Raja Bundela

Siddharth, a promising badminton player, dreams of greatness despite modest means but an injury shatters his ambitions. When he returns to his hometown and faces his past, redemption surges.

A village school-teacher gets in disputes with his step-brother and the Police. Teacher Tulsiram is married to Saraswati and has two step-brothers, Advocate Rajaram, and Shankar who is uneducated. When Rajaram returns, Tulsiram wants him to get married to Bindiya, the daughter of Thakur Narayandas, and is displeased when he finds that Rajaram has married Sheena, the daughter of wealthy Advocate Surendranath. Narayandas gets upset after Tulsiram attempts to get Shankar married to Bindiya, and he gives Tulsiram an ultimatum - get Rajaram to marry his daughter - or he will forcibly take over their land and house, which have been mortgaged with him to pay for Rajaram's education. Then Tulsiram gets arrested on charges of Fraud, Theft and Cheating. Shortly thereafter Shankar, too, is arrested for abducting Bindiya and holding her hostage. Rajaram returns home to defend his brothers but may end up regretting this decision when he finds out who the public prosecutor is. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

This 1990 hindi movie is a story of a domestic help who proves to be more loyal to his master than his master`s own siblings, who trick him into acquiring the family wealth in their name, leaving their brother penniless. After being insulted and accused of theft the domestic help is chucked out of the house and therefore he goes to Mumbai, works hard and becomes a famous actor. Later he returns to revenge his master`s siblings and teaches them a lesson.

Sharda, a nurse and single mother, raises her daughter Swati as an independent, articulate young woman. Swati is a strong advocate of women's rights in a society where there is significant male domination. Swati deals with eve teasers firmly, sometimes with considerable force. When a married friend of hers gets raped in the presence of her husband, she acts as a counsellor and helps them adjust to the reality of a society that blames the victim and not the rapists. Swati takes on a huge transformation when she meets a political activist and falls in love with him. She embarks on a project of matchmaking for her mother and engineers a wedding with a widower who has a grown-up daughter. —MG Gopalan

Vijay and Nupur start liking each other after a chance meeting at a bus stop. Suresh (Sidey) is Vijay's boss' son and wants to marry Nupur but ends up liking Nupur's maid, Imarti. Sidey's father is under the influence of a pot-smoking Swami who has a terrible secret hidden from everyone.