Shammi Kapoor

Sunder Srivastava (Shahrukh Khan) is a young graduate whose main ambition in life is to fulfill his father's dream of starting a school on his half-acre property in his village, though he has no funds to execute his plans. Sunder's childhood friend Prem, a seasoned conman in Mumbai, convinces the gullible Sunder to mortgage. When Sunder comes to Mumbai, Prem has fled with his money. To make matters worse, he has neither food nor shelter in this new town. Sunder is forced to take shelter in a Christian cemetery. Sunder starts cursing his stars & venting his anger. Somebody responds to him, but Sunder doesn't know who talked. He asks the caller to confirm his identity. The caller cannot be seen, but is as surprised as Sunder himself. The caller asks Sunder whether the latter can really hear him. Sunder realizes that he has been talking with a ghost & panics. The ghost suddenly becomes visible to Sunder & introduces himself as Amar Kumar alias Marco (Naseeruddin Shah). Marco tells Sunder that only he can help Sunder & vice versa. Marco tells his story. Marco was an underworld gangster who fell in love with one Savitri Kaul (Malvika Tiwari), daughter of one Mr. Kaul(Shammi Kapoor). Savitri declined to marry him if he did not leave his ways. To show that he was serious, Marco had planned had resolved to give up crime. This did not bode good with his protege Kunta(Tinu Anand), who wanted to become as big as Marco himself. On his wedding night, Marco was kidnapped & killed by Kunta, after which he was buried there. Marco tells Sunil that many crimes taking place in the city under his name are actually done by Kunta & his minions. Marco tells Sunder that due to his sins, he cannot attain redemption. Marco was foretold that only his savior would be able to see & hear him, so Sunder has to help him. Sunder declines, but Marco surprises him by reminding him of his dream, about which Sunder had not told a thing to Marco. Marco tells him that he wants to see Savitri & Mr. Kaul. He also tells that he cannot touch or harm anybody until time comes. Marco manages to get Sunder a post as games teacher in a school run by Mr. Kaul. Marco is angered to know some time after his murder, Kunta spread the news that Marco had fled the country. Kunta's henchmen tried to rape Savitri, but she committed suicide. Marco is surprised to know that he has a daughter from Savitri called Mala(Urmila Matondkar). What really ticks off Marco is that the school lacks appropriate funding & Kunta is trying to usurp its land. Marco gets more than enough fuel to feed his vengeance. Mala & Sunder start falling in love. Marco helps this story & keeps Kunta's goons away for some time. Later, Marco shows a secret room to Sunder where he had kept all his loot. The room was not known to Kunta or anybody else, so Marco proposes that an anonymous donation be made, which will be more than enough to save the school & help Sunder. However, due to their oversight, Kunta finds out that room. Marco loses all his money. In a desperate bid, Marco steals some money & bets to double the money. Sunder is held responsible for the theft, although no proof is present. Marco tells the truth to Sunder, on which latter has a fallout with him. Sunder decides to fight, regardless of the pressure. A cricket match between Sunder's team & team headed by Kunta's son is to take place. This is a life & death match. Marco is skeptical, since he knows that Sunder's team doesn't have a fighting chance. Marco tries to amend things, but Sunder firmly tells that he will win this thing fair & square. However, on seeing the team being trounced very badly, Sunder relents & forces Marco to help them. With help of Marco's spirit, Sunder tilts the sides. Sunder has had a brief meeting with Kunta earlier. Kunta is suspicious that Sunder knows his secret. In a desperate attempt, he abducts Sunder along with Mala & buries them alive in the very place he had buried Marco. Marco succeeds in saving the duo after which he starts overpowering Kunta's goons. Finally, Marco tries to kill Kunta. Kunta is surprised, shocked & unable to understand what is happening. The police arrive on the crime scene & are surprised to see a shocked Kunta hanging midair without any support. Sunder confronts Kunta, who confesses the truth. On Sunder's cajoling, Marco leaves Kunta alive. Sunder tells the whole story to Mr. Kaul & Mala. In the end, Sunder succeeds in his mission & gets married to Mala. Marco comes in the form of a spirit & blesses the duo, before ascending to heaven. Marco advises that he got a second chance, but whoever is alive must get their act in order, since they may not get one. In a final bid for victory, Kunta captures Sunder, Mala, and Marco's father-in-law, attempting to bury them alive in Marco's grave. Marco rescues them and gives all the criminals led by Kunta a beating. He is about to kill Kunta when Sunder pleads with him not to do so, whereupon Marco forgives his enemy and lets him go. Sunder subsequently marries Mala while Marco ascends to heaven. As he goes, Marco warns the youths that although he came back to life for a second chance to do the right thing, they will not have the same chance; they therefore must make the best of what chances they have.

