P. Jairaj
Also Known As: पी जयराज, Paidi Jairaj, పైడి జైరాజ్, पैडी जयराज, जयराज , Jairaj
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hyderabad, India
Adult: No
Birthday: September 28, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 11, 2000
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Zarak Khan
Overview: Bollywood film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Hatim Tai
Overview: The film is about Hatim Tai (Hatim of Tayy), a merchant and poet who was known for his charity and kindness. In this Arabian Nights style fantasy Hatim Tai, referred to as Shehzada (Prince) from Yemen, undertakes a perilous journey in order to save a young fairy turned to stone. He can do this by answering seven questions posed to him on the way.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Himalay Se Ooncha
Overview: After losing his two younger brothers on a mountain climbing expedition, Vijay swears to his sorrowing mother that he will never undertake any expedition again. When he hears of a plane crash deep in the mountains of the Himalays, he initially refuses to even consider going there to look for the survivors, but the tears of a mother, Geeta, whose two children were abroad that plane, moves him and his mother, and he agrees to look for the children, little knowing that others are on the way to the crash site, with different motives.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Betaaj Badshah
Overview: Well known for his believes in fairness, justice, and fair play, Raja Prithviraj holds sway over a large rural territory in India. His word is the law, and no one would dare to cross swords with him. Prithviraj lives with his only daughter, Tejeshwani, in their exclusive palace. Years later, Tejeshwani has now grown up, attends college, on occasion with her pet cheetah, meets with handsome young fellow collegian, and after several misunderstandings and confrontations, both fall in love with each other. When Prithviraj comes to know of Arjun, he invites him to his palace, insults him, and asks him never to see Tejeshwani again. Watch what Arjun and Tejeshwani do to change her father's mind, knowing fully well that no one in their community will stand up against the Raja.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1994-04-08
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Return of Mr. Superman
Overview: Childless farmer Ram Dayal comes across an abandoned child, who had landed from a spaceship, takes him home to his wife, where they decide to adopt him and name him Jaikumar. When he grows up he excels in wrestling, overcoming even much older children. Then he uses his powers to discover buried treasure, which his foster father donates to the Government. Years later, Jaikumar has re-located to Bombay where he works as a Journalist with a publication called 'Azad Desh'. Using his super-powers, he is able to unearth a number of criminal conspiracies and makes phone calls as 'Mr. Superman' to Inspector Dilip Desai. Then a series of robberies take place and the police are notified by victim/complainants that the culprit is none other than the masked caped crusader himself. Watch what impact this has on Jaikumar's credibility with the police and public on one hand and with gangsters on the other.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Kranti
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1981-02-03
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Faslah
Overview: Gautam is a man who loves a woman but is crushed when he sees her with someone else. In his fit of rage, he accidentally kills a child. Will this turn of events change his life completely?
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Maya
Overview: A big-game hunter's son and a Hindu boy brave the jungle in order to deliver a baby white elephant to an Indian temple.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-26
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Khoon Aur Paani
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1981-04-10
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Don
Overview: A ruthless gangster named Don is killed during a scuffle with the police. Since only DSP D'Silva knows of this incident, he recruits Vijay, who is a spitting image of Don, to replace the original Don and infiltrate his gang. D'Silva plans to nab the entire gang, but when he dies during a raid, the secret that Vijay is not Don is also buried with him.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1978-05-12
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Leatherface
Overview: In this stunt-film, Hero Samar (Jairaj) singlehandedly takes on the might of the oppressive state led by the warlord chief (M. Zahoor). He falls in love with the chief's sister Ila (Mehtab) and fights his revolution from the tavern of Dulari (Shirin) with little more than a band of adventurers, a leatherface mask, his faithful dog Tiger, and his horse Bahadur.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Chhoti Bahu
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-05-22
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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
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Hamari Baat
Overview: Hamari Baat is a Bollywood film. It was released in 1943.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Sarfarosh
Overview: A Bollywood film.
Genres: History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Singaar
Overview: A couple's marriage begins troubling after the doctor carries an extramarital affair with a dancing girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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The Mill
Overview: A realistic treatment of industrial working-class conditions in a Bombay textile mill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1934-12-31
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Lal Quila
Overview: A fictional account of the real life struggle against the British East India Company.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-10-22
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Lakhon Mein Ek
Overview: An abused homeless male and a mentally-challenged woman become friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Gul-e-Bakavali
Overview: Film starring Nishi Kohli and Paidi Jairaj.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Chalaak
Overview: Monica Kapoor lives a wealthy lifestyle in London, England. When she hears that her estranged brother, Kishan, has been killed while traveling in a train, she returns home to India and asks his much younger and drop dead gorgeous widow, Shobha, to move out so that she could sell the house, pick up the cash, return to London and get married to her boyfriend, Manoj. She does get to sell the house and compels Shobha to move in with Kishan's friend, Amar, but Manoj steals the cash and disappears. Humbled by this incident, Monica also moves in with Amar and Shobha, as well as Amar's younger brother, Chickoo, and ends up falling in love with Amar. She decides to marry him at the Registrar's Office. When he does not show, she returns home and finds him getting intimate with Shobha.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Chor Chor
Overview: A retired policeman sees a killer he thought had been dead for twenty years, and the next night he is killed. The killer is blackmailing the head of a bank, and forcing him to participate in a robbery of his own bank. He is replaced by the son of the policeman, who is hunting for his fathers killer. A rarity in 70's Bollywood since it does not contain any musical interludes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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Charas
Overview: Suraj, an NRI, moves back to India, only to realise that the caretaker of his property, Kalicharan, is now running a drug racket on his land. He helps the police force to track down Kalicharan.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1976-05-24
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Chhalia
Overview: A simple man believes he has found the love of his life when he meets a beautiful woman, only to discover a shocking secret about her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Nine Hours to Rama
Overview: José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-30
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Shahjehan
Overview: Shahjehan (a raw Rehman in one of his first releases) is approached by a Rajput chieftain, Jwala Singh, narrating the plight of his foster daughter, Ruhi (Ragini), who is blessed with unheard of beauty. This gives rise to an army of suitors, who indulge in violence to prevent her from getting married by scaring her to-be grooms. Her beauty, confined to four walls of Jwala's haveli becomes part of folklore, and street gossip, through the poetry of Sohail (Saigal) who accidentally catches her glimpse, and falls in love with her.
