Balraj Sahni

Balraj Sahni

Born: May 1, 1913
Died: April 13, 1973
in Rawalpindi, British India

Movies for Balraj Sahni...

Jallian Wala Bagh
Title: Jallian Wala Bagh
Character: Udham Singh
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The whole film is a story about Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
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Amaanat
Title: Amaanat
Character: Suresh
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Balraj Sahani plays a professional Artist with wife Achala Sachdev and son Manoj Kumar caught in the trap of Rehman and Shashikala who for the payment of a large Life insurance policy frame him in the murder of Rehman - who escapes to a world of crime after becoming a dead man for the world.
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Garm Hava
Title: Garm Hava
Character: Salim Mirza
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
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Hanste Zakhm
Title: Hanste Zakhm
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Film about the upper class in India.
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Hindustan Ki Kasam
Title: Hindustan Ki Kasam
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Jangal Mein Mangal
Title: Jangal Mein Mangal
Character: Thomas
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Biology professor and her students, including a convent nun go on a field trip, and stay at a Public Rooming House of a male group, led by retired colonel. But fate has other plans for them.
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Jawani Diwani
Title: Jawani Diwani
Character: Ravi Anand
Released: July 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Madhu marries Ravi Anand, the son of a mere employee in her Thakur brother's household, and this results in her brother breaking all relations with her. Madhu moves in with Ravi, and his younger brother, Vijay. Years later, she gives birth to a son, and attempts to reconcile with her brother, to no avail. Then Vijay meets Neeta and both fall in love. Little does Vijay know that Neeta is none other Thakur's daughter, who has already been promised to Benny Sinha.
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Pavitra Papi
Title: Pavitra Papi
Character: Panna Lal
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Kedarnath is employed with a local clock/watch repair shop, owned by a parsimonious Adarshan Lala. Kedarnath goes out of his way to help a destitute woman, Maya, who husband is missing, with two daughters, Veena and Vidya. Kedarnath rents a room with them, writes letters to her on behalf of her husband, Pannalal, and even arranges the marriage of Veena with the son of Daulatram. When Maya tells him that she has no money to pay for the marriage expenses, he steals cash from his employer, and tells Maya that the money is from Pannalal. And all along telling Maya that he is a close friend of Pannalal, even though he has never met Pannalal, leave alone know him, making one think as to what devious secret Kedarnath is hiding, and what is the reason behind Pannalal's disappearance.
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Pehchan
Title: Pehchan
Character: Baba
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
An impossibly innocent villager named Ganga comes to the big city to find a girl who would agree to become his wife. The first girl he meets is actually a troubled prostitute named Champa whom he manages to rescue from the brothel she has been in for some time. He takes her home and in a most typical Hindi film style, announces her as his sister. Along with them lives a crippled middle-aged man. Ganga falls for a beautiful girl named Barkha, and her parents agree to have them married, but alas, Barkha's brother Rakesh identifies Champa and the marriage is cancelled as a result.
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Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani
Title: Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani
Character: Shankarnath
Released: March 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Drama about 2 neighbouring families - one which is honest but poor, and the other uses any means to rise up the ladder of wealth quickly.
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Dharti
Title: Dharti
Character: Inspector General Chandrashekhar, Bharat's dad
Released: February 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Bharat (Rajendra Kumar) is a patriotic young man for whom patritism does not stop anywhere. He comes to know of the tyrancy of the present ruler's Diwan (Ajit) and he and his colleagues (Soodesh Kumar, Rajendra Nath) rebel. They kidnap Princess Chitralekha (Waheeda Rehman) unknowingly, and call her Jwala. Meanwhile, Bharat's dad (Balraj Sahni) who is the Inspector General, does not approve of Bharat's rebellious nature and decides to arrest him on sight. Bharat's mom (Kamini Kaushal) is torn between the love for her husband and her son. Bharat determination against the Diwan is so strong that he decides to bomb-blast a railway train transporting the Diwan, knowingly that his own dad is also travelling on that train. Will Bharat break his mom's heart by killing his dad and the Diwan? Good acting scores by the entire caste make this movie worth watching. Lyrics by Indivar.
