Sonali Bendre

Sonali Bendre

Born: January 1, 1975
in Mumbai - India
Sonali was born in Mumbai into a Marathi speaking Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family.She studied in Bangalore and Mumbai in Kendriya Vidyalaya Malleswaram and Holy Cross Convent High School, Thane. Thereafter she went to Welham Girls School, Dehradun. She married film director Goldie Behl on 12 November 2002. On 11 August 2005, she gave birth to a son, Ranveer, at the Breach Candy Hospital.

Bendre started out as a model before being selected for the "Star Dust Talent Search". She was invited to Mumbai and received training from a variety of top actors and performers of the Indian film industry. Her first role was in Aag (1994) opposite Govinda.The movie flopped,but she get noticed. And she get two awards for Filmfare Award for newcomer and Star Screen Awards Most Promising Newcomer. Though, she initially struggled to be a successful actress, she was eventually given critical acclaim for her performances in Diljale in 1996, followed by Bhai (1997), Sarfarosh, Zakhm, Duplicate, Kadhalar Dhinam (Tamil film), Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999), Tera Mera Saath Rahen (2001) and Anahat (2003) among others. She is also known for being one of the few actresses who acted opposite all top four Khans (Salman, Aamir, Shahrukh and Saif). She has also starred opposite Bollywood actors such as Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor. She also starred opposite Telugu Superstars Mahesh Babu in Murari, Chiranjeevi, Akkineni Nagarjuna and Nandamuri Balakrishna in films such as Indra, Shankar Dada M.B.B.S., Angaaray, Manmadhudu, Palanti Brahma Naidu and Kannada Superstar Upendra in the film Preethse (remake of Darr) That helped her to establish herself and she gain popularity in South and North. She is a well known Indian star internationally.

Movies for Sonali Bendre...

Title: The Broken News
Character: Amina Qureshi
Released: June 10, 2022
Type: TV
Indian news channels Awaaz Bharati News and Josh 24/7 have opposing principles that lead to a fierce rivalry. The dynamic journalists attempt to balance their lives while facing an uncertain future.
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Title: India's Best Dancer
Released: February 29, 2020
Type: TV
Professional and amateur dancers from across India showcase their talent in a series of rounds to impress the judges and win the title.
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Title: India's Best Dancer
Character: Judge
Released: February 29, 2020
Type: TV
Professional and amateur dancers from across India showcase their talent in a series of rounds to impress the judges and win the title.
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Title: BFFs with Vogue
Character: Herself
Released: September 25, 2016
Type: TV
Celebrities open up about everything from movies and fashion to personal style mantras and the latest gossip in Bollywood.
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Title: The Kapil Sharma Show
Character: Self
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: TV
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Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara!
Title: Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara!
Character: Mumtaz
Released: August 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Shoaib's life takes a precarious turn when he finds himself pitted against a younger contemporary - not just in "business", but in love...
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Title: Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Character: Self - Judge
Released: April 30, 2010
Type: TV
This program offers a platform for young dancers, where they compete through various challenging rounds to win. The show is judged by dance masters Raghuram, Pritiviraj and Raghav.
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Title: India's Got Talent
Character: Judge
Released: June 27, 2009
Type: TV
This talent show features a huge variety of talent ranging from the mundane to the bizarre from heart-stopping feats to the seemingly impossible giving Indians a platform to showcase their talents like no other.
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Title: Indian Idol
Character: Judge
Released: October 28, 2004
Type: TV
The Indian version of the Pop Idol format.
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Shankar Dada MBBS
Title: Shankar Dada MBBS
Character: Sunitha
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local goon with a good heart who defends his extortion and settlement business as social service to maintain peace in society. But he pretends to be a doctor to his parents to make them contended about their son's achievement. One fine day, Dr. Rama Lingeswara Rao (Paresh Rawal) - dean of the biggest medical college in Hyderabad - exposes the real identity Shankar Dada to his parents. Gravely disappointed, Shanakr Dada's parents vow not to visit their son's place and leave him. An emotionally wrecked Shankar Dada decides to become doctor in real to teach a lesson to Dr. Lingam and his beautiful daughter Sunita (Sonali Bendre) and at the same time to prove to his parents that their son is a doctor, in deed!
