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- This movie depicts the life of once wealthy poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib. This story portrays his trials, tribulations, triumphs, and utlimate descent to poverty, and then to prison; and his tragic and ill-fated love with a beautiful courtesan named Chaudvin.
- A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.
- A fair-minded emperor improves and introduces new laws, but ends up facing challenges when his son violates them.
- 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).
- Rajguru (Sohrab Modi) decides that Jhansi should get its proper recognition in history. He comes across a young girl Manu (the young Rani Lakshmibai) played by Baby Shikha. Her father has been hit by a carriage driven by an English driver. She gathers a few children to confront the driver. This and her confrontation with an elephant impresses the Rajguru who takes her in hand, shaping her into becoming a determined leader. He arranges for her, at the age of nine, to marry the much-older ruler of Jhansi, Gangadhar Rao (Mubarak), who is about fifty years, and become Queen. Manu grows up under the expert tutelage of the Rajguru, learning physical combat and political administration. The older Manu now called Lakshmibai gives birth to a boy who dies. She adopts another boy Damodar Rao who the English refuse to accept as the rightful heir. This further sets her against the British. During the uprising of 1857 (1857 Mutiny) she fights against them succumbing to her injuries in the end.
- Les Miiserables--originally French film later adapted to English.
- A disfigured but compassionate and dedicated Jailor's life undergoes changes after his wife leaves with another male.
- MERA GHAR MERE BACHCHAY is a film of the outgoing and incoming generations the difference between the two concepts of life and its clash. The story of the film sets aroudn as self-made conservative stubborn man named Inderjit, better know as Bade Saheb, who likes and compells ever dependent of his to think and act like him. Be it his home or office, stricken with the fear of his presence nobody could dare suggest him any thing. A man of dictarorial idealogy Inderjit want his second son Kishore to be an engineer, like his elder son Ashok, so that he could leave his firm with the two sons, the reputation of which he has established with his life long long on a dealings, little realising of Kishore interest in music. On an occasion getting the new or Bade Sahebs departure to Delhi the children the house start dancing but having missed his train, unexpected Bade Saheb returns home and finds this joyous atmosphere created by his absence resulting his tmeparamental reaction burst with fury to extent of roaring on his Parvati with rage for her being over affectionate with children thereby helping them gettim spoiled. At a time pressing attitude becomes beyond tolerance especially for Kishore he reaches home late in the night intoxicated to face Bade Saheb with courage and in that state of mind speaks of his love for music and Lata (an orphan girl brought-up in the same house) whom he wants to marry. Realising the delicacy of the situation of Bade Saheb keep himself suppressed but the first comandent that he announces in the morning is for Kishroe to work as ordinary labourer in his firm and Lata to be returned her native place Nagpur. . Before Bade Saheb could complete the marriage arrangement for Kishrore and his daughter Meena ( a convent girl) Parvati who knew Meenas love with Narendra and Kishores wiht Lata managed their marriage secretly with the desired mates. Bade Saheb coming to know of this against his wish event, lost faith even in Parvati and turned her out of his silvery mansion alone with the newly married couples, leaving himself dishertened disappointed and alone in the hugeness of his rich but empty world. What follows is a quick succession of incidents mounting each other forming a spellbinding suspences summing up the story in a fashion that has to be seen to be believed.
- Talip and his sister, Mrinalvati, of a neighboring kingdom imprison Prithvi Vallabh, the kind king of Avantipur.
- Thakur Jaspal Singh lives in the prestigious and palatial house called the Sheesh Mahal. He is badly in debt, yet continues to live a lifestyle far over and above his means. His son and two daughters are concerned, and try to stop him from over-spending, but he disregards them. Then one day the inevitable happens, and Jaspal Singh has to leave Sheesh Mahal, which must now be sold by auction to pay off his debts. Jaspal and his children move into a small room in the nearby slums, where they hope to spend the rest of their lives. Jaspal's son finds employment in a mill, but unfortunately meets with an accident, and in order to save his life, the doctors amputate his leg, leaving his unemployed and dependent. Jaspal's daughter, Ranjana, attempts to secure employment, but proud Jaspal will not hear of this. Ranjana gets employment, but she does not tell her father about it. Ranjana meets with a young man and both fall in love with each other. When this young man's father, Durgaprasad, comes to ask Jaspal for Ranjana's hand, Jaspal finds out that he is the new owner of Sheesh Mahal, and that Ranjana has been working as a maid there. Jaspal is furious, and taking his sword, he rushes over to the Sheesh Mahal with a clear intend of killing Ranjana, and anyone else who dares to stop him.
- When Gyan goes to Africa, he entrusts his wife's safety to his best friend Rasik. The two have extramarital affair and daughter Indira is born. Years later, Indira takes a fancy to Rasik's son.
- 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.
- Modi is Hamlet in this film version of the highly popular stage performance surrounded by the same principal cast: Banu as Ophelia, Shamshadbhai as Gertrude, etc. It is the story of prince Hamlet whose dead father comes back as a ghost to haunt Hamlet until he avenges his death. Hamlet is then on the horns of a dilemma as he ponders over his fate as his mother herself was involved in his father's assassination.
- A psychodrama condemning the divorce law as iniquitous to Hinduism. Roopa (Banu), wife of politician Niranjan (Yagnik), leaves her husband to fight for more progressive divorce laws. She is helped for exploitative reasons by Chhabilelal (Jagirdar), the editor of the radical journal 'Aandhi'. Roopa gets her divorce but is disillusioned by her legal achievement when Amarnath (Adib), whom she marries, uses the same law against her. Niranjan rescues and falls in love with the married Shanta (Sheela); since he does not approve of the divorce law, they cannot marry.