Tun Tun

Acting

Tun Tun

Born — Died

1923-07-11 — 2003-11-24

Place of birth

United Provinces, British India

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Tun Tun was the screen name of Indian playback singer and actress-comedienne, Uma Devi Khatri, who was called "Hindi cinema's first-ever comedienne". In her career spanning five decades, she acted in about 198 films in Hindi/Urdu and other languages like Punjabi etc., pairing with top comedy actors of her times such as Bhagwan Dada, Agha, Sunder, Mukri, Dhumal, Johnny Walker and Keshto Mukherjee. She was last seen in Hindi films in Kasam Dhande Ki (1990). 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

Shree 420 poster
7.5

The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.

Shree 420

1955

Pyaasa poster
7.3

Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.

Pyaasa

1957

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

Coolie poster
6.6

When Iqbal gets separated from his mother and brother by a flood, he becomes a coolie at Mumbai railway station. He then fights for the coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.

Coolie

1983

Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai poster
6.0

A rich girl marries a doctor. Differences crop up between the two and starts to snowball wherein she returns to her father's house. Months later she returns only to find he is in love with a nurse.

Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai

1960

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 18 titles

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

Nagin poster
6.8

A male and a female in their human forms are in love with each other. When the male turns back into a snake, he is shot by a member of a hunting party, who thought the snake was going to attack the woman. Enraged at the brutal killing of her beloved; the female snake begins to take revenge on the six involved, killing them one by one after assuming the form of a human.

Nagin

1976

Taxi Driver poster
NR

A millionaire's wife leaves with their son after she realizes that her husband is a womanizer. Will the son, who grows up to be a taxi driver, reunite with the father, or will the adopted son, a womanizer himself, succeed in his evil plan?

Taxi Driver

1973

The Train poster
7.0

Shyam is an honest and dedicated CBI Officer. He is assigned to a series of crimes involving a crime syndicate who, amongst other things, use disappearing ink on cheques issued to jewellers. With no clues left behind, Shyam is under pressure to put a stop to these crimes, as well as apprehend their perpetrators.

The Train

1970

Thokar poster
7.0

After being released from jail, Shyamu returns home to his village and his home to his mom, and blind sister, Radha. Shyamu and his mom try to get Radha married, but in vain, as no one wants to marry blind woman. Shyamu takes Radha for treatment to Dr. Ashok, who assures them that her vision can be restored, and the cost is around Rs.5000/-. Shyamu come up with the money, and soon Radha gets her eyesight back. One day, Shyamu rescues a beautiful young woman, Seema, from being raped by Gangu, takes her home, nurses her, and falls head-over-heels in love with her. He hopes to marry her. His mother is thrilled and plans the marriage of both Shyamu and Radha. But there is a hitch in the plans. Seema loves another man - a man to whom Shyamu is indebted to for life. Will this man permit Shyamu to marry Seema?

Thokar

1974

Lalkar poster
7.5

During World War II, two army officers who are also brothers fall for the lady doctor and one of them proposes marriage to her. As war intensifies, both are sent on different secret mission and one of them is assumed to be dead.

Lalkar

1972

Naya Din Nai Raat poster
6.3

Sushma believes that she is too young to get married, but her father, Lalla Banarsilal insists, and she runs away. Her adventures take her to a lonely wealthy widower with a cute daughter named Guddi; a drunken lout in a brothel; Dr. Kruparam, a psychiatrist, who admits her in his mental hospital; a dreaded bandit who has killed his tormentor, cut him into pieces and fed them to birds, and who still on a killing spree; Pandit Gorakhnath who lives a double life - as a priest and as a smuggler; a leper Dhanraj, who once was a very wealthy man, but is now shunned by everyone; a transvestite stage actor; and a hunter who saves Sushma's life by shooting dead a man-eating lion. As things spiral out of control for Sushma, there is yet one more male she has to meet, and it is this meeting that will change her life even more.

