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It is an Epic story based on the book Virata Parva of Mahabharatha. After 12 years of Vanavasam, the Pandavas spend their 13th year of exile the Agnaadhavasam in an incognito state with disguised identities at the court of Virata. Follows how they end their exile & the marriage celebration of Uttara and Abhimanyu.
Pratima is a 1977 Indian Bengali family drama film directed by Palash Bandyopadhyay.
Rani is a child who is being brought up by her mother, Kamla (Asha Parekh) as her dad Rajendra (Rajendra Kumar) has gone out of town on business. Both mother and daughter live with their cruel and selfish relatives (Satyendra Kapoor and Lalita Kumari). They live with her abusive uncle. One day, Kamla gets the news that her husband is returning, and she is overjoyed. This joy turns to sorrow when she finds out that he has died in an accident. Shortly thereafter, she too passes away, leaving poor Rani at the hands of the cruel relatives. Her best friend Pappu (Master Abbas) tells her about Lalpari (Reena Roy). She succeeds to reach heaven with the help of Lalpari and manages to trick Yamraj (God of truth and death). However, Rani's father was only injured in the plane crash. Rani lives happily ever after with her parents. This movie also features the story of Cinderella and Gulliver's Travels in two songs.
A ruthless gangster worms his way into the affections of a timber merchant. Using lies, deceit and murder he plots to usurp the place of the merchant's son, steal his inheritance and his girl.
A literary film based on a play in three acts, One Day Before the Rainy Season (Ashad Ka Ek Din) portrays the love of Mallika and Kalidasa, the renowned Sanskrit poet and dramatist. Vilom, a friend to both and interested in Mallika, is a passive onlooker for the first two acts. Kalidasa leaves his verdant mountain valley home for the splendour of far off Ujjain, where he wins fame. The action of the film is rooted in the village to which Kalidasa returns years later and finds Mallika married to Vilom and the mother of his child. Mallika sacrificed her love so that the poet could pursue his muse.
Gauri and Prakash are in love and get intimate. Their ways are separate, and Prakash must marry Renuka, as she meets his family's approval. Gauri gets pregnant as a result of this intimacy, gets ill, and is hospitalized. It is here that the truth surfaces about Gauri and Prakash, as details are revealed of their past birth, in which they were lovers - Gangadhar Upadhyay, and Gauri, and Kalavati (presently Renuka). During this previous birth too, Gauri gets pregnant, gets ill, and passes away, because of Kalavati's interference. The child in her womb does not survive, and as a result Gangadhar also gets killed. In this birth, the only way Prakash can survive is after someone who loves him sacrifices their life for him.
Sivathaandavam is a 1977 Indian Malayalam film, directed by N. Sankaran Nair. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Bahadoor and Jayasudha in the lead roles. The film has musical score by M. B. Sreenivasan.
An action-filled thriller, the film tells of a harassed man who joins a smugglers gang to earn the dowry for his sisters marriage. The smuggler tries to molest his sister, who commits suicide. The hero takes his revenge.
Kadathanaattu Maakkam is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film, directed and produced by Navodaya Appachan. The film stars Prem Nazir, Jayan, Sheela and Sukumari in lead roles. The film had musical score by G. Devarajan.
Four men, each peculiar in his own way, embark on a quest to reason with the estranged wife of the protagonist. This is considered to be Ghatak's autobiographical film.
Ravi, an unemployed young man, faces a series of encounters during his search for a job.
When a difficult man falls blind, he alienates his family and caretakers even further.
During the reign of King Govindamanikya, ritual animal sacrifices was common practice in Trikut. One day, the goddess visited the King in a dream to ask him to put a stop to the killing. After King Govindamanikya banned ritual killing, Priest Raghupati, with the help of the King's brother, attempted to kidnap king's stepson, Dhruba, and kill him for the goddess.
