Nutan
Also Known As: नूतन, Nutan Behl, Нутан, ნუტანი, Nutan Samarth, Nutan Samarth Bahl
Biography: Nutan Samarth Bahl (4 June 1936 – 21 February 1991), known mononymously as Nutan, was an Indian actress who worked primarily in Hindi films for nearly four decades. Her films ranged in genres, establishing her as a bold and versatile actress who took on unconventional roles. Aside from being regarded as one of the finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, Nutan was also crowned Miss India in 1951. Starting as a child actress in 1950, she received recognition for her naturalistic acting. By the late 1950s, she had become a household name. Her accolades include a record five Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and a Padma Shri, awarded by the Indian Government.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Birthday: June 04, 1936
Deathday: February 21, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Gauri
Overview: After abandoning Gauri, his wife who is visually impaired, Sanjeev goes on a hunting trip and is presumed dead. He returns months later to find that his best friend Sunil has stolen his identity.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Yudh
Overview: Kidnapped at a very young age, two twin brothers are separated from there respective mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Kanhaiya
Overview: Shanno falls for the flautist Kanhaiya, believing him to be Lord Krishna, and decides to marry him. However, she is shocked after realising that he is, in fact, the village drunkard.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Bhai Bahen
Overview: Raja Saheb (Ashok Kumar) is a rich man, strict father to sons Virendra (Sunil Dutt) and Mahendra. One day, Mahendra has a big fight with his father and dies of shock afterwards. Virendra leaves home and falls in bad company with Pran. Later, Virendra falls in love with a poor girl (Nutan), eventually deciding to marry her. At home, a lonely Raja Saheb falls ill. When Virendra tells his father about his love, his father reveals his own past: He was in love with a poor girl, who died leaving a daughter (Padmini) behind, who dances on the roads to earn a living. Virendra decides to bring his sister home.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Saajan Bina Suhagan
Overview: Asha lives a poor lifestyle along with her widowed dad, is in love with aspiring doctor Raj Kumar, and hopes to marry him someday. When Raj announces that he is traveling abroad to study, she decides to wait for him, but her father, on his deathbed, makes her promise to marry Simla-based Gopal Chopra, who is the son of his friend, Shyamlal, to which Asha agrees. Gopal gets a promotion and re-locates to Bombay but continues to remain in touch with his family. Then the past is re-visited when Raj, now a doctor, comes to live in their neighborhood. Their idyllic lives are shattered when Raj is arrested for killing a man named Mangatram who was blackmailing Asha for hiding a secret from the rest of her family.
Genres: Crime Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Lagan
Overview: Burma-based widow, Parvati, along with two sons, Prem and Rajesh, re-locates to Bombay to live with her late husband's friend and widower, Sewakram, and his two daughters, Shanti and Durga. He returns some cash and jewelery to her that was entrusted to him, and she re-locates to live in a big bungalow. Shortly thereafter, Prem and Rajesh get married to Shanti and Durga respectively. The entire family live harmoniously until Parvati is told by Mrs. Pereira that Prem has been physically abusing his pregnant wife. Parvati and Rajesh undertake to rein-in Prem - and it this overture that will not only shatter their idyllic lifestyle but force both brothers to take up arms against each other.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Teri Maang Sitaron Se Bhar Doon
Overview: Anjali lives in a hostel and always waits for her mother Kamini to come take her during holidays but Kamini never takes Anjali home; instead she takes her on holidays to different places. Kamini pretends to be a wealthy woman in front of Anjali, but she actually works for the Bombay-based Don Sultanbhai--she conducts robberies for him. Anjali falls in love with Anand and both want to get their parents together, but at the last moment Kamini is called back to Bombay by Sultanbhai; this doesn't go over well with Anand's mother. Sultanbhai finds out from Kamini about Anjali and how life was cruel to her he promises Kamini that he will get Anjali married to Anand and makes a fake family out of his gang and present them in front of Anand's family.
Genres: Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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Rishta Kagaz Ka
Overview: It takes a debilitating disease like cancer to reunite brother (Raj Babbar) and sister (Nutan).
