Director: Umesh Mehra

Starring: Dilip Kumar, Rekha, Mamta Kulkarni, Mukul Dev

Showing at: Minerva

Jagannath Singh (Dilip Kumar) is dead. But for the people whom he has tormented throughout his life, he's still alive. His wife Suman (Smita Jaykar) who he had thrown out of his haveli when she was carrying his son in her womb, now lives in a basti and shudders to think about the man. His son Amar (Mukul Dev), a truck driver, hates him. Amar is in love with Neeta (Mamta Kulkarni) the daughter of the truck owner, Ghanya Seth (Satish Kaushik).

Jagannath's death brings his twin brother, judge Amarnath Singh (Dilip Kumar) to his sister-in-law and nephew. At the funeral, the family comes across Yamini (Rekha) and her crippled brother Kundan (Malay Chakravarty) who spits abuse at Jagannath's funeral pyre.

The judge brings all these grieved people under his roof where he lives with his daughter Lajo (Rajeshwari). He wants to live happily with them and tries to mend hisbrother's misdeeds. But suddenly the evidence in his brother's murder starts building up. And Amarnath realises that one of these people -- who have been wronged by his brother -- has murdered the man. The honest and upright judge is forced to look into the evidence and probe the murder -- even as he tries to save his family. An interesting plot, if nothing else.

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Director: Sameer Malkan

Starring: Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Raveena Tandon, Sonali Bendre

Showing at: Maratha Mandir

The story revolves around two small-time crooks who have dreams of hitting the big time, preferably by a method which does not require too much hard work. Besides relying on an old plot which has worked before, the film is also banking on the pair of Akshay Kumar (Dev) and Saif Ali Khan (Ajay), which has bought in the bucks before at the box-office. Since alone, both of them can't seem to draw in the audiences, maybe the funda of two is better than one will work. Among their hackneyedmoney-making schemes is to hook a rich girl. Ajay starts chasing Sharmilee (Raveena Tandon) who is actually another crook and who falls for Dev instead. The turning point in their lives is when Ajay picks a young man's pocket. The man, Mohan (Ravi Kissan) tries to catch Ajay. During the chase a truck knocks Mohan down and he dies. On opening the wallet Ajay and Dev find a letter and they realise how important that money was for Mohan's family. So they decide to go to Mohan's house in a remote village of Badlapur to return the money.

On reaching Badlapur they meet Mohan's father Dinanath Tripathi (Anupam Kher) who is a school master and Mohan's mother (Moushami Chatterjee) is so sweet and loving that you need to take insulin injections to the theatre if you want to get through this film. The pair lie to the family that Mohan is still alive but busy with exams and pretend to be his friends. An honest school-master and a tyrannical zamindar go together like the God and the Devil. Shakti Kapoor plays crueltypersonified and the the dirty duo turn crusading warriors to rescue the village from a fate of oppression. The usual village romance and the tearful climax also follow.