Nirupa Roy

Nirupa Roy

Born: January 4, 1931
Died: October 13, 2004
in Valsad, Bombay Presidency, British India
Nirupa Roy (born Kokila Kishorechandra Bulsara) was an Indian actress who had appeared in Hindi films. Noted for her portrayals of tragedy and sorrow, Roy was idolized for her acting ability,and was often called the "Queen of Misery" in Hindi film circles. Roy was active from 1946 to 1999, and was best known renowned for playing motherly roles. Roy appeared in over 250 films, and won three Filmfare Awards throughout her career, as well as being nominated for one. In 2004, Roy received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Movies for Nirupa Roy...

Lal Baadshah
Title: Lal Baadshah
Character: Lal's foster mother
Released: March 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Lal Baadshah is a 1999 Bollywood film directed by K.C. Bokadia and starring Amitabh Bachchan in a dual role, Raghuvaran, Manisha Koirala, Shilpa Shetty and Amrish Puri. Nirupa Roy also appears in her last film playing Bachchan's foster mother. This was Bachchan's third film since his comeback after a five-year hiatus; it failed at the box office but hit in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
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Humshakal
Title: Humshakal
Character: Vinod's mother
Released: July 31, 1992
Type: Movie
Commissioner Kapoor makes Dadu Kaliya take the place of his lookalike inspector Vinod who was killed by Devi Dutt but how long will he hide the secret of Vinod's death from his family.
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Mere Sajana Saath Nibhana
Title: Mere Sajana Saath Nibhana
Character: Kanhaiya's Mother
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A poor village boy falls in love with a pretty girl and yearns to marry her. However, the girl turns out to be a wealthy landlord's mistress and faces many restrictions. A remake of the 1990 Tamil hit Kizhakku Vasal.
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Pratikar
Title: Pratikar
Character: Parvati Prasad
Released: August 16, 1991
Type: Movie
A boy grows up with a teacher's family after his uncle has the boy's father killed for personal gain.
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Kaaranama
Title: Kaaranama
Released: November 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Suraj who is a private horse trainer whose best friend in the whole world is his wonder horse. The horse, Chetak, poses a direct threat to millionaire punter, Rana on the race course and the macho Suraj poses a challenge to Rana.
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Pyar Ka Devta
Title: Pyar Ka Devta
Character: Parvati Kumar
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Film starring Mithun Chakraborty and Madhuri Dixit
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Dana Paani
Title: Dana Paani
Character: Satya Prakash's Mother
Released: June 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Charged with the brutal killing of Savitri and Kutti, facing a death-sentence, or life in prison, accused Bombay taxi-driver, Satyaprakash Tripathi, prosecuted by his very own brother, Gautam, tells his story of how he arrives in the city along with his mother, Shanti, and sister, Gauri; how they get estranged from Gautam; how Gauri becomes a prostitute; and how he ended up being arrested by the Police.
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Santosh
Title: Santosh
Character: Kamla
Released: February 28, 1989
Type: Movie
Cold-hearted and manipulative Kamla has fallen in love with a poor man and marries him and has a child named Santosh. She soon realizes that life is not fun living in poverty, and abandons her child and husband, and returns back to her father and his wealth. She re-marries millionaire Kailashpathi, and has a child named Kundan from him. Years pass by, Kundan and Santosh have both grown up. Kundan is the owner of the mill with his mom, while Santosh is a struggling mill worker, and a union worker. A confrontation ensues between the mill and the workers, and Kamla is able to negotiate a settlement and get the workers back to work, but fails to keep the promise. Santosh opposes this, and she sets her goons and Kundan against him. Santosh is abducted and held prisoner by Kamla and Kundan, and the only way he can be released is when he compromises with them.
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Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi
Title: Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi
Character: Bharati Devi (Gangaa's Mother)
Released: December 23, 1988
Type: Movie
Gangaa Jamunaa and Saraswathi the most pious rivers, create a unique holy merger, popularly known as "Sangam". Likewise the characters of our story Gangaa Jamunaa and Saraswathi desire to meet and merge in love of each other. Gangaa Jamunaa begin to love each other and pledge to become one, Saraswati silently loves Gangaa, and dedicates her life to him. However there are many, who would like to separate the happy lovers. There is Hansraj, who does it, and with the result Jamuna separates from Gangaa. Jamuna reaches Shanker's home, Shanker who already loved her becomes extremely happy finding Jamuna in his home. In the meantime Saraswati was about to come closer to Ganga. When Hansraj, who had earlier swindled the property of Ganga's father by illegal means wanted to get rid of the rightful owner Ganga, he got Ganga shot. Ganga was badly wounded and there was no hope of his survival.
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Ganga Tere Desh Mein
Title: Ganga Tere Desh Mein
Character: Ajay's mother
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Inspector Ajay lives with his widowed mother in a city in India. He has been assigned the task of bringing in notorious bandit and gangster named Cobra, who has been terrorising and killing people all over India. He does succeed in arresting him, and holds him in a cell, only to find out that he is insane, and must be institutionalised. Thereafter, Ajay awaits Cobra's treatment so that he can proceed with his investigation. One day while his mother packs his lunch, he finds out that it was poisoned, it did not affect him, but it kills another colleague. His mother, relieved to find out that Ajay is alright, is more concerned about Cobra, who was also sent some food. Ajay is baffled as to why his mother would feed a senile criminal, and he sets out to find out why. The truth will devastate him, make him lose his job, and change his outlook on life forever.
