Acting
Anita Guha
Born 1932-01-17
Acting credits
NRA 1953 Historical Patriotic Bengali Film directed by Sudhir Mukhopadhyay.
Bansher Kella
1953
6.5Thakur Virendra Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle in India along with his wife and a son, Kumar. His relative Bihari is envious, and successfully switches his son, Kishan, with Kumar, and also ends up killing Virendra. In this manner, Kumar grows up a wealthy lifestyle, while Kishan lives a poor lifestyle, shunned by his father and his mother, who has lost the use of her vocal chords. Bihari takes Kishan to his brother in Bombay, and leaves him there to lead a life of crime. 20 years later, Kishan has grown up and is now a master burglar. He meets with another burglar, Mary, and both decide to be fifty fifty partners. However, Mary has other plans, she ditches Kishan and joins forces with Diwan Shamsher Singh to masquerade as the long-lost daughter of Ranimaa of Chandpur. Mary does not know that it was the Diwan who has done away with Rajkumari Ratna, and he will not hesitate to kill Mary - or anyone else who dares to stand in his way and the treasure of Chandpur.
Fiffty Fiffty
1981
9.0Kali is an uppercaste but naive and dim-witted Brahman and lives with his stepmother and her son. He has fallen in love with Pushpavali who is of a low caste. Kali's mother frowns on this and on the next small pretext throws him out of the house.
Kavi Kalidas
1959
6.8A 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
6.4After Shekhar (Raj Kapoor) falls for beautiful Sharada (Meena Kumari), he makes her promise that she'll wait for him while he goes abroad on a business trip. But when Shekhar's plane goes down in flames, Sharada finds comfort in the arms of another man, not knowing that he's Shekhar's widowed father (Raj Mehra). Trouble is, Shekhar survived the crash and soon returns home, only to discover that Sharada has become … his mother!
Sharada
1957
7.5Bombay-based Rajesh lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle with his parents, mom - a housewife and dad - a rather parsimonious businessman, named Amirchand. One day while walking on the beach, he comes across a beautiful blind girl named Shivani. He instantly falls in love with her. She also likes him, but understands that they cannot be married. Regardless of this, Rajesh asks his parents to permit him to marry her, to which his mother agrees, but his father refuses. Then Mr. Rai, Amirchand's friend, intervenes, he offers to pay for getting Shivani's eyes tested, and if she succeeds in getting her sight, then and only then can Amirchand permit his son to marry her.
Anuraag
1972
8.0A wealthy man disowns his son and tells him to leave his house for marrying against his wish. Months later, the man's servant discovers an abandoned child and brings the kid home.
Anand Ashram
1977
NRA Hindi social drama directed by Kalidas, starring Pradeep Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, and Vyjayanthimala.
Ek Jhalak
1957
7.5Gauri is unable to conceive and is made fun of in the village. Everybody believes that she is cursed and stays away from her. Gauri prays to Goddess Santoshi Maa to bring back happiness into her life.
Jai Santoshi Maa
1975
10.0A young couple struggle with poverty, but a job opportunity which cancels their financial woes leads to new tests of character
Anari
1975
8.0Baijnath alias Baiju is a slacker, trouble-maker, unemployed, and a flirt. The villagers rally together and force his father to ask him to leave the village, which Baiju does. Baiju's travels take him to the castle of a king, who has a beautiful daughter named Ratnavali. When he sees Ratnavali, he is smitten by her beauty and falls head over heels in love with her.
Chhoo Mantar
1956
7.0Fated to die at the hands of a child, a demon wreaks havoc on the lives of the to-be parents.
Where There Is Truth There Is God
1965
7.5Vrunda is married to Jalandhar who gets involved in a vicious battle with Lord Vishnu. As a war between gods and demons wages, Vishnu earns Vrunda's wrath after her husband is killed by Shiva.
The Marriage of Tulsi
1971
NRBeing financially weak Rajib and Soudamini are unable to fulfill the requirement of their only son Babul. Babul who takes a great interest in housie gets pampered by a family of his neighbourhood who doesn’t have any child.
Haar Jeet
1957
9.0Childhood sweethearts Gopi and Kishen hope to get married when they are grown up. Gopi dances to the magical tunes of Kishen's clarinet (shenai), and both are virtually inseparable. Years pass by, both have grown up and Gopi's mom, Jamuna, would like Gopi to get married to a young man from Lucknow, by the name of Shekhar, who works for All India Radio. Shekhar visits them, meets Gopi, and approves of this marriage, and asks Jamuna to finalize a day for the marriage. When this news reaches Gopi and Kishen both are heartbroken, as much as Kishen would like to marry Gopi he knows that he is unemployed and poor, and hence not considered a good suitor. Additionally, his mentor and guardian, Raghunath, would like him to marry his daughter, Ramkali, and may ask him to make the ultimate sacrifice by demanding this as his guru-dakshina (teacher's fee). Then the villagers ask Kishen to leave the town as he has brought shame on them all by continuing to meet with Gopi...
Goonj Uthi Shehnai
1959
NRShankar and Buddhu are identical twins. Shankar, unbeknownst to Buddhu, has found love with a painter; Buddhu meanwhile falls in love with the painter’s sister, who works at his office. As neither sister knows her lover has a twin, and Buddhu is unaware of Shankar’s romance, confusion ensues.
Lukochuri
1958
9.0A woman named Purnima (Meena Kumari) is forced to marry a wealthy man, leaving her true love Prakash (Dharmendra) to marry another. When tragedy strikes both families, Purnima and Prakash reunite, but a hidden past and familial jealousy threaten to tear them apart again, forcing Purnima to make an impossible choice.
Purnima
1965
7.3This is the story of Lord Ram and his years spent in exile with his wife and brother, and also chronicles the end of the demon king Ravan and his family.
Sampoorna Ramayanam
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
10.0Believing his wife to be dead after giving birth to a boy, a husband leaves and re-locates to the city.
Sanjog
1961
10.0A humble tonga driver named Lachhman returns a forgotten bundle to Rajo, and though her father offers him a reward, he refuses. Instead, he sells his beloved tonga to raise a dowry and marry her. After tragedy strikes and Lachhman dies, Rajo takes up the tonga herself to survive, challenging tradition and society’s expectations.
Tonga-Wali
1955
A snake princess marries the Prince of Lanka, Indrajeet Meghnath, son of King Ravan, and endures the curse of a snake, whose spouse was killed accidentally by Meghnath while riding on their chariot. Also depicts the reincarnation of Lord Vishnu as Lord Ram, Goddess Lakhsmi as Goddess Sita, and Lord Shesh Naag as Lord Lachman, leading to the battle of good versus evil as told in Holy Book: Ramayan.
Sati Naag Kanya
1982
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
10.0The happenings of one night. A young heiress, on the run from her murderous uncle, roams the streets of Bombay where she runs into a series of shady characters. To escape from them, she makes a rendezvous with all of them to meet her early next morning at the Gateway of India, which also happens to be the locale for some covert criminal activity involving her uncle, the idea being to nab the crooks red-handed.
Gateway of India
1957