
Acting
Chandrashekhar Vaidya
Born — Died
1923-07-07 — 2021-06-16
Place of birth
India
Known for
Acting
Credits
59 titles
Chandrashekhar Vaidya, known simply as Chandrashekhar, was an Indian actor and filmmaker working in the Bollywood film industry. He was best known for playing supporting characters in films starring Rajesh Khanna in lead roles and later for playing Arya Sumant in the epic television series Ramayan. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known for
6.1Street singer Anil is humiliated and—with his mother—driven out of Bombay. He soon becomes an acclaimed performer but the enemies from his past plot to destroy his hard-earned career.
Disco Dancer
1982
6.7Shiva, a fresher at VAC College, is forced to stand up against the students' union president and a group of gangsters who have made the college environment increasingly violent.
Shiva
1990
6.6An engineer's dream of making the perfect train for Indian Railways is given hope when the company commissions his prototype. After years dedicating himself to his dream, his family has suffered, but now he hopes to make it all up to them with the train's triumphant inaugural journey. However, an embittered fellow employee has other ideas.
The Burning Train
1980
NRScientist Ramu and his wife Uma (Nazira) live with their four-year-old son Leher in the jungle where he carries out experiments. He has discovered the elixir of life. Lions attack their house killing him, while his wife goes mad with grief. Ramu’s son, Leher, and their little dog Moti, escape with the help of a half-man, half-ape called Dada (Boman Shroff). Several people arrive in the jungle fifteen years later from the city. One of them is Ramu’s father with his adopted daughter, Leela. Bihari, one of the people in the group wants the formula for his own purpose. The formula was put in a pendant around Leher’s neck by his father before he died. Leher now grown-up and known as Tarzan (John Cawas), has been brought up in the jungle and there are some amusing incidents between Leela and Tarzan, due to his lack of language skills. Tarzan saves Leela from Bihari’s unwanted advances.
Toofani Tarzan
1937
10.0Namma Makkalu (which translates to "Our Children") is a film advocating the necessity of inculcating in the children — who hold the limelight in this film — a sense of responsibility, in the family and in society.
Namma Makkalu
1969
9.7Trinetra is the story of revenge of a son, who lost his honest father, to a group of evil minds. It is the story of a son's infinitive love for his mother, who lost her husband. It is the story of a son's revenge on his father's killers.
Trinetra
1991
Film credits
1990s · 6 titles
6.7Shiva, a fresher at VAC College, is forced to stand up against the students' union president and a group of gangsters who have made the college environment increasingly violent.
Shiva
1990
9.7Trinetra is the story of revenge of a son, who lost his honest father, to a group of evil minds. It is the story of a son's infinitive love for his mother, who lost her husband. It is the story of a son's revenge on his father's killers.
Trinetra
1991
5.2Film about a wealthy, religious man and his daughter who was talked into marrying another wealthy man.
Janam Kundli
1995
8.0Commissioner Kapoor makes Dadu Kaliya take the place of his lookalike inspector Vinod who was killed by Devi Dutt but how long will he hide the secret of Vinod's death from his family.
Humshakal
1992
6.1Suman and Vijay Rai are childhood friends who are heart-broken when Suman's dad decides to move away. Both have a heart tattooed on their arm to remember each other for the rest of their lives. Years later, they unknowingly meet each other, however Suman is married to Vijay's brother, Prakash, while Vijay is married to a wealthy woman, Rita.
Dil Ke Jharoke Main
1997
10.0Jaggu and Maggu are two friends who live together; sing and dance at weddings, anniversaries, births, and parties for a living. Jaggu has a son named Chander, while Maggu has a daughter named Kamla. They decide to get the children married, and formalize their marriage when they are adults.
Nachnewale Gaanewale
1991
1980s · 21 titles
6.1Street singer Anil is humiliated and—with his mother—driven out of Bombay. He soon becomes an acclaimed performer but the enemies from his past plot to destroy his hard-earned career.
