Vinod Mehra

The gangs of the city are run by Shiv Saran (Gulshan Grover), Bosco, Girja Shankar (Paresh Rawal), Raghunandan (Roopesh Kumar), Bansidhar (Sharat Saxena) and Girdhar (Mahavir Shah). The heads are worried that somebody is picking off their gang members one by one. Police Inspector Amar (Vinod Khanna) goes on a daring drug bust, ending in the arrest of notorious underworld criminals Bansi and Girdhar. Amar's work goes down the drain as the criminals dodge the law and are set free. The lawyer is able to argue that when Amar apprehended the 2 men, he was not in his police uniform, and he did not declare that he is a police officer before arresting them. The lawyer claims that Bansi and Girdhar had withdrawn cash from the bank earlier that day for payroll and got scared when they saw a plain clothes person chasing them. Barrister Shrikant Sharma (Vinod Mehra) is Amar's well-wisher and advises him to remain calm. Amar says that when the law fails, ordinary citizens are forced to take the law in their own hands. Amar says that one day, one crazy person will kill these criminals who are not punished by the law. On cue, a mysterious vigilante shoots Bansi and Girdhar dead. Amar's senior DSP (Shafi Inamdar) assigns him a desk job and appoints Sub-Inspector Reema Kapoor (Dimple Kapadia) as Amar's assistant. Havaldar (Johnny Lever) also works with Amar at the police station. Reema is a very clumsy person and causes chaos wherever she goes. Amar and Reema fall in love with each other and Amar introduces her to his mother (Sushma Seth) and friend, Nitin (Jackie Shroff). Nitin is a journalist and publishes articles against crime and criminals in the city. Nitin lives with his mother (Seema Deo). Nisha (Sonam) is in love with Nitin. Nisha is the daughter of Shrikant. Shrikant wants Nisha to be an independent woman and does not want her to marry Nitin. He makes Nisha realize that Nitin is not in love with her. Meanwhile, a vigilante wreaks havoc in the city, killing the members of the underworld. When Raghunandan is murdered by the vigilante, Reema is in the building, and she gives chase to the vigilante. The vigilante manages to get away and Reema is met by Amar who happened to be in the neighborhood. Next, the vigilante goes after Bosco and once again manages to escape Reema who had guessed correctly that the vigilante would pursue Bosco. After the vigilante escaped, Reema is met by Amar, who saves her from drowning in the swimming pool. Rita (Huma Khan) was with both Bosco and Raghunandan when they were killed by the vigilante. This leads Shiv Saran to believe that she knew the vigilante and he kills her and throws her body into the ocean. The body is discovered by the police and Amar finds Shiv Saran's neck chain in Rita's hands. Amar arrests Shiv Saran from his casino. Once again, the lawyer argues that the locket could have belonged to anyone, and the confession by Shiv Saran was coerced in custody. Shiv Saran is released from custody. Reema stumbles upon Amar's closet, where she finds a helmet and a jacket worn by the vigilante. She brings the matter to the notice of Amar's superiors. Amar is suspended and charged with multiple homicides. Amar's mother also throws him out of the house. Turns out the DSP was in cahoots with Shiv Saran and Girja Shankar. Nitin comes to console Amar, but both are attacked by Shiv Saran. In the attack, Nitin is seriously injured, and Amar pursues Shiv Saran and corners him at gun point. Reema arrives and stops Amar from shooting Shiv Saran. As they argue, the vigilante arrives and shoots Shiv Saran dead. Before Reema can respond, Amar takes a shot at the vigilante and injures him, but the vigilante manages to get away. The vigilante falls from his bike after a distance, and it is revealed to be Nitin. A van comes with a doctor Abdul Rehman (Anjan Srivastav), picks Nitin and leaves. Girja and DSP discuss how to find the vigilante and decide to orchestrate things in such a way that Amar starts hating the vigilante and that way Amar would be the one hunting the vigilante on their behalf. Reema and Amar get engaged and their engagement is attended by Reema's uncle Judge Kapoor (A. K. Hangal). Kapoor sees Nitin and remembers him as a murderer named Jai Kishan from an earlier case in his career. Kapoor narrates the incident to Amar and Shrikant. Kapoor says that Jai Kishan was on trial for the murder of 5 innocents. Jai Kishan was sentenced to death, but the van carrying him to jail had an accident and he died. That is when a person wearing the same clothes as a vigilante attacks the engagement party. In the attack Amar's mother and Reema's uncle Judge Kapoor are both killed. When the attack took place, Nitin was out of the party