Sushma believes that she is too young to get married, but her father, Lalla Banarsilal insists, and she runs away. Her adventures take her to a lonely wealthy widower with a cute daughter named Guddi; a drunken lout in a brothel; Dr. Kruparam, a psychiatrist, who admits her in his mental hospital; a dreaded bandit who has killed his tormentor, cut him into pieces and fed them to birds, and who still on a killing spree; Pandit Gorakhnath who lives a double life - as a priest and as a smuggler; a leper Dhanraj, who once was a very wealthy man, but is now shunned by everyone; a transvestite stage actor; and a hunter who saves Sushma's life by shooting dead a man-eating lion. As things spiral out of control for Sushma, there is yet one more male she has to meet, and it is this meeting that will change her life even more.
When forest officer Kumar protects natural resources from poachers, their boss, Anand, becomes his main rival. But little does Kumar know that Anand is his brother.
The whole film is a story about Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.
Kumaara Vijayam is a 1976 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by A. Jagannathan and produced by E. K. Thiyagarajan, Sasikumar and V. P. Chandrasekharan. The film stars Kamal Haasan, Jayachitra and Malayalam actor M. G. Soman in lead roles. The film had a musical score by G. Devarajan.
The story centers around a character named Ram, a mischievous and cunning teenager who keeps the villagers on their toes with his antics. He steals fruit from trees, fish from ponds, and seems to get into constant trouble. Ram's brother, Shyam, works for the local zamindar (landlord) and has a domineering wife named Narayani. One day, Ram gets into a fight with the zamindar's son, which leads to Narayani taking a stand and refusing to speak to Shyam. Disappointed by this turn of events, he realizes his mistake when he loses the trust of his relatives and decides to leave the village, relinquishing all his property to his nephew, and move to his mama's house. What unfolds next is the heart of the story. It is likely to explore themes of family dynamics, social class, and the consequences of Ram's actions.
Shamsher Singh plans a coup d'etat, and kills the members of the royal family, then crowns himself as king, but little does he know that the rightful heirs to the throne are still alive and plotting to recapture their heritage.
In order to stay away from his mother and her influential demeanor, Thangam, a young and affluent feudal lord, sets off on a quest to avenge his father's death.
When Anju comes to the city for a job, she is entrapped by Badal who offers her work in return of sexual favours. Things escalate when she tells her lover about her escape from the clutches of Badal.
Idealistic Ram's one ambition is to do something for his village. Rekha rich and young girl comes into his life who in spite of warnings, marries Ram and come to the village. Fed up with idling away her time, Rekha, in a huff, moves to the city and take job as tourist guide, only to discover that this life is too short, can be humdrum as the one in village. Love triumphs over the barriers of Urban and Rural.
A young man teaches a lesson to his parents for abandoning his grand parents.
At his detective wife's request, a young man joins a boxing club to find out about the illegal activities carried out by the head of the establishment.
Thirisoolam is a 1979 Tamil film directed by K. Vijayan. It has Sivaji Ganesan playing three different roles.
Numerous plot lines intersect in this comedic romp about a female Victoria-carriage driver who disguises herself as a boy, and the hunt for the stash of diamonds hidden in her Victoria.
Mahesh returns to India after a long time abroad, and makes the disillusioning discovery that his father makes his fortune in illegal goods. Righteously disavowing his family wealth, Mahesh marries Seema and begins a life of simplicity, but when his father's attempt at atonement results in tragedy, Mahesh must ultimately take up arms to defend his family.
Anmol and Sunita are living a happy married life. But Sunita is suffering from a serious heart condition and has to go for a dangerous operation or risk her life. She can't go for children as this will make her condition more bad. Sunita falls in love with a orphan girl Bhavna and wants to adopt her But Anmol wants her to recover soon and have their own children and more ever gets upset with Bhavna with her childish behavior.
A simple man is caught in a web of deceit. He is blackmailed into participating in his bank’s robbery.
Dr. Anand Kumar joins a village clinic, works hard despite difficulties. He marries Nisha but later neglects her after becoming a successful doctor. Nisha leaves him when she realizes his changed priorities.
