Mumtaz Askari

Acting

Mumtaz Askari

Born

1947-07-31 (79)

Place of birth

Hyderabad, Bombay Presidency, British India

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Mumtaz Askari Madhvani (born July 31, 1947) is a retired Indian actress. Noted for her seamless transition from child star to heroine, she is widely regarded as one of the most iconic actresses in Hindi cinema. Her niche style and dewy appearance has also cemented her status as a fashion icon.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 28 titles

Roti poster
6.3

An escaped criminal finds refuge with the family of a man he killed accidentally.

Roti

1974

Raja Rani poster
7.0

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 but shortly after he is caught.

Raja Rani

1973

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

Apna Desh poster
4.5

When it's discovered that four prominent members of the community are crooks and black marketeers, young Akash (Rajesh Khanna) -- posing as an expatriate smuggler -- teams with his girlfriend, Chanda (Mumtaz), to expose them. But to nail the quartet -- a tradesman, a doctor and a builder, all led by a wealthy industrialist (Madan Puri) -- Akash must get them to confess their misdeeds while Chanda surreptitiously captures everything on film.

Apna Desh

1972

Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari poster
5.2

Raisaheb Surajbhan Chaudhary has two sons - Rajkumar who has not produced an heir to his family and other is Mohan, a devout worshiper of Lord Bajrangbali and refuses to get married. Things change dramatically when a young woman named Neena, along with her son, enters the Chaudhary household claiming that Mohan had married and abandoned her.

Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari

1971

Bhai-Bhai poster
10.0

Deep Sharma lives a very poor lifestyle with his widowed mom, Radha, and a younger brother, Ashok, who he would like to become a Judge. Unable to fend for themselves in the small town, Deep relocates to Bombay, where he attempts to sell poetry, to no avail. Then he is asked to write stories about an imaginary bandit, Sangram Singh, which he agrees to do so under the pen name of his friend, Jani Babu. Shortly thereafter he gets very popular, so much so that his girlfriend, Lajwanti's dad, the former King Maheshwari Prasad, consents to let him marry his daughter. Then things get complicated when a bandit who calls himself Sangram Singh goes on a crime-spree throughout the region.

Bhai-Bhai

1970

Prem Kahani poster
9.0

An apolitical poet abandons his love to become a freedom fighter — only for fate to bring them face-to-face again years later.

Prem Kahani

1975

Haré Rama Haré Krishna poster
6.1

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 difficult than he thought.

Haré Rama Haré Krishna

1971

Jheel Ke Us Paar poster
6.8

Kulwant Rai's horse carriage runs over a child, and as a result, she loses her vision.

Jheel Ke Us Paar

1973

Sachaa Jhutha poster
6.8

A penniless musician is unwittingly forced to trade places with a look-alike diamond merchant/thief causing a comedy of errors by everyone involved.

Sachaa Jhutha

1970

Khilona poster
5.2

Thakur Suraj Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife; three sons - Kishore, his wife Laxmi & two children Pappu and Laali; Vijaykamal, & Mohan; and an unmarried daughter, Radha. Kishore looks after the family business, while Vijaykamal is a renowned poet, and Mohan is studying law in the city. Vijaykamal is in love with lovely Sapna, but she is forced to marry Bihari, and kills herself on the night of the marriage. Vijaykamal witnesses her death and loses his mind. The family decide to keep him under lock and key on the terrace of their house. Unable to admit Vijaykamal to a mental asylum, Suraj brings home a young courtesan, Chand, who he hopes will cure Vijaykamal, and she does succeed considerably, but is traumatized, sexually assaulted by Vijaykamal, and abused by the rest of the family.

Khilona

1970

Lafange poster
9.0

Beautiful Sapna lives with her wealthy father, Dhanraj, and a younger brother in a palatial house. Her father comes across some valuable diamonds and conceals them in a secret place. While driving one day, Dhanraj is killed, but her brother escapes without any injuries, but loses control of his vocal chords unable to tell anyone how the accident occurred, and goes missing. After Sapna wins a beauty contest, she travels to Bombay and meets with a young wheel-chair bound soldier named Gopal, and both fall in love with each other. What Sapna does not know is that Gopal is a fraud, a con-man who is only after her money. Then her life is even more complicated after she finds out that her father was killed by a man named Diwan. Before she could think of taking any further action, Diwan and his men track her down - their goal to find the secret location of the diamonds hidden by Dhanraj - and kill anyone who dares to get in their way.

Lafange

1975

Tere Mere Sapne poster
5.5

Dr. Anand Kumar joins a village clinic, works hard despite difficulties. He marries Nisha but later neglects her after becoming a successful doctor. Nisha leaves him when she realizes his changed priorities.

