All Time Best Punjabi Classical Movies
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- DirectorK. PappuStarsGurdas MaanPreeti SapruKulbhushan KharbandaGurdit is thrown out of his village after engaging in a fight with a powerful family. He loses his voice too before he can return triumphantly to the village.
- DirectorManoj PunjStarsGurdas MaanDivya DuttaGurkirtanThe film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he's far older, he'd better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive. Whereupon Buta Singh decides to marry her. They have a baby girl. And Buta is pretty happy that despite being overage, matrimonially speaking, he's leading a pleasant life. Others of his class usually had to actually buy women from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar whom they married. A jealous uncle who realizes the family property will now go to the Muslim girl, forcibly dumps Buta's wife into a truck bound for Pakistan. Buta realizes what has happened, sells all his land and goes along with his child to Pakistan illegally. He's quickly arrested and brought before a judge who's quite willing to free him if his wife owns up. But, under pressure from her family, the girl backs off. A disillusioned and distraught Buta jumps with his daughter before an oncoming train. He dies, but his daughter is saved. Pakistani youth, overcome by this, hail him thus: Shaheed-e-Mohabat (a martyr in the cause of love), erect a memorial and a trust in his name.
- DirectorNavaniat SinghStarsJimmy ShergillSurveen ChawlaJapji KhairaDharti is produced by Darshan Singh Grewal, J.S. Kataria and Jimmy Shergill, and stars Jimmy Shergill, Surveen Chawla, Rannvijay Singh, Japji Khaira, Prem Chopra, Rahul Dev, Binnu Dhillon & Shavinder Mahal. Jimmy Shergill's background comes from Air Force as he is the Squadron leader. Serious Political Suspense Thriller. That's what Dharti is. However the film was promoted as something largely associated with Air Force, but it didn't have much to do with that. It's just that Jimmy Shergill's background comes from Air Force as he is the Squadron leader. plot is quite complex and a lot of characters are involved in the film. There are a lot of twists and turns in the film and the story goes here and there quite often.
- DirectorManoj PunjStarsGurdas MaanJuhi ChawlaSushant SinghWhen the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb bans music in India because he believes it turns people away from God, musicians go underground.
- DirectorSimerjit SinghStarsAmrinder GillSargun MehtaAditi SharmaA thoughtful young man struggles to find a woman to marry.
- DirectorRam MaheshwariStarsDavid AbrahamSom DuttGajanan JagirdarGurumukh, Prem live harmoniously in 1947 India until Ratan instigates conflict, closing their business. Ratan raises Gurumukh's son Gurmeet, who falls for Charanjit but loses vision, jeopardizing marriage and caring for family.
- DirectorAnurag SinghStarsDiljit DosanjhKirron KherPawan MalhotraDuring a time of political turmoil, a mother goes on a journey in search of her missing son, who has been misjudged and labeled a terrorist.
- DirectorDara Singh RandhawaStarsDara Singh RandhawaBalraj SahniPrithviraj KapoorPorthwar-based Santram is killed while fleeing from Muslims during the religious riots of 1948 following the partition of Pakistan from India. His wife, Tagpyariye, manages to flee along with their sons, Kartar and Ram, but gets separated from them, and the children end up with her servant, Dukhiya. Shortly thereafter Kartar, too, gets separated, leaving Ram alone with Dukhiya. Three years later, Ram runs away after being physically abused and forced to steal by Dukhiya, and unknowingly befriends Kartar, and the duo go to work with Subedar Varyam Singh. Years later, Kartar is a farmer, while Ram has received an education from the city. Both are still unaware of their relation, until they meet with Dukhiya, who also informs them that their mother is also alive. Before they could be reunited with her, misunderstandings over who is to marry Ajeet Kaur, the daughter of Varyam, tear the brothers apart - so much so that they not only separate - but also take up arms against each other - both determined to marry Ajeet at any and all costs.
- DirectorOmi BediStarsRavindra KapoorIndiraJeevan DharChaudhary takes on the identity of a bandit in order to save the marriage of his friend's daughter and is jailed. The villagers takes him to be wrong and throws out his wife and son out of the village where his son, Madan, grows up without knowing his father and becomes the darling of the little village. Madan determined to free the villagers from an evil moneylender, Ramu Shah, and for that he seeks help from his friend Banta Singh.
- DirectorChitraarthStarsRaj BabbarGurdas MaanShatrughan SinhaUdham Singh was born and brought in a Sikh Kamboj family in Punjab, India, during the time when the British ruled India. Enraged at the massacre of over 2000 men, women, and children at the hands of Brigardier General Edward Harry Dwyer (Tom Alter) in Jallianwalla, (now known in History books as the Jallianwalla Baug Massacre) Udham Singh swears vengeance. He sets about creating obstacles for the British, and is soon on wanted lists by the authorities, on one occasion he is shielded by a courtesan, Noor Jehan (Juhi Chawla). In order to achieve his vengenace, he travels to the United Kingdom, befriends the local Indians, as well as Irish Freedom Fighter, Irene Rose Palmer (Charleen Carswell). He finally kills Dwyer during a presentation. He is quickly apprehended, and jailed. He refuses to cooperate with the authorities, nor is he willing to accept that he is mentally incapable. His trial is a mockery and travesty of justice. He is ordered to be hung, and the press are forbidden to publish the trial proceedings.
