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- DirectorSatyen BoseStarsAshok KumarMadhubalaAnoop KumarThree woman-hating brothers face changes in their respective lifestyles when two of them fall in love.
- DirectorMohan SegalStarsKishore KumarVyjayanthimalaJabeen JalilComplications, impersonations and moral dilemmas arise when a Punjabi pretends to be a Tamil in order to obtain accommodation in New Delhi. An eloquent and entertaining plea for national unity that manages to showcase several cultural traditions whilst encouraging people to laugh both with and at each other.
- DirectorR. KrishnanS. PanjuStarsKishore KumarSadhana ShivdasaniKumari NaazRaja's frequent brushes with crime force his sister Rani to disown him, and she decides to work in Dr. Mohan's house. However, Dr. Mohan finds out the truth about Rani and her brother.
- DirectorKalidasStarsKishore KumarMadhubalaPran SikandA diamond thief hides his loot on an innocent child, but the child turns out to be an adult posing as a youngster to purchase a half-priced train ticket. Now, the thief will have to outwit the eccentric in a series of wacky misadventures.
- DirectorBimal RoyStarsKishore KumarSheila RamaniBalraj SahniComic, tragic, and heartrending saga of Ratan Kumar Chaudhary (Kishore Kumar), who leaves his village, aging mom, and seriously ill sister, to obtain employment in Calcutta, only to end up in a tiny tenement apartment full of other unemployed youths. He falls in love with Seema (Sheila Ramani) who lives in the building opposite his, and she too falls in love with him. Her father will not permit her to marry an unemployed youth, and wants her to marry someone known to him. Ratan receives an employment offer from a firm in Bombay, and travels there, only to have his wallet stolen by a pickpocket (Mehmood), and ends up in jail for being a suspect himself. He reports for employment and is hired. He sends for Seema, and she leaves her family for Ratan. By the time Seema reaches Bombay, Ratan has lost his job, and is forced to lie to Seema. Why did Ratan lose his job?
- DirectorShantilal SoniStarsKishore KumarKumkumRandhirShobha's dad who is a scientist gets into a difficult situation after an experiment he was conducting goes wrong and kills his employee Manohar.
- DirectorM.V. RamanStarsVyjayanthimalaKishore KumarPran SikandA wealthy Kishore always ready to help the poor.He travels to Bombay to be with his cousin Raj whose a womanizer and has ditched many women.Raj and Kishore go for hunting in Jungle where Raj meets a man who ask shim to marry his daughter whom he had cheated but Raj kills him and frames Kishore for the murder whose then on the run from police.
- DirectorShankar MukherjeeStarsKishore KumarMadhubalaChanchalAnjana lives a wealthy lifestyle with her dad, Dwarka Nath, in a hilly region in India. When she returns home after several years, she finds that her dad has become more strict and a disciplinarian, and even has his erring employees and villagers flogged. Then she meets with local villager, Jhumroo, and both fall in love with each other. Jhumroo takes her home to introduce her to his mom, Kamla, who approves of her instantly. When Dwarka comes to know about this, he is enraged, and quickly announces her marriage with his Manager, Ramesh. Jhumroo is heart-broken and goes to meet with Anjana, who does tell him that she loves him, but must obey her father. What Jhumroo and Anjana do not know is that she is not Dwarka's daughter, but is the daughter of Kamla, and abducted at a very young age. The question remains what impact will this have on their lives when they find that they are brother and sister, and who actually did abduct Anjana?
- DirectorAbdul Rashid KardarStarsKishore KumarChand UsmaniSmriti BiswasRaj Kumar Ashok belongs to a rich and aristocratic family. His parents want him to marry the best of the best girls money could find. Ashok's dad then spends a lot of money to invite proposals from all over India. But Ashok loves Kokila, who belongs to a poor family and sells flowers for a livelihood. Ashok decides to carry on his love with Kokila and at the same time witnesses the hilarious goings-on at his residence when the dads, mom, and the brides-to-be assemble - all from different parts of India - all speaking a different language. And with this multi-lingual medley, misunderstandings are bound to happen - and they do. His parents eventually select Roopa to be the bride. What will happen to the budding romance of Ashok and Kokila?