Naya Din Nai Raat

1974

Aansoo Aur Muskan poster
10.0

Beautiful Radha lives in a small hill-station in India. One day, Mahesh comes for sight-seeing, both meet, fall in love with each other, get intimate, and Mahesh promises to return, marry her and take her with him to live in Bombay. He does not return, Radha continues to search for him in every train that stops at Shampur, in vain. She eventually gives birth to a baby girl, Laxmi, and both are looked after by Shampur's kind-hearted Station Master. Radha does come across Mahesh, but he refuses to recognize her, and she kills herself. The Station Master takes Laxmi to her next of kin, in all two families, but all reject Laxmi, consider her inauspicious, and will have nothing to do with her. He leaves Laxmi with her maternal grand-parent, Bhagwanti and her husband, but Laxmi is abused and she runs away to Bombay, where she is befriended and looked after by a blind beggar, Anwar.

Aansoo Aur Muskan

1970

Satyam Shivam Sundaram poster
6.5

Rajeev falls in love with Roopa, a beautiful singer who hides the fact that half her face is disfigured. However, he soon discovers her secret after marriage and begins to ignore her.

Satyam Shivam Sundaram

1978

Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong poster
8.3

Two swindlers keep trying to one up each other and get rich but finally learn there are more important things when they are enlisted in a scheme to marry an innocent girl in order to retrieve secret plans from a bank vault.

Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong

1971

Heer Raanjha poster
7.0

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 tragic love story of Heer, a wealthy girl, and Ranjha, who has been banished by his family. The film is often referred to as a Punjabi version of "Romeo and Juliet.

Heer Raanjha

1970

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

Ek Hasina Do Diwane poster
8.0

A wealthy and educated wife gets physically abused by her husband, but must agree to live with him for 15 days in order to get a divorce.

Ek Hasina Do Diwane

1972

Jeevan Sangram poster
8.0

Arjun is part of a group of independence fighters in 1914, during a mission in Kolkatta he is seen by the police and during his escape he is saved by Amba, a village girl. But is there time for love when the country's freedom is at stake?

Jeevan Sangram

1974

Paapi poster
7.3

Long lost siblings grow up on opposite sides of the law; the girl becomes a thief and the boy becomes a police officer.

Paapi

1977

Benaam poster
7.5

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.

Benaam

1974

Gomti Ke Kinare poster
9.0

After his father's death, young Sameer runs away to search for his mother and is adopted by the tawaif Ganga.

Gomti Ke Kinare

1972

Aankh Ka Tara poster
9.0

Geeta falls in love with a blind radio singer named Mohan, but his disability hampers their happily-ever-after.

Aankh Ka Tara

1978

1960s · 22 titles

Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai poster
6.0

A rich girl marries a doctor. Differences crop up between the two and starts to snowball wherein she returns to her father's house. Months later she returns only to find he is in love with a nurse.

Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai

1960

Mr. X in Bombay poster
8.0

Shobha Mathur lives a wealthy lifestyle with her Professor dad, who is now carrying out experiments on various issues. One day while doing so, he makes an employee named Manohar drink a potion, which results in his death. Rajan comes to their rescue, gets rid of the body, and starts blackmailing Mathur, which can only end when Shobha marries Rajan. Then one day Shobha meets a poet by the name of Sudarshan and both of them fall in love. When he asks for her hand in marriage, Shobha refuses. The next day Shobha finds a note addressed to her from Sudarshan in which he has stated that he is going to kill himself. Thereafter, every night she starts to hear Sudarshan's voice, blaming her for his death, as his soul is unable to find solace. With Sudarshan out of the way, Rajan readies himself for marrying Shobha - and it looks like he may have his way with the Mathurs after all - without having to encounter any more obstacles.

Mr. X in Bombay

1964

C.I.D. 909 poster
8.0

Professor, an Indian scientist, develops a nuclear project to bring world peace. When Wong and Wasco want to get their hands on the project, it is up to CID Agent Raju to save the day.

C.I.D. 909

1967

Godaan poster
7.3

An impoverished farmer struggles to buy a cow. Based on Munshi Premchand's novel "Godaan".

Godaan

1963

The Full Moon poster
6.1

Nawab sees Jameela in a market and instantly falls in love with her. The situation gets complicated when Aslam, his childhood friend, also ends up liking her.

The Full Moon

1960

Cobra Girl poster
10.0

A princess attempts to win back her kingdom from a powerful shape-shifting sorcerer.

