Paidi Jairaj

A man marries a rich widow for her money and tries to murder her but she survives, gets a new face thanks to plastic surgery, and returns for revenge. Nandini and Sanjay Verma are lovers who conspire to take over the vast estate of Mr. Saxena and his only widowed daughter Aarti and her two children, with help from Sanjay's maternal uncle Heeralal, Saxena's longtime employee. After Saxena passes away suddenly, Sanjay woes Aarti and marries her. On a boating trip, Nandini and Sanjay do away with Aarti, making it look like an accident, and take over her entire estate. But Aarti survives, disfigured beyond recognition by a crocodile attack, With the help of plastic surgery, she transforms herself into a successful model and renames herself Jyoti. She then plans to carry out her vengeance against Sanjay, but finds that he has been physically abusing her children, pets, and servants. She must now decide to reveal her identity or continue with her plan and be a spectator to the abuse on her loved ones. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Young couple Sanjay Verma and Nandini scheme with Hiralal, Mr. Saxena's longtime employee, to take over his estate, which is managed and maintained by his widowed daughter Aarti, who lives there with her two children. Hiralal kills Saxena, then Sanjay feigns love for Aarti and they marry. On a boat trip Sanjay pushes Aarti into the jaws of death, then the three take over the estate and physically abuse Aarti's loved ones and pets. Unfortunately for them, Aarti survives but is totally disfigured from a crocodile attack. Fortunately for her, she has plastic surgery and transforms herself into successful model Jyoti. She uses this as a ruse to get to Sanjay so she can bring all the wrongdoers to justice. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Aarti is a widow living with two kids her husband died in a car accident.Hiralal eyes the wealth of Aarti and her father knowing Aarti wont ever marry again he kills her father and get his nephew Sanjay in her life so that she can start a new life.Sanjay is in love with Nandini whose best friend of Aarti.Nandini somehow convinces Aarti to marry Sanjay. Very soon after their marriage they visit their farmhouse where Sanjay pushes Aarti in a lake where the crocodile preys on her. Aarti survives the attack and is shocked to to know that her loved ones wanted her dead .She returns for revenge after plastic surgery and calls herself Jyothi. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Although India obtained freedom from the British in 1947, Goa and its territories are still ruled by the Portuguese. A group of revolutionaries want a free Goa and are thus wanted by the Portuguese administration. Among them are Purandare, Narvekar, and Dinanath, and when Dinanath's whereabouts are known to the police, he escapes with his young son Ramdas and goes to their hideout. With Purandare's assistance they manage to escape, but they're shot. A horrified Ramdas watches Purandare shoot his father dead, and this is how he starts hating revolutionaries. Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie, befriends a girl named Julie, and grows up taking up crime as his career. He soon prospers and lets the villagers also prosper with him. Then when the Police Commissioner is shot dead, Ronnie helps the authorities apprehend his killer, a young man named Shekhar. He is arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to be hanged. At this point Ronnie finds out that the people he assisted in the past are all against him and sympathize with the revolutionaries. Furious, he grabs a gun to kill Shekar's parents--and finds out who they really are and why Purandare shot his dad. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) As a child, Ramdas watches helplessly as his revolutionary father is shot dead by one of his accomplices. This stirs up extreme hatred for all Indian revolutionaries fighting for freedom against the Portuguese government by turning in members of the revolutionary group. But when he finds the same revolutionaries he once turn in sympathetic this changes his thinking and life forever. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Purandare, Narvekar, and Dinanath, are three revolutionaries who want a free Goa, although the country of India already obtained freedom from the British in 1947. Goa is still ruled by the Portuguese. When the police figure out about Dinanath, he runs away with his son, Ramdas, they go with Purandare, but Purandare shoots Dinanath. Soon Ramdas changes his name to Ronnie and makes friends with a girl named Julie. He grows up to be a police officer; one day when a Police Commissioner is shot dead, Ronnie helps the police find the killer, who is Shekhar. Shekhar is arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to be hanged. At this point, Ronnie finds out that the people he had assisted in the past are all against him and sympathize with the revolutionaries. Angered, he grabs a gun to kill Shekhar's parents--and discovers who they really are and why Purandare shot his dad. Will he join hands with Shekar after knowing the truth or will he continue with his same old life style? —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com At a very young age, Ramdas witnessed his father being shot by a revolutionary; from there he took a hatred for revolutionary, changed his name to Ronnie, and started to work in a small liquor shop. He moves on to crime in a big way but is eventually cheated and ends up killing the boss and taking his place. He becomes a rich businessman overnight who deals in gold. This takes him towards the Portuguese government, which makes him a police officer. His first assignment includes killing some senior wanted revolutionaries. He starts to influence the villagers to become like him. When the police commissioner is shot dead, he helps the police apprehend the killer: a revolutionary named Shekhar, who is tried in court, proven guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. What Ronnie doesn't know is that his father is a revolutionary named Dinanath whose motive was to free Goa and its territories from the Portuguese rule; the people he supported are actually is enemies, and his father was shot with a successful motive. —gavin (gunmasterM@hotmail.com)

