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Achala Sachdev
Born: 3rd May 1920 Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India - Died 30th Apr 2012
Dept: Acting
Achala Sachdev was an Indian actress who appeared in classic films of Hindi language film industry. She later became known for mother and grandmother roles in Hindi films.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 116
Film: 116 (100%)
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Filmography
Original title: कभी ख़ुशी कभी ग़म
2001
Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family. ... view
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Lajwanti “Daadi” Raichand
1999
Bengali-speaking Monalisa lives a middle-class lifestyle in Mumbai along with her mom and wheelchair-bound dad. She and her mom had to endure consider ... view
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Mrs. Bahkshi
1997
Tara and Maya are inseparable, with the same tastes, habits, and hobbies. Years later, the two have matured but have maintained their friendship. Tara ... view
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Rupa
Original title: दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जायेंगे
1995
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very ... view
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Simran's Grandmother
Original title: चाँदनी
1989
Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door. ... view
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1978
Jeeva, the son of a elderly washer woman, is tired of the abuses at the hands of his village's leader Thakur Jaswant Singh, and vows to bring about hi ... view
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1978
Vidya (Moushumi Chatterjee) and Raja (Raju Shrestha) live in poverty. They get separated due to certain circumstances. Vidya starts working at Anand's ... view
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1977
Retired Judge Shyamlal Kumar lives in a palatial home with his wife and only son, Arvind, who is now studying law and is on his way to become a lawyer ... view
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Mrs. Shyamlal Kumar
1977
A group of people of Indian origin live on an Island which contains a tomb of Shahenshah Chandi Sona which is believed to contain jewelry, diamonds, a ... view
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Mrs. Jojo
Original title: अमानत
1977
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 ... view
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Shanti
1977
When a ski instructor saves her life and wins her heart, Rita (Zeenat Aman), a beautiful heiress, can't help but wonder whether he's really there for ... view
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Mrs. Ramesh Verma
1976
Kaish Amari comes from a wealthy arab family. At the tender age of six he is sent to school and gets friendly with a young girl named Laila. ... view
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Laila's Mother
Original title: फकीरा
1976
Vijay helps the poor and robs the rich, while Ajay is assigned the job to bring Vijay to justice. Thirsty for each other's blood, both men are unaware ... view
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Neeta's Mother
1975
Vishal is a poet and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his widowed and wheelchair-bound mom. He is in love with Aruna, who works with a publishing c ... view
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Vishal's Mother
1975
Julie is an anglo-Indian girl with a loving, but alcoholic father and a domineering mother, a younger brother and sister. She falls in love with her b ... view
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Mrs. Devki Bhattacharya (Usha's mother)
1975
After losing his two younger brothers on a mountain climbing expedition, Vijay swears to his sorrowing mother that he will never undertake any expedit ... view
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Vijay's mother
1974
Kalyani lives in a small tenement with three sons, Vijay, Nandu, and Bhola, all of whom are unemployed, slackers and trouble-makers. One day Nandu get ... view
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Kalyani
1974
Anand (Feroz Khan) is a London returned teacher who has sought employment in a local school in India. His co-teachers are Geeta (Asha Parekh), Girdhar ... view
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Rajan's mom
Original title: पाप और पुण्य
1974
A just king is overthrown by his brother in a coup, but little does the brother know, that his newborn son was replaced with one of the just king's. ... view
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Ganga's mom
Original title: कोरा कागज़
1974
A woman has problems with her husband after her mother interferes with their marriage. ... view
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Mrs. Gupta
1974
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 Sadhan ... view
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Original title: Amar Saheed Bhagat Singh
1974
Amar Shaheed Bhagat Singh is a biopic movie based on the life of Shaheed Bhagat Singh. ... view
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Vidyavati Kaur (Bhagat's mother)
1973
When Pal's son kills a police constable, his best friend, Saxena, the only witness to this murder, comes forward and as a result Pal's son is arrested ... view
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Mrs. Saxena
1973
A self proclaimed misogynistic writer rescues an injured woman who suffers from amnesia but claims to be his wife. In the process of finding out her r ... view
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Archana's Mother
