Prithviraj Kapoor
Also Known As: पृथ्वीराज कपूर
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India
Adult: No
Birthday: November 03, 1906
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 29, 1972
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Vikramaditya
Overview: The story revolves around the king Vikramaditya, who promises to save the princess of Kashmir, appoints Kalidas as court-poet, and his fight against the Shakas (Scythians).
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-20
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Lootera
Overview: A Bollywood historical action film.
Genres: Action Drama Music Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Sher E Watan
Overview: A Bollywood film
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Zindagi
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Mughal-e-Azam
Overview: In the 16th century, when Prince Salim falls in love with a beautiful courtesan named Anarkali, Emperor Akbar's disapproval leads to a battle between father and son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-08-05
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Awaara
Overview: A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Grihadaha
Overview: The poor but educated Mahim and his childhood friend, the rich but conservative Suresh, both fall in love with the same woman, the liberated Achala. Mahim marries her and they move to a village but she cannot forget Suresh. Her smoldering unhappiness takes the form of resentment towards the orphaned Mrinal, raised by Mahim's father, and receives a dramatic visual embodiment when their house burns down. Mahim falls ill, is rescued by Suresh, and nursed back to health by Achala. On a train (a metaphor for the irreversibly linear course of life) to a health resort where Mahim is supposed to convalesce, Suresh on a rainswept night gives in to temptation and elopes with Achala. At the end of the film, there is a dubious reconciliation as Achala is shown following Mahim's 'good' traditionalism with Sharatchandra's barely concealed hostility towards Achala's liberated Brahmo Samaj upbringing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1936-10-10
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Abhagin
Overview: A tenant attacks the villainous landlord Jawaharlal Choudhry, injures his son Priyalal and abducts his daughter-in-law Sandhya. Sandhya escapes unharmed to her relative, the engineer Praksh, but her father-in-law refuses to take her back, believing her to be 'damaged goods'. Sheltered by the kindly Promode, her husband eventually accepts her back although she feels torn between affection for her savior and her marital obligations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1938-07-15
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Seeta
Overview: Seeta was a 1933 Indian talkie Bengali film, directed by Debaki Bose and produced by the East India Film Company.[1] It won an honorary diploma in the 2nd Venice International Film Festival in 1934, becoming the first Indian talkie to be shown at an international film festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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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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The Arabian Knight
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1930-07-18
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Do Dhari Talwar
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Genres: Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1929-07-19
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Anand Math
Overview: Anand Math is a 1952 Hindi patriotic-historical film directed by Hemen Gupta, based on Anandamath, the famous Bengali novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in 1882. The novel and film are set in the events of the Sannyasi Rebellion, which took place in the late 18th century in eastern India, especially Bengal.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1952-01-16
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Valmiki
Overview: Valmiki is a movie directed by Bhalji Pendharkar featuring Shanta Apte, Prithviraj Kapoor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Inquilab
Overview: A drama set amid an earthquake in Bihar. Miss Renee (Khote) looks after the victims while her lover, the businessman Sardar (Mohanned), wants to make money from the disaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Naag Panchami
Overview: Snake Goddess Mansa is having a bad day. It's her birthday but she is restless and irritated by her followers in Naglok. Fortuitously Nagraj turns up and she manages to cajole him into revealing the name of her father, who is none other than Lord Shiva.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy History Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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Cinema Girl