Tere Mere Sapne

1971

Maa Aur Mamta poster
8.0

Father Henry (Rehman) entrusts a newly-born infant in the care of an unwed Maya (Nutan), leaving her to explain the presence of the child. She is literally thrown out of the village and runs away to Bombay. There she is taken care of by a kind-hearted Muslim taxi-driver (Jayant). Years later, the child grows up to be called Ram (Jeetendra), but the question haunting everyone's mind is who is Ram's biological father?

Maa Aur Mamta

1970

Humjoli poster
5.7

A man, after marrying an heiress, plots his wife's murder and deserts his daughter, only to be shocked when his estranged daughter returns home years later.

Humjoli

1970

Chor Machaye Shor poster
6.4

Vijay, an optimistic engineer, is in love with Rekha. However, Rekha's multimillionaire father does not approve, and before they can marry, Vijay finds himself on trial -- with Rekha as key witness for the prosecution.

Chor Machaye Shor

1974

Mela poster
8.0

In rural India a small village is ruled by a Panchayat, a group of Hindu men who run the lives of the villagers dictatorially. There are three men who challenge their authority.

Mela

1971

Kathputli poster
6.7

A woman secretly gives birth to a child after being raped by her boss and hides the truth from her husband.

Kathputli

1971

Aap Ki Kasam poster
7.0

Rajesh Khanna plays Mumtaz's jealous husband who begins to doubt her fidelity when his best friend Sanjeev Kumar enters their lives. She is unable to convince Rajesh Khanna that she loves only him. He leaves her, not knowing that she is pregnant with his child. Depressed and confused, Rajesh Khanna becomes a homeless wanderer, while Mumtaz remarries to provide a secure home for her child. Many years later, the truth dawns on him as he turns up, a broken man, at his own daughter's wedding.

Aap Ki Kasam

1974

Dushman poster
4.7

Surjit Singh is forced to take care of Ram Din's family after he accidentally kills him while driving under the influence of alcohol. However, he is treated with hostility by Ram Din's family members.

Dushman

1972

Bandhe Haath poster
9.5

Shyamu is an orphan, living with his mentor, and has lived a life of crime. While his partner is recuperating in hospital from a injury incurred on the job, Shyamu decides to go straight. In a case of mistaken identity, he ends up in showbiz and gets a gig as a playwright for a beautiful starlet when he shows up instead of popular writer Deepak, whom he looks just like, and is met with considerable respect. One day Shyamu goes to Deepak's house for something and discovers just how identical they are. Unfortunately, Deepak is on his death bed and Shyamu, reverting to his evil nature, "helps" Deepak along on the way to his demise and takes on his identity, even down to learning to copy his handwriting. But not everyone believes the goings on are all above board, especially Deepak's girlfriend and a certain police inspector.

Bandhe Haath

1973

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

Loafer poster
5.4

Ranjit is the right-hand man of a gangster named "Uncle". He has been working for him since he was a runaway child, and excels in all of kinds of criminal activities, currently managing a night-club called "Playboy". He meets with beautiful Anju and both fall in love with each other. Then he finds out that Anju is not who she claims to be but someone hired by Pratap to be close to him, entrap him, and get him killed. But that does not happen, Ranjit survives, rescued by Anju, and he helps her free her brother, Rakesh, from Pratap's clutches. Then some priceless jewelery is placed on display, and a number of gangsters decide to try and steal them, knowing fully well that there is a 24 hour police guard, as well as an alarm system. It is after this robbery that the past will be re-visited and it is then a number of people, on whom Ranjit has depended upon, will come to know of his real background, including the murder he committed before he started his career as a criminal.

Loafer

1973

Aaina poster
4.0

An upper-caste Hindu Brahmin struggles to make ends meet forcing his daughter, Shalini, to take the burden of maintaining the family upon her shoulders

Aaina

1977

Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thi poster
8.0

The Ramsay Brothers' first attempt at a horror film.

Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thi

1970

Himmat poster
9.0

When a poverty-stricken has-been felon decides to renounce his life of crime upon meeting another runaway women, he seeks to embark on a new and domesticated chapter in his life. However, foes from his dark past threaten to disrupt his newfound life of peace.

Himmat

1970

Apradh poster
4.8

A race car driver gets into trouble when he falls in love with the lovely but troubled jewel thief, Meena. He is convinced that her crime connections will not hamper his happily ever after plans.

