Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam
Tum Rahe Na Tum, Hum Rahe Na Hum …

One of the finest song delivered by Geeta Dutt in Guru Dutt’s final directoral venture ‘Kaagaz Ke Phool’. Kaagaz Ke Phool till date is considered just second to Pyaasa by many. A cinematic masterpiece that went over the audience’s heads and sank like the Titanic so to say.

Starring: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Veena, Baby Naaz

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Bimal Roy tells a story of the dispossessed peasant and the moneylender/ landlord in Do Bigha Zameen. With his innate reserve and good taste he chooses a much wider context in which to place his narrative thus looking at rural poverty at one end and the brutalizing effects of city life at the other end.

Starring: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Master Rattan Kumar, Meena Kumari

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It is one of Indian Cinema’s tragic ironies that a sensitive and poetic film like Teesri Kasam sank without a trace indirectly leading to its producer lyricist Shailendra’s death due to stress of financial problems caused by the failure of the film. The irony is even more so as today the film is recognised as one of the the all-time great films of Indian Cinema.

Starring : Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman, Iftikhar, Asit Sen, Dulari, Keshto Mukherjee, C.S. Dubey

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Kumar has just returned from London to his “Haveli”, and he experiences many strange and creepy things around the house. He is told that his haveli is haunted by a spirit who have killed his anscetor and now its his turn…

Starring: Bishwajeet, Lata Sinha, Madan Puri, Manmohan Krishan, Sajjan, Waheeda Rehman

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Synopsis

On a stormy night, Devendra (Dilip Kumar), an engineer, drives down a hill road with his friend, to fetch his wife and child from the railway station. A landslide blocks their path and the friends take shelter in an old mansion just off the road. Devendra finds the house uncannily familiar. In the large front room he finds an old portrait which he recognizes. His friend and the old caretaker join him, and Devendra, amidst flashes of memory from another life, sits down to tell his story while the storm rages outside.

Starring: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayantimala, Johnny Walker, Jayant, Tarun Bose and Pran

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A judge (Prithviraj Kapoor)’s wife (Leela Chitnis) is kidnapped and on being rescued is found to be pregnant. The husband turns her out accusing her of infidelity. Their son Raju (Raj Kapoor) born in the slums ends up a criminal and faces a murder charge. Rita (Nargis) Raju’s lover and a lawyer herself (the Judge’s ward) defends him and examines the judge in the witness box. She holds the judge and society responsible for depriving and dehumanizing Raju. The judge owns up to Raju being his son.

Starring : Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor with K.N. Singh, Shashi Kapoor, Cuckoo, and Leela Chitnis

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Radha (Nargis) now an old woman remembers her past. She remembers her married life. The family has to work extremely hard to pay off the moneylender Sukhilala (Kanhaiyalal). Her husband (Raj Kumar) loses both his arms in an accident and feeling useless abandons the family. Alone, Radha has to raise her children while fending off financial as well as sexual pressures from Sukhilala. One son dies in a flood, and in later years one son Ramu (Rajendra Kumar) grows to be a dutiful son while the other Birju (Sunil Dutt) becomes a rebel committed to direct, violent action. Finally to preserve the honour of the village, Radha puts an end to Birju’s rebellious activities by shooting him down.

Starring: Nargis, Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Kanhaiyalal
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