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Mere Humsafar
Title: Mere Humsafar
Character: Ashok
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Raju is his real name but due to his unhealthy and unkempt manner of living, he is called "Junglee" by everyone in his village, all save for ex-convict Ustad Anwar who has served time for murder, and his father. When Raju's dad passes away, the local money-lender gives him an ultimatum to either re-pay the loan or he will take possession of his house and land. Raju decides to hitch a ride to Bombay, get a job, save some money, buy a couple of bullocks, till his land and re-pay the money-lender. No one gives him a ride, so he stows away in the back of a fruit-laden truck, which has one more stowaway, a run-away gypsy named Tarna. Both of them meet, fall in love, promise to help and marry each other. After the truck ride, they board a goods train bound for Bombay, but during the journey both get separated. A few months Raju finds out that Tarna is now known as Meenakshi, a movie actress.
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Do Raaste
Title: Do Raaste
Character: Navendu Gupta
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Navendu was a young motherless boy when his father married again. The step-mother saw the fear and doubt in the eyes of the boy and she promised him that he will be like a real son to her. Many years later his father on his death-bed took another promise from young Navendu, a promise to look after his step-brothers and sisters and step-mother, as if they were all of one blood. Navendu kept up his promise till they all grew up and he was like a father to them. Soon the day, came when the young brothers and sisters stood at the same window of life from where they have to select the Road of Sacrifice And the Road of Selfishness. The story of Do Raaste is the Drama of those brothers and sisters who take the different roads.
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Talash
Title: Talash
Released: August 9, 1969
Type: Movie
A business man must choose between keeping his promise to marry a poor village belle, or making it big by wedding his boss's daughter: a wealthy Westernized girl who bares a striking resemblance to his first love.
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Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke
Title: Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke
Released: February 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jaishankar meets and falls in love with Aarti, successfully woos her and agrees to meet with her dad to discuss their marriage. On the way there he ironically runs over him, killing him instantly. Guilt-ridden, he attempts to make amends to look after Aarti, her brother, Pappu, and sister, Mala, but conceals the fact that he was responsible for their father's death. Things get worse after Aarti not only discovers the truth, but also witnesses him getting intimate with a cabaret dancer, Rita. Then Jaishankar is first disowned by his father after the family find out that he had sired a son from Rita, and then subsequently arrested by the Police for killing Rita.
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Ek Phool Do Mali
Title: Ek Phool Do Mali
Character: Kailashnath Kaushal
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Tale of one child with two fathers, one who gave birth to him and another who raised him.
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Nannha Farishta
Title: Nannha Farishta
Character: Dr. Ramnath
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Govind, Nazir and Joseph decide to give up the world of crime when a little girl enters their life.
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Sunghursh
Title: Sunghursh
Character: Ganeshi N. Prasad
Released: July 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Bhavani Prasad is a powerful thug, who masquerades as a priest. His son Shankar refused to follow his path so he wants his grandson Kundan to carry on the legacy. When his son protests, in a fit of rage, Bhavani gets Shankar killed and passes the buck to his cousin Naubat Lal. When Naubat Lal spills the beans he gets him killed as well, which deepens the family feud.
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Duniya
Title: Duniya
Character: Public Prosecutor Ramnath Sharma
Released: March 6, 1968
Type: Movie
An advocate faces heavy odds defending the brother of his sweetheart.
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Neel Kamal
Title: Neel Kamal
Character: Mr. Raichand
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A newly married woman begins to sleepwalk, and her husband suspects she is inadvertently connecting with a lover from a past life.
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Hamraaz
Title: Hamraaz
Character: Police Inspector
Released: October 16, 1967
Type: Movie
A stage actor from Bombay becomes entangled in a murder mystery after he falls in love with a mysterious woman in Darjeeling and marries her.
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Naunihal
Title: Naunihal
Released: April 10, 1967
Type: Movie
The Principal of New Era High School in Panchgani finds an orphan, Raju, who had lost his parents to plague, brings him home, and enrolls him in the school. Raju notices that while every student has parents and visitors, he has no one to call his own. He gets distraught and is assured by the Principal that he does have a relative in Chacha Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister). Raju believes him, and when he finds out through his teacher, Uma, that Nehru will be delivering a speech in Chowpatty, Bombay, he sneaks off in the trunk of a car. Upon arrival he faces harsh realities, his money is almost stolen, and he is befriended by a cynical deranged male, who tells him that Nehru is now a speech-prone politician and is unable to hear what the common citizen has to say...