- DirectorC.V. SridharStarsKishore KumarShashi KapoorMehmoodA widower struggles to arrange wealthy husbands for his two daughters and control his film-obsessed son; all while, one of his ex-employees stages a protest outside his house.
- DirectorL.V. PrasadStarsMeena KumariKishore KumarGemini GanesanR.K. Raju, a private investigator is assigned the task of locating the missing daughter of a wealthy Hindu couple. His investigation take him to different locales, and he comes across Miss Mary, the girl closely resembling the one he is looking for. He asks her to accompany him, in the guise of teaching his girlfriend some music, to which she agrees. On the way there, they meet with Arun, who also agrees to accompany them as Miss Mary's husband. Once there Miss Mary is informed that she is the daughter of the Hindu couple, and she strongly denies this, stating that she is born a Christian, lived with a Christina Priest all her life, and has no knowledge of being a Hindu. Then a stolen locket of Devi Maa Laxmi is located, and the suspect, prima facie, is Mary and a gentleman, who claims to be her bethrothed.
- DirectorVed-MadanStarsKishore KumarKumkumI.S. JoharBanwari steals Rs.10000 from his employer Manoharlal. Manohar files a police complaint, Banwari is caught and sent to jail. He breaks jail, kills Manohar and abducts his daughter Geeta as a revenge. Banwari brings up Geeta as Sangeeta, a famous stage dancer, as his daughter and makes money through her stage shows but he still wants Manohar's wealth and intend to blackmail Sangeeta's mother Kamla once she is found. Deepak, an educated but unemployed young man, is madly in love with Sangeeta but cannot approach her as she is a celebrity. He gets a chance one day and soon they fall in love. Kamla hires detective Sohanlal to search for her daughter Geeta. Sohanlal finds some proof that Sangeeta is actually Geeta. He comes to Banwari's house posing as a Prince with some business proposals and cracks the case to its depth by producing Kamla in front of Banwari. Banwari has no option left but to retaliate. Finally, Banwari & Pyarelal are apprehended by police and Deepak marries Sangeeta.
- DirectorShantilal SoniStarsKishore KumarKumkumAnoop KumarAn impoverished male, in love with a woman who is about to get married, has a lab-accident and evolves into a destructive iron-man.
- DirectorMarutiStarsKishore KumarDara Singh RandhawaSheikh MukhtarRomi (Sheikh Mukhtar) shoots a man but does not kill him. A bullet fired from somewhere else does the job but he is arrested, convicted and sentenced for the murder. His pregnant wife Radha (Lalita Kumari) throws herself in the river but is saved by a village that accepts her and her soon born son Ram (Dara Singh). After 14 long years in jail, Romi roams 8 long years being rejected by society and cannot find a job or assistance, then turns to violent crime. His gang is offered a large sum of money to smuggle national secrets out of the area, so he kidnaps a young child and forces her sister Roopa (Ameeta) to carry the goods. Roopa would rather die than become a traitor, loses control of her car and is cast into the river, washing ashore in the same village with Radha and Ram. Meanwhile, unemployed Kishore (Kishore Kumar) decides he will play detective to find the lost girl Radha and her sister, tracks her to the village and falls in love. Romi and his gang also track Roopa and they flee to the city to save her sister, where Ram is employed as a wrestler.
