There is one thing that has eluded Junior Engineer Pramod Gupta all through his life: contentment. For a long while, he thought money could buy it, but even after amassing a fortune through corruption, he couldn't the find peace of mind he sought. So, he decides to leave his job and become a poet, but that doesn't work out either. As he grows more and more desperate, Pramod Gupta tries every trick in the book to find contentment, but to no avail. What he doesn't realise is that the answer to his quest is not as elusive as he assumes it to be.
Trapped between her cowardly husband and regular harassment by a local authority, Laila, a nomadic shepherdess, decides to break out of her old identity and chart a new path.
A pair of bodyguards for a politician find their positions under threat when their employer is implicated in a scandal. Fleeing to Mumbai they find work with a gangster, but also find that the police are onto them.
A chronic illness leaves Ishwar with only a few months to live. His son Aditya is extremely reckless. To make him realise his responsibilities, Ishwar throws his son out of the house.
A retired judge is brutally shot and with his murderer still at large, his visually impaired neighbor becomes a prime suspect.
One of a four-film series on the AIDS epidemic in India, this film examines the virus as Indian society's great class leveler, following its transmission through interweaving stories that link urban and rural India.
In between his more ambitious Najma (1943) and Humayun (1945), Mehboob made this lightweight comedy about Justice Gangaprasad (Chandramohan) and theatre-owner Seth Badriprasad (Charlie) who lose their daughter and son respectively in the Kumbh Mela.
Nazia is a simple girl from a village close to the borderlines who gets married to Nabeel, the grandson of Nooran from across the border. Nazia's happiness is quashed when a war starts between the two nations. Will Nazia be reunited with her love?
Set in Mumbai, Nayantara's Necklace explores the friendship between Alka and her new Dubai-returned neighbour Nayantara. As their friendship grows, Alka finds herself wanting to be more like Nayantara. But what Alka doesn't know is the price that she might have to pay for this obsession of hers.
Five people - two Indian journalists, an American journalist, an Afghan guide and a Pakistani soldier who takes them all hostage - are taken on a 48-hour journey into Afghanistan in a jeep called the Kabul Express, a special and unlikely bond developing between them along the way.
Separated from their wealthy father and each other, two brothers try to win the hearts of their dream girls.
DSP Shiv Kumar returns home to his wife Sheetal and their young daughter and announces that he has been transferred to Bombay. Shiv Kumar has two brothers, Vijay and Ravi, who live in Mumbai. They are intelligent and capable guys, but spend their time loafing about the city and swindling unsuspecting people.
Bhura and Jwala are arch rivals vying for each others blood. In a fierce altercation Bhura kills Jwala. Jwala's daughter Jamuna swears to take vengeance and kill Bhura and his daughter Ganga. Will Jamuna keep her promise and end the lives of Bhura and Ganga? Or will Bhura and his daughter Ganga manage to maintain their supremacy by eliminating Jamuna?
In the slums of Ahmedabad, a working-class Muslim family go about their quotidian routines. For mother Raziya, the days revolve around chores and childcare. Her son Faiz chases chickens in the street, while her daughter Ruba plays quietly indoors. Meanwhile, her unemployed husband Razzak is determined to alter the family’s fate by purchasing an autorickshaw to secure financial autonomy.
A Pindari Prince goes to England to study military tactics so that he can avenge his people, but while there, he falls in love.
The residents of Malegaon look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from daily drudgery. Amateur filmmaker Nasir Shaikh gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town.
Dr. Rekha admits a patient, Sunil, in her mental hospital and soon, he responds to the treatment and recovers. They fall in love with each other but everything is not as it seems to be.
The wealthy doctor Shashikant marries a servant girl, the much-loved Gauri. When an old flame makes makes contact with Shashikant, pride jeopardizes their marriage and the lives of their children.
At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.
Muskaan is a prostitute in one of Hyderabad's brothels, owned by Lalabee. But she is a prostitute not by choice, but bad luck. When she was young her parents married her off to an Arab Sheikh. This marriage was just an arrangement for sexual pleasure. After raping her for 7 days regularly, Sheikh divorces Muskaan. Muskaan's father Barkat Ali commits suicide due to the humiliation he receives after filling a case against Sheikh. Sheikh's assistant hires the best possible advocate and makes sure that Sheikh is released easily and flies back to Dubai. Muskaan's uncle also sexually harasses her. Finally one of the dalals takes her to Lalabee and thus she becomes a prostitute. But fortune brings her to Mumbai. Inspector Sawant Sayaji Shinde takes her to Juicy, a sophisticated gay doing body business. He changes Muskaan to Mallika using two of his best selling prostitutes Liza Suman Rangnathan and Esha. She luckily also meets with Bablu Pande Aryan Vaid who falls in love with her.