Pankaj Kapur

Pankaj Kapur

Born: May 29, 1954
in Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Movies for Pankaj Kapur...

Bheed
Title: Bheed
Character: Balram Trivedi
Released: March 24, 2023
Type: Movie
8 hours, complete lockdown in the whole of India, movement shut and state borders sealed. Thousands of migrants without food, water and mode of transport were forced to return to their homes. A crisis that shook the whole nation, a time when borders of disparity divided the people and one man stood for humanity.
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Lost
Title: Lost
Character: Nanu
Released: February 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Crime reporter Vidhi investigates the sudden disappearance of a college student. While society associates different theories for his disappearance, what really is the true story?
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Jersey
Title: Jersey
Character: Coach Bali
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: Movie
An ex-cricketer struggling to make ends meet, wants to fulfill his child's wish of getting an Indian jersey but in the process comes face to face with his heroic past and is forced to decide if he will rise to the occasion and become a symbol of hope or continue to live a life as a loser?
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Title: JL50
Character: Prof. Subroto Das
Released: September 4, 2020
Type: TV
A flight crash lands in West Bengal. However, what is so baffling about the incident is that plane went missing 35 years ago crashed a week back.
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Happi
Title: Happi
Character: Happi
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Happi is a comedy drama that tells the amazing story of survival of a social misfit set in Mumbai. The film is all about a man, who is content with what he earns as his needs are few and thus, he is comfortable being a misfit. He earns by making people laugh as well as by singing at Cafe Bombay.
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Toba Tek Singh
Title: Toba Tek Singh
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
The story takes place just before the India-Pakistan partition in one of the oldest mental asylums in undivided India. Situated in Lahore, it was home to Hindu, Muslim and Sikh patients who were left behind by their uncaring families. Friendships were thick between the patients who had nobody but each other for company. Each had a story that made for an interesting tale but none quite like Bishan Singh.
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Shaandaar
Title: Shaandaar
Character: Bipin Arora
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Jagjinder Joginder, a wedding planner, brings together the dysfunctional family of businessman Bipin Arora while making arrangements for Bipin's daughter's destination wedding in London.
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Finding Fanny
Title: Finding Fanny
Character: Don Pedro Cleto Colaco
Released: September 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Five friends from Goa get lost during a journey to discover the lot of the childhood sweetheart of an old postman.
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Title: Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Character: Harry Mandola
Released: January 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
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Chala Mussaddi - Office Office
Title: Chala Mussaddi - Office Office
Character: Mussaddi Lal Tripathi
Released: August 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Mussaddi Lal (Pankaj Kapoor), a retired school teacher goes on a pilgrimage for three months after his wife's death. When he returns, he finds his pension has been stopped and the pension office has declared him dead. What follows is his endless struggle against the petty corruption in the government office where the infamous gang of five -- Manoj Pahwa, Sanjay Mishra, Deven Bhojani, Hemant Pandey and Asawari Joshi -- are determined to fleece him till the very end.
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Halla Bol
Title: Halla Bol
Character: Siddhu
Released: January 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams.
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Blood Brothers
Title: Blood Brothers
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: Movie
This is a movie about how one small mistake can change your fate, the fate of people close to you, the fate of your unborn child.
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Religion
Title: Religion
Character: Pandit Chaturvedi
Released: June 8, 2007
Type: Movie
The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but due to requests from his wife - the family adapts the child; only to know after 4 years that the child is a Muslim. The family gives away the child and Chaturvedi engulfs himself in the purification process to cleanse his body, mind and soul due to contact with a Muslim soul. By the time, Chaturvedi thinks he is fully purified – the child reappears – seeking refuge, due to Hindu- Muslim riots. This is the time Chaturvedi finally realizes that the true religion is - religion where humans help humans – humanity.
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The Blue Umbrella
Title: The Blue Umbrella
Character: Nandakishore 'Nandu' Khatri
Released: December 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Young Biniya lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in the mountainous and snowy region of Himachal Pradesh in India along with her widowed mom and wrestler brother. She entertains various tourists, and while doing so with some tourists from Japan, trades in her bear-tooth amulet with a blue umbrella...
