Utpal Dutt

Hossain, a Bengali Muslim wants to establish a little Utopia on an island in the Padma delta. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim. Hossain is a Bengali Muslim with an idealistic vision: he wants to establish a little utopia on an island in the Padma delta. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim. It is 1947, just before the partition of India, and the Hindu fisherman Kuber briefly accepts an offer by Hossain to ferry some of the community's cargo from the island. He would be fishing, except that all the fish he usually catches have been driven away by a big storm. In the process of getting the cargo, he gets to see what the colony is like and, even though he is fully aware of the gripes of a former colony member and the limitations of it, comes to share some of the Utopia vision. When he returns to his home and a variety of unfortunate events make it in his best interest to leave, he knows just where to go. —Swarup Basak

A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels. A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle-class perspective on the world. —Anonymous The film sees Anila receiving a letter from a man claiming to be her uncle, a man who disappeared thirty-five years prior. He turns up at her family home professing to be an anthropologist, a globally seasoned traveler en route from the United States to Australia. The family is suspicious of the stranger, believing him to be an impostor pushing a financial scam. After a grilling from the family's lawyer, he leaves as unexpectedly as he arrives, leaving behind a stunned family, and some very insightful observations. —Mr Bongo This tells the story of a woman and her husband who are visited by a man who claims to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The couple is initially skeptical of the man's identity but gradually come to accept him. The film explores themes of civilization, humanity, and the nature of truth, and is known for its philosophical depth and simplicity. "Agantuk" is notable for its introspective and thought-provoking narrative, a hallmark of Ray's filmmaking style. It reflects on the ideas of cultural identity and the clash between traditional Indian values and modernity, themes Ray frequently explored in his works.

After idealist Shashi takes a stand against traditional marriage dowries, angry elders vow to destroy the young man and his family. Shashi, Akbar and a group of young people pledge never to give nor receive dowry. Acting against his mother's wishes, Shashi marries Sugandha Srivastav, and does not accept any dowry. He arranges his sister's, Rama's marriage with Ravi Verma, the son of Goverdhan and Shakuntala. Goverdhan and Shakuntala did not get any dowry, and are quite upset, though Ravi is happy. Both want Ravi to re-marry, so that they can get dowry. They send Ravi away, and Goverdhan plans to accidentally kill Rama, but things go wrong, and instead Shakuntala gets badly burned, and has to be hospitalized. Taking this opportunity, Goverdhan blames Rama for attempting to kill Shakuntala, and has her arrested. Now Shashi will have to put all his resources together to free his sister, as the evidence and motive are not in her favor. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Roopa lives a wealthy lifestyle with her husband, Prakash Chandra, who works for her dad, Manoharlal Verma, and a daughter named Sharda alias Pinky. Roopa and Prakash do not get along and Roopa suspects that Prakash is having an affair. Her suspicious nature gets a boost when a woman named Sharda Dayal Sharma moves into a house next door. Roopa starts vile rumors about Sharda having an affair with Prakash. As a result of these rumors, no one is willing to marry Sharda, she is mocked by everyone in the community, and even loses her bank job. Sharda decides to teach Roopa a lesson by moving her belongings in to her house, claiming that she is indeed Prakash's mistress. The surprising thing is Prakash agrees to this arrangement and permits her to live with them. Unable to assert herself, Roopa leaves the house, and goes to live with her parents. Things are going well with Sharda, until one day when Pinky goes missing. Sharda hectically attempts to locate Pinky, but in vain. Then the police arrive to arrest Sharda on the charge of kidnapping Pinky and possibly killing her. The police indicate that they can prove that Sharda did indeed kidnap Pinky as she has a motive of continuing to live with Prakash as his mistress and wanted Pinky out of the way. The question remains did Sharda really have Pinky kidnapped and killed? If so, what effect is this going to have on her relationship with Prakash? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Amit (Rakesh Roshan) is a big city boy, but his parents (Utpal Dutt and Usha Kiran) want him to marry a village girl, Madhuri (Rekha). Amit reluctantly agrees and goes through the wedding ceremony, but on the pretext that the dowry gold is not genuine, leaves his bride. Madhuri and her brother (Rakesh Bedi) concoct a scheme to try and convince Amit that Madhuri can also be a big city girl. Will Madhuri and Shrikanth succeed? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A tough cop must come to terms with his brother and rival, and with his mother's tainted past. Samrat is the local goon of Debipur who is a terror for the corrupt and a saviour of the poor. He is the only solace of the poor villagers against all odds including the evil moneylender Pannalal. His increasing power and popularity with the people led to the Police department bring in their best man, Subroto in charge of the area. This leads to a tiff between the two brothers, unknown of each other's identity. Samrat is actually the elder brother of Subroto, who was left at the hands of a nurse soon after his birth by the unmarried mother's father (Subroto's grandfather). It is destiny again that the brothers are united followed by a happy ending where the mother and the father accepts the elder son into the family with open arms. —Angel Digital.