Cobra Girl

1963

Upkar poster
6.3

Widowed Radha lives in rural India in the 1960s, along with two sons: Bharat and Puran. While she would like to educate her sons and ensure that they lead good lives, she cannot do so on her own, and must sacrifice the career of one son so that the second can achieve this goal. Bharat sacrifices everything to educate his brother Puran. However, Puran turns into a greedy man and gets involved in drug trafficking in order to make money.

Upkar

1967

Anita poster
7.0

Anita is a weird girl, who either loses her memory or pretends to not remember.

Anita

1967

Main Jatti Punjab Di poster
6.0

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.

Main Jatti Punjab Di

1964

Khilari poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Khilari

1968

Rustam Kaun ? poster
7.0

Two friends accidently enter the valley of death where more than adventure awaits them!

Rustam Kaun ?

1966

Badi Didi poster
7.0

Bollywood family drama from director Narendra Suri and featuring music from Ravi.

Badi Didi

1969

Ek Dil Sau Afsane poster
9.0

Shekhar's maternal grandmother loves him dearly, but she is also very religious and firm in her beliefs. Convinced that every man must have a male heir to carry on the family's name, she will only permit Shekhar to marry a woman who will bear him a son. Shekhar wants to marry Sunita, but an astrologer tells the grandmother that Sunita cannot bear any children, and so she disapproves of her. However, Shekhar and Sunita marry anyway.

Ek Dil Sau Afsane

1963

Kanyadaan poster
7.5

Amar and Rekha fall in love, but their happiness is endangered when Rekha discovers that she was already married as a child.

Kanyadaan

1968

No artwork available
5.2

A kind-hearted, widowed landlord, Thakur, lives a wealthy lifestyle with his son, Ramesh; daughter, Roopa; and an adopted child, Shankar. Ramesh hates Shankar and often abuses him. Years pass by, Thakur has passed away, and all three children have grown up. While Ramesh visits a stunningly attractive Courtesan, Tara, drinks alcohol, and continues to abuse and mercilessly beat Shankar, who bears this in silence as he and Roopa are in love with each other. When Ramesh finds out that Roopa wants to wed Shankar, he has him severely beaten and thrown off a cliff. He then arranges Roopa's marriage with another wealthy man, Satish, while he continues to romance Tara and even signs over his entire estate and home to her name.

Dil Diya Dard Liya

1966

Phool Aur Patthar poster
6.5

Circumstances have made Shaka a career criminal. When plague empties a town of its inhabitants, he takes the opportunity to burgle a house. He finds nothing except Shanti, a widowed daughter-in-law who has been left to die by her cruel relatives. Shaka nurses her back to health. When her relatives return they are not pleased to find her alive and even less pleased to discover that someone has tried to rob them. Shanti gets the blame and a beating. Shaka saves her from worse, at the hands of brother-in-law, and the pair flee. They set up home in Shaka's house, much to the displeasure of the respectable neighbours who are all too ready to think the worst.

Phool Aur Patthar

1966

Jaali Note poster
7.0

High-minded and hardworking Inspector Dinesh Kumar (Dev Anand) is assigned to crack the case of a notorious band of counterfeiters. Risking life and limb in pursuit of the criminals, he goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and bring them to justice. Along the way, he finds romance with a beautiful journalist (Madhubala) and makes a shocking discovery that resonates with personal meaning.

Jaali Note

1960

Do Raaste poster
7.0

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 siblings reach adulthood, the family bond is tested. Each must choose between the Road of Sacrifice and the Road of Selfishness, leading to a dramatic conflict between duty and personal greed.

Do Raaste

1969

Tarzan and the Magical Lamp poster
8.0

Tarzan, born of an exiled queen, falls in love with a gypsy whose people conspire with palace officials to destroy him. A magical monster-woman is also in the mix.

Tarzan and the Magical Lamp

1966

Kaajal poster
5.3

Raised by a kind matriarch, Madhavi (Meena Kumari) shares a close bond with her foster brother Rajesh (Dharmendra). When Rajesh marries the insecure Bhanu (Padmini), Madhavi faces false accusations and attempts suicide. Rescued by Moti (Raaj Kumar), she marries him, only to discover his manipulative and exploitative true nature, leaving her trapped in a life of further sorrow.

Kaajal

1965

Shikari poster
5.5

The owners of a circus set out to capture King Kong. They arrive by boat at Kong Island, only to discover that there is another monster living there. Complications ensue.

Shikari

1963

Dil Ne Pukara poster
7.5

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 meets with a young man, Rajan, and both fall in love with each other. When she returns home and attends Dr. Prakash's birthday party, she gets a pleasant surprise when she finds out that Rajan is Prakash's friend. Rajan introduces Asha to his mom, while Asha introduces Rajan to her dad, and both parents approve of their match. Before they can get engaged, Rajan had promised his late father that he would obtain a degree from Oxford University, and be back after one year. He decides to travel by boat, which meets with an accident and there are no survivors. A shocked and devastated Asha finds out that Rajan's death has killed her dad, and she throws herself in her work as a doctor, working side by side with Prakash.

Dil Ne Pukara

1967

1950s · 15 titles

Shree 420 poster
7.5

The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.

Shree 420

1955

Pyaasa poster
7.3

Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.

Pyaasa

1957

Deedar poster
6.5

A traumatized and blind young man makes a living singing, and searching for his childhood sweetheart.

Deedar

1951

Kaagaz Ke Phool poster
6.8

The film tells, in flashback, the story of Suresh Sinha, a famous film director and his relationship with an aspiring actress.

Kaagaz Ke Phool

1959

Babul poster
10.0

Two fathers, one poor and the other rich, hope that a wealthy postmaster will wed one of their daughters.

Babul

1950

Mr. & Mrs. '55 poster
5.1

A young, naive heiress is forced into a 'marriage of convenience' with an unemployed cartoonist in an attempt to save her millions - a move orchestrated by the scheming aunt.

Mr. & Mrs. '55

1955

Kundan poster
7.0

Classic Bollywood film about a young man whose poverty leads him to commit crimes which, in turn, lead him to harsher and harsher punishments.

Kundan

1955

Danka poster
10.0

The arrival of a single proclamation throws a peaceful community into chaos, as one courageous voice is forced to take a stand against injustice, drawing the wrath of powerful, hidden forces.

Danka

1954

Lajwanti poster
6.8

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. When mother and child are eventually reunited, the mother faces an uphill struggle to regain the love of her daughter.

Lajwanti

1958

Abana poster
10.0

Two friends, one rich and one poor, are torn apart by love, jealousy, and the Partition of India. Misunderstandings separate them, but years later, a hidden act of sacrifice leads to forgiveness and reunion.

Abana

1958

No artwork available
7.0

When an airplane brings ex-dacoit Rangooni (Pradeep Kumar) from Singapore to Bombay, Inspector Mehra (Raj Mehra) looks upon Rangooni's return with well-founded suspicion. His arrival in Bombay disturbs the activities of a gang of jewel-theft specialists, led by man-about-town-Ramesh (Anwar Hussain). Manju (Madhubala), daughter of Bahadur Sunderdas, who has encountered Rangooni many times, is excited by the prospect of getting the dacoit arrested and hopes to get a lot of publicity by so doing.

Police

1958

C.I.D. poster
5.7

A newspaper editor gets murdered when he was about to expose the underworld links of a rich man. A C.I.D inspector gets assigned to investigate the murder.

C.I.D.

1956

Black Cat poster
8.0

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 crime. The Commissioner assigns this matter to this best plainclothes agent, Rajan. Rajan's investigations lead him to suspect Professor Gupta, who is also the brother of his girlfriend, Nita. Rajan decides to use Nita's love for him, and spies on Gupta. When Nita finds out, she is enraged at Rajan, and blames the police who she feels are covering-up their inefficiency by making a scape-goat of an innocent man. Rajan fails to prove that Gupta is somehow involved with "Black Cat", and the Commissioner gives him a deadline. If Rajan does not apprehend Black Cat within that deadline, he may be suspended or even dismissed from the police force. With no clues whatsoever as to the whereabouts of Black Cat and it's gang, Rajan has the challenge of his life, which he may not be able to fulfill.

Black Cat

1959

Aakhri Dao poster
8.0

A car mechanic falls in love with a girl but discovers her father has a large debt, leading him to gamble and marry another to pay off the debt.

Aakhri Dao

1958

Dilli Ka Thug poster
7.0

Kishore is a conman who has little respect for the rich. He learns that the person responsible for his friend's death is the same who led to his own father's death. He swears to bring him to justice.

Dilli Ka Thug

1958