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- An American journalist travels to India to cover Bollywood weddings, only to uncover a mosaic of cultural clashes, transgender tangles and lost loves with her travels culminating at a destination where the only journey is the one within.
- A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built.
- A wealthy mill owner, Durgadas Prasad, hires a secretary to handle his office work. She falls in love with Billoo, who incidentally happens to be Durgadas' estranged grandson.
- Living a poor lifestyle with his widowed mother, Shankar sells toys for a living, but is addicted to alcohol. He is attracted to Parvati, who also lives a poor lifestyle along with her step-brother, Jagat Narayan, his wife, and their daughter, Pushpa. After an argument with his mother, Shankar departs to the city, gives up drinking, earns a lot of money, and returns home just to time to pay off his mortgage. But his world will soon be shattered after he goes to ask for the hand of a now wealthy Parvati. This is where he will be forced to face his past, and ultimately be told that Parvati's marriage has been arranged elsewhere. Unable to live without Parvati, he takes up drinking again and heads on to a path of self-destruction.
- A vengeful Jew adopts an abducted Roman child, who grows up and unknowingly falls in love with a Roman.
- Prem Shankar lives a wealthy life-style circa after the British Rule in India, with his businessman father, Girija, and housewife mother, Kamini. He is now of marriageable age, and his parents would like him to marry Seth Heerachand's daughter, but Prem wants to marry someone of his own choice, without any pressure from his parents. He befriends a young woman named Kasturi, who falls in love with him. Prem also meets with a gypsy woman named Dulari, and falls head over heels in love with her. When his father finds out, he is enraged, forbids Prem to ever see Dulari again, and warns him that he can only marry a woman from a good and wealthy family background. It is now up to Prem to decide to follow his father's instructions or do as his heart tells him.
- Dilip, spoilt and careless grandson of wealthy Rai Bahadur, is in love with film actress Nayantara and wants to marry her. However, Nayantara wants to marry him only for his wealth. Rai Bahadur totally disapproves this. However, film actor Ashok Kumar knows the truth as he also loves Nayantara. Dilip, unaware of Nayantara's ulterior motives, deceives Rai Bahadur time & again. On a day, Rai Bahadur with the help of his doctor friend, plays a trick. He pretends to be on his death bed and asks Dilip to change his ways. Dilip tries to assure him that he is out of the alliance with Nayantara and is in love with a nice girl who he plans to marry with. Rai Bahadur asks him to bring that girl in. Helpless Dilip ropes in Kiran. Rai Bahadur likes Kiran and hires her to take care of his house and himself until Dilip marries her. Unwillingly, Dilip co-op with the situation but falls in love with Kiran as he is now aware of what Nayantara wants. But he cannot marry Kiran as Nayantara starts blackmailing him at the pretext of some photographs she has in her possession. She threatens to sue Dilip but Ashok Kumar comes in and saves Dilip.
- Radha earns a living begging in order to support herself and her crippled and ailing father. They live in a small tenament, under the constant threat of eviction by their landlord for unpaid rent for several months. One day, while begging, Radha meets a young man, Nirmal Chander, who would like to see her improve her status by getting employment, he even goes to the extent of assisting her find work in a mill. He subsequently invites her over to meet his mother, and asks her to marry him, to which she agrees. Nirmal also seeks the permission of her dad. When he goes to get her to make arrangements for their marriage, he finds her and her dad gone. His attempts to locate her are in vain. Then after several months he finds her living in a small dilapidated hut with a young man named Mastram and a child - she calls her own - but claims that she is unmarried. Who is the biological father of this child? Where is he located?
- Two lovers are separated by the girl's conniving uncle, who marries her off to another man. Heartbroken, the man wanders around aimlessly until a common friend decides to reunite the two lovers.
- A boy is raised by a wealthy family and grows up to become a doctor. He visits a small village for a medical camp and falls in love with Hamida. Meanwhile, the rich man's daughter pines away for him.
- When Shekhar comes to know that Rani became disabled because of him, he decides to help her by hiding his real identity.
- The story is set in 326 B.C. The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. He respects Aristotle and loves Persian Rukhsana (known in the west as Roxana).
- A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.
- Radha (Sardar Akhtar) is an indomitable woman, toiling away to feed her three sons and to pay off Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal), the village's rapacious moneylender. When she learns that she is pregnant again, her husband, Shamu (Arun Kumar Ahuja), runs far away, leaving her to fend for herself against poverty and the lecherous advances of Sukhilala. Later, the two eldest children die, leaving her with only two sons: the straight-laced Ramu (Surendra) and the wild Birju (Yakub). Ramu becomes a bandit which eventually forces Radha to take drastic actions.
