Roopesh Kumar
Also Known As: रूपेश कुमार
Biography: Roopesh Kumar (16 January 1946 – 29 January 1995) was a character actor in Bollywood films, especially known for his role as a villain in over 100 Hindi films from 1965 to 1995. He is widely remembered for his comic negative roles in the films like Seeta Aur Geeta and The Great Gambler. He was the cousin of actress Mumtaz. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Birthday: January 16, 1946
Deathday: January 29, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Loafer
Overview: Ranjit is the right-hand man of a gangster named "Uncle". He has been working for him since he was a runaway child, and excels in all of kinds of criminal activities, currently managing a night-club called "Playboy". He meets with beautiful Anju and both fall in love with each other. Then he finds out that Anju is not who she claims to be but someone hired by Pratap to be close to him, entrap him, and get him killed. But that does not happen, Ranjit survives, rescued by Anju, and he helps her free her brother, Rakesh, from Pratap's clutches. Then some priceless jewelery is placed on display, and a number of gangsters decide to try and steal them, knowing fully well that there is a 24 hour police guard, as well as an alarm system. It is after this robbery that the past will be re-visited and it is then a number of people, on whom Ranjit has depended upon, will come to know of his real background, including the murder he committed before he started his career as a criminal.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-03-12
Popularity:
Bade Dil Wala
Overview: Amrit's generosity and kindness initially lands him in the bad books of a dancer; then in prison; and then as false son-in-law of a very wealthy man.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-09-24
Popularity:
Karm
Overview: Retired Judge Shyamlal Kumar lives in a palatial home with his wife and only son, Arvind, who is now studying law and is on his way to become a lawyer, and after that a judge just like his dad. Arvind meets with beautiful Asha Shastri, both fall in love and would like to get married. Asha introduces Arvind to her astrologer dad, Chintamani, who instantly approves of Arvind; while both Shyamlal and his wife give their blessings and approval to Asha. But when Chintamani, whose predictions always prove to be accurate, sees a dark future for the young couple, withdraws his blessings and asks them not to marry each other. Spooked by this, Shyamlal and his wife also ask Arvind to marry someone else. But both Arvind and Asha believe that nothing bad will befall them, and they start living together without getting married. This raises ire in their conservative community and both are blacklisted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1977-04-27
Popularity:
Souten
Overview: Shyam an ambitious young man is in Mauritius to fulfill his dreams. He meets Rukmini, a millionaire's daughter. They fall in love and get married despite strong opposition from Rukmani's stepmother and brother. Shyam would love to be a father, but Rukmani undergoes an operation to stop any pregnancy, as she is least interested in becoming a mother. This widens the gap between the couple. Rukmini even suspects Shyam of having an illicit relationship with Radha, a librarian. Rukmini's stepmother and uncle, who have an eye on Rukmini's wealth, further fuel the misunderstanding to the point of breaking their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-06-02
Popularity:
Baazigar
Overview: Conflict between the "haves" and "have nots" in a feudal state, is spearheaded by an outlaw, with his band of associates, horse and dog, providing all action, suspense and tempo. The chief minister and his supporters try their best to thwart the revolt which ultimately succeeds in unexpected way. - It was a unique world for "Baazigar", where the pattern of society was thrilling, fascinating and with liberty - a strange socialistic pattern!. . The chief Minister of State Mansingh believed that Baazigar is a dangerous blood-thirsty dacoit of notorious indetification in society!
Genres: Music Crime Comedy Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Popularity:
Sapnon Ka Saudagar
Overview: Film starring Raj Kapoor, Hema Malini and Jayant
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
C.I.D. 909
Overview: Professor, an Indian scientist, develops a nuclear project to bring world peace. When Wong and Wasco want to get their hands on the project, it is up to CID Agent Raju to save the day.
