Manoj Joshi

Sant Dnyaneshwaranchi Muktaai is a devotional film that beautifully depicts the life and spiritual journey of Muktaai, the revered sister of the saint and poet Sant Dnyaneshwar, highlighting her profound impact on Marathi literature and culture.

The film Samrat Prithviraj is based on the life and heroism of the fearless and mighty Prithviraj Chauhan and superstar Akshay Kumar is essaying the role of the warrior. Historians and folk legends portray him as an incredibly brave king who stood in front of the merciless Muhammad of Ghor and his ruthless invaders of India. Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan`s daredevilry and heroism against Muhammad of Ghor catapulted him into a legendary ruler and fighter of free India.

A Historical drama set in the 12th century when Chalukya, the Queen of Gujarat, not only ruled Patan for years but also overthrew the Sultan of the Ghurid Empire, Muhammad Ghori on the battlefield in 1178.

At 36, Babloo still hasn`t found the right girl for him. He meets Avantika who was already engaged, hence he rejects the proposal. He then meets Swati and both agree to get married. But she runs away on the day of the wedding. Will Babloo ever find love or would he always remain a bachelor?

When Varun meets Riya at a wedding, it`s love at first sight for him. Willing to go to any length for the love of Riya, Varun lies about being an orphan. The two soon get married, but things take an unexpected turn when his parents and Riya`s family end up as neighbours! How much longer can Varun keep the lie alive before everything goes awry?

Set in Varanasi, the story revolves around a distraught brother Kaashi, who is in search of his missing sister Ganga. But, does Ganga really exist?

The movie is about two siblings, Kashi (Sharman Joshi) and his sister Ganga. The film is set in the Indian city of Benaras, also known as Kashi.[9] Kashi is a man who belongs to a community who are involved in performing cremation rituals. Kaashi belongs to a family who are known to perform final rituals of people in Benaras he lives with his parents and sister Ganga and is very much possessive of Ganga.Devina a journalist arrives in town for her work and befriends Kaashi but soon Ganga disappears and Kaashi with help of Devina tries to trace her.Kaashi finds from friend of Ganga that she was dating Abhimanyu Pandey son of Balwant Pandey who left her pregnant Kaashi in a fit of range kills Abhimanyu and gets arrested where as Ganga's decomposed body is also recovered.Devina points to Kaashi that she must have been killed by someone else as Abhimanyu was not present in town at the time of her death during the verdict in court many witness testify that Ganga never existed. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Revolving around the three P's - Paisa, Property, and Pyaar, Tamburo tells the tale of two friends Hardik and Bhavik, who aspire to become wealthy without much effort. In their quest for easy money, the duo finds themselves embroiled in a mess that sets a chain reaction where the Mafia, the police, and the gamblers are all on a wild but hilarious chase after them.

Set against the background of the plight of a women in rural India, Bhouri is the story of a 22 year old woman whose fair complexion and sharp features became painful.

When Prince Yuvraj Vijay Singh gets injured, his people replace him with a lookalike named Prem. Princess Maithili, who is engaged to Vijay, falls for the lively Prem instead.

This is the story of a man who goes by 3 names - Shiv, Ram and Kishan because he is married to 3 women. As luck would have it, all his wives live in the same building but none of them know that Shiv, Ram and Kishan are the same man who is cheating on all of them. Despite having 3 wives, he falls for a fourth woman and he plans to marry her as well. But before he can do this, all his three wives come to know of his cheating. What happens next?

A thief from a family of thieves falls in love with the daughter of a police inspector.

Bey Yaar follows the story of two close friends, who in a bid to earn quick bucks, end up sacrificing their morals and their dignity. But instead of gaining something, they only end up losing what they held dear. Can they now set things right while keeping the value of their friendship intact?

About the movie The film with a tagline Love goes cucking frazy is a complete family entertainer which depicts the story of two `senti-mental` families and their children. If Nikhil(Siddharth) is a senti boy, Meeta (Parineeta) is a mental girl. The film is a coming of the age story of these two characters in a warm environment.

