23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002)

Actors: Smita Jaykar (actress), Divya Dutta (actress), Rana Jung Bahadur (actor), Ishrat Ali (actor), Mahavir Shah (actor), Vivek Shaq (actor), Sunny Deol (actor), Rahul Dev (actor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Sachin Khedekar (actor), Suresh Chatwal (actor), Suresh Oberoi (actor), Bobby Deol (actor), Tej Sapru (actor), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (actress),

Plot: When his mentor Lala Lajpatrai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police Bhagat Singh is enraged and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of the officials responsible, but they are identified and as a result they are arrested and held in prison where they are tortured relentlessly. They are then sentenced to a life in prison. Subsequently, they are charged with a more serious crime - treason and assassination - a crime that is punishable by death.

The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)

Actors: Babu (miscellaneous crew), Ashok (miscellaneous crew), Ganesh Acharya (miscellaneous crew), Farida Jalal (actress), V.N. Mayekar (editor), Rajkumar Santoshi (director), Shehzad Khan (actor), Viju Khote (actor), Raj Babbar (actor), Mukesh Tiwari (actor), Rajkumar Santoshi (writer), A.R. Rahman (composer), Ajay Devgn (actor), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Bhagat was born in British India during the year 1908. As a child he witnessed numerous atrocities committed on fellow Indians by their British rulers, who came to trade under the guise of the East India Company, but ended up controlling most of the nation, and permitting tyrants such as General Dyer to massacre thousands of innocent men, women and children in Jallianwala Baug. As a child he was impressed by Mohandas K. Gandhi, especially his call to launch the non-cooperation movement, which led to thousands of people burning British-made clothing, giving up schools, & college studies, and government jobs - only to be let down by Gandhi himself when he called off the movement. Undaunted, Bhagat decided to be a revolutionary, starting with getting into petty fights, then as a grown-up joining the Hindustan Republic Association. When Lala Lajpat Rai was beaten to death by the police, Bhagat, along with Shivram Rajguru, Sukhdev, and others daringly carried out the assassination of a police officer named Saunders, which eventually led to Bhagat's arrest, where he was lodged in a cell, tortured and beaten mercilessly. His father, Kishan, paid Rs.60,000/- and bailed him out, so that he could get him to run a diary-farm and get married to a girl from Manavali. But being a revolutionary was in Bhagat's blood, and when the British proposed the Trade Disputes and Public Safety Bills, he would initiate the bombing in the Indian Parliament Building, along with Batukeshwar Dutt, be arrested, and tried in an open court. This is where Bhagat launched his much-publicized revolution, and became popular with the masses, especially the younger generation, laborers, and farmers, so much so that his popularity rivaled that of Gandhi himself. Even in prison, Bhagat made headline news when he and other prisoners undertook a 63 day fast unto death to improve the conditions of Indian freedom-fighter prisoners. Then the British re-opened the Saunders' murder case, which led to death sentences being imposed on Bhagat, Shivram, and Sukhdev. The entire nation rose up in protest, including the Congress party - with the ball being in Gandhi's court - for he was due to sign the Irwing Pact, and Indians hoped that he would use this as a bargaining chip to save the lives of the heroic trio. Will Gandhi rise up to the occasion and save the trio - so that they could pave the way for a modern and independent India, not just a country ruled by the British with a dominant status - an India free of communal hatred, injustice, corruption, and fundamentalism, or will Gandhi end up disappointing Bhagat all over again?

Sahebzaade (1992)

Actors: Waman B. Bhosle (editor), Shakti Kapoor (actor), Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (composer), Sanjay Dutt (actor), Ram Mohan (actor), Aditya Pancholi (actor), Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (composer), Amrit Patel (actor), Gurbachchan Singh (actor), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Anjana Mumtaz (actress), Neelam (actress), Alok Nath (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Gurudutt Shirali (editor),

Plot: Raja and Rahul are brothers living with their mother (Shardha) in a village located in the green hills of Himachal Pradesh. Incidently they love the same girl, Chinar. One of them sacrifices his love for his brother. First half of the movie revolves around that love story. In the second half, both brothers come to know that Bharu Pratap raped his mother and killed his father, Kishan. Then, both of them takes revenge from Bharu Pratap.