venue to run an errand. The man pretending to be the vigilante is Girja himself. Girja attacks many other innocent people and in one instance Reema sees the mark on his hand. Amar now starts to doubt Nitin and confronts him at his home. Nitin accepts that he has killed 11 such people who were not punished by law but says that he did not kill Amar's mother or Reema's uncle as they were killed by the person who wanted to defame the vigilante. Nitin claims that he is not alone, and many people like him have played the role as well. Nitin takes Amar to an underground society which is headed by Shrikant. Before Amar could arrest them, DSP arrives at the location and arrests Amar along with the other terrorists, including Nitin. The matter goes to court where Shrikant argues that killing people who were already murderers and criminals is not against the law. These were people who had escaped punishment due to the loopholes in law and all they did was to provide justice to their victims. Jai Kishan says that he was friends with Nitin, who had died due to a drugs overdose. The drugs business in the city was run by Bosco and his associates. At court, Reema sees the mark on Girja's hand and identifies him as the person who killed the innocent people, pretending to be the vigilante. The DSP abducts Reema but is seen by Nisha. Nisha informs Shrikant, Jai Kishan and Amar about how Girja is the real killer and how DSP abducted Reema. Amar and Jai Kishan escaped police custody at the court and went after Girja and DSP. In the fight, Girja turns on the DSP and shoots him. The DSP has a change of heart and asks Amar to take him to court, where he gives testimony against Girja. Girja apprehends Amar and Jai Kishan and takes them to court as escaped convicts. But Amar had anticipated this and hidden Reema and the DSP. Reema brings DSP to court, who identifies Girja as the real killer. Girja tries to escape, but is killed by Amar and Jai Kishan.

A man named Satpal is released from prison after completing a life sentence. He decides to find his family as he knows that they believe he is dead. After searching everywhere, Satpal reaches the dance house of courtesan Meena Bai. Satpal has a conversation with Meena in secret and then dies on her bed. Meena then collects all her savings and jewels and packs them in a suitcase and sets fire to her dance house. Shankar Verma (Mithun Chakraborty) lives a poor lifestyle with his mother, Shanti (Tanuja), after his father, Satpal Verma (Vinod Mehra) died many years ago. Before his death he was involved with a courtesan by the name of Meena Bai (Rekha). Shankar stands up for the rights of the poor people in the slum colony against the rich, who try to corner their resources. Shankar studies in college where he comes into constant conflict with rich brat Balram, who is extremely insensitive towards the poor. Now, Shankar finds himself the object of affection of two beautiful women, Sunita (Moon Moon Sen), a wealthy girl of Thakur Bhanupratap Singh (Amrit Pal), and Madhu (Mandakini), a poor girl and lives with her parents, Hariya (Sharat Saxena) and Tara (Ila Arun). Sunita and Shankar are always bickering at campus. Both women think that Shankar is in love with them. Shankar is subsequently hired by a wealthy woman named Amita (Rekha) who wants him to spy on Thakur Bhanupratap, his son Jackie (Tej Sapru) & his partner Kedar (Roopesh Kumar) & Kedar's son Balram (Gulshan Grover). Shankar is hesitant to take on such an assignment, but his abject poverty and the responsibility of his sister's wedding forces him to reconsider Amita's offer. Additionally, Shanti has asthma and requires proper medical attention. When Shanti comes to know that Shankar is going to Taragarh she gets very afraid. She reveals how Bhanu was demanding interest money from the farmers at every harvest. When Satpal resisted, he was supported by Bhanu's younger brother Shashi. Shashi donates his land holdings back to the farmers. Bhanu gets Kedar to draft up an agreement with Satpal, which is fair to the villagers. But then Shashi comes to Satpal's home and finds that the agreement signed by the villagers was not what Satpal had indicated, and he had sold the interests of the villagers to Bhanu. Shashi goes to confront Satpal and Shanti only learns that Satpal killed Shashi and that the villagers killed Satpal. Kedar asks Shanti to run away with her son. Shankar manages to become a driver in Thakur Bhanupratap household and goes about this task of spying and keeps reporting his findings to Amita regularly. Turns out Sunita is Bhanu's daughter and Madhu's father Hariya is Bhanu's henchman. Sunita goes out of her way to torture Shankar. Sunita likes Shankar's guts that he would not