
Acting
María Elena Velasco
Born 1940-12-17 · Puebla, Mexico
María Elena Velasco was a versatile Mexican artist, who stood out in different facets. She obtained recognized professional prestige as an actress, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, screenwriter and dancer. She was known artistically as “La India María”, the name of a character played by her who had achieved great success.
Acting credits
8.5La India Maria becomes deeply embroiled in a large scale diamond heist.
Okey, Mister Pancho
1981
6.7La India María, who is really good at sports, becomes a nun and is always getting in trouble for wanting to help people.
Sor Tequila
1980
6.9In the Huasteca of Tamaulipas during the most important dance festival of the region, Julia, Huapango national champion, announces her marriage to the distinguished and wealthy rancher Otilio, while Santiago, her dance partner, driven by jealousy and spite, decides to take revenge on the newlyweds.
Huapango
2004
6.6Rivalry and romance between the leaders of a male mariachi band and a female one.
El mariachi canta
1963
7.7Juana, a peasant girl, is mistaken for her twin sister, Chana, whom she has never met and who is now a famous singer, and is kidnapped in her place by Chana's ex-husband.
Ni Chana Ni Juana
1984
7.9This Mexican comedy stars La India Maria, who drives the FBI crazy because they cannot figure out whether she belongs here or there.
Ni de aquí, ni de allá
1988
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La madrecita
1974
7.6India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
The Stork's Mistake
1993
6.9Two puppeteers with an orphan child, and with the help of a journalist, seek to stand out with their show.
Cascabelito
1962
6.2Follows an "unlucky" gun across the paths of five owners.
El revólver sangriento
1964
7.5Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Duro pero seguro
1978
8.1After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them.
¡El que no corre... vuela!
1982
7.3La India Maria becomes the municipal president due to a ballot typo.
La presidenta municipal
1975
8.0María Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate young Mazahua woman, travels to Mexico City in search of a better life, only to be swept into a chain of misunderstandings and conspiracies that make her an unlikely suspect in thefts and murders.
Tonta tonta, pero no tanto
1972
8.2A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
The Delights of Power
1999
7.6This funny Mexican film tell the tale of a family who will do anything to get rid of the rich old lady who sits at the head of the clan. All the hilarious members want a piece of the very lucrative inheritance money. What they don't know, however, is that grandma has left all of the money to her trusty dog.
Fear Doesn't Ride a Donkey
1973
7.0El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
El rey del tomate
1963
6.0Beloved Mexican screen star La India Maria portrays a poor but honorable woman who causes a stir around town when she decides to become a witch doctor in this classic comedy from director Fernando Cortes. When the real medical practitioner in town discovers that there's a new shaman around, the comic trouble that follows is sure to keep viewers in stitches.
Pobre, pero honrada
1973
5.8The ring possessed "Angel" and "Satan" not accept under any circumstances the trickery proposal with "Tarzan Beto" idol of the moment.
Los Endemoniados del Ring
1966
7.6No synopsis available yet.
La comadrita
1978
Country-boy migrates to the big city to work as a taxi-driver.
Ruletero a toda marcha
1964
10.0William Benton, a rich British landowner and cattle baron was murdered, creating one of the most bizarre and sensational international scandals in history. Thomas Canning, an inexperienced photo journalist from London, is sent to Mexico seeking fame and glory but eventually he reaches the camp of Pancho Villa to be told several conflicting versions of Benton's murder.
By Our Own Correspondent
1994
7.8La India María must find at all costs in the recesses of a mountain the Magic Black Mirror of Tezcatlipoca, since the spirit of his great-grandfather Moctezuma II ordered her to find it in to prevent the destruction of Mexico. Alonso, a handsome Spanish archaeologist, Bianchi, an antiquities dealer and Brigida Troncoso - an ambitious governor, are aware of the existence of such mirror, of the mysterious treasure of Moctezuma and of María, so all undertake a frantic chase after her to seize the magic glass and the gold.
The daughter of Moctezuma
2013
7.6The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
The Feathered Coyote
1983
Behind the camera
6.9In the Huasteca of Tamaulipas during the most important dance festival of the region, Julia, Huapango national champion, announces her marriage to the distinguished and wealthy rancher Otilio, while Santiago, her dance partner, driven by jealousy and spite, decides to take revenge on the newlyweds.
Huapango
2004
7.7Juana, a peasant girl, is mistaken for her twin sister, Chana, whom she has never met and who is now a famous singer, and is kidnapped in her place by Chana's ex-husband.
Ni Chana Ni Juana
1984
7.7Juana, a peasant girl, is mistaken for her twin sister, Chana, whom she has never met and who is now a famous singer, and is kidnapped in her place by Chana's ex-husband.
Ni Chana Ni Juana
1984
7.9This Mexican comedy stars La India Maria, who drives the FBI crazy because they cannot figure out whether she belongs here or there.
Ni de aquí, ni de allá
1988
7.6India María raises a kidnapped newborn and is pursued by criminals who want the boy.
The Stork's Mistake
1993
8.1After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them.
¡El que no corre... vuela!
1982
8.1After mistakenly going to jail, Maria makes friends with a woman whose kids live in the streets and Maria gets the idea to help them.
¡El que no corre... vuela!
1982
8.2A political candidate has an accident that will bring her out of the campaign unless her twin sister may be able to supplant her while she recovers.
The Delights of Power
1999
7.6The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
The Feathered Coyote
1983
7.6The outstanding comedian, "La India Maria," unknowingly ends up as a detective in Acapulco, pursued by smugglers of ancient artifacts.
The Feathered Coyote
1983