Movies that brought real stories from the dark lands of UP and Bihar

Priyanka Chopra plays IPS Abha Mathur in Jai Gangaajal

It revolves around two gangs in a college which are out to finish each other

Gangaajal brought out the ‘stagnant’ mindset of the society and the people who govern it. It was Prakash Jha’s first major commercial success

Ajay Devgn played a common man-turned-gangster in Apharan as he didn’t know any other way out of his miseries

Based on William Shakepeare’s Othello, Omkara presented Omi Shukla (Devgn) as a non-glamorous gangster who gets betrayed by the idea of love

Manoj Bajpayee as Sardar Khan has just one motive in his life and that is to seek revenge from Tigmanshu Dhuliaas Ramadhir Singh. His son Faizal Nawazuddin completes the task, but at what cost