Naseem Banu

Thakur Jaspal Singh lives in the prestigious and palatial house called the Sheesh Mahal. He is badly in debt, yet continues to live a lifestyle far over and above his means. His son and two daughters are concerned, and try to stop him from over-spending, but he disregards them. Then one day the inevitable happens, and Jaspal Singh has to leave Sheesh Mahal, which must now be sold by auction to pay off his debts. Jaspal and his children move into a small room in the nearby slums, where they hope to spend the rest of their lives. Jaspal's son finds employment in a mill, but unfortunately meets with an accident, and in order to save his life, the doctors amputate his leg, leaving his unemployed and dependent. Jaspal's daughter, Ranjana, attempts to secure employment, but proud Jaspal will not hear of this. Ranjana gets employment, but she does not tell her father about it. Ranjana meets with a young man and both fall in love with each other. When this young man's father, Durgaprasad, comes to ask Jaspal for Ranjana's hand, Jaspal finds out that he is the new owner of Sheesh Mahal, and that Ranjana has been working as a maid there. Jaspal is furious, and taking his sword, he rushes over to the Sheesh Mahal with a clear intend of killing Ranjana, and anyone else who dares to stop him. —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)

A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir. Set at the court of the harsh Mughhal Emperor Jehangir (Chandramohan), the film tells two separate love stories: the first of Mangal Singh (Ali) and Kanwar (Sheela) amid the violent feud raging between their families, and the second, the famous one of Jehangir and Nurjehan (Banu). Mangal kills the brother and father of his lover. His father, the loyal Rajput chieftain Sangram Singh (Modi), captures his son and Jehangir passes the death sentence. Jehangir's claim that the law knows no class distinction is put on the test when a washerwoman (Akhtar) accuses Queen Nurjehan of having inadvertently killed her husband during a hunt. Jehangir offers his own life but the washerwoman magnanimously forgives him. —Sujit R. Varma The only son of Sardar Sangram Singh, Mangal, is provoked into a fight with two men, which he accepts and wins, killing the two challengers. The families of the deceased young men approach Shahenshah Jehangir for justice, and Sangram Singh, trusting the justice of his employer, entrusts his son to the justice of his majesty. Jehangir makes it clear that his law is clear and there are no exceptions, and he orders the execution of Mangal, ignoring the pleas of Sangram Singh. Then a woman, who husband has been killed, rings the bell for justice. Jehangir appears to hear this matter, and he is told that this woman's husband has been killed by an arrow, but the woman is hesitant to name the killer for fear of repurcussion. Jehangir, however, assures her that there will no repercussions, and she names the killer as his queen, Noor Jahan. This throws Jehangir into a quandry, as now he will have to apply the same law as he has been governing others with namely: "A life for a life". —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) A woman, whose husband has been mysteriously killed attempts to seek justice, her pleas for justice leads her to his majesty Sardar Sangram Singh mansion. She begins to exclaim her problems to Sardar and in her claims was that her husband has been killed by an arrow. This kind of conflicts leads Sardar to question his biological son, Mangal whose mope and his involvement in a violent fight might have lead to this kind of conflict. But what Sardar does not know is that his very own queen, Noor Jahan has had an involvement in this case. What will he do when he finds this out? Will he grant the woman justice or not? —gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com)