A newly-appointed forest ranger embarks on a journey to uncover the mysterious death of his predecessor with the help of an expelled tribal chief's daughter.
A father living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fool's errand, for the lord takes what little the workers make. When a young woman enters their home, tensions begin to rise and their idle life is threatened. The film is based on the story ‘Kafan’ by Munshi Premchand
Gangasati's spiritual odyssey leads her onto a path of becoming a saint-poet. She composes bhajans to inculcate devotion in her daughter-in-law Panbai.
A miser bequeaths his property to his two destitute nephews, provided they within a month marry girls who are well mannered, high family, beautiful and young (22-24 age) issue-less divorcees, divorced within 2 months of marriage.
Sridhar is an Indian youth staying in the United States. He marries an American woman Neena and brings her to India. His parents refuse to accept her into their house.
Kalyani lives in a small tenement with three sons, Vijay, Nandu, and Bhola, all of whom are unemployed, slackers and trouble-makers. One day Nandu gets into serious trouble with Shantilal, who summons the police, and has him arrested. Kalyani goes to the Police Station to plead with the In-Charge Officer to release Nandu, to no avail. She then goes to Shantilal to try to persuade him to withdraw the charges, also to no avail.
Maalai Sooda Vaa is a 1975 Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan and Kumari Manjula in the lead roles. The script was written by Venniradai Moorthy, dialogue written by Chitralaya Gopu.
A couple of unemployed slackers find a millionaire, who according to several newspaper advertisements has gone missing. They decide to use him in a grand scheme to get hold of his fortune, but things go horribly wrong.
Satyam (N.T. Rama Rao) is a youth leader and Panchayati Board President. He interferes with the ex-President of the board, Rudrayya (Rao Gopala Rao) from executing his corrupt practices. Satyam and Rudrayya's daughter, Savithri (Jayapradha) are in love and plan to get married. So Rudrayya gets Satyam killed with the help of a professional killer (Prabhakar Reddy). Satyam immediately goes to heaven. He angers the King of Heaven, Indra (Kanta Rao) while he enjoys the dance by Rambha, Urvasi and Menaka. He sends him straight to hell headed by Yama (Satyanarayana) and ably assisted by Chitragupta (Allu Ramalingaiah). In hell, he influences the soldiers of death, Yama's army using communist theories and rights of labor, and turns them against their leader-Yama, and Hell shuts down. Yama sends him back to Earth. Yama and Chitragupta visits Earth on a holiday trip and experiences the funny aspects of Humans. Satyam changes his name and teaches Rudrayya a lesson.
Cinema is an inseparable part of life in urban India. The film shows the effects of popular cinema on the people.
Brothers Moti and Raja share a joint household until Moti's wife gets Raja thrown out.
Writer Sagar Sharma is in love with a much younger woman named Barkha. When Sagar meets his ex-wife, Neelima, she tells him that Barkha is her daughter. Perturbed that he is dating his ex-step-daughter, Sagar disbelieves her and continues to have his affair with Barkha. And then Neelima tells him that she had an affair with his elder brother and that Barkha is his daughter. Sagar will now decide to end this affair, as neither the community nor his very own brother will permit him to have an affair with his own niece.
Then Sindhudhe Vaanam is a 1975 Indian Tamil-language film starring Sivakumar and Kamal Haasan in the lead roles. It was directed by Ra. Sankaran and produced by V.C. Ganesan. V. Kumar composed the soundtracks. Two beautiful melodious songs were also the special reasons for the film's fame.
Ajay Arya, spurned in love by Sonia, takes to a life of crime and has an affair with a young woman under her tutelage.