Mr. Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle in a mansion named 'Ashiana' on 10th Road, Juhu, Bombay, with his only relative, a niece by the name of Nisha, who is unmarried and runs the family's business that faces strong opposition from Khanna Group of Industries. Singh would like to see her get married but she hates wealthy men, as she believes wealthy persons don't care about their family and only think of money. The separation of her parents when she was a child is behind this reason. So her uncle finds a poor man, Ajay Srivastav, but subsequently finds out that Ajay is already married and also has three daughters; then he decides to get Nisha married to a TV repairman, Yeshwant Bhosle, who ends up being a multi-millionaire after his invention is marketed, although he used to call him by willingly damaging his own television set. Then he wants her to get married to Viju Guide, a Hyderabad-based Tourist Guide, who finds buried treasure and also ends up a multi-millionaire, although he trapped them to go out together and even made her to offer him a job at her own travel agency in Mumbai (Bombay). Then he wants her to get married to a motor mechanic, Prakash, who, in turn of events, ends up being the only son of wealthy builder, Jayant Amar Nath, and ends up getting married to his sweetheart and neighbor, Rosy. Finally Nisha meets her ideal match in Rukhtapur-based Suraj Singh, a wedding singer/dancer, and gets married to him - not realizing that Suraj is not who he claims to be and she is merely a pawn in a charade that has been created especially to pull wool over her eyes. What unfolds next is a pure journey of laughter.

This is Goutam Ghose's speculative commentary on poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, based on Bengali story Paathi.

Rajesh Mehra lives a wealthy lifestyle with his mom, Sarita, and dad. His dad finalizes his marriage with Malti, who is the daughter of equally wealthy, Jagdish Kapoor. When Rajesh is told, he refuses to marry Malti as she is mentally unstable, an argument ensues, and Rajesh angrily leaves. He befriends a poultry farmer, Majid Kaliya, and lives rent-free in a room in his house. Rajesh takes to singing in a nightclub, meets with wealthy Ritu Mafatlal and both fall in love with each other. Mafatlal wants a rich groom for Ritu, and refuses to permit them to marry, so both elope, get married, and Malti moves in with Rajesh in Majid's room. This does not auger well with Majid's wife, Shabnam, who refuses to permit both to sleep together. Understanding their frustration, Majid gives them two passes to Mysore where they can spend time with each other - the only problem is that the passes are in the names of Kaushal and his sister Kamini Tiwari. Watch what happens when the duo end up at the Srivastav household, run by the Hitler-like Jailor, who had been fired from his job for letting Veeru and Jai (of Sholay) escape from his penitentiary, and are wooed by Murari and Leela Srivastav. Chaos ensues when Kaushal and Kamini decide to make a run with the jailer, and an odd assortment of characters - ranging from goons to black marketeers, giving chase to the hapless honeymooning couple —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Chandramohan Azad (Jeetendra) is an employee and a union leader. His zeal and hard-work is detested by some of his fellow-workers and his employer, Sinha (Pincho Kapoor). He is framed for the murder of a fellow union worker and sentenced to jail for several years. After his release, he finds out that his brother-in-law, Deshbandhu (Utpal Dutt) is an MLA, and his sister (Seema Deo) is content with the way the things are. Chandramohan's right to assert what is truthful and right is frustrated at every attempt by a corrupt society and law enforcement officers. Will Chandramohan continue to fight inequality or will he himself become part of the system he fights now? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Three friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives. Choudhry, Jagdishbhai, and Inder Sen are old friends in their early sixties, but believe they are in still in their forties. While Choudhry lives with his wife, Sita, Inder is widowed, and Jagdish is divorced. Their weakness is smoking, alcohol, and women. While they are able to satisfy they need for the first two vices, they are unable to openly indulge with women to their hearts' content while in Bombay. When Sita decides to take a religious pilgrimage, the three decide to travel out of town, and have fun with women. They hire a car driver named Sakharam, who takes them to Goa, and once there, he drives them to a night-club, which has a dancer and singer named Anita. All three friends find Anita gorgeous, and would love to be intimate with her. They plan to individually spend time with her, but Murphy's law prevails with hilarious results. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Inspector Abhijeet Rai lives a peaceful life with his wife but suddenly finds himself in trouble when Kaliram, a man who he had arrested years ago, comes back to take revenge.