Overview: This film presented a fictionalized biography of its maker. One of the major characters is a producer modeled on Kohinoor's proprietor, D.N. Sampat, including a reference to the real life occasion when the studio, on the verge of bankruptcy, survived only because its employees donated money and gold ornaments to keep it afloat. Another character referred to a financier at the Imperial Studio. The plot also touched on the way a producer can curtail the freedom of a director.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Ab Dilli Dur Nahin
Overview: A young boy travels to Delhi, wanting to meet Prime Minister to seek justice for his father who has been wrongly sentenced to death.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Lajwanti
Overview: Having been unjustly accused of having an affair, a dutiful and loving wife is thrown out of the house by her husband and forced to abandon her baby. When mother and child are eventually reunited, the mother faces an uphill struggle to regain the love of her daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-06-08
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Naya Nasha
Overview: Story of Reena, who gets into drugs.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya
Overview: Rajesh is the son of a rich father, Kuver Saheb. Rajesh falls in love with Savita a daughter of a teacher Ramdas, who Rajesh got sacked and humiliated when he was younger.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Sakshathkara
Overview: The story revolves around the dangers of superstition, particularly when it concerns marriage and how unscrupulous elements in society could manipulate these beliefs to their benefit and lead to tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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Teen Bahuraniyan
Overview: Teen Bahuraniyan (English: Three Daughters-In-Law) is a 1968 family comedy movie. The film is a remake of 1967 Tamil movie Bama Vijayam (Bama's Visit). The film's three lead ladies reprise their roles from the original movie. Teen Bahuraniyan is family story of 3 daughter in laws and their husbands. The movie shows how their relations takes different colour at various situations and how the father Prithviraj Kapoor plays vital role in the family to keep things going.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1968-07-19
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Phool
Overview: An Amrohi drama set in a Muslim family. Safhar's inheritance is lost, thanks to his sister-in-law, but he is still expected to complete his late father's work of building a mosque. If he cannot complete the work, then Salim must take over, but he goes off to fight in the Balkans, leaving the sister-in- law's orphaned daughter to complete the task. In doing so, she will lose her freedom, so she has a difficult decision to make.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-19
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Sikandar
Overview: The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks). The story goes that when Sikander defeated Porus and imprisoned him, he asked Porus how would he like to be treated. Porus replied the same way a defeated king is treated by the winner (meaning killed).
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1941-02-19
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Sky palace
Overview: The story revolves around a Nawab, who having lost his money, still continues to live in the old traditional style, maintaining a grandeur facade. His son opposes the unrealistic life-style.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Draupadi
Overview: Draupadi (The Daughter Of King Drupad) is a 1931 sound film from Indian cinema.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Paisa
Overview: Only film directed by Prithviraj Kapoor
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Nanak Naam Jahaz Hai
Overview: In this classic drama, bachelor Prem (Suresh) enjoys a good life, with a successful business and a loving family. But when he marries the manipulative Ratan (Nishi), his once-blissful existence becomes fraught with tension. Ratan drives a wedge between Prem and his brother, Gurmukh (Prithviraj Kapoor), and tries to destroy Gurmukh's relationship with his wife, Channi (Vimi). Will Channi's strong Sikh faith be enough to restore peace to the family?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pa
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Lal Bangla
Overview: While investigating a murder case that involves his younger brother, a police inspector discovers a ghost roaming the ruins of an ancient palace.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Light of the World
Overview: A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce the army chief Adil (Vithal) and vengefully destroys his family, leaving his daughter Alam Ara (Zubeida) to be raised by nomads. Eventually, Alam Ara's nomad friends invade the palace, expose Dilbahar's schemes, release Adil from the dungeon and she marries the prince of the realm.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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Yeh Raat Phir Na Aaygi
Overview: After discovery of skeletal remains at an excavation site, a woman known to be deceased for over 2 centuries mysteriously re-surfaces to claim her lover.