While trying to win over his beloved's parents, a young man is accused of arson, and his father soon realizes insanity may be his only defense. Coming from a decent upper middle-class family, Vikram Saxena meets with gorgeous Seema Singh, and both fall in love. But their respective families have other plans for them. While Vikram is able to convince his advocate dad, Shyam Sunder, to change his mind, Seema is unable to do so, and her marriage is being planned with a U.S. resident. Things take a turn for the worst when the police arrest Vikram with arson, with evidence that he had burned down a property belonging to Seema's dad, Colonel Ram Mohan Singh. Due to this, Vikram's dad comes forward to defend him, and Seema will not have anything to do with him anymore. Shyam Sunder realizes that the only way he can save his son from being imprisoned is to have him certified as insane, but will have to live with the consequences for the rest of his life, as well as the the stigma this will place on his family for years to come. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Dhoop Chhaon (Shammi Kapoor) is the owner of a cafe in Manoranjan street & is narrating the story in a train to a recently married Parsi couple. Havaldar Ratan (Sanjeev Kumar) is a rookie at the local police station and is assigned duty on foot patrol on Manoranjan Street, a notorious red-light area, on the very first day of his job. His senior constable (Asit Sen) is also assigned to the street and is notorious for collecting bribes from all pimps and goons to let them get on with their illegal activities. The constable would keep his cap on the table and all the pimps and goons would deposit the bribe in it. Ratan strikes up a conversation with a good-looking young woman named Nisha (Zeenat Aman) and tells her that there is a possible violation of Suppression of Immoral Trafficking Act taking place on this street. Ratan witnesses several women soliciting men, and decides to call in the paddy wagon, and get them arrested. Tingoo (Paintal) is the pimp of the area. Dhoop tries to explain the local economy to Ratan and tries to explain that he should not mess it up as many homes and families are sustained by the activities of the street. Dhoop wants Ratan that messing with the system would likely backfire on Ratan, but Ratan is adamant. While Dhoop and Ratan argue, Ratan's cap was on the table and as usual, the pimps and the goons deposit the bribe money in it. Balram (Dev Kumar) is the local don who is livid with Ratan interfering with his business and vows revenge. Alas, one of the men frequenting the prostitutes is none other than Ratan's superior officer (Madan Puri), who immediately summons Ratan. When Ratan removes his cap after saluting the officer, the bribe money falls out and the officer has him removed from service on corruption charges. Nisha takes pity on a homeless and unemployed Ratan and asks him to live with her. Balram manhandles Nisha for letting Ratan stay with her, but Ratan protects Nisha by beating up Balram. Since Ratan defeated Balram, he is accepted by the other pimps and goons, who were fed with Balram and his bullying ways. Balram was Nisha's pimp and now that job goes automatically to Ratan. Nisha's mother was a singer in Banaras who loved a man and came to Bombay. The man used to make fake currency notes and fled from the police. Nisha's mother was arrested instead, and Nisha was born in prison. Ratan does not want Nisha to sell her body and says that he wants to marry Nisha. Nisha does not like Ratan's views who considers prostitution as menial work and marriage as woman's savior. She says that she is happy where she is, and wants Ratan to accept her life, which he refuses to do. Nisha tells Ratan about a rich Nawab who used to visit her on Sunday's and paid her Rs 500 for the entire week, which meant she had 6 days off. So, Ratan decides to work at night, and during the day he takes on the guise of a rich Nawab Buland Dakhtar and spends time with her as a customer. As Nawab, Ratan only plays cards with Nisha for the entire time he spends with her and claims to be impotent. Tingoo informs Ratan that he has been selected as the head of the Bombay Dalla Union (union of pimps). Things go along smoothly, but the new job requires Ratan to stay away all night. The job is to be a live dummy for training attack dogs. The job is dangerous, but pays Rs 20/hour, which