FAMILY - TIES OF BLOOD Directed by: Rajkumar Santoshi Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Aryeman, Kader Khan, Gulshan Grover Cert: 15 Runtime: 2 hours 30 mins UK Release Date 13 January 2006

'Family' is the story of two families, that of Viren Sahi and Shekhar Bhatia - two worlds totally different from each other and how these worlds collide with catastrophic consequences one fateful night. Family is the story of Shekhar, a man who didn't have much in life, but whose one and only investment pays of fully - his Family. Family is the story of Viren Sahi, a gangster who finds too late that you may have everything - power, success, wealth, fear - but if you don't have family, you have nothing.

It is the story of Aryan, powered by the love of his family which gives him the strength to take on the might of an invincible gangster.

It is the story of Sharda, a woman who feared her whole life that her family would have to pay for her husband's sins and now finds that the time has come. It is about the price she has to pay now, to protect her family.

It is the story of Bhumika, who has to find some hidden reservoirs of strength in herself and fight to save her husband's family from breaking down.