Chandrashekhar Vaidya

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

Disco Dancer poster
6.1

Street 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

Shiva poster
6.7

Shiva, 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

The Burning Train poster
6.6

An 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

Toofani Tarzan poster
NR

Scientist 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

Namma Makkalu poster
10.0

Namma 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

Trinetra poster
9.7

Trinetra 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

1980s · 21 titles

Disco Dancer poster
6.1

Street 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

The Burning Train poster
6.6

An 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

Insaniyat Ke Dushman poster
9.0

Jagmohan, 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 Saal Baad poster
7.0

A 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

Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi poster
5.4

In 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

Pyaar Karke Dekho poster
8.5

Orphaned 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

Gangvaa poster
7.5

Gangvaa 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

Awam poster
9.0

Indian 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

Nikaah poster
6.0

After 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

Dance Dance poster
6.3

Radha (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

Yeh Desh poster
8.0

Chandramohan 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

Kala Bazaar poster
6.5

In 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

Daku Hasina poster
6.3

A 1987 Hindi movie.

Daku Hasina

1987

Sharaabi poster
6.4

A workaholic businessman neglects his only son after his wife's death. The son grows up to be a rebellious alcoholic.

Sharaabi

1984

Hiraasat poster
4.0

Assistant 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

Sitapur Ki Geeta poster
NR

A 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

No artwork available
6.3

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

Insaaf Main Karoonga poster
7.5

A man tries to kill the man who influenced his wife into killing herself while under supervision.

Insaaf Main Karoonga

1985

Sumbandh poster
7.0

A 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

Mangal Pandey poster
7.5

Abused 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

Chaar Maharathi poster
NR

Raju, 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

Charitraheen poster
9.0

Inder 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

Jab Andhera Hota Hai poster
8.0

The 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

Hum Tum Aur Woh poster
10.0

Vijay 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

Harfan Maulaa poster
NR

A 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

Apna Khoon poster
10.0

Inspector 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

Hulchul poster
6.8

Peter (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

Ajanabee poster
6.9

Middle-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

No artwork available
NR

Inspired by the life of the dacoit Putlibai

Putlibai

1972

Gehri Chaal poster
5.0

A simple man is caught in a web of deceit. He is blackmailed into participating in his bank’s robbery.

Gehri Chaal

1973

Do Phool poster
7.0

A 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

Kati Patang poster
7.1

A runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.

Kati Patang

1971

Khoon Ki Pukaar poster
10.0

After 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

Jangal Mein Mangal poster
7.5

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 colonel. But fate has other plans for them.

Jangal Mein Mangal

1972

Raja Shiv Chhatrapati poster
NR

A film based on Maharashtra's beloved king, Raja Shiv Chhatrapati's life.

Raja Shiv Chhatrapati

1974

Do Musafir poster
10.0

Bijli'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

Paradh poster
NR

A wealthy man purchases an old mansion but is perplexed to find a mysterious locked room.

Paradh

1977

Anjaam poster
9.0

Wealthy 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

Namma Makkalu poster
10.0

Namma 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

King Kong poster
8.0

Dara 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

Baat Ek Raat Ki poster
7.3

A 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

Ankh Micholi poster
10.0

A woman is presumed dead after being suspected of murder, leading to a new life but facing new complications.

Ankh Micholi

1962

Cha Cha Cha poster
6.8

After 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

Sapne Suhane poster
8.0

Sapne Suhane is a 1961 hindi-language Romance movie.

Sapne Suhane

1961

Angulimala poster
10.0

The 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

1930s · 1 titles

Behind the camera

Cha Cha Cha poster
6.8

After 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

Cha Cha Cha poster
6.8

After 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