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Aga Bai Arechya
Title: Aga Bai Arechya
Character: Dancer in the song Cham Cham Karta
Released: June 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Shriranga Deshmukh is frustrated with all the women in his life. However, when he gets back from his native place, he realises he has supernatural powers allowing him to listen to any woman's thought. Inspired by "What Women Want".
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Kal Ho Naa Ho
Title: Kal Ho Naa Ho
Character: Priya (Special Appearance)
Released: November 27, 2003
Type: Movie
An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.
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Kal Ho Naa Ho
Title: Kal Ho Naa Ho
Character: Dr. Priya
Released: November 27, 2003
Type: Movie
An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.
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Eternity
Title: Eternity
Character: Queen Sheelavati
Released: October 6, 2003
Type: Movie
A woman pushes against social mores by asserting her right to sexual fulfillment.
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Chori Chori
Title: Chori Chori
Character: Pooja
Released: August 1, 2003
Type: Movie
'Chori Chori' is a romantic film telling the story of Ranbir (Ajay Devgan) and Khushi (Rani Mukherjee) who are as different as chalk and cheese. They bump into each other on the streets of Delhi. It certainly isn't love at first sight for them. In fact there is nothing but war of words and arguments. Circumstances keep Ranbir and Khushi together, much to their discomfort. Till they realize that th
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Palnati Brahmanayudu
Title: Palnati Brahmanayudu
Character: Siva Nageswari
Released: June 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Palnati Brahmanayudu  is an Action based movie. In which,  Bhavani Prasad (Bala Krishna) lives in Karampudi. Sruthi, a girl who is going to get engaged to an NRI (Pruthvi), falls in love with Bhavani Prasad. When their marriage is about to happen, a lady called Siva Nageswari (Sonali Bendre) enter the premises of hall and shoots at Bhavani Prasad.The rest of the story is all about why Siva Nageswari shoots Bhavani Prasad and Why?
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Manmadhudu
Title: Manmadhudu
Character: Harika
Released: December 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Abhiram, a misogynist, works as a manager in his own advertising agency. When his uncle, the chairman, appoints Harika as an assistant manager, he mistreats her, but his hatred soon turns into love.
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Khadgam
Title: Khadgam
Character: Swathy
Released: November 29, 2002
Type: Movie
After being victims of terrorism, an aspiring actor, a driver and a sincere police officer come together to stop a terrorist from fleeing and put an end to his plans.
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Indra
Title: Indra
Released: July 24, 2002
Type: Movie
Indra opens in a village in Andhra Pradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rival. After the funeral, no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will.
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Tera Mera Saath Rahen
Title: Tera Mera Saath Rahen
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Raj Dixit lives with his younger brother, Rahul, who is disabled, both mentally and physically, from birth. Raj is also employed full-time, and after work, has the responsibility of looking after Rahul, which leaves him no time for himself. His beautiful neighbor, Suman Gupta, is attracted to him, but he regards her as a friend only. When Mr. Khanna introduces him to his niece, Madhuri, both instantly falls in love. The only problem is that Madhuri will only marry Raj, if Rahul is institutionalized. Raj agrees to get him admitted in a facility, much to Madhuri's delight, and together they start to plan their marriage, not realizing that things are going to take a turn for the worse.
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Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega
Title: Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega
Character: Sapna Chopra
Released: June 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Desperate for money, three men plot to kidnap a woman and hold her for ransom.
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Murari
Title: Murari
Character: Vasundhara
Released: February 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Circa 1800's a Jamindar (Prakash Raj) insults Durga Devi by stealing her idol in the temple in a state of intoxication.An enraged Devi kills him and puts a curse on his heirs that she is going to take one family member each every 48 years. And one male heir dies accidentally at the end of every 48 years. And the present year denotes end of another 48 years and now it's the turn of Murari (Mahesh Babu). In another village, there lives Vasundhara (Sonali Bendre). She too lives with a big combined family.Both the families of Murari and Vasundhara are releated by blood, but separated due to the family feuds.They both fall in love and these both families makes the formal arrangement of marriage. But once his grandmother, who returns from her Teerdha Yatra, upon being informed by the family poojari that Murari is the one who would be subjected to death by Devi this year, refuses for the marriage.
