Raqeeb (2007)
Director: Anurag Singh
Release Date: 18 May 2007 (India)
Stroryline: Siddharth Verma lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai, India, along with his near-comatose mom. He works as a Legal Advisor with Jain Software which is owned by his friend, Remo Matthews. Remo is single and eligible but is not seeing anyone as he has relationship problems ever since his parents passed away in a car accident several years ago on July 25. Siddharth sets him up with one of his Internet chat buddies, Sophie, they meet, fall in love and get married. Shortly after their marriage, Siddharth throws a party and invites them both, but Remo is unwell and unable to attend. Sophie attends and after the party is over she confides in him that before her marriage, she was in love with an aspiring Bollywood actor, Sunny Khanna, but their relationship did not last long. Now Sunny is back in her life and she fears for Remo’s life. Siddharth and Sophie return to her home only to find Remo’s lifeless body as he has been shot dead. An employee of Remo’s, Sharma, witnessed a man running away from the crime-scene, through him they identify the assailant as Sunny. When Sunny goes to meet Sophie, Siddharth entraps him, leading to a physical confrontation which results in Sunny being arrested by CBI Inspector Pradhan. With Sunny behind bars Sophie decides to re-locate to an undisclosed location with over 500 Crore Rupees, little knowing that Siddharth has doubts about her and may follow her to find out what the real motive was behind Remo’s death.
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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Director: Aditya Chopra
Release Date: 12 December 2008 (USA)
Stroryline: SHAHRUKH is married to ANUSHKA but there is a huge age gap between them. There is no real romance in the marriage. Then, a dance reality show called “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” airs and ANUSHKA wants to participate but can’t because her husband is not hip and happening, she has a fear of losing and she also fears that her friends will laugh at her. SHAHRUKH overhears this problem and decides to go in for a makeover. He watches some movies and learns to dance in order to woo his young wife. Throughout the show ANUSHKA keeps falling in love to with this ‘new and improved’ SHAHRUKH KHAN without once realizing that he’s her husband. In the end, a justified title “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”
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Gumnaam (2008)
Director: Neeraj Pathak
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Stroryline: Gumnaam – The Mystery is the story of an aspiring actress Ria (Mahima Chaudhary) who models / acts in music videos but has her eyes set on making it big in films as a lead actress. During one of her shoots, she happens to meet Dev (Dino Morea) a stuntman by profession, who saves her life during an accident on the set. She’s impressed with him, soon love blossoms between them and they are on a romantic high. Meanwhile Ria is offered a lead actress’ role in a film by casting director Rishi Gandhi (Madan) but the condition is that she has to leave for Shimla the very next day. Dev is very happy about her getting the role in the film and sees her off, wishing all the luck. On reaching Shimla, she is introduced to the film’s director Muni Gandhi (Govind Namdeo) who also praises her beauty and appreciates his assistant’s perfect choice of casting her as the heroine.
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Criminal (1995)
Director: Mahesh Bhatt
Release Date: 21 July 1995 (India)
Stroryline: After witnessing the unfortunate death of a woman, who was unable to afford hospital treatment, Dr. Ajay Kumar cancels his U.S. immigration and instead sets out to work a plan to open a hospital that will be accessible to people who cannot afford treatment in regular hospitals, called “Amma People’s Hospital”. This draws quite an attention, and he becomes popular, especially with two young women, Shweta and Sub-Inspector Ramya. He falls in love with Shweta and both get married, breaking Ramya’s heart in the process. Shortly thereafter Shweta gets pregnant, much to their delight. Then one night, Ramya gets a distress call from Shweta, who calls the police for help as she is being attacked, and names the attacker as “Ajay”. The police arrive to find her dead body and arrest Ajay for murder. It seems that Ajay’s motive for killing Shweta was for money, as Shweta is a wealthy heiress. Ajay is convicted and sentenced to death. While being transported to prison, the police van meets with an accident and Ajay escapes. The police launch a manhunt for him, but are unable to catch him. Ajay secrets meets with Ramya and tells her that he did not kill Shweta, and he wants her help to catch the real killer. Will Ramya believe him, or is he just making up a story to justify his escape from facing the death penalty?
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Sarkar Raj (2008)
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Release Date: 6 June 2008 (UK)
Stroryline: When Anita Rajan, CEO of Sheppard power plant, an international Company, brings a power plant proposal to set up in rural Maharashtra before the Nagres, insightful Shankar is quick to realize the benefits the power plant can bring to the people. After convincing Sarkar who is against it for various reasons, Shankar undertakes a journey along with Anita to the villages of Maharashtra to mobilize support from the masses. However, things are not what they seem to be and Shankar’s dream project gradually becomes a political minefield. It is in this backdrop the evil forces mightier than ever, mushroom and gang up to bring down the regime of Sarkar and obliterate Shankar’s name from the political horizon.
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Aamir (2008)
Director: Raj Kumar Gupta
Release Date: 6 June 2008 (India)
Stroryline: Dr Aamir Ali (Rajeev Khandelwal) a London based NRI is returning to India. On his arrival at Mumbai airport, he finds that he is not being attended by his family but by Trouble.. The trouble comes in the form of a mobile phone he is forced to accept by two unknown bikers. After a series of forced conversations with an unknown face, he comes to know that his family is in captivity of the callers and he has been the “chosen one” by the fundamentalists to plant a bomb in a bus. He has five hours to save his family. Aamir (the name means “Commander”) is reduced to be a puppet in the hands of terrorists.. Next five hours, minute after minute, instructions after instructions, Aamir comes to terms with life and signifies the meaning of “Aamir”
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Baazigar (1993)
Director: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla
Release Date: 12 November 1993 (India)
Stroryline: Vishwanath Sharma is the owner of a well-spacious estate within his community. A widower named Madan Chopra along with his two daughters, Priya and Seema appears at his door for shelter. Seeing there plight Vishwanath pitys them and offers them a room in his household. Soon Madan begins to work with Vishwanath. Vishwanath had to leave for some business opportunity abroad and so entrust his business and property to Madan to take care of. But on his return from abroad he learns that Madan had seized his business empire leaving there family penniless and he and his family is soon thrown on the streets which resulted in his own death and his small daughter’s death. His wife is left in a state of shock. Years later Vishwanath son grows up to be Ajay Sharma but assumes the identity of Vicky Malhotra and befriends Chopra on a race track. Soon Chopra’s two daughters falls deeply in love with Ajay but he has no love for either in his heart and will stop at nothing but the downfall of the entire Chopra family.
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