Alok (Amol Palekar) is the only son of millionaire Mrs. Karuna Chaudhari (Veena). For the past few years he was a mental case. However, he recovered after a hard work by Dr. Sen (Iftekhar). Alok has recently recovered and is leading a normal life. Karuna and her brother Dilip Thakur (Dinesh Thakur), decide to get him married but the doctor says that the girls whom Alok marries should completely dissolve her personality into Alok because such people become quite possessive after treatment. Karuna was married to Ranjeet. But before marriage, Anupam (Shreeram Lagoo) was in love with Karuna, but her father refused her wedding to Anupam as their horoscopes didn't match. Ranjeet later appointed Anupam as Director in their firm, and that's when Ranjeet found that Anupam and Karuna loved each other from before their wedding. Ranjeet was heartbroken and commits suicide to free Karuna. But Karuna never married Anupam. His suicide made Alok mentally unstable. While Dilip was at the asylum to collect Alok, he runs out of the town (in Dilip's car) and goes to Bombay (by train, which he catches at the train station). Keeping in mind that he will not return with his Uncle whom he recognizes, Karuna sends her new manager, Mr. Siddharth (Parikshit Sahni), to bring him back home. Siddarth had replaced the ex-manager Gupta (Utpal Dutt), who was very cruel and unreasonable with the workers of the factory. He blames the workers if the machines break down and uses their salaries to fix and repair them. Siddharth was a senior supervisor and was not afraid to stand up to Gupta against his dictatorship. Karuna likes Siddharth's approach and fires Gupta. She asks Siddharth to take over as the manager of the factory as he is kind and fair to the workers. Meeta is Karuna's assistant and became close with Siddharth after he became the manager. slowly Meeta and Siddharth fall in love with each other. Siddharth goes to Bombay and finds Alok at his regular hotel. Alok was looking to move from a double room into a single room (as the double room is too expensive) and Siddharth offers to share the double room with Alok. Alok and Siddharth become friends, and soon Alok gets very possessive about Siddharth. He wants Siddharth to be with him always and offers to pay him rs 2500 per month for the same. Siddharth asks where Alok will get that kind of money and that's when Alok reveals his true identity to Siddharth. He says he doesn't like going back home, as he gets sick there. Siddharth tells Alok that he has been sent by Karuna to bring Alok back home. This is the only way Siddharth and Alok can be together. Meanwhile, Alok gets attached with Siddharth so much that he does not want him to leave for just a minute and so with his friend, Meeta (Rameshwari). Meeta is an orphan brought up by Mrs. Karuna. Alok falls in love with Meeta and wants to marry her. Meeta is very kind of Mrs. Karuna and does not want to hurt her by refusing to marry Alok but she loves Siddharth. Siddharth also tells her to sacrifice her love for the sake of her loyalty to Karuna. Meeta gets engaged with Alok and Siddharth leaves the town after giving resignation. Now Mr Gupta finds his opportunity and starts indicating to Alok that there was something going on between Meeta and Siddharth. Gupta tells Alok that Meeta spent an entire evening with Siddharth before leaving, and even produces her handkerchief as evidence of the same. Alok recalls Siddharth to work by accusing him of accounting fraud at the company. Siddharth is outraged and returns. Alok now taunts Meeta and Siddharth and wants them to admit to their relationship. He leaves town for a few days, yet stays secretly to observe what Meeta and Siddharth do. Alok hears Meeta profess her love to Siddharth, when they think they are alone. Alok tries to kill Siddharth, but at the last moment back off as he cannot kill his friend. Siddharth confronts Alok that he tried to kill him. Siddharth wants to leave, but Alok wont tell him till Siddharth tells him about the extent of his relationship with Meeta. When Siddharth refuses to comply, Alok goes mad with outrage. He kills Siddharth's dog in retaliation. It is clear that he is mentally unstable again. Alok tries to kill Meeta by pressing her neck, but she manages to escape. Meeta decides to leave town and joins Siddharth in Bombay. Alok finds out that the duo are together in Bombay. Alok calls Siddharth as a friend and says that he got blind with jealousy. He begs Siddharth and Meeta to return, as Mrs Karuna loves Meeta very dearly. Siddharth decides to go back alone. But Alok has every intention to ensure that Siddharth cant get Meeta, if he cant get her. Alok maintains a diary, and Mr Gupta knows where he keeps the diary. When Siddharth arrives, Alok gives him all the jewels that Mrs Karuna had kept as a wedding gift for Meeta and Alok's wedding. Alok says that Mrs Karuna knew about Meeta marrying Siddharth and wanted her to have the jewels none-the-less. Siddharth agrees to take the jewels When putting into the briefcase, Siddharth finds that Alok had kept a gun in it for Sid's safety. Siddharth takes the gun and returns to Alok. But now the gun has his fingerprints on it. After Siddharth leaves, Alok takes the gun (carefully wrapped in a handkerchief) and shoots himself, before throwing the cloth in the fire. Mr Gupta is the first inside the room and sees the burning handkerchief. Alok dies. Meeta and Siddharth get married, when police arrives and arrests him. The case reaches court, where Anupam defends Siddharth, while Dilip is the prosecuting lawyer. All the evidence is against Siddharth, and he is found guilty, and sentenced to death. Just a few days before his hanging, Dr Sen returns from a trip to Europe and tells the jailer that he knew Alok and he was still very mentally fragile. But nobody can stop the hanging unless there is any fresh evidence in the case. As a last resort, Anupam and Meeta approach Mrs Karuna. Dr Sen knew that Alok maintained a diary, and they want Mrs Karuna to help them find the diary. KAruna agrees after Anupam convinces her that Meeta is her daughter and Siddharth is like her son and is innocent. Mr Gupta overhears this and tries to burn the diary. But Meeta and Anupam reach in time and stop Mr Gupta and recover the diary. They manage to use the evidence to issue Governor's orders to stop the hanging, just in the nick of time. Meeta and Siddharth are reunited

