Shyama

Acting

Shyama

Born 1935-06-07 · Lahore, Punjab, British India

Shyama was born on June 7, 1935 in Lahore, Punjab, British India as Khurshid Akhtar. She was an actress, known for Sharada (1957), Khazanchi (1958) and Isi Ka Naam Duniya Hai (1962). She was married to Fali Mistry. She died on November 14, 2017 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Acting credits

Tulsidas poster
8.0

Sage Tulsidas faces challenges when he attempts to translate the Holy Ramayan.

Tulsidas

1954

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NR

Shabnam is a 1949 Hindi movie produced by Filmistan and directed by Bibhuti Mitra.

Shabnam

1949

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NR

1949 bollywood film.

Roshini

1949

Zindagi Zindagi poster
8.0

This movie revolves around a village hospital that was built by a generous hearted man, Choudhury Ramprasad (Ashok Kumar) who is also a patient in the hospital. The other patients include Isamil (Iftekhar), Dayaram (Anwar Hussain), Ratan (Jalal Agha), and the doctor is Dr. Sunil (Sunil Dutt). Amongst the patient is a singer (Deb Mukherji), who loves Shyama (Farida Jalal) a worker in the hospital. When Meeta Sharma (Waheeda Rehman) comes to the hospital to admit her son, she meets Sunil and their romance is rekindled. In the background of the hospital atmosphere is an election in the village, which is proceeding smoothly, but causing a disturbance is Ramprasad's son (Ramesh Deo). Other supporting caste include Jagirdar, Chand Usmani, and Jankidas.

Zindagi Zindagi

1972

Bahurani poster
10.0

A newly-wed woman is met with abuse in her new house

Bahurani

1964

Chandan poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chandan

1958

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8.0

Inder is from a well-educated family but spends his life to help people in need which causes many misunderstandings

Parwana

1947

Char Paise poster
10.0

A couple of gangsters mistake CID Inspector Mohan for a civilian and propose a business plan to him. When he refuses their offer, they plan to make his life miserable.

Char Paise

1955

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5.3

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

Sharada poster
6.4

After 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

Chhoti Bahen poster
6.7

Rajendra makes a meager existence supporting his younger brother and sister and vows not to marry until they have settled. However, when his sister loses her sight, his grand plan is threatened.

Chhoti Bahen

1959

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

Janwar poster
7.0

The wealthy patriarch of a Mumbai family learns more than he wants to about his own origins after his refusal to accept his sons' chosen spouses drives them and his own wife away.

Janwar

1965

Bhai-Bhai poster
10.0

A rich businessman, Dayashankar Kumar (Shivraj), who is a widow, lives with his two young sons Ashok and Raj. When he catches the younger boy Raj stealing money, he punishes him and threatens to cut off his fingers. A frightened Raj runs away from home. Years pass and the older brother Ashok (Ashok Kumar), becomes the owner of his father's business and property, running Superior Motors, which also extends to Bombay. Ashok is married to Lakshmi (Nirupa Roy) and is a caring and loving husband. They have a young son, Munna (Daisy Irani).

Bhai-Bhai

1956

Ji Chahta Hai poster
5.7

Bollywood 1964

Ji Chahta Hai

1964

Majboori poster
NR

A Hindi drama directed by Ram Daryani, starring Balraj Sahni.

Majboori

1954

Khota Paisa poster
10.0

M. Sadiq’s drama about a professional hunter who aims to locate a beautiful young girl. Starring Johnny Walker, Shyama, Jeevan, Veena and Dhumal. In Hindi with English subtitles.

Khota Paisa

1958

Aar Paar poster
5.6

Kalu is a taxi-driver in Bombay, India. He has two women who love him and would like to marry him. Kalu first wants to establish himself, and become rich, before he can even think of marriage. One of the women who loves him, has a father who is involved in gangster-type activities, and would like Kalu also to join him so that he can get rich soon. Kalu has now to decide to become rich quick or sleep better.

Aar Paar

1954

Chhoo Mantar poster
8.0

Baijnath 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

Sawan Bhadon poster
6.3

Young Vikram (Navin Nischol) stands to inherit a fortune. After living in England for the past five years, he returns home to find his family out of control. His stepmother squanders their wealth, and his stepsister loves a hoodlum. Meanwhile, Vikram falls in love with Chanda (Rekha), a sassy village girl. He soon realizes that his family only wants his money and will stop at nothing to get it. Bollywood star Rekha makes her Hindi screen debut.

Sawan Bhadon

1970

Khazanchi poster
8.0

Harish lives happily with his sister Geeta and his father Radhe Mohan. Radhe Mohan is the titular "khazanchi" (treasurer) at the Northern India Bank. Harish and Usha fall in love with each other. However, they face obstacles in their love life due to Usha's stepmother and Harish's father's death.

Khazanchi

1958

Madhosh poster
3.8

Raj is wealthy and a womanizer and his lifelong friend Goldie is a self made pop singer. Goldie tries to make Raj realize that women are not mere objects of desire, but with no results. Raj...

Madhosh

1974

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6.5

Sudha Verma wants to be the ideal daughter for her dad, and mom. Unfortunately, her mom passes away, and her dad re-marries, this time to Kamla, who is self-serving and not at all interested to see Sudha marry and settle down. Sudha meets with Dr. Rajesh Anand, and both fall in love. All approve of the marriage, until Rajesh sees the invitation card for Sudha's marriage, and realizes that his marriage has been arranged with Sharda, and that Sudha is to marry Rakesh. Rajesh attempts to straighten this out, but idealistic Sudha does not agree as she does not want to embarass her dad. Unfortunately, Sudha marriage does not take place, as the dowry money has been stolen. Rajesh returns and hopes to marry Sudha, but finds that Sudha and her dad are missing, and are untraceable, and then returns home to find a look-alike of Sudha, who calls herself Asha, but denies ever being or knowing anyone named Sudha Verma.

Beti

1969

Thokar poster
8.0

Film starring Shammi Kapoor and Shyama.

Thokar

1953