- DirectorRam DayalStarsKishore KumarI.S. JoharJeevan DharThe year is 1942 and Advocate M.L. Gupta lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his wife, Maya, in Churchgate, Bombay. One day he travels to Calcutta, and during an air raid by Japanese fighter aircraft, takes shelter with a prostitute, Panna, who drugs and then seduces him. The next day Gupta returns home and decides to forget about this affair. Shortly thereafter he and Maya become parents of a male child and name him Johar. Four years later Gupta finds out that Maya has adopted a male child, Kishore, and suspects her of having an affair and asks her to leave. Johar keeps asking for his mom, so Gupta has him re-located to America. Twenty years later the Gupta family is fated to meet again. With Kishore being recruited by Gupta to tutor an irresponsible Johar, who instead of becoming an Advocate, has forsaken the worldly possessions, and become a Sadhu. Kishore soon finds out that Johar is pulling wool over his dad's eyes, both become friends and woo two young women, Asha and Lata respectively. The two women live with their respective widower dads, Major Champala Rai and Diwan Jeevanlal. Johar hires a private investigator to try and locate his mom, then elopes with Lata and marries her much to the chagrin of her dad who wants her to marry a man named Pran. Johar does find his mother living with Kishore but before he could inform her that he is her son, she is arrested for killing Jeevanlal, and the eye-witness is none other than Lata.
- DirectorJyoti SwaroopStarsSunil DuttSaira BanuMehmoodA simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor. He enlists the help of his musical-theater friends to woo the lovely girl-next-door away from her music teacher.
- DirectorS.D. NarangStarsKishore KumarNutanAmarA thug from Delhi is accused of killing a young boy in Bombay.
- DirectorMohammed HussainAravind SenStarsBambiBela BoseHelenDwarkanath and his wife were separated from their child, a son named Shankar, when they attended the Khumbh Mela in Central India. Years later they are still awaiting his arrival. Notorious con-man and gangster, Sunderdas, comes to know of this, and hires a look-alike named Kundanlal, who meets with Dwarkananth, and is accepted immediately. Sundedas wants to use Kundanlal as a tool to get money from the wealthy Dwarkanath, but Kundanlal refuses to do so. As a result, Sunderdas exposes Kundanlal, and hires another look-alike to take his place as the missing son.
- DirectorKishore KumarStarsKishore KumarAshok KumarTanuja SamarthDoor Ka Rahi is story of a person named "Prashant" who is on the travel for the wellness of society, and the end of Journey is to watch. The angle of the movie focused on expressing the internal feelings.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsKishore KumarOm PrakashMadan PuriPritam works as a Book-keeper in an Export Import Firm and does not have a roof to live under. When he goes to search for accommodation, he runs into a friend, Jagdish, who takes him to a rooming house and lets him share one room with himself, Kavi Viyogi, and Hhimsen. The landlady has very strict rules for all her tenants to wit: No one is allowed to romance on her property. On a rainy day when Pritam goes to buy milk, he runs into a beautiful girl, Meena Sharma, and their umbrellas get entangled, and when freed get interchanged. He goes to look for her house and finds she lives with her maternal uncle, a music maestro of sorts, and Pritam enrolls himself in his class. Pritam and Meena continue meeting and fall in love with each other. When Meena's sister is about to get married, she travels to Poona and that's when Pritam finds out that her train had an accident and she has been listed as one of the dead. Heart-broken and devastated he is severely depressed, until his co-workers decide that he should go for a picnic and this does cheer him considerably. In this cheerful state he returns home and decides to carry on with life without Meena. It is then Meena returns back, quite very much alive, and finds that Pritam is not in a state of mourning but is enjoying life to the fullest. She decides to teach him a lesson that he will never forget. Watch what happens when the lesson commences and what impact this has on our care-free friend - who is currently wooing a dancer by the name of Edna Wong.
