Terror on screen

Underworld connection: Ram Gopal Verma's Contract explores the connection between terrorism and the underworld.

Brush with terror: 'Mission Istanbul is not based on terrorism, it is based on a world, which has terrorism. Even as we talk, there is terrorism in this planet,' said director Apurva Lakhia on the release of the movie.

Investigating terrorism: Black Friday was a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Trivial treatment: In Fanaa the audiences witnessed trerrorism taking a backseat to the love story between Zooni and Rehan.

Mission Kashmir: Reflected an attempt that takes on terrorism as only a Bollywood film can. It chronicled the devastation of Kashmir from arcadia to ashes in the nineties.

Infiltration: Tinu Verma's Maa Tujhe Salaam depicted a tale of patriotism set around the Indian border and the glacial mountains of Kashmir.

Terror network: Written by Khalid Mohhamad, Fiza showed the dark underbelly of the network in terrorism, where a desperate Fiza goes about in search of Aman.

Dil Se: Made seven years after the assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by a female suicide bomber, Dil Se followed the story of an idealistic and naive journalist, Amar (Shah Rukh Khan), who unknowingly falls head-over-heels obsessed with a gloomy and mysterious woman, Meghna.

Strong reception: Mani Ratnam's Bombay centred on events, particularly during the period of December 1992 to January 1993 in India, and the controversy surrounding the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.

Hard-hitting: Sampooran Singh Gulzar's Maachis was a realistic, hard-hitting portrayal of terrorism and youth in the Punjab after the 1984 riots.

Indo-Pak tension: Zameen tackled the question of Indo-Pak terrrorism with a story based on a real life hijacking which took place in 1999 of the IA Airbus to Kandahar after which the passengers were set free in exchange of imprisoned militants Masoor Azhar, Omar Sheikh and Mushtaq Zargar.

Qayamat: Dreaded arms dealers Ali (Arbaaz Khan), Abbas (Sanjay Kapoor) and Laila (Isha Koppikar) smuggle in a deadly virus which could endanger the lives of millions of Mumbaikars.

Soon to come: The story of the upcoming movie Hijack is again based on a flight hijack and shows how a single man gets into the hijacked air plane and tries to save people in trouble.