Godmother

When an imminent drought threatens to ruin their crop, Rambhi and her husband Veeru move from their village to the city. Through threat, violence and blackmail, Veeru makes a career as a kind of mafia don in the corrupt political system, but it turns out he is no more than a puppet of an influential lawyer who has him killed when Veeru decides not to kill any more. The lawyer thinks he can turn Rambhi into yet another puppet of his plans, but she strikes back, taking revenge for her husband's murder and fighting the corrupt political system until she becomes a veritable mafia Godmother herself. —Horst Prillinger <hprill@excite.com> Leaving the harsh and unrelenting drought-like conditions in her village, Veeram and his family travel to the big city to lead a better life. Veeram gets involved in a crime syndicate, and eventually becomes the leader. When he is assassinated, his wife Rambhi takes on the responsibility of the leadership with such a ruthlessness as never seen before, and it is not before long that she reigns unchallenged. Until one day she dared to get a Hindu girl and Muslim boy get married in her community is when she starts to notice her world collapsing all around her, and she has to use every ounce of strength and experience she has gained in her lifetime to overcome this challenge. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)