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Aman
Title: Aman
Character: Gautamdas' dad
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Dr. Gautamdas (Rajinder Kumar) attains his qualifications in London, England, and with the blessings of Lord Bertrand Russell (himself), returns to his home country and his dad (Balraj Sahni). Much to the disappointment of his dad, Dr. Gautamdas decides to re-locate to Japan, which has been devastated by the explosion of atom bombs on two of it's cities - Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There he meets with other doctors, and is given a tour of the patients and their families, and other survivors (Om Prakash, Chand Usmani, Baby Kavita). {Graphic scenes of the atrocities inflicted on innocent people} On a chance meeting with the beautiful Meloda (Saira Banu) he knows that they are destined to be one, and so does she. Meloda's dad is also a doctor (Chetan Anand). Meloda had studied in India and speaks Hindi fluently. Both fall in love amongst the splendour of Japan.
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Pinjre Ke Panchhi
Title: Pinjre Ke Panchhi
Character: Yasin Khan
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Businessman Sonu Sharma belongs to a wealthy family and lives with his widowed mother. He suddenly becomes ill, is hospitalized and looked after by a young nurse, Heena, who he falls in love with. After he gets discharged both of them get married in a secret temple ceremony. Thereafter, he asks Heena to resign from her job, re-locate to a small town where he has rented a house called "Madhu Villa", and he will join her soon. Upon arrival at Madhu Villa, Heena is met by Sonu's brother, Laalu, and their paternal uncle. Days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months and still Sonu has not arrived. Quite unknown to Heena, Sonu has no brothers nor even any uncles. The two masquerading are actually two escaped convicts, one of who is awaiting the death sentence, and there no guarantee that Sonu may ever return to live with her.
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Laadla
Title: Laadla
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Seeta marries a poor man against her family's wishes and becomes pregnant. Savitri, her sister, is childless and yearns to have a baby so Seeta gives away her child to her sister.
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Aaye Din Bahar Ke
Title: Aaye Din Bahar Ke
Character: Shukla
Released: November 4, 1965
Type: Movie
This romantic Bollywood musical tells the story of a young woman named Jumana (Sulochana) who has two secrets that she's hiding from the world: her marriage and the fact that she's given birth to a child outside of that marriage. Noteworthy for its popular music, the film focuses on humans' vast capacity for failure as well as the ways in which our actions can impact the innocent (or not-so-innocent) lives of others.
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Waqt
Title: Waqt
Character: Kedarnath
Released: July 28, 1965
Type: Movie
A businessman's family is torn apart by an earthquake and reunited years later in a courtroom where father and sons stand opposed in the roles of accused, lawyer, and witness.
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Faraar
Title: Faraar
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Calcutta-based Naval Officer Shankar Choudhry lives a wealthy lifestyle with his doctor dad, and mom. One day while returning home in a cab home from a Club, he comes an injured man, Shekhar, takes him home, has his dad nurse look after him, as well as goes to his home to notify his sister, Neela. Both Neela and he fall in love with each other. When Shekhar recovers, he returns home, and it is then that Shankar notices a change in Neela. When he questions her, she refuses to answer. Then Shekhar is shot and killed in his apartment. A Police Dectective Officer assigned to this homicide - has a lighter with the word 'S' engraved on it. This leads him to suspect three persons: One is a gangster named Shyam Sunder, second a delinquent runaway child, Sushil Kumar alias Daaku, who lives with his maternal uncle and aunt; and the third is none other than Shankar Choudhry himself.
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Dak Ghar
Title: Dak Ghar
Character: Andhe Baba
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new Post Office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fantasising about visiting the King beyond the hills, and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house
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Main Bhi Ladki Hoon
Title: Main Bhi Ladki Hoon
Character: Ganga
Released: October 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Rajni, a dusky, uneducated girl, is deceptively married off to Ram, son of a wealthy father. Although loved by all, a conniving relative sows the seeds of suspicion in the minds of the family members.
