Ruby Myers
Also Known As: Ruby Mayer, Sulochana
Biography: Ruby Myers (1907 – 10 October 1983), better known by her stage name Sulochana, was an Indian silent film actress and producer of Jewish ancestry, from the community of Baghdadi Jews in India. Being the highest paid movie stars of the 1920s, she was among the early Eurasian female stars of Indian Cinema. In mid-1930s, she opened her own film production house called Rubi Pics. Her most popular films were Typist Girl (1926), Balidaan (1927), and Wildcat of Bombay (1927). She received the Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1973 for her lifetime contribution to Indian cinema.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Poona, Maharashtra, British India (now Pune, Maharashtra, India)
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: October 10, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Khatta Meetha
Overview: Homi Mistry (Ashok Kumar) has been a widower for several years now, and looks after his four sons, their small house, and a job at the factory. Nargis Sethna has been widowed; is a housewife, has two sons and a daughter, and a large house. Then Soli (David), Nargis' and Homi's friend, suggests that the two get married, then at least the children will have a mother and father, as well as a larger house. They do get married, and hilarious chaos results, as the family and the children try to accomodate each other and fit in with their new family and surroundings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1978-01-06
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The Jungle
Overview: An Indian princess (Marie Windsor), her adviser (Cesar Romero) and a white hunter (Rod Cameron) fight woolly mammoths. Filmed in sepia.
Genres: Adventure Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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Queen of Cinema
Overview: This film is about a poor painter named Chandrakant (Khalil) who is about to commit suicide when he meets the film star Manjiri (Sulochana). He is creatively rejuvenated by the fantasies she inspires. Manjiri's modeling sessions are used to narrate her biography: her mother was a prostitute with a heart of gold who made sure her daughter was well educated. Chandrakant and Manjiri fall in love, but he is already married and his vampish, ill-tempered wife will not set him free.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Badrinath Yatra
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-08-17
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Shair
Overview: A poet who has spent life in the village with his childhood sweetheart goes to Bombay to meet a fan of his who is also a popular radio singer.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Son of India
Overview: The film is based on an incredible true story about a village woman who gets lost at a railway station and waits fourteen years for her husband to come.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Pyar Ka Sapna
Overview: In order to study abroad in Great Britain, Ramesh agrees to marry a village girl named Sudha, but refuses to love her. Heartbroken, Sudha tries to kill herself, but is rescued by Shankernath, who coaches her etiquette and teaches her English so she can go to England to win back her husband. The plan seems to work perfectly, until Shankernath discovers his own long lost granddaughter, Jenny, has fallen in love with Ramesh.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Pyar Ka Sapna
Overview: In order to study abroad in Great Britain, Ramesh agrees to marry a village girl named Sudha, but refuses to love her. Heartbroken, Sudha tries to kill herself, but is rescued by Shankernath, who coaches her etiquette and teaches her English so she can go to England to win back her husband. The plan seems to work perfectly, until Shankernath discovers his own long lost granddaughter, Jenny, has fallen in love with Ramesh.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Teen Devian
Overview: Devdutt Anand works in a company selling musical instruments, and is always late for work, infuriating his boss, I.S. Johar. Things change for the better when Johar finds out that Devdutt has a talent for writing poems, and he gets Devdutt to write and even gets them published for him. While traveling home by bus, he meets with Nanda, who has come to live in his neighborhood, and both are attracted to each other. One night Devdutt comes to the assistance to Bollywood movie actress Kalpana when her car breaks down, she finds out he is a poet and both are attracted to each other. Devdutt is asked to deliver a piano to the palatial house of a wealthy woman named Simi alias Radha Rani. She too is impressed by Devutt's poems and invites him over to her house for a party, and again both are attracted to each other. Knowing fully well that he cannot marry three women in his country, a tortured and uncertain Devdutt must now make up his mind as who he wants as his life-partner.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Anarkali
Overview: Based on a popular historical legend, Prince Salim has a passionate love affair with a beautiful, sassy commoner.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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Anarkali
Overview: Film starring Ruby Myers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Indira M.A.
