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- Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
- A 16th century prince falls in love with a court dancer and battles with his emperor father.
- Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
- The film explores questions of identity, justice, beauty, meaning and death through an experimental photographer, an ailing monk and a young stockbroker.
- A teenage boy becomes smitten with his new drama teacher and pursues her, despite the perilous risks of being found out.
- This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
- Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
- In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, she always sticks to her own moral code.
- A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
- A young boy is seduced by a woman who later turns him into a gigolo (male prostitute).
- DCP Rudra faces a bunch of challenges after he locks horns with a notorious criminal Nagori Subramanium.
- In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
- The scion of a wealthy landowner family turns to alcohol and self-pity and slowly self-destructs after class differences force him to break off his relationship with his childhood sweetheart.
- Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.
- When a young man from a small town decides to make it big in a city, he faces several challenges.
- When the son of a landlord decides to modernize his business by replacing the horse carts with buses, a horse cart rider decides to challenge him.
- A highly reputed doctor makes a small mistake, which costs the life of a kid Ankur Arora. Will he succeed in hiding his mistake or will the mother of the kid get Justice.
- Three woman-hating brothers face changes in their respective lifestyles when two of them fall in love.
- An ex-convict gets a job as a taxi driver to change his girlfriend's prejudiced father's view of him, and becomes embroiled with a criminal gang in the process.
- In Mughal Emperor Akbar's court, young musician Baiju challenges maestro Tansen to a musical duel in order to avenge the death of his father, which he holds Tansen responsible for.
- Although a graduate in Arts, Shanta agrees to get married to a much lesser educated widowed businessman, Ratanlal, who has a son, Mithu, from his first marriage, and re-locates to live with him, his brothers; Ramesh, Rajan, & Baldev, and an aunt. Ratanlal permits her to let her child-widowed sister, Lata, to also live with them. Shanta soon earns the respect and love of everyone in the family. Ramesh gets married to Advocate Motilal's daughter, Tara, while Rajan gets married to Mangala, who is Munshiram's daughter. After these marriages, misunderstandings crop up, generally generated by Mangala, so much so that Tara joins forces with her, forcing the brothers to separate from each other, with Ratanlal dividing the property and business equally amongst them, and re-locating in a small village house, while Ramesh now lives with Tara and her brother, Jeevan and his wife. Rajan does not get along with Mangala, takes to alcohol in a big way, stops his medical studies and joins the army, and Baldev re-locates to Bombay. The question remains will this troubled family ever be re-united again during their respective lifetimes?
- A UK-based NRI visits India, and while returning, he goes to a remote station run by a psychopath station master.
- A tax collector willing to reform the society with the thought of change instead of revenge tries to control himself while attempting to teach a lesson to the man responsible behind his wife's death.
- Mahesh and Meena fall in love but he marries another girl at his father's behest. When Meena takes their baby to Mahesh, he rejects her saying their relationship was a mistake.
- An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night.
- Anju Rai lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in a palatial house. She is now of marriageable age, and her dad has arranged her marriage with Advocate Amarnath. Both Anju and Amarnath meet and fall in love with each other. Shortly before their formal engagement, Anju notices a change in Amarnath - as he appears to be drifting further from her. Then he decides to demolish his house and re-built it, and also refuses to go near any Mandir - either alone or in Anju's company. When part of the house collapses, he is injured, but recuperates quickly. It is then the town is set afire with rumors that Amarnath may have sexually molested a village belle named Sonia, who sells milk, lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed dad, cruel step-mother, and is to be married to the village goon, Shankar. Watch what happens when Shankar gets killed, and Sonia is arrested for killing him.
- In 1948, a cross-fire erupts at an isolated stretch of Indo-Pak border, leaving only two soldiers alive. One is an Indian soldier of Pakistani origin while the other happens to be a Pakistani soldier of Indian origin. An ironic story of pride and survival begins when - in an attempt to evade danger, they bump into each other. And amidst continuous exchange of bullets, altercations and murkier situations, it evolves into a journey of human connection with an unforeseeable end.
- Alka Singh, the leader of a political party, and her obsessive love for Rohan Mehra, a rising star of Bollywood.
- Pyarelal lives with his parents his elder brother Mohan,his wife Malti and sister Vimla and he day dreams of making it big as an actor.His families condition isn't good and sister Vimla has to get married his brother Mohan arranges for six hundred rupees while his father asks Pyarelal to arrange four hundred.Pyarelal manages to arrange only hundred rupees and his family finds that he has been fired from his job by giving an advance salary due to his negligence.After an heated argument with his father Pyarelal leaves the house and decides to comeback when he makes it big,he meets actress Asha at a theater and gets a break and makes it big and eventually both fall in love.But the theater owner wants Asha not to send Pyarelal back home as their company might face losses so Pyarelal sends money and gifts via post but all that is taken by Malti's brother who blackmails her.Finally when Pyarelal achieves much bigger success he decides to go home but is shocked to see that his mother is no more,Mohan is living in poverty ,the gifts and money he sent is missing,Vimla's wedding is canceled and she along with his father is missing and begging on streets.
- Growing up in Mumbai, Surya is in awe of a powerful local gangster and helps out his gang. Soon, he enters into a life of crime where there is no turning back.
