Mithun Chakraborty

Arjun Acharya inherits a cursed ancestral palace in Mangalpur, deciding to host his sister Meera's destination wedding there, which inadvertently triggers a violent supernatural awakening tied to their dark family history. Arjun Acharya travels from London to India after inheriting his family estate in Mangalpur, planning to host his sister Meera's wedding at the ancestral palace. Meera arrives with her fiancé Rahul, while their father Vasudev Acharya grows uneasy about the property and its history. On the journey, Arjun meets Priya, a writer researching sacred sites, who becomes drawn into the unfolding events. At the palace, caretaker Shantaram warns Arjun about an ancient curse tied to Vadhusur, a feared entity linked to missing brides. Arjun dismisses the warnings and begins renovations with wedding planner Jagdish Kewalramani and electrician Sunder Bajwa. As preparations continue, unsettling disturbances begin affecting the estate and nearby forest, pulling Arjun and Priya deeper into local legends. In the town of Mangalpur, a group of wedding guests is stranded on a deserted railway platform during a torrential downpour, waiting for a delayed train. They gather around a bonfire lit by an elderly mystic known to them only as Baba Ji and ask him why no marriages have taken place in the town for years. Baba Ji begins recounting the legend that once cursed the region, the tale of Vadhusur, a demonic immortal who abducts and kills newlywed brides on their wedding night. Years earlier, a wedding party traveling to catch a flight home from Lucknow is forced to reroute through Mangalpur because of severe flooding. Their bus driver, a local man, warns them never to bring newlyweds through the forbidden village, recounting the belief that a Rakshas kidnaps newly wed brides there. The group ignores him, and their bus suffers a puncture deep inside the forest. That night, their camp is violently attacked by an unseen creature that kidnaps the bride and leaves several others critically injured, with no memory of what happened. Sometime afterward, the respected local Dushyant Acharya dies under mysterious circumstances following forty days of self-imposed isolation, attributed to a supposed contagious illness. His aide, Kali, and the caretaker of his palace, Shantaram, discuss his final days and express unease about who will inherit the Acharya Palace, a vast, abandoned mansion long feared by the villagers. In London, Dushyant's grandchildren, Arjun Acharya (Akshay Kumar) and Meera (Mithila Palkar), live with their father, Vasudev Acharya (Jisshu Sengupta), a respected theologian. Preparations are underway for Meera's wedding to her fiance, Rahul, and because Meera's birth chart carries a manglik dosh, Arjun performs a Kadali Vivah ritual on her behalf, a symbolic marriage conducted over video call with a priest, before the real ceremony can proceed. Vasudev soon leaves for a work trip to Sydney, and a British lawyer, Richard Gardener, informs Arjun and Meera that Dushyant has left them the ancestral Acharya Palace in Mangalpur. Excited by the unexpected inheritance, and with their original wedding venue in Udaipur having fallen through, Arjun sees an opportunity to host Meera's destination wedding there and travels to India to inspect the estate. On the train journey, Arjun meets Priya (Wamiqa Gabbi), a writer researching ancient Indian temples, and saves her during an accident. Upon reaching Mangalpur, the caretaker Shantaram warns Arjun that the palace is cursed, that spirits roam its grounds at night, and that Dushyant himself never once stayed there after dark. Shantaram adds that three guards who previously attempted to stay overnight either lost their minds or took their own lives. Arjun dismisses the warning, spends the night inside unharmed, and concludes the stories are nothing more than superstition. While exploring, he discovers a sealed prayer room whose key has gone missing. Arjun hires laborers and brings in wedding planner Jagdish Kewalramani (Paresh Rawal), along with Jagdish's nephew, the electrician Sunder "Balli" Bajwa (Rajpal Yadav), to begin renovating the palace for the ceremony. Increasingly strange incidents begin occurring around the property. When Sunder mishandles a live wire, Arjun is electrocuted and briefly dies before Priya revives him with CPR. Sunder then becomes possessed and leads Arjun and Jagdish toward Vadhusur's temple, and Priya, driven by her own research into the site, convinces Arjun to bring her along as well. At the temple, the group witnesses a massive swarm of bats even in broad daylight and is forced to hide in the light