Overview: A girl with an MA from Oxford rejects an 'idiot' chosen by her alcoholic father, and falls for the playboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Madhuri
Overview: The Gupta period depicts battles between Ujjain and Kanauj kingdoms, featuring Amber, Prince Tikka, and Madhuri, who defeats Kanauj's commander and rescues Amber.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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Anarkali
Overview: Film starring Ruby Myers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1928-07-14
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Madhuri
Overview: The story follows a kind princess, facing danger from an evil prince, while a brave warrior helps her and they fell in love, but face unknown dangers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1928-08-18
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Abe Hayat
Overview: Saamri, an evil magician, causes trouble in the lives of Prince Jalal and his princess. As the situation worsens, the prince sets out to destroy the magician.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Indira B.A.
Overview: Indian film released in 1929.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1929-10-19
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Bombay Talkie
Overview: An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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Sharmeelee
Overview: An army captain falls for an outgoing young woman, but unknowingly weds her shy twin sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Wildcat of Bombay
Overview: The story revolves around the characters played by the actress Sulochana. Sulochana had eight separate roles in this film: a gardener, a policeman, a Hyderabadi gentleman, a street urchin, a European blonde, an old banana-seller and an expert pickpocket who gives her money to charity.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1927-02-26
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The Telephone Girl
Overview: Sulochana is a telephone operator, a job she used to do in real life, who becomes the love object of a leading lawyer (Sandow). The problems of inter-community marriage are highlighted, as is the value of patriotism through the character of Peter, the heroine's brother (Khalil). The film also refers to collectivization movement among farmers (inspired by events in the USSR).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-02
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Typist Girl
Overview: Indian silent film starring Ruby Mayer (Sulochana), released in 1926.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1926-10-30
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Dostana
Overview: Two close friends decide to enter law enforcement – one a police officer, the other a lawyer – but their friendship begins to unravel when they both fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-10-17
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Sulochana
Overview: An elixir brings a dead woman back to life
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Saubhagya Sundari
Overview: 1933 Hindi movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Kadu Makrani
Overview: Kadu Makrani is a 1960 Gujarati historical fantasy film directed by Manhar Raskapur from India. The film tells the story of the historical figure Kadu Makrani, a bandit, fighting the British. The lead role was played by Arvind Pandya. The music was composed by Avinash Vyas. It was a commercial success.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: gu
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
Overview: A rich girl marries a doctor. Differences crop up between the two and starts to snowball wherein she returns to her father's house. Months later she returns only to find he is in love with a nurse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Aap Ki Kasam
Overview: Rajesh Khanna plays Mumtaz's jealous husband who begins to doubt her fidelity when his best friend Sanjeev Kumar enters their lives. She is unable to convince Rajesh Khanna that she loves only him. He leaves her, not knowing that she is pregnant with his child. Depressed and confused, Rajesh Khanna becomes a homeless wanderer, while Mumtaz remarries to provide a secure home for her child. Many years later, the truth dawns on him as he turns up, a broken man, at his own daughter's wedding.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-04-17
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Kaagaz Ke Phool
Overview: The film tells, in flashback, the story of Suresh Sinha, a famous film director and his relationship with an aspiring actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Anari
Overview: Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome and intelligent young man. Working as a painter, he is unable to earn a living. One day Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the man it belongs to. Impressed by his honesty, the man employs him to work in his office as a clerk.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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Sacrifice
Overview: The story addresses the conflict between reformist enlightenment and obsolete, inhuman ritual, questioning the contemporary validity of traditional rituals. The dramatic pivot is the conflict between the king who banned animal sacrifice, and the priest who calls for the king's own blood. Emotionally, the film revolves around the childless queen and a beggar girl whose pet goat has been taken for the sacrifice and who loves a servant in the temple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1927-03-01
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Insaaniyat