Naram Garam is the story of Kusum (Swaroop Sampat) and her father Vishnuprasad (A.K. Hangal), who are left homeless due to non-repayment of debts from the local money lender (Vishnu had mortgaged the house for his wife's treatment, who later died). They are helped by Ramprasad (Amol Palekar), who is in love with Kusum. Birju (Anand) is Vishnu'son, who left the house to join a theatre company, which Vishnu disapproved of. Ramprasad was a student of Vishnuprasad and came to meet him in the village after getting Vishnu's letter. Vishnu wants Ram to marry Kusum, but Ram says he has a low income of rs 140/month and stays in his boss's house. Ram returns to the city to his job.. Bhavani Shankar (Utpal Dutt), Ramprasad's employer, is feared by his family members and employees, but is himself terrified of his own mother-in-law Naniji (Dina Pathak). He is also very superstitious. Bhavani has a younger brother Babua (Shatrughan Sinha) and daughter Sumitra/Summi (Kiran Vairale). Babua hasn't married as he wants to get Summi married first, who will soon turn 20. Ramprasad helps Bhavani Shankar get the possession of his ancestral home after a 53-year-long legal battle with a squatter and is therefore assigned the responsibility of getting the house back in shape so that it can be re-occupied. The house is worth 2 Lakhs, but Bhavani spent Rs 4.25 Lakhs in legal fees to get it back and 6 lawyers died over the time to fight the case in courts. It is a matter of great pride for Bhavani. Now, Babua wants to celebrate the occasion and asks Ram to organize a theatre (he is a great fan of Rani Radmavati, Jhasi and Sita).. Ram contacts Birju. Babua gets drunk and hits Ravaan for ill-treating Sita and admonishes Laxman for not following the instructions of his brother. Birju's theatre owner Guruji (Nilu Phule) understands his pain of not being able to help his family. Birju earns rs 50/month with Guruji. Guruji introduces Birju to Ratna (Padma Chavan), who runs a much bigger company. Ratna loves Birju from first sight, but she also likes that Birju is a thorough professional and a gentleman. She hires Birju for Rs 200/month. In the meanwhile, Kusum and her father come to the shelter of Ramprasad (They were kicked out of their village home by the money lender) and start staying in the house (since Bhavani is out of town to meet a priest in Banaras). Ramprasad doesn't have a house of his own, hence decides to let them stay illegally until he can find an alternative. When this comes to the knowledge of the estate manager, Gajanan Babu (Suresh Chatwal), he arrives furious and determined to oust the squatters. However, he succumbs to the charms of Kusum and instead of ousting the old man and his daughter, presents a proposal of marriage. Horrified, Kusum and Ramprasad turn to Kali Shankar, a.k.a. Babua (Shatrughan Sinha), Bhavani Shankar's younger brother, for help. Babua is a garage mechanic and a ruffian with a kind heart for women in distress. Ram says that Kusum and Vishnu are squatters but instead of evicting them, Gajanan has given them permission to stay in exchange for marriage with Kusum. Ram tells Babua that Kusum will commit suicide if forced to marry Gajanan. He successfully dissuades Gajanan Babu from carrying through with his proposal, but is also determined to oust Kusum and her father. However, he too is captivated by Kusum's beauty and presses his suit. Then Ramprasad finally turns to Bhavani Shankar, who dissuades Babua using his younger brother's fear of him. ShastriJi (Om Prakash) is Bhavani's priest, who had advised him to marry a younger girl, whose name starts with a K. When Bhavani meets Kusum, he thinks this is an omen. Bhavani Prasad comes to his home to oust the illegal residents, but is captivated by Kusum's voice and beauty. Being a very superstitious man and a faithful believer of astrologers, Bhavani Prasad believes that Kusum is the reincarnation of his dead wife Ahilya . He decides to marry Kusum. Ramprasad finds the situation becoming very sticky, but decides to play along. Bhavani Shankar takes all the precautions to make sure the marriage would take place secretly, only with Ramprasad's knowledge. Ram goes to find Birju. Meanwhile Birju had become a confidant of Ratna. Ratna shares how she was married at 12, and was beaten and burned at her in-laws. She came back home, but couldn't find peace. She started the theatre company to keep herself busy. She gives her jewels to Birju, so he can get Kusum married with honor. However, Ramprasad invites Bhavani Shankar's mother-in-law and daughter to come to the house at exact date and time of the marriage, without telling them of the marriage itself. Bhavani Shankar now finds himself in a flux, not having the courage to get married in their presence. He secretly convinces Ramprasad to marry Kusum instead. Ramprasad negotiates his salary (rs 600/month) and the house in return of the deal. Thus, Ramprasad and Kusum finally get married and the reality behind the whole affair remains undiscovered.

