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Ek Daku Saher Mein is a 1985 film, directed by Kalidas and produced by Sundeep Kumar. The film stars Suresh Oberoi, Sarika, Amjad Khan, Ashok Kumar, Shakti Kapoor, Kalpana Iyer and Bharat Kapoor in lead roles. The film had musical score by Rajesh Roshan. Durjan Singh lives happily with his wife Radha and new born daughter but his world turns upside down when Radha is raped by Lala Manohar Lal following which she commits suicide.Durjan kills Lala while his son Vijay swears to revenge his fathers death,Durjan turns a Dacoit terrorizing the region once an injured Durjan takes shelter in the Church and requests father D'Mello to take care of his daughter who agrees on a condition that he wont ever meet her.Years later Durjan sees his daughter Ranjana has grown up under care of father D'Mello and is eager to meet her, he also finds that she is in love with Rakesh.Durjan finds that Rakesh's father isn't keen to marry them for being the daughter of a Dacoit and kidnaps Rakesh who in turn tells him that Ranjana will be heart broken if she finds her father is Dacoit Durjan Singh and so does happen.Durjan Singh and his gang surrender themselves and are imprisoned for few years,when he is released from of jail he goes to stay with Rakesh and Ranjana who are now married with a kid but Ranjana isn't happy to welcome him.Rakesh gets framed by Vijay for having a relationship with Rita following which Ranjana leaves the house but Durjan clears their misunderstandings. Things are back to normalcy but old habits die soon as Durjan is caught while stealing expensive diamonds from an exhibition where Rakesh is the security head following which both land up in the jail.

The story of an ordinary man who goes through a lot in his life and is forced to join the underworld.

A young man must deal with a broken engagement ceremony, while his to-be fiancée waits to be treated for blood cancer. Arun is the son of Barrister Mahtur.Lily is the daughter of a Nurse Ruby who study in the same college.Arun is the leader of male students while Lily is the simple middle class girl.Arun who was a topper in college for long time is beaten by Lily in terminal examination which hurts his ego. Arun and Lily start to knowing each other an fall in love.Despite their different faith and status their marriage is approved by their parents.When all is going well Lily is diagnosed with Leukemia advanced stage of cancer. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Arun Mathur and his college sweetheart, Lily Fernandes, even though of different faiths, Hindu & Catholic respectively, are thrilled when their parents agree to the marriage. Ruby Fernandes welcomes Arun and encourages him to call her "mommy", while Arun's dad is already making preparations for the marriage. Then the doctor announces that Lily has blood cancer and may not have very long to live. She and her mom not only suppress this news from Arun, but also cancel the engagement ceremony. Arun's dad is shocked when Ruby informs him, and he and the doctor discuss various ways of getting her treated. One of them is to let a doctor from abroad examine Lilly. But will this doctor be able to reach Lily in time? and will Arun ever come to know of Lily's illness? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Jennie, the atheist foreign wife of Akbar, son of pious and honest institutional head, finds life in her in-laws house stifling and agrees to participate in a dance program much against their protestations. A paralytic stroke makes her turn towards reading the Koran, which miraculously cures her of her ailment. She decides to devote the rest of her life in prayers.

An Indian ruler struggles to rescue her family and liberate her land from the British.

Sapna lives in poverty with her factory worker mother and her alcoholic step-father. Sapna's friend Neeta's husband is crippled from an accident and goes blind. Neeta goes to work to support her family as a prostitute. Neeta introduces Sapna to her pimp, Heera and hopes that Sapna will earn enough money to pull herself out of the clutches of poverty and the misbehaviour of her step-father. Amit, an educated young man, an owner-driver of his taxi comes to Sapna's rescue when she is under threat and gratitude turns into love. The alcoholic step-father has designs on Sapna, and tries to exert his authority on her, resulting in Sapna assaulting him. As a result, she serves a jail term. Amit wants to marry Sapna but his family won't allow him to marry an ex-convict. How many more barriers will Sapna and Amit have to break in order to fulfill their love? How does a Gurkha named Pyarelal figure in all this? —Soumitra