Genres: Action Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-01-01
Popularity:
Chori Chori
Overview: Made in 1972
Genres: Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1972-01-01
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Pap Aur Punya
Overview: A just king is overthrown by his brother in a coup, but little does the brother know, that his newborn son was replaced with one of the just king's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-06-01
Popularity:
Shankar Dada
Overview: An honest police officer's life is shattered when he refuses to be corrupted in this crime drama from India. After Amar Singh rebuffs gangster Babubhai's attempt to buy him off, he's subsequently framed for murder and sentenced to a long prison term. While he serves his time, his family falls apart and his wife and sons are separated. When Amar finally leaves jail, he's a different person -- an angry man driven by revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1976-07-22
Popularity:
Amar Shakti
Overview: In order to take over the kingdom, Shamsher Singh and Nahar Singh kill Yuvraj Gopal Singh and his wife, Roopa. The news of these deaths shocks the Maharaj who becomes seriously ill, but instead of treating him, the duo, with the help of the Hakim, poison him. They also believe that the heirs of this Kingdom, two young boys, Bada and Chhota Kumar, are also dead - paving the way for Shamsher to crown himself king. Years later Shamsher is still king, and has a daughter, Sunita, who he wants to get married to Kunver Ranjit Narayan Singh of Kishanganj. Shamsher does not know that the Bada and Chhota Kumars are still alive, while Shakti was taken in by a tribe of gypsies, Amar lives with his palace nanny, Leela, and believes she is his mother. The two princes will meet soon, not as friends and brothers though, but as enemies.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1978-09-16
Popularity:
Naach Uthe Sansaar
Overview: Somu is in love with the farmer Karmu, but while his mother approves of the match Karmu himself dreams of marrying someone else
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1976-07-20
Popularity:
Guru
Overview: Mithun Chakraborty's ambition is to become an upright Police officer, but unluckily he is not getting selected. His sole strength is his lady love Sridevi. As Mithun's ambition fails, he turns to alcohol, dacoity, and thugism. He finally joins Amrit Pal's lethal gang to take revenge on the Police force, which blocked his ambition. Sridevi (in a double role), is Shakti Kapoor's important gang member. One day, Shakti Kapoor gets the confidential message about an undercover cop in his Gang.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-02-24
Popularity:
Asha Jyoti
Overview: Musician Deepak recreates the mistakes of his father when he begins courting a society girl without first confirming that his wife, a dancer, had actually died.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1984-05-25
Popularity:
Do Premee
Overview: Young Chetan Prakash and beautiful Payal are in love and would like to marry each other. Their respective fathers, Daulatram and Retired Col. Bhagwant Singh, have other plans and want them to marry the spouses of their choice. So Chetan and Payal decide to elope, and marry on the run. Bhagwant Singh advertises in the newspapers for his missing daughter, and offers a handsome reward for her return. Chetan finds a job as a chauffeur, and Payal works as a maid in a house, and they become absorbed in their daily chores, not realizing that their employer, Geeta, is under the power and influence of a gangster named Shivlal, who operates a religious sect under the name of Mahayogi, and who has a gas chamber that he uses to kill people who disagree with him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-11-07
Popularity:
Choron Ki Baaraat
Overview: Anju lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Dhanraj, on a privately owned island. She studies in a hostel, plays on the football team, but is known for getting into fights with other girls, rather then taking part in this sport. But before that could happen, six men men who had duped by Dhanraj several years ago, arrive on the island incognito, enlist the assistance of the island's native people, led by Heera, who have been oppressed by Dhanraj and Captain Ashok, to recover their loot and kill Dhanraj and Anju. It is here that Anju will find out that the reason Shekhar accompanied her was not because he loves her, but for quite some other unknown and devious reason.
Genres: Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-05-23
Popularity:
Hum Paanch
Overview: Tyrannical and wealthy Veer Pratap Singh, rules over a small town - ruthlessly. Whoever opposes him is crushed. He is attracted to women, and has a lengthy affair with Soundariya, and even has a secret marriage ceremony with her. When Soundariya gets pregnant, he asks her to abort the child. When she refuses, he shuns her, and denies ever having married her or even being intimate with her. Her brothers attempt to get justice, but are dealt with ruthlessly by Pratap Singh's bodyguard, Bhima. Soundariya then must garner support of herself, and must find someone who can stand up to Veer Pratap Singh and end his tyranny, in a town with men who have been subdued for eons by Veer Pratap Singh and his men for eons.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-11-27
Popularity:
Who Else?