back down in front of anyone and would fight for his rights and his dignity. Shankar saves Sunita's life and Bhanu wanted to pay him, but Shankar only wanted a note of thanks. This enrages Bhanu that Shankar wants to be treated as an equal, but Shankar stands his ground. While Madhu likes Shankar as he is poor like her and kind and compassionate. Shankar also likes Madhu and falls in love with her. Sunita comes by and professes her love to Shankar, but Shankar thinks she is talking about Madhu and agrees with her. Sunita believes that Shankar also loves her. Sunita is ecstatic and tells Madhu that she loves Shankar and Madhu is shocked. Madhu knows she has to antagonize Shankar and she performs a seductive dance in front of Kedar and Bhanu. As a result, Shankar is disillusioned and walks away. Sunita finds out that Madhu sacrificed her own love for Shankar, so Sunita could have a life with him. Through Shankar, Amita finds out that Kedar lives in Bangalore. Amita goes in front of Kedar and looking at her he has a heart attack. When Bhanu comes to meet him in hospital, Kedar tells him that Amita is alive. Bhanu smirks as he had asked Hariya to shoot Amita and he confirms that he did so. Meanwhile Amita poses as a rich heiress to Jackie and Balram in their casino. She lures Balram to come with her and pretends to buy Rs 20 Lakhs of drugs which she pretends to sell to Shankar for 40 Lakhs, disguised as a foreign buyer, Michael. Michael says that he has Rs 80 Lakhs more and asks for 2 more consignment of the drugs, but Amita is not interested. Balram and Jackie are now hooked at the prospect of a Rs 40 Lakhs profit in the deal. They buy 2 more consignments for Rs 40 Lakhs, taking the money from Kedar's safe, but the consignment turns out to be cow dung. Amita then calls Kedar and laughs at him that she took her share of Rs 40 Lakhs from him eventually. Bhanu is perplexed about how this woman could claim to be Amita. One day while talking to villagers, Shankar finds out that his father had a bad reputation and had not only betrayed the villagers, but had also killed Thakur Bhanupratap's younger brother, Shashipratap (Jeetendra). He also learns that Satpal had relations with another woman. His inquiries take him to Central Jail, but on arrival, he is told by the jail superintendent that his father had finished serving his life sentence & was released & after his release had died just 6 months ago at the Brothel of Meena Bai. This was a surprise to Shankar as he & his mother Shanti had been under the impression that his father Satpal Verma had died much earlier many years ago. Shankar then sets out to find out the whereabouts of Meena Bai, but her brothel had caught fire & was destroyed and now no one knows her whereabouts. Meanwhile Amita visits Kedar while he is alone and kills him. Little does Shankar know that Meena Bai is still alive in the shape and form of none other than Amita and is using Shankar as a tool to extract vengeance against Thakur Bhanupratap. This was confirmed to Shankar by his mother Shanti and Shankar confronts Amita. Amita says that Satpal used to consider her as his sister. She says that she and Shashi used to love each other as kids. But then Shashi went abroad for his studies and Bhanu killed her father for not paying land taxes. Amita became a dancer named Meena. One day, Shashi returned and became an alcoholic when he didn't find Amita. He goes to Meena's dance house and realizes that Meena is Amita. Amita gets pregnant in time with Shashi's child. Bhanu tricks Satpal and makes a separate agreement for him versus the rest of the villagers. The villagers consider this as Satpal's fraud and complain to Shashi. Shashi was killed by Bhanu's henchmen, but the villagers believe Satpal killed him. Meanwhile, Bhanu asks Hariya to kill Amita, while Tara says that Amita's child was stillborn. Hariya doesn't kill Amita and returns her to the dance house. One day, Satpal returned to the dance house and revealed that he did not kill Shashi. This was a conspiracy by Bhanu and Kedar. Tara reveals to Hariya that Madhu is actually Shashi's daughter. Bhanu finds the truth and shoots Hariya and Tara. Shankar intervenes and tries to save Hariya and Tara, as he takes them away in a van with Bhanu as his hostage. They are pursued by Jackie, Balram and their goons. Bhanu escapes from the van. Shankar brings them to the village, where Hariya reveals that Madhu is Shashi's daughter. Bhanu and his men attack the village. The villagers support Shankar and come out to fight. Shankar fights Bhanu and defeats him. Bhanu is forced to return the fraud documents of all villagers. Bhanu then gets a gun and shoots Amita, and is shot dead by Shankar. Shankar marries Madhu.

