Rati Agnihotri

A simple girl, Julie fulfills her dream of becoming an actress and rises to become a star. However, her stardom is soon eclipsed by the dark side of the entertainment industry.

Bangkok-based Tara Mishra and Nikhil Singh meet at a wedding ceremony and fall instantly in love with love with each. They move in together and continue to live a fairly blissful lifestyle until Tara is invited to India to attend a wedding. Nikhil not only refuses to accompany her but also refuses to introduce his widowed mother, Meera, who is now living with another male, Dilip, to her. Tara, a talented singer/dancer, feels neglected as he is always focused on his business, is not prepared to make any long-time commitment, and forgets important events. An encounter with a taxi-driver compels Nikhil to change his mind, but things do no work out, Tara leaves him and shortly thereafter passes away in an accident. A devastated and guilt-ridding Nikhil returns home, cradling her photo and falls asleep. He wakes up the next morning with Tara alive and well next to him. Was he hallucinating the events from the previous day or was he being warned by fate to change his ways? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Viren and Aditi are forced to meet each other by their parents in order to arrange their marriage. However, the two refuse for the marriage, but secretly continue to be friends. In the course of time, both of them are engaged to different people, which is when they realize that the two have fallen for each other.

Raj Saxena (Salman Khan) goes to London, expecting his long-lost dad (Rishi Kapoor) to warmly greet him, but things do not go as planned. Yeh Hai Jalwa is the story of happy-go-lucky Raju. Street-smart and worldly-wise, Raju's life takes a turn when he finds out he is the illegitimate son of seriously rich, UK-based businessman Rajesh Mittal. Raju of course sets off to London to claim his rightful place in the Mittal family and a happily-married Rajesh Mittal living with his wife Smita and daughter Rinke is rudely confront with an adult illegitimate son. While Raju is busy trying to make a place for himself in his adamant father's heart, he also finds a soulmate in Sonia, the daughter of Mittal's most trusted advisor. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Raju runs a successful business in India and finds that his father Rajesh Murthal is very much alive and among London's top businessmen. Raju travels to London hoping his father will accept him but finds that he has another family with a wife and two children and refuses to accept him. Raju is adamant that his father will accept him someday and thus enters the Mitthal Mansion by pretending he considers Rajesh his idol and wants to be like him by learning from him. But Rajesh and his friend Robin Singh plan different ways to keep him away from the family. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com London-based Rajesh Mittal (Rishi Kapoor) of Indian origin receives the award for the best businessman in the world. All is well in his world: his dad Purshotam Mittal (Kader Khan) is happy; his pretty wife Smita (Rati Agnihotri) is satisfied, and so are his two children, Rinke (Rinke Khanna), and Bunty. Rinke is soon to be married to Vicky (Sharad Kapoor). And then along comes Raj Saxena (Salman Khan), disrupting his delicate equilibrium by claiming that he is his son from a previous "indiscretion" in India over 20 years ago. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

After the passing of her parents, a young heiress suffers abuse at the hands of her relatives. Deepa lives a poor lifestyle along with her widowed father, and is in love with Dharma. Her father becomes ill, and must re-locate abroad for treatment. A rich male, Singh, offers to marry Deepa and only then will he get her dad the required treatment. Deepa agrees, and a heartbroken Dharma decides to remain single, takes to alcohol and becomes a goon. Deepa gives birth to a daughter, Barkha, but her husband passes away leaving her very wealthy. Her ex-convict brother-in-law, Bhanupratap, demands cash, and she gives him some, but he wants more, and upon being refused - kills her, moves in along with his wife, Shanti; son, Roshan; and daughter, Chandni; on the pretext of looking after Barkha. He hopes to take over the entire estate, but finds his plans foiled when he finds out that Deepa had left a Will which made it mandatory for the entire estate to be transferred to Barkha after she reaches the age of 21. He and his wife abuse Barkha, force her to give up her studies, and make her do all the household work while they continue to collect a princely allowance every month. Years later Barkha has grown up, and after being whipped by her uncle, manages to escape, meets and falls in love with a street-wise male, Suraj. Ironically, Bhanupratap hires Dharma, who locates and takes her back - leaving her no choice but to sign-over the entire estate to her uncle.

A sincere police officer is killed by a liquor dealer. Years later, his twin sons set out to avenge their father's death. Inpsector John A. Mendez is an honest and diligent Police Inspector, who lives a middle-class lifestyle with his wife, Cheryl, and a maidservant, Fatimabi. John bursts a gang that makes illicit liquor and holds them in a cell, bringing him into confrontation with their leader, Gajanand alias Gajju, who goes to threaten John, but is himself arrested and sentenced. When he is discharged he decides to avenge his humiliation by entrapping John and killing him. Cheryl gives birth to twin sons and passes away. A rich childless couple, Brijmohan and Girja Gupta adopt one of the twins and name him Janardhan, while the second is named Jani and lives with Fatimabi. Twenty five years later, Janardhan is an American-returned young man, in love with Madhu. On his birthday party he comes face to face with a man named Gopaldas, and his entire personality changes as he is taken over by the vengeful spirit of John. Subsequently, Gopaldas is killed, and Janardhan is arrested and tried in Court. Things seem to go in Janardhan's favor, when the wily Gajju brings out a new witness - none other than Jani - who is now masquerading as John. Gajju hopes to kill Janardhan and thus prevent John from avenging his death - and nothing will stop Gajju to carry out his evil plan. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Zafar Khan is a wealthy businessman who can to any extent to marry Salma (Waheeda Rehman), who does not consent to the marriage because of Zafar`s underworld connections, and nor does her father. Soon, Zafar is arrested for various crimes and imprisoned for 10 years. On coming back, he sees that Salma is married to another man. After failing to convince Salma to divorce her husband, he sabotages the near-by dam and floods the area, killing Salma`s husband and separating her from her child Iqbal. Salma loses her memory to this shock and seeking opportunity, Zafar marries her. He also adopts a son from an orphanage and leaves him in the care of Salma. However, years later, he is confronted by the sufferer of his crimes, Iqbal (Amitabh Bachhan) and also does Sunny want to expose Zafar`s wrong-doings. From here on begins a tussle between truth and deception. The climax unfolds the verdict...