Disco Dancer
1982
6.6An engineer's dream of making the perfect train for Indian Railways is given hope when the company commissions his prototype. After years dedicating himself to his dream, his family has suffered, but now he hopes to make it all up to them with the train's triumphant inaugural journey. However, an embittered fellow employee has other ideas.
The Burning Train
1980
9.0Jagmohan, a prominent businessman with underworld dealings, approaches renowned advocate Kailash Nath, to represent his son who has been charged with murder and may face the death penalty. Kailash refuses to do so, and Jagmohan's son is hanged. Angered, Jagmohan kills Kailash's wife, Laxmi and child in front of him, and escapes. He is eventually arrested and brought to trial, but is found not guilty. Kailash decides to avenge this on his own, but Jagmohan has left the country. On his arrival back, Kailash carries out his vendetta against him, and Jagmohan is charged with killing a man, arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to die. Thus Kailash carries out his vengeance against Jagmohan. Now Kailash is faced with advocate Ajay Verma, who has molested his sister, Shilpa. Watch how Kailash's anger spotlights Ajay, and wreck havoc and chaos in his life. And there is no one on Earth who can possibly save Ajay from Kailash's wrath.
Insaniyat Ke Dushman
1987
7.0A married couple Nisha Mathur and her husband Dilip Mathur, purchase a hotel in a scenic locale. In the beginning, no one comes to stay there, however, the hotel soon attracts several young couples; an ex-convict, who possesses some dark secrets out of Nisha's past; a police inspector who warns people against staying in this hotel; and a journalist Lisa. And then one by one people start turning up dead, brutally killed, by person(s) unknown. What is the secret behind this hotel?
7 Saal Baad
1987
5.4In a small town, Gangaa and Jamunaa's budding romance faces obstacles from Hansraj, who harbors dark intentions. Meanwhile, Saraswathi silently pines for Gangaa, as another suitor, Shanker, hopes to win Jamunaa's heart.
Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi
1988
8.5Orphaned Ravi Kumar lives in Poona, India, with his maternal uncle. As he wants to pursue a career as a singer/dancer, he re-locates to Bombay, so that he could audition for the All India Talent Association.
Pyaar Karke Dekho
1987
7.5Gangvaa embarks on a quest for revenge against a crooked landlord after he orders the death of his father for reporting his crimes to the police and getting him arrested.
Gangvaa
1984
9.0Indian Army Captain Amar Kumar lives with his father, Ram, and mother, Saraswati. Ram has been associated with top freedom fighters during India's struggle for independence from the British. Almost all of these freedom fighters had taken advantage of their involvement and have taken up important positions in India's administration, and these include Jagrathan, and Mohanlal. While others like Vaisakh Ansari and Ram have chosen not to.
Awam
1987
6.0After an unsuccessful marriage, Niloufer mets an old college friend, Haider, an editor, who has been secretly in love with her since their college days. As the two start thinking about marriage, Niloufer's ex-husband Wasim returns to her life.
Nikaah
1982
6.3Radha (Smita Patil) and Ramu (Mithun Chakraborty) are siblings. Their parents Shyam and Sita are singers. Once, Shyam and Sita go to perform in Jalpaiguri where Sita catches the eye of a rich and powerful man called A.M. Singh (Amrish Puri). He stops them in the mid way home, kills Shyam and rapes Sita. Radha and Ramu get the news that their parents are dead and become homeless. Years later, Radha and Ramu have achieved success and are popular singers now. Ramu falls in love with Janita (Mandakini) and Radha gets married to Resham (Shakti Kapoor). But when Janita has to perform in Jalpaiguri she catches the eye of none other than A.M. Singh. Will history repeat itself, or can Ramu rescue Janita and his mother?
Dance Dance
1987
8.0Chandramohan Azad, a union leader, is framed for a murder and gets sentenced. However, after getting exonerated, he decides to fight against his brother-in-law who is now a corrupt MLA.