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Sujata
Overview: An orphan adopted by an upper caste family never learns of her untouchable caste background. This proves problematic when years later, she falls in love with an upper caste man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Bandini
Overview: In 1930s British-ruled Bengal, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convicted murderer with past connections to a freedom fighter.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Saajan Ki Saheli
Overview: Young and attractive Kunti has fallen in love with a young man by the name of Anil, and both intend to marry...
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1981-01-30
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Tere Ghar Ke Samne
Overview: Rakesh, a successful architect, falls in love with a girl: Sujata whose father happens to be his own father's business rival. Sujata's father unwittingly assigns Rakesh the contract for building his house. This sets the stage for an entertaining story about the love between two individuals and their efforts to reconcile their families.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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Chhota Bhai
Overview: A mother faces challenges when she is asked to look after her husband's very young step-brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Chhabili
Overview: Following Israeli author Amos Oz over two years, as he meets readers and discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Along the way, Oz offers advice to Israeli president Shimon Peres, and is seen with fellow writers Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster and Nadine Gordimer, and the Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Hamari Beti
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Anuraag
Overview: Bombay-based Rajesh lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle with his parents, mom - a housewife and dad - a rather parsimonious businessman, named Amirchand. One day while walking on the beach, he comes across a beautiful blind girl named Shivani. He instantly falls in love with her. She also likes him, but understands that they cannot be married. Regardless of this, Rajesh asks his parents to permit him to marry her, to which his mother agrees, but his father refuses. Then Mr. Rai, Amirchand's friend, intervenes, he offers to pay for getting Shivani's eyes tested, and if she succeeds in getting her sight, then and only then can Amirchand permit his son to marry her.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
Overview: Thakur Rajnath Singh Chouhan opens a can of worms when he announces that he is going to marry a prostitute by the name of Tulsi. His mother will not even consider Tulsi as a daughter-in-law, and would prefer that he marry Sanjukta. Tulsi convinces him that he should marry the woman of his mother's choice, which he eventually does. Thereafter Tulsi gives birth to a baby boy, Ajay, and passes away. Sanjukta raises Ajay as her own child, even after the passing away of Rajnath, and even after giving birth to Pratap. Ajay is given the entire responsibility of the estate, while Pratap squanders money on courtesans and alcohol. Sanjukta trusts Ajay, until one day when a villager complains to her that Ajay has got his daughter, Geeta, pregnant; additionally she also finds out that Ajay has been misappropriating money, and also owes money to a prostitute named Leelabai, the very woman who sold Tulsi to Rajnath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1978-03-02
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Duniyadari
Overview: A Bollywood drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Kanoon Apna Apna
Overview: A loyal government official fights to uphold his dignity when a group of goons try their best to taint his reputation. To do this, he uses his methods of justice.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Rishte Naate
Overview: Thakur Narendrapal Singh is a generous and kind-hearted landlord and zamindar. He has a daughter Kalpana and a son Raja. Distrusting his son and his new wife, Roopa, he asks a village laborer, Sunder who is honest, loyal and hardworking, to marry his daughter. In this manner, Sunder and Kalpana get married, and soon Kalpana gives birth to a daughter. Tragically Kalpana passes away, and the Thakur, Sunder, and the child are devastated. The Thakur asks Sunder to get married to Savitri, who is the daughter of his childhood friend, the local Collector. He hopes that in this manner the child will get the love of a mother. Sunder reluctantly agrees, and soon Savitri and he get married. Savitri is unable to win the love of the child nor does she get any affection from Sunder, as he is unable to get Kalpana out of his mind and thoughts. In the meantime, Roopa's dad is plotting the death of Sunder, so that his daughter can take over the wealth of the Thakur after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Karma
Overview: When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his daughter-in-law; with Dang escaping in the process. Vishwa, who now calls himself Dada Thakur, is determined to put an end to Dang and his PSO gang. He enlists three death row inmates, Baiju Thakur, Johnny and former terrorist Khairuddin Kisti, Thakur personally trains to become disciplined fugitive hunters, and sets out to avenge his family's slaughter.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-08-08
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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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Kalapi
Overview: Kalapi is a 1966 Indian Gujarati biographical film directed by Manhar Raskapur, starring Sanjeev Kumar, Padmarani, Aruna Irani, Nutan, Pranlal Kharsani.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: gu
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Dil Hi To Hai
Overview: Children are exchanged by greedy aunt and uncle in childhood and they live undeserved lives.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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
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Chhalia
Overview: The tragic-comic story of Chhalia, a naive, simple-minded young man who comes to the city and witnesses the harsh side of life; and falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to find out that she is married but separated from her husband, Kewal, and adopted son, Anwar. He puts all he can in an effort to locate Kewal and re-unite the family.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Sone Pe Suhaaga