Original title: दाग़
1973
Sunil is convicted of murder and is on the run. But the long arm of the law and his past finally catch up with him. Can he outrun his destiny for long ... view
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Mrs. Malti Khanna
1973
As a young boy Raja turns to a life of crime after the death of his mother. Years later Raja, now a hardened thief, uses a marriage as an escape ploy ... view
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Mrs. Sarita Devi Das
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Reena's Mother
1972
The rich Kalpana marries Rajesh, a poor painter, much to her parents' disapproval. She brags about his wealth to them but gets in trouble when they co ... view
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1972
A series of unfortunate events cause a recent migrant into Bombay to turn to a life of crime. ... view
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Shyam Mother
1972
When a difficult man falls blind, he alienates his family and caretakers even further. ... view
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Hamida
Original title: हरे रामा हरे कृष्णा
1971
A young man travels to Kathmandu to find his long-lost sister who is with a band of hippies and bring her back to the family. But doing so may be more ... view
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1971
Widower Ram Kapoor frequently throws lavish parties to overcome his loneliness. That changes when his son, Rajesh, returns home with a proposition. Ra ... view
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Achala (Monica's Mother)
1971
When he discovers an infant girl on the site of his latest job, notorious hit man Govindram (Balraj Sahni) turns his back on his employers and lays do ... view
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Mrs. Sahni
1971
Andaz or Andaaz is a 1971 Hindi romantic movie starring Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Simi Garewal. The film was directed by Ramesh Si ... view
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Original title: मेरा नाम जोकर
1970
Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience lau ... view
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Original title: ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਪਾਪੀ
1970
Kedarnath is employed with a local clock/watch repair shop, owned by a parsimonious Adarshan Lala. Kedarnath goes out of his way to help a destitute w ... view
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Maya
Original title: हीर राँझा
1970
Heer Raanjha is a 1970 Indian Hindi-language romantic musical film directed by Chetan Anand. It stars Raaj Kumar and Priya Rajvansh and tells the trag ... view
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1969
Two close friends, Munish and Jai, with unbreakable bond become rivals when they both fall in love with the same woman, Meena. When Jai gets falsely a ... view
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Mrs. Mehra (Munish's mom)
1969
Jai is hired to locate the daughter and wife of a wealthy man after they vanish under mysterious circumstances ... view
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1969
Jeevanlal lives in a small village in India with his wife, Sita, a son, Dharmchand and daughter, Meena, and makes a living by stealing which causes gr ... view
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1969
A Teacher from Siddharth College, Balraj Dutt (Sunil Dutt) from a well-known, wealthy, and reputed family falls in love with a former prostitute, Madh ... view
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Original title: औलाद
1968
Mamta lives a poor lifestyle with her husband, Dinu, and two sons, Mohan, and Sohan. When Ram Lal, the wealthy Zamindar, Kanta Prasad Gupta's Munim, c ... view
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Sharda K. Gupta
Original title: कन्यादान
1968
Amar and Rekha fall in love, but their happiness is endangered when Rekha discovers that she was already married as a child. ... view
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Rekha's Mom
Original title: दुनिया
1968
An advocate faces heavy odds defending the brother of his sweetheart. ... view
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Shobha R. Sharma
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Sharda (Thakur's sister)
1968
Sunil lives with his mom and sister in a middle-class dwelling in Delhi, India. He works for Chopra & Co., Chartered Accountants. He comes across a be ... view
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Sunil's Mother
Original title: जुआरी
1968
Rakesh is an unemployed youngster who turns to a master gambler for existence. But even after getting rich he values morals than money. But slowly he ... view
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Rakesh's Mother
Original title: हमराज़
1967
A stage actor from Bombay becomes entangled in a murder mystery after he falls in love with a mysterious woman in Darjeeling and marries her. ... view
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Matron
Original title: औरत
1967
A woman responsible for her mother and 7 siblings faces challenges after marrying a widower with 6 children. ... view
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1967
Professor Brij Mohan Agnihotri is a confirmed bachelor. Period. No amount of pleading or even begging him to get married, has had no effect on him wha ... view
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1967
Shanker is a young man who lives in a small village community with his mute sister, Durgi, and his mom, Shanti. Shanker's efforts to get Durgi married ... view