Yeh Desh
1984
6.5In modern secular India corruption, nepotism, caste, and favoritism has taken root all the way from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, sparing no one in it's wake. Bombay Municipal Corporation's employee Kimtilal is one such person who had to pay a bribe to a gynecologist so that his wife, Shanti, can give premature birth to their son, Kamal. When Kamal grew up, Kimtilal had to pay another bribe in the form of a donation to a school for admitting him. Then he had to pay another bribe so that his son could successfully pass his college examination, and go on to join the Bombay Police Force. Finally, he withheld an important municipal license for businessman Sampat, in order to get his consent to marry his advocate daughter, Kamini, with his son.
Kala Bazaar
1989
6.3A 1987 Hindi movie.
Daku Hasina
1987
6.4A workaholic businessman neglects his only son after his wife's death. The son grows up to be a rebellious alcoholic.
Sharaabi
1984
4.0Assistant Commissioner of Police Ashok Saxena lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with his wife, Shobha, a former street dancer; and a younger college-going brother, Rajesh. His father
Hiraasat
1987
NRA poor widowed farmer, Dharma Singh, raises two children, a boy (Karan) and a girl (Geeta) on his own in a town called Rampur, and would like his son to grow up to be a police officer. Alas, that was not to be so, for heavy torrential rains strikes their region, separating the entire family, leaving Dharma wounded, and the two children ending up in a town called Sitapur. Geeta decides to work so that her brother can study. Her brother re-locates to Bombay city, and subsequently studies well, and becomes a Police Inspector. He is assigned his first major assignment to get rid of bandits near Sitapur, which he accepts, little knowing that the very people he is expected to get rid of are his very own sister, who is now a former jailbird, a notorious bandit who calls herself "Maut", and at odds with another bandit known as Daku Dharma Singh, who is none other than her father. Will Karan be able to fulfill his duties or will he end up joining his family in a life of crime.
Sitapur Ki Geeta
1987
This is a movie about a married man who falls in love with another woman. How his wife is able to get him back and how he realises his mistake is the plot.
Gharwali Baharwali
1988
7.5A man tries to kill the man who influenced his wife into killing herself while under supervision.
Insaaf Main Karoonga
1985
7.0A wealthy female student has a conflict with professor, which does get resolved, but a scandal ensues when she posts intimate photographs on the college noticeboard, prompting principal to dismiss professor, while her marriage gets canceled.
Sumbandh
1982
7.5Abused by his step-mother; Rajmer, Jaipur-based young Mangal faces more trauma when his father Havaldar Rajnath Pandey is shot dead by Daku Lal Singh. He then gets separated from his sister, Deepa, is adopted by a drug-dealer, Kulbhushan, who re-names him 'Tiger'; and then joins hands with criminal don, Jaganlal. Then he gets into a confrontation with Police Inspector Vijay Shukla and ends up killing him.
Mangal Pandey
1983
NRRaju, John, Suleman and Shakti seize a hidden treasure of the deceased Anil Kumar. They face Kumar's widow Sharada who identifies Raju as her lost son. They then have to deal with Bandit Devi Singh.
Chaar Maharathi
1985
1970s · 17 titles
9.0Inder and Rama fall in love with each other but due to a twist of fate, Inder marries someone else. However, things take an unexpected turn when Inder and Rama meet again after a few years.
Charitraheen
1974
8.0The city is rocked by a serial killer who only kills young women at night, so women don't want to step outside the house when it turns dark.
Jab Andhera Hota Hai
1974
10.0Vijay is in love with Arti, but while he tries to woo her he becomes embroiled in a murderous plot that involves Arti, her father and the beloved businessman Mahendra Nath
Hum Tum Aur Woh
1971
NRA man impresses his employer during an interview; soon, they fall in love with each other and are all set to marry. But things change unexpectedly when he is arrested just before his marriage, leading his fiancée to believe that he is a thief.
