Ankush
Directed and produced by N. Chandra
1986

It is a story of four lower middle class unemployed young men in Mumbai (then Bombay) who feel disconnected with society and are wasting their life away when new neighbours, a young beautiful girl Nita and her mother, change their perspective. They change their attitude and try and blend in with the normal, honest and hard-working society of 1980s India when Nita is raped at the hands of her employers. However the culprits are let off for the want of evidence and Nita takes extreme step of suicide. They then take revenge of each and every culprit in a very novel way. It also shows their distrust in the law of the land. The movie has a tragic end with all four getting capital punishmentfor doing what they thought was correct, specially so when law of land fails to book the criminals for their wrongdoings.

China Town
Directed and produced by Shakti Samanta
1962
Shakti Films

Singer, Shekhar, lives in Darjeeling with his widowed mom, and is in love with Rita, the daughter of wealthy Rai Bahadur Digamberprasad Rai, who dislikes him, and wants his daughter to marry a wealthy Calcutta-based businessman, Chowdhry. Rita asks Shekhar
to get a better career, but he refuses, so she and her dad re-locate to Calcutta. Shekhar follows them, and an enraged Rai complains to the police, who arrest Shekhar and hold
him for questioning. It is here that Shekhar will secure employment with the police as an undercover agent to impersonate his look-alike, a China Town gangster named Mike, who
is being held by the police, but refuses to divulge any information. Shekhar accordingly takes over Mike's life, but not for long - as Mike soon escapes from custody and is on his way back to reclaim his life.

Do Anjaane
Directed by Dulal Guha
Produced by Tito
1976
New Jeevan Films

Amitabh Bachchan stars as the good-natured Amit, who falls for the gorgeous and ambitious dancer Rekha (played by you-know-who). Their marriage cuts short her career, which Rekha blames Amit for. Amit (coincidence or not) falls victim to a coma-inducing train accident, and Rekha, egged on by a conniving businessman who was also Amit’s best friend. The best friend could always tell Rekha’s weakness and exploits it from the beginning. So egged on by the best friend, Rekha begins to pursue an acting career. The now-amnesiac Amit vows to put the pieces of his life back together, an ordeal that will involve singing, dancing, deceit, revenge, and yet another bout of amnesia!

Guru
Directed and produced by Mani Ratnam
2007
Madras Talkies

A school-teacher in India sires a son named Gurukant, but is disappointed as the child fails to live up to his high expectations. When Gurukant grows up, he is unable to secure decent employment in India, so finds a way to go to Turkey, where he finds employment. When he returns back to India, he wants to start his own business, but is unable to do so, as he does not have enough money. So he does some research, gets to meet Sujata, the daughter of a wealthy man named Jignesh, and marries her. After the marriage, Gurukant finds out that Sujata has a dark past, but he ignores this - for his one motive is to be to rise in the eyes of his father - and get rich.

Khamoshi Directed by Asit Sen Produced by Geetanjali 1969Kalyug
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Produced by Shashi Kapoor
1981

Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a life-long bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand the older son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj and Sandeepraj. Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj, Balraj and Bharatraj. Another player in the game is Karan an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn. Dhanraj's men accidentally kill the young son of Balraj and to take revenge Bharatraj murders Karan. Quite a few skeletons from the family cupboard are brought out in the open that only adds to the tensions and hatred, finally culminating in the destruction of the two families.

Kya Kehna
Directed by Kundan Shah
Produced by Kumar S. Taurani
2000
Tips Music Films

Young and precocious Priya Baxi (Preity Zinta) has just completed school and returned home.
Full of life's expectations, she meets with Rahul Modi (Saif Ali Khan) and falls in love with him.
But Rahul is not really interested as he has many more girlfriends than he can handle. But Priya seems all the more attractive when her brothers prevent him from seeing her, and so he makes
it a mission to charm her and win her over, which he does. Priya finds out she is pregnant,
informs her horrified parents, and they approach Rahul's parents (Navneet Nishan, Rajeev Verma) for marriage plans, but to everyone's surprise Rahul turns them down. Devastated
Priya must decide to abort the child or have the child and literally blacklist herself and her family.

Namak Haraam
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Produced by Rajaram, S. Wagle & J. Pandya
1973
RSJ Production (Combine)

The film focused on two friends ( Rajesh and Amitabh) and how Rajesh tries to infiltrate the trade union of his friends. Amitabh Bachchan plays a rich man's son who has a fight with a union leader and later sends his best friend, Rajesh Khanna to grow bigger than the previous union leader. Rajesh starts getting influenced by the ideals of workers which leads to the confrontation between two friends. This film concentrates on the rise of Unions with the backdrop of Mumbai's textile mills and inflation in the early '70s.
This was the second Hrishikesh film with Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh together after Anand. Diye Jalte Hai, Phool Khilte Hai, Nadiya se dariya, Dariye se sagar and 'Main Shayar Badnaam are the most memorable melodies, all rendered powerfully by Kishore Kumar.

Parvarish
Directed by Manmohan Desai
Produced by A.A. Nadiadwala
1977
B4U Entertainment

A police officer, DSP Shamsher Singh captures the notorious bandit Mangal Singh just as Mangal's wife is about to give birth. She dies at childbirth, but not before extracting from the DSP his promise to take care of her son. Subsequently, DSP Singh raises the boy alongside his own. Though ironically, DSP Singh's natural son Kishen has a wicked streak, while Mangal's son, Amit is endowed with an honest nature.
Released after 14 years in jail, Mangal finds out that his son is with his old enemy. He mistakes Kishen to be his son and instigates him to fight against Shamsher's family. They join the underworld gang and spread havoc. Amit becomes an honest police officer and is assigned the task of nabbing the gang. After a misunderstanding, Kishen comes to believe he is actually Mangal's son and falls under the bandit's influence, though he continues to live in the inspector's home.

Sawan Ko Aane Do
Directed and produced by Ram Gopal Varma
1979

Birju lives in a small village and likes to sing. The village zamindar's city-educated daughter, Chandrika returns to the village and is thrilled by Birju's voice. She encourages him to share his talents with the world and thus earn a living. Eventually both fall in love. Her father is angered when is comes to know of their affair, and he sends her back to the city and
warns Birju of attempting to even think about her. Heartbroken Birju decides to go to the city, and there he meets with Gitanjali, who is also thrilled by his voice. She assists him in getting an audition, and which turns out to be a success. Soon Birju is singing over the radio, and becomes wealthy and popular. In the meantime, Chandrika's proud dad has lost an important court case, and as a result lost all his wealth, but his pride is still intact. When Birju returns to ask for the hand of Chandrika, he is again rebuked.

Waqt
Directed by Yash Chopra
Produced by B.R. Chopra
1965
Shemaroo Video Pvt. Ltd.

It pioneered the concept of films with multiple stars, starting a trend followed by other films. The film took the top spot at the box office in 1965. The plot of this movie re-introduced the
lost and reunite formula in Bollywood, originally featured in the 1943 Ashok Kumar, Mumtaz Shanti starrer "Kismat" (fate). A happy family separated by Waqt (time), goes through a series of trials trying to reunite. The film was later remade into the Telugu film Bhale Abbayilu (1969).

The film contains the popular Hindi song Aage Bhi Jaane Na Tu sung by Asha Bhosle, besides
the famous Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen, sung by Manna Dey and composed by Ravi and picturised
on Balraj Sahni and Achala Sachdev. Waqt also showcases some of the top dialogues in the history of Bollywood movies.

Zindagi
Directed and produced by Ramanand Sagar
1964