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Sone Pe Suhaaga
Title: Sone Pe Suhaaga
Character: Mrs. Kashinath
Released: August 26, 1988
Type: Movie
A businessman's wallet is stolen by a pickpocket, which inadvertently reunites him with his long-lost family. However, this incident also puts all their lives at risk from a powerful gangster.
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Charanon Ki Saugandh
Title: Charanon Ki Saugandh
Character: Ravi's Mother
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Charanon Ki Saugandh is a 1988 Hindi-language Indian feature film directed by K. Bapaiah, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Amrita Singh, Nirupa Roy, Prem Chopra, Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Raj Kiran and Kader Khan.
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Pyar Ka Mandir
Title: Pyar Ka Mandir
Character: Mrs. Laxmi Kumar
Released: March 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Widow Laxmi lives a meager but happy existence with her four children. As her son Vijay struggles to support the family, Laxmi is swindled out of her life savings. Vijay swears revenge, resulting in a series of shifting fortunes that send the entire family into upheaval.
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Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani
Title: Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Shortly after giving birth to Savitri, her mom passes away, leaving her disabled dad, Dharamraj, no alternative save to re-marry Champa, who gives birth to a son, Ketan. Champa is very cruel to Savitri and severely slaps and beats her around.
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Pyaar Karke Dekho
Title: Pyaar Karke Dekho
Character: Lilavati
Released: February 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Orphaned Ravi Kumar lives in Poona, India, with his maternal uncle. As he wants to pursue a career as a singer/dancer, he re-locates to Bombay, so that he could audition for the All India Talent Association.
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Naam O Nishan
Title: Naam O Nishan
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Suraj (Sanjay Dutt), a police inspector, grew up in a wealthy family headed by his police inspector father, Sangram (Shashi Kapoor), but when his sister's wedding falls apart due to Sangram's refusal to remove his brother from the house, Suraj confronts some family skeletons. Soon Suraj finds himself arrested for murder, and the woman he loves, Vanisha (Amrita Singh), may be implicated in this action-packed thriller from India.
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Aaj Ka Daur
Title: Aaj Ka Daur
Character: Laxmi Agnihotri
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
This film is about a university graduate Jackie Shroff, who can get no better job than a petrol pump employee, a girl Padmini Kolhapure, who is struggling to pay for college, and others in a building owned by Prem Chopra, who attempts to evict them with the help of Shakti Kapoor.
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Mard
Title: Mard
Character: Rani Durga Singh
Released: October 9, 1985
Type: Movie
King Azad gets locked in a dungeon by the British general Dyer who wants to take over his kingdom. Years later, Azad's son decides to put an end to Dyer's tyranny and comes to his father's rescue.
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Geraftaar
Title: Geraftaar
Character: Mrs. Durga Kumar Khanna
Released: September 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Brothers Karan and Kishan are separated when Karan is framed for a murder, leading him to commit suicide. But, he is saved and grows up to become a cop. Years later, Kishan too is framed for a crime.
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Sarfarosh
Title: Sarfarosh
Character: Jwala's Mother
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Wrongly imprisoned and seeking vengeance against his oppressors, a man must face-off against his own son.
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Mawaali
Title: Mawaali
Released: November 4, 1983
Type: Movie
Nisha Verma's relatives wish that she would marry her cousin in order to keep the wealth in the family, but instead, she falls for an unapproved man named Ramesh, who is later accused of murdering her father. Having witnessed her lover at the scene of the crime, Nisha testifies against Ramesh, who's sentenced to death. But she's plagued by questions about why Ramesh was in her house and whether, in fact, he was responsible for her father's death.
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Betaab
Title: Betaab
Character: Sumitra Devi Kapoor
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Sunny owns a small livestock farm and lives a poor but happy life style with his mother, Sumitra. They wanted the farm to become up to date, so Sumitra decides to make a move abroad in order to bring new equipments for the farm, leaving Sunny in the care of the farm. One day while distributing eggs and chickens, Sunny reaches up with Roma Singh and both can get into the pettiest quarrels and they soon begins to fight and Sunny offers Roma to rebuild his farm house as a part of her punishment. Both soon realize that they are childhood lovers and attempts to rebuild that love once again, both are successful in doing so and plans to get married but there love is opposed by Roma's dad, the wealthy and famous businessman, Sardar Dinesh Singh Girji, who will do anything in his power to prevent Roma and Sunny from meeting leave alone marriage.
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Jaanwar
Title: Jaanwar
Released: January 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A young woman (Zeenat Aman), who grows up in the wild, knows the secret of a lost treasure, and is also the heir to the throne. She meets with a young man (Rajesh Khanna) and both fall in love. Then the people find out that she actually is the heir to the throne, so she re-locates to the palace. Once there, she is brainwashed into forgetting who she is, and the man she loves. Notable song: "Pyar me nazar churai nahin jati, apno se koi baat chupai nahin jati, dilbar janam janam, janam janam...";
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Deedar-E-Yaar
Title: Deedar-E-Yaar
Character: Mrs. Nawaz Khan
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Childhood pals Javed (Rishi Kapoor) and Akhtar (Jeetendra) will do anything for each other, but their loyalties are tested when they fall in love with the same woman. For Javed, it's love at first sight when he meets the beautiful Firdaus. But when her father insists she marry the wealthy Akhtar instead, the loyal young man agrees -- but only to help out Javed by quickly divorcing her. Now that he's seen her, though, that may prove difficult.