- DirectorSatyen BoseStarsKishore KumarWaheeda RehmanNasir Hussain
- DirectorI.S. JoharStarsKishore KumarMala SinhaI.S. JoharIn his quest for a heir, Rai Bahadur has an affair with a prostitute Meher. When Meher becomes pregnant he promises to take the child and educate him. But fate has other plans, for his wife Meena also becomes pregnant at the same time, and shortly thereafter both women give birth to two boys. Meher threatens to expose him if he does not take her son, and leave Meena's son in an orphanage. However, both children end up in his palatial home. He belittles Meher's son and finally accuses him of stealing. Fed up of these accusations, Meena leaves the house with Kishore, and ironically ends up with Meher. In the meantime, Rai's son has grown up to be an arrogant, and a champion boxer. And it is in the boxing ring that both half-brothers will meet again -- for a match of their lives -- as the trophy is none other than the beautiful Mala -- who both love and hope to marry.
- DirectorMehrishStarsKishore KumarMala SinhaShakilaKishore's dad is a miser, busy accumulating money by hook or by crook. He lives in a palatial house with his wife and Kishore. He would like Kishore to marry the only daughter of a very wealthy man, so that he gets a hefty dowry, as well as the vast property and assets when the woman's parents pass away. Kishore is exactly the opposite of his dad. He loves to squander his dad's hard-earned money, and has no use for it at all. He dislikes the rich woman his father wants him to marry, and runs away from home. He meets Mala and both fall in love with each other. Kishore wants Mala to marry him, but Mala will only marry when their respective families approve of them, so Kishore has to come up with a scheme to pull wool over his money-minded father - which he does - with hilarious results.
- DirectorJayant DesaiStarsKishore KumarVyjayanthimalaAghaA psychiatrist Dr. Miss Mala protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. Musical copy of Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.
- DirectorM.V. RamanStarsKaran DewanVyjayanthimalaPran SikandAn angry Shekhar learns that Lata does not want to marry him as she is in love with Vasant. He begins to investigate Vasant's past, but is shocked when he learns about his life.
- DirectorM.V. RamanStarsVyjayanthimalaAnjali DeviBharat BhushanRaja lives a wealthy lifestyle with his somewhat upper Caste Hindu, eccentric, woman-hating dad, Hazurdas, and mom. He is friendly with Kishore, and both are aspiring doctors. On their way to college, they meet with two young women, Rani Mehra and Kamini. Both young men fall in love with them, with Raja taking the first initiative and getting married to Kamini, even though she of a lower untouchable Caste, but decides not to tell his parents. When he does inform them, they want him to divorce Kamini and get married to a girl of their choice, Raja refuses and returns back to Kamini, only to find her in the arms of her childhood friend, Sunder. Angered and hurt at this betrayal, he decides to marry the girl his parents have chosen for him - and he is due for another surprise - as the girl he is about to wed is none other than Kamini's friend, Rani. Watch what happens when a liberated, tom-boyish Rani finds out that Raja is already married, and the impact this has on everyone concerned.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsShekharSuchitra SenBipin GuptaThe story is about a house consisting of three families who live in it. It is three stories linked by the house.
- DirectorAmar KumarStarsKishore KumarVyjayanthimalaJeevan DharCirca 1953 Sewakram lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Bombay, India, along with his wife, Subhagi, daughter, Nirmala, and son, Lattoo, and works in the Flora Fountain branch of the United Commercial Bank. He is very organized, thrifty and plans to get his children educated, married, and also build a house. Nirmala befriends Kishore Kumar Shastri, who lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his widower dad, a Deputy, and runs two businesses for supply of sand and cement. Kishore manages to impress everyone in Nirmala's family, including her paternal uncle, Sadhuram. Sewakram goes to meet with Mr. Shastri to finalize their marriage and after doing so he returns to the construction site and is gravely injured when an entire floor collapses. Nirmala finds out that the accident was Kishore's fault and refuses to have to do anything with him. Kishore attempts to woe her back, but before he could succeed he is arrested by the Police and held in a cell, while Nirmala's family arranges her marriage with wealthy Mohabbat Rai, her new employer and the owner of Mohabbat Rai Drapers.
