How many times you have heard the dialogues, ‘Paise ki bhookh’, ‘Daulat ki lalach’ and ‘Main bada aadmi banna chahta hoon’? A zillion times? Pardon the exaggeration but money, wealth and materialistic desires have formed the crux of several scripts in Bollywood. hitlist looks at some of the memorable ones...

Judaai (1997)

A huge hit, the film had Kajal (Sridevi) marrying a middle class engineer, Raaj (Anil Kapoor) assuming him to be a wealthy man. Years pass by, but Kajal’s regret and desire for riches remain strong as ever. So when Janhvi (Urmila Matondkar), Raaj’s boss’ daughter falls for him, Kajal happily agrees to have a sautan (co-wife) in lieu of two crores. After divorcing her husband, she starts living a luxe lifestyle and never misses the opportunity to flaunt her nouveau riche status before her friends and neighbours. However, she drifts away from her husband and children, who start taking a liking to Janhvi. Finally, Kajal realises her mistake and successfully convinces Janhvi to return her husband to her.