Shri Vallabh Vyas

The year is 1920 and the house is isolated in the wilderness has a secret. It is waiting for the curse to come true. For years everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died under strange circumstances. It is like the house has a will and a life of its own. Arjun (Rajneesh Duggal) and his wife Lisa (Adah Sharma) move into the house and he has been given the task of pulling it down and making a hotel there. The haunting begins. Strange and inexplicable events start taking place. The curse says they will not survive. The only thing they have that is true is the love they once shared, which is now under the shadow of doubt. They will have to depend on the love and faith if they are to come out of this alive. It is the curse versus their love.

Ravi (Jimmy Shergill), Shiv (Kabir Sadanand) and Sunny (Farid Amiri) are three final year students studying doing Mass Communication in Delhi. They decide to make a movie for their project based on a myth prevalent in north hills of India. His friends immediately are all thumbs up for his idea and raring to go on the trip into deep jungle. Ravi`s girlfriend, Rashmi (Kim Sharma) and their college professor Saxena (Ahmed Khan) are dead set against the idea because of the danger involved just in case the myth was actually the truth. But the three students go anyway. As they would venture deeper into the woods, their believes would be put to test.

An extended family is about to give one of their daughter's away, to the world! Asmi Ganatra is asked to produce a TV serial for 786 Plus on a wedding ceremony in a joint family. After approval, the only place she could locate to make this serial is the Joshi family. She meets with them but they turn her down. She then meets with Manoj Joshi, who is infatuated with her, pays him, and arranges for cameras to be placed all over the mansion to record the preparations secretly. Things appear to be going very well until Manoj finds out that his Taoji is still horny; one of his brothers is carrying on with Faujia, the maid; while the to-be bride, Piya, is planning to elope with her boyfriend, Rahul. A hilarious tussle ensues with Manoj attempting to stop the recording, while the TV producer and his staff are determined to complete this shoot at any and all costs. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) A stranger arrives as the house of a family in Mumbai one afternoon and informs them that she wishes to produce their latest family wedding as a television serial. The family initially agrees but then backs out of the deal because they do no wish to have their dirty laundry aired in public. A member of the family then goes behind their back and strikes up a deal to have hidden cameras placed all around the house in order to tape the reality show anyway. Chaos and embarrassment ensues, in this very true to life dark comedy. —Sherazade

Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for murdering his wife too, but he claims that it was an accident where she falls off the sidewalk while they were in the middle of a heated argument. Ishaan (Naseeruddin Shah), a happy-go-lucky man, is also arrested for murder that he commits while in the act of robbery. Ishaan was walking away after robbing a bank, when the pregnant cashier presses the panic button. Ishaan turns back, trips and accidentally fires the gun which hits the woman in her belly, killing both her and her unborn child. The prison's custodian is Mohan (Gulshan Grover), who attempts several methods to reform the prison's inmates. Ishaan is a new transfer to his jail, and he has already had 6 transfers and 3 jail escapes previously. Nagya is regularly visited by his mom (Ayesha Jalil). and Jaggu by his sister (Aditya Lakhia), who wants him to appeal his death sentence. A documentary filmmaker, Chandrika (Juhi Chawla) comes to the jail to set a film about these three men, men who have committed a murder and how they or behave until the day they are hanged and what impact a prison system has on them personally. Mohan tells Chandrika that Nagya's murder was a mistake, Ishaan an accident, and Jaggu was planned and Pre-meditated (Jaggu is a lawyer by profession). The 3 men repeat the same. Jaggu thinks he is guilty, Nagya thinks he is innocent, and Ishaan is in between. Jaggu is looking forward to his death, Ishaan is confident that he will find a way out and Nagya believes "Truth will prevail". In the process, she finds redemption to her troubled marriage. He hubby (Shri Vallabh Vyas) is a MCP and gives no value to her wife. Justice Murthy approaches Chandrika in prison and says that he is Nagya's father-in-law. He wants Chandrika to get Nagya to confess to his crime on tape. He wants Nagya to hang for killing Murthy's daughter, but Nagya is fighting an appeal on grounds that police used 3rd degree on him to extract his confession. In exchange Murthy will spare Chandrika the humiliation of a long-drawn court battle and grant her a quick divorce. Gautam is a prisoner and has AIDS. He sexually assaults another prisoner Malli, who is good friends with Ishaan. Ishaan wants to kill Gautam but is stopped by Nagya. Ishaan is worried to know that Gautam has sexually assaulted other prisoners before and infected them. Mohan expresses his helplessness as Gautam's brother is a local politician and a state doctor has certified that Gautam does not have AIDS. Ishaan tells Chandrika how his mother killed his father one night, when he tried to hit her after getting drunk (which used to be usual in his house). She served 3 years in prison before committing suicide. Ishaan has all plans to escape if his appeals in court do not succeed. At home, Chandrika's husband tries to have sex with her after getting drunk and blames her saying she is not attractive enough for him. Jaggu tells Chandrika that his date of hanging is set. He is looking forward to die. He asks Mohan permission to cook a grand meal for the entire prison on republic day. Nagya is hurt to hear that Jaggu will be hanged. Jaggu is angry with Nagya for harboring hope that he will be released someday, and that people will believe in his innocence. Ishaan hits Gautam in his nuts when he is released from solitary. at Home, Chandrika's husband Suri, gets wind of the documentary she is making and insults her by saying that she is sleeping with the prisoners. Chandrika douses Suri with kerosene at night when he is sleeping, and threatens to light him up one night, if he does not grant her a divorce quickly. Next day Chandrika asks Ishaan 3rd time if he feels remorse. Ishaan says he knows he made a mistake but wants to be a free man. Chandrika says she has fallen in love with him and wants to help him escape (she gets him a small O2 cylinder). Meanwhile Mohan's deputy finds through his informer that Ishaan has a plan to escape. A search of Ishaan's belonging reveals that he has a map of the prison. He questions the guard on the cell and finds that Ishaan has bribed him to skip his name during roll call on republic day. The deputy allows the plan to go ahead and waits for Ishaan on the exit point from the prison at the nearby lake. However, Ishaan escapes in the food prepared by Jaggu (using the O2 cylinder for breathing), when it is loaded onto the truck to be taken for consumers outside the prison. He meets Chandrika at her house, at a predetermined date and time. He knows Chandrika that she doesn't love him and asks for the real story. Turns out Chandrika was the sister of the woman Ishaan shot that day at the bank. Chandrika takes Ishaan back to the prison at gunpoint, just in time to stop Jaggu's hanging. Ishaan tells Mohan that he escaped the bank after killing Chandrika's sister. On a road crossing, he pushed Nagya's wife and caused her death. He then went to Jaggu's house as he was man whom his wife was cheating with. Ishaan killed Jaggu's wife by throwing her down the stairs when she refused to run away with him. Jaggu came home and stabbed an already dead woman and blamed himself for her death. Jaggu and Nagya are released. Chandrika gives the money stolen by Ishaan to Mohan so he can continue his prisoner reforms system. Chandrika forgives Ishaan by saying that saving 2 lives was just payment in exchange of her sister and her kids death.

Aalavandhan is a high-octane action thriller that follows the lives of Nandu and Vijay, brothers who survived the torment of their stepmother. As Nandu, plagued by mental illness, mistakes Vijay`s fiancee for their past abuser, he embarks on a perilous journey, pushing the limits of family ties and personal demons.

