The film deals with an individual’s ordeal in the face of an indifferent establishment. It revolves around the payment of an electricity bill for a farm pump-set. Velu owns a small sugarcane field and has immense faith in the establishment, in this case, the Electricity Board, to condone a delay in payment of his electricity bill. But when the power is severed he and his wife Sita are devastated. Friends and well wishers raise their hands helplessly and can only offer suggestions for restoration of power. Help comes finally from the most unexpected quarters. Their neighbour Radha who is looked down upon by the villagers, restores the power and reinforces one’s faith in basic human values.

Director: K. Hariharan
Cast: Om Puri, Deepti Naval, Dr. Shreeram Lagoo, Anjan Srivastava, Savita Prabhune.
Producer: NFDC Ltd.

Sunil, an NRI married to an American girl is returning to Kolkata after 15 years to see his father who has never reconciled to his marriage. A shock awaits him when he learns that his father has disappeared and no one knows where he has gone. The only people who could know are his sister Ruma who lives in Banaras, his younger brother Anil in Mumbai and their old servant Sambhu. With a deep sense of guilt Sunil hits upon a clue that suggests his father had spent the last few years at an old age home near Kolkata. The final blow is the discovery that his father had died a few months earlier and had been cremated because no one had claimed the body. It is at the home that Sunil meets Satyababu, who tells him that his father cared more for his children than they did for him.

Director: Gul Bahar Singh
Cast: Rajit Kapoor, A.K. Hangal, Kritika Desai, Anjan Srivastav.
Producer: NFDC Ltd.

History is made
Not by Warriors and Kings,
But by Simple Women,
Wives and Widows . . .

Born in an unknown dhangar (shepherd) family in the late 1720's Ahilya became the daughter- in-law of Malharrao Holkar, the first Maratha Subhedar (Governor) of Malwa in Central India. Ahilya was in her twenties and a mother of two children when the sudden death of her husband Khanderao led her towards sati - the ritual burning on husband's funeral pyre. Malharrao prevented this tragedy and groomed her into handling administrative duties for the Holkar State - thus Ahilya overcame barriers of tradition with austerity and hard work to achieve venerable social status at a young age.

Her daughter's delayed marriage, her errant son's descent into madness and political intrigue over issues of succession of Malwa leadership have all become folk legends, but her piety and dedication raised her to an exalted status of a religious reformer and an ideal ruler who initiated, executed and maintained an Empire of Charities; from Dwarka to Benares and from Hrishikesh to Rameshwaram she created an identity of a united India above and beyond any political boundaries of the time.

"Devi" Ahilyabai is not just a bio-epic or docu-drama, but with scintillating music including sixteen songs, a historic film that integrates facts, folklore and legend that together underline the inherent contradictions between the rights and duties of rulers in our society.

Director: Nachiket & Jayoo Patwardhan
Cast: Mallika Prasad, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Shabana Azmi, Satish Alekar, Omkar Arjunwadkar, Surabhi Ganguli, Chetan Pandit, Hrishikesh Joshi,Ganesh Yadav, Prakash Dhotre, Jayant Sawarkar, Praveen Tarde, Bharti Jaffery
Producer: NFDC & Doordarshan

Rajanna and Geeta arrive in the city in the fond hope of building a cosy little home. When they discover just such a house their happiness knows no bounds. Things are fine till, one day, a workshop opens up next door and brings with it a wide variety of sounds. When the noise crosses the bounds of tolerance, Rajanna is indignant but cannot do much, until he discovers that his wife has achieved the impossible task of getting the shed vacated, but only by yielding to the demands of the police inspector. Rajanna now wants to take Geeta away from the environment. He seeks the help of the workmen who had earlier occupied the shed, but discovers that their slum is being demolished to make way for a multinational.

Director: Girish Kasaravali

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Deepti Naval, Rohini Hattangady.
Producer: NFDC Ltd.