When Goopy and Bagha learn about Hirak Raja`s tyranny, they try to set him right with the help of Udayan, a schoolteacher, and their magical powers.

This is a story of two lawyer brothers Advocate (Utpal Dutt) & Harish (Girish Karnad), their half-brother Chandranath (Amol Palekar) (son of their father's brother), their wives and children. Siddheshwari (Ashalata Wabgaonkar), wife of the eldest brother has left the operational details of the household to Sheela (Shabana Azmi), wife of the half-brother Chander. Chander is a happy go lucky musician, who fails in successive business ventures (like selling mustard oil. He lost Rs 8000 in selling rice & jute previously. He wants another rs 6000 for the mustard oil business). Sheela ensures that the household runs smoothly, while Siddheshwari is the fount of love and affection in the joint household. Chander has kids Ramu (Master Vikas), Pappu (Master Pappu), Kanhaiya (Master Rajesh). Neela (Manisha) Siddheshwari's daughter and Mahendra (Gopi Sapru) plus Hari are her sons. Harish and his spouse Naintara (Bharati Achrekar) rejoin the household. Atul is their son. Naintara gets expensive clothes for Atul and expects Siddheshwari to pay for them. Naintara wants control over the house money, but the house keys have been entrusted to Sheela. Atul makes fun of the way Hari dresses and Sheela scolds him badly. Naintara is offended, but Siddheshwari won't say a word. Naintara complains to Siddheshwari that she will escalate the matter to Harish. Siddheshwari is alarmed and calls Sheela and scold her for her behavior. Sheela shows maturity, apologizes to Naintara and organizes a party for Atul. But Atul is also offended that Sheela yelled at him and is no mood to compromise. Atul enters the kitchen with his shoes on and won't back down when Sheela asks him to get out. When Atul starts insulting Sheela, Mahendra intervenes, and a fight breaks out between Atul and Mahendra. Harish tries to intervene and tells Sheela to come to him if she has a problem with Atul. Siddheshwari shuts up Harish by saying that in that case, he should bring all complaints against Sheela to her. This is a women's matter and asks him to back down. Naintara & Harish decide to leave the house, but Siddheshwari tells them to stay. Naintara says that Sheela has told all the kids to ignore Atul and that is unacceptable. Siddheshwari asks the kids, who tell her that until Atul apologizes to Sheela, they will ignore him. Siddheshwari is convinced at Naintara's allegations. When Siddheshwari confronts Sheela, she says Atul is a spoiled brat and she will not allow any kid of the house to be influenced by him. Siddheshwari speaks to Sheela alone, but she refuses to budge. Siddheshwari gets angry and says that she cannot ask her blood relation (Hairsh & Naintara) to leave the house for the fear of society opinion. Siddheshwari escalates the matter to Advocate and tells him that Chander needs to start earning his share around the house. due to this insult, Sheela stops speaking to Siddheshwari, but continues to perform all her duties around the house. Naintara sweet talks Siddheshwari and tries to take over the kitchen. She gets Siddheshwari to admit that they are blood relations and need to care for each other. Sheela is hurt even further. But even Siddheshwari knows that she is saying these things to make Naintara happy and doesn't really believe in them. Advocate tries to handle the situation in his own way. He scolds Chander in front of Harish for being a failure at Mustard business but gives him Rs 10,000 more to start the sawdust business. But Harish tells Advocate that he should not destroy another Rs 10,000 on Chander as he doesn't know anything about business. Advocate is convinced and asks Chander to start teaching the kids as the teacher also charges Rs 50/month. Despite the coldness, Siddheshwari pines for Sheela's care and warmth, which she never gets from Naintara. One day Harish brings Rs 500 from his work. Naintara gives this money to Siddheshwari and makes her point that Harish is contributing to the house, but Chander is not. Sheela is so hurt that she gives back the house keys to Siddheshwari. Siddheshwari is also hurt at Sheela throwing the keys at her and asks Sheela when she is leaving the house, and how much money she has stolen already. Sheela decides to leave the house and tells Chander that they will stay in the village house from now on. Siddheshwari believes that Sheela will not leave if she doesn't allow her to touch her feet, and shuts the door. Sheela pays her respects at the doorstep and leaves with her family. Chander and Sheela reach the village house with their kids, where Manohar Lal (Manik Dutt) was the sole caretaker of the property. Manohar was in charge of growing crops on the family land, but he was selling a portion of the produce on the side and profiting personally from it, without declaring that income to the family. To get rid of Chander, Manohar decides to stop sending money to Calcutta, and plans to create a hue and cry in front of Advocate that Chander has decided to take over the farms himself. Meanwhile Manohar asks Chander that the repair of the house is due and asks Chander to visit Advocate and ask for money. Advocate gives Rs 1000. Manohar now meets Harish and tells him that Chander has ordered not to send any money to Calcutta. Harish sends a letter to Chander to vacate the house. Chander and Sheela shift into a hut in front of the house but refuse to go back to Calcutta. Chander also decides not to use the farm income for home repairs. Chander and Sheela decide not to respond to Harish's letter. Harish takes this as a declaration of war and proceeds with a court case against Chander. Harish even sends the police to search for stolen money in Chander's possession. Siddheshwari is alarmed at these allegations but backs off when even her husband calls Chander a thief. Meanwhile Manohar tells the village grocer to stop giving supplies to Chander on credit. Sheela starts selling her jewels to keep the house going. Siddheshwari is very close to Pappu and senses that he is not well. This is when Pappu is indeed very sick. She tells the advocate to go to the village and check on the family. Advocate reaches the village and finds Pappu was indeed sick. He was not aware that Chander was fighting a case that Harish had started against him. He also finds that Chander and his family stay in a hut opposite the family house. He finds that Sheela has sold off all her jewels. Sheela breaks down saying that Chander always followed the orders given to him. He came to the village and stayed in the servant's quarters. He was accused of falsehoods and even a police search was conducted against him. He fired Manohar since he caught him stealing from the family farms and income. Advocate is heartbroken and transfers all the property to Sheela. As a result, Harish loses the case in court. Harish decides to go back to Patna with his family. Advocate brings Chander and his family back from the village. Siddheshwari thanks advocate for fixing her family. Advocate knew that Chander was depositing all the property income in advocate's bank account, and that Manohar was stealing from them, and Chander fired him.