as a figure resembling Vadhusur briefly emerges from the darkness. The family's spiritual advisor, Vashisht Guruji (Zakir Hussain), confirms to Arjun that the curse is real, though Arjun continues to resist the idea. Meera arrives with her in-laws for the wedding, and Vasudev, now back from his trip, urges Arjun to abandon the palace as a venue because of the curse. Together, Vasudev and Arjun search for the missing prayer-room key and uncover the family's buried history. Vasudev reveals that Dushyant had once served as the priest who kept Vadhusur dormant through nightly mantras, and that his son, Madhav, and his disciple, Vasudev himself, were both raised under Dushyant's guidance in Mangalpur, where Vasudev and a young woman named Yashodha (Tabu) fell in love. Madhav desired Yashodha as well. Dushyant had built a device that automatically played the sacred chants from sunset to sunrise to keep the demon asleep, believing that if Vadhusur failed to revive for thirty six thousand moons, he would perish forever. When Vasudev and Yashodha's marriage was arranged, Madhav sabotaged the device so that the mantras played in reverse, partially summoning Vadhusur in exchange for Yashodha's hand. Dushyant caught his son in the act and stopped him, but feared Madhav had not been freed from the demon's influence. Forced to obey his guru, Vasudev cruelly rejected Yashodha, leading her to believe he had never loved her at all. With her own family arriving and her father eager to see her married, Dushyant arranged her marriage to Madhav instead. Afterward, Dushyant abandoned the temple, fearing his son remained corrupted. Yashodha later discovered that Madhav was still partially possessed and fled to Vasudev, who rescued her, and the two left Mangalpur forever. Arjun then learns the final truth: Vasudev is not his biological father, and Arjun is in fact Madhav's son. Dushyant, it is revealed, had orchestrated the inheritance before his death in the hope that a final wedding at the palace would fully resurrect Vadhusur and, in doing so, free Madhav from serving as the demon's living vessel. It becomes clear that the hauntings, and the figure resembling Vadhusur, have all along been the work of the still partially possessed Madhav. Despite uncovering this truth, Arjun does not call off Meera's wedding. Instead, the family resolves to use the ceremony itself to end Vadhusur permanently, reasoning that if the marriage is completed before sunset and the couple crosses the Ganga at that same moment, the demon will be unable to reach the bride. When Rahul's father insists, on astrological grounds, that the ceremony must instead take place at night, Arjun angrily confronts him for nearly getting everyone killed, declaring that birth charts are written by men, not by gods, and the daytime muhurat is fixed. Around this time, Priya admits to Arjun that she has feelings for him but cannot accept them, revealing that she is already married, before quietly leaving him. Confused, Arjun reviews footage from their earlier visit to Vadhusur's temple and discovers that every photograph and video from that day shows him standing alone, with no trace of Priya at all, revealing that she was a spirit the entire time and very possibly one of the missing brides herself. On the day of the ceremony, every precaution is taken: the wedding is timed to finish before sunset, and the couple crosses the Ganga as planned. Even so, Vadhusur manages to abduct Meera in the final moments. After a series of failed attempts to reach her, Arjun ultimately succeeds in rescuing his sister before she can be killed, bringing Vadhusur's reign of terror to an end. The story returns to the railway platform, where the stranded travelers ask Baba Ji how Arjun was able to perceive the spirits haunting Mangalpur throughout the ordeal. The old mystic explains that when Arjun briefly died during the earlier electrocution, he gained the ability to see the dead, since only the dead can see the dead. He then reveals that he himself is Arjun, who remained in Mangalpur in the years that followed and has spent the past twenty four years performing rituals for the peace of his father Madhav's soul.

Kick is the story of a psychiatrist named Shaina (Jacqueline Fernandez), who talks to Himanshu (Randeep Hooda), a police officer, about her previous relationship with the Devil, an eccentric man whose life was driven by the need for a `Kick` or an adrenaline rush. He breaks up with Shaina for his Kick, to never return again. Himanshu realizes that he has finally met his match. However, he doesn`t know about Devil - the person who will link them to each other.