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Badle Ki Aag
Title: Badle Ki Aag
Character: Durga
Released: May 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Beautiful and talented Geeta, a prostitute, has three suitors. One is Lakhan Singh, a dacoit with a heart of gold, who saved her life, loves her and will do anything for her. The second is Police Inspector Amar Verma, who loves her with all his heart, and will do anything for her. And the third is Sher Singh, a dacoit, who loots, plunders, and has his way with women. When he sees Geeta he falls head over heels in love with her, and wants her - by hook or by crook. And he will make sure that no one will get in his way. Watch how the three battle each other, leaving the final decision to Geeta to chose who she will spend the rest of her life with.
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Teesri Aankh
Title: Teesri Aankh
Character: Malti Nath
Released: April 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Childless Malti is married to a honest man, Kailash Nath, who one day brings home a newborn baby boy and asks her to take care of him. Malti names the boy Ashok, and brings him up as her very own. Thereafter she gives birth to two boys, Amar and Anand. When Kailash testifies against dreaded bandit & devil worshiper, Jabbar Singh, he is threatened with death. Jabbar is sentenced to be hanged, but before that could happen he is killed. Jabbar's son, Sheroo, avenges his father's death by killing Kailash. Sheroo is arrested by Kailash's friend, Inspector Om, and sentenced to 20 years. A dying Kailash informs Malti that Ashok is Devki's, his first wife's son, and makes her promise that she wil continue to love Ashok as her own, which she does, and Kailash passes away. When she returns home she finds out that Amar is missing, possibly drowned. She blames this on Ashok and starts hating him. Sheroo escapes from prison, abducts Inspector Om and holds him prisoner, whipping him regularly.
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Main Inteqam Loonga
Title: Main Inteqam Loonga
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Kumar Agnihotri belongs to a wealthy family, consisting of his dad, Madan, and mom, Janki. He is in love with beautiful Mala Bajpai, and they hope to marry soon with the blessings of their respective parents. Kumar's other passion is boxing, which Janki loathes, and hopes that he will give this up soon. When the Agnihotris bring home a woman named Ganga, and introduce her to Kumar as Janki's childhood friend, Kumar finds out that Ganga is his biological mother, and his father, Ajay Kumar, was the National Champion in boxing, who was killed by three men for refusing to lose a fight. While Janki is afraid that she is going her son to Ganga, Kumar has decided to avenge his biological's father's death by any means, little realizing that he may face the same fate his father did years ago.
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Katilon Ke Kaatil
Title: Katilon Ke Kaatil
Released: December 11, 1981
Type: Movie
A weather widow spends her life searching for her two missing sons to bestoy her fortune on. When she finally finds two young men, are they who they seem?
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Shakka
Title: Shakka
Character: Geeta
Released: November 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Shakka witnesses the murder of his parents by some businessmen. Years later, he sets out to seek revenge and joins the same gang that killed his parents.
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Jail Yatra
Title: Jail Yatra
Character: Radha Verma
Released: September 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Raju comes from a middle-class family, and lives with his mother. He meets with nurse Shobha, and both fall in love. The only problem is that Raju somehow or other always gets mixed up in problems, and ends up getting in trouble with the police. As a result, he ends up getting in jail very often. One day he really gets into trouble by antagonizing a notorious gangster, and has to run for his life. Due to his "trouble maker" character no one really believes him, and it is upto him to save himself from this problem, without ending up in prison again.
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Khoon Aur Paani
Title: Khoon Aur Paani
Character: Mrs. Singh
Released: April 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Singh is a farmer and lives a poor lifestyle along with his wife, and two sons, Ram and Laksman. The region is drought stricken, while in contrast there is plenty of water being pumped to bath the dogs of Thakur Vikram Singh. When Ram decides to divert some water for their parched fields, Vikram kills his father. An enraged Ram goes to avenge his death, manages to kill Vikram's brother, but is seriously injured, loses his memory and ends up with a gang of bandits and is renamed Thanedar Singh as he was dressed in the clothes of a police inspector. Lakshman gets separated from his mother and is found near a river bank by Police Commissioner Bhalla, who adopts him. Years later the two brothers are fated to meet again albeit as strangers and mortal enemies as Lakshman is a incognito CBI Officer, while Ram is dreaded bandit Thanedar Singh who is unable to recall his childhood, and loses control whenever he hears the sound of a water-pump.
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Kranti
Title: Kranti
Character: Radha
Released: February 3, 1981
Type: Movie
The film takes place in 19th Century British India and is the story of the fight for independence from the British in the years spanning from 1825 to 1875. It tells the story of two men who led the war against British Rule, Sanga and Bharat both of whom call themselves Kranti.
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Aas Paas
Title: Aas Paas
Character: Arun's Mom
Released: January 16, 1981
Type: Movie
After her fiancé is killed in an accident, Seema becomes a bar dancer and is raped. When her fiancé miraculously returns, she learns that her rapist is his uncle.
