S.M. Zaheer

A youngster sets out to fulfill his father`s dream of becoming an IAS officer, and eventually achieves it. But a strange twist of fate eventually forces him to go down the road of crime and become a gangster. A story of love, ambition, sacrifice and revenge, Pranaam features Rajeev Khandelwal, Sameksha, Atul Kulkarni and Abhimanyu Singh in central roles.

Police Force an Inside Story is based on the popular book written by IPS officer Y. P. Singh and it effectively brings out the quarrels and gamesmanship between the honest police officers willing to lay down their life in service of their country and corrupt officers who are looking only for their self-enrichment, power and money. Trainee police officer Vijay (Akshay Kumar) is a middle class small town man who gets sucked into the political system where leaders have turned the battle of ballot into exploitation, opportunism for self benefit and to deprive the country of its true, selfless & sacrificing leaders. Ratan Sethi (Raj Babbar) is a politician who subverts the political system. As a senior police officer, Mr. Bhonsle (Mohan Joshi) runs a virtual mafia operation for politicians and friends from inside the department. But honest senior officer Mr. Pandey (Amrish Puri) trains the young officers with dedication, seeing to it that they imbibe values of truth and honesty and emphasizing with them to lay down their lives in service of their motherland. He tells the officer that they are the lucky few who have got the opportunity to serve their motherland. In his fight against the enemies of the country, he gets trapped into Mr. Bhosles web and Mr. Pandey has to put all his experience and contacts to save his cadets life and career. Pandey and Vijay join hands together to free their motherland from the evil forces and clean up the corruption, exploitation, gundaism from our society.

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)

A daughter of poor parents was engaged to a man when she was 13. The man is away working in Calcutta. In the meanwhile, she befriends a truck-driver who promises her parents a huge amount of money. The girl is snatched away by her father-in-law and raped by him. But she is punished for his crime.. —Anonymous

Vijay and Nupur start liking each other after a chance meeting at a bus stop. Suresh (Sidey) is Vijay's boss' son and wants to marry Nupur but ends up liking Nupur's maid, Imarti. Sidey's father is under the influence of a pot-smoking Swami who has a terrible secret hidden from everyone.