Vijay, a simpleton and the lookalike of the notorious international criminal Don is hired by D'Silva, to be the mole in Don's gang and report the details of his illegal activities. However, things take a turn for the worse when D'Silva is killed.

This is the story of a most unusual romance in which a man of many faces and yet a man without a name who enters the life of a beautiful and rich heiress, Rita and partnered her in an exciting game of hide and seek. Rita (Zeenat Aman) is saved from a fatal fall while skiing by a local guide called Chailla Babu (Rajesh Khanna) in Kashmir. Rita finds Chailla in multiple avatars in the course of her tour and they soon become fast friends. However, Rita is forced to return to Mumbai after she is informed that her uncle has been murdered and that Chailla is the prime suspect. Rita decides to kill Chailla and take her revenge but is left baffled when Chailla saves her life from an attacker. Who is Chailla and what is he after? Enjoy watching this crime thriller unfold.

Vijay and Ajay make a living by stealing money from people. Their friendship is affected when Vijay discovers that Ajay`s father may have been his father`s killer.

Thakur Chandrabhan lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small village in India. He is widowed and lives with his sister; a widowed daughter-in-law, Saraswati; and a grand-daughter, Tara, who is of marriageable age. Also living in this household is Bholanath, who is blind since birth, and helps with household chores. Tara's marriage is arranged with a young man, Pratap Singh, from a noble family, who approves of Tara, but demands a dowry of 3 Lakh Rupees. Chandrabhan does not have this much money, but Bholanath has been stashing away cash, that is guarded by a snake, and offers all of it to Pratap, who accepts it and absconds. Blind Bhola is unable to pursue him, but is instead bitten by the snake, regains his vision and sets forth to Bombay to locate Pratap. Several weeks later, Bholanath returns home, just in time to be told that he must marry Tara, as she refuses to marry anyone else. Tara notices something very odd about Bholanath as he calls her "Tara', not as "Little Mistress" as he used to; he is terrified of snakes; and seems more cultured and educated. The family decides to get the two engaged, however, the ceremony is interrupted by the arrival of the police, who have an arrest warrant for Bholanath for Theft, and Murder of a young woman named Lucy. The question remains, what was Bholanath up to in Bombay, whose money did he steal, and why did he end up killing Lucy? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Chor Chor ( 1974) is a crime thriller with Vijay Anand and Leena Chandravarkar in lead roles.Produced by Vijay Anand, the film was directed by his long time associate Prem Prakash. It is a two hour suspense thriller without any songs in it, which is surprising because one always expects the Vijay Anand films to have a number of melodious and artistically filmed songs. The only thing close to a song in Chor Chor is that Goldie himself sings two or three lines of the House Number 44 song- Phaili Hui Hai Sapno Ki Rahe- in a party, and his voice is used by the villain to frame him in an act of bank robbery. Aakash ( Goldie) is a bank manager, and his father (played by Iftekhar) is a retired police officer who tells his son one day that he saw a criminal named Chandan he thought had died twenty years ago. The same evening, the criminal attacks and kills Iftekhar who, before he dies, manages to tear a piece of the criminal's shirt collar. It is seen that the collar has the label of Stylo Tailor of Panchgani. Goldie gets himself transferred to the Panchgani branch of the bank so that he can investigate about the murder. There, he meets the beautiful girl Hema (Leena Chadravarkar) who , with her mother, runs a guest house. Goldie stays in this guest house as a paying guest which reminds the viewers of the film Kala Pani in which Dev Anand stays in a similar guest house in Hyderabad. Right from the beginning, the viewer knows the killer(played by Trilok Kapoor, brother of Prithvi Raj Kapoor, and known mostly for his role as Lord Shiva in the religious films) .The killer also knows that the hero is looking for him. So the suspense is how would the hero figure out who the killer is .There are two sub plots and about half a dozen red herrings to keep the hero confused. The first sub plot is that the killer has a dual identity. He was a criminal Chandan, accused of five murders, but he is also seen as Dr. Dharam Veer of Panchgani who has secret plans to rob forty lac rupees from the local bank . It is the same bank where the hero Aakash has joined as a replacement to the regular bank manager (played by Jairaj) who is faking illness because he is blackmailed by the killer which brings us to the second sub plot. The killer knows that Jairaj is the biological father of the heroine as he was in love with the heroine's mother Kamala whose parents arranged her marriage with someone else. As Kamala was pregnant with Jairaj's child, her husband had a fight with Jairaj in which the latter unintentionally killed the former . This knowledge gives the killer doctor Dharam Veer leverage over Jairaj to make him confine himself to his house pretending to be a heart patient, for one month , so that the killer can rob the bank and put the blame on the hero Aakash( Goldie) . There ensues a battle of wits between the hero and the killer and some interesting incidents take place like a threat letter typed from a typewriter with a defective key, and a letter shabbily written by a blind woman. The killer also manages that Aakash comes across a number of red herring suspects like an unknown lover of the heroine, a retired army colonel, the perpetual sharabi Keshto Mukherji, and the philanderer showroom owner, Vibhuti Bhushan (played by Mohan Sherry). The break through is when the hero comes to know that the killer , in spite of knowing who the hero is, doesn't kill him though he gets more than one opportunities to do so. He realizes that the killer wants to use him for some purpose before eliminating him. The hero changes his strategy and is able to outwit the killer in the end. The best part of the movie is the divinely beautiful heroine Leena Chandravarkar, and the way the director has shown her courtship with the hero Goldie. It has been presented in an absolutely natural and decent manner, without any flamboyance or aggression on hero's part and without any coyness or nakhra( attitude) on heroine's part and without any nok jhonk or ladai jhagda( lovers' tiff) between them. Their first two meetings are when the hero is driving his car and the heroine wants to cross the road and they very politely signal- you go first. The heroine conveys that she is attracted to the hero by cooking the vegetables that he likes which she comes to know when he orders from a menu in a restaurant .Their relationship develops in a very smooth and mature fashion, and the way the hero makes a marriage proposal and the way the heroine accepts it is absolutely unique. It was totally devoid of the usual romantic trappings, yet it was absolutely engaging. Maybe this reflects Goldie's idea of an ideal woman, and the ideal format of man -woman relationship which should be based on respect, mutual understanding, and commitment. Highly recommended.

