The Jabalpur-based Chand family consists of widower Lal and two sons, the elder is married, while the younger, Vijay, is a little bit eccentric, refuses to get married and gets to be a thorn in his father’s side so much so that he is asked to leave. Not having enough money to travel by train to Bombay, Vijay dons the garb of a 12-year old, and with a help of a mysterious...

ChaalBaaz is a 1989 Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar, starring Sridevi, Sunny Deol, Rajnikanth and Anupam Kher. The music was given by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and was a huge success specially the song “Kisi Ke Haath Na Aayegi Yeh ladki”. Anju and Manju are twins separated when babies thanks to their mentally retarded nanny. An evil uncle Tribhuvan gets...

Shaan is a 1980 Indian Hindi film. It is director Ramesh Sippy’s 2nd film with Amitabh Bachchan after Sholay. The story was written by Salim-Javed.Expectations were high as this was the film that was to have expected to match the success of Ramesh Sippy’s previous blockbuster film Sholay. It didn’t match the success of Sholay but still managed to have...

Chamatkar is a Hindi movie which was directed by Rajiv Mehra and released in India in 1992.Sunder Srivastava (Shahrukh Khan) is a young graduate whose main ambition in life is to fulfill his father’s dream of starting a school on his half-acre property in his village, though he has no funds to execute his plans.Sunder’s childhood friend Prem, a seasoned conman...

Saajan Chale Sasural is a 1996 Bollywood comedy starring Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu, Kader Khan and Satish Kaushik. The film was directed by David Dhawan. It is based on the Rajinikanth starrer 1994 Tamil film Veera. a french dubbing parody of this movie called New Délire was released in 2007. Naive villager Shyamsunder, who sings, comes to Bombay to try his luck with...

Lala Kedarnath (Balraj Sahni) has 3 sons whose birthdays are on the same day. On one of the annual birthday bashes, a well-known astrologer predicts harsh times ahead for Kedarnath. Lala Kedarnath ignores the prediction and is busy making plans for an even wealthier future when an earthquake reduces his town and wealth to rubble. He proclaims to his wife (Achala Sachdev)...

Do Anjaane is a 1976 Hindi film. Produced by Tito, it is directed by Dulal Guha. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Prem Chopra, Pradeep Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Lalita Pawar and a young pre-stardom Mithun Chakraborty. The music is by Kalyanji Anandji. The film became a hit at the box office. Calcutta based Amit Roy witnesses a dance artiste by the name of Rekha, and is...

Fiza is a 2000 Indian film written and directed by Khalid Mohammed. The film stars Karisma Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and Jaya Bachchan. Although the film failed at the box office, it was well acclaimed by critics. Originally Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan were supposed to have cameo appearances, but their scenes were removed due to considerations about the length of the...

Rang De Basanti is a 2006 Indian drama film written and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. It features an ensemble cast comprising Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and British actress Alice Patten in the lead roles. Made on a budget of Rs. 250 million (US$5.5 million), the filming was shot in and around...

Border is a 1997 blockbuster Bollywood war film based on the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. J. P. Dutta directed and produced this war epic which stars Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Sunil Shetty, Akshay Khanna, Pooja Bhatt, Sharbani Mukherjee and Tabu.Director J.P. Dutta won Best Director at the same award function, while his father O.P. Dutta won for Best Dialogues.The movie...