Nilu Phule

Acting

Nilu Phule

Born — Died

1930-04-04 — 2009-07-13

Place of birth

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Nilu Phule (Nilkanth Krushnaji Phule) was an Indian actor known for his roles in Marathi movies and Marathi theatre. Nilu Phule acted in around 250 Marathi and Hindi movies during his film career. He was most prominently seen playing the roles of notorious villains in the movies. Phule was also a social worker, and was associated with Rashtra Seva Dal.[3]

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 11 titles

The Anklet poster
NR

Jairambapu Shingarwadikar runs a 'Tamasha' troupe and is one of the top troupes among villages during a performance when the team is about to leave their star artist Pilajirao Khanjire doesn't not board the bus while his keep Jaswanti tells that he has not returned home since last night.

The Anklet

1995

Disha poster
9.0

Two peasants are ill-prepared for life in the big city after moving from their tiny village to Bombay.

Disha

1990

Maal Masala poster
10.0

After a fatal accident leaves Kumar mentally challenged, he faces his greedy maternal uncle's hostility. Meanwhile, unable to bear it anymore, he plots to seek revenge.

Maal Masala

1992

Once There Was A Clown poster
8.0

Aburao, the son of a troupe dancer, has grown-up to become a brilliant clown. His talent brings him fame but also alienates him from his ideals and his loved ones.

Once There Was A Clown

1992

Ashi Asavi Sasu poster
NR

A poor man and his wife provide their sons with education and good values in life. However, years later, the children start to harass them, forcing the parents to take a drastic step.

Ashi Asavi Sasu

1996

Janmathep poster
3.0

'Janmathep' is a superhit drama Marathi movie starring Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Ashwini Bhave and Nilu Phule. Directed by Vishwas Patil and Produced by Mrs. Chandrasena Patil.

Janmathep

1993

Raakhandaar poster
NR

Vilas a runs a poultry farm business and comes across Rajabhau and become inseparable friends when they save Radha from molesters.

Raakhandaar

1992

Mother of a Son poster
NR

Police Commissioner Krishnakant Deshmukh and his family are very religious and god fearing. His son Kapil is in love with Swati and despite their horoscopes not matching, he marries her, much to the annoyance of his parents. Days pass by but Swati can't bear a child. Many medical tests are performed on her but of no use. One day Swati meets Dr.Ashwani, a woman known to perform miracles, and under her treatment the much needed miracle happens.

Mother of a Son

1996

Shubhamangal Savadhan poster
5.0

Jaya and Suman, two college mates, once best of friends, are today's sworn enemies. Jaya is in love with Rajesh, who also uses to study in the same college, and who leaves no opportunity to praise Suman just to annoy Jaya although he does reciprocate her feelings. But seeing them together infuriates Rakesh, who also loves Jaya deeply. Jaya and Rajesh get married and Jaya's mother gives her some 'tips' on post marriage behavior, little knowing how much problems the same is going to create for her.

Shubhamangal Savadhan

1992

Limited Humanity poster
10.0

Sadanand Borse lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with his pregnant wife, Urmila, in a small town in India. While returning home from work on his motorbike, he accidentally knocks down a deceased child in a funeral procession. From thence on, Sadanand Borse and Urmila will experience terror and fear as they will soon be stalked by two goons, Srirang and Govind, who want to avenge the deceased child's humiliation.

Limited Humanity

1995

Kuldeepak poster
4.0

Shyam returns from London and Rao Saheb hands him all the business. Janradhan and employee of Raosaheb who eyes his chair creates a rift between the the two as Shyam considers his employee at the top. He loves Kiran whose daughter of Bhau Kasbe, an old rival of Raosaheb, Janardhan tells him that she is the reason behind Shyam's change. Kiran and Shyam get married with blessings of her cousin Raja but Raosaheb disowns them and they start living separately and Janardhan takes advantage of the rift and kills Shyam. But Kiran soon delivers a baby boy named Deepak years later Raosaheb comes across him and wants to take his custody.

Kuldeepak

1990

1980s · 32 titles

Rao Saheb poster
7.0

Adaptation of a literary work on the slow deterioration of an orthodox family, where the women are unable to achieve emancipation and the men succumb to insanity.

