Jillo
Also Known As: Jilloo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bombay, India
Birthday: Not available
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Tadbir
Overview: Jayant Desai directs this melodrama centering on Kanhaiyalal (K. L. Saigal) who, according to a fortuneteller at his birth, will consort with a prostitute, grow skillful with a knife, and be sentenced to the gallows. As the film progresses, this unpromising prediction comes true, but in an unexpected manner. After a family tragedy, Kanhaiyalal and his mother find shelter in the home of a kindly whore named Saguna (Suraiya) who eventually sacrifices her life for that of the protagonist. Later, he becomes handy with a knife when he goes to med school and becomes a surgeon. As Kanhaiyalal matures, he and his mother battle against crime and poverty.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Mother India
Overview: A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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Nateeja
Overview: 1947 bollywood film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Pukar
Overview: A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.
Genres: History
Original Language: ur
Release Date: 1939-01-31
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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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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 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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Taqdeer
Overview: In between his more ambitious Najma (1943) and Humayun (1945), Mehboob made this lightweight comedy about Justice Gangaprasad (Chandramohan) and theatre-owner Seth Badriprasad (Charlie) who lose their daughter and son respectively in the Kumbh Mela.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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Kisan Kanya
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Genres: Music
Original Language: hi
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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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Saubhagya Sundari
Overview: 1933 Hindi movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Black Serpent
Overview: Indian horror movie from 1925.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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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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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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Zeenat
Overview: A disgraced widow is forced to work as a maid for her fatherless child.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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