Guru is a 2007 Indian biographical film loosely based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani, a business magnate who founded Reliance Industries. Gurukant Desai, raised in a village all his life, comes to Bombay in 1958 to procure employment. His one motive is to earn respect for himself from his father who considers a disappointment. How he works his way up to become India`s largest business tycoon forms the crux of the film.

When his brother becomes involved in a deadly bank robbery, a heartbroken cop vows to track down and retrieve his wayward sibling -- dead or alive. A notorious criminal gang creates a rift between two brothers, senior police inspector, Shanker Verma and his younger brother Jai. This doubt further materializes when Shanker must arrest Jai for various crimes which includes robbing a bank and the killing of numerous gang members as well as public personalities - with all the relevant evidences pointing towards him. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Inspector Shanker Verma is an honest and dedicated Police Inspector, who has been serving on the police force for many years. He lives with his mom, and a brother, Jai. Shankar was in love with Shashi, but the affair did not last, leaving him with a broken heart. Jai, on the other hand, is percocious, and always in trouble. This precociousness lands him in a soup when he is unable to explain as to why he robbed a bank and a killed a person. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

As a boy Shankar, his sister Munni and his mother Mrs. Bajrangi (Anjana Mumtaz) were rescued by an elephant and taken to the nearest village. Shankar's mother survives but Munni dies. Shankar is adopted by Chanchal's father (Vinod Mehra), who is a friend of Bajrangi (Dara Singh). Shankar's home was set of fire by Nahar Singh (Amrish Puri). The baby elephant saved them by breaking a wall, allowing the family to escape. Shankar (Mithun Chakraborty) grows up and earns his living by doing road shows in Delhi along with Chanchal (Varsha Usgaonkar) and Appu (the elephant). Shankar happens to see a poster for Gemini circus featuring Natasha (Irina Kushnareva) and begins to dream of working with her. Hari Singh (Amrit Pal) is Indian coordinator for the Russian circus. Hari is using the circus as a front for smuggling operations along with Bob (Gulshan Grover) and Nahar Singh. Hari is being monitored by a mysterious person named Fakira (Naseeruddin Shah). As the circus goes to Delhi, Fakira joins the group as a coolie. Fakira attacks Hari in the train and wants to know Nahar's location. Fakira throws Hari off the train and he dies, and this is witnesses by Natasha. During the chaos, a bear named Misha escapes from the train and goes into the jungle. He is pursued by circus performers Serge and Natasha. Natasha is bitten by a cobra and is found by Shankar. Shankar sucks the poison out of Natasha and brings her home. Natasha can understand and speak Hindi. Meanwhile, Serge stumbles upon Bob's smuggling warehouse in the jungle. Serge tells Bob that he is looking for Natasha. Bob's men know that a foreign girl entered a nearby village the previous day. Bob agrees to help Serge, and this would be a perfect cover for him to transport his goods to Delhi. Bob brings Serge to the village, where Chanchal is only too happy to help Serge as then she would be rid of Natasha. But seeing Bob, triggers a memory in Appu of Bob and Nahar Singh killing Appu's family. He attacks Bob, and only Shankar manages to bring Appu under control. Natasha leaves with Misha. Meanwhile Shankar's mother needs an operating costing Rs 1 Lakhs for her persistence sharp headaches. Bob delivers Serge, Natasha and Misha to their circus in Delhi, and believes that he has hoodwinked the police. But then, he is pursued by Fakira, who turns out to be Police Inspector Adarsh Kumar. Bob manages to escape, but Adarsh confiscates his entire consignment. Turns out Adarsh had witnessed Bob, Hari Singh, & Nahar Singh kill an elephant and had called Bajrangi for help. When Bajrangi intervened, Nahar Singh shot Bajrangi. Nahar Singh hated Bajrangi as Bajrangi had defeated him in a public wrestling tournament earlier. Nahar Singh was the brother of Raja Sahib (Achyut Potdar), who was Bajrangi's benefactor. Nahar killed Raja Sahib also for siding with Bajrangi in the poaching matter. Adarsh was presumed dead in the melee. Hari Singh took the locket from Bajrangi's neck. Then Nahar Singh set fire to Bajrangi's home to eliminate his family, after blaming Bajrangi for elephant poaching and the death of Raja Sahib. Now, Bob is in a panic and doesn't tell Nahar Singh that he lost the drugs to the police. Adarsh approaches Bob and offers to release the drugs against a bribe of Rs 2 Crores. The drugs are to be transported to Europe in an elephant's cage. Adarsh's only motive is to get to Nahar Singh. Shankar comes to Natasha's circus in Delhi to meet her. Appu enters a live circus performance and starts performing along with Shankar. Their act is a huge hit and as a result he is offered a job in the circus. Natasha is also happy, as she and Shankar love each other. Mrs. Bajrangi refuses to let Shankar leave for Russia without marrying Chanchal. Shankar says that he has never seen Chanchal as his wife. Chanchal runs into the jungle with Appu. She reckons that in a few days Natasha's circus will leave town and things will go back to normal. Shankar anyways cannot go without Appu. But in the jungle Bob finds and abducts Appu for his smuggling plan. Chanchal tries to save Appu, but s gravely injured and dies after she is found by Shankar. Shankar follows Appu's trail to Delhi, where he reunites with Natasha. Meanwhile, Bob prepares a cage for Appu and packs it with the drugs worth Rs 250 Crores for transportation to Europe. Shankar and Natasha track Appu to the warehouse, where the cage is being prepared. Adarsh saves Shankar from being shot, but soon the police arrive, and Adarsh has to run away, along with Bob. Appu, Appu's cage, Shankar and his mother are all taken to Russia by Natasha and her circus. Adarsh and Bob are forced to follow them there. Now Natasha sees a locket in Shankar's neck that she saw on Hari. Mrs Bajrangi says that the locket belonged to Shankar's father and hence he might be alive. But Natasha tells them that the man was killed by a coolie named Fakira. Shankar vows vengeance. Serge is jealous of the love between Shankar and Natasha. Serge assaults Appu and Shankar protects him by attacking Serge. Natasha also tells Serge that she doesn't love him and will never marry him. Serge then plays a trick during a school trip. He asks the students to burst balloons which sound like gunshots to Appu, and he panics and goes berserk. Appu is arrested by the police. Shankar is ordered to take Appu back to India in 2 days. Shankar asks for one more chance and trains Appu and demonstrates that he is not impacted by the sound of bursting balloons anymore. That night Adarsh infiltrates the circus to get his drugs. As he escapes (because Appu created a ruckus and attracted attention), he runs into Natasha and Shankar. Natasha identifies Adarsh as the Coolie who killed Shankar's father. Adarsh manages to escape. Serge gets curious about Appu's cage and finds drugs hidden in its base. Adarsh is also captured when he returns to circus as a clown to retrieve the drugs. Serge says that Shankar smuggled the drugs into Russia using Appu, and that Adarsh is his partner. Mrs Bajrangi decides to visit Shankar in prison and Adarsh sees her. Turns out Adarsh is Shankar's brother, and his real name is Fakira. Adarsh meets Mrs. Bajrangi inside prison and tells her that her elder son is alive. Fakira clarifies that the man his killed was not Bajrangi, but Hari Singh. Fakira says that he smuggled drugs only to get to Nahar Singh. The next day Nahar Singh bails Fakira and Shankar out of prison and tells them that Mrs Bajrangi is in his custody. Nahar says that police got only 5 Kilos of the drugs and Fakira believes that Serge has the rest. Nahar sends Shankar to get the drugs. As Shankar confronts Serge with Natasha, Bob arrives and shoots Serge and takes control of the drugs. As the drugs reach Nahar, Fakira takes advantage of a lapse and attacks. Appu arrives and tramples Bob and Nahar as well. Finally, Natasha and Shankar get married.

Vijay, a gangster, will go to any lengths to take revenge on Kancha Cheena, a crime lord, whose deception caused his father`s death.

