Shah Rukh Khan plays the defeatist protagonist and Madhuri Dixit-Aishwarya Rai are the two women in his life, Chandramukhi and Parvati. The film is said to be the most sensational period romance ever created on the large screen.

Sanjay has recreated every detail of the period described in Saratchandra's novel on sets erected at Mumbai's Film City and Filmistan. The detail, the three central performances, Binod Pradhan's cinematography and Nitin Desai's art work, the climactic dance competition between Madhuri and Aishwarya and Ismail Durbar’s romantic melodies are the high points of Sanjay Bhansali’s third and most eagerly awaited film budgeted at around Rs 480 million.

It is an underworld epic with headlinish events and episodes. But Varma's interpretation of international terrorism is strikingly singular. No other underworld film, certainly not Varma's own much acclaimed Satya has achieved the same level of cinematic excellence. Of special note are the mood conveyed and the ground covered in portraying implicit violence.

Ajay Devgan and Vivek Oberoi play two underworld gangsters who go from friendship to mutual destruction. Manisha Koirala and Antara Mali are the two love interests. The Malayalam maverick Mohanlal makes his Hindi film debut as a police commissioner in Mumbai combating the nexus between cinema and the underworld. The cinematographer Hemant Chaturvedi earlier shot the historic game show Kaun Banega Crorepati.

Then there are the performances -- Tabu as the wannabe mother and Sushmita Sen as the girl who agrees to be surrogate mother. Sushmita has an author-backed role, which promises to win her recognition. Tabu's complicated role could easily have swerved into vampishness. The actress brings self-control to her role.

Manmohan Singh's cinematography and Anu Malik's music are the two other outstanding components of Meghna's powerful film.

Welcome to the Valentinian realm of love, love, love and some heartache. Dharmesh's new love triangle is about happy-go-lucky Abhishek, his girl Karisma Kapoor and a star played by Akshay Kumar who unwittingly comes in their way. The treatment is simple but fetching. Abhishek is said to be a surprise.

Nadeem-Shravan's music displays more maturity than in Dhadkan.

Shot entirely in Los Angeles with in-sync sound and a crew borrowed from Hollywood, Kaante is Gupta's own version of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. Anu Malik scores the music in this all-male cast with Malaika Arora thrown in for bits of oomph.

Shah Rukh Khan puts in an extended guest appearance as the stranger who helps Karisma and her child flee. Just like Roshan Seth in the original, Shakti is a remake of the Sally Field starrer Not Without My Daughter. Telugu director Krishna Vamsi makes his Hindi debut in Boney Kapoor's production.

Amitabh Bachchan heads the cast as the blind ill-tempered bank manager who takes revenge on his employees by training a group of blind recruits (Akshay Kumar, Arjun Rampal, Paresh Rawal) to rob the bank he once worked in.

So impressed is the Big B by Shah's directorial skills that he has signed the director to make a film for AB Corp Ltd featuring the senior and junior Bachchan.

Once again Akshay Kumar plays the lead. Suneel has roped in the precious Kareena Kapoor to play the pivotal female lead. The film is being shot on a lavish scale including portions done in the Palace-On-Wheels in Jaipur. Sanjeev-Darshan score the music.

Director Vikram Bhatt hasn't cast Hrithik Roshan as superhero. The working class love story will work on the basis of its fluent and virile narrative, accentuated by Rajesh Roshan's soft sentimental music.

Vikram who is simultaneously directing Feroz Nadiadwala's Awaara Paagal Deewana hopes to release the film by April.

The film features the biggest starcast ever – Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Suniel Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Akshaye Khanna, Manoj Bajpai, Ashutosh Rana, Karan Nath, Amar Upadhyay, Sanjay Kapoor, Himanshu Malik. And we haven't even started on the female cast.

J P stresses that every character in LoC is a hero just like every soldier on the battlefield who fought at Kargil. LoC will undoubtedly an awesome epic. Anu Malik's music score promises to be as special as the film.