is a princely sum. Nisha thinks that Ratan is cheating on her. Nisha suspects her fellow prostitute Lolita (Faryal) is trying to seduce Ratan and proceeds to thrash her. But then again Nisha sees Ratan return home early morning and is sure that Ratan is sleeping with Lolita. She throws Ratan out of the house. Nisha tells the Nawab that she wants to run away with him to his palace to serve him for the rest of his & her life. Ratan decides that it is now time to get rid of the "Nawab", and he does so. Balram sees that Ratan and Nawab are the same person. Ratan finds that the police have been informed, by Nisha's ex-pimp & Ratan's enemy Balram, that Ratan has killed the Nawab, and they are out to arrest him. Dhoop advice Ratan to accept the murder charge to win over Nisha' love and to prove to her that his love is pure & he does so. Nisha sees how much Ratan loves her. Ratan then escapes police custody by running away. He then dresses up as the Nawab to prove to the police that there was no murder. The Commissioner of police (Murad) gets to know Ratan's case & how he was wrongfully fired for doing his job. Ratan is re-instated. Ratan & Nisha get married.

Rajkumar Shamsher Singh (Shammi Kapoor) is the only son of the local Maharaja (Ulhas) of Ramnagar, and has been brought up as a brat, and now he is an irresponsible, alcoholic, and womanizing adult, who wants everyone to bow down before him and his princely rank. Shamsher has no interest in getting married either. One priest refuses to do so (when Shamsher visits his cottage, the Priest wants to wait his turn as he is seeing other patients), and Shamsher pummels him mercilessly (after abducting him and bringing him to his palace), though in vain. Frustrated, he asks the priest what he should do with his mundane life, and the priest tells him that he should repent, sacrifice all his palatial pleasures, and live the life of a simple and ordinary man, and hence learn the true meaning of life, for at least six months. Shamsher agrees to do so, and arranges an accident with his car, which plummets down a mountain, explodes and is blown to smithereens. But the jeep takes down a boat in the river Everyone in the palace believes that Shamsher is dead. The boat belonged to Princess Amrita (Vyjayanthimala), who was at the river front with her entourage and boat was carrying their clothes while they bathed. Amrita has to borrow clothes from locals to hide their shame. Shamsher had befriended Vilayatiram (Rajendra Nath), who had a car. The duo come across Amrita and her entourage, who wanted a lift.. Shamsher is then abducted by Dacoit (Rajan Kapoor). One of the men Sajjan Singh (Sudhir), wanted to leave the criminal life to go back to his mother and rescues Shamsher. But Sajjan is pursued by Dacoits and shot down. Shamsher is about to be shot, when Vilayati brings the police, who shoot the gangsters down. Shamsher decides to keep Sajjan's promise to his mom (who is blind) The village falls under Jamnapur kingdom led by The King of Jamnapur (Sapru). Shamsher goes to a nearby village, and a blind woman Shanti (Leela Chitnis) there mistakes him for her long-lost son and starts calling him Sajjan Singh. Sajjan has been gone for 10+ yrs and so, no-one in the village remembers him. Shanti's neighbor Kamla (Leela Mishra) has been living next door for 6 yrs and had never seen Sajjan. Shamsher gets a job at the stables of the King of Jamnapur. There he finds that Amrita is a princess. Shamsher gets close to the King by playing good polo. The King is impressed and appoints him his ADC, in place of Ratan (Shyam Kumar) assistant of King of Jamnapur.. Sophia (Helen) is Amrita's good friend. Amrita is livid that an ordinary man like Shamsher has no respect for her, but despite her anger, the King favors Shamsher.. Slowly Amrita is impacted by Shamsher's simple heart and good nature. The King is summoned by New Delhi and informed that his Kingdom will end on 20th of that month. The King orders Ratan to move the cash to Switzerland and empty the treasury. Meanwhile Amrita is invited by her friend Ratna to her wedding and the King decides to attend as well. Shamsher realizes that Ratna is marrying his dad, who decided to remarry to keep the family name alive (as he thinks Shamsher is dead). At the wedding, Shamsher has to dress like a women to hide from the minions of his dad. He ends up in Amrita's room who tries to shoot