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Lootmaar
Title: Lootmaar
Character: Satyavati
Released: April 10, 1980
Type: Movie
Indian Air Force pilot Bhagat lives with his wife, Raksha and a young son. While going to the bank one day, the family find that the bank is being held up. The bank-robbers panic at the arrival of the police, and fire randomly, killing Raksha instantly. Bhagat witnesses this horrific spectacle and is unable to do anything to save his wife. The robbers were masked, but one of them had a tear in his shoe and another was wearing a locket, very similar to the one worn by his wife. Bhagat's inquiries take him to the northernmost hilly regions of India, where he must confront the past, as well as seek out the elusive killers and bring them to justice, not knowing that in so doing he will be endangering the life of his son.
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Ahinsa
Title: Ahinsa
Character: Birju's mother
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A chance encounter between two widows who lost their husbands and sons to violence sets the story going. Birju (Sunil Dutt) has received the highest military honour in battle. He returns home to his village and promptly becomes an outlaw leader (dacoit). He crosses swords with a vicious dacoit called Raka.
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Suhaag
Title: Suhaag
Character: Durga Kapoor
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi. Durga gives birth to twins, and Jaggi steals one of them, and sells him to a bootlegger, Pascal. Durga is upset when she finds her son missing, but is devastated when Vikram abandons her. With a lot of difficulty, Durga brings up her son, Kishan, and has given up on finding her other son. Kishan has grown up and is now a dedicated police officer. On the other hand, Pascal has exploited Amit, kept him illiterate, doing petty crime, and alcoholic. This gets him in confrontation with Kishan, but ironically the two settle their differences and become fast friends. Vikram is still alive, and is not aware of his two sons and wife being alive.
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Naalayak
Title: Naalayak
Character: Sita Narayan
Released: September 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Laxman has always been the black sheep of the family, and is regarded by them as a no-good slacker. His brother, Ram Narayan, who works in jewellery store, asks him to deliver some money to a businessman out of town, but Laxman instead gets an expensive necklace for a girl named Seema, he just met, just to impress her. Laxman's friend, Rita, finds out that her jewellery is fake, and accuses Ram. Ram assures everyone that he will settle this matter with Rita. The next day Rita is murdered, and Ram is arrested, and imprisoned. Everyone has given up hope for Ram's release, except for Laxman, who has now decided to go straight, and get his dad out of this mess, not knowing that he, himself, is jeopardizing his very own life, and that of Sita and nephew as well.
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Kartavya
Title: Kartavya
Character: Vijay & Ajay's Mother
Released: May 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Vijay Kumar, a forest officer returns to the forest where his dad met an untimely end. Will his secret plan to snare poachers succeed? Sandalwood, ivory,animal hides and raw power is at the nexus of money and corruption.
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Gautam Govinda
Title: Gautam Govinda
Character: Ganga
Released: February 20, 1979
Type: Movie
Impressed with the dedication shown by Police Inspector Gautam, the Commissioner of Police assigns him to police a lawless town, which is over-run by criminals, and where no police officer has survived for more than a few days. Gautam accepts this assignment, and travels to this town. He finds the town is indeed over-run by criminals, and ruled over by arrogant and aristocratic Dharamdutt. When Dharamdutt comes to know about Gautam, he asks his personal hit-man to get rid of him. The personal hit-man is none other than Govinda - a man who has never been beaten by anyone.
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Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
Title: Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
Released: October 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Sikandar, an orphan, makes many friends and foes as he works his way up to become rich, but his heart only yearns for his unfulfilled childhood love, Kaamna. Though he finds temporary comfort in an enchanting prostitute named Zohra, all hell breaks loose when Kaamna falls for Sikandar's best friend.
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Anjane Mein
Title: Anjane Mein
Character: Mrs. Shanti Manohar Lal
Released: May 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Raja, a young boy, is separated from his parents in a train accident and taken in by a circus troupe. Years later, when an evil man hatches a heist, it is up to Raja to stop him.
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Aankh Ka Tara
Title: Aankh Ka Tara
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Geeta falls in love with a blind radio singer named Mohan, but his disability hampers their happily-ever-after.
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Amar Akbar Anthony
Title: Amar Akbar Anthony
Character: Bharati
Released: May 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Bollywood action comedy film with a lost and found theme, about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions. They meet in their youth to fight a common villain. It was the biggest blockbuster of 1977, and won several awards at 25th Filmfare Awards including Best Actor, Best Music Director and Best Editing.
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Aaina
Title: Aaina
Character: Savitri R. Shastri
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
An upper-caste Hindu Brahmin struggles to make ends meet forcing his daughter, Shalini, to take the burden of maintaining the family upon her shoulders
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Anurodh
Title: Anurodh
Released: February 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Mr. Choudhary does not approve of his son, Arun, indulging in singing songs and music. He wants him to be a businessman like himself. Out of fear of his father finding out about his continued indulgence, Arun changes his name to Sanjay Kumar. He soon becomes a popular singer, and is even hired by the local radio station to sing songs. With his increasing popularity, the risk of his dad finding out the truth has also increased, and Arun must try and keep his family life and his singing career a secret, but the question is how long will he continue to do this.