The story of the film deals with the issue of molestation and rapes and how the victims are ridiculed. A girl who is raped by a national political leader seeks justice but she is called names and is mocked. However, she does not give up her fight against injustice.

Narba lives a simple life taking care of his beautiful grove, but he finds himself in trouble when a greedy landlord sets his eyes upon the land.

In a city with rampant crime and corruption, DCP Rudra decides to bring law and order by standing against a notorious criminal Nagori Subramaniam.

Produced by Premchandra Jha, the film introduces Dildar Arsh Deol in the lead. Asshrita Agrawal, Govind Namdeo, Mukesh Tiwari, Yashpal Sharma, Sharad Saxena, Javed Haider, Pratima Kannan, Hemant Pandey, Kannan Iyer, Mushtaq Khan, Manoj Joshi, Manoj Pahwa and Himani Shivpuri among others. Director, Manoj Sharma has directed, scripted and written the screenplay for this comedy. Ravi Kant Reddy has shot the film and Vishnu Narayan has composed the its music.

Born to an owner of a marriage bureau, Champak Lal Mansukh has been a complete failure ever since he grew up and tried to help his father in their family business. All the alliances he tried to get didn`t even culminate in marriage. To prove his worth to his father, he takes up the unusual challenge of getting an underworld don TT bhai`s spoilt sister, Indu, married to a cop called Bahattar Singh aka `Khiladi 786` in Punjab. To add to his woes he convinces even TT bhai to pretend to be a cop but little did it strike him that that Bahattar Singh, his father Sattar Singh and his uncle Ikhattar Singh were not cops but a family of conmen!The story takes shape as the two polar families pretend to be policemen in front of each other..

Bharatiya is a humorous take on our beliefs being Indian. Ajay-Atul have composed the music after a 4 year long gap in Marathi cinema. The film stars Subodh Bhave, Makarand Anaspure, Jitendra Joshi, Kuldeep pawar, Dr. Mohan Agashe, Mita Savarkar, Hrishikesh Joshi, Tejashree Khele, etc.

The story is about a gang comprising Tukaram (Bharat Jadhav), West Indies (Siddharth Jadhav), Kanphatya (Sanjay Narvekar), Salim (Santosh Juvekar), Alex (Aniket Vishwasrao), Paani Kum and Baba Bhai (Mahesh Manjarekar) who is the leader of the gang.

St. Marks is a school full of bright teenagers having aspirations and looking to make a mark on the world. But teenage life isn`t just about school, it`s also about love and crushes. It is the period where everyone is growing up and moving on. In this competitive, confusing and sometimes cruel world, we have four characters whose destinies seem to take them on different paths. Somehow, though, they all come together at St. Marks.

Bin Bulaye Baraati is a hilarious story. It takes off when, Gulshan Grover (Durjan Singh) who sports an unbelievably different look of a dangerous dacoit meets don Mukesh Tiwari (Gajraj) at a casino to sell his diamonds and jewels, and AD (Aftab) who is on the run, takes away with the van full of dacoits`s fortune. As lovers AD and Shreya (Nisha Kothari) are on the run, they come across , Murari (Rajpal Yadav), Hazari (Sanjay Mishra) and Chita Singh (Vijay Raj), who are also on the run. The cat and mouse game of the chase results into chaotic pile-up with more characters colliding together leading to dramatic and comical sequences where all of them end up to take shelter at Madhavgarh Village.

Ready is a romantic-comedy set in Mauritius. It is a story about Prem and Sanjanna who fall in love amidst a twisted plot of greedy uncles who want to gulp down Sanjanna`s family inheritance and Prem`s crazy family who always form a part of their only son`s plans. Comedy is essentially a part of the various schemes and conspiracies both parties plan to teach each other a lesson. But what happens when Sanjanna`s family find out they`ve been tricked? Revenge takes over their minds which lead to yet another series of plotting and adventures for both families.

Masti Express is a story of a true hero rising against the odds. Rajpal Yadav portrays the role of a common man compelled to be a part of death defying and gruesome situations in order to provide a good education to his son. The story mainly revolves around how a father desperately tries to get his child admitted in a renowned school to educate him.