Vijay Kumar, a forest officer returns to the forest where his dad met an untimely end. Will his secret plan to snare poachers succeed? Sandalwood, ivory,animal hides and raw power is at the nexus of money and corruption. Forest officer, Vijay Rai, is sent down by the Central government to Madavan jungles, and is tasked with combating poachers and smugglers. His commitment to his job leads him to expose the criminal activities of Dhanpat Rai - who in reality is Diwan Singh and may be responsible for killing his dad as well as separating him from his brother, Ajay - now known as Dushyant and is an equal partner in Dhanpat's criminal empire. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Journalist Naresh is hired to probe illegal activities on an island. When he's captured, a fellow prisoner gives him a ring with magic powers. Naresh Kumar Saxena lives with his widowed mom and sister, Seema. He works as a freelance photographer and journalist. One day he meets with Mala Mehta and her dad, who is the Editor of a Newspaper. Mr. Mehta hires Naresh and assigns him to go to a remote island to investigate and expose some illegal activities there. Naresh goes there in the company of his friend, Shyam. Unfortunately, Naresh is caught by the island guards and lodged in a cell along with two others, one a scientist and Ram Singh, a hoodlum. The scientist confides in Naresh that he has invented an atomic ring that when inserted in someone's mouth will turn that person invisible, and subsequently passes away. Naresh puts the ring in his mouth, takes off his clothes, turns invisible and escapes. The news of his escape creates waves in the underworld and the Boss and Mr. Verma join forces to find Naresh, kill him, and keep the ring for themselves. Naresh and Shyam must now find ways to stay alive as well as take the ring to the authorities - that is if the Boss and Mr. Verma let them live long enough. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A family goes to Fatehpur Sikri for a picnic. There they encounter an old man, who says that every stone of the fort is steeped in a story written with blood. The old man asks the family to see Lal Patthar, the red stone, which the family retorts is not on the guidebook. The old man says that the guidebooks don't reveal the history of the fort. The old man is paranoid and sees blood even in a glass of plain water. The old man narrates the story of Rai Nagar. The first ruler of Rai Nagar Raja Raghav Shankar Rai (Ajit) was a bandit. Raghav sexually assaulted a peasant woman named Sonmai during one of his village raids, and made her his wife. Sonmai cursed the entire family with insanity. Now in the 7th generation, Gyan Shankar is the only male heir of the house. His grandfather is Raja Ram Shankar Rai (D. K. Sapru) and is mentally unstable. As a kid, Gyan stopped his drunk father Anand Shankar from sexually assaulting a maid in their palace. Gyan Shankar was sent to his uncle in Allahabad, where he studied history and psychology. Gyan returned home with Chhotu (Paintal), his servant. To become the ruler, Gyan has to marry, but he has decided not to, as he fears that he will ruin a woman's life due to Sonmai's curse. Raja Gyan Shankar Rai (Raaj Kumar) is also known as Kumar Bahadur. He goes to the jungle to hunt a man-eating tiger. After killing the tiger, Gyan manages to fight off a group of bandits that were carrying a palanquin. The bandits escape and Gyan finds a woman named Saudamani (Hema Malini) inside the Palanquin. Gyan brings Saudamani home and is smitten with her beauty. Gyan finds that Saudamani is the widow of Gokul from a nearby village, which was plundered by bandits a few days ago. Gyan sends Saudamani back, but Gokul's mother (Leela Mishra) declares her unchaste and refuses to let her back into the house. Gokul's mother is scared by the guns of Gyan's guards and is forced to accept Saudamani. Back at the palace, Gyan starts to drink. Gyan finds that Saudamani is being tortured in her own home and brings her back to his palace. Calling