Harfan Maulaa
1976
10.0Inspector Verma is shocked when he discovers that his son has turned out to be a criminal. He takes up the challenge to reform his son and make him a law-abiding citizen.
Apna Khoon
1978
6.8Peter (O. P. Ralhan) and Kitty (Helen) love each other, but due to Peter's poverty, they are unable to marry each other. One day, during a secret rendezvous, Peter accidentally overhear a conversation between one Mahesh Jetley and his paramour, where Mahesh tells her that he is soon going to bump off his wife on a certain date. Peter and Kitty decide to foil this man's plans. However, there are 2 problems: 1 - They have not seen Mahesh or his paramour's face. 2 - Even if they had, no one would believe their story. Hence, the lovers decide to do a little investigation on their own. They find three Mahesh Jetleys. On some snooping, they find that each man is married and each of them has a miserable married life. To find their suspect, they devise a plan whereby they will stage an attack on each man's wife. Whoever the culprit is, will freak out and his identity will be revealed.
Hulchul
1971
6.9Middle-classed young and dashing Rohit Kumar Saxena falls in love with wealthy and lovely Reshmi, and both decide to get married. Reshmi's dad, the wealthy Diwan Sardarilal is strongly opposed to this marriage, but relents when Reshmi refuses to marry anyone else. As a result, Rohit and Reshmi get married. Shortly after their marriage, Reshmi gets pregnant, news that is very well received. Then Reshmi enters a beauty pageant, and wins it - being crowned Miss India, with offers to travel abroad. Reshmi decides that she does not want the child now, but Rohit opposes this decision. Both quarrel, and separate, and Reshmi goes back to live with her dad. Shortly thereafter, Sardarilal sends a legal notice to Rohit asking for a divorce. Devastated, Rohit seeks employment, and finds it as a station master at a remote hill station. He meets with Reshmi and her dad, and is humiliated because he is poor.
Ajanabee
1974
Inspired by the life of the dacoit Putlibai
Putlibai
1972
5.0A simple man is caught in a web of deceit. He is blackmailed into participating in his bank’s robbery.
Gehri Chaal
1973
7.0A wealthy man disowns his two irresponsible sons to teach them a lesson. One of them plays a prank by claiming that he has murdered his brother but soon, a mysterious body stuns everyone.
Do Phool
1973
7.1A runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.
Kati Patang
1971
10.0After the murder of his wife, and his son's kidnapping, Dr. Vidya Bhushan decides to devote the rest of his life as a Poojary, living on the premises of a princely-donated temple, hoping ...
Khoon Ki Pukaar
1978
7.5Biology 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 colonel. But fate has other plans for them.
Jangal Mein Mangal
1972
NRA film based on Maharashtra's beloved king, Raja Shiv Chhatrapati's life.
Raja Shiv Chhatrapati
1974
10.0Bijli's life crashes when her lover Raju dies tragically in an accident. She is in for a bigger shock when she meets Vicky.
Do Musafir
1978
NRA wealthy man purchases an old mansion but is perplexed to find a mysterious locked room.
Paradh
1977
9.0Wealthy Dinanath is the new owner of a mansion, which is looked after by Totaram and his wife, Maina. He soon discovers that there is a room kept under lock under key, and no one has ever been inside. He is in for more surprises when the previous owner's wife, Vidya, decides to come and live there, and shares the story of her life - how she loses her husband, Thakur, and how her son, Sunil, became a fugitive from justice - but has little explanation to offer for the ghostly female figure that haunts this mansion.
Anjaam
1978
1960s · 7 titles
10.0Namma Makkalu (which translates to "Our Children") is a film advocating the necessity of inculcating in the children — who hold the limelight in this film — a sense of responsibility, in the family and in society.