An idealistic college professor strives to reform the criminal element in his college but one of his students accuses him of sexual harassment. Pramod Sharma a young History professor joins a college where he finds that the students are quite in disciplined while Rakesh and his gang fear the college.The whole of college is behind Rita the beautiful daughter of college chairman but Rita looses her heart to Pramod.In the meanwhile Pramod is trying to reform the students he meets Madhu daughter of the college principal Shashtri,she has lost interest in life after death of her lover and also facing limping problem after an accident.Pramod finds from Shahstri how Madhu lived life at the fullest until few years back and decides to transform her again,he also gets in bad books of Rakesh when he tries to stop him from wrong doings in college.Rita gets jealous by seeing closeness of Pramod and Madhu and along with Rakesh frames him in a sexual harassment case during an outdoor picnic. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Madhu Shastri lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, who is also the Principal of Adarsh Mahavidyalyal. She is in love with Vijay, a pilot, and both are expected to marry soon. Unfortunately, Vijay's plane crashes and he passes away. The shock of this news leads to Madhu falling off the stairs, resulting in a permanent damage to her leg. Then one day a new College Professor, Pramod Sharma, enters her life, and both fall in love with each other. He encourages her to follow-up on her hobbies, especially painting, and go out more often, to which she responds positively. Then chaos breaks out into her life again when Pramod is accused by Rita, the daughter of the College Chairman, of sexually molesting her. It looks like Madhu's life is headed for yet another heart-break. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Moti gets married to Mahjubhi for his own ulterior motives and later leaves her to marry Phoolbanu, the love of his life. However, he ends up paying dearly for this betrayal.

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)

Ezra, a Jew, adopts an abducted Roman girl Lydia and raises her as a Jew. Years later, problems arise when she falls in love with a Roman prince, who is disguised as a Jewish man.

Nirmala lives with her maternal uncle, his wife, and her widowed mom, studies in an Arts College, has a sweetheart in wealthy Rajinder R. Singh, who she plans to marry. Disagreements flare up at home when her aunt wants her to get married to an uneducated villager, Nirmala refuses to marry, instead gets a job at a Sada Bahar Nurtya Vidyalaya, which turns out to be a front for a brothel, landing her in prison. She gets off with a not guilty verdict, but is turned away from home, and the shock kills her mom. She attempts to find work, but is pursued relentlessly by a pimp, Pandit Kedarnath, who wants her for himself. Nirmala ends up as a Governess with none other than Rajinder's mom, where both lovers get married secretly. Rajinder then leaves for Britain, leaving behind a pregnant Nirmala. When the Singhs find out about her pregnancy and the man responsible, they refuse to believe her and throw her out straight into the arms of Kedarnath. She runs away and takes shelter working as a nurse in a private hospital where she gives birth to a baby boy. Kedarnanth once again shows up here, forcing the Trustees of the hospital to fire her. She flees with her child, and ends up at a brothel where she must accept this profession or see her child starve to death. She manages to smuggle the child to a kind-hearted doctor Renuka Roy. Years later, her son has grown up and is now the Public Prosecutor, and one of the first cases that he is to try is none other than that of Nirmala herself - a prostitute - who is now accused murder. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A stubborn emperor plans to wage war against another who had humiliated him and his daughter. Maharaja Daljit of Jagmere is displeased after his envoy, Rana Sangram Singh, is humiliated by Maharaj Baktawar of Satnapur who rejects the marriage proposal of the former's daughter with his son. Enraged, he instructs everyone in his region to stop all celebrations and prepare for war, while Baktawar is certain that victory is within reach as no one can penetrate the labyrinth that surrounds his kingdom. Then the Rajkumari herself dons the guise of a dancer/singer, manages to find her way around the labyrinth and returns home with the map. Daljit prepares to seek the blessings of Bhagwan Shri Shankar and plans to attack Satnapur after a week on a Tuesday - little knowing that nothing is going to go his way. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Devdas`s childhood sweetheart is married off as his father opposes the alliance. Heartbroken, Devdas starts drinking, spending his days in the arms of Chandramukhi, a prostitute.