Mumtaz (Tabu) is a naive young rural woman whose family is killed in communal riots. After her village is burnt to the ground, she moves to Mumbai with her uncle, the only family member she has left. They are desperately poor and her uncle persuades her to become a bar girl (dancer) at Chandni Bar. He promises her that this is merely temporary, until he is able to get a job. Mumtaz is shy and loathes the work, but she forces herself to dance and flirt. However, her uncle doesn't keep his word; he lives on her earnings, drinking them away, and never gets a job. One night, after spending time drinking and watching the girls dance at the bar, Mumtaz's uncle rapes her. Mumtaz is distraught and emotionally confides in the other dancers. Even though they console her, Mumtaz is given a reality check when she realises that many other women at the bar have equally disturbing and painful stories. She manages to pull herself together and immerses herself in her work at the bar. Eventually, Mumtaz catches the eye of a gangster called Pottya Sawant (Atul Kulkarni). He attempts to seduce her and finally resorts to paying her for sex. Mumtaz, however, cannot go through with the deed and tells Pottya about her rape. Enraged, Pottya kills her uncle and marries Mumtaz. Mumtaz leaves the bar, and Pottya rises up the criminal ranks quickly, despite his volatile temper. The couple live a happy life with their son, Abhay, and daughter, Payal. Mumtaz wishes for Abhay and Payal to be educated, and stay far away from her world of dancing girls and Pottya's world of gangsters. Pottya's attitude and temper cause him to prematurely kill another gangster, which results in him losing friends and connections in the criminal world. He becomes a target for the police. He is captured and killed in an operation to 'eliminate' various Mumbai gangsters. A grieving Mumtaz slowly runs out of money and soon realises that Pottya has left behind a large amount of debt. With no source of income, she is forced to return to work at Chandni Bar. Years pass and Mumtaz still works at Chandni Bar: now as a waitress. She manages to provide a stable environment for Abhay and Payal, who are teenagers. Mumtaz encourages her children to do well in school, so that they can move away from their surroundings of crime and gangs. Abhay is very studious and performs well in classes, but soon befriends a group of troublemakers and delinquents. Despite being warned by Mumtaz, he continues to see his friends. One day, Abhay and his group are arrested by police for extortion and held in a juvenile prison. Even though he was not part of the crime, his reputation as Pottya's son causes the police to ignore his pleas of innocence. At the prison, Abhay is raped by a pair of older inmates. Mumtaz attempts to talk to the police, to no avail. She meets with some influential people, who have police connections and can get Abhay released. They agree to help her but demand a high price, which she must bring to them in less than two days. Mumtaz has no choice and sells her body to obtain the money. She is still short. Seeing her mother's plight, Payal takes up dancing at Chandni Bar and brings the money to her troubled mother. Having secured the money, Mumtaz is able to get Abhay released. However, she notices that he is not the same happy boy he was a few days earlier. Instead, he is cold, ruthless, and is looking for revenge. Abhay makes connections in the crime world and gets a gun, which he uses to kill the boys who raped him. Mumtaz arrives on the scene and is devastated to find that her son has become a killer. It is implied that Payal is following in her mother's footsteps, and Abhay is set to be another Pottya. Shared by: Farhan Wilayat Butt

A diligent police inspector, Samar is transferred to a town swarming with moral decay. As he straightens things up, a corrupt politician becomes a threat to him and his family.

The police are called to investigate the death of a woman who was killed during a riot by a stone thrown by an agitated person. She was known in the community as "Sardari Begum", a popular singer and courtesan in her time. This story chronicles her youth, her contacts, and her lifestyle. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Mammo moves to Pakistan during the Partition. Years later, with nowhere else to go, she visits Bombay to meet her sister and grandson but struggles to extend her visa. 13 year old Riyaz lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, India, with his grandmother, Fayyuzi, and her sister, Mehmooda alias Mammo. Quite outspoken and embittered over his dad abandoning him, Riyaz does not have many friends, save for Rohan. When Mammo plans a surprise birthday party for him, Riyaz is offended as he believes his friends will make fun of him as his lifestyle is not as good as their's. Fayyuzi and Riyaz have an argument with Mammo, and she leaves for the Mosque at Haji Ali, but returns when both apologize to her. Although Mammo was born in Panipat during the British Raj, she was one of thousands of Muslims who left for Pakistan. She was married over there, could not conceive, was branded a "barren woman", and asked to leave. Having nowhere else to go, she came to live with her widowed sister in Bombay on a temporary Visa. Every month she would walk to the nearest Police Station and get an extension. She finally paid a Rs.4800/ as a bribe in order to get a permanent visa through Inspector Apte. When Apte was transferred, a new Police Inspector took over, processed her papers, held her to be an illegal immigrant, arrested her, had her escorted to the Bombay Central Railway Station, board the Frontier Mail, which would return her to Pakistan. Riyaz and Fayyuzi make every possible attempt to trace and bring her back, which was all in vain. Now 20 years later, Riyaz has grown up and has written a book about his Mammo, hoping that someday, somewhere she will find it and they will be reunited again. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)