Rao Saheb

1985

Sutradhar poster
9.0

Prerna is the only daughter of the local school's headmaster. She gets to meet her childhood friend, Kumar, who is now one of the teachers at the same school. Prerna is attracted to Kumar, and admires his courage and determination to stand-up against the local and cruel zamindar, who had severely beaten-up Kumar's father several years ago. Soon both get married. Kumar is ambitious, and wants to become the head of this town. He organizes his campaign and successfully gets himself elected, not without creating some enemies. After this election, Kumar keeps busy with his new-found duties, but Prerna notices a change in him - as he is fast becoming the man he hated the most - the former zamindar.

Sutradhar

1987

Bhalu poster
6.5

Sajjala, an orphan, is raised by Appakaka, her father's friend. When Appakaka is falsely charged with killing Jayantrao, Sajjala's betrothed, she vows to prove his innocence.

Bhalu

1980

Naram Garam poster
6.6

An impoverished employee tries to prevent his superiors and employers from marrying his sweetheart.

Naram Garam

1981

Coolie poster
6.6

When Iqbal gets separated from his mother and brother by a flood, he becomes a coolie at Mumbai railway station. He then fights for the coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.

Coolie

1983

Sundara Satarkar poster
3.0

its 1981 marathi movie

Sundara Satarkar

1981

Bhatak Bhavani poster
7.0

Bahusaheb Salunkhe a wealthy and kind hearten person lives with his wife they are childless and hope God will bless them soon with a child.Landge manager of Bahusaheb tries to rape their maid Savitri in absence of Bahusaheb's wife.Bahusaheb gets killed while trying to save her , Bhimi daughter of Savitri sees the whole thing.Mrs Salunkhe then adopts Savitri's son Sada while Bhimi is adopted by a Dacoit and his wife.Years later Bhimi known as Bhatak Bhavani makes living by pick pocketing and is always in eyes of Hawaldar Kondiba.Sada finds from his mother how Landge took over their business and framed Savitri for murder of her husband Bahusaheb.Bhatak Bhavani falls in love with Kondiba but her only motive in life is to find Landge and revenge on him.

Bhatak Bhavani

1987

Sulavarchi Poli poster
6.0

This movie features the life of a happily married couple that is disrupted, when the wife gets kidnapped. The husband sets out to rescue her with the help of his best friend.

Sulavarchi Poli

1980

Gadbad Ghotala poster
7.0

Movie starring Smita Talwalkar, Savita Prabhune and is directed Shekhar Navre.

Gadbad Ghotala

1986

Zara Si Zindagi poster
9.0

An MA in philosophy, Raja arrives in Delhi to look for employment and comes across Kusum, a struggling stage actress. They both face hardships in order to make a living.

Zara Si Zindagi

1983

Bin Kamacha Navra poster
9.0

Two men, who are lazy and always looking to make quick money through dishonest means, work for a local politician, Phule. Eventually, their wives and other women decide to teach them a lesson.

Bin Kamacha Navra

1984

Cursed poster
6.0

The story is set in a Maharashtrian village where the rich act in a barbaric manner towards the poor.

Cursed

1982

Rickshawali poster
8.0

Rickshawali is a 1990 Indian Marathi drama film directed by Satish Randive.

Rickshawali

1989

Soon Mazi Laxmi poster
NR

A young wrestler falls in love with a folk dancer. However, their relationship soon begins to take a toll on his equation with his family.

Soon Mazi Laxmi

1981

Kalatay Pan Valat Nahi poster
3.0

'Kalatay Pan Valat Nahi' is marathi movie starring Laxmikant Berde.

Kalatay Pan Valat Nahi

1987

Sasu Varchad Jawai poster
7.5

The film stars Ranjana and Ashok Saraf.

Sasu Varchad Jawai

1983

Sau Din Saas Ke poster
8.0

Widowed Bhavanidevi rules her palatial home with an iron hand. Nothing is permitted to be touched or moved without her permission and approval. She has two sons, and one daughter. She dotes on her daughter, Shobha, and son-in-law, Khubchand. When her eldest son marries a young woman, Sheela, Bhavani is enraged because Sheela did not bring in enough dowry. To teach Sheela a lesson, she burns her foot, leaving a petrified Sheela submissive and open to even more abuse. When Bhavani's second son gets married without her permission, she is angered even more, and will not have anything to do with her new daughter-in-law, Durga. When Durga insists on living there, she is permitted to do so, not knowing that she has now entered a household where she will be another abused and submissive slave to her dominating mother-in-law.

