Sadhana Shivdasani
Also Known As: Sadhana, Садхана Шивдасани, Садхана, Sadhna, साधना
Biography: Sadhana Shivdasani, known mononymously as Sadhana, was an Indian film actress active between 1960 and 1981. She is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Indian cinema. Popularly known as "The Mystery Girl" for playing mysterious women in films like Woh Kaun Thi? (1964) and Mera Saaya (1966), Shivdasani ranked as the highest-paid actress in the country from mid-1960s to early 1970s. Sadhana was also noted for her exquisite beauty and trend-setting fashion statements.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karachi, British India [now Pakistan]
Adult: No
Birthday: September 02, 1941
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 25, 2015
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Chhote Sarkar
Overview: Brothers Moti and Raja share a joint household until Moti's wife gets Raja thrown out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Abana
Overview: A Sindhi Language film created in the initial days of the Sindhi Hindu community having transitioned to India. The plot is part before partition and part post partition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: sd
Release Date: 1958-07-23
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Arzoo
Overview: After completing his medical studies, Gopal (Rajendra Kumar) takes a break and goes on holiday in Kashmir. There he meets with Usha (Sadhana) and both fall in love with each other. Back home, Gopal has a close friend, Ramesh (Feroze Khan), whose dad (Brahm Bhardwaj) wants him to marry Usha as an arranged marriage. Ramesh likes Usha and is willing to marry her. In the meantime, Gopal finds out that Ramesh is going to be married to Usha and decides not to pursue his romance with Usha. When Ramesh and Gopal's sister, Sarla (Nazima) convince Gopal that Usha only loves him, he reveals a dark secret to them, which may convince them that he is not right for Usha.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-01-15
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Hum Dono
Overview: An Indian army captain must break bad news to a sick woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Intaquam
Overview: Reeta Mehra gets a job at a department store to support her ailing mother. After she refuses sexual favours to an important business partner, her boss Sohanlal has her framed for shoplifting. When Reeta gets out of prison, her mother has died. She meets Heeralal, who has also been cheated by Sohanlal, and together they work out a plot for revenge. Reeta is to marry Sohanlal's son and then reveal her history, disgracing Sohanlal's name. Things quickly become more complicated than anticipated.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Mera Saaya
Overview: A lawyer's wife dies in his arms. Yet, another woman - identical in appearance and accused of aiding a gang of bandits - claims to be the lawyer's wife. A courtroom drama ensues.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Budtameez
Overview: A young man of modest means romances a spoiled rich girl at the behest of her father. Complications, sparks and romance ensue.
Genres: Drama Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Ek Phool Do Mali
Overview: Tale of one child with two fathers, one who gave birth to him and another who raised him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Love in Simla
Overview: After the untimely death of her father and step-mother, Sonia is orphaned and lives with her aunt and paternal uncle (Mrs. and General Rajpal Singh). Sonia is plain-looking as her real mother, and often invites unappreciative, taunts, and critical remarks from her aunt and cousin-sister, Sheela. Sheela has a boyfriend, Dev Kumar Mehra, and she plans to marry him. Fed-up of hearing frequent taunts and adverse remarks about her plain-looks, Sonia challenges Sheetal that she will make Dev fall in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Gaban
Overview: Based on novel by Munshi Prem Chand. Believing himself to be a suspect for embezzlement in British India, a man must testify against non-violent freedom-fighters.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
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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Aap Aye Bahaar Ayee
Overview: Rohit, Whiskey, and Kumar (Rajendra Kumar, Rajendra Nath, and Prem Chopra respectively) are childhood friends. While travelling to his estate in the company of Whiskey, Rohit meets with beautiful Neena (Sadhana), and falls in love with her. Subsequently, he meets with her father (Raj Mehra) where they are properly introduced, and she too falls in love with him. Unknowingly, Kumar also sends his proposal for marriage to Neena, but Neena rejects it. Kumar is offended and shortly before the marriage of Neena and Rohit, molests Neena. Rohit and Kumar become enemies, have a fight and Kumar loses sight in his left eye. Feeling that she is not worthly of Rohit anymore, Neena refuses to marry Rohit. Will Rohit and Neena ever get together again? Will they continue to be haunted by Kumar?
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Ek Musafir Ek Hasina
Overview: An army officer loses his memory, falls for a married woman, then regains part of his memory but forgets her.
Genres: Mystery Action Comedy
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1962-02-09
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Geetaa Mera Naam
Overview: The film tells the story of four children who are separated at a fair and unknowingly reunite years later when Geeta (Sadhana) meets Nita (also Sadhana) in prison. Nita has been wrongly accused of murder. Geeta is then caught up in a scheme to find the true killer which leads her to her brother Johnny's (Sunil Dutt) gang.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1974-03-24
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C.I.D. Nazir
Overview: After one of their elite officers Chandran (Raghavan) is brutally murdered, the CID force sends in their most elite officer Nazir (Prem Nazir) to investigate. He is in the crosshairs of a dangerous crime syndicate; but with the help of his trusted associate officer (Adoor Bhasi) the CID manages to tackle each obstacle thrown at them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1971-04-14
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Kandavarundo
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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Pacha Nottukal
Overview: Leelamma's wedding is thrown in jeopardy after her father loses the money he got after selling off his land. Paulose, an unemployed young man, finds the money and uses it for his own good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1973-09-09
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Sambhavami Yuge Yuge
Overview: Three brothers, who are jobless, lead a carefree life and make money by cheating people. Their lives take a turn when they learn that one of them is the son of a rich man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1972-06-20
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Urvashi Bharathi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1973-08-03
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Taxi Car
Overview: With the menace of a counterfeiting racket operating in Kerala on the rise, CID Inspector Nazir is tasked to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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Prem Patra
Overview: Arun begins hating Kavita when he loses his scholarship due to a misunderstanding with her. But after his new fiancé asks Kavita to write Arun letters on her behalf, Kavita falls in love with him. An accident intertwines their futures.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Mahfil
Overview: Widower Raghunath Singh lives a very wealthy lifestyle with his daughter, Shalini. While making a presentation on the importance of women, he is shot at by a woman, but is uninjured. Shortly thereafter, Shalini introduces him to her boyfriend, Advocate Ajaykumar Saxena, who turns out to be the nephew of Dindayal, Raghunath's childhood friend. Raghunath subsequently hires Amar to train Shalini to be a good businesswoman, and expects both to marry soon. Then Shalini finds out that there she has a twin named Ratnabai, who is the daughter of a Courtesan who had been intimate with Raghunath, and was responsible for the attempt on Raghunath's life. She brings Ratna to her home, much to the chagrin of her dad. Soon Ratna starts to make herself at home in her new surroundings, and her demands start to increase - from mimicking Shalini, to flirting with Ajay.
