Vineet Kumar

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: A low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small town.

A heart-warming story told with brilliant use of comic timing. Come with us on a journey of friendship, warmth, generosity and a lot of naughtiness! Five irrepressible and naughty club members (Raghubir Yadav, Satish Shah, Tinu Anand, Sharat Saxena and Vineet Kumar), whose lives revolve around a tennis court of Club 60, inspire a couple under depression to come out of it and fall back in love with life again!

City of Gold - the story of long-forgotten masses (cotton mill workers), not only explores the apathy of these mill workers narrated through the story of one such family, but is also a take-no-prisoners account of the birth of the true underbelly of organised crime in Mumbai. The film traces the birth of the politics of greed in Mumbai and exposes the unholy collusion between the triumvirate of big business, the political establishment and the trade union leaders who ostensibly were charged with protecting the rights of the mill workers. In the two decades that followed, the entire landscape of Central Mumbai was changed forever.

Lalbaug Parel - the story of long-forgotten masses (cotton mill workers), not only explores the apathy of these mill workers narrated through the story of one such family, but is also a take-no-prisoners account of the birth of the true underbelly of organised crime in Mumbai. The film traces the birth of the politics of greed in Mumbai and exposes the unholy collusion between the triumvirate of big business, the political establishment and the trade union leaders who ostensibly were charged with protecting the rights of the mill workers. In the two decades that followed, the entire landscape of Central Mumbai was changed forever.

Sathibabu, who resembles Rathore, not only adopts his daughter after his death but even takes his place as a police officer. Will he succeed?

When an imminent drought threatens to ruin their crop, Rambhi and her husband Veeru move from their village to the city. Through threat, violence and blackmail, Veeru makes a career as a kind of mafia don in the corrupt political system, but it turns out he is no more than a puppet of an influential lawyer who has him killed when Veeru decides not to kill any more. The lawyer thinks he can turn Rambhi into yet another puppet of his plans, but she strikes back, taking revenge for her husband's murder and fighting the corrupt political system until she becomes a veritable mafia Godmother herself. —Horst Prillinger <hprill@excite.com> Leaving the harsh and unrelenting drought-like conditions in her village, Veeram and his family travel to the big city to lead a better life. Veeram gets involved in a crime syndicate, and eventually becomes the leader. When he is assassinated, his wife Rambhi takes on the responsibility of the leadership with such a ruthlessness as never seen before, and it is not before long that she reigns unchallenged. Until one day she dared to get a Hindu girl and Muslim boy get married in her community is when she starts to notice her world collapsing all around her, and she has to use every ounce of strength and experience she has gained in her lifetime to overcome this challenge. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)