Saeed Jaffrey

Gopal Mayur (Shah Rukh Khan) is a billionaire businessman. He is the head of the Mayur family, a rich NRI business family, living in London for five generations. He has two sons. The elder son, Hari (Shah Rukh Khan), is a registered pilot with a deep affection for his ancestral India, spending much of his time at Mini India, on the outskirt of London. Gopal, who is seemingly not a fan of India, and is not impressed by the fact that his son is so fond of their ancestral country, has promised his English business partner that Hari will marry the latter's daughter, who holds an affection for Hari. However, Hari does not want to marry an Englishwoman and pleads with his family to call off the wedding, but nobody listens to him. On his wedding day, he runs away from his home and boards a plane, in order to escape to India. His plane crashes in Indian Ocean, and he is presumed dead by everyone. Hari, however, washes ashore in Mumbai, still alive, and is found by a little girl named Bijuriya (Sonali Bendre) and her elder sister Katariya (Rajeshwari Sachdev). Katariya restores him to health, by nursing him and taking care of him affectionately. After his recovery, Hari learns that he has been officially declared dead by the British Government, after a rescue mission failed to find his body. He takes this opportunity to start a new life in his beloved India, marrying Katariya, whom he has fallen in love with. Katariya soon becomes pregnant with Hari's child. The happiness does not last for long, as a fire breaks out at their house during a Diwali celebration, mortally wounding Hari and Katariya, who both die shortly after the delivery of their son, Nandlal Mayur aka Nandu. At the time, Bijuriya is only a child, and so the hospital authorities along with Lawyer Madadgar, decide to give the newborn child up for adoption. Bijuriya would not agree to this, and runs away from the hospital, taking Nandu with her. Bijuriya sacrifices her own education to raise Nandu, doing many things to earn money to feed him. As Bijuriya grows up, she becomes a beautiful woman and gets a job as a bar dancer. Nandu (James Bond Singh) has grown up to be a toddler. Bheema Khalasi is a local goon who has his evil eye on Bijuriya. Eight years later, Vikram Mayur (Shah Rukh Khan), Gopal's younger son, who also holds a negative view on India, has succeeded his father as the president, chairman and owner of his family industries. He soon becomes a successful and wealthy industrialist. Lawyer Madadgar (Saeed Jaffrey), a family friend of Bijuriya and Katariya, watches an interview of Vikram on television, and realizes that he is Hari's younger brother and Nandu's uncle. Madadgar knows that Hari never revealed the origin of his family and hence is not sure what sort of family enmity exists. He decides not to tell Bijuriya about Vikram. Madadgar plots to bring him to India, in order to take away both Bijuriya and Nandu with him. He files a case against Hari stating that Hari defrauded a local Indian and serves the summons to Vikram in London. Vikram is livid and decides to defend the honor of his dead brother. Vikram to come to Mumbai, to sort out the matter. Vikram learns that his brother survived the plane crash and lived in India for two years, during which he was married and had a son, before his actual death with his wife. Vikram believes that his brother's son is the next generation of their family industry, and so he should be taken back to London. Madadgar support this as Nandu's future will be set as the heir of a multi-million dollar business empire. Bijuriya, who dearly loves Nandu and does not want to part with him, objects to this. Bijuriya realizes that if Vikram goes to court, she will lose Nandu forever, and so she pretends to be Queen Rani Devi, who is Nandu's guardian. She pretends that she is a rich lady, and that Vikram has come to India to get money from Rani Devi in exchange for relinquishing any legal rights over Nandu. Vikram falls for her charade and slowly falls in love with her. Bijuriya ensures that Vikram never comes to her humble abode to keep the charade going. Vikram decides to take a ferry to the Island where Rani is supposed to be living but finds no palace. He gets stuck on the Island when the last ferry for the day leaves. Vikram meets Nandu, who takes him to a local hotel to spend the night. Vikram decides to drink a few beers and ends up at the same bar where Bijuriya performs her dance shows. Vikram realizes that there is no Rani Devi, and the woman is an ordinary bar dancer. Vikram decides to take his nephew back with him immediately. The nephew, who detests his newfound uncle and adores his aunt like a mother figure, protests this, but Vikram remains adamant. Vikram gets lawyers to issue summons to Bijuriya to allow Nandu to meet him while the custody battle is being settled. Nandu is dazzled with the wealth and the material possessions of Vikram and detests his poverty with Bijuriya. Vikram spares no expense in giving Nandu a taste of his future life. Nandu tells Vikram that he cannot leave without getting Bijuriya married. Vikram files a claim in court that Bijuriya is not a fit guardian for Nandu, but Madadgar tries to defuse the situation. He tells Bijuriya that Vikram is seduced by her and tells Vikram that Bijuriya has feelings for him. He gets both to meet each other. Vikram makes an elaborate plan to get Bijuriya kidnapped by hired goons, so he can rescue her and show her real face to Nandu. Meanwhile Bheema also sends his goons to capture Bijuriya to satiate his lust. Bheema's goons get there first, and Vikram fights them, thinking those are the goons that he hired. As a result, Bijuriya also falls in love with Vikram. Nandu sees this and is happy as Bijuriya will get married and leave her disgusting life and profession behind. But Vikram refutes that he loves Bijuriya and Nandu believes that Vikram is also another one of the exploiting goons who only pretend to like Bijuriya for her body. Since Nandu is missing, Bijuriya confronts Vikram. Vikram tells the truth to Bijuriya about Nandu and how he does odd jobs to gather money for Bijuriya's wedding and to get her to leave her disrespectful profession. Bijuriya finds Nandu and forces him to go with Vikram after getting to know that Nandu misses school and does petty jobs to earn money to marry off Bijuriya. Bijuriya pretends that she never loved Nandu, and only took care of him so she could cash him when the right time came. Nandu is distraught and runs to Vikram. Vikram and Nandu bring a briefcase full of cash to Bijuriya along with a legal document that says that Bijuriya renounces all legal rights over Nandu. Bijuriya is heartbroken but continues with the charade. Bijuriya signs the document. Bijuriya is forcibly taken to sleep with a goon Bheema Khalasi (Kiran Kumar), who had his eyes on her. When Vikram learns about this (and that Bijuriya had returned all the money that Vikram has given her), he comes to the hideout just before Bheema Khalasi is about to sexually assault Bijuriya. Vikram overpowers the goon and saves Bijuriya. Vikram is convinced that Bijuriya will be the best parent for his nephew. Vikram marries Bijuriya and takes her and his nephew back with him.