Genres: Drama Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-26
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Waqt
Overview: A businessman's family is torn apart by an earthquake and reunited years later in a courtroom where father and sons stand opposed in the roles of accused, lawyer, and witness.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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The Test
Overview: The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1960-08-05
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Woh Kaun Thi
Overview: One stormy night, a doctor offers a ride to a ghostly woman he meets on the side of the road. Later, he discovers his intended bride is identical in appearance to the ghost. Who was she and why does she haunt him?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1964-02-07
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Amaanat
Overview: Balraj Sahani plays a professional Artist with wife Achala Sachdev and son Manoj Kumar caught in the trap of Rehman and Shashikala who for the payment of a large Life insurance policy frame him in the murder of Rehman - who escapes to a world of crime after becoming a dead man for the world.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Mere Mehboob
Overview: While studying in Aligarh Muslim University, Anwar Hussain Anwar falls in love with a veiled woman and is unable to get her out of his mind. En route to Lucknow, they meet with Nawab Buland Akhtar Changezi, and subsequently meet with him a few days later so that he can use his influence to secure an editor's job for Anwar with a magazine. Nawab then asks Anwar to teach his sister, Husna, some poetry, to which he agrees, and eventually finds that she is the very same veiled woman. Both fall in love with each other and the Nawab approves of this alliance, even though Anwar lives a poor lifestyle. The formal engagement ceremony takes place and arrangements are made for the wedding to take place soon. The heavily indebted Nawab does not realize that soon he will find Anwar in the company of a lowly courtesan, Najma; and pressure will be brought on him to get Husna to marry wealthy Munne Raja - who is all set to auction the former's mansion as well as belongings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1963-01-02
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Asli Naqli
Overview: Renu lives a poor lifestyle with her family. Shattered and devastated with the deaths of her father and brother, Renu decides to take up the mantle of feeding her family, hiding her dad's death from her ill and fragile mother, and goes along pretending that her father is still alive. Things brighten up when a homeless young man, Anand, enters her life, both fall in love with each other and want to get married. But once again fate plays a cruel joke on Renu as she subsequently finds out that Anand is not who he claims to be, but is in fact, a playboy, the grandson, nicknamed 'Prince", of one of the wealthiest man in town, Dwarkadas, and Anand is scheduled to get married to Rekha - the only heir to a multi-million rupee estate. Watch as events unfold and the effect this news has on the townspeople and Renu's mom.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Anita
Overview: Anita is a weird girl, who either loses her memory or pretends to not remember.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery Horror
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1967-10-10
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Dil Daulat Duniya
Overview: Udharchand Shikarpuri is a homeless man who lives in Bombay albeit under the roof of multi-millionaire Seth Kalidas, who six months away in his palatial house in Mussoorie. For the 4th time in his life, Udharchand 'moves' into Kalidas's Mansion along with his dog, Chicko. He meets and befriends two other homeless men, Raju and Vijay, and invites them to live with him. Shortly thereafter, one night the trio find that a female thief has broken into the mansion, they confront her, find out her name is Roopa, feel sorry for her, and invite her to also live with them. Subsequently, Raju's wife, Kiran, his son, and sister, Rita also move.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Danger Biscuit
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Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1969-11-21
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Madhuram Thirumadhuram
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Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Rajaankanam
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Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Maaya
Overview: based on 1963 novel of the same name by K. Surendran
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Ishq Par Zor Nahin
Overview: Amar Doraiswamy is the only child of multi-millionaire shipping company owner who lives in a palatial house in Goa, India. Amar introduces a close, but poor friend, Ram, to his father, who employs him conditionally. Amar falls in love with a woman named Sushma Rai, and asks Ram to pen a love letter and poem for her. Sushma gets to read the letter and the poem, and thinking that Ram is Amar, falls in love with him. She meets him, and he is also unknowingly attracted to her, both feel that they are inseparable soul-mates. Then Ram gets a shock when he finds out that Sushma is Amar's intended and decides to stay away from her. But Sushma has other plans, for she intends to marry Ram at any cost, not realizing that by doing this, she is placing not only Ram's life, but also the lives of two other individuals, namely Uma Devi and Lalit, in jeopardy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Sachaai
Overview: Ashok and Kishore are two roommates living in a hostel. While Ashok takes to crime and dishonesty, Kishore is honest to a fault. When Kishore finds that his dad has been taking bribes, he leaves home angrily. Ashok and he disagree on a number of issues, mainly involving honesty, and both agree to meet each other after a period of three years, and see what life has had an effect for them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Vandana
Overview: VANDANA (1975)
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Dulha Dulhan
Overview: Chanda, unconscious for three days goes home only to realize a stranger by the name Rajkumar claims to be her husband and calls her by the name of Rekha. Will Chanda be able to solve this mystery?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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