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Khoon Pasina
Title: Khoon Pasina
Character: Aslam's Mother
Released: January 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Shiva / Tiger is the local criminal don in his part of the town where he lives with his mother. His mother wants him to marry and settle down, and give up his criminal activities. Shiva meets with Chanda and both are attracted to each other, and soon get married. Chanda is appalled at the way Shiva leads his life, with everyone around petrified of him. She asks Shiva to give up his criminal activities, and get a job. Shiva agrees, but the question is will he keep to his promise or will he just pretend to be honest in front of Chanda. And on the other hand is Shera, a dacait with a good heart. Both Shiva and Shera are rivals. When Shera hears of Shiva attempting to go straight, he decides to move in on Shiva's territory, with results that will change their lives forever. (Taken from Wikipedia -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoon_Pasina- )
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Aap Beati
Title: Aap Beati
Character: Lajjo K. Kapoor
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The Kapoor family consists of Kishorilal, his wife Lajjo, son, Prakash, and daughter, Geeta. Kishorilal and Geeta toil hard to ensure that Prakash gets a good education so that he can study in America, return home, and repay the loans that the family has taken. Prakash does get to complete his studies, he also travels to America, upgrades, and returns home to be employed as Kishorilal's boss. Then Prakash gets married to Reena, who comes from a wealthy family, and moves in with them. Geeta confides in Reena that she has met a young man by the name of Ranjit, both are in love and want to get married. The entire family is overjoyed, but their joys are short-lived when Ranjit's dad, Mayadas, asks him to get married to the daughter of a wealthy man, when he refuses, he is asked to leave.
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Maa
Title: Maa
Character: Vijay's Mother
Released: August 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Vijay lives with his mother in a palatial house deep in the jungles in South India where he makes a living trapping animals for circuses, zoos - both nationally and internationally. He meets with beautiful U.S.-returned Nimmi, both fall in love with each other and want to get married. Vijay's mother cautions them both against separating new-born animals from their birth mothers, but both refuse to listen. Then the unexpected happens, a mother lioness, angered at Vijay for taking her cubs, attacks him, and leaves him badly wounded.
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Deewaar
Title: Deewaar
Character: Sumitra Devi
Released: January 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Reflecting the tumultuous politics of the early ’70s in India, Deewar tells the story of a pair of impoverished brothers who, after their family is betrayed by the misplaced idealism of their father, struggle to survive on the streets of Mumbai. They head for a showdown when one becomes a policeman, and the other becomes a criminal.
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Ponga Pandit
Title: Ponga Pandit
Character: Janki S. Nath
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Haridwar-based Neelkanth Pandey and Shambhu Nath get their children, Bhagwantiprasad and Parvati respectively, married. Whille Shambhu re-locates to live in Bombay, Neelkanth continues to reside in the same residence. Years later both children have grown up, so Neelkanth invites the Naths to finalize the nuptials. Very soon the Pandeys will face humiliation and ridicule at the hands of Parvati, who now calls herself Pamela, and Shambhu, who wants his daughter to marry someone sophisticated and wealthy, while Parvati is in love with a singer named Rocky. Bhagwanti is determined to fulfill his parents' wishes and decides to stay wed to Parvati, re-locates to Bombay, to try and woo her back - with results that will end up changing his life forever.
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Roti
Title: Roti
Character: Malti
Released: October 11, 1974
Type: Movie
An escaped criminal finds refuge with the family of a man he killed accidentally.
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Zehreela Insaan
Title: Zehreela Insaan
Character: Shobha
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
Arjun, a hot headed but soft hearted man, always finds himself in situations that others take him as a bad person. His childhood teacher Masterji is the only person understands him & appreciates his good quality and Arjun follows his instruction/wishes completely. Arjun loves Aarti and wants to marry her but Aarti's father does not endorse this alliance and decides to get her marry to someone else. Arjun is agitated but Masterji calms him down and asks him to not disrupt this marriage, instead convince Aarti to marry the boy her father has chosen for her. Arjun follows what Masterji has asked him. Devastated Arjun finds love in Margret who he has been fighting with since she came to town. Now Margret's uncle and mother are against their marriage. This time Arjun is not lenient and does not even listen to Masterji. Arjun and Margret run away and commit suicide jumping down a mountain.
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Badla
Title: Badla
Character: Mrs. Murli
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An action-filled thriller, the film tells of a harassed man who joins a smugglers gang to earn the dowry for his sisters marriage. The smuggler tries to molest his sister, who commits suicide. The hero takes his revenge.
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Manchali
Title: Manchali
Character: Chachi
Released: October 26, 1973
Type: Movie
One condition prevents young Leena (Leena Chandravarkar) from receiving her inheritance: She's unwed -- and until she marries, her uncle won't relinquish her legacy. When the frustrated Leena meets jobless Sanjeev (Sanjeev Kumar), the duo concocts a quid-pro-quo scheme: For a sum, Sanjeev will temporarily pose as her spouse. But once Leena has her fortune in hand, she's ready for "hubby" to make tracks.
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Kuchhe Dhaage
Title: Kuchhe Dhaage
Released: June 18, 1973
Type: Movie
In the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, particularly in the Chambal Ravine there are abundance of bandit gangs, chiefly consisting of Brahmans and Thakurs, both carrying on their age-old rivalry and hatred for each other from generation to generation. Our story revolves around Brahman Pandit Tulsiram who betrays Thakur Bahadur Singh to the police, and as a result Bahadur is sentenced to be hanged.