- A disgraced widow is forced to work as a maid for her fatherless child.
- Two movie actors are confronted by startling and hilarious obstacles.
- The only son of the Royal Astrologer, Narsin (Om Prakash) namely Gopal (Bharat Bhushan) is not interested in astrology but in music and songs, much to the dismay of Narsin. Gopal's talents are well-known and he could become the Emperor's Chief Musician if he wins in the contest. His rivals live next door, and in order to win the approval of the emperor (Chandrashekhar), they poison Gopal's drink, and Gopal loses his voice completely. His mom (Leela Chitnis) is sorry at the loss of his voice. A young dancing girl, Gopi (Nimmi) takes interest in Gopal, and through her help and a hard knock on the head, he recovers his voice. But Gopal's challenges are far from over, and he will be called upon to prove his worth, as well as his association with Gopi.
- Based on Bankimchandra's novel Rajani (1877), this romance addresses property rights. Samar (Kumar) and Tarangini (Sumitra Devi) are childhood lovers. Samar feels betrayed when she obeys her father's decision and marries a wealthy zamindar. When Samar becomes a successful lawyer, he tries to take revenge on Tarangini and marries a blind flower-girl who, he discovers, owns the property on which the zamindar has built his fortune. The plot is complicated by the fact that the blind girl loves Jatin, the zamindar's son.
- International brand ambassador of Sanskrit, Megastar Aazaad created a mega movie titled Aham Brahmasmi to project, promote and protect the oldest ancient Language of the world, Sanskrit which is the first mainstream feature film in world history. 6th September 2019, went as a remarkable day for Indian Cinema, as Capital of India New Delhi and spiritual capital of India Kashi ( Varanasi ) witnessed a historic moment with the first screening of timeless creation Aham Brahmasmi and Sanatani Nationalist Filmmaker Megastar Aazaad marked his great presence among the Sanskrit lovers. The cine lovers had welcome Megastar Aazaad's movie of creating cinematic extravaganza in Dev Bhasha Sanskrit. Viewers of all ages witnessed the mega show with the Writer, Editor, Music Director, Director and lead actor Megastar Aazaad with chanting "Har Har Mahadev", " Bum-Bum Bol Raha Hai Kashi " and "Jayatu Jayatu Sanskritam" as if Aham Brahmasmi is not merely a movie but a cultural maha-yagna. The great purpose of movie is to rejuvenate the ancient language of the world and to create meaningful relevant and thought-provoking cinema. So that the world of today, acquaint with the forgotten languages and traditions. The ambition behind making this cinematic extravaganza is to rejuvenate Sanskrit among common people and unite the global audience by means of cinema. The historical Mega Movie Aham Brahmasmi is produced by Cinematic Giant Rajnarayan Dube's Legendary Film Company The Bombay Talkies Studios along with Kamini Dube, Vishwa Sahitya Parishad, Bombay Talkies Foundation, Aazaad Federation and World Literature Organization. Sanatani Filmmaker Kamini Dube is one of the most eminent female personality of India. After the grand success of first mainstream Sanskrit film in the history of world cinema Aham Brahmasmi, following the mission to promote, protect and strengthen the art, cultural languages and literature through cinematic creations, Megastar Aazaad is coming up with his Tamil venture namely Mahanayakan in one of the world's oldest language to unite the northern and southern part of India. To fill up any gap or remove any barrier of language, Aazaad is here to create a cinematic and rashtradharma for all and is ready with his timeless creation Mahanayakan in Tamil. Filmmaker and Megastar Aazaad has created his cinematic extravaganza Mahanayakan in Tamil to salute and pay respect to the enthusiastic and enlightened cine lovers of south India and has devoted his whole life to the mission of rejuvenating the ancient and forgotten languages worldwide and to unite the lingual division throughout the world by the means of art, literature, and cinematic creations.
- Rich guy Puran is not allowed to marry poor girl Asha. Will his Zid (stubbornness) win over the family forms the plot of this film
- A heartwarming tale of good-samaritanism: A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home--an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions arise in the group when he marries one of the inmates, a destitute young girl, since one of the other inmates loves her too.The group breaks up and the coach is abandoned. Time passes, fortunes turn, and penitence brings the group back together.
- The son of a priest falls in love with a Harijan girl and elopes with her. The film was a social drama that deals with untouchability prevalent in pre-independent India.