Genres: Mystery Drama Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-01-07
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Sapera
Overview: Adapted from a story by Kazi Nazrul Islam this film concerns love and revenge among a tribe of snake charmers led by Jahar (Nawab) who is searching for his 100th poisonous snake so as to show how he can magically cure its deadly bite.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Love and Murder
Overview: A robber steals the money from a bank heists from his accomplices. He hides at his sister’s place but gets murdered. She soon is lured to a resort called the Rainbow Hotel where the other gang members also are. Soon one after another they are murdered.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Rajkumar
Overview: Prince Bhanu Pratap returns from a decade in a foreign country, together with his friend Kapil. His father, the King (Raja)has married again after Bhanu Pratap's mother passed away, and has a son by his new wife Maharani (Queen) Kalavanti. The Queen's brother Narpat Singh has designs upon the throne and enrols his sister the Maharani in his plot, by promising to unseat Bhanu Pratap and install her son as the heir. Prince Bhanu Singh has been tipped off, so he starts to behave like a CLOWN prince, instead of acting as the CROWN prince, in an attempt to flush out the schemers. This is a complex story of Royalty in India, in the post Independence (from the British) era, before democracy took root. It is a story of love, Indian values and to some extent superstitions and the conflict between values, superstition and modern views of the world they lived in.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1964-10-20
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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
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The Court Dancer: Raj Nartaki
Overview: In Manipur, in the early years of the 19th century, graceful and enchanting court dancer Indrani has captured the heart of Prince Chandrakirti. However, Indrani is looked down upon because of her low social standing and turned away when she tries to enter the city temple. She seeks solace in a crumbling temple, where all are welcome. Meanwhile, Prince Chandra comes under pressure to marry the princess of a neighboring land and secure a peace treaty for his kingdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-02
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Rustom Sohrab
Overview: In the year 720B.C., Rustom, who reigned in Iran- Persia and was known for superhuman strength, married Tehminia, Princess of Samangan. When he moved to Samangan, Iran's enemies took advantage, attacked and imprisoned the king. As he heard the news of this rebellion, he began planning his own revolt- to free the king from his captors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Gauri
Overview: Gauri is a 1943 Indian Bollywood film. It was the seventh highest grossing Indian film of 1943. Monica Desai, Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor played the lead roles in the film. [Wikipedia]
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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Dahej
Overview: Thakur ( is a proud and dignified man with an only daughter, Chanda who is of marriageable age. His wife and he receive a suitable proposal from the house of a lawyer and his wife. They accept this proposal, and make it clear to the lawyer that he is unable to afford any dowry, to which the lawyer agrees. The groom, Suraj, accepts the bride without any dowry. Then Chanda's mother-in-law gets agitated over the lack of dowry and starts harassing Chanda. The lawyer dies suddenly during a court case, and Chanda is blamed for his death. Eventually Chanda is thrown out of the house, and Suraj is unable to do anything. At this point in time, Thakur decides to sell everything and give it all to Chanda's mother-in-law, who is now planning to get Suraj married again. But will this gesture resolve Chanda's problems?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Vidyapati
Overview: Classic celebration of Mithila's King Shiva Singha's (Bannerjee/Kapoor) love for his wife while chronicling the influence of the pacifist court poet Bidyapati (Sanyal). Invited to the royal court by the king, Bidyapati arrives with his faithful follower Anuradha (Kanan Devi). Queen Laxmi (Chhaya Devi) falls in love with the poet, much to the distress of the king. The king falls ill and starts neglecting his royal duties until Anuradha persuades him that true love does not need reciprocation. The queen, equally distressed by her divided loyalties, contemplates suicide, encouraged by the prime minister who is worried by the nefarious impact of Bidyapati's poetry on the king.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Jahan Ara
Overview: The relationship between two childhood friends is tested as they grow up and discoveries are made. Mirza Yusuf Changezi has known Jahan Ara since childhood, and both have been good friends. After they grow up, things are not quite the same, as Jahan Ara's dad is none other than Emperor Shah Jahan, and men are not permitted to meet with the princess under any circumstance. But Jahan and Mirza do meet secretly and promise to marry each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Heer Raanjha
Overview: Heer Raanjha is a 1970 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film directed by Chetan Anand. It stars Raaj Kumar and Priya Rajvansh and tells the tragic love story of Heer, a wealthy girl, and Ranjha, who has been banished by his family. The film is often referred to as a Punjabi version of "Romeo and Juliet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Bombay In The Night's Embrace
Overview: A news reporter becomes a suspect after a robbery and a homicide aboard an aircraft.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Raj Kapoor - The Showman of Indian Cinema
Overview: Raj Kapoor, the film maker and actor became a legend in his lifetime. Head of one of the last great studios on the Indian sub-continent and creator of a film-making empire for nearly half a century. Woven into the texture of this 70-minute film, part personal narrative, part rare visuals, part cinema footage, is the picture of a man who straddled the Indian cinematic world for nearly half a century like a colossus.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-17
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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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Insaaf
Overview: Rakesh promises a women justice who stands trial by the law created by his own father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-07-22
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Where There Is Truth There Is God
Overview: Fated to die at the hands of a child, a demon wreaks havoc on the lives of the to-be parents.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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