnica for all kinds of ailments, especially since there is no qualified doctor in the village. Since Jaya is or marriageable age, he has arranged her marriage with hard-of-hearing Shiv, the son of Dayashankar, who is the President of the Gram Panchayat. Dayashankar is anxious to get Shiv married so that he can get some dowry from Gokul. The other suitor for Jaya is Ratan, whose mother would like her to re-marry her son as his wife, Maya, is unable to conceive. Then a new doctor arrives in this village to look after the charitable dispensary. Things heat up when Dayashankar and Ratan's mom find out that he may be Jaya's new suitor. Hilarious chaos reigns when Maya assaults her cruel mother-in-law, and Ratan abducts Jaya from her marriage with Shiv. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

`Shree 420` follows naive, hardworking, honest, Raj (Raj Kapoor), who comes to Bombay from Allahabad in search of employment. He soon discovers that his university diploma and a gold medal have little worth in this exploitative city. He later encounters Vidya (Nargis), a poor school teacher and the two fall in love. Finally, Raj lands a job in a laundry. One day, a rich client Maya (Nadira), discovers his proficiency with cards and takes him to a posh club where he wins her a big sum of money. Later, Raj gets involved in underhand dealings with an unscrupulous businessman, Seth Sonachand Dharmanand (Nemo). Gradually, Raj becomes completely corrupted and is alienated from the people he loves like Vidya. Raj`s conscience is awakened when he discovers Sonachand`s scheme to exploit poor people and he decides to right the wrong.