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Jawani Diwani
Title: Jawani Diwani
Character: Madhu 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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Ek Hasina Do Diwane
Title: Ek Hasina Do Diwane
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A wealthy and educated wife gets physically abused by her husband, but must agree to live with him for 15 days in order to get a divorce.
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Jaanwar Aur Insaan
Title: Jaanwar Aur Insaan
Character: Gauri
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Shekhar lives a wealthy lifestyle with in widowed mother, Gauri, in Jamuna Nagar, India and manages an estate. The region is being terrorized by a tiger which was wounded by him and has since become even more fearless and a man-eater. Shekhar's attempts to entrap and kill it are all in vain. Then Shekhar meets with Meena and both fall in love with each. Their marriage cannot take place as Meena's father, Gokuldas, had killed Shekhar's dad. But when Mohan kills Gokuldas, the past is forgiven and the couple are allowed to get married.
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Nadaan
Title: Nadaan
Character: Ranjana
Released: August 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Rivalry has existed between Ranimaa and a small and hostile community. The passage of time has only widened the gap between the two. When Ranimaa's heir apparent, Seema, attempts to make peace, she is severely reprimanded by Ranimaa. Then Seema meets with Ajay Jain and both fall in love. When Ranimaa finds out about this, she indicates her disapproval of Ajay. Seema, however, is adamant about this, and will only marry Ajay, and wants peace between the two communities. Finally, Ranimaa agrees to make peace with the tribe, only to be blackmailed by Manghu, who knows that Ranimaa's had a questionable past, a past so terrible that she will kill anyone who will dare to reveal it.
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Chhoti Bahu
Title: Chhoti Bahu
Character: Sita
Released: May 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Radha lives with her widowed dad and is of marriageable age. Accordingly her details her provided to a marriage-broker, Avtar, who also doubles as a Ved (Village Doctor). He brings the proposal before Shriram and his wife, Sita. They approve of Radha and show her photograph to Shriram's brother, Dr. Madhu, who agrees to marry her. The marriage is celebrated with great pomp and ceremony in the entire village. It is then that the Shriram, Sita, and Madhu find out that Radha has a serious illness - a fact that was known to Avtar - but not communicated to them. This illness prevents her from being intimate with Madhu, and the only cure is when she has a child of her own. Will this marriage be annulled?
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Aan Milo Sajna
Title: Aan Milo Sajna
Character: Savitri Choudhury
Released: July 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A wealthy widow refuses to leave anything to her selfish son. In order to win her affection, he introduces her to his fiancee, Deepali, who is a girl he hires to play the part.
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Abhinetri
Title: Abhinetri
Character: Shekhar's Mother
Released: May 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A chance meeting between an Assistant Scientist, Shekar, and an established stage dancer and singer, Anjana, results in love. While Shekar has a mother who lives separately, Anjana has been orphaned at an early age. Shekar's mom approves of Anjana, and both get married. Anjana stops her involvement in dancig and singing, and both spent the next several months on relative harmony. Then Anjana finds that Shekar is spending more and more time in the laboratory than with her, and she decides to take up dancing and singing, which does not auger well with Shekar. Arguments ensue, and both decide to live separately. When Shekar's mom comes to visit Shekar, both he and Anjana compromise to live together to fool his mother. Will they succeed in pulling wool over her eyes?
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Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani
Title: Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani
Character: Padma
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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My Love
Title: My Love
Character: Durga
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Raj Kumar falls in love with the beautiful, Indian singer Sangeeta Thakur when she comes to tour Kenya, but his father wants him to marry his wealthy childhood friend, Rani, instead
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Gopi
Title: Gopi
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Unorthodox, honest, simple-minded, and unemployed Gopi is blamed for a theft he did not commit, and gets thrown out of his home by his elder step-brother.
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Maharaja
Title: Maharaja
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Hindi film from 1970
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Purab Aur Pachhim
Title: Purab Aur Pachhim
Character: Kaushalya (Harnam's Wife)
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Bharat is a patriotic Indian who's father was an Independence fighter. He goes to London and is disappointed to see that the NRI's staying there criticized everything Indian and were wasting their life away. Prithi (Siara Banu) is one such NRI who falls in love with Bharat but refuses to go back to India with him.
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Pyar Ka Mausam
Title: Pyar Ka Mausam
Character: Jamuna
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A man learns that the people who raised him are not his biological parents.
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Aabroo
Title: Aabroo
Character: Tilotma M. Anand
Released: October 20, 1968
Type: Movie
After being betrayed by the woman he loves, a doctor is accused of killing her husband.
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Badrinath Yatra
Title: Badrinath Yatra
Character: Sheila
Released: August 17, 1967
Type: Movie
Due to her son's, Devdutt's arrest, Satyavati is unable to take the Badrinath Yatra. Subsequently, he starts to frequent a brothel to visit with a courtesan, Chandravati, and virtually refuses to do anything with his pregnant wife, Sheila. He even drinks alcohol, and assaults his father, Jaggannath, and brother, Sridhar. Things get even worse when he blinds his mother, lets Chandravati and her entourage move in their family home, and asks Sheila to serve the courtesan.
