Gramophone Singer

Gramophone Singer 1938

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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.

1938

300 Days and After

300 Days and After 1938

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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.

1938

Kalidas

Kalidas 1931

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A Princess is tricked into marrying a naive and illiterate youth.

1931

Hum Tere Ashiq Hain

Hum Tere Ashiq Hain 1979

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Recently widowed Thakur Vikram Singh left India the same time the British did along with his son, Anand, for England. Years later, Anand has grown up to be a doctor and travels to Bombay, India, to work together with Dr. Pradhan for six months, thereafter he must return home and get married to Lalita, who is the daughter of Thakur's Legal Advisor, Jackson.

1979

Harichandra

Harichandra 1932

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To the vow made to sage Vishwamitra, King Harishchandra bequeath his kingdom to the sage, sells his wife Chandramati and son Rohitdas.

1932

Dr. Madhurika

Dr. Madhurika 1935

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Dr. Madhurika, a career-focused woman, marries Narendra on condition .of no children or interference. Her neglect of home and close ties with colleague Dr. Gaurish spark Narendra's jealousy. However, when Narendra helps Gaurish's wife and a stranger, Madhurika's own jealousy leads her to embrace a domesticated role

1935

Jagirdar

Jagirdar 1937

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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.

1937

Manmohan

Manmohan 1936

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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.

1936

Kalava

Kalava 1932

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The film was based on a play about Arjuna, one of the Pandavas.

1932