Sau Din Saas Ke

1980

Don Baika Phajeeti Aika poster
10.0

A married man gets involved with a local dancer. Later, things get complicated for him after he decides to secretly marry the dancer and live with his two wives under the same roof.

Don Baika Phajeeti Aika

1982

Woh 7 Din poster
7.2

Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was to be a music director. He too was in love with her but thought she would not be happy as his wife. Anand tells Maya that he had married her only for his mother who was on her death bed. When the mother dies Anand wants to unite Prem and Maya but Prem says it is against Hindu culture and disappears from their life.

Woh 7 Din

1983

Mohre poster
6.3

Abdul, a depressed truck driver who wants to end his life, goes and meets other people like him when he sees an ad. He is unaware that the people behind the ad are escaped convicts.

Mohre

1987

Prem Pratigyaa poster
8.0

Raja Bhaiya (Mithun Chakraborty) and his friend Charan (Satish Kaushik) come to a city to make a living. Failed in their attempts to find a job, one day, they are teased and ragged by Kallu Dada (Ranjeet). The quarrel gets physical, which Raja wins. Raja thus becomes the local underworld don and starts collecting protection money from shopkeepers, while becoming addicted to alcohol. Raja's life takes twists and turns when Mohan Rao (Nilu Phule) passes away.

Prem Pratigyaa

1989

Majjach Majja poster
9.0

When Pratap Singh steals precious jewels from a temple, his greedy uncle, Kakasaheb, murders him. However, when the bag of jewels gets stolen, he tries to search the thief.

Majjach Majja

1988

Insaaf Ki Awaaz poster
7.8

Jhansi Rani is an honest police officer and her husband is an honest man who works in a factory. Mahendranath and Kailashnath are two wicked men. Jhansi Rani's brother Ravi loves Mahendranath's daughter, which he doesn't like. Chandra Shekhar is killed by these two wicked people and they play a cat and mouse game with Jhansi. The latter has to resign and now Ravi cries out revenge against them. Will he succeed? Will the cry for justice be heard?

Insaaf Ki Awaaz

1986

Haqeeqat poster
7.0

Arjun, an honest cop, makes influential enemies in his department and amongst corrupt politicians when he brings law and order to his region. Can he and his community get justice or remain oppressed?

Haqeeqat

1985

Fatakadi poster
3.0

Fatakdi is determined to avenge her father's death by trying to manipulate the murderer's son into revealing the truth and takes help from a local policeman named Bavlya.

Fatakadi

1980

Mosambi Narangi poster
5.5

In an act of jealousy, Mambaji kills Raghuji's prize-winning bull, abducts his daughters and hits him, damaging his memory. When the daughters grow up, they try to find the truth from the past.

Mosambi Narangi

1981

Oonch Neech Beech poster
7.0

The film is based on an incredible true story about a village woman who gets lost at a railway station and waits fourteen years for her husband to come.

Oonch Neech Beech

1989

Chatak Chandni poster
7.0

A village damsel, Chandni, makes money by selling lottery tickets. She lives with her drunk father and a stepmother who hates her but announces that Chandni will marry the suitor who gives gold.

Chatak Chandni

1982

No artwork available
8.0

Salubai a Tamasha dancer wants her daughter Chandan to get education an be a lawyer but during a performance she passes away of heart attack,Chandan then quits her education and steps in her mothers footsteps in order to support her mothers troupe as many would die of hunger.Chandan becomes a well known name during one of her performance she meets with accident and is treated by Dr Pradep Desai during they treatment they get close to each other and decide to get married but Pradeep passes away due to accident leaving Chandan pregnant.Chandan gives birth to a boy Anamik and wants to make him a Doctor like his father and leaves him in care of Guruji by making a promise that his mother is not alive.Chandan continues to perform in the troupe to educate Anamik till her old age and also has to face people who look at females performing in Tamasha group as characterless.

Aai

1981

No artwork available
NR

A dacoit film

Kasam Bhavani Ki

1981

Ranine Dav Jinkala poster
5.5

Ranine Dav Jinkala is a 1983 Marathi drama film starring Nilu Phule, Usha Naik, Avinash Karshikar, Priya Tendulkar.