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Ram Aur Shyam
Title: Ram Aur Shyam
Character: Sulakshana
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Abused by an oppressive brother-in-law Gajendra (Pran), Ramchandra (Dilip Kumar) runs away from home, and ends up in a small village where he is mistaken for Shyamrao (also Dilip Kumar), and must accept Ganga (Leela Mishra) and his new name or face severe exorcism. Meanwhile, Shyamrao is mistaken for Ramchandra by Anjana (Waheeda Rehman) and her dad (Nazir Hussain). When Gajendra finds out, he is enraged and attempts to beat the stuffing out of the person he thinks is his brother-in-law, but Shyamrao refuses to be abused or beaten, and all of a sudden things start changing in the household as well as in the community. It is not long before Gajendra finds out about the truth, and plans an ugly death for Shyamrao, and all those opposed to him.
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Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare
Title: Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Nishad, daughter of a noble family, has three suitors. However, after making her decision, it comes to light that the groom only gained noble status after his father won the lottery.
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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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Chand Aur Suraj
Title: Chand Aur Suraj
Character: Kamla C. Malik
Released: October 3, 1965
Type: Movie
After a disgraced man's accidental death, the lives of his family change drastically when they receive money from his insurance company
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Shaheed
Title: Shaheed
Character: Durga
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
The inspirational biography of one of India's greatest patriots Sardar Bhagat Singh.
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Shehnai
Title: Shehnai
Character: Shobha
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Story of Military commitment by a military wife, Shobha (Calcutta, 1942) played by Nirupa Roy, who in spite of losing her husband to the Air Force and World War 2, despite hardships, carrying the family legacy forward, educates her only son Deepak (played by Biswajeet) to join the Air Force. Deepak also shows firm commitment to his vocation and legacy when forced into taking a decision to choose between his lady love, Preeti (played by Rajshree) and his Air Force Service, by Preeti's parents who fear that Air Force service will endanger his life. Preeti too, opts to serve the Red Cross so that she could be with Deepak.
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Benazir
Title: Benazir
Character: Nawab's Wife
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Sibling rivalry abounds in this film about two privileged brothers, Anwar and Nawab, and the women who come between them. Nawab, although a married man and father, engages in frequent secret rendezvous with his mistress, Benazir. Meanwhile, Anwar declares his love for a woman named Shahida, whom he desires to wed. So when Nawab witnesses Anwar in the arms of the lovely Benazir, he's outraged -- and puzzled -- by the brotherly betrayal.
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Zindagi
Title: Zindagi
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Beena falls in love with Rajan after he rescues her from some goons. Soon they marry and she is pregnant. The trouble starts when Beena spends the night with Gopal. What compels her to do this?
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Phoolon Ki Sej
Title: Phoolon Ki Sej
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Nirmal Verma and Karuna are attracted to each other, while the former is touring that part of the country. They get very intimate, he promises to return, and even leaves his address with her but she misplaces it. Both do meet after 5 years, and after formal introductions - get married; and she re-locates to live with him and his doctor brother, and Bhabhi, Janki. Shortly thereafter Nirmal and the rest of the family are baffled when they find out Karuna secretly leaves the house and goes to an unknown location - when confronted - she refuses to divulge anything.
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Mujhe Jeene Do
Title: Mujhe Jeene Do
Released: June 8, 1963
Type: Movie
Though from India, this tale rings of Western familiarity -- especially of the Old West. When a beautiful courtesan is kidnapped by a burly bandit, the baddie gets far more than he had anticipated; he finds himself falling for her. Unfortunately for the couple, the authorities catch up with him and their short-lived romance ends in tragedy.
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Grahasti
Title: Grahasti
Character: Maya
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Drama about a large Indian family coping with revelations about the fathers past.
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Gumrah
Title: Gumrah
Character: Kamla
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Gumrah is a 1963 Hindi film produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Sunil Dutt, Ashok Kumar, Mala Sinha, Nirupa Roy, Deven Verma and Shashikala. The film's music was composed by Ravi while were by Sahir Ludhianvi. The film was remade to Malayalam as Vivahita (1970) done by super actress Padmini, Prem Nazir and Satyan. Malayalam version was also a superhit.
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Maa Beta
Title: Maa Beta
Character: Rameshwari Sahay
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Dependent on his elder brother, Bishan, Ganga and his wife, Rameshwari, are abused and asked to leave. They work hard, set up their own business, and soon become wealthy enough to even support Bishan and his wife. A pregnant Rameshwari gets the news that her husband has been killed. She subsequently gives birth to a boy, who goes missing. Will Rameshwari be ever reunited with her son?
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Razia Sultana
Title: Razia Sultana
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A 1961 Hindi Movie starring Nirupa Roy, P. Jairaj, Nisar Ahmad Ansari .
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Dharmputra
Title: Dharmputra
Character: Mrs. Savitri Amrit Rai
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of two families — one Muslim and one Hindu — living together in India under British rule.