The magically musical duo of Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne make a comeback in this sequel, where they are invited to the court of the Hirak Raja (The Diamond King), for their musical skills. They are to perform at the kingdom's Jubilee Celebrations. Goopy and Bagha are bored with their lives as crown princes of Shundi and Halla. They are looking for a change, which comes in the form of a chance to visit Hirak Rajya (Land of Diamonds), known for its huge diamond mines. They jocundly set out for Hirak Rajya. But little do they know of the machinations of Hirok Raja (Utpal Dutt). The king is a tyrant. Diamonds and riches get pent up in his treasuries, while his subjects starve and suffer. Those who protest are taken care of in the 'Jantarmantar', a chamber for brainwashing devised by the scientist (Santosh Dutta), who the king mocks calling as "Gobeshok Gobochondro Gyanotirtho Gyanorotno Gyanambudhi Gyanochuramoni." His ministers are mere puppets. The only enemy the king has in his land is Udayan Pandit (Soumitra Chatterjee). He is a school teacher and, more than that, he is a believer of values. The king forcefully closes his school down. Udayan flees to hide in the mountains. Meanwhile, Goopy and Bagha are on their way to Hirok Rajya. By coincidence, they meet Udayan, who intimates them of the king's true nature. The two impress Udayan with their magical powers, who plans to use them against the tyrant. Goopy and Bagha agree. The duo then head into Hirok Rajya, where they are welcomed with grandeur. They entertain the rogue king,fooling him into believing that they think he is great. They rob the treasury (which was guarded by a tiger) using their magical music, for bribing the guards. The king has his tricks, too. He captures Udayan and all his students, and takes them to the Jantarmantar for brainwashing. But Goopy Bagha have already reached there using their magical powers. They have also bribed the Gobeshok onto their side, with the guards. On reaching the laboratory, the king and his ministers are stunned magically by Goopy's singing and then pushed into the Brainwashing machine. After the king is brainwashed he turns to the good side,he then along with the villagers pull down his own statue situated at the center of the village,and everything goes back to normal in the land of hirak raja.

