Pramod Moutho

Guardians is an intense love story that reflects the challenges faced by lovers in our society and the help extended to them by the guardians who loved them. The story reflects the reality of the society we live in, the double standards of its citizens and the fight of the common man who becomes the ''Guardian'' of the society at the end.

A man's tragic childhood and the stigma attached to his family due to his late gangster father makes him follow in his father's footsteps. He grows up to be a dreaded gangster and faces professional and personal trauma in his life. This is the story of the Shivalkar family. Stigmatized as a family of criminals, they're subjected to the same oppression and the vicious circles created partly by themselves and partly by the surrounding communities, including the police, politicians, and people in general. Rohit Shivalkar (Sanjay Dutt) grows up under these circumstances. Nicknamed "Boxer Bhai" by his friends as he excelled in boxing in his college days, Rohit grows up to be perhaps the most powerful of the Shivalkars. His reach is beyond the state's chief minister and police commissioners, and an election cannot take place before a deal is made with Boxer Bhai. Rohit has weaknesses: he cannot stand any woman being called a prostitute because his mom Sonu (Namrata Shirodkar) was one; and he has fallen hard for Gauri (Shilpa Shetty) who's already married to an abusive spouse. Rohit snatches her out of this relationship and marries her himself, but his problems are far from over: the political scenario changes and Rohit finds no support from any godfather. He is ordered to be arrested dead or alive. Will his luck help him overcome obstacles? Will his new wife support him? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Siddhant Rai (Rishi Kapoor) is a rich widower who lives with his three mischievous children. Siddhant had a younger brother named Rajit, who had a fallout years ago & left Siddhant. Nobody, not even Siddhant's children & his dead wife's crafty relatives know what Rajit looked like. Kids include Rohit (Harsh Lunia), Rahul (Kinshuk Vaidya) & Rani (Sakshi Sem). Kids are supported by house servant Banke Bihari Chaturvedi or BBC (Tiku Talsania). The crafty relatives include Vikram Sinha (Govind Namdeo) & Prabhakar Sinha (Pramod Moutho). Vikram's son is Ranjit Kumar (Mayur Verma). Vikram and Prabhakar are angry with Siddhant as he is using company money to fix a dam built by his firm but now handed over to the Government. Siddhant says that the dam endangers several hundred villages and fixing it is a civic duty. Vikram disagrees and says now the dam is the responsibility of the Government. Siddhant orders the repair of the dam, but Vikram secretly stops the work. Vikram and Prabhakar are 30% owners of the company. They were ones who also used sub-par cement on the dam. Eventually the dam breaks and Siddhant is livid that his orders were not carried out. He orders his own inquiry into the dam failure. The kids don't allow any teacher to stay by playing dangerous pranks on them. Siddhant wants to send the kids to a boarding school, but BBC stops Siddhant as this is what happened with Rajit as well. A young girl who works in an orphanage named Anna (Kajol) applies for the job of nanny for the children. The kids try to get her to leave the job, by playing pranks on her. They try to scare her with the haunted house bit, but Anna scares them right back. Things get too far when they send her a fake telegram telling of her parents' death. She is hurt by this prank but relents when the kids are really ashamed. Meanwhile a bank thief and conman named Shekhar (Ajay Devgan) and his friend Jaddu (Johnny Lever) are on run. They see Anna & mistake her to be a relative of Siddhant. He sees Anna come out a Mercedes and figures that she comes from a rich family. They are stuck in a traffic jam together and Shekhar tries to woo her. Jaddu tells Anna a sob story that she look exactly like Shekhar dead lover. Shekhar pursues Anna with this story and Jaddu pleads insanity on his behalf. Through Anna, Shekhar meets the kids as well. Shekhar aims to con the children with his charm, hoping to marry Anna & become rich. Anna falls in love with Shekhar. Siddhant, who thinks that Shekhar is a decent boy, permits the marriage. Just when Shekhar really falls in love with Anna, Siddhant exposes Shekhar on the wedding day. A shattered Anna leaves the household. Siddhant sends Shekhar to jail. Vikram and Prabhakar who are responsible for the failure of the dam, decide to kill Siddhant & his children in an accident. Siddhant's engineer Murthi (Adi Irani) has prepared a report and has named Vikram and Prabhakar responsible for the accident. Murthi is shot by Vikram, but he manages to fax the report to Siddhant. Siddhant dies, but the children are saved. Their custody goes to Siddhant's relatives. Since Rajit has not tried to contact Siddhant for 14 years, he is considered dead. Vikram and Prabhakar make the children's lives miserable. Shekhar learns of Siddhant's death & children's plight via Jaddu. He decides to do a good turn & re-enters the home posing as Siddhant's long lost brother Rajit Rai. BBC collaborates with Jaddu to bring Shekhar into the house, as he could see that Vikram and Prabhakar would eventually kill the kids. BBC shares all the inside information to prove that Shekhar is Rajit. Anna too has returned after learning about Siddhant's death. She, along with the children, have an uneasy truce with Shekhar as he is their only hope now. Shekhar even saves Anna from Ranjit's evil eye. The villains try to discredit Shekhar, but the whole game turns Topsy Turvy when real Rajit Rai shows up. Seeing their last chance to usurp Siddhant's money vanish, the villains now side with Shekhar, prove him to be the real Rajit Rai aka Raju Chacha. The deal is simple: Shekhar will be their partner & get a 25% share in the estate. Anna witnesses this deal and again believes that Shekhar has betrayed her trust. However, Shekhar stuns the villains after being proved as Rajit Rai by letting them know that the "real" Rajit Rai is only his fellow conman Gafoor (Sanjay Dutt). Anna's trust in Shekhar is back as she sees that Shekhar only wanted to protect the kids and did not desire any money or wealth. Shekhar helps the kids get their rightful legacy back. Anna reconciles after seeing the change in Shekhar, but the joy is short lived when the villains succeed in sending Shekhar back to jail. Meanwhile, the truth of Siddhant's death is revealed to the children. The kids record Vikram's conversation on tape where he talks about how he got Siddhant killed. Shekhar escapes again & kills the villains' same way they killed Siddhant. The end credits come up as the kids sing in the hope that their real Raju Chacha one day might come back...