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Sehar
Title: Sehar
Character: Professor Bhole Shankar Tiwari
Released: July 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Ajay Kumar (Warsi) is the newly appointed, honest SSP of Lucknow police. Of his family only his mother (Mulay) remains, and she inspires and motivates him to do the right thing. Ajay tries to crack down on the UP mafia, but more often than not is betrayed by information-leaking local police officials. His boss tries to aid him by shielding him from political pressures, and by getting sanction for
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Dus
Title: Dus
Character: Himmat Mehndi / Jamwaal
Released: July 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Siddhant Dheer lives a wealthy lifestyle with his brother, Shashank, and sister, Anu. Both Siddhant and Shashank work for India's Anti-Terrorist Cell (ATC), along with Aditya and Aditi. After interrogating a suspect named Altaf, they get information that terrorists are planning a major strike in Canada that may endanger 25000 lives during the month of May. Altaf tells them the mastermind behind this attack is a terrorist named Jambhal, who has a contact named Himmat Mehndi. Shashank, and Aditya fly to Canada, meet with ATC Agent Neha, and then abduct Himmat, who denies that profusely. The duo team up with Canadian Police Officer Danish "Dan", and together attempt to piece together whatever information they have gathered from Himmat, only to find out that no one is who they claim they are, and the duo find themselves entrapped in a web of deceit and lies, with no clues as to who is behind the threat - the countdown for which has already begun. Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Title: Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon
Character: Satyaprakash
Released: June 26, 2003
Type: Movie
Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is the story of Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), a girl of today's generation full of life and vibrant ecstasy. She lives life on her own terms and gets very upset when her mother Susheela (Himani Shivpuri), arranges for her to see a boy leading to a marriage prospect.
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Maqbool
Title: Maqbool
Character: Jahangir "Abbaji" Khan
Released: January 30, 2003
Type: Movie
The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
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Title: Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
Character: Himself
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: TV
Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.
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Title: Office Office
Character: Musaddilal
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: TV
Office Office is an Indian Hindi-language television sitcom that premiered on SAB TV on September 3, 2001. The series starrs Bollywood film actor Pankaj Kapoor in the role of Mussadilal. The series has won the 'Best Comedy' award at the 'RAPA Awards' in 2001 and 2002.
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Rui Ka Bojh
Title: Rui Ka Bojh
Character: Kishan Shah
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a self-respecting, wise old Indian man, who decides to divide his wealth and property among his sons and then let them take care of them. But all doesn't go according to his plans as his sons don't want to take his responsibility and things start going downhill for the family from there. It's a journey of old-age, family values, love and respect for your family and responsibility.
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Ram Jaane
Title: Ram Jaane
Character: Pannu Technicolor
Released: November 29, 1995
Type: Movie
A street hustler, who has spent several years in and out of prison, decides to reform his life, as he teaches street kids to stay away from crime, but has trouble maintaining these ideals in his own life.
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Kshatriya
Title: Kshatriya
Character: Raja Devendra Pratap Singh (Surjangarh)
Released: March 26, 1993
Type: Movie
In the arid region of Rajasthan, India; there are two royal families, Mirtagarth and Surjangarh who believes in a religious ritual which states that a warrior from each of these two families will come together annually to have a fierce battle with the winner having to sacrifice a baby buffalo and it will rain in that person's territory. This tradition must be fated to carry on by the future generation as it is a rule of nature set down by their kin.
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Title: Watch Your Tongue
Character: Mohan Bharti
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: TV
Zabaan Sambhalke is a Hindi sitcom. An engineer Mohan Bharti is forced to teach Hindi at a language school. His students are people from all corners of the country and the world, exchanging cultures and lost in translations. It is the Indian version of the British sitcom Mind Your Language (1977).
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Roja
Title: Roja
Character: Liaqat
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them.
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Ek Doctor Ki Maut
Title: Ek Doctor Ki Maut
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
After years of painstaking research at the cost of his domestic pleasure, Dr. Dipankar Roy discovers a vaccine for leprosy. The news is flashed over television and overnight, an insignificant junior doctor receives international recognition. Professional jealousy and abuse of power threaten Dr. Roy, even as the Secretary of Health reprimands him for breaking the news to the press. He is asked to report to the Director of Health. Professional colleagues Dr. Arijit Sen and Dr. Ramananda invite him to a lecture but it is merely a pretence to humiliate him. Dr. Roy suffers a mild heart attack but he refuses to go to the hospital. His wife and few others like Dr. Kundu stand by Dr. Roy, but the harassment continues; a letter from an American foundation is suppressed and Dr. Roy transferred to a remote village. The last straw is two American doctors receiving credit for discovering the same vaccine. Dr. Roy is shattered. Written by Rajesh Das.
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Raakh
Title: Raakh
Character: Inspector P.K
Released: September 17, 1989
Type: Movie
After witnessing the public humiliation & abuse of a female friend, a young man vows to avenge her by going after the hoodlums responsible. he is guided by a burnt out, cynical cop, who shows him the ropes as well as the realities of vigilante life.