Director Vitaly Manskiy sets off on the trail of the Trans-Siberian gas pipeline to find out what it's like for ordinary people living in its vicinity.

Struggling road construction contractor Sachin Tichkule (Akshay Kumar) is doomed to dream big. There is no chance in hell that his dream will ever come true, simply because he has no money to bribe. To make matters worse, the new municipal commissioner turns out to be his ex girlfriend (Trisha) who now hates him. Even as you laugh as Sachin bumbles his way from one disaster to another, the film reveals in a light hearted way, the extent of corruption and bribery rampant in the system and the ingeneous means you have to adopt if you want to survive. Enjoy the bumpy ride!

Lallan, a youth from Bijapur, works with a security agency in Mumbai. He has regular conversations with his lady-love, Saroja, who stays in the village, over the phone. It is during one of such conversations that he finds out that Saroja's marriage is being fixed with another man, several years older than her. He comes to know that this older man is also offering a 2-lakh incentive which will help Saroja's brother with his career. He now has to talk his love out of this marriage, but he is in for some explosive surprises!

Two broke best friends + their rich girlfriends desperate to marry them+ the girls` respective fathers desperate to marry them off elsewhere + a bankrupt businessman who`s getting his useless son engaged to every heiress in town to pay off his debts+ assorted characters like a Chinese Don, a hired assassin, a rich bitch, an ACB officer, a club dancer, an ambassador, a young frustrated wife, a letch, a drunken waiter, a dead body nobody wants and above all Moolchandji - the most pampered dog in the world.enjoy their antics in De Dana Dan. Throw in a kidnapping, mistaken identities and mistaken room numbers; an assassin on the prowl, a wedding.relish the mayhem in De Dana Dan. Multiple stars.. Multiple madness.Multiple laughs. only in De Dana Dan.

EMI is a movie that revolves around loan takers and collection agents. A young couple, DJ, a middle-aged man, and a single woman take loans for various reasons. But when they cannot repay, they soon find out that life is not as easy as taking a loan.

The film ``My Friend Ganesha 2`` is about how Lord Ganesh helps a child and the god also teaches him a lesson that the people who help themselves are helped by the Almighty. The film is about a little boy Vashu who has a habit of putting his hands on his ears and he is ridiculed by his schoolmates for this habit. When Vashu brings the Lord to his home, he wins a dance competition and many of his other problems also get solved. He comes to the conclusion that Lord helps those who help themselves.

Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna) has taken the responsibility of his widower father Janaradhan Wishvanbhar Rane (Paresh Rawal). He treats his father like his son. He comes across Anuradha (Shobana), his father`s first love. And the rest is how he makes them meet, on the cost of his own love, Sheekha (Genelia D`Souza).

Gopi (Sunil Shetty) is a simpleton who comes to Goa from his native Hoshiarpur to hand over an extremely small piece of land to his childhood buddy Kishen (Arshad Warsi) to fulfill his fathers last wish. Kishen is a conman who dupes people with help from his partner in crime, Babu (Atul Kale). He needs money to support his sister Divyas (Mahima Mehta) education in London. Kishen hides his real identity from Anuradha (Rashmi Nigam) by bringing his fake imaginary twin brother Hari into the scene. And Gopi who is on the hot trail of Kishen gets help from Tanya (Anishka Khosla), daughter of the owner of K.G. Resorts. News breaks out about three gorgeous diamond thieves being trapped in the resort. On hearing this, Kishen and everyone else heads straight to the Resort. So who will get hold of diamonds?