After Azaad, a rich man, rescues Shobha from a few bandits, she decides to marry him. Things take a turn when Shobha's family discovers that Azaad himself is a bandit. After her widower dad, Kedarnath, passes away, Shobha goes to live with his friend, Charandas, and his wife, Shanta, who had their son go missing as a child. Years later Shobha is now matured and Charandas scouts for a suitable groom. A wealthy man, Sunder, would like to marry Shobha, but the family detests him. Then one night Shobha is abducted. The Police are informed but their search is in vain. A few days later they get wind that Shobha may be in Sunder's custody, a search does prove to be in vain. Then Shobha returns home and tells them she was rescued by a wealthy man named Azaad, housed in a mansion, looked after very well, and brought back home all in one piece. They subsequently find out that the wealthy man is none other than a notorious bandit named Azaad. They are even more shocked when Shobha informs them that she wants to get married to Azaad. Will Charandas and Shanta permit her to marry a bandit? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Les Miiserables--originally French film later adapted to English. Unable to find employment, and unable to get any money by begging, young Kundan steals a loaf of bread from a bakery and runs to his house in the slums to feed his starving mother and niece, Radha. The police catch up with him, and he is arrested, tried in court, convicted, and sentenced to 2 years rigorous imprisonment. While in prison, he gets word that his mother is dead, and his niece is still starving and alone, and attempts to break out, but is caught and gets five years added to his sentence. He attempts to break out again, and this time he gets an additional 7 years in jail, bringing the total to 14 years. After 14 years, Kundan roams around a city, trying to find shelter and food, but finds that his prison career following him around in the shape and form of Inspector Sher Singh. Good fortune comes to Kundan, when he meets with Gurudev, a kind-hearted samaritan, who helps him financially. Kundan is well settled now, and the people in his town want him to be the Mayor, which he accepts. He also meets with his ill niece, but is unable to save her. She leaves behind a daughter named Uma. Sher Singh enters his life, and gets Kundan on the run. Kundan and Uma ultimately settle down again, and the years roll by. Uma grows up and meets a young man named Amrit, who is involved in the freedom struggle to get the British to quit India, and thus in trouble with the police. Sher Singh comes looking after for Amrit, but instead finds Kundan. Kundan must decide to make a run for it again, or confront Sher Singh and end this victimization once and for all. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

According to the astrologer, the king's son seeing his father before the age of eight or drinking breast milk from his own mother until the age of eight is a danger to the son. So a widow whose husband was beheaded by the king raises her son and the king's son until he is eight years old. Although the two boys grow up and live separately, fate makes them both fall in love with the same girl. —nethupuleems

This movie depicts the life of once wealthy poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib. This story portrays his trials, tribulations, triumphs, and utlimate descent to poverty, and then to prison; and his tragic and ill-fated love with a beautiful courtesan named Chaudvin. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Anju Rai lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in a palatial house. She is now of marriageable age, and her dad has arranged her marriage with Advocate Amarnath. Both Anju and Amarnath meet and fall in love with each other. Shortly before their formal engagement, Anju notices a change in Amarnath - as he appears to be drifting further from her. Then he decides to demolish his house and re-built it, and also refuses to go near any Mandir - either alone or in Anju's company. When part of the house collapses, he is injured, but recuperates quickly. It is then the town is set afire with rumors that Amarnath may have sexually molested a village belle named Sonia, who sells milk, lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed dad, cruel step-mother, and is to be married to the village goon, Shankar. Watch what happens when Shankar gets killed, and Sonia is arrested for killing him. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) A delicately nuanced psychological drama, exploring a 3-way relationship between the main characters and the crisis of conscience that rocks it. A prosperous, well-respected lawyer, in love with and engaged to an educated, socially-conscious young woman, succumbs to a weak moment and rapes a poor local village milkmaid. The rest of the story deals with the aftermath of this tragic event, with all the inevitable undercurrents of guilt, penitence and pervasive heartbreak that stem from it. —Hrishi Dixit <hud1@cornell.edu>

Do Bigha Zamin captures the trials and tribulations of a poor farmer, Shambu, and his family, who go to great lengths to save their two acres of land from a cunning landlord.

Indira (Suraiya) is an orphan brought up the strict and uprighteous Rani (Veena). Indira grows up to be a beauty and is sought by three suitors Raj (Raj Kapoor), Kundan (Al Nasir), and Ramesh (Suresh). Rani does not like Indira to marry into her family as both Raj and Kundan are her brothers, and she wants Indira to marry Ramesh, and as such arranges a meeting with Ramesh's mom (Pratima Devi) and finalizes the marriage. Indira does not appreciate this and refuses to marry Ramesh. Raj speaks of his love with Rani, and Rani warns him that Indira is to marry Ramesh, but also has an on-going affair with his brother Kundan. Who does Indira really love? Will she ever marry her dream man? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A traumatized beautiful woman loses her memory in a train accident. Prakash and his beautiful sister live an impoverished lifestyle in a rented room in Bombay. They do not even have enough to eat and are three months behind in their rent. The neighborhood has put pressure on their landlord to evict them as they suspect his sister of being overly friendly with a homeless male who calls himself Laatsaheb. Things only get worse after Prakash is killed and his sister decides to re-locate by train. While traveling she finds her co-passenger is none other than Laatsaheb - who confesses that he loves her. Before she could respond, the train meets with an accident, he survives with minor injuries but she loses her memory, is hospitalized and presumed to have lost her mind also. She manages to escape and ends up with Imperial College's Professor Nath - who gets smitten by her beauty, calls her Kamini, assures her that she has always lived with him, and decides not to treat her medically - so that she can be his forever. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)