
Acting
Nutan
Born — Died
1936-06-04 — 1991-02-21
Place of birth
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Nutan Samarth Bahl (4 June 1936 – 21 February 1991), known mononymously as Nutan, was an Indian actress who worked primarily in Hindi films for nearly four decades. Her films ranged in genres, establishing her as a bold and versatile actress who took on unconventional roles. Aside from being regarded as one of the finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, Nutan was also crowned Miss India in 1951. Starting as a child actress in 1950, she received recognition for her naturalistic acting. By the late 1950s, she had become a household name. Her accolades include a record five Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and a Padma Shri, awarded by the Indian Government.
Known for
6.8Inspector Amar feels certain that Brijbhan is involved in terrorism, but he does not have enough evidence to prove it. To do so, Amar tries to unite two warring gang leaders, Hariharan and Karim Lala.
Insaniyat
1994
8.1The film follows the story of Shankar, who is regarded as a criminal by society after being in jail for ten years since childhood.
Mujrim
1989
6.5A businessman's wallet is stolen by a pickpocket, which inadvertently reunites him with his long-lost family. However, this incident also puts all their lives at risk from a powerful gangster.
Sone Pe Suhaaga
1988
7.7A woman raises the illegitimate son of her husband along with her own, treating them both equally. But her decision to hand over the property matters to the illegitimate son is met with hostility by her own revenge-minded son.
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
1978
10.0A mother faces challenges when she is asked to look after her husband's very young step-brother.
Chhota Bhai
1966
7.5When evil lawyer Thakral prosecutes innocent family man Deepak and sends him to his death, his family is shattered--and when his son Arun grows up, he's determined to avenge his parents' suffering.
Meri Jung
1985
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
6.8Inspector Amar feels certain that Brijbhan is involved in terrorism, but he does not have enough evidence to prove it. To do so, Amar tries to unite two warring gang leaders, Hariharan and Karim Lala.
Insaniyat
1994
9.0Shanti, from a poor family, is desperate to arrange the marriage of her children and when she finds the perfect man for one of her daughters she is delighted. However, the man's mother demands a huge dowry.
Naseebwala
1992
1980s · 14 titles
8.1The film follows the story of Shankar, who is regarded as a criminal by society after being in jail for ten years since childhood.
Mujrim
1989
6.5A businessman's wallet is stolen by a pickpocket, which inadvertently reunites him with his long-lost family. However, this incident also puts all their lives at risk from a powerful gangster.
Sone Pe Suhaaga
1988
7.5When evil lawyer Thakral prosecutes innocent family man Deepak and sends him to his death, his family is shattered--and when his son Arun grows up, he's determined to avenge his parents' suffering.
Meri Jung
1985
6.5A loyal government official fights to uphold his dignity when a group of goons try their best to taint his reputation. To do this, he uses his methods of justice.
Kanoon Apna Apna
1989
7.4When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his daughter-in-law; with Dang escaping in the process. Vishwa, who now calls himself Dada Thakur, enlists three death row inmates and sets out to avenge his family's slaughter.
Karma
1986
5.5Kidnapped at a very young age, two twin brothers are separated from there respective mother.
Yudh
1985
7.0When Laxmi loses her third child in childbirth, her husband takes a second wife in order to ensure the birth of a son to carry on his name. Shortly after his 2nd marriage, both his wives give birth to boys. Laxmi's son, however, mysteriously disappears. Years later, a young man appears claiming to be the missing son of Laxmi, and attempts to bring some sense and honor for poor Laxmi.
Hifazat
1987
8.0Anjali lives in a hostel and always waits for her mother Kamini to come take her during holidays but Kamini never takes Anjali home; instead she takes her on holidays to different places. Kamini pretends to be a wealthy woman in front of Anjali, but she actually works for the Bombay-based Don Sultanbhai--she conducts robberies for him. Anjali falls in love with Anand and both want to get their parents together, but at the last moment Kamini is called back to Bombay by Sultanbhai; this doesn't go over well with Anand's mother. Sultanbhai finds out from Kamini about Anjali and how life was cruel to her he promises Kamini that he will get Anjali married to Anand and makes a fake family out of his gang and present them in front of Anand's family.
Teri Maang Sitaron Se Bhar Doon
1982
9.0When a widow receives a letter, informing her of her newly inherited fortune, her once downtrodden life changes drastically for the better.
Paisa Yeh Paisa
1985
7.3A widow raises two sons, one of whom is not her biological child (unbeknownst to him). Her biological child leaves India to work in Dubai, but eventually finds himself in the criminal underworld.
Naam
1986
5.0It takes a debilitating disease like cancer to reunite brother (Raj Babbar) and sister (Nutan).
Rishta Kagaz Ka
1983
6.8Mithun Chakraborty's ambition is to become an upright Police officer, but unluckily he is not getting selected. His sole strength is his lady love Sridevi. As Mithun's ambition fails, he turns to alcohol, dacoity, and thugism. He finally joins Amrit Pal's lethal gang to take revenge on the Police force, which blocked his ambition. Sridevi (in a double role), is Shakti Kapoor's important gang member. One day, Shakti Kapoor gets the confidential message about an undercover cop in his Gang.