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Chhaya
Title: Chhaya
Character: Manorama
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Young and attractive Sarita Choudhary lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Jagatnarayan in a palatial house with her aunt, Rukmani; cousin, Lalli, and a maid-servant, Manorama Lal. Her dad recruits a tutor, Arun, to teach her essay-writing, and both Arun and Sarita end up falling in love with each other, especially when Sarita finds out that he is really a famous poet by the name of 'Rahee'. But her aunt would like to see her married to her nephew, Ramu alias Romeo, and she has Jagatnarayan recruit him to teach Sarita music. Jagatnarayan himself would like Sarita to get married to the son of a wealthy man, Moti Lal, and openly rejects any alliance with Arun, who comes from a poor family. Watch what happens when Moti Lal gets an anonymous letter informing him that Sarita is not the real daughter of Jagatnarayan, and that her parentage. religion, and caste are unknown.
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Batwara
Title: Batwara
Character: Badi Bahu
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
After Partition, Dhaniram and his family moves to Dehradoon. He has three sons: Pran, Kundan, and Madan. Dhaniram runs a chemist shop, when he refuses to co-operate with profiteers, Dhaniram is stabbed and disabled. Pran runs the shop while Kundan moves on to work as a stone contractor. Instigated by his wife, Pran resorts to illegal business to make more money. Family discords create the batwara and house is separated into two sections seperated by a brick wall.
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Lal Quila
Title: Lal Quila
Released: October 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A fictional account of the real life struggle against the British East India Company.
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Heera Moti
Title: Heera Moti
Character: Razia
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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Kangan
Title: Kangan
Character: Karuna
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
While helping her friend evade a blackmailer, a woman fears she might have committed manslaughter.
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Dulhan
Title: Dulhan
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Sharda forcefully marries Anokhe lal because of her aunt. One day she runs away and meets Mohan, who himself has broken up from with his fiance. They find love in each other but face trouble.
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Karigar
Title: Karigar
Character: Parvati
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A wealthy man is thrilled about becoming a parent and is pleased when his wife gives birth to a son. However, the son’s identification gets misplaced.
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Samrat Chandragupt
Title: Samrat Chandragupt
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
This movie depicts the personal life of Samrat Chandragupt, his trials, tribulations, and frustrations, as well as the challenges he faces to reclaim his kingdom; face-off the threat from Sikander; enlist the assistance of the Yunani Greeks; his love for Helena; and be forced to make a decision of beheading his own mother as per the laws of the land.
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Musafir
Title: Musafir
Character: Bhanu's Sister-in-law
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The story is about a house consisting of three families who live in it. It is three stories linked by the house.
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Rani Rupmati
Title: Rani Rupmati
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Historical drama set during the time of Emperor Akbar
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Ek Gaon Ki Kahani
Title: Ek Gaon Ki Kahani
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Jaya lives in a village called Chandangaon in India along with her widower dad, Gokul, who works for a living as a compounder, but calls himself a Homeopathic doctor and dispenses Arnica for all kinds of ailments, especially since there is no qualified doctor in the village. Since Jaya is or marriageable age, he has arranged her marriage with hard-of-hearing Shiv, the son of Dayashankar, who is the President of the Gram Panchayat. Dayashankar is anxious to get Shiv married so that he can get some dowry from Gokul. The other suitor for Jaya is Ratan, whose mother would like her to re-marry her son as his wife, Maya, is unable to conceive. Then a new doctor arrives in this village to look after the charitable dispensary. Things heat up when Dayashankar and Ratan's mom find out that he may be Jaya's new suitor. Hilarious chaos reigns when Maya assaults her cruel mother-in-law, and Ratan abducts Jaya from her marriage with Shiv.
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Bhai-Bhai
Title: Bhai-Bhai
Character: Mrs. Lakshmi Kumar (Ashok's wife)
Released: April 20, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich businessman, Dayashankar Kumar (Shivraj), who is a widow, lives with his two young sons Ashok and Raj. When he catches the younger boy Raj stealing money, he punishes him and threatens to cut off his fingers. A frightened Raj runs away from home. Years pass and the older brother Ashok (Ashok Kumar), becomes the owner of his father's business and property, running Superior Motors, which also extends to Bombay. Ashok is married to Lakshmi (Nirupa Roy) and is a caring and loving husband. They have a young son, Munna (Daisy Irani).
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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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Munimji
Title: Munimji
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Roopa lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Captain Suresh, and brother, Shekhar. After she returns from abroad, she is told that she must now prepare to get married to her betrothed, Ratan, who is the son of a close friend of Suresh. Everything changes suddenly when Roopa meets with a handsome young man, Raj, and both fall in love with each other.
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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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Teen Batti Char Raasta
Title: Teen Batti Char Raasta
Character: Kanta (Gujerati wife)
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Ramesh, the youngest son of a well-to-do family, falls in love with a woman he hears singing on the radio -- even though he's never seen her. When he finds out his mystery woman is Ksama, a servant in his parents' house, everything is thrown into turmoil. Will Ramesh accept Ksama? Will they get married? Love may just conquer all in this classic Bollywood melodrama.
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Two Acres of Land
Title: Two Acres of Land
Character: Parvati 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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Amar Raj
Title: Amar Raj
Character: Bakula
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
1946 bollywood film.
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Superman
Title: Superman
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A scientist, whose daughter had died at the hands of a gangster, creates a serum that will give a person superhuman powers. His adopted daughter uses the serum to battle a gang that threatens to take over the city.