Sachin Khedekar

Five years after the revelation of the Khureshi-Ab`Raam nexus, the land in particular and the world, in general, is caught in yet another epoch-defining socio-political storm. God`s Own Country is now a land of dangerous unpredictabilities, with multiple forces trying to impact upon and dictate its political plate tectonics. It has now become infested with power brokers, bureaucratic meddlers and deeply embedded spies in all state institutions. As the events turn from bad to worse, It is time to rekindle memories, revisit the past and reignite old fires. And from the embers of a burned-down heaven, the Devil will rise again_to defend and protect!

A long-lost letter must find its way to the recipient twenty years later. A rabble-rouser learns a lesson in humility and love along the way.

Raja and Prem - the iconic Jodi from Judwaa 2 are back after 20 years. The laugh riot is set in Mumbai and in London and the twins create confusion in both these worlds only to save the day in the end.

The story is about a happ-go-lucky young man, Babu who falls in love with a girl. However, he runs into a problem while convincing her father. How he solves the problem and gets together with the girl forms the crux of the story.

An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Mumbai to Pune. The complex plot is about a day in the lives of a few people who are at the same Traffic junction in Mumbai city at the beginning of the day, and how their fates get entangled because of an incident. The film tugs at our hearts as a police car races to deliver a live heart (organ) from Mumbai to Pune just in time to save the life of a 13 year old girl. A handful of characters are involved in this gripping mission such as the police commissioner who has to manage the entire logistics and practicalities of the trip, a tainted police constable who seeks redemption, a narcissistic superstar who encounters the realities of his personal life and a young doctor who is caught in a fix, to name a few.

Laathi is a socially relevant drama that charts the journey of a school teacher, who devotes his entire life imparting knowledge to children, only to realise that what they had learned from him was completely different.

City of Gold - the story of long-forgotten masses (cotton mill workers), not only explores the apathy of these mill workers narrated through the story of one such family, but is also a take-no-prisoners account of the birth of the true underbelly of organised crime in Mumbai. The film traces the birth of the politics of greed in Mumbai and exposes the unholy collusion between the triumvirate of big business, the political establishment and the trade union leaders who ostensibly were charged with protecting the rights of the mill workers. In the two decades that followed, the entire landscape of Central Mumbai was changed forever.

Lalbaug Parel - the story of long-forgotten masses (cotton mill workers), not only explores the apathy of these mill workers narrated through the story of one such family, but is also a take-no-prisoners account of the birth of the true underbelly of organised crime in Mumbai. The film traces the birth of the politics of greed in Mumbai and exposes the unholy collusion between the triumvirate of big business, the political establishment and the trade union leaders who ostensibly were charged with protecting the rights of the mill workers. In the two decades that followed, the entire landscape of Central Mumbai was changed forever.

Rules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. They want to force their neighbours to become religious, without hesitating to be violent in the name of God. The inhabitants admire the gang and are afraid of them at the same time. One day a new girl, Miri, arrives. She is not familiar with the strict rules of modesty. The gang's leader Avi is going to be torn between his feelings for Miri and his dedication to the gang.

Five medical students are a part of the management quota of the college who represent the youth hooked onto xbox`s and formula 1 racing. Till one day, a game they play goes too far. As an outcome they land up in one of the most deprived villages in Maharashtra. Their rural posting turns into a soul searching journey where they are forced to confront their own apathy, their own fears and their strange complicity in the circumstances of the village. Before they can run from there, they get sucked into the whirlpool of counter currents. Each of the five undergo different kinds of catharsis and in the end have to make a choice. Do they leave the mess just as they had found it and get away from there.or do they choose to get involved forms a question of a lifetime.