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Haqeeqat
Title: Haqeeqat
Character: Major Ranjit Singh
Released: February 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A platoon of Indian soldiers encounters harsh realities while fighting in the Sino-Indian War of 1962.
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Satluj De Kande
Title: Satluj De Kande
Character: Ram Praksh Malhotra
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Satluj De Kandhe (ਸਤਲੁਜ ਦੇ ਕੰਢੇ), also spelled as Satluj De Kande, is a 1964 National Award winning Punjabi romantic film directed by M. M. Billoo Mehra and produced by Padam Prakash Maheshwary, starring Balraj Sahni and Nishi.
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Anpadh
Title: Anpadh
Released: February 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A wealthy, pampered and illiterate woman faces many challenges after her marriage.
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Shaadi
Title: Shaadi
Character: Ratan
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The life of an impoverished male undergoes drastic changes after he gets his siblings married.
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Kabuliwala
Title: Kabuliwala
Character: Abdul Rehman Khan
Released: December 13, 1961
Type: Movie
A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.
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Sapne Suhane
Title: Sapne Suhane
Character: Shankar
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sapne Suhane is a 1961 hindi-language Romance movie.
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Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan
Title: Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan
Character: Shyam
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Geeta (Meena Kumari) is married to Shyam (Balraj Sahni) but is unable to bear children. Orphaned as a youth, Mohan (Sailesh Kumar) is raised by his elder brother Shyam and his wife, Geeta, who offers the boy motherly love and devotion. When Mohan marries Prabha (Seema Deo).Prabha is from a wealthy family and her life is ruled over by her dominating mom (Durga Khote). Mohan's his youthful bride becomes jealous of his loyalty to his family. Misunderstandings arise to such an extent that Prabha moves out of her home, and back to her mom's. She gives birth to a baby, and not even her husband comes to visit her or to see the baby. But when the infant falls ill, Prabha must set aside her apprehension and learn to trust.
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Bindya
Title: Bindya
Character: Devraj
Released: December 29, 1960
Type: Movie
A government contractor desires a criminal brother-in-low to marry a girl, but she has fallen in love with contractor's sobriety-conscious brother.
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Anuradha
Title: Anuradha
Character: Dr. Nirmal Chowdhary
Released: July 22, 1960
Type: Movie
There are moments in our lives when our whole being is put to the test. Our ideals, our ambitions, are forgotten and we crave for escape. Escape into our world of dreams. And such is Anuradha's (Leela Naidu) story. The daughter of a rich man, she has everything she desired, yet she goes on to marry Dr. Nirmal Chowdhary (Balraj Sahni), an idealistic doctor, who wants to serve the poor in the villages of India. Later when she is shown what she is missing by living with this poor doctor, she has to make the choice. The choice of her life or her love.
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Black Cat
Title: Black Cat
Character: Agent Rajan
Released: July 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Bombay Police are baffled by a series of crimes - all at the hands of arch-criminal "Black Cat" who leaves his calling card at every scene of the crime. The Commissioner assigns this matter to this best plainclothes agent, Rajan. Rajan's investigations lead him to suspect Professor Gupta, who is also the brother of his girlfriend, Nita. Rajan decides to use Nita's love for him, and spies on Gupta. When Nita finds out, she is enraged at Rajan, and blames the police who she feels are covering-up their inefficiency by making a scape-goat of an innocent man. Rajan fails to prove that Gupta is somehow involved with "Black Cat", and the Commissioner gives him a deadline. If Rajan does not apprehend Black Cat within that deadline, he may be suspended or even dismissed from the police force. With no clues whatsoever as to the whereabouts of Black Cat and it's gang, Rajan has the challenge of his life, which he may not be able to fulfill.
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Heera Moti
Title: Heera Moti
Character: Dhuri
Released: January 2, 1959
Type: Movie
An impoverished farmer faces problems after he is blacklisted for refusing to sell his prize-winning oxen to an oppressive landlord.
