Prem Prakash

A night watchman quits his 20-year job after learning his sister sold their family land. He journeys to the mountains to retrieve his loved one's buried ashes, confronting personal loss amid a changed landscape and unexpected encounters. César has been a night watchman at a chemical products factory for over twenty years. One afternoon, he receives a letter from his sister informing him that she has sold the family land in the mountains. César decides to leave his job and embark on a journey to that area, aiming to recover the urn with Elena's ashes buried there. As he walks, he confronts the grief he has kept buried for years. The landscape of his childhood is no longer the same: forest fires and the encroachment of private property have changed everything. Yet the encounters along the way open up a world he had refused to face after years of isolation in his work.

Set entirely in the modern day England, `London Bridge` narrates the importance of relationships, and shows how love and empathy prevails against ambition and dreams. It is the story of an ambitious hardworking young entrepreneur, a kind-hearted daughter, and a successful business tycoon, whose heirdom is at stake as his only daughter values the pain and sorrow of the underprivileged in the society than her only relative in the world. C S Nambiar, a well-known industrialist, who has many businesses under his wings, sees his future son-in-law in Vijay, a hardworking ambitious young business man, who is also an upcoming threat to some of his business interests. Nambiar offers to accept Vijay as his successor, if Vijay succeeds in bringing back his daughter, Pavitra, from her chosen path of charity and goodwill towards the needy of the society. Irrespective of being from a different cultural and financial background, Pavitra, feels it her responsibility to be part of the great nation she resides in, England, which has forever advocated, followed, and supported rehabilitation of the less fortunate part of all societies.. Vijay, who has struggled hard all his life to climb up the ladder of prosperity, takes up the challenge of winning the heart of art loving, compassionate Pavitra, who loves and respects the great people of England, and thereby wishes to offer her services to support the sick and hapless division of the society. Pavitra who has a strong individuality, and own views towards life, deep under her heart never wants to hurt her father, but has clear vision on what she would do with her life, and the fortune she would inherit from her father. The movie revolves around different lifestyles of England, touching hearts of a number of people who represent the expat, as well as the inhabitant population of the great country, which has always welcomed various cultures to it`s heart. Vijay`s quest to winning Pavitra`s heart, fulfilling C S Nambiar`s only aim in life, and thereby succeed in writing his own destiny, would be unfolded in the movie through light, and some times not so light-hearted moments.

A detective investigates the death of the wife of an emerging politician. The death was first ruled as suicide, but he realizes this is not a suicide but a well planned murder in cold blood. When the wife of Mohan Kumar, an upcoming politician is found dead the suspicion falls on him. Investigation of police rules it as suicide. But Mohan's father-in-law asks for an investigation to know the truth about what happened to his daughter by Detective Shyam Prasad, a man reputed to solve all cases handed out to him. But there is some friction between Shyam and Mohan as their father had an affair with Mohan's mother and caused the family to shatter. But during the investigation he finds out that this was a murder well executed by a smart and dangerous criminal.

On discovering she has terminal stage leukemia, a widow tries to find suitable foster homes for her four children. Johnny (Murali) and Annie (Madhavi) are a married couple with four children. Johnny is a recurrent alcoholic. After an altercation between Johnny and Keshavan (N F Varghese), the latter - who is humiliated in front of his family - decides to take revenge and hurts one of their children. During required blood transfusion it is discovered that Annie's is suffering from a late stage of Leukemia and that she only has a couple of months to live. Annie, fearing her children's future well-being, decides to give them up for adoption. —Soumitra

Mohanlal helps a white man (Fabien) escape from Kerala Jail for money, but turns out for ulterior motives.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Achuthankutty tries to solve the mystery of film director Harikrishnan's death. Three women are the main suspects. Mohanlal is the police officer investigating the murder of the ace writer and film director Harikrishnan (Mammootty). His investigation leads him to suspect three ladies, all of them seem to be present at the crime scene, but have hardly any reason to murder him. Later he discovers that all three have their own reasons to murder him. —tojo

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.