Overview: People at a house are being killed off after an accidental death leads to the hiding of a woman's body.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1979-01-02
Popularity:
Kal Aaj Aur Kal
Overview: Widower Ram Kapoor lives a very wealthy lifestyle in Bombay, but is very lonely, as his only child, a son named Rajesh, lives abroad, and his aged dad, Diwan Bahadur, lives in the village. Ram frequently throws lavish parties to overcome this loneliness. This changes when Rajesh returns home, and he is able to convince Diwan also to return so that the three could live together. Shortly thereafter differences crop up between Rajesh and Diwan - initially on love and marriage; then on Caste issues; then the marriage of Rajesh, which is arranged with Diwan's friend, Thakur Janak Singh's daughter, Rukmani, while Rajesh wants to marry Monica. Things come to such a pass that Ram decides to leave, takes to women and alcohol in a big way, and becomes the subject of a big scandal.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-09-17
Popularity:
Maa Aur Mamta
Overview: Father Henry (Rehman) entrusts a newly-born infant in the care of an unwed Maya (Nutan), leaving her to explain the presence of the child. She is literally thrown out of the village and runs away to Bombay. There she is taken care of by a kind-hearted Muslim taxi-driver (Jayant). Years later, the child grows up to be called Ram (Jeetendra), but the question haunting everyone's mind is who is Ram's biological father?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-14
Popularity:
Zakhmi Aurat
Overview: Two seasoned criminals, Sukhdev and Suryakant rape inspector Kiran Dutt, a hardworking police officer. However, they get acquitted due to lack of evidence. Kiran with support from her fiance Suraj, brings together rape victims from all over the country and chalks out a plan to help them avenge their rape. Will Kiran be able to do justice to the thousands of rape victims across the country?
Genres: Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-09-01
Popularity:
Nishaan
Overview: Diwan and Bhagail Singh kill Kanwar for his property. In the confusion that follows Kanwar's wife Laajvanti and her sons, Shankar and Ravi are separated. Shankar drifts around in search of his mother and Ravi. Ravi works for Diwan and loves his daughter Reeta. Shankar and Ravi are friends. Diwan and Bhagail Singh drive a wedge between them and have Shankar sent to jail on a false charge of theft.
Genres: Romance Action Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-02-04
Popularity:
Aakhri Adaalat
Overview: Inspector Amar Kaushal attempts to incarcerate wrong-doers in his society only lead to frustration when they are let off by the incompetence of the law and his superiors and seniors. Eventually Amar stands accused of killing several criminals and innocents which prompts him to take law into his own hands.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-06-10
Popularity:
Jaal
Overview: Shankar's father leaves the family for Meenabai. He later learns that his father is dead. He sets out to find out Meenabai, who he thinks is behind his father's death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-02-14
Popularity:
Joshila
Overview: Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captive daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself in the jail. Shalini tries to
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-10-19
Popularity:
The Great Gambler
Overview: A gambler works for a villain not knowing that he's being used to entrap a patriot and gain military secrets. The cops assign a lookalike to nab him, but not having gambling skills could give him away.
