Vishal Bhardwaj

About the movie What fate awaits a stone-hearted gangster, a bloodthirsty womaniser, when true love claims him, helpless and unguarded- a gang war that shakes the entire underworld and crime syndicate to their very roots. A forbidden love, the tale of an unrequited passion.

Crazxy is an emotionally charged edge-of-the-seat thriller about a father`s redemption.

When the disappearance of a policewoman`s son threatens to ruin Vijay`s family, he leaves no stone unturned in order to shield his family.

1890s: India under the British Raj. After repeating the same class eight times, Shivi is expelled from his school. Enjoying his newly attained freedom, he bumps into Sitara and here strikes cupid! Sensuality personified, Sitara is a local diva. Fed up with Shivi`s rebellious and carefree ways, his father shows him the door and reality dawns hard on Sitara. Fearing that she will bring shame and disgrace to Shivi, she decides to leave the city. Dejected and distraught, Shivi slips into a life of sin and debauchery. Shastry - an eccentric yet genius scientist and Vedic scholar enters Shivi`s life. He inspires Shivi to take control of himself and shares with Shivi, his dream of doing the impossible... of making the world`s first aircraft, an interpretation of freedom. A failed lover, a diva, an old man`s dream and an impossible machine. Will Shivi ever be able to live up to his guru`s dream? Will the Hawaizaada ever touch the sky?

Haider is Vishal Bhardwaj`s adaptation of William Shakespeare`s Hamlet. It follows Haider, a young man who returns home to Kashmir on receiving news of his father`s disappearance. Not only does he learn that the security forces have detained his father for harboring militants, but that his mother is in a relationship with his very own uncle. Intense drama follows between mother and son, as both struggle to come to terms with the news of his father`s death. Soon, Haider learns that his uncle is responsible for the gruesome murder and he sets out to avenge his father`s death.

Khalujan and Babban seek refuge as they run from the law. Khalujan tries to woo a wealthy widow with poetry while Babban and the widow`s assistant plan a kidnapping.

Bobo is India`s leading magician. But unknown to even his girlfriend, Tamara, Bobos life is falling apart. His constant hallucinations leave him with no option but to seek psychiatric help. Going through regression hypnosis, a terrifying story about his childhood surfaces involving a sinister, power called Daayan who has not only destroyed his family but also promised to return to haunt Bobo. He chooses to ignore it and move on with his life. Just when his career and love life are at full throttle, enters the irresistible Lisa Dutt. Bobo is convinced that she is the `daayan`. But is she really? Or is he just losing his mind?

While on the run, Khalujaan and Babban go to a friend`s house but meet Krishna, his widow. They both fall for her, oblivious to the fact that she is using them for her own gain.

A story about identical twins, in their early twenties, hoping to leave the squalor behind and move into a life of prosperity and dignity. But the similarity ends here. Inter cut between are the parallel stories of the brothers as they run to protect themselves, their dreams and their loves. Until a point where it converges and the brothers meet to realize that they only have each other.

This is the love story of Ajay (Ajay Devgan) and Pia (Kajol). They meet at a cruise fall and love and marry, only to later realize that Pia is suffering from Alzheimer. Whether the couple deals with Pia`s diminishing memory or give in to the disease, forms the crux of the story.

K is addicted to smoking and is just not ready to give up the habit. But when his wife, Anjali, walks out on him, he makes an effort to meet Baba Bengali. This mysterious character runs a centre for rehab from all sorts of addictions. K and Baba make an agreement. Only, K cannot break the agreement once its been decided on. A desperate K throws caution to the winds and tries smoking in his car. But the moment he lights a cigarette, the car blows up, with him in it. He understands that he cannot escape the Baba till he fulfils his side of the agreement. What happens now? Does K ever quit smoking? Does Anjali get back to him? What`s the contract all about?

A man, who has been married for 27 years, falls in love with his 18-year-old daughter's friend. Vijay lives a wealthy lifestyle in India along with his wife, Amrita, to who he has been married to for 27 years, and a daughter, Ritu, who is now 18 years of age. The family has a vast estate, where Vijay likes to trek around indulging in his sole passion - photography. Amrita, who was an accomplished Kuchipudi dancer, she even won two gold medals, gave up her passion to look after the family. This holiday, Ritu brought along a friend, Jia, to this household. Jia, quite childish, now lives with her divorcée mom in Brisbane, Australia, resents her lifestyle, especially after her mom started living with another man. When Rita sprains her ankle, both Vijay and Jia are thrown into each other's company. Amrita notices that Vijay suddenly starts singing to himself, then bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter. Then all of a sudden, Ritu asks Jia to leave the household, but is prevented by Vijay. Things spiral out of control when Amrita's brother, Shridhar, arrives for a short visit, and finds out that Vijay and Jia have pledged their love for each other. Watch the impact this news has on Amrita. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

A Hindi adaptation of Shakespeare`s play Othello, the story revolves around a local gangster, Omkara (Ajay Devgn), along with his chiefs - Ishwar `Langda` Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) and Keshav `Kesu Firangi` Upadhyay (Vivek Oberoi), works for the local politician Tiwari Bhaisaab. Langda aspires to become Omkara`s successor, but he chooses Kesu instead. Langda feels betrayed and plans a revenge.

Prakash`s wealthy father-in-law hates him. To earn his approval, Prakash plans a fake kidnapping and rescue of his wife, but things go wrong and fake becomes real.

Panna is the only daughter of politician Maltidevi. Panna is very critical of her mother, when she decides to separate from her dad, and asked Chief Minister Sawantrao Gadre to move in with them, for political reasons. Sawantrao has been using Maltidevi to win his election, which he does. Malti avenges this humiliation, wins the next election, and has Sawantrao killed. Malti then becomes the new Chief Minister. The main thorns on her side are Bhau, the leader of the downtrodden lower caste dalits, and her very daughter, who is very friendly with Bhau. One day Panna is abducted by Aditya and his group of revolutionaries, and held by them. It is there that Panna learns about the atrocities committed by her mom in the name of politics, and it is then she must decide whether to be loyal to her mom, or take the side of Aditya and the revolutionaries. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Set during the Sikh insurgency in 1980s Punjab, Maachis follows a common man whose life changes when he is falsely accused and arrested, spurring him on to become a gangster.

Parmino is a small village in Central India, headed by a Village Committee comprising of all males. When the Government of India notifies the Committee that a third of them must be women, including people in schedules caste and tribes, the Sarpanch, Ratan Singh, decides to let women run for the election as well have seats in the Panchayat. After the meeting gets over, he asks his son, Inder, to get Manju, his wife, to sign the nomination papers. Also asked are the wife of another Panchayat member, as well as Vidya, the newly marred bride of a poor store owner, Bhanwar, who is indebted to Inder and Ratan Singh. In this way, Ratan and Inder hope to control the women through their respective husbands, and rule over the Panchayat as they have done before. They are in for a surprise when Vidya turns the tables on them, asking them to account where the funds for the partially built school were misappropriated as well having the rest of the village attend Gram Panchayat meetings and voice their concerns and grievances. Watch what happens when Ratan and Inder decide to use their influence in the community as well as over Bhanwar to throttle Vidya's voice. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)