Apradh

1972

Roop Tera Mastana poster
6.5

Ajit, the Personal assistant to Princess Usha, does away with her and brings along a look-alike, Kiran, to pose as her for a few days. Kiran, although poor, refuses to do so, and Ajit threatens her and her family, and she reluctantly agrees. She meets with Usha's fiance, a Prince himself, and falls in love with him, not realizing that her feelings will soon be history when those few days come to an end, and she must then give up her wealthy lifestyle and go back to being poor again.

Roop Tera Mastana

1972

1960s · 29 titles

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

Aadmi Aur Insaan poster
5.4

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 accused in a case involving a collapsed railway bridge, Munish has to decide if he should put their rivalry aside to help and save once close friend Jai.

Aadmi Aur Insaan

1969

Daadi Maa poster
7.0

Parvati seeks to heal the breach between her husband and his mother

Daadi Maa

1966

Hamraaz poster
7.3

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.

Hamraaz

1967

Woh Koi Aur Hoga poster
7.0

An artist suspects that the wax figures in a local museum may actually be hiding the bodies of murder victims. His investigation is hampered by a beautiful ghost.

Woh Koi Aur Hoga

1967

Mujhe Jeene Do poster
6.2

Though from India, this tale rings of Western familiarity -- especially of the Old West. When a beautiful courtesan is kidnapped by a burly bandit, the baddie gets far more than he had anticipated; he finds himself falling for her. Unfortunately for the couple, the authorities catch up with him and their short-lived romance ends in tragedy.

Mujhe Jeene Do

1963

No artwork available
7.0

Gauri (Nanda) belongs to a woman's group, but does not welcome certain changes being imposed on the group by Lali (Shashikala). Lali has already influenced Sundari (Leela Mishra) and Kala (Mumtaz), much to the unhappiness of thier hapless husband and dad, Dhanprasad (Om Prakash). Gauri meets with Dhanprasad's nephew, Amar (Sanjeev Kumar), both fall in love, and get married. Amar gets involved in an accident and gets crippled. Gauri now gets to be the bread-winner when she gets with Gupta (Sujit Kumar), and both start getting friendsly. Meanwhile, Lali leads Sundari and Kala to more reckless independence. Amar starts suspecting Gauri and Gupta of having an intimate relationship, and their marriage bond is at breaking point.

Pati Patni

1966

Gehra Daag poster
8.0

While defending his sister's honor, Shanker kills a man. His ashamed family say he is away in Africa, while he spends the next ten years in prison. What happens when the truth comes out, can he ever find forgiveness or acceptance?

Gehra Daag

1963

Bandhan poster
8.0

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 great distress to his family.

Bandhan

1969

Ram Aur Shyam poster
7.6

Abused by an oppressive brother-in-law Gajendra (Pran), Ramchandra (Dilip Kumar) runs away from home, and ends up in a small village where he is mistaken for Shyamrao (also Dilip Kumar), and must accept Ganga (Leela Mishra) and his new name or face severe exorcism. Meanwhile, Shyamrao is mistaken for Ramchandra by Anjana (Waheeda Rehman) and her dad (Nazir Hussain). When Gajendra finds out, he is enraged and attempts to beat the stuffing out of the person he thinks is his brother-in-law, but Shyamrao refuses to be abused or beaten, and all of a sudden things start changing in the household as well as in the community. It is not long before Gajendra finds out about the truth, and plans an ugly death for Shyamrao, and all those opposed to him.

Ram Aur Shyam

1967

Sawan Ki Ghata poster
7.2

Childhood friends Seema and Gopal reunite as adults, unaware of the terrible secret connecting their families. Can their love story survive revelations from the past?

Sawan Ki Ghata

1966

Golden Eyes poster
8.0

A top secret microfilm gets stolen and secret agent 077 aka Rakesh is assigned to retrieve it from the enemies. The adventure of returning the microfilm to its rightful owner intertwined with Rakesh's evolving love story forms the basis of the plot

Golden Eyes

1968

Rustam Kaun ? poster
7.0

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

Rustam Kaun ?

1966

Chandan Ka Palna poster
9.0

Ajit lives with his mother, and comes from a very wealthy family. He meets with beautiful Shobha and both fall in love with each other. Ajit's mom is delighted and agrees to meet with Harikishan Rai, Shobha's father, to finalize their marriage. The marriage takes place with great pomp and ceremony. A few years later, Ajit notices a change in Shobha's behavior. She changes her lifestyle, adopts a more liberal outlook, takes to drinking alcohol, and has an hair-cut. Ajit and his mom are perplexed and appalled at this change, and want to find out, but Shobha refuses to tell them anything. One day, Shobha and Ajit's mom have an argument, and Shobha angrily lifts up her hand to slap her, only to be stopped by Ajit, who asks Shobha to leave immediately. Shobha leaves and returns to her father's house, leaving Ajit and his mother behind wondering what had changed Shobha so much, and whether to get Ajit married a second time or not.