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Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai
Title: Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai
Character: Saavni
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Gangaram alias Ganga has been raised by his foster parents who reside in the village thus he gets accustom to village life. 24 years later his birth parents multi-millionaire Avinash and his wife Radha comes to ask him to move into their bungalow located in the city to which Ganga agrees and goes to bid farewell to his friends and girlfriend Saawni. While in the city Ganga is introduced to his elder brother, Milind, his wife, Supriya, and his younger brother; Ganga finds it very hard to adjust to the city life and is often scuffed at. Avinash arranges his marriage with equally wealthy Tina to which he agrees although he is not comfortable with this marriage as he is still in love with Saawni; meanwhile Ganga's honest policy gets him and his new found family into further problems.
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Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai
Title: Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai
Character: Khushi Malhotra
Released: August 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Inspired by the Telegu (southern Indian) film, "Pelli Chuskundam," the plot follows the life of a rape victim (Aishwarya Rai). Now, a disgrace to her family, she is turned away from her house after the sexual assault. But she finds shelter in the character played by Anil Kapoor.
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Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke
Title: Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke
Character: Nisha
Released: July 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Karan Khanna is an orphan and a captain in the Rajputana Armed Forces. He's madly in love with beautiful model Nisha, with whom he plans to tie the knot during his next leave.
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Title: Kaun Banega Crorepati
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2000
Type: TV
Hosted by India's biggest superstar, Amitabh Bachchan, one of the biggest shows is here to entertain millions, change lives and make dreams come true.
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Chal Mere Bhai
Title: Chal Mere Bhai
Released: May 4, 2000
Type: Movie
The wealthy Oberoi family consists of dad, Balraj, his mother, and two sons, namely Vicky and Prem. Vicky is in love with a beautiful young woman...
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Dil Hi Dil Mein
Title: Dil Hi Dil Mein
Character: Roja R. Chandra
Released: April 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Ram Chandra is a Tamilian who lives in a shanty hut in Bombay's Dharavi, along with his mom and a younger sister. He dream is to attend school, which he does so, after his sister is loaned out to a beggar to collect alms, but she is unable to withstand hunger for long and passes away. Ram leaves home and subsequently works hard, studies, becomes rich and constructs several colleges to accommodate needy students. One such student he accommodates is a new arrival from Allahabad, Raja, and he arranges his admission in Ram Chandra College for Business Management along with full board and shelter. He also helps Raja sort out his personal problems, including his romance with a young woman he met at the Cyber Café and then at Bandra Railway Station. While Ram Chandra is busy arranging his daughter's marriage with Rajesh Gupta, the only son of a multi-millionaire and educationist, he is quite unaware that the object of Raja's affections is none other than Roja, his very own daughter.
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Preethse
Title: Preethse
Character: Kiran
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Preethse is a 2000 psychological thriller Kannada film starring Upendra, Shivrajkumar and Sonali Bendre.
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Hum Saath Saath Hain
Title: Hum Saath Saath Hain
Character: Preeti Shukla
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Ramkishen and his wife Mamta have three sons. Prem and Vinod have sweethearts in Preeti and Vivek marries Sangeeta. Since Vivek is Mamta's step-son, she plots to alienate him, but will she succeed?
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Kannodu Kanbathellam
Title: Kannodu Kanbathellam
Character: Kalyani
Released: August 13, 1999
Type: Movie
Seetharam is in love with Kalyani and wants to propose to her. However, when two lovers, Akhila and Akash, play a prank on Seetharam that results in him losing Kalyani, he takes revenge on them.
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Dahek A Burning Passion
Title: Dahek A Burning Passion
Character: Sabina Bahkshi / Neelima Bahkshi
Released: July 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Bengali-speaking Monalisa lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai along with her mom and wheelchair-bound dad. She and her mom had to endure considerable hardships since she was six years ...
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Kadhalar Dhinam
Title: Kadhalar Dhinam
Character: Roja
Released: July 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Two college students, the slum child Raja and the dean's daughter Roja, chat with each other over the Internet and fall in love. However, Roja is engaged and Raja cannot bear to disrespect her father, to whom he owes his livelihood.