Radha lives with her widowed dad and is of marriageable age. Accordingly her details her provided to a marriage-broker, Avtar, who also doubles as a Ved (Village Doctor). He brings the proposal before Shriram and his wife, Sita. They approve of Radha and show her photograph to Shriram's brother, Dr. Madhu, who agrees to marry her. The marriage is celebrated with great pomp and ceremony in the entire village. It is then that the Shriram, Sita, and Madhu find out that Radha has a serious illness - a fact that was known to Avtar - but not communicated to them. This illness prevents her from being intimate with Madhu, and the only cure is when she has a child of her own. Will this marriage be annulled? —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)

The film is based on travelogues of XV century Russian traveler Afanasy Nikitin called "A journey beyond the three seas"

Circa the Mugal rule in Hindustan, Shahjahan, the present emperor is approached by one of his subjects, whose daughter, Ruhi, is so beautiful, that her suitors have killed her to-be grooms, as well as two of her brothers, who came to her aid. He now seeks the Emperor's assistance. Appalled at this, the Emperor confers with his Queen, Mumtaz, and upon her advise asks the father to bring his daughter to be a guest of the palace, and it is from here that a suitor will be chosen by none other than his royal majesty himself. The father does as asked, but one of the Queen's aide is troubled by Ruhi's august presence, that she fears that the Emperor may take a liking to her, and make her his begum. She plots a devious scheme so that Ruhi is promised to get married to Shiraz. The matter gets quite complicated as Ruhi has already been promised to Sohail. The Emperor and his Queen are so perturbed by this situation, that both become ill. The situation is resolved when Sohail decides to give Ruhi up so that she can marry Shiraz - but not until Mumtaz tragically passes away. Devastated and heart-broken by her death, Shah Jahan feels that she can be made immortal by the building of a royal tomb, and asks Shiraz to come up with such a Mahal. Watch as events begin to unfold, that will finally give rise to one of the seven wonders of the world - The Taj Mahal. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)