Criminal don-aspiring politician Sattar Bhai (Sanjay Dutt) runs a collection agency in Mumbai's Bhendi Bazar called 'Good Luck Recovery'. He had started this business with 4 employees but now has over 400 of them. His uses his influence and goon-power to mainly recover money from middle-classed clients of All India Bank. Most sought after by banks, Telecom companies and various multinationals, today his Good Luck Recovery Agency is a leading recovery agency. Sattar follows a simple rule when it comes to his business, Loan Liya Hai To Chukana Padega. All India Bank engages in all sorts of loans like car loans, education loans etc. They do not insist on full documents, ad make it really easy for people to get loans. From Bhaigiri to business to politics to social work, that's how Sattar wants to progress in life. He has already graduated from Bhaigiri to business and is now eager to jump into politics. These include defaulters like Anil (Ashish Chaudhary) and his wife, Shilpa Sharma (Neha Oberoi), who have taken a loan to buy their house, car & honeymoon so that they can get married. Anil is addicted to pornographic films, and he spends money to buy pirated CDs of the same. Neha is always angry with Anil because he has a roving eye, and he flirts with attractive women even in front of Neha. Chandrakant (Khulbhushan Kharbanda) lives with his son, Arjun Desai. Arjun parties all night with his friends and returns home late at night. Chandu is worried about Arjun's future, and he says that he wants to do an MBA from London, which will cost a lot of money. Chandu's friends tell him that if he does not provide an opportunity to Arjun Chandu takes a loan to finance his son's MBA dream. The bank gives him a personal loan of Rs 4 Lakhs, at a high rate of interest. DJ Ryan Breganza (Arjun Rampal) had a fickle girlfriend, Nancy (Malika Arora). Ryan borrows cash on his credit card and believes that he wants to die owing money to people. Ryan uses the address of his friends on his credit card applications. Ryan uses the cash to party in expensive night clubs with his super model girlfriend, who has expensive tastes. Prerna Joshi (Urmila Matondkar). Prerna's husband was murdered by loan sharks, but police report says her husband committed suicide. As a result, the bank is refusing to honor the insurance claim. Prerna has taken a loan of Rs 10 Lakhs to pay a local goon Rafiq Bhai to change the police report & claim the insurance amount. The insurance claim is for Rs 2 Crores. Rafiq says that he will asks one of his goons who is already in prison (who was imprisoned after the husband's death), to testify that he murdered Prerna's husband. 1 year later, Anil & Neha are trying to divorce & have stopped paying EMIs. Chandrakant is looking for a job to pay his dues. Chandu gets a job with his previous employer Babu (Anant Mahadevan). Nancy breaks up with Ryan. Nancy says that Ryan is a compulsive liar who gets more calls from banks than from music companies. And he ends up spending all his time hiding from bank officials. Nancy was responsible for Ryan running up credit card bills of more than Rs 3 Lakhs. Prerna is still stuck as Rafiq took the money & died without completing the job. All of them have borrowed huge amounts but are unable to return them. After the bank makes some attempts to recover the loans, the loans are transferred to a recovery agency, in this case to Sattar Bhai. All of them land up with Sattar's collection agency. The collection agency promises the bank to recover the money within a week. The news channels and papers are full of stories of Sattar and his agency using strong arm tactics for lean recovery. Sattar wants to be a politician & his mentor Yusuf Bhai asks him to empathize with people & be nice to them. The mentor tells Sattar that to go do good deeds Sattar needs a good intention as well. Only then the public will trust him as a politician. Yusuf says that Sattar can only be a good politician when the people support him. Sattar would need to remove his fear from people's hearts and minds. Sattar is now the savior and the solution for all those caught in the debt trap. The agency includes employees including Gaffur Bhai (Daya Shankar Pandey), Prem Prakash Patel (Manoj Joshi), Mumbai Central (Snehal Dabi) and others. Sattar starts helping people. Anil tells him that Neha slapped him when she caught him watching porn & he accused her of having sex with other guys. She is also angry at him for not taking financial responsibility of their dues. Sattar sends some of his goons to scare Neha, so that she gets back together with Anil. Chandu tells Sattar that Arjun never went for his MBA after he got hold of the money. Sattar is smitten by Prerna & asks his goons to turn her away as he doesn't want to meet her as a don. He confronts Ryan at his DJ club, when Prerna walks in & Ryan tells him that Prerna is his very good friend. Actually, Ryan didn't even know Prerna, he just took advantage of the knowledge that Sattar was interested in her. But Ryan manages to get Sattar a date with Prerna & then proceeds to teach him manners. At the dinner Prerna is only interested in getting Sattar to help her get the insurance money. Sattar goes on his best behavior & is honest with Prerna. She has a nice evening with her, but says she is not interested in him. Because of Sattar Anil & Neha get back together. Sattar visits Chandu's house & threatens Arjun. This puts him online & he gets a job. He also helps Ryan get a job with a music company & finally impresses Prerna enough that she falls in love with him. Sattar becomes a respected politician & cracks down on unfair lending practices by banks.