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Chhoti Bahen
Title: Chhoti Bahen
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Chhoti Bahen is the story about the delicate but powerful bond of love. Rajendra and Shekhar lose their parents, and the all they have is each other, and their younger sister Meena. Though in love, Rajendra swears that he will not marry till his younger brother and sister are settled. Shekhar falls in love with a rich girl Shobha. Meanwhile, Meena's marriage is fixed. Misfortune strikes when Meena meets with an accident and is blinded forever. Shekhar, pressed on by an impatient Shobha, marries her and they go away to live with her rich father. Rajendra loses his job. To support his poor blind sister, he is desperate for a job.
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Lajwanti
Title: Lajwanti
Character: Nirmal Kumar
Released: June 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Having been unjustly accused of having an affair, a dutiful and loving wife is thrown out of the house by her husband and forced to abandon her baby. When mother and child are eventually reunited, the mother faces an uphill struggle to regain the love of her daughter.
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Khazanchi
Title: Khazanchi
Character: Radhe Mohan
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Harish lives happily with his sister Geeta and his father Radhe Mohan. Radhe Mohan is the titular "khazanchi" (treasurer) at the Northern India Bank. Harish and Usha fall in love with each other. However, they face obstacles in their love life due to Usha's stepmother and Harish's father's death.
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Journey Beyond Three Seas
Title: Journey Beyond Three Seas
Character: Sakaram
Released: December 13, 1957
Type: Movie
This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian actor Oleg Strizhenov and India’s 1950s movie star Nargis.
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Mai Baap
Title: Mai Baap
Released: June 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Comedy move with Balraj Sahni and Johny Walker
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Kath Putli
Title: Kath Putli
Character: Loknath
Released: January 25, 1957
Type: Movie
In this Bollywood classic tearjerker, a romance for the ages blooms between the puppeteer Shivraj and the young admirer Pushpa after Shivraj loses the use of his hands and his livelihood. But love turns to resentment when Pushpa begins paying the bills with money made through her budding stage career. Will fierce pride keep them apart, or will Pushpa's faithful agent find a way to bring them together again?
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Bhabhi
Title: Bhabhi
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Shanta agrees to marry a lesser educated man.
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Garam Coat
Title: Garam Coat
Released: February 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Girdharilal lives a poor lifestyle in Delhi along with his wife, Geeta, and two daughters, and a son. He works as a Money Order Clerk in the Post Office, earns Rs.110/- per Mensem, and wears a torn coat that his wife is tired of stitching. One day at work, he makes an error in a money order but does manage to fix it, collects his pay, and returns home, refusing to drink...
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Seema
Title: Seema
Character: Ashok 'Babuji'
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Gauri, an orphan, is falsely accused of theft and lands up in a reformatory run by Ashok. Due to her rebelliousness, she gets into trouble. But, gradually she comes into her own with Ashok's help.
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Tonga-Wali
Title: Tonga-Wali
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A Indian Hindi-language drama film.
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Naukari
Title: Naukari
Released: October 12, 1954
Type: Movie
The comic, tragic and heartrending saga of Ratan Kumar Chaudhary, who leaves his village, aging mom and seriously ill sister, to obtain employment in Calcutta, only to end up in a tiny tenement apartment full of other unemployed youths.
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Rahi
Title: Rahi
Character: Doctor Thomas
Released: August 14, 1953
Type: Movie
After leaving British Army Ramesh joins a tea plantation as a supervisor, where he is required to harass Indians. Gradually his heart changes and falls in love with local girl and revolts against his British employer.
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Two Acres of Land
Title: Two Acres of Land
Character: Shambhu Maheto
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: Movie
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized by a corporation.
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Hum Log
Title: Hum Log
Character: Raj
Released: September 14, 1951
Type: Movie
An impoverished family faces illness and financial challenges after one of them is sent to prison.
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Dharti Ke Lal
Title: Dharti Ke Lal
Character: Niranjan, the eldest son of Samaddar
Released: January 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander
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Badnami
Title: Badnami
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
A 1946 film starring Manorama and Pran.
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Naya Raasta
Title: Naya Raasta
Character: Banshi
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Chander, a criminal lawyer, gives up his successful career and returns to his ancestral village. There, he comes face-to-face with social problems such as casteism, untouchability and poverty.