Surekha Sikri

An eight-year-old Sunny Gill has always had a blocked nose, and therefore, no sense of smell. A freak accident gives Sunny the most refined sense of smell ever. The entire dog squad of the country's police force cannot sniff what he can. But is that enough for Sunny and his young pals Google and Twitter to combat a menacing & ruthless gang of car thieves? What starts out with tracing a single missing car in the housing society, ends up busting the heftiest car racket in the country. No villain could ever be as unlikely. But then, neither could the gang of detectives!

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An unemployed Manoj (Ajay Devgan) is broke & sets out to borrow money for a business from his former college mates. Manoj lives with his mother (Surekha Sikri). Manoj travels to Calcutta and stays with his college friend Alok (Sameer Dharmadhikari). Manoj gets Alok to draft a letter to his friends asking for Rs 5-7 thousand each to create a corpus of roughly Rs 30-40 thousand to restart his business. Manoj feels ashamed about begging his friends for money. Alok is married to Sheela (Mouli Ganguly). Sheela wants Alok to give Manoj a job in his production company, but Alok says Manoj is not fit for production work. Manoj wants to visit Neerja, his ex-flame. Alok strongly advises against it. Alok says that Neeja spurned Manoj's love and married someone else for money. Sheela says that visiting Neerja is Manoj's choice. Alok says that it took months for Manoj to recover from his breakup with Neerja, and that he should not relive those memories. Since it is raining that day, Alok gives his raincoat to Manoj. Sheela also gives her mobile device to Manoj, just in case he needs any help and wants to call Alok. Sheela asks Manoj to take a gift for Neerja. Since Manoj doesn't have any money, she offers a Saree that she had received as gift from someplace else. Manoj was in love and was to marry Neerja (Aishwarya), but her mother preferred her to marry someone wealthier, in Calcutta. Manoj starts meeting his classmates and some give him some money, and some don't. After completing his tasks for the day, Manoj heads to Neerja's. Neerja opens the door and is looking slightly shabby. Manoj removes his raincoat and hangs it on the wall. The home is full of antique furniture. And there is no electricity in the house, which Neerja claims is due to the rain. There are no servants in the house, and Neerja claims that they are off for their afternoon siesta. Neerja claims that her husband is in Japan in relation to his business. She claims that her husband tours a lot, but she doesn't like to travel. Neerja refuses to open doors as she claims that her husband is very possessive about her and cannot stand her spending time with another man. She says that if she opens the doors, the news will reach her any ways. Manoj arrived around 2 PM. At 2:45 PM Neerja makes a cup of tea for him. Neerja used to live in the same village as Manoj, before she came to the city. Manoj tells Neerja that he runs a TV serial production company. He had come to Calcutta for a meeting with DoorDarshan. He hasn't married yet. Manoj says that a developer bought their land and constructed a 6-floor building on the plot and gave them 2 floors in exchange. It's a luxury apartment. Manoj claims that he has a secretary, when Sheela calls on her mobile phone to check on Manoj. He says that the mobile belongs to him. Neerja realizes that Manoj hasn't had any lunch yet. She doesn't have any groceries in the house and decides to go to the shop to buy some food items. After Neerja leaves for shopping, the owner of the house (Annu Kapoor) drops by & tells Manoj about Neerja's pathetic life. Her husband is a drunk & the house is in debt & both are about to be evicted. To earn some money, Neerja has sublet the main room to a furniture renter, who converted it into a warehouse. The furniture is rented to movies for the day and returned to the room by night. They haven't even got the money to pay their electricity bills. Her husband was fired from multiple jobs for doing fraudulent activities at work. Manoj gives all the borrowed money of Rs 12,000 to pay for next 3 months rent but keeps the facade with Neerja. Neerja owed rent for the last 10 months, but Manoj begs the owner of the house to consider the part payment and to allow her to stay. He also gives his address and phone number to the owner and asks him to call before he takes any drastic action with Neerja. Manoj finally goes inside the rest of the rooms and realizes that everything that the owner told him is the truth. He comes face to face with Neerja's abject poverty. The owner leaves and then Neerja returns from the grocery store. Neerja says that the company is giving her husband a new flat and that she will shift in 2-3 days. The flat is the on the 7th floor and measures 3500 square feet. Neerja asks Manoj not to tell anyone back home that he met her. After a little more banter, Manoj bids goodbye to Neerja and goes back to Alok's home. They both don't share their phone numbers with each other. Neerja says that her new phone will be available in a few days and Manoj says that she doesn't remember his number as the phone stays with his secretary. When he comes home, he finds Neerja's jewelry in his raincoat which she has put there upon reading his letter to his friends to borrow money.

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Naseem (The Morning Breeze) 1995 | 120 mins | Hindi | Social Based around the Babri Masjid demolition of 1992, Naseem draws parallels between two generations and the conflicting situations that govern their contrasting worlds. Naseem is a young inquisitive school girl and shares a intensely loving bond with her grandfather, who belongs to an era replete with harmony between the Hindu & Muslims. With days leading up to the imminent demolition of the Babri Masjid, he watches helplessly as the world he had once known to exist is betrayed of its peace and is unfortunately a world in which his naïve & beloved granddaughter will ultimately belong to.

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)

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