An expert gambler Jai unknowingly helps a don gain military secrets. Inspector Vijay is sent to investigate but Jai and Vijay are look-alikes and get mistaken for each other.

Arun wants to be a singer but his father disapproves, causing a rift between the two. The determined Arun takes up a secret identity and soon becomes a popular singer.

Saudamini falls in love with Narendra but her family gets her married to a middle-aged widower. She finds a confidante in her husband but one day her former lover returns.

Ahmed, Mohan are con men posing as false witnesses. Meeting Kabir, they want to reform but face challenges. When Kabir is jailed for murder he didn't commit, they vow to find the real culprit but land in trouble themselves. This is a story about two guys who act as mock witnesses and always hang around court to give evidence as per the requirement of the case every time. They have never believed in God but eventually they have to accept the power of God. Ahmed and Mohan Kumar Saxena are petty thieves, and con-men. They career is spent as false witnesses near the Bombay courts, where they get paid a set sum of rupees for false depositions. This changes when they meet and are influenced by Kabir Das, and decide to go straight. They find that it's virtually impossible to earn a living as honest citizens. Then Kabir Das is arrested and imprisoned by a murder he claims he did not commit, and the duo promise to help him, and find out who the real killer is, but they themselves end up getting in trouble.

Anand Narayan comes from a poor family, which consists of his wife, Gayetri, daughter, Kamla, and two sons Madhu and Govind. Through hard work, Anand starts on his way to success. He meets with Nekiram, who becomes his business partner, and also his samdhi (in-law) as his daughter is in love with Madhu. Both get married in a simple ceremony. After this marriage, both Nekiram, and Anand and his family work hard at preparing food in a small dhaba, which soon grows into a restaurant, then a larger fancier restaurant, finally a five star hotel. Now Anand and his family are all wealthy and live in a palatial home. Anand gets to talking to Bhagwan Shri Kishan, who regularly visits him and asks about him and his family. Anand proudly takes all the credit, and asks Kishan to accompany him to see his success and his hotel. Bhagwan Kishan declines, but agrees do so later. Things don't go quite as well for Anand, when he finds out that Nekiram has been cheating him. Nekiram leaves the house, but Madhu accompanies him. Then Anand finds that Govind has been squandering money and time on women and alcohol; and to top his disappointment Kamla gets pregnant. When Bhagwan Kishan comes to visit Anand again, he admits that he is a failure, his health is poor, and his family are all strangers to him. Lord Kishan advises Anand that this is his life and he must learn from the Mahabharat, and that every life is a struggle, which is confused by relations and near and dear ones, and also by one's ego. Once the ego is removed, then only one can see clearly. But will Anand be able to understand and carry out what Lord Kishan is asking him to? Or will end up taking the blame, like he took the credit, upon himself? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later, he is living with a wealthy couple who have adopted him as their son and is now named Naresh Dutt. One day (after a car accident on the roads) he wakes up and cannot recognize his parents and has no recollection of his recent past. Mr Sumesh Dutt (Pradeep Kumar) and Mrs Dutt (Urmila Bhatt) had lost their 8 year old son Naresh 20 years ago in the Kumbh Mela. Sumesh tells Naresh that 6 yrs ago, while travelling to Nasik, they found a man injured on the railway tracks and Mrs Dutt adopted him as her own son, Naresh. When the man woke up, he had lost his memory and easily accepted MR and Mrs Dutt as his parents. Mr Dutt reveals to Naresh that his real son's dead body was found the very next day in Sangam river, but he never told his wife as she would have committed suicide. Naresh begins to regain his memory when he watches a film and realizes that the actress in the film is related to him somehow. It is then that he discovers the actress in the film is none other than his wife Rekha Roy (Rekha). In flashbacks Naresh remembers that Rekha was a small time dancer in Calcutta when he met her for the first time. He got married to her, but she was not happy as she was ambitious and wanted to earn both respect and fame in her career. right from the beginning Rekha makes it clear with Amit (which is his real name) that she wont do housework and is dis-satisfied with his rs 500 a month salary. She wants luxury and status... Amit takes 2 loans on his PF and money from his friends to fund his wives lavish lifestyle and her dancing classes. To the extent that this comes in notice of his boss, who decides to cut 50% of his pay towards his PF loan. Meanwhile Rekha wants to increase the salary of her dance teacher to Rs 100/month. The teacher brings a movie producer, who wants Rekha to perform a cabaret in his next movie. But Amit refuses and Rekha is angry. Then they realize that Rekha is pregnant and she is furious at Amit for destroying her life and her career. Amit's neighbor (Lalita Pawar) stokes the marital discord for her own entertainment. Due to his hard work Amit receives a promotion at work and his PF loan is excused. Mithun is born and is now 4 yrs old. Ranjeet Malik (Prem Chopra) is Amit's US returned friend, whom he introduces to Rekha. Rekha is attracted to Ranjeet's flashy cars and expensive clothes. He offers Rekha a dance performance for charity, which Amit allows. Rekha liked a pearl necklace but it costed rs 1500, so Amit wants to borrow money from Ranjeet to gift the necklace to Rekha on her birthday. But Ranjeet refuses the money to Amit and gifts Rekha the necklace himself. Amit starts to think that something is on between Rekha and Ranjeet. The charity show is a hit and Ranjeet tells Amit that he is getting movie offers for Rekha. Amit gets more and more jealous and Rekha goes to Ranjeet to complain. Ranjeet suggests they all take a vacation in Mumbai and takes them by train. In the train, Ranjeet gets Amit drunk and when Amit again talks about why Ranjeet is being so generous to him and Rekha, Ranjeet pushes him off the train. Amit travels to Calcuuta and finds out that Rekha is now a very successful film actress, having changed her name to Sunita Devi and her manager is none other than Ranjeet. Amit befriends director Mr Sanyal (Utpal Dutt) who tells Amit (who poses as a film financier from Mumbai) that Rekha's first husband committed suicide and that his young son who is now 10 years old has been sent to a boarding school and regains custody of his son. He first makes sure that his son recognizes him, despite the disguise, which he does. He plans on taking revenge against Ranjeet. Amit comes up with a plan to re-enter Rekha and Ranjit's lives by disguising himself as a film producer. He meets with Rekha and Ranjit and offers Rekha the opportunity to act in his new film titled Do Anjaane. Rekha and Ranjit grow suspicious of Naresh Dutt as they start to realize that he bears a striking resemblance to Rekha's supposedly deceased husband Amit Roy and the story line of his film eerily mirrors Rekha's past life. Amit uses his wealth to lure Rekha away from Ranjeet and drive a wedge between the two. Ranjeet and Rekha do their own investigation but only find that Naresh is indeed the sole son of wealthy businessman Sumeet. After shooting one of the scenes, Rekha realizes that Ranjeet had pushed Amit out of the train, and he had not committed suicide as Ranjeet had claimed. Ranjeet threatens Rekha that if he is arrested, she will be too. Ranjeet attacks Amit, but Amit is ready and records his confession and hands him over to the police. Rekha arrives and Amit tells her that he will take away Mithun from her. The next day they both arrive at the boarding school and Mithun decides to go with Amit. In the end, Amit pretended to go back to Mumbai with his son, instead came back to Rekha's home with his parents. It is concluded that he forgave her halfheartedly and they got back together again.