Jailed as a teenager, Shankar has been unable to stay on the right side of the law ever since, despite his wife's pleas and his mother's rejection. Yashoda has been widowed for years, but has brought up her two children with lot of love, care, and honesty. She is disappointed when her son, Shankar, who is arrested for breaking the law, and subsequently jailed, and she decides she will have nothing to do with him. She runs her life and is not dependent on anyone. When Shankar comes out of jail, he tries to make amends, but Yashoda outrightly refuses to have anything to do with a criminal.

Twins separated by a court order meet at camp and decide to reunite their parents, unaware of the dark secret that drove them apart years before. Geeta Choudhary has an abortion in the name of her close friend Rajni Thakur so that Rajni can get married. When her secret leaks out, Geeta's husband Ashok blames her, accuses her of being unfaithful, and drives her out of their home. They have twins, Sunil and Anil. and each parent is allowed custody of one twin. Years later the twins meet at Scout camp and decide to reunite their parents, not realizing that they're exposing their parents and each other to danger and death. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A man named Satpal is released from prison after completing a life sentence. He decides to find his family as he knows that they believe he is dead. After searching everywhere, Satpal reaches the dance house of courtesan Meena Bai. Satpal has a conversation with Meena in secret and then dies on her bed. Meena then collects all her savings and jewels and packs them in a suitcase and sets fire to her dance house. Shankar Verma (Mithun Chakraborty) lives a poor lifestyle with his mother, Shanti (Tanuja), after his father, Satpal Verma (Vinod Mehra) died many years ago. Before his death he was involved with a courtesan by the name of Meena Bai (Rekha). Shankar stands up for the rights of the poor people in the slum colony against the rich, who try to corner their resources. Shankar studies in college where he comes into constant conflict with rich brat Balram, who is extremely insensitive towards the poor. Now, Shankar finds himself the object of affection of two beautiful women, Sunita (Moon Moon Sen), a wealthy girl of Thakur Bhanupratap Singh (Amrit Pal), and Madhu (Mandakini), a poor girl and lives with her parents, Hariya (Sharat Saxena) and Tara (Ila Arun). Sunita and Shankar are always bickering at campus. Both women think that Shankar is in love with them. Shankar is subsequently hired by a wealthy woman named Amita (Rekha) who wants him to spy on Thakur Bhanupratap, his son Jackie (Tej Sapru) & his partner Kedar (Roopesh Kumar) & Kedar's son Balram (Gulshan Grover). Shankar is hesitant to take on such an assignment, but his abject poverty and the responsibility of his sister's wedding forces him to reconsider Amita's offer. Additionally, Shanti has asthma and requires proper medical attention. When Shanti comes to know that Shankar is going to Taragarh she gets very afraid. She reveals how Bhanu was demanding interest money from the farmers at every harvest. When Satpal resisted, he was supported by Bhanu's younger brother Shashi. Shashi donates his land holdings back to the farmers. Bhanu gets Kedar to draft up an agreement with Satpal, which is fair to the villagers. But then Shashi comes to Satpal's home and finds that the agreement signed by the villagers was not what Satpal had indicated, and he had sold the interests of the villagers to Bhanu. Shashi goes to confront Satpal and Shanti only learns that Satpal killed Shashi and that the villagers killed Satpal. Kedar asks Shanti to run away with her son. Shankar manages to become a driver in Thakur Bhanupratap household and goes about this task of spying and keeps reporting his findings to Amita regularly. Turns out Sunita is Bhanu's daughter and Madhu's father Hariya is Bhanu's henchman. Sunita goes out of her way to torture Shankar. Sunita likes Shankar's guts that he would not back down in front of anyone and would fight for his rights and his dignity. Shankar saves Sunita's life and Bhanu wanted to pay him, but Shankar only wanted a note of thanks. This enrages Bhanu that Shankar wants to be treated as an equal, but Shankar stands his ground. While Madhu likes Shankar as he is poor like her and kind and