A pair of twins separated at birth. One grows up as a Hindu in India, while the other is raised a Muslim in Pakistan. They are forced to battle each other during an Indo-Pak war. A mother gives birth to twins. Unfortunately, they are separated. One of the children ends up in neighbouring Pakistan and grows up a devout Muslim named Tauheed, while the other grows up as a Hindu named Ajay. With the on-going rivalry and hatred between the two countries, both find themselves on the opposite side, and must battle each other. The only way they can unite is by saving the life of the Pakistani Prime Minister, who himself has become the target of terrorists. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Newly-wed Pooja is ill-treated by her in-laws and her husband for dowry. Unable to live with their demands and mistreatment, she decides to stand up for herself and teach them a lesson. Gone are the days (and the movies) when the Indian daughter-in-law stood by silently and got abused and slapped around by her mother-in-law, sisters-in-law, et al. Here, the daughter-in-law has not only her cruel and intimidating mom-in-law, but also her equally cruel, sister-in-law by the hair, and some may say, well under her thumb. A glaring and perhaps a light-hearted look at the evil of dowry, and lack of which still does result in cruelties being inflicted even on well educated and cultured women in modern yet secular and tradition-bond India. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

The story of Rakshak is about two brothers who are different from each other as one is a gangster while other is a cop. Later the cop learns that his brother has become a feared gangster and is a threat to the city. The story takes a turn when he decides to fight his brother so as to save the city from the gangster terror.

A young taxi driver and a rich city girl fall head over heels in love. Defying her family, she marries him but they weave a web of deception to split the couple apart.