Overview: A businessman's wallet is stolen by a pickpocket, which inadvertently reunites him with his long-lost family. However, this incident also puts all their lives at risk from a powerful gangster.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Meri Jung
Overview: When evil lawyer Thakral prosecutes innocent family man Deepak and sends him to his death, his family is shattered--and when his son Arun grows up, he's determined to avenge his parents' suffering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-08-11
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Heer
Overview: Heer is the story of two lovers, after the mythical Punjabi legend of Heer and Ranjhna. It tells their thwarted love, and how beautiful Heer and intrepid Ranjhna must fight to reunite in spite of obstacles and enemies. The two lovers belong to opposing tribes/families and villains are out and out to separate them. During a fair where her champion has been tricked, Heer is promised to somebody of her clan. The defeated hero wonders in the wilderness and meets with witches who direct him to his beloved. In spite of having fallen from princehood to beggarhood, he thus gets back to her, and they hope to marry, but Ranjhna's enemies are still looking for him, and they stalk him. A trap is laid to capture Ranjhna and to stop any further common plan, Heer is married to her rightful suitor. She plans suicide, but Ranjhna arrives, he tries to drag her away, but he's seen in her apartments and therefore she's declared impure and is condemned to the dungeons.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Seema
Overview: Gauri, an orphan, is falsely accused of theft and lands up in a reformatory run by Ashok. Due to her rebelliousness, she gets into trouble. But, gradually she comes into her own with Ashok's help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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Saudagar
Overview: Moti is a merchant who sells jaggery in the market, with the help of an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary jaggery. He is in love with a village girl, but cannot afford to pay the dowry/marriage expenses to her father. So he decides to marry Mahjubhi, while secretly harbouring the dream of saving enough money for dowry and marrying the village girl. After marrying Majubhi, Moti extracts a lot of work from her to this end. He eventually does collect the amount and divorces her, accusing her of infidelity. Shortly after that he marries the village girl, and goes back to his business of selling jaggery, but faces the consequence of losing Mahjubhi's jaggery.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1973-10-26
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Aakhri Dao
Overview: A car mechanic falls in love with a girl but discovers her father has a large debt, leading him to gamble and marry another to pay off the debt.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Kasturi
Overview: Kasturi is a Family drama, where relations and values conflict each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Dilli Ka Thug
Overview: Kishore is a conman who has little respect for the rich. He learns that the person responsible for his friend's death is the same who led to his own father's death. He swears to bring him to justice.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Naseebwala
Overview: Shanti, from a poor family, is desperate to arrange the marriage of her children and when she finds the perfect man for one of her daughters she is delighted. However, the man's mother demands a huge dowry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya
Overview: A man faces a problem when his very own brother decides to marry the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Hifazat
Overview: Although Satya Prakash's wife Laxmi makes him marry Rukmini for an heir, both wives give birth to sons. Later, the sons fight among themselves in order to gain control over their father's business.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Insaniyat
Overview: A Police officer seeks the help of two gangsters to combat terrorism.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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Saraswatichandra
Overview: Saraswati is indifferently raised by his step mother and yet he grows up and becomes a compassionate person who has lofty ideas and decides to do without his personal happiness without informing his father, who fixes his marriage to Kumud an educated girl from a rich family. Saraswati decides to cancel the engagement and writes to Kumud to inform her. But soon she replies and soon the two keep on exchanging letters. Soon Saraswati decides to defy the customs and pays a visit to his fiancée. The two soon serenade and a short lived romance takes place and soon Saraswati returns home after promising Kumud and her family that he would return. However, on his return a family feud takes place and Saraswati writes to Kumud that he is not able to marry her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1968-01-02
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Milan
Overview: On the banks of the holy River Ganga, Gopi, a ferryman conducts an unconsummated romance with Radha, a girl from the upper classes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-03-17
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Manzil
Overview: Learning that his beloved has married someone else a composer self-destructs
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Naam
Overview: A widow raises two sons, one of whom is not her biological child (unbeknownst to him). Her biological child leaves India to work in Dubai, but eventually finds himself in the criminal underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1986-09-29
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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
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Devi
Overview: A poor woman feels unwelcome in her husband's family
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Baarish
Overview: City-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal asks him to go to the village and look after his mother and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After coming to know both mother and daughter, they decide to re-locate to the big city to be together with Gopal. In the process, Ramu and Chanda fall in love with each other. Chanda wants Ramu to give up his life of crime, but will his crime partners allow Ramu to lead a normal life?