- Preteen brother and sister, abandoned by their father, to be taken care of, by an abusive prostitute aunt, survive life in an Indian squatters' camp, aided by a friendly cripple, by learning to shine shoes instead of begging.
- Twenty years ago, after killing his brother, Sardar Rajpal flees from his hometown in Shillong and re-locates in the rural area of Assam along with his adopted daughter, Meena. He asks his wife, Kamla, to send their son, Shankar, so that he can employ him and get him married to Meena. Shankar arrives and he is welcomed by Sardar who employs him and introduces him to Meena. A few days another young man shows up at his door claiming that he is Kamla's son. A baffled Sardar also welcomes him, and puts both the young men under observation in order to find who the real Shankar is. The question remains why would anyone want to impersonate Shankar, and what will happen to Sardar himself after the Police catch up with him for killing his brother 20 years ago.
- Orphaned brothers Jagannath and Rajan turn to crime for survival. Jagannath, a seasoned criminal, leads a double life, while Rajan aids the police. Their paths cross unknowingly. The climax unfolds with a police chase and a family reunion.
- A rich and arrogant girl tries to teach a lesson to a poor boy, but gets caught in her own trap. They both fall in love, but have to battle against power and opposition, in order to unite.
- The movie is based on Meena (Meena Shorey) who is running away from two men, who are blackmailing her for a crime she did not commit. Along the way she meets Ranjeet (Motilal), who is engaged, to be married to the daughter of his boss but falls in love with Meena.
- Childhood lovers Chander and Lata gets separated when Lata moves to Mumbai with her family. So, will they get united again ?
- City-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal-dada asks him to go to the village and look after his mother, and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After he comes to know both mother and daughter, they decide to re-locate to the big city to be with Gopal. In the process, Ramu and Chanda fall in love with each other. Chanda wants Ramu to give up his life of crime; Ramu agrees to do so, but will his crime partners allow Ramu to lead a normal life?
- After an hospital accident, a wealthy male is compelled to adopt a prostitute's son.
- Moti is in love with Roopa and wants to marry her, but her family reject the match. He decides to become a sanyasi, which frightens his parents, who turn to Roopa for help in changing his mind.
- Roopa lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Captain Suresh, and brother, Shekhar. After she returns from abroad, she is told that she must now prepare to get married to her betrothed, Ratan, who is the son of a close friend of Suresh. Everything changes suddenly when Roopa meets with a handsome young man, Raj, and both fall in love with each other. Raj then breaks her heart when he tells her that his mother, Malti, who works as a maidservant in Suresh's household, has always favored Ratan over him, has made him promise to step out of Ratan's way. Before she could find out whey Malti prefers Ratan over Raj, a bandit, Kala Ghoda, who has been terrorizing the region asks Suresh to pay up Rs.50,000/-. The Police lay a trap for this extortionist and capture him red-handed - and he turns out to be none other than Suresh's Munim. Surprises are in store for everyone when they find out that Munim is none other than Raj, who has been masquerading as the Munim for many years, and may also have embezzled another Rs.50,000/-.
- Two lovers are separated by the girl's conniving uncle, who marries her off to another man. Heartbroken, the man wanders around aimlessly until a common friend decides to reunite the two lovers.
- Bani Chowdhury and solicitor Ajoy Kumar are deeply in love with each other. But their world comes crashing down when Bani's cousin, Maya is found dead in the first class compartment at a railway terminus in Bombay. Bani who had gone to the station to receive Maya, is charged with the murder. A distraught Ajoy with the help of his assistant Motilal Sharma begins to comb the country for every available clue. And just when everything seems lost he gets a breakthrough.
- An angry Shekhar learns that Lata does not want to marry him as she is in love with Vasant. He begins to investigate Vasant's past, but is shocked when he learns about his life.
- The story is set in 326 B.C. The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. He respects Aristotle and loves Persian Rukhsana (known in the west as Roxana).
- A convicted murderer is released from prison. His only possession is a broken figurine--the last token of his love. The tragic story of how he came to be incarcerated and the significance of the figurine is the subject of this tale of star-crossed lovers whose destiny is molded by society's rigid rules and the villainy of a scoundrel.
- A loose adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic, Jane Eyre. In this version childhood sweethearts are separated and grow up in different worlds. The girl is brought up to be a 'pujaaran' (priestess) while the boy grows up to be a dejected 'thakur', turned vindictive by life's injustices. Fate inevitably brings them together at a later juncture, and all seems happy and perfect for the young couple, until she discovers his deep, dark secret.
- Radha (Sardar Akhtar) is an indomitable woman, toiling away to feed her three sons and to pay off Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal), the village's rapacious moneylender. When she learns that she is pregnant again, her husband, Shamu (Arun Kumar Ahuja), runs far away, leaving her to fend for herself against poverty and the lecherous advances of Sukhilala. Later, the two eldest children die, leaving her with only two sons: the straight-laced Ramu (Surendra) and the wild Birju (Yakub). Ramu becomes a bandit which eventually forces Radha to take drastic actions.
- The entire plot is woven around Indian family values, enterprise and meteoric rise in business.
- Efforts are underway by the owner of a dancer troupe to ensnare an Engineer in the theft of a necklace.