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Love You Hamesha
Title: Love You Hamesha
Released: July 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Trouble follows when a young woman (Sonali Bendre) breaks her engagement to a jealous man (Amitabh Nanda) to marry someone else (Akshaye Khanna).
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Sarfarosh
Title: Sarfarosh
Character: Seema
Released: April 30, 1999
Type: Movie
When terrorists kill a cop's brother and disable his father, he fights back against the smuggling of guns and drugs which plagues his country.
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Zakhm
Title: Zakhm
Character: Sonia
Released: December 14, 1998
Type: Movie
Amidst religious riots, a son deals with his mother's life-threatening injuries, and her last request.
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Humse Badhkar Kaun
Title: Humse Badhkar Kaun
Character: Anu
Released: December 6, 1998
Type: Movie
Two brothers, one a villager and another a small time but street-smart con man, help their long lost mother, who happens to be the Chief Minister of the state, and oust her enemies and terrorists.
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Angaaray
Title: Angaaray
Released: July 24, 1998
Type: Movie
A police inspector (Akshay Kumar) learns that his childhood friends are working for a criminal and goes under cover to bring the crook to justice.
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Major Saab
Title: Major Saab
Character: Nisha
Released: June 26, 1998
Type: Movie
Major Jasbir Singh Rana (Amitabh Bachchan) trains cadets to become officers in the national defence academy. A spoilt brat Virendra Pratap Singh (Ajay Devgan) joins the academy. Little does he know the major is a strict disciplinarian who takes a row to straighten him and make him a soldier. Thus starts a war between the two. In the meantime Virendra falls in love with a beautiful girl NISHA (Sonali Bendre) whose marriage was fixed by his father to a wealthy contractor's son. But the girl loves Virendra against her father's will and so starts the fight between Virendra and the girl's father supported by the contractor and his son with gang. Majorsaab helps Virendra to get his love and to change Virendra from spoilt brat to a good and brave soldier.
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Duplicate
Title: Duplicate
Character: Lily
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Seeking vengeance on those who double-crossed him, an escaped prisoner impersonates an unsuspecting chef.
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Keemat
Title: Keemat
Character: Mansi
Released: April 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Ajay and Dev are two small-time crooks. One day they accidentally killed a man named Mohan Tripathi. With a good and pleasant mind they find out the address of the decreased and pays a visit to his village. Only to see the young man's family eagerly waiting for his return from abroad, seeing the family's plight they decides to lie about the young man and told the family that he is alive but was delayed because of some urgent work. Days and months passed and Mohan did not showed up towards his family and both young men continues to lie to them. The question remain what will be the outcome of Ajay and Dev when the family learns that there son is no longer alive and that both are his killers?
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Qahar
Title: Qahar
Released: December 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Inspector Amar faces a dilemma when he catches two criminals, Raja and Krishna, who are also battling corruption and crime in their respective ways.
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Tarazu
Title: Tarazu
Character: Pooja
Released: August 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Police Inspector Ram Yadav is a honest, handsome, and incorruptible young man. He lives with his sister-in-law, Shakuntala, and elder brother, Raj . A lovely yet petty thief, Pooja admires Ram so much that she moves in to his house in the guise of a maid-servant, and eventually claims that she is to bear his child. Ram, unable to handle this, agrees to marry her. His duties and investigation lead him to suspect the renowed and influential Appa Rao. Appa Rao is engraged at Ram, and watches and waits for an opportunity to strike back at him. Janardan (Mohnish Behl), Appa Rao's spoiled and way-ward son, initially attempts to pick up a college-girl, when she refuses and humiliates him publicly, he retaliates by setting her on fire in broad daylight, in front of several college students. No one is bold enough to stop Janardan, nor even attempt to save the girl. When Ram finds out, he immediately arrests Janardan and holds him in custody.
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Bhai
Title: Bhai
Character: Meenu
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Kundan, a simple village boy, comes to the city with his younger brother to earn a living. However, fate compels him to take a few erroneous steps that end up making him a notorious gangster.