Ranine Dav Jinkala

1983

Baiko Asavi Ashi poster
5.5

Laxmi cancels her marriage with Shekhar as his family demands dowry. Impressed by her stern decision, Gulabrao Patil persuades her to marry his son.

Baiko Asavi Ashi

1983

1970s · 13 titles

Jait Re Jait poster
6.0

A story centered on a Nagya who is a drummer having a passion for being a "pure one" (punyavant). He meets Chindhi, who has abandoned her husband as she considers him useless.

Jait Re Jait

1977

Do Ladke Dono Kadke poster
8.3

Two hapless petty thieves find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping when they decide to break into a house on the very same night that two dim-witted kidnappers plan to abduct the child who lives there.

Do Ladke Dono Kadke

1979

Bhayaanak poster
1.0

People of Mangalpur die in a bizarre pattern. Inspector Vijay is appointed to reveal the truth behind the mystery.

Bhayaanak

1979

Sinhasan poster
7.0

As a heated race for the post of chief minister erupts between the incumbent and a challenger from his own party, political passions play out behind the scenes as seen through a journalist's eyes in this landmark drama. Directed by Jabbar Patel and inspired by Arun Sadhu's novels Mumbai Dinank and Simhasan, the film -- one of India's earliest political pictures -- stars Arun Sarnaik, Shriram Lagoo and Nilu Phule.

Sinhasan

1979

A Mountain Sparrow poster
7.0

This movie is based on the story " Makdicha Mala" by Anna Bhau Sathe. where class struggle and oppression of the lower caste by the upper caste is shown.

A Mountain Sparrow

1979

It Was A Night Just Like This poster
6.5

Shripa a wrestler gets attracted towards a mysterious women Shevanti living in abandoned mansion.The villagers suspect Shevanti is a ghost and that Shirpa has lost his mind.

It Was A Night Just Like This

1971

Meri Biwi Ki Shaadi poster
8.0

When he experiences chest pains, hopeless hypochondriac Bhagwant checks into the hospital for a checkup and overhears his doctor discussing the diagnosis of a terminally ill patient with an associate. Assuming he is the one scheduled to die, he asks his friend to help him find a new husband for his wife Priya so he'll know she won't be alone once he's gone. He locates Priya's old college beau Fernandes. Meanwhile, Priya mistakes her husband's machinations for an attempt to cover up an extramarital affair and throws him out of the house.

Meri Biwi Ki Shaadi

1979

Pinjra poster
9.5

A respected village schoolteacher falls for a travelling dancer and faces a moral dilemma.

Pinjra

1972

Omniscient poster
9.0

Ravi, a progressive schoolteacher in a small village helps fight an epidemic by getting his students inoculated. He incurs the wrath of local witchdoctor in the process.

Omniscient

1978

Haldi Kunku poster
9.0

Film with a soundtrack featuring Asha Bhosle.

Haldi Kunku

1979

Songadya poster
7.0

Innocent Namya the son of the tough Shitabai, is taken by his friends to see a Tamasha performance. He gets so excited by the Mahabharata scene of Draupadi's Vastraharan, that he jumps on stage disrupting the performance. He goes to the next village to see the performance again, where as the actor who is to play the monkey-god Hanuman gets drunk, He is invited to understudy the part. Namya's distraught mother kicks him out of the house, but the dancer Kalavati offers him shelter. Then a simpleton Namya falls in love with the glamours Kalavati.

Songadya

1970

Bhingari poster
4.5

Sada is imprisoned for a crime his friend, Daulatrao, committed. Suspecting that his wife and Daulatrao may be having an affair, Sada escapes to kidnap his own newborn.

Bhingari

1977

Samna poster
6.8

Wealthy and influential Hindurao Dhonde Patil finds a homeless drunk, brings him home, looks after him, feeds him, finds a room for him, gets him employed, calls him Master, and even finds a woman to look after him. In return, this male steals from Hindurao, is apprehended by the local police, but Hindurao pays for his bail. Hindurao is forced to make a final decision about him after he finds out that Master has been inquiring about a missing army officer named Maruti Kamble.

Samna

1975