Sri Varada Sri Krishna Yachendra, Zamindar of Mangalapuram writes in his will that his jewelry will be given to the temple. Bhadrachalam temple trustee Dharma Rao, while taking the jewelry, met with an accident and the jewelry disappears. Twenty years roll by, Prabhakar Rao, who was an inspector at the time of the crime, is now police commissioner. Diwan Raja Bhushnam becomes a big industrialist. Trustee Dharma Rao had two sons, Raja Rao and Gopal Rao. Gopal Rao mysteriously meets Radha, daughter of Prabhakar Rao and they fall in love. At a party, Raja Rao behaves against Raja Bhushnam and he is sent to jail. Gopal Rao wants to find out the reason for the injustice done to his brother Raja Rao. He meets Raja Bhushnam and he says that his father had stolen jewelry belonging to the temple and committed suicide. To know the truth, Gopal Rao goes to the commissioner. The rest of the story is how Gopal Rao catches the real culprits and proves his father's innocence.
Rajaraja Cholan is a 1973 Tamil film about the life of the Chola king Rajaraja Chola.
Raja (Jeetendra) lives with his widowed sister Divya (Meena Kumari) in a small village. He is constantly being made a target by the oppressive local Zamindar and his two children, Sagar and Chanchal. The land owner's children decide to take revenge on Raja by getting Sagar married to Raja's sweetheart Neela. The Zamindar also molests Raja's sister, who kills herself. With his Neela married and his sister dead, a devastated Raja heads to the city. Once over there he attempts to put his life together, and try to forget the past. It is then he meets with another victim of the Zamindar, Bajrangi (Mehmood) and together they conceive a plan that will avenge them against their oppressors. The question is, will they succeed or will there be more victims.
A rich man who is disillusioned with his greedy relatives leaves his house and wanders off. He finds true happiness when he meets Aarti, who lives in a small town among simple folks.
Kavikkuyil, Kavikuyil or Kavi Kuyil is a 1977 Tamil film directed by Devaraj Mohan and starring Sivakumar, Sridevi and Rajnikanth. Fatafat Jayalakshmi plays Rajnikanth's love interest. Sridevi plays the younger sister of Rajinikanth. The film was shot under the S. P. T. Films banner and produced by S. P. Tamizharasi. The film premiered on July 29, 1977.
A man falls in love with a woman and gets married to her. However, a fated incident on the night of the couple's wedding causes one of them to face unfathomable circumstances.
Hindi language film from 1971
Prakash is called in to investigate the theft of diamonds and the kidnapping of scientists; a trail that takes him to distant Nepal.
Unnai Suttrum Ulagam is a 1977 Indian Tamil-language film starring Jayalalithaa in the lead role. The supporting cast included AVM Rajan, Vidhubala, Pramila, Savithri, Vijayakumar. Kamal Haasan plays a cameo. The film was directed by G.Subramaniya Reddiar and produced by Shree Navaneetha Pictures.
A 1978 Kannada movie.
A man goes to a pilgrimage to Gangotri/Yamunotri and onward to Gomukh. Every member of the team has some reason to undertake the pilgrimage.
The film is a remake of the 1975 Hindi film Amanush. It revolves around a man who is falsely implicated and imprisoned for a crime he doesn't commit. Disappointed with life, he takes to the bottle on his release.
Tells the story of newly weds Hamid and Salma. They move into a rental flat next door to the local red light district. The flat had been the former home of a well known mujra and qawali singer, Shamshad. Men still come to the door in the hope of seeing Shamshad and do not seem too put out by seeing Salma despite her protestations. The couple struggle to live within the bounds of their own moral code while the earnings of prostitution seem to be flaunted around them. Hamid gets more and more angry and seemingly unable to reconcile his morality with the immorality of the world and at one point beats his wife and then rapes her making her into a 'whore' of his fantasy. The story here bears resemblance to the later 'Ek Chadar Maili Si' by the same director and seems to explore the complex world of women and sexuality as viewed by Indian men: mother, goddess, whore. This film also explores the ethos of prostitution in its reality and as a metaphor for the outside world.
Two boys grow up together in an orphanage and become best friends, swearing their undying brotherly devotion to each other. Unknown to them, a dark secret related to their past may hamper this bond.
Georgekutty, who is obsessed with the beautiful Sundari, uses his wealth to disgrace her and her family. Unable to bear the suffering, Sundari runs from her home and meets Maadan, a labourer.