Shoma Anand

Gangaram Verma has worked for the local municipality for several years, and is known in the community for being honest. Contractors' many attempts to bribe him have all been in vain. One of the contractor's, Prem Kumar, decides to teach Gangaram a lesson. He hires Gangaram's only son, Vijay, in his office, and subsequently gets him married to his only daughter, Sapna. The three then scheme to get Gangaram to trust them, and upon doing so, they get him to sign his property to them, leaving Gangaram and his wife, Laxmi, homeless. Vijay and Sapna bring up their son, Ravi, and tell him that his grandparents are dead. Years go by, then one day Ravi comes across a coolie who resembles his grandfather. He follows him home, and gets to hear the truth from his lips, and decides to treat his mom and dad the same way they treated his grandparents, with shocking results. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Thakur Din Dayal is a family and village patriarch living with his wife and three married sons Murli,Manohar and Girdhar who do nothing but enjoy his wealth while other son Gopal and daughter Pushpa are till not married.Thakur comes across Mala whose daughter of his employer he gets touched by her nature and wants her to marry Gopal.But his three daughter in laws feel that Mala isn't of their status but Thakur still marries her to Gopal.After their marriage Gopal and Mala are living happily while Thakurain for the first time feels how good a daughter in law could be as the elder daughters in laws never cared for her.Things are going well but suddenly Thakur suffers an heart attack an is critical and prepares his will,while in hospital Murli,Manohar,Girdhar and their wives take this opportunity and divide Thakur's wealth among st them keeping Gopal and Mala aside.After Thakur returns he isn't able to bear what his sons have done and passes away the brother also remove Gopal and Mala from the house leaving them no where.While their mother is left at the mercy of God and made to do all household during this time Gopal and Mala start singing in temples and are spotted by Banne Khan who makes them stars by arranging their stage shows.After becoming successful Gopal and Mala's only which is to meet their mother but are unaware that she is also thrown out of the house buy his brothers and their wives. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Mala is the daughter of Kishanlal who works as a servant with a wealthy family. One day Mala meets with the owner of this family, who is so impressed with Mala that he asks for her hand in marriage for his fourth son, Gopal, which Kishanlal humbly accepts. As a result Mala gets married to Gopal, and moves in to their palatial home. While Mala is extremely helpful and sweet-natured, the rest of the daughter-in-laws, three of them, are quite the opposite. When bad times befall this family, the owner passes away; Gopal and Mala move out, leaving Gopal's mother at the mercy of her indifferent sons, Girdhar, Murli, Manohar, and their abusive wives who refuse to assist in any household work, virtually forcing their aged mother-in-law to all menial work, not looking after her needs, even when she becomes ill, and ultimately throwing her out of the house. Gopal gains popularity as a musician, while his brothers mortgage their family home with a moneylender. They decide to live off Gopal, and tell him that their mother has gone for a tirath-yatra (holy journey). With that out of the way, the brothers go back to their lifestyle, not really caring that their mother may be destitute, ill, and on the verge of dying. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Two sons are manipulated by their wives, driven by their desire to inherit their father's fortune at any cost, while the third child remains devoted and lovingly stands by his parent's side, prioritizing their bond over wealth and greed. Chided by his family for being the absolute miser, wealthy industrialist Dhaniram (Kader Khan) loves his money as a mother loves a child. This does not auger well with his two sons, Ajay and Vijay (Shashi Kiran and Raj Kiran respectively). The two sons despise their father and find various ways to entrap him, but in vain. Dhaniram gets in the bad books of Income Tax Officer, D.O. Gogi (Shakti Kapoor), and as a result Gogi is arrested and imprisoned. His sister, Dolly (Roshini) and brother, Gulu (Gulshan Grover) both scheme a devious plot that will ensure the death of Dhaniram, and the control of his wealth will rest with them and Gogi.His third son Ravi (Govinda) makes everything correct .. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

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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...

Dharam Murti is a much respected school master in Shaktinagar in India, where he lives with his young son, Ravi, daughter, Padma, and wife, Savitri. One day he witnesses a man being being killed at the hands of Sher Singh Bandookwala, the Zamindar. He reports this matter to the police and Sher is arrested and prosecuted. Sher uses all his financial might to convince the courts of his innocence, and is set free. Then a few days later, Dharam is found in a compromising position with a new lady school-teacher, Menaka, is summoned by the local Panchayat, and asked to leave Shaktinagar for 30 days. Dharam leaves and does not return, leaving his wife and children alone and destitute. Savitri toils hard to provide education for Ravi, and for this she scarifies everything she has owned, and sends Ravi to her brother`s place. Years later, Ravi is now an Engineer and returns home to Shaktinagar, is appalled to learn of his mom`s and sister`s destitute condition and vows to avenge this ...