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Shanti
Original title: दिल ने पुकारा
1967
Asha lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay with her widowed dad, who would like her to get married to Dr. Prakash. While vacationing in Kashmir, she mee ... view
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Rajan's Mom
1967
A man accompanies his uncle to Tokyo but finds himself in a dilemma when he must travel to Europe immediately, with only $8 at his disposal. ... view
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Raj's mom
1967
Ravi, a fireman, falls in love with Roopa, a simple village girl. The couple is happy in their new relationship until Jagirdar, who also loves Roopa, ... view
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Original title: मेरे सनम
1965
Neena and her mother stop by at a motel where she falls in love with Kumar, another occupant. When the two decide to get married, Neena learns of Kuma ... view
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Savitri Mehra (as Achla Sachdev)
1965
Shanta, a widow who wants to question the orthodox society, falls in love with Shekhar, a poet. In her quest to fight the system, Shanta's father-in-l ... view
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Mrs. Kaushalya
Original title: वक़्त
1965
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 accu ... view
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Laxmi Kedarnath
1965
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 ... view
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Gopal's Mom
1965
Shankar, who saw his poor father die a disappointed death, works very hard and goes on to become a mill owner. His brother Madhu, however, prefers to ... view
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1965
The wealthy patriarch of a Mumbai family learns more than he wants to about his own origins after his refusal to accept his sons' chosen spouses drive ... view
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Mrs. Srivastava (as Achla Sachdev)
1965
Sunil Mehra has successfully completed his medical studies and is now a qualified doctor, who can now practice medicine anywhere in India. He chooses ... view
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1965
A version of the epic Indian poem "The Mahabharata", telling the story of the war between the families of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, descending fr ... view
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Kunti
Original title: संगम
1964
An air force pilot, upon returning home from war after being assumed dead, weds the woman he had long loved, unaware that she had been planning to mar ... view
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Radha's Mother
1964
Preetop (Nishi)is a beautiful girl of handicapped father, her mother is dead. She loves her father and takes responsibility of farming in their fields ... view
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1964
Geeta (Waheeda Rehman) and Madan (Kamaljit) are in love with each other and want to marry. They meet each other's parents and subject to the matching ... view
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1963
Prem, a young school teacher, is arranged married and begins the journey of learning the roles and responsibilities required of him. ... view
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Mrs. Saigal
1963
When Sita’s husband, Ram, is diagnosed with cancer, their lives are thrown into a tailspin—only to be further complicated when his treating physic ... view
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Dharmesh's Mother
Original title: ग्रहस्ती
1963
Drama about a large Indian family coping with revelations about the fathers past. ... view
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Gopal's Mother
1963
It is based on the life of Bhagat Singh. The music was composed by Prem Dhawan, with several songs being penned by freedom fighter Ram Prasad Bismil. ... view
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Mother of Bhagat Singh
1963
Raj Kumar is a wealthy businessman and dislikes everything ugly. When his wife, Kamla, becomes pregnant and gives birth to an ugly son, he asks the at ... view
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Mrs. Kamla Kumar
1962
When Pratap learns that his fiancee is in love with his younger brother, Gopal, he steps aside and arranges for them to get married. However, he soon ... view
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Renuka's mother
1962
Dr. Arun lives with his brother, Madhu; dad Judge Ramkrishan; and mom Kamla in a palatial house. He decides to help the poor and the needy and in orde ... view
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Original title: मेहेंदी लगी मेरे हाथ
1962
After meeting the love of his life at his sister's wedding, Deepak decides to take Rajini to meet his own mother, she fully approves of Rajni and all ... view
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Deepak's Mother
Original title: छाया
1961
After her husband's death, Manorama is left alone with an infant daughter. The daughter falls ill due to poor nutrition, and in an act of desperation ... view
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Arun's Older Sister
1961
Romantic comedy about a wealthy milk-drinking Peter Pan-type ... view
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Nazir Hussain's wife
Original title: नजराना
1961
Raj (Raj Kapoor) and Vasanti (Vyjayanthimala) are college mates who clash when she complains to the college principal about a love letter he sent her. ... view
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Getha's and Vasanthi's mother.