Overview: Raghuvir is a career criminal, and one day he is arrested by the Police, tried in Court, and sentenced to a long prison term. Shortly thereafter, he breaks out of prison, goes to the Judge who sentenced him, kills him, his wife, three sons, and two daughters. The Police chase, shoot him, wounded, he falls into a river and is believed to be dead. Twenty years later, Dilip, who lives a wealthy and care-free lifestyle with his widowed dad, Karamchand, is told that he has been adopted, and the person responsible for killing his dad, mom, and siblings, is Raghuvir whose body has never been found. Dilip gives up his care-free existence, takes the assistance of his friend, Ram, and goes to look for Raghuvir. What Dilip does not know is that Raghuvir is none other than Ram's father, who has been missing for 20 years. Watch what happens when Ram finds out that Dilip is going to kill his dad, and the impact this has on their friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-05-16
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Julie
Overview: Julie is an anglo-Indian girl with a loving, but alcoholic father and a domineering mother, a younger brother and sister. She falls in love with her best friend's brother Shashi Bhattacharya, a Hindu boy, and she has a passionate encounter with him, which leaves her pregnant. He goes away to college, not knowing about her condition. Her mother is distraught when Julie tells her about the pregnancy. They don't tell the rest of the family. Her mother thinks about getting Julie an abortion, but a devout Christian talks her out of it. Julie is sent away to have her baby in secret. The rest of the family is told that Julie got a job. When she comes back home, she runs into her Hindu boyfriend and tells him everything. He agrees to marry her, but his mother objects to the mixed marriage, not knowing about the baby born in secret. Julie's mother doesn't want the marriage either, as she and the rest of the family want to go to England
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1975-03-18
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Mahatma and the Mad Boy
Overview: In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds conversations with a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, and scavenges for food with his monkey. By afternoon, a little ceremony is held by well-to-do Gandhi-ites, at which a speaker delivers a sermon on "godly love"; but when the boy comes too close, he is told to move on by a guard, one of a series of exclusions of this onlooker-outcast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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The Falcon
Overview: The Crown Prince of Malabar dallies with Rosita whilst his people suffer at the hands of cruel Portuguese colonists. Whilst voyaging on a Portuguese ship, the Prince is captured by patriots who are rebelling against the foreign invaders. They are led by a girl called Nisha known as "The Falcon" ("Baaz"). The Prince conceals his identity from Nisha and a romance blossoms between them. Together, they rouse the people, rout the Portuguese and free the Kingdom - but can a commoner marry a Prince ?
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1953-05-31
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Beti
Overview: Sudha Verma wants to be the ideal daughter for her dad, and mom. Unfortunately, her mom passes away, and her dad re-marries, this time to Kamla, who is self-serving and not at all interested to see Sudha marry and settle down. Sudha meets with Dr. Rajesh Anand, and both fall in love. All approve of the marriage, until Rajesh sees the invitation card for Sudha's marriage, and realizes that his marriage has been arranged with Sharda, and that Sudha is to marry Rakesh. Rajesh attempts to straighten this out, but idealistic Sudha does not agree as she does not want to embarass her dad. Unfortunately, Sudha marriage does not take place, as the dowry money has been stolen. Rajesh returns and hopes to marry Sudha, but finds that Sudha and her dad are missing, and are untraceable, and then returns home to find a look-alike of Sudha, who calls herself Asha, but denies ever being or knowing anyone named Sudha Verma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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April Fool
Overview: Ashok, a slacker by nature, loves to play practical jokes and finds his life partner in Madhu, another joker. However, one particular joke hits a nerve and they end up being targeted by a gang of criminals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Talash
Overview: A business man must choose between keeping his promise to marry a poor village belle, or making it big by wedding his boss's daughter: a wealthy Westernized girl who bares a striking resemblance to his first love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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Jugnu
Overview: Suraj and Jugnu fall in love while studying at the same college
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1947-05-23
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Amrapali
Overview: After a failed conquest, Emperor Ajaatshatru pretends to be a soldier in the enemy's army to weaken them from the inside. However, he falls in love with Amrapali, a well-respected royal courtesan, and must decide what his main priority is.
Genres: War Fantasy History Drama Music Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-09-11
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Mere Hamdam Mere Dost
Overview: Sunil lives with his mom and sister in a middle-class dwelling in Delhi, India. He works for Chopra & Co., Chartered Accountants. He comes across a beautiful woman posing for a painting and instantly falls in love. The only problem, Sunil hates rich girls and this girl is very wealthy.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: Aankh Micholi is a 1942 hindi movie directed by R. S. Choudhary, Starring Nalini Jaywant and Satish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Double Cross
Overview: Ajay Arya, spurned in love by Sonia, takes to a life of crime and has an affair with a young woman under her tutelage.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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