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The Lamp of the Tomb
Title: The Lamp of the Tomb
Character: Raunki
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Dalit Jagseer Singh's troubles do not seem to end in this poignant portrayal of life in a small village of Punjab in newly independent India.
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Kamla Ki Maut
Title: Kamla Ki Maut
Character: Sudhakar
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.
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Tamas
Title: Tamas
Character: Thekedaar
Released: August 15, 1988
Type: Movie
Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the partition.
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Main Zinda Hoon
Title: Main Zinda Hoon
Character: Ravi
Released: June 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Beena, a villager married to a man in the city, is shocked to find that her husband has left the house. She begins to provide for the family, but faces issues when she falls in love with a co-worker.
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Title: Tamas
Character: Thekedar
Released: January 9, 1988
Type: TV
Based on the novel by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas is an epic drama set against the backdrop of riot-stricken North India on the eve of Partition in 1947. Nathu, an outcast, is hired to kill a pig, whose carcass he’s later appalled to find in front of the mosque. A riot follows and, ridden with guilt, Nathu takes his ailing mother and pregnant wife and leaves town.
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Ek Aadmi
Title: Ek Aadmi
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The last film made by KA Abbas.
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Susman
Title: Susman
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A story about the "Ikat" handloom weavers of Pochampally through the master weaver Ramulu and his family struggle in time of mass-production.
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This Is Not Our Destination
Title: This Is Not Our Destination
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
1987 Hindi drama film written and directed by Sudhir Mishra, in a directorial debut. It starred Manohar Singh, Habib Tanvir, B. M. Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Sushmita Mukherjee and Naseeruddin Shah in lead roles
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Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Title: Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Character: Juror #3
Released: March 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men.
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Khamosh
Title: Khamosh
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
A suspense movie, wherein the murderer is among the group of people living together in a hotel, and the actual murderer is well hidden in the plot until the very end.
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Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya
Title: Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya
Character: Manohar
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Ravi, a wealthy model, leaves his father's business after unsatisfactory modeling work and returns to his parents' home to join struggle students and revolutionary Manohar.
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Chameli Ki Shaadi
Title: Chameli Ki Shaadi
Character: Kallumal 'Koylewala', Chameli's Father
Released: February 21, 1986
Type: Movie
Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love with her. A hilarious take on the caste system of India, as both of them come from different castes and try hard to marry each other.
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Musafir
Title: Musafir
Character: Shankeran Pillai
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A 1986 Bollywood film.
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Aghaat
Title: Aghaat
Character: Chhotelal
Released: August 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Madhav Verma is an honest and straight-forward union representative at Shivalik Engineering Works. His position and effectiveness is challenged when Chhotelal is injured. Krishnan Raju is the rival union leader whose methods are completely opposite to Madhav's ideals. The two unions clash on the Chhotelal's compensation issue. The climax shows Madhav Verma using the same exact tactics of his rival against them.
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Aitbaar
Title: Aitbaar
Character: Adovate Jha
Released: March 22, 1985
Type: Movie
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
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Khandhar
Title: Khandhar
Character: Dipu
Released: June 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
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Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
Title: Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
An old couple, Mohan Joshi and his wife, sues their landlord for not maintaining their 'collapsing' apartment building. For this, they hire two cunning lawyers. The court case drags on for years and the lawyers milk the old couple dry, while they become rich. Back home in the society, the old couple is ridiculed for fighting the landlord, but they fight on nevertheless.
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Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Title: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
Character: Tarneja
Released: August 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Two zanies open a photography studio. They score a partnership with a gossip magazine that suddenly thrusts them into a world of corruption, murder, and hijinks.
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Mandi
Title: Mandi
Character: Shantidevi's Assistant
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.
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Arohan
Title: Arohan
Character: Village Teacher
Released: January 30, 1983
Type: Movie
Hari Mondal(Om Puri) is a poor village farmer who lives in the remote Bengal village of Giripur in Birbhum district with his wife, two sons, brother, an old widowed aunt Kalidashi (Gita Sen)and her daughter Panchi. The movie opens in the mid sixties when the Naxalbari uprising is spreading across Bengal and oppressed farmers are being united by youths who believe in communism and a socialist republic.
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Gandhi
Title: Gandhi
Character: Pyarelal
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
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Aadharshila
Title: Aadharshila
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Aadharshila portrays the struggles of young people - especially graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India - to find a foothold in the Indian film industry. The film ends with the completion of the film-within-a-film.
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Title: IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Indian Airlines flight hijacked en route Kathmandu-Delhi on Dec 24, 1999, diverting to Kandahar under Taliban control.
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Jab Khuli Kitaab
Title: Jab Khuli Kitaab
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
upcoming hindi movie