Laxmikant Kabadiya aka LK, is one of India`s richest industrialists, a self made man who`s risen from selling scrap to become a construction magnate. His conglomerate is on the verge of a 5000 crore IPO that should make them one of the largest companies in the country. LK`s family - comprising of his spinster twin sister Prerna, his two sons Ranjeet and Sameer, their wives Shruti and Anju respectively and Ranjeet`s daughters Sanjana and Namrata, and Sameer`s son, Pawan, can`t stop salivating at the thought of all that money. Unfortunately for all of them fate displays a wicked sense of humour. On the night before the IPO opens, LK dies while copulating with a starlet who`s aspiring to become the heroine of a film that LK plans to produce. The family is distraught and horrified. Not because a loved one has died but because now no one will buy their shares. So, on the advice of their family guru - Vidyut Baba, the family decides to hide the death of LK for a period of two days till the shares are all sold out. Little do they realize the crazy series of events that will follow on account of this duplicity.

This 2007 Madhur Bhandarkar film is based on the lives and atrocities faced by the people living at the traffic signals. It talks about the viscious circle of the mafia trade in which a lot of beggars and urchins get trapped into.

Bunty and Babla want to play the lead in their theatre`s play. When their behaviour makes the female lead quit, they get tasked with finding another but end up getting in trouble.

Pooja Rao is an orphan, having come into her uncle Krishna Kant`s Alok Nath household after her parents` death. He considers her a ``gift``, speaking of his aim in life being to nurture this daughter and to marry her off. Pooja lives with her Chachauncle and Chachi Seema Biswas and their daughter Choti Anjali Prakash. The aunt doesn`t love Pooja much, because Pooja is prettier than Choti. However, the loving Chacha arranges a match for Pooja with the son of a wealthy, industrialist family from Delhi. Where Prem Shahid Kapoor is the magnanimous bride-groom, who decides that he will spend a month of each year at his wife`s parents` home, well-brought up Pooja is the perfect shudh Hindi speaking addition to the clan. The marriage day draws closer, but a fire in Krishna Kant`s house will put Pooja and Prem`s well-behaved love to the test. Releasing online on Netflix, on 25th June 2020.

The story revolves around the lives of four guys named Gopal, Lucky, Madhav, and Laxman who all absurdly fall for the same girl. Hence, begins the hilarious race to win her heart.

The life of Raju, Shyam, and Baburao changes drastically when they lose all their money in a scam. They must repay the loan they took from a dreaded gangster or face death.