- DirectorJaspal BhattiStarsJaspal BhattiRaj BabbarDaljeet Kaur KhanguraThis story revolves around a love couple and a police duo. Vicky is the younger brother of Rice Business man Inder Rai and loves Kiran daughter of a poor man Raushan Lal. The police duo comprises of Jaspal Bhatti(SSP) and Vivek Shauk his PA, who involve in a lot of corrupt activities although with a lot of laughters. Due to some business rivalry Inder gets killed another businessman by hiring a contract killer of Shera Group. The assigned killer Billu Bakra kills the businessman but is not caught. Later on SSP convinces Kiran's poor father Raushan Lal to take the blame on him and in return promises 2 lakh rupees for treatment of Raushan's ailing son. Later on Vicky investigates the whole matter and finds out that it was his brother and SSP who have planned the plot and got Raushan lal arrested. Things starts revealing in a comic manner and in the end the police duo is finally arrested on charges of corruption by the IG himself and Inder saves Kiran's ailing brother by donating his own kidney. In short this movie tells a lot about corruption in the police system in a very funny take on the political system of the country. The love angle between SSP Bhatti and Principal Preeti is a cherry on the cake.
- DirectorB.S. ThapaStarsDharmendraDara Singh RandhawaSunil Dutt
- DirectorHarpal TiwanaStarsRaj BabbarOm PuriGurdas MaanA man (Raj Babbar) must decide between true love or his family's reputation when he falls in love with a servant.
- DirectorManoj PunjStarsGurdas MaanJuhi ChawlaDivya DuttaIn 1984 the former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, and since then the Sikhs have been a target of violent backlashes by radicals and the Punjab Police. During 1985 Gursharan Singh Soman lived a peaceful life as a farmer in rural Punjab, along with his elderly parents, Gurdev and Tejpal, and an unmarried sister, Guddi. Gursharan meets with and gets engaged to the Station House Officer's only daughter, Jassi Sandhu. Shortly thereafter her father is killed in a drive-by shooting, and a new Officer, Randhawa, takes over from him. Far from being ethical and honest, he is only concerned with fulfilling a quota of deaths of so-called terrorists by fake police encounters. Jassi and Gursharan get married as Jassi has no other relatives. When the police find a duffel bag of automatic weapons in Soman's house, they immediately arrest Gursharan and beat him up severely, even though he claims his innocence, alleging that real terrorists had forced themselves upon the family at gun-point. When a deputation from the town asks Randhawa to set him free, he does so, and the Soman family settle down. Guddi is soon to get married to a young man who loves her. Then in July, 1987, Sikh terrorists gun down a bus full of non-Sikhs, setting off a shock wave in the entire country. Punjab Police are instructed to maintain order, even if it means to do away with law. A large number of Sikhs are hunted down and killed in fake police encounters, scores are arrested and tortured. Gursharan is arrested again and severely beaten up in police custody. When Guddi goes to plead with Randhawa to release him, she too is imprisoned and beaten by a burly policewoman. Gursharan's American-based friend, Darshan Singh Gill, comes to their rescue and arranges for Gursharan to visit the U.S.A. on a travel visa as a hockey player. Once in America, Gursharan applies for political asylum, and is granted one, which also permits him to sponsor Jassi, and his new-born son to America. After Jassi's arrival, Gursharan gets a job in a corner store, while Jassi works as a Gas Attendant. It is then Gursharan gets the news that his father has suffered a heart-attack and may not live long. Gursharan is ready to leave for India to be near his family in this crucial hour, but his leaving America may well revoke his political asylum, and even if he does leave America and arrives in India, there is more than a bullet from the Punjab Police awaiting him.
- DirectorManmohan SinghStarsHarbhajan MannPriya GillKimi VermaLove story of Simar who is from Canada and Inder who is from Punjab. The story revolves around how the young couple have to overcome all odds to stay together.
- DirectorDara Singh RandhawaStarsDara Singh RandhawaSardar Singh RandhawaRajesh KhannaSathpura-based Kartar, changes his religion from Hindu to Sikh, enrolls as a rebel to fight the oppressive Mughal rule, goes missing even on his wedding day, and ends up getting married in absentia to Shanno. The rebels liberate Khairabad from the lusty Chaudhry Qutb Din, and form a Panchayat led by Ghafoor Khan and Jamal Din only to face the wrath of Subedar Ali Shah who instructs the Mughal hordes to do away with the Sikh rebels, as well as reinstate Qutb Din.
- DirectorHarbux LattaStarsAbhay BhargavaJaspal BhattiGick Grewal