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)

Jeeva (Bobby Deol) is from a struggling family. He falls in love with Kiran (Malaika Arora Khan). Due to their differences in social class, Kiran's father does not approve of their relationship. To punish Jeeva, Kiran's father frames his mother Neha (Farida Jalal) and two sisters for prostitution and bribes the police into arresting them, which leads to the three of them committing suicide (by setting themselves up on fire) due to pressure from the society. Kiran also kills herself, ashamed of what her father has done. Jeeva seeks revenge by killing Kiran's father (Mohan Joshi). Jeeva later becomes one of India's most dangerous assassins in Bombay with Madan Bhai as his handler, and the only person who knows his identity. Jeeva is a conscientious killer when he takes the contract to eliminate Pankaj Kharbanda (Pramod Moutho), who wanted to grab the slum land by displacing poor people. The slum dwellers gathers Rs 5 Lakhs for Jeeva's fees, but he charges them only Rs 1 per bullet. Jeeva then craftily lures Pankaj out of his secure office by mounting an attack and then eliminates him with ease. Jeeva stays in a society and is known to the neighbors as a doctor. Jeeva lives with Scorpions in his apartment. Jeeva lives next to the Bali family. The father Vikas Bali (Ishrat Ali) works for a corrupt police officer named Devraj Khatri (Ashish Vidyarthi) who works in the drug trade. Devraj confronts Vikas for adulterating drugs by 50% and supplying that to Devraj's customers. Devraj finds this out when one of his regular customer complains about the quality of the drugs supplied. Devraj wants Vikas to admit how much money he made, but Vikas maintains that he did nothing of the sort. But secretly Vikas admits to his wife that he mixed the drugs to earn some extra money to fulfill her desires for material possessions and to separate her and Kiran (by getting Kiran a different apartment as he cannot stand the daily bickering between Kiran and her stepmother. Kiran Bali (Rani Mukherji) is the youngest daughter of the family and strongly dislikes them. She has a stepmother (Dolly Bindra), who mistreats Kiran and has a bias in favor of her own daughter Nikki. Kiran's brother Vijay (Sachin Khedekar) is coming to town to meet her. Kiran tries to befriend Jeeva many times, but he is too engrossed in his killing to have any time for her. S.K. Puri (Police Commissioner) (Avtar Gill) wants to arrest this unknown assassin who is causing deep embarrassment to the police department as he is able to take-out high-profile targets with ease, without being seen, and without leaving any evidence for the police to lead to him. One day, Kiran is in Jeeva's apartment delivering milk to him. While she is there Devraj Khatri comes to Bali's apartment and brutally kills them all (including her brother Vijay) - Kiran is the only one to survive as she was in Jeeva's apartment. Kiran saw Devraj shoot her brother and father from Jeeva's keyhole in the front door. She faints while witnessing the shooting, but later regains her consciousness, after the police has done their job and carried the dead bodies away. Kiran calls Puri and says she can identify the shooters. A mole inspector Khan (Mahavir Shah) informs Devraj, who figures out that Kiran was hiding in a neighbor's apartment. When Kiran reaches home, she tells Jeeva that she called the police. Jeeva immediately sets fire to the apartment and escapes with Kiran. Kiran figures out that Jeeva is an assassin, and she begs Jeeva to train her. Jeeva soon finds himself taking Kiran under his wing and so, he trains her in handling weapons to get revenge against the men who had brutally murdered her family. It's not easy as Kiran insists that she will stay with Jeeva. Jeeva is unable to carry out his missions as Kiran keeps delaying him. One day she takes him shopping, one day she washes all his guns and so on. But he likes Kiran and cares for her. Madan Bhai (Veerendra Saxena) is Jeeva's friend and his handler. He figures out that Jeeva is now in love and hence not as efficient as he used to be. Slowly both Jeeva and Kiran figure out that they both love each other. Devraj launches many attempts to kill Kiran, but Jeeva is able to save her every time with his alertness. Meanwhile Puri investigates and finds that Vikas Bali was twice arrested on drug possession charges but released on Devraj's testimony to the court. Puri summons Devraj and he is alerted to Puri's investigations. Jeeva starts training Kiran so she can defend herself. Meanwhile he investigates the death of Vikas Bali and finds out that Devraj is responsible. He organizes a counterattack on Devraj, and even hits his target, but unfortunately Devraj survives. Now Kiran goes after Devraj, but he is alert and captures her. Jeeva rescues Kiran, while Devraj is away. But Devraj tortures Madan Bhai and finds where Jeeva is hiding with Kiran. Devraj attacks Jeeva with full force. Jeeva is able to get Kiran to escape through the back pipes of the apartment and sacrifices himself to kill Devraj with a lethal grenade blast. Madan Bhai meets Kiran and hands her the entire wealth that Jeeva had accumulated over the years.