- The hero Ramesh (Kumar/Bhattacharya) agrees to marry a woman he has never met, unknown to his real lover Hemnalini (Ranjana/Sarkar). The wedding party is hit by a storm when travelling across a river; the hero's father and the bride are drowned while the hero survives. He later meets Kamala (Meera Mishra), whose husband (likes Ramesh's wife had died shortly after their marriage. Their respective bereavements bring the two closer until Kamala's husband is discovered to be still alive. Eventually Ramesh marries Hemnalini. The classic Tagore novel was Nitin Bose's debut at Bombay Talkies, and his most ambitious Hindi film to date. Reviews attacked it for its slow pace, but generally commended its extensive night shooting.
- Mohan, Pradeep and Ranjeet are struggling artistes who share the same house. When they decide to help each other find love by using their talents, their lives get entangled and chaos ensues.
- Lata (Devika Rani), daughter of a dancing girl, is brought up by social worker Mathuradas (Prasad) and is engaged to marry the rich Ranjit (Ashok Kumar) when the villain Chand (S.N. Tripathi) arrives to blackmail her with her undisclosed ancestry. Lata is forced to disclose the truth to Ranjit and the assembled wedding guests. Ranjit disowns her but they are reunited when Ranjit, blinded by an explosion, is nursed back to health by a devoted woman who turns out to be his wife.
- Ostensibly a Central Asian war storh about the Decossackization policy, a conflict between the Cossack and the Bolsheviks, a tale that advocates national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin, a grandson of a Tatar man, and Jabir, a commander of a Tatar Red Army military unit. Murad, a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, becomes sympathetic to the Cossacks' plight, and gets arrested for treason and escapes. He meets the wild Gulnar and gets her to spy as a maid of Nigar, the scion of a wealthy Cossack family. Nigar falls for Murad and Gulnar withdraws from the scene for the sake of her nation.
- The orphan and shipwreck survivor Raja works as a coolie forming a trio of friends with Mangoo, a pickpocket, and Vithal, a hansom cab driver. Mala and her father come to the city where she is kidnapped by Banke and sold to a rich man while her father accuses Mangoo of theft. Mangoo kills the father. Mala escapes and finds shelter with Raja, with whom she falls in love. The problem with the trio increase when they enlist in the army for WW2. The film opposes religious faith to atheistic fatalism (the latter exemplified by Mangoo whose mother dies in accident and he becomes a killer) and dares to present a couple openly living together as Mala stubbornly rejects the pressures of her stepmother and her villainous cousin Madan.
- A seminal reformist melodrama critiquing the zamindari system from the viewpoint of the Kisan Sabha agitations in A.P. Small-time landowner Narsi Reddy (Raghawan) borrows money from a shavukar [money-lender (Raghavan)] who represents the major zamindar (Sitapathy) of the village. When Narsi Reddy votes for a peasant candidate (Kosaraju) rather than for the political party supported by the landlord, his son is attacked and he is publicly humiliated.
- Humiliated by fate, brave Karna showcases his bravery and loyalty against surmountable odds.
- Preceded by a legend describing its heroine as a 'Brave Indian girl who sacrificed royal luxuries to the cause of her people and her country', the story opens with a prologue showing Krishnavati and her infant son being thrown out of the house in a thunderstorm by the wicked Prime Minister Ranamal who also killed her brother. 20 years later the now adult son, Jaswant, is hit by a royal motor car and given a bag of gold in compensation. His refusal of the gift attracts the admiration of Princess Madhuri. When the nasty Ranamal, who wants to marry her, imprisons her father the king, she becomes the masked Hunterwali, 'protector of the poor and punisher of evildoers', and performer of stunts like jumping over a moving cartand fighting 20 soldiers at once. She steals Jaswant's prize horse, Punjab, but returns it later. Jaswant chances upon a nude Hunterwali bathing in the river and after a long duel captures her and takes her to Ranamal to claim his reward.
- Modi's first psychodramatic role as a liberal man who becomes a tyrannical jailer who loses his wife to a lover who then goes blind. The jailer locks up his wife Kanwal in their own home, forbidding her to have any contact with their child, Bali, Later the jailer himself falls in love with a blind woman.
- A drama set amid an earthquake in Bihar. Miss Renee (Khote) looks after the victims while her lover, the businessman Sardar (Mohanned), wants to make money from the disaster. She comes under the spell of the blind itinerant Musafir (Dey in his usual persona) whose low opinion of the depravity of the wealthy provides the film's moral backbone. She eventually discovers that as a child she had been promised to Musafir but had been rejected by his family for being of a lower caste.
- Grieved at the death of his sister because they can't afford a doctor, a young boy vows to be a doctor.
- A group of freedom-fighters face betrayal and go on the run from police in British-occupied Hindustan.