Original title: बिंदिया
1960
A government contractor desires a criminal brother-in-low to marry a girl, but she has fallen in love with contractor's sobriety-conscious brother. ... view
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Bindya's Mother
1960
A man on the run pretends to be the long-lost son of a wealthy family. To complicate matters, he falls in love with the woman who is supposed to be hi ... view
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Original title: पतंग
1960
Rajan, a wealthy Basantpur man, accidentally causes Shanti's vision loss with face afire. He becomes an eye surgeon, but his friend Ramdas is arrested ... view
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Mrs. Ram Das
1960
In India, girls from their very birth are taken for a liability upon their parents; thus the mothers of the nation are looked down on in their own hom ... view
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Shyam's mother
1960
A rich child and a poor one are both unhappy and search for God in the Himalayas. ... view
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Ganga
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1960
The tyrannical Angulimal (Bhushan), a bandit wearing a garland of severed human fingers and who engages in bloody mystical rituals to achieve divin ... view
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1960
A Hindi drama directed by Ram Daryani, starring Bharat Bhushan and Nanda. ... view
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1959
Three love stories that take place simultaneously but do not intersect, because the characters do not interact with each other, even though they all l ... view
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1959
A ruffian with a bad reputation assists the police against his brother but ends up getting arrested himself. ... view
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Mary
1959
Ajit is a poor farmer who has mortgaged his land with Zamindar Haridas. Ajit gets in the bad books of Haridas, and as a result he loses his house and ... view
Character:
Jeema Kaur
Original title: सोहणी महीवाल
1958
Ijjat Beg comes to India with his caravan and settles in a town in Gujrat. Here, he falls in love with Sohni, who owns a shop of metal pots. ... view
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Original title: जिम्बो
1958
A young boy is raised by Dada the Chimpanzee (Pedro the ape bomb) after he loses his parents. Now he is Zimbo (Azaad Irani), lord of the Jungle! An ex ... view
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Uma Chakravarty
1958
Upon graduating from college, Nirmala (Nargis) takes a job in a dancing school which turns out to be a front for a brothel. When her family discovers ... view
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1958
Binda, an old musician in a village near Bombay, has brought up his son Rajan, in the hope that one day Rajan will become a great musician. ... view
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1957
Rajendra Mehra is the only child of Rai Bahadur Kailalshnath, and studies in a school along with Nandu, Mehmood, Chatpat, Guru, and others. He decides ... view
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Prema Mehra
Original title: परदेसी
1957
This first co-production of the Soviet and Indian cinematographers is dedicated to the Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin who in 1466-1472 blazed the trade ... view
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Champa's Mother
1957
R.K. Raju, a private investigator is assigned the task of locating the missing daughter of a wealthy Hindu couple. His investigation take him to diffe ... view
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1956
Inspector is a 1956 Bollywood thriller film directed by Shakti Samanta. It starred Ashok Kumar, Geeta Bali and Pran. ... view
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Original title: अमानत
1955
A dying man entrusts his lives earnings to Purshotam, a stranger he just met, and asks him to promise to take this money to his wife, and son, Pradeep ... view
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Original title: आज़ाद
1955
After her widower dad, Kedarnath, passes away, Shobha goes to live with his friend, Charandas, and his wife, Shanta, who had their son go missing as a ... view
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Original title: नौकरी
1954
The comic, tragic and heartrending saga of Ratan Kumar Chaudhary, who leaves his village, aging mom and seriously ill sister, to obtain employment in ... view
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Rattan and Uma's mother
1954
A King (Badshah) betrays the gypsy woman he loves to marry a Princess, triggering a chain of events that leads the King's hunchback slave to seek reve ... view
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Original title: मुन्ना
1954
On a dark, stormy night, a young woman appeared near the orphanage. Holding her child close to her chest one last time, she left him at the door and d ... view
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1954
A Nawab belonging to the Chandni Chowk area of Delhi gets tricked into marrying his daughter to the gardener's son. ... view
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Nawab Safdar Jung''s Wife
1954
Mehbooba, directed by K. Amarnath, is a Hindi-language costume drama set in a historical or mythological backdrop. The film stars Shammi Kapoor, Nalin ... view
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Original title: वारिस
1954
An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunmar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcin ... view
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Mishrani
Original title: फुट पाथ
1953
Tired of poverty, Noshu takes to black-marketing. Soon, he realises that his act has hurt everyone around him, including his brother and his sweethear ... view
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Mina
1953
After leaving British Army Ramesh joins a tea plantation as a supervisor, where he is required to harass Indians. Gradually his heart changes and fall ... view
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Chanda
1952
An impoverished advocate faces challenges after he falls in love with a wealthy woman who has a look-alike courtesan sister. ... view
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Champa
Original title: माँ
1952
Chanderbabu (Nazir Hussain), a retired postmaster, lives in the village with his wife and two sons, Rajan (Paul Mahendra) and Bhanu (Bharat Bhushan). ... view
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