A 1999 hindi action thriller, Arjun Pandit is the story of a professor, played by Sunny Deol who is tricked into love by a girl, played by Juhi Chawla, in order to revenge her sister`s death. It so happens that, this honest to God man turns into a criminal to prove his love. Nisha who in reality was just acting to be in love with him later realises her feelings for him, and then the usual, they live happily ever after.

When Karan finds out that his father, an honest Municipal Commissioner - convicted by a manipulated judgement at Court - has committed suicide, being a former soldier, he knows that there is a lot more than what meets the eye. He finds out that it was Advocate Ravi Verma who manipulated the case and put his father in jail. Karan, hence decides to avenge his father`s humiliation and death. He gravely injures Ravi and kills Ravi`s wife Kajal (Mahima Choudhary). On returning home post recovery, Ravi finds a lady calling herself Kajal and claiming to be his wife. this, he has to believe not only because she looks exactly like Kajal, but also because he has lost all the memory of his life prior to the accident. Who is this woman? Will Ravi`s memory loss cure? And what will Karan do when he finds out that Ravi is still alive, and as it looks, Kajal too..?

It is the story of a hot-tempered and stubborn man Deva, who is feared because of his ruthless ways and severe punishment to the local hoodlums. Later, Deva avenges the death of his brother and sister. Omnipresent Bollywood acting dynamo Sunny Deol stars as Deva, the son of an honest lawyer (Anupam Kher) who lives with his brother, Aakash (Sachin Khedekar), and his beloved sister, Guddi (Richa Behl). Imprisoned after a man touches Guddi and sets off his violent, jealous rage, Deva falls into a life of crime, quickly rising to the top of the city's criminal underworld--much to the chagrin of the other crime bosses, who plot his murder. Their attempt to frame him for the murder of an important Minister doesn't go as planned, and Deva suddenly finds himself on the run, with the minister as a hostage, and his brother and sister murdered. —hEmRaJ (gavin_coolhgr@hotmail.com) Deva Pradhan comes from a middle-class family consisting of his advocate dad Ashok, sister Guddi and brother Akash. Deva gets a long jail term for murdering a man who attempt to molest Guddi; after returning from jail Deva's life changes into that of a gangster albeit with a good heart. His adventures leads him to not only get trapped in the murder of Akash and Guddi but of abducting the Chief Minister - with Deva all set to clear his name he must prove to the authorities that all the accusations laid against him are false. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com) Deva, after a turbulant youth as a dispenser of violent street justice (including going to jail for ripping a man's arm off for the crime of grabbing Deva's sister's hand) has emerged from jail and risen to become one of the lords of the underworld. The top isn't so lonely, however, as three other crime bosses are all looking to put him out of business and take over his gold smuggling operation. Police chief Inder, the brother of the man Deva maimed (and now husband of Deva's sister) is also intent on putting an end to his brother-in-law's criminal ways. —Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net> Deva Pradhan lives with his Advocate dad, brother Akash, and sister, Guddi, and comes from a middle-class background. Deva is known and feared for his uncontrollable temper, stubbornness, in particular being overly protective of Guddi. One day he witnesses a man attempting to molest his sister, and he brutally beats him. As a result he is arrested by the police, shunned by his father, and imprisoned. On his return, Deva has acquired new skills in prison, and becomes a dreaded gangster. His sister gets married to Asst. Commissioner of Police, Inder Saxena, and this increases the rift between him and his family. Then Akash is killed, and the only clue left behind is the topper of a ballpoint pen - but before that Deva must himself prove to the authorities that he was not involved in this murder. Before he could even do that, Guddi is killed, and the evidence points at Deva. The police launch a manhunt for him, and in response, Deva abducts the State's Chief Minister. Deva must now unravel the mystery behind the deaths of his brother and sister, and clarify to the world as to how the Chief Minister became his hostage. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)