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Aaina is the story of two sisters in love with the same man. Roma, the more confident and ambitious one captivates Ravi and brings him home to meet her parents and have the match approved. Reema, realising that Ravi and Roma are involved with each other, quietly moves herself out of the competition and hiding her sadness, joins in the festivities of her sister's marriage. But Roma in her typical fashion of losing interest once she has what she wants, has set her sights on more than marriage and living the rest of her life as Mrs. Ravi Saxena. In the meanwhile, a published picture of hers gets a top photographer interested in her. He encourages her to have a photo session done against the wishes of her fiancee. It doesn't take much to convince Roma. She is convinced that she has a glorious career ahead of her in fashion and films and ditches Ravi at the "mandap" (wedding place). She leaves behind a note telling Ravi that she is confident that he will wait for her, but since the film producer won't, she is leaving. And that she will come back as soon as the movie is over and get married to him. Reema and the rest of the family are stunned and look to Ravi for his reaction. They are further shocked when Ravi controls his feelings and instantaneously decides to marry Reema instead. Reema seeing the man she loves in pain cannot refuse him and agrees to the marriage. Reema and Ravi start their marriage under a cloud but slowly Ravi discovers that true worth of Reema, and she in turn blossoms under the attention of the man she loves and from a shy, timid and self effacing young girl grows into a beautiful confident woman. But life is not all roses and wine and just as their marriage was coming close to becoming a beautiful reality, Roma comes back into their lives. In her supremely selfish way she forgets the pain she caused Ravi, Reema and the family by running away on her wedding day. Instead she accuses Reema and Ravi of stabbing her in the back and walks out of Ravi's house cursing them with life filled with unhappiness for being unfaithful to her. Reema's uncertainties surface again. All her life she has lived in the shadow of her sister and given in to her every whim. The tenuous bond between Ravi and Reema is stretched thin again and they are back in their separate bedrooms with Roma's almost palpable presence like a wall between them. But Roma has no intentions of giving up with just the curses. Her alienation from her family and an attempted suicide and her relying on Reema's selflessness and genuine love for her, ensure that she lands in Reema and Ravi's marital home as an invalid. The rest of the film tells of how she slowly becomes blatant in making a play for Ravi. And how Ravi slowly succumbs to her manipulation. Or does he? And does Reema finally learn to fight back? Does love unite Reema and Ravi or is Roma finally victorious? That is revealed only in the last reel of "AAINA".

Raised by a kindly thief, orphaned Jimmy goes on the run from goons and falls in love with Jyoti, whose father indirectly caused his parents' deaths. Kedarnath is a wealthy man with many enemies. One day, a taxi-driver, Dilher Singh, saves his life, but is killed instead. Kedarnath is grateful and is willing to look after Dilher's widow and son. But his enemies find out about this, and substitute a woman named Sheela and her son, Vikram, instead. The real widow is killed by them, and her son, Jimmy, is looked after by a kind-hearted poor man, Jaggu, and his son, Gulu, who make their living stealing and begging. Years later, Jimmy and Gulu have grown up but are still stealing. Jimmy, on the run from hoods, ends up in Delhi, impersonating Rakesh Rajpal, and meets with Jyoti and falls in love with her. Jyoti introduces him to her dad, none other than Kedarnath. It is here that the drama unfolds, bringing back past memories and crimes. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Vinod Kumar is an upright and honest man who tries to expose criminals through his newspaper Mashaal. But soon he locks horns with the wealthy S.K. Vardhan and his life takes a turn for the worse.