Guru
1989
6.2Young and attractive Kunti has fallen in love with a young man by the name of Anil, and both intend to marry...
Saajan Ki Saheli
1980
Kasturi is a Family drama, where relations and values conflict each other.
Kasturi
1980
1970s · 8 titles
7.7A woman raises the illegitimate son of her husband along with her own, treating them both equally. But her decision to hand over the property matters to the illegitimate son is met with hostility by her own revenge-minded son.
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
1978
6.6Moti is a merchant who sells jaggery in the market, with the help of an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary jaggery. He is in love with a village girl, but cannot afford to pay the dowry/marriage expenses to her father. So he decides to marry Mahjubhi, while secretly harbouring the dream of saving enough money for dowry and marrying the village girl. After marrying Majubhi, Moti extracts a lot of work from her to this end. He eventually does collect the amount and divorces her, accusing her of infidelity. Shortly after that he marries the village girl, and goes back to his business of selling jaggery, but faces the consequence of losing Mahjubhi's jaggery.
Saudagar
1973
8.0Johny makes his living by conning people. Ginny enters his life and then nothing in the world can separate them from each other.
Ginny And Johnny
1976
8.0Father Henry (Rehman) entrusts a newly-born infant in the care of an unwed Maya (Nutan), leaving her to explain the presence of the child. She is literally thrown out of the village and runs away to Bombay. There she is taken care of by a kind-hearted Muslim taxi-driver (Jayant). Years later, the child grows up to be called Ram (Jeetendra), but the question haunting everyone's mind is who is Ram's biological father?
Maa Aur Mamta
1970
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
10.0Burma-based widow, Parvati, along with two sons, Prem and Rajesh, re-locates to Bombay to live with her late husband's friend and widower, Sewakram, and his two daughters, Shanti and Durga. He returns some cash and jewelery to her that was entrusted to him, and she re-locates to live in a big bungalow. Shortly thereafter, Prem and Rajesh get married to Shanti and Durga respectively. The entire family live harmoniously until Parvati is told by Mrs. Pereira that Prem has been physically abusing his pregnant wife. Parvati and Rajesh undertake to rein-in Prem - and it this overture that will not only shatter their idyllic lifestyle but force both brothers to take up arms against each other.
Lagan
1971
7.0A poor woman feels unwelcome in her husband's family
Devi
1970
Hindi film from 1970
Maharaja
1970
1960s · 17 titles
10.0A mother faces challenges when she is asked to look after her husband's very young step-brother.
Chhota Bhai
1966
Following Israeli author Amos Oz over two years, as he meets readers and discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Along the way, Oz offers advice to Israeli president Shimon Peres, and is seen with fellow writers Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster and Nadine Gordimer, and the Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh.
Chhabili
1960
8.0An ancestral property is distributed between two brothers, then a couple of years later, bitterness divides their families. An outsider in the younger brother's family tries to kill the others, which is resisted in time, and they reunite.
Khandan
1965
7.0Arrogant son of a wealthy, blind woman, rapes his mother's nurse and abandons her. She gets pregnant but the child does not live, and she continues to live her life and follow up on her love life, only to face the past, and her "reformed" rapist.
Dulhan Ek Raat Ki
1967
5.0Learning that his beloved has married someone else a composer self-destructs
Manzil
1960
6.2In 1930s British-ruled Bengal, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convicted murderer with past connections to a freedom fighter.
Bandini
1963
Kalapi is a 1966 Indian Gujarati biographical film directed by Manhar Raskapur, starring Sanjeev Kumar, Padmarani, Aruna Irani, Nutan, Pranlal Kharsani.
Kalapi
1966
5.6On the banks of the holy River Ganga, Gopi, a ferryman conducts an unconsummated romance with Radha, a girl from the upper classes.
Milan
1967
7.5The tragic-comic story of Chhalia, a naive, simple-minded young man who comes to the city and witnesses the harsh side of life; and falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to find out that she is married but separated from her husband, Kewal, and adopted son, Anwar. He puts all he can in an effort to locate Kewal and re-unite the family.
Chhalia
1960
10.0Children are exchanged by greedy aunt and uncle in childhood and they live undeserved lives.
Dil Hi To Hai
1963
7.0Raja Saheb (Ashok Kumar) is a rich man, strict father to sons Virendra (Sunil Dutt) and Mahendra. One day, Mahendra has a big fight with his father and dies of shock afterwards. Virendra leaves home and falls in bad company with Pran. Later, Virendra falls in love with a poor girl (Nutan), eventually deciding to marry her. At home, a lonely Raja Saheb falls ill. When Virendra tells his father about his love, his father reveals his own past: He was in love with a poor girl, who died leaving a daughter (Padmini) behind, who dances on the roads to earn a living. Virendra decides to bring his sister home.
Bhai Bahen
1969
8.0A spoilt heiress runs away from home to be with the lover her family disapproves of, only to fall in love with someone else on the way.