her Madhuri, he invites the lower-class woman to his rich home and eventually has sex with her. But Gyan refuses to marry Madhuri. Still, Madhuri has full control over the house and has Gyan wrapped around her fingers. Gyan also educates Madhuri. Initially, Gyan is enamored with Madhuri, but with time he realizes that Madhuri cannot be trained (in singing) or educated. She has a middle class thinking, limited ambition and a negative mindset. He starts getting disgusted with Madhuri. Soon, 10 years have passed and Gyan is no longer a young man. Gyan runs away from his palace, and comes across a singing function, where he meets a much younger woman, Sumita (Raakhee). Gyan finds that Sumita's father Harishchandra Chakraborty is a gambler and in heavy debts. Gyan organizes a financial deal with her father and marries her. Sumita's mother Madhu (Dulari) was vehemently against the marriage but was overruled by Harish. Sumita had a childhood sweetheart, Shekhar (Vinod Mehra), and was coming to India from London, to marry her. But before he got there, Harish married off Sumita to Gyan for money. It is clear that Madhuri is not happy with Gyan marrying Sumita. Due to her anger, Gyan does not consummate his marriage to Sumita. Sumita tells Shekhar that she was forced to marry Gyan, as Harish was beating Madhu relentlessly. Gyan finds out that Sumita was friends with Shekhar before her marriage. Shekhar was also the one who taught music to Sumita. Gyan befriends Shekhar and invites him to the palace for their music sessions. Madhuri is quick to figure out that Shekhar and Sumita were lovers before Sumita got married to Gyan. Madhuri starts poisoning Gyan's mind that Shekhar and Sumita might have been close to getting married before he came into Sumita's life. Madhuri then invites Shekhar to the palace, while Gyan is away, and escorts him to Sumita's room, assuring him that these are Gyan's orders. Meanwhile, Gyan tries to balance both Sumit and Madhuri, and disappointing both in the process. Gyan knows that Madhuri is jealous of Sumita, but Madhuri continues to play the theme that Sumita is cheating on Gyan with Sekhar and drives Gyan insane. One day Gyan returns home while Shekhar was with Sumita in her room. Shekhar was only consoling Sumita to give more time to her marriage and things would get better, but Gyan misunderstands and believes that Shekhar was plotting against him with Sumita. But then Gyan sees Madhuri trying to seduce Sekhar and realizes that Madhuri has gone blind with rage. He asks Madhuri to leave the palace and scars her face with a whip. Gyan takes Sumita with him to Agra. He finds Sumita wishing at the grave of Maulana Salim Chisti, and believes that she is wishing for Shekhar, while she was wishing for a child. Gyan writes to Sekhar and asks him to come to Agra. Once Sekhar arrives, Gyan says that he is not feeling well and sends Sekhar and Sumita to see the Taj Mahal. He then follows them and spies on them. Gyan hears only parts of their conversation and is convinced that Sekhar and Sumita still love each other. Gyan invites Sekhar to view the fort of Fatehpur Sikri with him on full moon night. Gyan puts on an act, which convinces Sekhar that the ghosts of the fort are real. Gyan even fires 2 blanks at a person who was paid to act as a ghost. But then Gyan changed the blanks to real bullets in the rifle, as the next female ghost comes along. Gyan gives the gun to Sekhar, who fires at the ghost, and it turns out to be Sumita, whom Gyan had also invited to the fort that night to complete the act. Before dying, Sumita tells Gyan that she only wished to be the mother of his children. Gyan loses his mental balance. Gyan wants to kill himself, but Sekhar stops him and wrestles with Gyan for the gun. In the chaos, Gyan shoots Shekhar, and he dies as well. The curse of Sonmai is completed. Gyan wanders the fort waiting for Sumita's ghost on every full moon night. But it is revealed that Madhuri is alive and she is the one who plays the role of Sumita to give solace to Gyan.