Chorni (1982)

Actors: Leela Mishra (actress), Birbal (actor), Jugnu (actor), Ajit (actor), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Aruna Irani (actress), Jalal Agha (actor), Shashi Kiran (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Sunil Dhawan (actor), Prem Sagar (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Helen (actress), Indrani Mukherjee (actress),

Plot: Circumstances force an innocent Deepa into the life of a hardened criminal. When a gang of spoiled rich young men Sukhdev cooks up a robbery and Deepa is locked up and sentenced to a remand home for six months. When she is out of the jail she is totally changed person. But then a twist in the story takes place when Justice Sinha, a judge in a juvenile court, comes upon Deepa. He decides to adopt Deepa as his daughter and save her from her criminal life. Deepa has to get rid of her street-smart ways and win over the family. All in Sinha's family starts loving her and even Dr. Vikram the young handsome family physician starts taking a personal interest in her, it looked as if things would turn out well after all. Dr. Vikram and Kishore, Sinha's elder son, help in grooming Deepa. In the process she and Vikram fell in love. But then trouble enters Deepa's life again. Deepa and Kishore remember where they had met each other before. Four years back, Kishore was one of the group of boys led by Sukhdev in the incident that was the turning point of Deepa's life. In acute shame and embarrassment, unable to face her accept her as a sister, Kishore fled away back to Pune. Deepa is heart broken. Then Deepa's former mentor Shambhu Dada threatens to kill the judge and expose a scandal about Rani if Deepa did not rob the Judge for him.Does Deepa robs her own house where she got respect, love and a name?

Shaheed (1965)

Actors: D.K. Sapru (actor), Chaman Puri (actor), Madan Puri (actor), Raja (actor), Manoj Kumar (actor), Manmohan (actor), Pran (actor), Manoj Kumar (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Krishan Dhawan (actor), Kamal Kapoor (actor), Asit Sen (actor), Raj Kishore (actor),

Plot: It is the year 1857 in India, a year that Sardar Ajit Singh, his wife, their children, including son, Bhagat, and their parents will never forget, for it was the day his brother, Kishan, sang out against the British, was arrested, escaped from prison, & has never been heard of again. This does have an impact on young Bhagat Singh's mind, so much so that when he grows up he joins the freedom fighting movement, being headed by Chandrashekar Azad. It is then that an unarmed freedom fighter, protesting the Simon Commission, is killed by Police. Bhagat, Chandrashekar, Shivram Rajguru, Sukhdev, and Jaygopal avenge this death by killing the Assistant of Commissioner Saunders. When a major police hunt is announced, they flee, especially Bhagat, as he has been identified as the Sikh with the turban. Bhagat takes off his turban, shaves off his beard, and continues to be active in the freedom movement. A historical meeting at Tughlak Fort is organized and all freedom fighters from every corner of India are invited so as to consolidate their efforts to force the British to leave India. Then the British decide to implement the Public Safety Bill, which Bhagat and Bhatukeshwar Dutta protest against, in a first-ever scene shot in Parliament House in Delhi, where they explode a bomb, and shout slogans of "Inquilaab Zindabad". They are arrested, charged, and produced before the Courts. A charade of lies follows, and even after the truth surfaces, the two are sentenced to life in prison. Then things take a turn for the worse when Jaygopal becomes a Police informer, leading the police to arrest Sukhdev, Shivram, and also re-arrest Bhagat for their hand in killing Saunder's Assistant, and this time the British are not looking at any life imprisonment sentence - they want to publicly hang the three stalwarts!! Contrary to the well-known fair-mindedness of the British (Not good Cricket, you know), a trial takes place in total absentia, in secret, where even the defendants are not permitted to take part, and it is shortly thereafter on October 7, 1930 that our three heroes are sentenced to be hanged. The day of their deaths is scheduled to be March 24, 1931, but due to crowd unrest, the British decide to by-pass the Court's orders and hang the trio on March 23, 1931. Watch what happens when the news hits the prison and the impact this has on the trio, the rest of the prisoners, & their respective families'.

Detective (1958)

Actors: Daisy Irani (actress), Mala Sinha (actress), Johnny Walker (actor), M.B. Shetty (actor), Jeevan Kala (actress), Sulochana Chatterjee (actress), K.N. Singh (actor), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Krishnakant (actor), Krishnakant (actor), Pradeep Kumar (actor), Dhumal (actor), Keshav Rana (actor), Shakti Samanta (director),

Jawani Ki Hawa (1935)

Actors: Franz Osten (director), Niranjan Pal (writer), Niranjan Pal (writer), Saraswati Devi (composer), Himansu Rai (producer), J.S. Casshyap (actor), J.S. Casshyap (writer), Azoorie (actress), Devika Rani (actress), P.F. Pithawala (actor), Kamta Prasad (actor), Chandraprabha (actress), Najmul Hussain (actor), Sunita Devi (actress), Khosla (actor),

Plot: A romantic crime thriller. Kamala elopes on her wedding day with her childhood friend Ratanlal. Her father Manganlal chases the couple and catches them on a train. His furious exchanges with Ratanlal are interrupted by gunfire and in the mysterious gloom of the evening a body is thrown off the train. The suspects are Ratanlal, who cannot furnish an alibi, Kamala, who insists on being the murderess, ex-convict Sukhdev, who confesses to the murder claiming robbery to be the motive, and the lunatic Tarachand, who also admits his guilt.