The movie depicts the prejudice against inter-caste marriage and unwed motherhood in India. Julie(Laxmi), an anglo-Indian christian, falls in love with her best friend`s brother (Vikram), a Hindu. While his parents are away, the two lovers give into a weak moment of intimacy, leaving Julie pregnant. Vikram knows nothing about her condition, and leaves for college, promising to marry her once he gets done with his education. When Julie`s conservative mother comes to know of her pregnancy, she considers abortion but later. eliminates the option. She then sends Julie away to her Uncle`s place for 9 months, telling everyone at home that Julie got a job. Post delivery, Julie`s son is put in an orphanage by Julie`s mother and she asks Julie to forget all about the baby. By now, Julie`s father is dead, and she has become the bread earner of the family, Soon, Vikram comes back and hears all about Julie`s condition from her. He asks her to marry him, but the mothers disagree. His father then explains to the mothers how frivolous the prejudices they hold are, and the movie ends on a joyful note.

Raj and Poonam, poor lovers, face struggles. Raj takes job in affluent sphere, causing moral conflicts. They navigate circumstances, family duties, testing relationship and principles amid wealth-poverty divide. Raj(Shashi Kapoor) and Poonam (Sharmila Tagore) are sweethearts cursed with extreme poverty. Raj must provide for his family, and arrange for his sister's marriage. Poonam fights for pennies to nurse her ailing mother, while her father drinks away his earnings. A job offer takes Raj away into a world of wealth and intrigue, but creates a situation where both parties lose their moral compass. —L. Y. Hostrawser

Shankar, an author working at one of the most reputed hotels of Kolkata, meets a wide array of people who go through various tragedies.