Genres: Action Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1979-04-06
Popularity:
Seeta and Geeta
Overview: The story is about identical twins who are separated at birth and grow up with different temperaments. The twins then swap places.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1972-11-17
Popularity:
Do Posti
Overview: Do Posti is a film released in 1981, it is an Indian Punjabi film
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pa
Release Date: 1981-08-24
Popularity:
Jay Vejay
Overview: When the rulers of Malwa, Pushpapuri and Paanchal find out that their respective kingdoms are under attack by Jung forces, they consolidate their wealth, hide it underground, surrounded by 3 statutes of Hindu Deities, hide it's location in 3 different necklaces, which are then handed over from generation to generation of their respective queens. 200 years later Shamsher Jung attacks and takes over the kingdom of Malwa, forcing Maharaj Dharampal Singh to flee and be eventually be separated from his wife, and two sons, Jay and Vejay. Years later Dharampal is still in hiding away from his wife, Jay has been brought by a bandit named Bhavani Singh, and is now known and feared as Sher Singh, while Vejay is the Senapati of none other than Malwa's Maharaj, Diler Jung, the son of Shamsher. Everyone's path will collide, albeit unknowingly, when they confront each other and race to be the first to take possession of the hidden wealth.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1977-01-24
Popularity:
Muddat
Overview: When she discovers that her favorite singer, Ravi, has been accused of murder, Bharti (Jaya Pradha), a loyal fan, is determined to uncover the conspiracy against the great performer. As she searches for clues that might lead her to the real culprit of the crime, Bharti consults close friends and relatives of Ravi, but quickly realizes the plot against him is much deeper than she suspected -- and only she can clear his name.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-06-20
Popularity:
Red Rose
Overview: Anand lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay in a palatial house, and runs a business 'Export India'. While shopping at Roopsagar Clothing Store, he meets one of the Sales Clerks', Sharda, and falls in love with her. Shortly thereafter he proposes to her, she accepts, and both marry at the Registrar of Marriages. Sharda is shown around Anand's house, and the guest-house which houses his ex-convict father. Sharda soon settles in, establishes a Devi Maa Durga Mandir, but will find her life turning upside down when she discovers a deadly secret from Anand's past.
Genres: Thriller Crime Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1980-06-06
Popularity:
Raampur Ka Lakshman
Overview: Kedarnath Bhargav, his wife, Laxmi, and two sons, Ram and Lakshman are homeless. While traveling, their train derails and the family is separated into 3 groups. While Laxmi works as a maidservant in the house of Bombay's Mayor and his daughter, Rekha; Ram has been abducted by a career criminal, and Kedarnath & Lakshman are together. Ratanlal Verma, a kind-hearted man, with a son named Prakash comes to Lakshman's rescue
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1972-03-30
Popularity:
Prabhat
Overview: Village belle Sarita falls in love with young and dashing Ramesh, gets married to him, and re-locates to the city. Once in the city, Ramesh takes her to a brothel, and asks her to wait for him for a few days. Unknown to her, Ramesh has sold her to brothel madame, Champabai, for a hefty fee.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Popularity:
Daku Hasina
Overview: A 1987 Hindi movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1987-03-06
Popularity:
Karishma Kali Kaa
Overview: Parvati, devotee of Goddess Kali, is raped while trying to protect the temple jewels. She is saved by a god man who grants her special powers and asks her to kill the culprits and get back the jewels.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1990-08-03
Popularity:
Loha
Overview: Inspectors Amar (Dharmendra) and Dayal (Raza Murad) in their attempt to arrest bandit Sher Singh (Amrish Puri),, get injured, Amar survives, but Dayal gets his legs crushed and becomes wheelchair-bound. Later, Amar arrests local politician Jagannath Prasad (Kader Khan), who gets released without being charged while Amar gets reprimanded, and decides to resign. Later, Sher Singh hijacks a bus and holds the passengers as hostages in exchange for 25 of his jailed associates. Dayal's granddaughter, Seema (Mandakini), is amongst them, and Dayal asks Amar for assistance. Amar, along with ex-convict, Qasim Ali (Shatrughan Sinha), and Karan (Karan Kapoor), a drug-dealer, does manage to rescue them but differences crop up among the trio and they part ways. Then Amar finds out that Qasim and Karan have masterminded a plan to facilitate the escape of the 25 convicts, and decides to confront them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1987-01-23
Popularity:
Palay Khan
Overview: The British government have taken over there rule in a deserted region in India. But some of the people there strive for freedom; one of those brave freedom fighter is Palay Khan, who owes his intelligence to the entire region.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-01-02
Popularity: