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Balraj Sahni
Born: 1st May 1913 Rawalpindi, British India - Died 13th Apr 1973
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 70
Film: 70 (100%)
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Filmography
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds ... view
Character:
Abdul Rehman Kahani
1977
The whole film is a story about Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. ... view
Character:
Udham Singh
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
Character:
Suresh
Original title: गर्म हवा
1973
In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own. ... view
Character:
Salim Mirza
1972
Biology professor and her students, including a convent nun go on a field trip, and stay at a Public Rooming House of a male group, led by retired col ... view
Character:
Thomas
Original title: जवानी दिवानी
1972
Madhu marries Ravi Anand, the son of a mere employee in her Thakur brother's household, and this results in her brother breaking all relations with he ... view
Character:
Ravi Anand
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
Character:
Govindram
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
Character:
Panna Lal
1970
An impossibly innocent villager named Ganga comes to the big city to find a girl who would agree to become his wife. The first girl he meets is actual ... view
Character:
Baba
1970
Drama about 2 neighbouring families - one which is honest but poor, and the other uses any means to rise up the ladder of wealth quickly. ... view
Character:
Shankarnath
1970
Bharat (Rajendra Kumar) is a patriotic young man for whom patritism does not stop anywhere. He comes to know of the tyrancy of the present ruler's Diw ... view
Character:
Inspector General Chandrashekhar, Bharat's dad
Original title: नया रास्ता
1970
Chander, a criminal lawyer, gives up his successful career and returns to his ancestral village. There, he comes face-to-face with social problems suc ... view
Character:
Banshi
1970
Raju is his real name but due to his unhealthy and unkempt manner of living, he is called "Junglee" by everyone in his village, all save for ex-convic ... view
Character:
Ashok
Original title: ਨਾਨਕ ਦੁਖੀਆ ਸਭੁ ਸੰਸਾਰੁ
1970
Two brothers, separated in the riots during the India-Pakistan separation, meet as friends. Even when they learn that they are real brothers, they do ... view
Character:
Subedar Varyam Singh
Original title: दो रास्ते
1969
After his father’s death, Navendu devotes his life to raising his step-siblings and honoring his promise to care for his stepmother. However, as the ... view
Character:
Navendu Gupta
Original title: तलाश
1969
A business man must choose between keeping his promise to marry a poor village belle, or making it big by wedding his boss's daughter: a wealthy Weste ... view
Character:
Original title: आया सावन झूम के
1969
Wealthy Jaishankar meets and falls in love with Aarti, successfully woos her and agrees to meet with her dad to discuss their marriage. On the way the ... view
Character:
Original title: एक फूल दो माली
1969
Tale of one child with two fathers, one who gave birth to him and another who raised him. ... view
Character:
Kailashnath Kaushal
1969
Govind, Nazir and Joseph decide to give up the world of crime when a little girl enters their life. ... view
Character:
Dr. Ramnath
Original title: संघर्ष
1968
Bhavani Prasad is a powerful thug, who masquerades as a priest. His son Shankar refused to follow his path so he wants his grandson Kundan to carry on ... view
Character:
Ganeshi N. Prasad
Original title: दुनिया
1968
An advocate faces heavy odds defending the brother of his sweetheart. ... view
Character:
Public Prosecutor Ramnath Sharma
1968
A newly married woman begins to sleepwalk, and her husband suspects she is inadvertently connecting with a lover from a past life. ... view
Character:
Mr. Raichand
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
Character:
Police Inspector
Original title: नौनिहाल
1967
The Principal of New Era High School in Panchgani finds an orphan, Raju, who had lost his parents to plague, brings him home, and enrolls him in the s ... view
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1967
Dr. Gautamdas (Rajinder Kumar) attains his qualifications in London, England, and with the blessings of Lord Bertrand Russell (himself), returns to hi ... view
Character:
Gautamdas' dad
1966
Ravi is an eligible bachelor, who lives with his mother. He meets with beautiful Kanchan and both fall in love. But fate has other plans for them, as ... view
Character:
Shukla
1966
Businessman Sonu Sharma belongs to a wealthy family and lives with his widowed mother. He suddenly becomes ill, is hospitalized and looked after by a ... view
Character:
Yasin Khan
Original title: लाडला
1966
Seeta marries a poor man against her family's wishes and becomes pregnant. Savitri, her sister, is childless and yearns to have a baby so Seeta gives ... view
Character:
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
Character:
Kedarnath
Original title: डाकघर
1965
Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passe ... view
Character:
Andhe Baba
1965
Calcutta-based Naval Officer Shankar Choudhry lives a wealthy lifestyle with his doctor dad, and mom. One day while returning home in a cab home from ... view
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1964
Rajni, a dusky, uneducated girl, is deceptively married off to Ram, son of a wealthy father. Although loved by all, a conniving relative sows the seed ... view
Character:
Ganga
Original title: हक़ीकत
1964
A platoon of Indian soldiers encounters harsh realities while fighting in the Sino-Indian War of 1962. ... view
Character:
Major Ranjit Singh
1964
Satluj De Kandhe (ਸਤਲੁਜ ਦੇ ਕੰਢੇ), also spelled as Satluj De Kande, is a 1964 National Award winning Punjabi romantic film direct ... view
Character:
Ram Praksh Malhotra
Original title: अन्पढ
1962
A wealthy, pampered and illiterate woman faces many challenges after her marriage. ... view
Character:
Original title: शादी
1962
The life of an impoverished male undergoes drastic changes after he gets his siblings married. ... view
Character:
Ratan
Original title: काबुलीवाला
1961
A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds ... view
Character:
Abdul Rehman Khan
1961
Geeta (Meena Kumari) is married to Shyam (Balraj Sahni) but is unable to bear children. Orphaned as a youth, Mohan (Sailesh Kumar) is raised by his el ... view
Character:
Shyam
Character:
Shankar
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
Character:
Devraj
Original title: अनुराधा
1960
A well-known singer gives up her profession to marry a young doctor, but begins to feel neglected by her husband. The return of her former boyfriend a ... view
Character:
Dr. Nirmal Chowdhary
1960
Panchu Kumtekar lives a near-destitute lifestyle in Bombay along with his school-going brother, Shiri. He makes a living as a con-man, gambling and pi ... view
Character:
Panchu Dada
1959
Bombay Police are baffled by a series of crimes - all at the hands of arch-criminal "Black Cat" who leaves his calling card at every scene of the crim ... view
Character:
Agent Rajan
1959
Rajendra makes a meager existence supporting his younger brother and sister and vows not to marry until they have settled. However, when his sister lo ... view
Character:
Rajendra
Original title: हीरा मोती
1959
An impoverished farmer faces problems after he is blacklisted for refusing to sell his prize-winning oxen to an oppressive landlord. ... view
Character:
Dhuri
1958
Having been unjustly accused of having an affair, a dutiful and loving wife is thrown out of the house by her husband and forced to abandon her baby. ... view
Character:
Nirmal Kumar
1958
An impoverished orphan is first abused by her extended family, and then exploited after she becomes popular and wealthy. ... view
Character:
1958
Harish lives happily with his sister Geeta and his father Radhe Mohan. Radhe Mohan is the titular "khazanchi" (treasurer) at the Northern India Bank. ... view
Character:
Radhe Mohan
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
Character:
Sakaram
Original title: मुसाफिर
1957
The stories of three sets of people, linked by their connection to an old suburban house in Calcutta- An orphaned young woman who desperately wants he ... view
Character:
Narrator
1957
In this Bollywood classic tearjerker, a romance for the ages blooms between the puppeteer Shivraj and the young admirer Pushpa after Shivraj loses the ... view
Character:
Loknath
Character:
1955
Girdharilal lives a poor lifestyle in Delhi along with his wife, Geeta, and two daughters, and a son. He works as a Money Order Clerk in the Post Offi ... view
Character:
Original title: सीमा
1955
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, gradu ... view
Character:
Ashok 'Babuji'
1955
A humble tonga driver named Lachhman returns a forgotten bundle to Rajo, and though her father offers him a reward, he refuses. Instead, he sells his ... view
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1955
An impoverished father faces challenges and disappointments when he decides to educate his only child. ... view
Character:
Dayal
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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1954
A poignant family drama that explores the sacrifices, burdens, and profound emotional ties of parenthood, revolving around the central theme of a coup ... view
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Character:
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
Character:
Doctor Thomas
1953
A man's pursuit of a luxurious life and creative ambition leads to a mysterious death, forcing him to face the dark consequences of his divided loyalt ... view
Character:
Original title: दो बीघा ज़मीन
1953
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized ... view
Character:
Shambhu Maheto
Original title: हमलोग
1951
An impoverished family faces illness and financial challenges after one of them is sent to prison. ... view
Character:
Raj
1951
Kishore loves Asha, whose father raised him like a son, and sets out to earn money to wed her in great pomp. However, fate has other plans as it lands ... view
Character:
Jailor
1946
Directed by Majnu (Harold Lewis), the film revolve around the theme of a tarnished reputation or social disgrace. ... view
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1946
Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander. A film about the famine that swept through Indian villages in the final year ... view
Character:
Niranjan, the eldest son of Samaddar