Namma Makkalu
1969
8.0Dara Singh rescues a village maiden from a giant dinosaur and is given the name "King Kong" by the ruler of the land who also desires that the hero marry his lovely daughter, the princess. Wrestler King Kong appears as as the previously bestowed "King Kong" who is none too happy to lose his title to the muscular young upstart.
King Kong
1962
7.3A lawyer investigates the case of a woman who is adamant about taking the rap for a murder, although the details of the case don't add up.
Baat Ek Raat Ki
1962
10.0A woman is presumed dead after being suspected of murder, leading to a new life but facing new complications.
Ankh Micholi
1962
6.8After her return from abroad, Lali adjusts to life in India along with her devout Hindu mother, Laxmi; an easy-going father, Dinanath; two sisters, Kalpana and Geeta, and spends most of her time dancing along with her sisters and friends. On her way to the Mandir, she assumes a singer, Puranchan, is teasing her and she slaps him, but ends up apologizing when she is told that he is blind. Guilt-ridden, she makes arrangements for him to be taken to Bombay, has his vision restored, and both fall in love with each other. Dinanath takes a liking to Puranchan and not only gets him a job but also wants him to wed Lali. About to inform his parents, Purchan does not know that Dinanath has actually instructed Lali not to see him anymore as he is a Harijan (Lower-Caste).
Cha Cha Cha
1964
8.0Sapne Suhane is a 1961 hindi-language Romance movie.
Sapne Suhane
1961
10.0The tyrannical Angulimal (Bhushan), a bandit wearing a garland of severed human fingers and who engages in bloody mystical rituals to achieve divine power, eventually succumbs to the Buddha’s teachings. Nimmi played Angulimal’s lover.
Angulimala
1960
1950s · 4 titles
10.0A murder had taken place. The suspect ran away and jumped into the water . When he was dragged out of waters, he was unconscious. A story of mystery and of breath-taking suspense.
Meenar
1954
8.0Two friends both fall in love with two girls. Their romance was to culminate in marriage, when one of girls' brother is released from jail.
Kali Topi Lal Rumal
1959
A widow, whose husband had been beheaded by the king, raises her own son and the king's son till the age of eight. The two boys grow up and fall in love with the same girl.
Bara Dari
1955
8.0Laxmi (1957) is a Drama Hindi film starring Chandrashekhar,Moni Chatterjee,Kamal Kapoor,Nanda in the lead roles, directed by G.P. Pawar.
Laxmi
1957
Behind the camera
6.8After her return from abroad, Lali adjusts to life in India along with her devout Hindu mother, Laxmi; an easy-going father, Dinanath; two sisters, Kalpana and Geeta, and spends most of her time dancing along with her sisters and friends. On her way to the Mandir, she assumes a singer, Puranchan, is teasing her and she slaps him, but ends up apologizing when she is told that he is blind. Guilt-ridden, she makes arrangements for him to be taken to Bombay, has his vision restored, and both fall in love with each other. Dinanath takes a liking to Puranchan and not only gets him a job but also wants him to wed Lali. About to inform his parents, Purchan does not know that Dinanath has actually instructed Lali not to see him anymore as he is a Harijan (Lower-Caste).
Cha Cha Cha
1964
6.8After her return from abroad, Lali adjusts to life in India along with her devout Hindu mother, Laxmi; an easy-going father, Dinanath; two sisters, Kalpana and Geeta, and spends most of her time dancing along with her sisters and friends. On her way to the Mandir, she assumes a singer, Puranchan, is teasing her and she slaps him, but ends up apologizing when she is told that he is blind. Guilt-ridden, she makes arrangements for him to be taken to Bombay, has his vision restored, and both fall in love with each other. Dinanath takes a liking to Puranchan and not only gets him a job but also wants him to wed Lali. About to inform his parents, Purchan does not know that Dinanath has actually instructed Lali not to see him anymore as he is a Harijan (Lower-Caste).
Cha Cha Cha
1964