Jeetu (Shahid Kapoor) is a down-on-his-luck boy who loses money in whatever business he invests in. His debt keeps increasing. The biggest creditor to Jeetu is Sharmaji (Asrani). In total, Jeetu owes Rs 13 Lakhs 90 thousand to his creditors. He had borrowed money, to buy land and to plant mango saplings, but the land was acquired by the government to lay down a railway track. Due to his huge debts, his father Jai Dev (Anupam Kher), mother (Amita Nangia) and everyone else are worried about him. Jai Dev had already mortgaged his house to pay for Jeetu's failed business ventures. Frustrated, Jeetu breaks off his engagement to Pooja (Sushma Reddy). Pooja's father is Mohan Prakash (Manoj Joshi). Mohan hates Jeetu as he is good for nothing, but knows that Pooja is madly in love with Jeetu, and wont consider marrying anyone else till Jeetu is around. Jeetu decides to commit suicide so that his father can pay off all the debt with the insurance money after her death. Jeetu calls all the people from whom he has taken loan to the riverbank and after telling this, he jumps into the water. Even after people search extensively, his body is not found. Swimmers say that due to high water flow the body might have gone far away. Fishermen Gundiya (Paresh Rawal) and Bandya (Rajpal Yadav) find a man (who is actually Jeetu) in the net. They take him to the hospital and there they start thinking of Jeetu as dumb and deaf. Jeetu also starts doing similar drama. Jeetu had the list of creditors in his pocket, and the money he owed them, but Gundiya misunderstands that believes that Jeetu is a creditor and has to receive that amount of money from his debtors. Gundiya and Bandya hope to get Rs 5 Lakhs as reward for returning Jeetu to his family. Due to Jeetu's drama, Gundiya has no clue of his name or identity and hence cannot claim his reward. Meanwhile the police force Gundiya to take care of Jeetu till his identity is ascertained. Gundiya is worried about all the expenses he is incurring on Jeetu. Gundiya owes money to rich boat owner Prabhat. Prabhat Singh Chauhan (Om Puri) takes Gundiya's boat due to not getting his money. When Gundiya comes to him asking for the boat back, Prabhat Singh Chauhan asks him to give him something to keep as a guarantee. He gives Jeetu and Bandya as guarantee and goes away with the boat. Gundiya tells Prabhat that Jeetu is his nephew Kanhaiya. Natwar Jhunjhunwala (Shakti Kapoor) is Prabhat's manager. Both of them are made to work there as servants at Prabhat's house. Mangal (Suniel Shetty) is the head of the family, even though he is the son of Prabhat's elder brother. Shruti is Mangal's sister. Shruti is dumb and is hence sympathetic towards Jeetu. Meenakshi is Prabhat's daughter and they all live in the same house as a joint family. One day Meenakshi (Neha Dhupia) and Shruti (Kareena Kapoor) discover that Jeetu is not dumb and deaf. Instead of keeping his secret a secret, they want to do something else. Shruti's marriage is arranged in a house which is only greedy for money. The boy's family has for 2 companies and a lot of land as dowry in exchange for marriage with Shruti. To break this marriage, Meenakshi asks Jeetu to pretend to be Shruti's lover and call her fiance, due to which the wedding proposal breaks. Mangal suspects Jeetu of sabotaging the proposal and beats him senseless. But Prabhat intervenes and tells Mangal that even Jeetu is deaf and dumb and hence could not have called the boy's family. Mangal gives Jeetu a job for Rs 20,000 per month. Meenakshi wants Jeetu to leave the house, but Jeetu also refuses and says that he will reveal that Meenakshi was behind the plot to break Shruti's wedding. One day, Sharma comes to meet Prabhat and Meenakshi sees Jeetu hiding from him. Meenakshi learns that Jeetu has a lot of debt and can do anything for money. Meenakshi gets Jeetu's photo from Sharma and realizes that this is the same Kanhaiya who has been living in their house. Before Meenakshi can say anything to Prabhat, Jeetu and Prabhat go by car with a lot of money and meet with a road accident. Due to both of them not returning, they feel as if Jeetu has done something. On Meenakshi's request, the police catch Jeetu and beat him thoroughly. Prabhat returns home and tells that his car met with an accident, after which Jeetu took him to the hospital and after giving the money to the person to whom he was supposed to pay, he went to get the medicine, but did not return. Knowing this they all feel regretful. Meenakshi and Shruti know that Prabhat has been stealing money from Mangal to run his own businesses which are all making losses. In fact, the money that Sharma loaned Jeetu, belonged to Prabhat. They threaten to reveal the truth to Mangal and Prabhat is very afraid of Mangal. Meenakshi and Shruti force Prabhat to give them Rs 13.9 Lakhs and send the money to Jeetu's village through the hands of Bandya. When Bandya meets Mohan, he realizes that Kanhaiya is really Jeetu and is neither deaf nor dumb. Bandya comes and tells that Pooja has got married, hearing which Jeetu becomes happy. Jeetu still won't go back to the village as he knows that Pooja only married someone else believing the Jeetu is dead. Seeing him alive would make Pooja feel very guilty. But in reality, Pooja was living with Jai Dev as Jeetu's widow. Meanwhile, Shruti expresses her love to Jeetu. Mangal learns that Shruti is in love with Jeetu and decides to get them married. Jeetu, now free from debt and in love with Shruti, agrees to the marriage. Jeetu reveals to Mangal that he is not deaf or dumb and assures him that Shruti knew of his reality, and he never betrayed her trust. Meanwhile, Jeetu's family members come to know that Jeetu is alive, when Mangal sends them money via Bandya and Gundiya. Jai Dev goes to meet Jeetu on the day of the wedding, and Jeetu is shocked to learn that Pooja never married anyone else and is living as his widow. He cannot explain anything to Jai Dev as Prabhat pulls him inside the house. Later, Jeetu explains everything to Shruti and goes home to get Pooja's permission to marry Shruti. The family wants Jeetu to accept Pooja, but he is helpless. Jai Dev and Mohan come to the wedding ceremony, and everyone starts arguing. When Pooja learns that Shruti cannot speak, she changes her mind and asks Jeetu to marry Shruti. After this, Jeetu and Shruti get married, and they live happily ever after.