compassionate. Shankar also likes Madhu and falls in love with her. Sunita comes by and professes her love to Shankar, but Shankar thinks she is talking about Madhu and agrees with her. Sunita believes that Shankar also loves her. Sunita is ecstatic and tells Madhu that she loves Shankar and Madhu is shocked. Madhu knows she has to antagonize Shankar and she performs a seductive dance in front of Kedar and Bhanu. As a result, Shankar is disillusioned and walks away. Sunita finds out that Madhu sacrificed her own love for Shankar, so Sunita could have a life with him. Through Shankar, Amita finds out that Kedar lives in Bangalore. Amita goes in front of Kedar and looking at her he has a heart attack. When Bhanu comes to meet him in hospital, Kedar tells him that Amita is alive. Bhanu smirks as he had asked Hariya to shoot Amita and he confirms that he did so. Meanwhile Amita poses as a rich heiress to Jackie and Balram in their casino. She lures Balram to come with her and pretends to buy Rs 20 Lakhs of drugs which she pretends to sell to Shankar for 40 Lakhs, disguised as a foreign buyer, Michael. Michael says that he has Rs 80 Lakhs more and asks for 2 more consignment of the drugs, but Amita is not interested. Balram and Jackie are now hooked at the prospect of a Rs 40 Lakhs profit in the deal. They buy 2 more consignments for Rs 40 Lakhs, taking the money from Kedar's safe, but the consignment turns out to be cow dung. Amita then calls Kedar and laughs at him that she took her share of Rs 40 Lakhs from him eventually. Bhanu is perplexed about how this woman could claim to be Amita. One day while talking to villagers, Shankar finds out that his father had a bad reputation and had not only betrayed the villagers, but had also killed Thakur Bhanupratap's younger brother, Shashipratap (Jeetendra). He also learns that Satpal had relations with another woman. His inquiries take him to Central Jail, but on arrival, he is told by the jail superintendent that his father had finished serving his life sentence & was released & after his release had died just 6 months ago at the Brothel of Meena Bai. This was a surprise to Shankar as he & his mother Shanti had been under the impression that his father Satpal Verma had died much earlier many years ago. Shankar then sets out to find out the whereabouts of Meena Bai, but her brothel had caught fire & was destroyed and now no one knows her whereabouts. Meanwhile Amita visits Kedar while he is alone and kills him. Little does Shankar know that Meena Bai is still alive in the shape and form of none other than Amita and is using Shankar as a tool to extract vengeance against Thakur Bhanupratap. This was confirmed to Shankar by his mother Shanti and Shankar confronts Amita. Amita says that Satpal used to consider her as his sister. She says that she and Shashi used to love each other as kids. But then Shashi went abroad for his studies and Bhanu killed her father for not paying land taxes. Amita became a dancer named Meena. One day, Shashi returned and became an alcoholic when he didn't find Amita. He goes to Meena's dance house and realizes that Meena is Amita. Amita gets pregnant in time with Shashi's child. Bhanu tricks Satpal and makes a separate agreement for him versus the rest of the villagers. The villagers consider this as Satpal's fraud and complain to Shashi. Shashi was killed by Bhanu's henchmen, but the villagers believe Satpal killed him. Meanwhile, Bhanu asks Hariya to kill Amita, while Tara says that Amita's child was stillborn. Hariya doesn't kill Amita and returns her to the dance house. One day, Satpal returned to the dance house and revealed that he did not kill Shashi. This was a conspiracy by Bhanu and Kedar. Tara reveals to Hariya that Madhu is actually Shashi's daughter. Bhanu finds the truth and shoots Hariya and Tara. Shankar intervenes and tries to save Hariya and Tara, as he takes them away in a van with Bhanu as his hostage. They are pursued by Jackie, Balram and their goons. Bhanu escapes from the van. Shankar brings them to the village, where Hariya reveals that Madhu is Shashi's daughter. Bhanu and his men attack the village. The villagers support Shankar and come out to fight. Shankar fights Bhanu and defeats him. Bhanu is forced to return the fraud documents of all villagers. Bhanu then gets a gun and shoots Amita, and is shot dead by Shankar. Shankar marries Madhu.