Acting

Bibbo

Known for

Acting

Credits

25 titles

Known for

Watan poster
10.0

Ostensibly a Central Asian war fantasy about a conflict between the Cossacks and the Tartars, Mehboob’s film proposes a tale advocating national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Russian king (Siddiqui) and his minister Jabir (Kayamali), who has Tartar blood in him. General Murad (Kumar) covertly sides with the opposition, gets arrested for treason and escapes. He meets the wild Gulnar (Sitara Devi) and gets her to spy as a maid of Princess Nigar (Bibbo). Nigar falls for Murad and Gulnar withdraws from the scene for the sake of her nation. Eventually Nigar, at the head of an army of women, helps defeat the villains.

Watan

1938

Khaibar Mail poster
10.0

Khaibar Mail (or Khyber Mail) is a classic Pakistani film from 1960, known for its adventure/drama set around a train journey, featuring stars like Agha Hussaini, Nasira, Neelo, and Aslam Pervaiz, telling tales of love, danger, and local culture against the backdrop of the Khyber Pass region

Khaibar Mail

1960

Manmohan poster
9.0

A social woman-centered film interrogating aspects of feudal patriarchy. The painter Ashok (Surendra) who loves the orphaned Vimala (Bibbo) is distressed to learn that she is due to marry Jagdish (Yakub). He paints Vimala's portraits with a frenzied obsession and becomes a famous artist. Paralleling this love story is the decline in Ashok's family fortunes.

Manmohan

1936

Raaz poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Raaz

1959

Anarkali poster
10.0

Prince Jahangir loves the slave girl Anarkali, which creates a serious conflict between Prince Jahangir and his father, Mughal emperor Akbar.

Anarkali

1958

Surayya poster
NR

Two childhood sweethearts are driven apart by a bitter family feud, only for a twist of fate and a shared tragedy to reunite them under the most complicated of circumstances.

Surayya

1961

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

1950s · 6 titles

1940s · 5 titles

Akela poster
8.0

A blacksmith named Budhwa, who is "too ugly to get a life-mate," is set to marry a woman named Maina. However, Maina is secretly in love with another man and has to make a difficult decision on her wedding night. The film follows the chain of events that unfold after this choice, as Budhwa and Maina's lives become intertwined in unexpected ways.

Akela

1941

Sohag poster
10.0

A professional thief Dhanji Bhagat uses his street-dancer daughter Raju as cover while working for wealthy schemer Keshav Seth. After Dhanji’s death, Raju’s life spirals into entanglements with Keshav’s shady dealings, a reckless suitor named Ramesh, and a series of misadventures that mix crime, betrayal, and misplaced romance. The story races through thefts, murders, and mistaken loyalties, ending with Ramesh marrying Raju after a turbulent journey of deceit and redemption.

Sohag

1940

Laxmi poster
NR

A flamboyant film producer Ramesh dotes on his glamorous star, Kishori, while avoiding a return to his village — and the wife he married in childhood, Rajni, whom he hasn’t seen since. When Rajni shows up in the city after a quarrel, unaware she’s competing with Kishori for her own husband’s affection, mistaken identities and meddling antics spark a lively “wife versus mistress” comedy of love, loyalty, and chaos.

Laxmi

1940

Bade Nawab Saheb poster
NR

A Muslim social film that explored themes of aristocracy, family dynamics, and societal norms within a Muslim community, focusing on the life and challenges of a "Great Nawab" (Bade Nawab Saheb

Bade Nawab Saheb

1944

Sneha Bandhan poster
9.0

Snehalata’s life takes a dramatic turn when love, duty, and circumstance pull her between a poor orphan she once cared for and the wealthy man she marries. Her journey weaves through sacrifice, suspicion, separation, and an unexpected rise to fame, as the ties of love and family are tested across years of hardship and change.

Sneha Bandhan

1940

1930s · 6 titles

Watan poster
10.0

Ostensibly a Central Asian war fantasy about a conflict between the Cossacks and the Tartars, Mehboob’s film proposes a tale advocating national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Russian king (Siddiqui) and his minister Jabir (Kayamali), who has Tartar blood in him. General Murad (Kumar) covertly sides with the opposition, gets arrested for treason and escapes. He meets the wild Gulnar (Sitara Devi) and gets her to spy as a maid of Princess Nigar (Bibbo). Nigar falls for Murad and Gulnar withdraws from the scene for the sake of her nation. Eventually Nigar, at the head of an army of women, helps defeat the villains.

Watan

1938

Manmohan poster
9.0

A social woman-centered film interrogating aspects of feudal patriarchy. The painter Ashok (Surendra) who loves the orphaned Vimala (Bibbo) is distressed to learn that she is due to marry Jagdish (Yakub). He paints Vimala's portraits with a frenzied obsession and becomes a famous artist. Paralleling this love story is the decline in Ashok's family fortunes.

Manmohan

1936

The Mill poster
7.0

A realistic treatment of industrial working-class conditions in a Bombay textile mill.

The Mill

1934

300 Days and After poster
7.0

Young, bored millionaire (Motilal) has a bet with his doctor that he will go out into the world without taking any money and survive for 300 days.

300 Days and After

1938

Gramophone Singer poster
8.0

Thakur’s music-dominated debut tells of a love triangle involving the famous gramophone singer Sundardas (Surendra) who is happily married to Mohini (Prabha), and the even more popular singer Tilottama (Bibbo), who falls in love with Sundardas’s voice and wants them to sing a duet and have an affair. Ghosh Babu (Advani) is the manager of the record label.

Gramophone Singer

1938

Jagirdar poster
9.0

The follow-up to Manmohan (1936) again starred Surendra and Bibbo. She is Neela, he plays Jagirdar Surendra. They secretly marry and have a child. When Jagirdar is presumed dead in a shipwreck, the child is considered illegitimate. The poor peasant Shripat (Pande) helps Neela by marrying her and raising her son Ramesh (Motilal). The husband eventually returns and violently quarrels with Shripat about who ‘owns’ Neela. When the villain Banwarilal kills Shripat, the husband is framed for the killing. The real problem, however, is the son’s rejection of his father, solved when together they face the gangsters in Narayanlal’s (Yakub) den.

Jagirdar

1937