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Rakshak
Title: Rakshak
Character: Dr Pooja
Released: November 23, 1996
Type: Movie
ASP Raj Sinha is assigned to nab the criminal responsible for printing and circulating fake currency notes. However, he is in for a rude shock when he learns that the criminal is his childhood friend
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Sapoot
Title: Sapoot
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
Singhania big hearten Don who does not like to trade in drugs and other illegal business which does not go well with his rivals Dhaneshwar and Tejeshwar.Singhania's older son Raj is taking care of his business,While is younger son Prem is a Casanova.Dhaneshwar is killed by Singhania when he attacks on Raj.Kantiilal and Samsher trusted aide of Singhania's betray him and he gets killed by them and Tejeshwar.
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Diljale
Title: Diljale
Character: Radhika
Released: September 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and arranges his wedding with his daughter. Before the engagement could take place, Ranvir finds out that he has a rival in Shaka, who was in love with Radhika before, and is all set to prevent this marriage at any and costs. Ranvir decides to postpone his wedding until such time he arrests Shaka and his associates - a decision that will not only pit him against well-armed terrorists, but also result in the abduction of a bus-load of Vaishnodevi devotees - which include Radhika and her Bua.
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English Babu Desi Mem
Title: English Babu Desi Mem
Character: Bijuriya
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Vikram Mayur is looking after his late brother's eight-year-old son and is torn between choosing to take Nandu back to England to learn his family's business, or risk throwing it all way.
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Apne Dam Par
Title: Apne Dam Par
Character: Special appearance
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Ram (Mithun Chakraborty) and Sapna Saxena (Shilpa Shirodkar) are in love. Sapna's brother Ranjit Saxena (Shakti Kapoor) is considered as best businessman of India. He is very proud of his wealth and status. He is planning to marry his sister to his business partner Verma's (Raza Murad) house. However, when Ranjit comes to know that his sister is in love with Ram who is merely a motor mechanic, he becomes furious. He tries to convince Ram to leave his sister by offering him money but Ram rejects his offer. Ranjit plans to murder Ram. But Sapna comes his way and sacrifices her life for Ram. The history repeats itself when Ram's younger brother Shayam (Irfan Kamal) and Ranjit's sister Divya Saxena (Anita Sharadda Nigam) fall in love. Will Shayam and Divya face the same consequences as Ram and Sapna or Ram will succeed to get his brother's love that is film's climax.
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Takkar
Title: Takkar
Character: Mohini
Released: July 13, 1995
Type: Movie
A convict studies law in prison and becomes a lawyer to seek revenge against the corrupt police officer who framed him on the very day of his marriage.
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Gaddaar
Title: Gaddaar
Character: Priya
Released: June 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Vijay (Harish) and Sunny (Sunil Shetty) are two friends, who are very close to each other. They study together in college and even fall in love with the same girl, Priya (Sonali Bendre). Sunny is rich and influential, and likes to control and dominate. Vijay comes from a poor family. Sunny wants to control the college scene using Vijay as a puppet, which does not work to Sunny's satisfaction. As a result, Sunny's dad (Mohan Joshi), who owns part of the college, steps in, to assert his and Sunny's position, as well as put pressure on the college authorities, and as well on the other hand, attempts to teach Vijay a lesson for betraying Sunny. But Sunny wants revenge in his own way, and he does so diabolically, by being even more friendly and close to his Vijay and his family. Will Sunny succeed?
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The Don
Title: The Don
Character: Anita malik
Released: April 28, 1995
Type: Movie
The Don is the story of a common man, later becoming a Don, who always stands for justice and poor against all odds and evil minds. His sister is yet to forgive him as he had murdered her fiancee
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Bombay
Title: Bombay
Character: Dancer in the song 'Humma Humma'
Released: March 10, 1995
Type: Movie
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
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Naaraaz
Title: Naaraaz
Released: August 19, 1994
Type: Movie
Wealthy author Ajay Pandit befriends angry and poor Deva, who lives in the nearby slums with his widower father. After the two men grow up, Ajay falls in love with Sonali, while Deva continues to live a life of destitution.
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Aag
Title: Aag
Character: Parul
Released: July 27, 1994
Type: Movie
Birju is the mysterious guardian of a remote village. One day, a beautiful young woman arrives and disrupts the order. This disruption forces Birju into conflict with the village aristocracy and reveals his shocking past.