Anand becomes mentally unstable and was shifted to a mental asylum when he accidentally killed his lover. Tanvi, a doctor who took charge of Anand`s case, falls for him when she learns about his past.

Jai Vardhan is influenced by an overambitious man. He is unable to differentiate the good from the bad and is carried over into a world full of women and wealth. How far can greed take a man? Can the 'greens' ever fight the money and might of the builders lobby? Can nature ever win over the bulldozer? These are the riveting issues raised by Shikhar. Pitted against each other in this battle of man vs nature are two different but equally powerful protagonists. Gaurav Gupta (aka GG) is a man who started with nothing and now believes that only money can fuel his ambitions. While Guruji, to the manor born, believes that wealth means nothing if not used for society. Caught in the tussle between the two is the unworldly Jaidev Vardhan, who while respecting his father's philosophy, falls hook, line and sinker for GG's gilt-edged dreams. While Guruji hopes that Jai will return to his roots, GG uses the glamorous Natasha to bewitch Jai and the unscrupulous politician Amrit Patil, to exploit the tribal into selling their lands. Madhavi watches the man she loves being carried away in to a world of wine, women and wealth. If Shikhar is the Pinnacle of good deeds and thoughts, Shikhar is also the height of ambition and greed. Which peak will Jai choose to scale in this battle of man vs. nature? —SoMeONE Businessman Srinath Vardhan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with his wife and a school-going son, Jaidev. While returning from Mahabuleshwar, their car meets with an accident, and Mrs. Vardhan passes away. Adivasis look after Srinath and Jaidev and nurse them back to health. A grateful Srinath decides to settle in the region, and try to assist Adivasis to adapt to a better lifestyle. Years later, Jaidev has grown up, and Srinath decides to entrust the family business to him. Srinath will soon come to know that Jaidev will fall into bad company, will take to alcohol, women, adapt to a lifestyle Srinath has learned to frown upon, will befriend and collaborate with Srinath's opponents, and as such create circumstances that will pit father and son against each other. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Don`t they say, the more you despise a thing, the more plausibility becomes of it to come to you. That is exactly what happens with Anuradha Sehgal, after she marries aspiring Chief Minister of Mumbai, Vivek Chauhan, knowing of him to be an unconventional and spirited politician. However, only after having married him does she realize that it was just a misconception she was dwelling in; for her turns out to be a dominating, violent husband and stereotypically corrupt politician. When the water rises to the brim, she turns him in with the police, and this brings it upon her to take over the candidature of Chief Ministership, as her father-in-law wants her to. She, hence, enters the game of politics while aiming to change it, but barely does she realize, ``once you enter waters, you do not get to stay dry``...

When a young medical student`s brother is assassinated by a group of terrorists, he decides to join the police service and bring his brother`s killers to justice.