him before professing her love for him. As people come running after the shot, Shamsher has to escape from Amrita's window, where her father watches him.. The King asks Ratan to get Shamsher beaten up for his audacity. Shamsher is badly injured and Shanti sells her meager jewels to arrange for the doctor and the medical care, to save Shamsher's life. As Shamsher recovers, he is fired by the King. Shamsher doesn't know that the attack on him was conducted by Ratan and the King. Then Shamsher learns that Amrita has gone to Ramnagar as her friend Ratna is now a widow. Which means Shamsher lost his father. Two corrupt palace officials Zorawar Singh (Rashid Khan) & Michael (Randhir) spot Sajjan, and notice his similarity to Shamsher (at the wedding), and conspire with him to pose as Shamsher for a hefty sum of money, to which Sajjan agrees. They want Shamsher to split the treasury with them & Vilayti (who brought them to Shamsher) When he accompanies the officials back to the palace, he is shocked to find that Ratna (Parveen Choudhary), and her greedy brother (Ajit) are in charge of the management of the palace and its estate. Shamsher is welcomed back into the palace by the entire staff, but predictably Ratna and her brother are shocked to see him. But Amrita identifies Shamsher as her stable boy and ADC from Jamnapur, Sajjan. Shamsher decides to reveal his true identity, but the officials threaten to expose him to his new-found blind mother, and Shamsher knows that he is trapped in the body of Sajjan Singh, forced to pose as none other than himself. Shamsher continues to treat Amrita with disdain and she is forced to accept that Sajjan was a sweet and humble man, not mean as Shamsher. On his birthday, the Dacoits attacks and abduct Shamsher, Amrita and Ratna's brother. Ratna's brother promises to give 15 Lakhs ransom for the safe release of Shamsher and Amrita. Ratna's brother sends a letter to Ratna for the money, but she only sends back Rs 5 Lakhs as she didn't have that kind of cash lying around. Ratna's brother asks the Dacoit to release him and promises to send back Rs 10 Lakhs by next morning. Turns out this entire drama was scripted by Ratna's brother, who was working with the Dacoits. The Dacoits will kill Shamsher and Amrita will be witness to the act and no suspicion will fall on Ratna or her brother. The plan goes astray when Shamsher escapes. The Dacoit try to sexually assault Amrita, but Shamsher returns to have a hand to hand combat, in which Shamsher kills the Dacoit. As luck would have it Shanti decides to come to Ramnagar in search for her son Sajjan. She ends up in front of Ratna's brother, who understands the full picture. Meanwhile Amrita's father, King of Jamnapur agrees to marry Amrita to Shamsher, the prince of Ramnagar. To expose Shamsher, Ratna's brother has Shanti sweeping the floors of the palace at Shamsher's engagement party. As Ratna's brother insults Shanti, Shamsher rises to her defense. Shanti can recognize Shamsher's voice as her Sajjan, thereby exposing Shamsher's lie. As palace guards attack Shamsher, his dog comes to his defense and Ratna's brother realizes that Sajjan and Shamsher are one and the same person. Shamsher leaves the palace with Shanti. The priest comes to the palace and reveals that before hiding, the prince had given all the estate to charity, widows and orphans. Amrita meets the priest in secret and demands to know whether Shamsher is alive or not. She says that Shamsher would not have made the will while his dad was alive, he would have made it after his death, which means the priest would have met him a few days ago. Priest confirms that Sajjan and Shamsher are one and the same. Meanwhile Ratna's bro captures Shamsher again and tortures him to write a new will to negate the old one. Amrita goes to rescue him, but Ratna's bro uses Amrita to force Shamsher to write the new will. Shamsher fights back and defeats Ratna's bro. Amrita marries Shamsher and they live their life as a common farmer.

A college grad in need of money must disguise himself as an old man to tutor two young women who are under the watchful eye of their strict aunt. Sita devi is a very strict aunt for a number of young ladies, and does not allow them to fraternize with males. Along comes Pritam disguised as an elderly Professor Khanna to break every possible rule of the aunt. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)