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- After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border DMZ leaves two North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened.
- After being diagnosed with a terminal cancer, Dennis moves with his girlfriend Lily to a new home, where he installs cameras and microphones everywhere to record his last months of life, in order that the material be used later to make a documentary. However, the devices capture the presence of another inhabitant there.
- Rajguru (Sohrab Modi) decides that Jhansi should get its proper recognition in history. He comes across a young girl Manu (the young Rani Lakshmibai) played by Baby Shikha. Her father has been hit by a carriage driven by an English driver. She gathers a few children to confront the driver. This and her confrontation with an elephant impresses the Rajguru who takes her in hand, shaping her into becoming a determined leader. He arranges for her, at the age of nine, to marry the much-older ruler of Jhansi, Gangadhar Rao (Mubarak), who is about fifty years, and become Queen. Manu grows up under the expert tutelage of the Rajguru, learning physical combat and political administration. The older Manu now called Lakshmibai gives birth to a boy who dies. She adopts another boy Damodar Rao who the English refuse to accept as the rightful heir. This further sets her against the British. During the uprising of 1857 (1857 Mutiny) she fights against them succumbing to her injuries in the end.
- Impecunious poet Parwana runs away from home with his pal Jagu to join a theatrical company. On the way they come across a gypsy camp and Jagu picks up gypsy dancer Koel and they fall in love. Parwana and Jagu soon cross swords with Khanna of Khanna Theatres, whose main attraction is beautiful and temperamental dancer Bijli, who is attracted by Parwana's poetry and physique. Parwana, Jagu, and Koel are soon working in Khanna Theatres. Parwana and Bijli fall in love, and Khanna gets jealous because he's in love with Bijli. Soon comes a showdown and Bijli walks out of Khanna Theatres arm-in-arm with Parwana and his stooges. The new team tries to start its own theatre business but love-stricken Khanna becomes vindictive and with his influence and money hounds them from place to place until Parwana and Bijli are ruined and heartbroken. In a desperate attempt to save Paiwana's poetic soul, Bijli, sacrificing her love for him, compromises matters with Khanna who helps to put Parwana on the stage once again. But Parwana needs more than mere success to feel happy, and soon he returns heartbroken to his parents' home, a sadder but wiser man. Now Parwana dedicates himself to national service. Khanna, realizing the intensity of Bijli's love for Parwana, gracefully gives her up and all rush to a public meeting for their individual professions and confessions. Evidently any place is good enough for the Punjabis to express their love, and a large crowd does not deter Bijli from expressing her love for Parwana on a public platform. It ends well.
- After the demise of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Chhatrapati sambhaji maharaj became the ruler of the Maratha Kingdom. Due to personal anger for not getting some land from Chhatrapati sambhaji maharaj his wife's brother ganoji shirke squealed to the Mughals about Sambhaji maharaj presence in Sangameshwar, which led to his arrest. Even in those circumstances, Chhatrapati Sambhaji maharaj did not bow in front of the Mughals and bravely refused to convert to Islam. In such a difficult and critical situation, fiercely guarding the Maratha Kingdom, and bravely fighting and defeating the Mughals, was the self respected and brave "MAHARANI YESUBAI" who was the wife of Chhatrapati Sambhaji maharaj.
- Rohini, the princess of Suvarnadesh and her closest friend Mangala is on their way to Prayag, for Rohini is going to be betrothed to Trivikram, the king of Prayag. Nevertheless, tragedy strikes when on the way the chariot they are traveling on skids over a precipice. But the girls are saved by the timely intervention of Gorakhnath, the great saint who has the power of performing miracles. Meanwhile, at Prayag, Mayavati, the sister of Trivikram is seething with rage. She is waiting to avenge the death of her husband in the hands of Rohini's father by killing Rohini. However, all her plans to eliminate Rohini go awry and instead the snake brought in to take Rohini's life, bites the king killing him instantly. A distraught Mangala, unable to come to terms with Rohini's bereavement, remembers Gorakhnath's miraculous powers and rushes to him to help restore the king's life. The great saint refuses to comply to her request on the grounds that no human being has the right to interfere with the natural order of things. Not the one to give up so easily, Mangala threatens to end her life if her demand is not met. Pushed to a corner, Gorakhnath has no choice but to heed to her request. And soon enough the king is brought back to life. But for Gorakhnath, this hasty decision could mean a life of contempt from his superior.
- Madhuri and Rani (Baby Madhuri) are twin sisters whose parents, Seth Dinanath and Radha, are shot in front of them by their mother's rejected suitor Shivnath (Dalpat). The mother dies and the father is kept prisoner by Shivnath who also kidnaps Rani. Madhuri is found wandering by a rich man Rai Bahadur, who takes her home and adopts her. Several years pass and Madhuri (Fearless Nadia) is enjoying her life in luxury. She has a dog called Gunboat who accompanies her everywhere. She finds out about her parents and sees Rani dance at a nightclub. She vows vengeance and soon the sisters along with two friends (Yakub and Agha) fight their way to the gangster and free their father.
- Tamubi had determined not to visit her estranged husband. Not even once in their twelve years of separation. But one day, all against herself, she visits to attend her daughter's wedding. She yielded to her daughter's persistence. When she arrives the estranged couple did not exchange a single word. As night falls after the ceremony, Tamubi has no choice but to hold the night at her husband's place. Reminiscence of the years gone by keep awake the separated husband and wife the whole night. The following day her husband pleads her to come back and start life anew. But Tamubi sticks to her independent conscience.
- The film Leipaklei tells the story of Leipaklei, a woman named after a Manipuri flower. Like the flower whose habitat is the hard ground, she is surrounded by hard trials and ironies of fate: separation from the one who loved and is still loved by her, abandonment by her husband, the trials of being a single parent, the violence of the gaze of men who sees her as fair game. Not unlike the flower Leipaklei, which hibernates beneath parched grounds - dreaming for a spring past, the protagonist dreams of the return of her beloved. He returns.
- Boaz, a shy bachelor who decorates cars at a bridal parlor owned by his bossy mother, is in love with Osnat, but makes a fool of himself whenever they meet. On the eve of Valentine's Day, Boaz finally takes the plunge, with unpredictable consequences.