Kidar Nath Sharma

Directing

Kidar Nath Sharma

Born 1910-04-12 · Punjab, India

Kidar Nath Sharma, also Kedar Sharma (12 April 1910 – 29 April 1999), was an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, and Lyricist of Hindi films. While he had great success as a director of movies including Neel Kamal (1947), Bawre Nain (1950) and Jogan (1950), he is most remembered for starting the acting careers of popular Bollywood actors like Madhubala, Geeta Bali, Raj Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Bharat Bhushan and Tanuja.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Kaki Kuda poster
NR

The movie is about the gambling horse racing. Although the film played in the form of comedy is filled with examples This film surrounds a wealthy tycoon who is addicted to horseracing and horse betting. (He lives in Holland Hill, a rich man’s enclave) The tycoon’s driver impersonates him to get hitched to his love interest. His syce at the horse stables is a friend of the driver, and he too pretends to be a doctor and falls for the lady he administers “treatment” on.

Kaki Kuda

1958

Mumtaz Mahal poster
8.0

Mumtaz Mahal tells the story of Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, tracing their deep love, her death during childbirth, and his grief that leads him to build the Taj Mahal in her memory.

Mumtaz Mahal

1944

Dhanna Bhagat poster
10.0

A spiritual journey of a young shepherd boy named Dhanna. Despite facing skepticism and challenges from his family and the local Zamindar, Dhanna's unwavering devotion to God leads him to perform miracles and ultimately triumph over adversity, showcasing the power of pure faith.

Dhanna Bhagat

1945

Armaan poster
7.0

Set in 1910, its modern hero, Kanwal (Motilal), invents a ray that records pain and pleasure photographically. His experiments render him blind. Country lass Meera (Shamim) tends to him and they fall in love. Later Meera meets a sage (Shah) who has an expensive magic potion that cures blindness. Unable to afford it, Meera kills the sage, grabs the medicine and goes to Kanwal’s house while all nature protests her actions. There the evil Diwan (Bhagwandas) and his accomplices steal the medicine, cure Kanwal and take the credit. Kanwal, who can now see but does not recognise Meera, accuses her of murder but eventually realises the truth.

Armaan

1942

Armaan poster
7.0

Set in 1910, its modern hero, Kanwal (Motilal), invents a ray that records pain and pleasure photographically. His experiments render him blind. Country lass Meera (Shamim) tends to him and they fall in love. Later Meera meets a sage (Shah) who has an expensive magic potion that cures blindness. Unable to afford it, Meera kills the sage, grabs the medicine and goes to Kanwal’s house while all nature protests her actions. There the evil Diwan (Bhagwandas) and his accomplices steal the medicine, cure Kanwal and take the credit. Kanwal, who can now see but does not recognise Meera, accuses her of murder but eventually realises the truth.

Armaan

1942

No artwork available
7.0

A proud woman scorned by her lover vows to become an unforgiving force of vengeance, using society's own hypocrisy as her most heartless weapon.

Bedardi

1951

Shokhiyan poster
NR

The Portuguese in 16th century India plot to take over the country.

Shokhiyan

1951

Shokhiyan poster
NR

The Portuguese in 16th century India plot to take over the country.

Shokhiyan

1951

Good and Evil poster
9.0

A wealthy man forces his wife and their new-born daughter, Soshila, out of the house because he had hoped his wife would deliver a son. Years later, Soshila and her boyfriend, work for her father and attempt to win her father's affections.

Good and Evil

1949

Chitralekha poster
7.0

Chitralekha is a 1964 historical-philosophical Hindi film, directed by Kidar Sharma, starring Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari and Pradeep Kumar. It was based on 1934 Hindi novel by the same name by Bhagwati Charan Verma about Bijgupta serving under the Maurya Empire and the king Chandragupta Maurya (340 BCE – 298 BCE) and his love for courtesan Chitralekha. Set in the back drop of the middle age society. The portrayal of the three tools wisdom, knowledge and power become superfluous in the absence of strength of character.

Chitralekha

1964

Jogan poster
5.6

An atheist falls in love with a married devout woman who has forsaken materialistic life.

Jogan

1950

Bawre Nain poster
NR

Chand lives in a small rural town in India. He is unable to pay the rent, and his landlord evicts him. He re-locates to another town and meets with a young woman named Tara. Both are attracted to each other. Chand is unable to secure employment in this town, and moves elsewhere. Tara waits for several months, but does not hear anything from him. So she decides to go and look for him, hoping to re-kindle her love. She is shocked and surprised to find him with an attractive woman named Rajni, who claims that Chand is her betrothed and both are to get married soon.

Bawre Nain

1950

Bawre Nain poster
NR

Chand lives in a small rural town in India. He is unable to pay the rent, and his landlord evicts him. He re-locates to another town and meets with a young woman named Tara. Both are attracted to each other. Chand is unable to secure employment in this town, and moves elsewhere. Tara waits for several months, but does not hear anything from him. So she decides to go and look for him, hoping to re-kindle her love. She is shocked and surprised to find him with an attractive woman named Rajni, who claims that Chand is her betrothed and both are to get married soon.

Bawre Nain

1950

Bawre Nain poster
NR

Chand lives in a small rural town in India. He is unable to pay the rent, and his landlord evicts him. He re-locates to another town and meets with a young woman named Tara. Both are attracted to each other. Chand is unable to secure employment in this town, and moves elsewhere. Tara waits for several months, but does not hear anything from him. So she decides to go and look for him, hoping to re-kindle her love. She is shocked and surprised to find him with an attractive woman named Rajni, who claims that Chand is her betrothed and both are to get married soon.

Bawre Nain

1950

Bhanwara poster
9.0

Two friends, a singer and a wrestler-in-training, fall for two sisters while navigating job hunts and comical living arrangements in the city.

Bhanwara

1944

Bhanwara poster
9.0

Two friends, a singer and a wrestler-in-training, fall for two sisters while navigating job hunts and comical living arrangements in the city.

Bhanwara

1944

Neel Kamal poster
8.0

A military coup leads to two outcast princesses falling for the same rakish artist.

Neel Kamal

1947

Neel Kamal poster
8.0

A military coup leads to two outcast princesses falling for the same rakish artist.

Neel Kamal

1947

Neel Kamal poster
8.0

A military coup leads to two outcast princesses falling for the same rakish artist.

Neel Kamal

1947

No artwork available
7.0

Rangeen Raaten is a 1956 Hindi film starring Shammi Kapoor, Mala Sinha and Geeta Bali in lead roles. The music was composed by Roshan.

Rangeen Raaten

1956

Sohag Raat poster
10.0

On her deathbed Lajjo asks her stepson, Rajjo, to look after her son, Beli.

Sohag Raat

1948

Hamari Yaad Aayegi poster
10.0

The story follows the heartbreak an orphan girl Manorama causes Ashok, a young man newly relocated to a city, due to her love for money.

Hamari Yaad Aayegi

1961

Gauri poster
9.0

Gauri is a 1943 Indian Bollywood film. It was the seventh highest grossing Indian film of 1943. Monica Desai, Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor played the lead roles in the film. [Wikipedia]

Gauri

1943

Chand Chakori poster
9.0

A street singer and a flute seller fall in love, only to be separated by jealousy and circumstance. Years later, a twist of fate reunites them, one famous and the other struggling, forcing them to overcome misunderstandings for a second chance at love.

Chand Chakori

1946