Basant
1960
6.5After abandoning Gauri, his wife who is visually impaired, Sanjeev goes on a hunting trip and is presumed dead. He returns months later to find that his best friend Sunil has stolen his identity.
Gauri
1968
6.5A man faces a problem when his very own brother decides to marry the woman he loves.
Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya
1966
7.0Mehrban is a 1967 Hindi language film written and directed by A. Bhimsingh. It is a remake of Bhimsingh's own Tamil film Padikkadha Medhai (1960) which itself was a remake of the 1953 Bengali film Jog Biyog, based on the novel of the same name by Ashapoorna Devi.
Mehrban
1967
10.0Thakur Narendrapal Singh is a generous and kind-hearted landlord and zamindar. He has a daughter Kalpana and a son Raja. Distrusting his son and his new wife, Roopa, he asks a village laborer, Sunder who is honest, loyal and hardworking, to marry his daughter. In this manner, Sunder and Kalpana get married, and soon Kalpana gives birth to a daughter. Tragically Kalpana passes away, and the Thakur, Sunder, and the child are devastated. The Thakur asks Sunder to get married to Savitri, who is the daughter of his childhood friend, the local Collector. He hopes that in this manner the child will get the love of a mother. Sunder reluctantly agrees, and soon Savitri and he get married. Savitri is unable to win the love of the child nor does she get any affection from Sunder, as he is unable to get Kalpana out of his mind and thoughts. In the meantime, Roopa's dad is plotting the death of Sunder, so that his daughter can take over the wealth of the Thakur after his death.
Rishte Naate
1965
5.2Rakesh, a successful architect, falls in love with a girl: Sujata whose father happens to be his own father's business rival. Sujata's father unwittingly assigns Rakesh the contract for building his house. This sets the stage for an entertaining story about the love between two individuals and their efforts to reconcile their families.
Tere Ghar Ke Samne
1963
1950s · 19 titles
7.5Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome and intelligent young man. Working as a painter, he is unable to earn a living. One day Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the man it belongs to. Impressed by his honesty, the man employs him to work in his office as a clerk.
Anari
1959
8.0A young man believes that an old, supposedly haunted ruin holds clues to both his father’s disappearance and a twelve year old murder mystery.
Nagina
1951
10.0Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujala is a 1958 Hindi film starring Kishore Kumar and Nutan.
Kabhi Andhera Kabhi Ujala
1958
9.0A social drama set in a Bombay chawl, where a kind landlady, her ambitious daughter, and their tenants face struggles between community bonds and the lure of wealth.
Malkin
1953
8.0An incompetent lawyer gets evicted, dons the guise of an old man to gain accommodation, falls for the owner's daughter, then faces numerous life-changing challenges.
Paying Guest
1957
5.7Gauri, an orphan, is falsely accused of theft and lands up in a reformatory run by Ashok. Due to her rebelliousness, she gets into trouble. But, gradually she comes into her own with Ashok's help.
Seema
1955
7.0Kishore is a conman who has little respect for the rich. He learns that the person responsible for his friend's death is the same who led to his own father's death. He swears to bring him to justice.
Dilli Ka Thug
1958
6.4An orphan adopted by an upper caste family never learns of her untouchable caste background. This proves problematic when years later, she falls in love with an upper caste man.
Sujata
1959
7.0When Parbat meets Pahari, the two of them fall in love and everything seems to be going well for both of them. However, things get complicated when a previous obsessive lover enters the narrative.
Parbat
1952
8.0City-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal asks him to go to the village and look after his mother and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After coming to know both mother and daughter, they decide to re-locate to the big city to be together with Gopal. In the process, Ramu and Chanda fall in love with each other. Chanda wants Ramu to give up his life of crime, but will his crime partners allow Ramu to lead a normal life?
Baarish
1957
Shanno falls for the flautist Kanhaiya, believing him to be Lord Krishna, and decides to marry him. However, she is shocked after realising that he is, in fact, the village drunkard.
Kanhaiya
1959
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Chandan
1958
8.0A car mechanic falls in love with a girl but discovers her father has a large debt, leading him to gamble and marry another to pay off the debt.
Aakhri Dao
1958
9.0Zindagi Ya Toofan is a movie directed by J. Nakhshab featuring Nutan, Pradeep Kumar. Loosely based on Umrao Jaan Ada.
Zindagi Ya Toofan
1958
10.0A timeless romance of two souls intertwined, Laila (Nutan) and Qais (Shammi Kapoor), whose bond transcends all societal barriers. Though fate drives them apart, their love endures, resisting separation and sacrifice in this classic 1953 Hindi drama based on the legendary tale of Layla and Majnun.
Laila Majnu
1953
NRA 1952 Hindi movie starring Nasir Khan and Nutan, directed by Kishore Sharma.
Shisham
1952
6.0An impoverished orphan is first abused by her extended family, and then exploited after she becomes popular and wealthy.
Sone Ki Chidiya
1958
9.2An impoverished family faces illness and financial challenges after one of them is sent to prison.
Hum Log
1951
8.0Bollywood 1954
Shabab
1954
