Sang-ho Yeon

Goldie's main objection to the English version of 'Guide' was the bedroom scene involving Rosy and Raju in the opening five minutes of the film.But his movie 'Double Cross' opens with a steaming hot bed-room scene involving the hero and his girlfriend Sonia( Ranjeeta Thakur) who is in her last session of lovemaking with the hero before she marries Maganbhai ( Madan Puri). If the reader is not able to place Ranjeeta Thakur(Rajeeta) , she was Vidya Sinha's Mumbai friend in 'Rajnigandha'.The penniless hero Ajay Arya ( Goldie) is madly in love with the heroine who opts to break up with the hero to marry a much older but supposedly rich man played by Madan Puri. I say 'supposedly' because he has no money of his own, but he is shining in the reflected glory of a very rich heiress (played by Rekha) who is his ward, and whose custody was given to him by her dying father. After being rejected and snubbed by Ranjeeta Thakur, the hero hits the bottle, becomes unconscious in a bar, gets picked up by a dancer Lily ( Asha Sachdev) who takes him home. She introduces him to a Gangster( a role surprisingly played by David) who trains our hero to be a tough man who then assumes the identity of Jimmy to indulge in the acts of crime like stealing jewelry, and impersonating as income tax inspector to conduct fake raids. The hero is also seen as pursuing the rich heiress, Rekha, who is living with her guardian Madan Puri and his wife Ranjeeta Thakur who want her to marry Pritam, Madan Puri's son from an earlier marriage ( played by Kuljeet Walia - please recall the character actor who played Peter the Mawali in 'Deewar' - can you imagine him as playing Rekha's potential suitor?). After some scenes of misunderstandings between Rekha and the hero, it is revealed that Rekha's boyfriend and Ranjeeta Thakur's ex are two different persons- actually, twin brothers- Ajay and Vijay ( both played by Goldie). After the misunderstanding is cleared Rekha marries Vijay and asks Madan Puri and Ranjeeta to leave her house - who then shift to a chawl where Ranjeeta tells Madan Puri 'you double crossed me, you pretended to be rich, but you are not'. The other avatar of the hero, Ajay, visits the chawl as a churi seller , and offers to sell a nose-pin to Ranjeeta for two hundred rupees. When Ranjeeta is not able to buy it, he says- one day you left me because I didn't have two hundred rupees for your make up kit , today you are so poor that you cannot buy a nose-pin costing just two hundred rupees. Ranjeeta is in tears but it is too late to repair the damage, and Ajay goes back to Lily( Asha Sachdev) who is carrying his child. The climax is rather lame (so unusual for a Goldie movie). Dev Kumar, the gargantuan character actor of seventies, kidnaps Lily and asks Ajay to steal Kohinoor diamond because, in an exhibition in India, the British Government, is displaying it as a special case. Ajay is able to reach the precious stone by outsmarting the security personnel, but has a last minute change of heart, and decides against stealing it. Lobo(Dev Kumar) is not happy with this double cross and it leads to tragic consequences. The movie was produced by Yash Kohli under the banner of Pashupati Films.It is fast-paced and the narration is engaging mainly because of the tight script and screenplay by Vijay Anand and Suraj Sanim, but the direction of Gogi Anand can at best be rated as average. The combination of Majrooh Sultanpuri and RD Burman gave lovely background music and some catchy tunes like ' Jeevan Bhar Ke Liye Tu Mere Sath Hai' which became popular in early seventies. It was a treat to watch Rekha, Ranjeeta Thakur, and Asha Sachdev who were in their prime at that time, and Goldie was not bad except for his selection of wigs which didn't suit him. His line ' ek taash me chhah ikke nahi hote hain'( there cannot be six aces in a pack of cards), when he is playing cards with Man Mohan in a club, had become rather popular in my school days. The director failed to exploit Ranjeeta Thakur's charm and histrionic abilities ; maybe Rekha was a higher priority.

In the south of contemporary Italy, a community devotes itself to divinatory practices dating back to antiquity. In the midst of these tormented lands, a series of gestures and attitudes emerge, opening up new horizons.

Shin Roo-mi runs a successful fried chicken restaurant in a traditional market area. She becomes involved in a real estate battle with the mob-run construction company, Tae-san. The company plans to demolish the local small businesses and construct a large shopping center for Chinese tourists. One night while Roo-mi is forcibly evicted from her shop by the Tae-san's thugs, her mother is accidentally killed in the violent clash. Roo-mi contacts her estranged father, Shin Seok-heon, to inform him of the death and subsequent funeral. Seok-heon, a security guard who engages in petty theft, gains telekinetic powers after he drinks water from a mountain spring hit by a meteor. He arrives at his ex-wife's funeral where he witnesses a confrontation between his daughter and President Min, who manages Tae-san's operations. Min attempts to compensate Roo-mi for her loss, which she furiously rejects and demands that he leave the funeral. Seok-heon learns more about the turf war from Kim Jung-hyun, an attorney at law and Roo-mi's friend. Seok-heon tries to reconnect with Roo-mi but she is still hurt from his abandonment of her when she was a child. When he later tries to demonstrate his newfound ability, Roo-mi accuses Seok-heon of being an irresponsible parent. The local shop owners join Roo-mi in a shared legal battle against Tae-san as they have been refused compensation for the loss of their businesses. While they barricade themselves in a shopping arcade, Tae-san's thugs arrive and begin beating them. Seok-heon arrives and uses his powers to fight off the assailants, leaving everybody around him in shock and wonder. When Min attempts to report the events to the police, the officer on duty does not believe him, which greatly delights the shop owners as they are glad to have Seok-heon on their side. Seok-heon further uses his telekinesis to build a large barricade around the market area, protecting the local businesses. Meanwhile, Min meets up with Director Hong, the owner of Tae-san. She is aware of Seok-heon's powers and to protect Tae-san, she orders Min to shut down his business and pretend that the development contract has been terminated, before starting another company under a different name and drawing up a new contract to demolish the local businesses. She uses her connections to gain support from the police and creates a diversion by having Seok-heon arrested under false charges. After removing Seok-heon from the situation, Min and his thugs order the riot police and SWAT teams to arrest the shop owners and destroy the barricade. Roo-mi and the shop owners flee to a nearby building with the police in pursuit. After seeing the situation on the news, Seok-heon breaks out of his jail cell and musters the ability to fly. He flies to the site and sees one of the shop owners falling from a balcony in the midst of the pursuit. Seok-heon rescues him and places him on a safe building. As the shop owners reach the rooftop of another building, the SWAT team arrives via a shipping container suspended on a crane. They capture Roo-mi and drag her onto the container. Unfortunately, the crane malfunctions and Roo-mi falls out of the container. Seok-heon swoops in and saves her, before leaving her in the care of the escaped shop owners. He confronts Min, who is in attendance with the riot police, and kills him before turning himself in to the police. Four years later, Seok-heon is released from prison and is picked up by Jung-hyun, who announces his engagement to Roo-mi. They visit the location where Roo-mi's restaurant used to be, which is now empty and unoccupied land. Jung-hyun explains that Taesan's project was ultimately not profitable and construction has been delayed. They arrive at Roo-mi's new restaurant, where Seok-heon reunites with his daughter and the local shop owners. He then uses his powers to serve drinks to the customers, much to everyone's delight. It is then revealed that Roo-mi named her new restaurant, "Superpower Chicken".