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Mujrim
Overview: The film follows the story of Shankar, who is regarded as a criminal by society after being in jail for ten years since childhood.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-07-28
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Nagina
Overview: A young man believes that an old, supposedly haunted ruin holds clues to both his father’s disappearance and a twelve year old murder mystery.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Mehrban
Overview: Mehrban is a 1967 Hindi language film written and directed by A. Bhimsingh. It is a remake of Bhimsingh's own Tamil film Padikkadha Medhai (1960) which itself was a remake of the 1953 Bengali film Jog Biyog, based on the novel of the same name by Ashapoorna Devi.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-04-21
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Maharaja
Overview: Hindi film from 1970
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Basant
Overview: A spoilt heiress runs away from home to be with the lover her family disapproves of, only to fall in love with someone else on the way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Paying Guest
Overview: An incompetent lawyer gets evicted, dons the guise of an old man to gain accommodation, falls for the owner's daughter, then faces numerous life-changing challenges.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Dulhan Ek Raat Ki
Overview: Arrogant son of a wealthy, blind woman, rapes his mother's nurse and abandons her. She gets pregnant but the child does not live, and she continues to live her life and follow up on her love life, only to face the past, and her "reformed" rapist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Khandan
Overview: An ancestral property is distributed between two brothers, then a couple of years later, bitterness divides their families. An outsider in the younger brother's family tries to kill the others, which is resisted in time, and they reunite.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Latt Saheb
Overview: A woodcutter, Jangu lives a poor lifestyle in Kashmir along with his widowed mother, who fears that he is going to die soon after Dassera. She keeps on praying for his well-being and safety, and cautions him to be careful all the time. But Jangu does quite the opposite, gets into fights, even kills a man-eating tiger, and romances his employer's daughter, Nikki, after risking his life and rescuing her twice. Nikki too falls in love with him, much to the chagrin of her estate Manager, Prem, who is the choice of her wheelchair-bound dad. Circumstances will compel Jangu's mother to change her mind about his long life and safety, and she not only curse but also viciously assault, and wish him dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Zindagi Ya Toofan
Overview: Zindagi Ya Toofan is a movie directed by J. Nakhshab featuring Nutan, Pradeep Kumar. Loosely based on Umrao Jaan Ada.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ur
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Laila Majnu
Overview: Bollywood 1953
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Hum Log
Overview: An impoverished family faces illness and financial challenges after one of them is sent to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Shabab
Overview: Bollywood 1954
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Paisa Yeh Paisa
Overview: When a widow receives a letter, informing her of her newly inherited fortune, her once downtrodden life changes drastically for the better.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1985-10-11
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Chandan
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Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Ginny And Johnny
Overview: Johny makes his living by conning people. Ginny enters his life and then nothing in the world can separate them from each other.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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Paradh
Overview: A wealthy man purchases an old mansion but is perplexed to find a mysterious locked room.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: hi
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