Genres: History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Gehri Chaal
Overview: Dharamchand is the Chair of Olympic Bank, which is due for a final audit by the 30th of the month. Shortly thereafter, his daughter, Hema, finds his dead body in his bedroom. She phones her brother, Ratan, who arrives, finds a suicide note in his dad's room, clarifying that he had embezzled 20 lakhs from the bank, is unable to repay it, and hence is killing himself. Ratan decides to protect the good name of the family and does not tell anyone about the suicide note to anyone, including Hema. Shortly thereafter, Ratan is approached by a blackmailer named Shekhar, who threatens to expose Ratan's secret if Ratan does not participate in a bank robbery that will take place two days before the final audit. Ratan assists him, the robbery takes place, the money is looted, all bank records are burnt, and the robbers make a successful getaway.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-07-27
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Baharon Ke Sapne
Overview: In a small industrial town near Bombay lives Bholanath, who works at the local mill, and is the proud husband of Gauri, a daughter, Champa, and above all his son, Ramaiya, who is a graduate in the arts faculty, - the only one in this town who has attained this degree. But times are hard, and jobs are difficult to come by. When Bholanath loses his job, Ramaiya decides to find employment, and does so as a menial worker in the same mill his dad used to work. Ramaiya is very popular with his co-workers and they soon elect him as their new union leader. This puts Ramaiya in conflict with the Management of the Mill, headed by the owner, Kapoor, who has ordered that Ramaiya be eliminated post haste. But Ramaiya is determined to address the workers' grievances, and he gets himself framed for theft; has the police on the lookout for him, and so Ramaiya goes into hiding.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-06-23
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Masoom
Overview: D.K. Malhotra lives a comfortable lifestyle with his wife, Indu, and two school-going daughters, Pinky and Minni. He works in the office of an Architect. One day while the family is relaxing, D.K. gets a phone call that results in him bringing home a young school-going boy by the name of Rahul. Indu is shocked to learn that Rahul is D.K.'s son from another woman, Bhavana, who is no more. D.K. does his best to make Rahul comfortable, but fails. Rahul also feels that Indu does not really like him, though Pinky and Minni have taken to him in a big way. Finally, D.K. decides to admit Rahul in a boarding school in far off Nainital. Rahul reluctantly goes along with this new-found uncle/friend. It is when Rahul is asked to put his papers together for school that Rahul finds out that D.K. is his biological father. Watch what happens when Rahul disappears from D.K.'s house, and the impact this has on D.K., Indu, and her two daughters.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-01-10
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Chor Chor
Overview: A retired policeman sees a killer he thought had been dead for twenty years, and the next night he is killed. The killer is blackmailing the head of a bank, and forcing him to participate in a robbery of his own bank. He is replaced by the son of the policeman, who is hunting for his fathers killer. A rarity in 70's Bollywood since it does not contain any musical interludes.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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Patal Pari
Overview: Patal Pari is currently a lost movie featuring Shakila.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-01-04
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Journey Beyond Three Seas
Overview: This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade way from Europe to India. The film is based on Nikitin’s travel notes. Starring in the film are popular Russian actor Oleg Strizhenov and India’s 1950s movie star Nargis.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-12-13
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Bhabhi
Overview: The film is family social drama, which deals with the issue of young widows. It put a special focus on the Indian society's attitude towards them, and society's bigoted approach to "man- woman relationships"
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Neel Kamal
Overview: A newly married woman begins to sleepwalk, and her husband suspects she is inadvertently connecting with a lover from a past life.
Genres: Music Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Munna
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1954-07-08
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Razia Sultana
Overview: A 1961 Hindi Movie starring Nirupa Roy, P. Jairaj, Nisar Ahmad Ansari .
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Main Hoon Jadugar
Overview: A special effects/fantasy/adventure film based on a folk tale
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Char Dil Char Rahen
Overview: 1959 film starring Raj Kapoor, Ajit and Shammi Kapoor
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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India is Ours
Overview: Though times have changed, Ram still uses old ways of farming due to a drought in the village. His brother, Bala, goes to Bombay to earn his living. Mahadev, a Zamindar in the village, eyes Usha, the lover of Bala. Due to the drought, the crops fail in the village, and Shikh Sahib, a social worker, comes to help the farmers, and shows them new ways of farming. Ramu goes to Bombay to take a loan for cooperative farming and asks Bala to turn back to the village, but he refuses. [The film is a socio-economic study of post-independence India, blending documentary elements with narrative storytelling. The film is often described as a "simple story woven into the documentary design" and features actors like Prithviraj Kapoor and Dev Anand.]
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-01-01
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Superman
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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