Chandan Ka Palna

1967

Mere Hamdam Mere Dost poster
8.6

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 beautiful woman posing for a painting and instantly falls in love. The only problem, Sunil hates rich girls and this girl is very wealthy.

Mere Hamdam Mere Dost

1968

Brahmachari poster
6.1

Abandoned as a child, Brahmachari lives in a mortgaged house with twelve young orphans. He saves a woman from dying, and she changes his life forever. But first she has to deal with her own affairs.

Brahmachari

1968

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

Pyar Kiye Jaa poster
4.8

Widower Ramlal lives a wealthy lifestyle near Poona, India along with two daughters and a son. His daughter, Malti, is a Science Graduate; Nirmala, a matriculate, and the son, Atma, who wants his dad to finance a Hindi film which he himself will produce under the banner of 'Wah Wah Productions'

Pyar Kiye Jaa

1966

Boond Jo Ban Gayee Moti poster
6.5

A once-disgraced school-master gets arrested for killing a lawyer's pregnant daughter.

Boond Jo Ban Gayee Moti

1967

Patthar Ke Sanam poster
6.5

Rajesh works for Meena's father. Meena and her friend Taruna decide to play a prank on him. Both women pretend to fall in love with him, but he finds out, resulting in acrimony.

Patthar Ke Sanam

1967

Tarzan Comes to Delhi poster
10.0

Shekar, a guide, leads Rekha and her professor father into the jungle only to steal a valuable necklace from a giant tribal idol. The tribesmen blame the theft on the interlopers and threaten the life of the professor until it is returned. It is up to Tarzan and Rekha to save the day, traveling to to Dehli to retrieve the gem.

Tarzan Comes to Delhi

1965

Gauri poster
6.5

After abandoning Gauri, his wife who is visually impaired, Sanjeev goes on a hunting trip and is presumed dead. He returns months later to find that his best friend Sunil has stolen his identity.

Gauri

1968

Aag poster
7.0

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 are all in vain. The local money-lender, Lala, in his early 60s, comes to know about this and proposes to marry Durgi, but is refused, and asked to leave. Lala plots vengeance, and gets his chance to rape Durgi, resulting in the death of Durgi. Shanker hunts him down, and kills him. Lala's death involves the police, and Shanker must run from them. He does so, and joins a gang of dacoits and pledges to be part of their gang, not knowing that in so doing, he will be spending the rest of his life, hiding in caverns and the countryside, unable to see his mother anymore, nor any normal human being, for the rest of his life.

Aag

1967

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

Suraj poster
6.3

Vikram Singh is the Maharaja of Pratap Nagar and is very impressed with his Senapati Sangram Singh for years of loyal service. He decides to make him a Maharaja and agrees to marry his daughter, Anuradha, with his son, Pratap. Years later, Vikram sends his now grown-up Anuradha to visit the coronation of Rajkumar Pratap Singh and approve of him as her husband, and she sets off without any escort with just her maid-servant, Kalavati, for company. Shortly thereafter, Vikram is informed that Kalavati has been abducted by a bandit named Suraj Singh, he accordingly rushes over to Sangram's and this is where he discovers to his shock that Kalavati is posing as Anuradha, and it is his daughter that has been abducted by Suraj. Watch what happens when Suraj is arrested and lodged in a dungeon, and preparations are set forth for the coronation of Pratap and his subsequently marriage with Anuradha.

Suraj

1966

Sehra poster
7.0

Angara and Vikram fall in love despite their family being from different clans and having a feud.

Sehra

1963

Samson poster
9.0

Samson is story that stars Dara Singh, Ameeta, Feroz Khan and many others. In this movie Dara Singh plays the mythological Samson character to the hilt as he must contend with a love starved princess and her all female warriors, a sorcerer and his magical dwarfs, a dinosaur sized lizard, and a rebel in love with a hand-maiden. How will the story unfold, how beautifully will it end. Watch as the climax reveals it all.

Samson

1964

No artwork available
10.0

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-law, a retired judge, supports her.

Bahu Beti

1965

Mere Sanam poster
7.0

Neena and Kumar meet while on a trip in Kashmir and eventually fall in love. However, another man, Shyam, discovers that Neena is the heir to a large fortune and schemes to win her.

Mere Sanam

1965

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