- DirectorS.D. NarangStarsKishore KumarMala SinhaAmarRandhir has been an orphan, and lived all his younger life in an orphanage. When he grew up, he took to stealing as a career, and has been on the run from the police since then. One day he comes across a dead body, which resembles his face, and he assumes that person's identity, leaving the police to conclude that Randhir is dead. Randhir, now with a new identity finds out that his name is Kishore, who is wealthy beyond his imagination. He begans to live the easy life, and even has a pretty girlfriend, who he indeeds to marry. But then murphy's law steps in, and Randhir soon realises that he has landed himself in a soup, when the police come looking for Kishore, to charge him with murder.
- DirectorMohan SegalStarsKishore KumarSayeeda KhanNasir Hussain
- DirectorM.V. RamanStarsAshok KumarKishore KumarNimmiWidowed Dayashankar is a businessman who lives in Madras with his two school-going sons, Raj and Ashok. One day he catches Raj stealing some money from his vault, he beats him, locks him in a room, and threatens to cut off his fingers. A terrified Raj breaks the window and runs away, never to be heard of again. Ashok goes on to take over his dad's business, Superior Motors, which also has a branch in Bombay; gets married to Laxmi, and soon has son named Munna. One day Ashok must travel to Bombay to meet with Bulbul, the Branch Manager, to discuss business. Laxmi and Munna see him off. Then several days later, Ashok returns home and he is not the same loving husband and father anymore. He decides to sell the business, has nothing to do with Munna and Laxmi, and asks them to take some money, while he returns to Bombay. Laxmi and Munna follow him to Bombay, but are unable to locate him. They are befriended by a petty thief and pickpocket by the name of Raja, who lives with a young street dancer named Rani and her dad, Baba. When Baba finds out that Laxmi may be related to Raja and that Munna may be their child, he asks them to leave the house. Raja then takes them to Ashok, and to Laxmi's shock she finds her once-loving husband living with another woman, much younger and prettier, by the name of Sangita. Watch what happens when Sangita asks Laxmi to be the maidservant, and Ashok refuses to recognize his wife and child.
- DirectorM.V. RamanStarsVyjayanthimalaKishore KumarPran SikandA woman rejects her father-approved groom, runs away, and falls in love with a petty thief/gambler.
- DirectorHarnam Singh RawailStarsKishore KumarMeena KumariRaaj KumarChandan and Shabnam are in love and engaged to be married, but Shabnam's father decides to marry her to Suraj. Chandan commits suicide. After her marriage, Shabnam is shocked to find out that Suraj's younger brother Deepak is the spitting the image of Chandan.
- DirectorMohan SegalStarsDharmendraSharmila TagoreShashikala JawalkarA wealthy male starts to self-destruct after he finds that his childhood sweetheart is now his sister-in-law.
- DirectorJ. Om PrakashStarsKishore KumarAnita GuhaBhagwan PalavColonel father of Renu (Anita Guha) and Judge father of Vinod (Kishore Kumar) are childhood friends; whose fathers used to be friends. Renu loves Indian music and Vinod is highly influenced with the western music. When Colonel and Judge want to extend their friendship to a relationship; Vinod and Renu realize that they do not love each other and plan to make their parents enemies. But when their plan succeeds they realize that they actually love each other and they now have uphill task to revert the damage they have caused. Enters the Contractor (Om Prakash), who wants his son to marry Renu to his fumbling Son (played by Anoop Kumar) for the wealth of the Colonel. Colonel agrees and it adds to the woes of Vinod and Renu. The rest story is would they succeed in uniting their fathers!
- DirectorM.V. RamanStarsKishore KumarNutanMala Sinha
- DirectorC.P. DixitStarsKishore KumarNutanKumkum
- DirectorMohan SegalStarsUsha KiranKishore KumarYashodra KatjuA widower with a child faces challenges after he re-marries without telling his second wife about his first marriage and child.
- DirectorHemchandra ChunderStarsKishore KumarYashodra KatjuBina RaiShyam flees to Darljeeling when his family begins battling each other over who the young man should marry. During the train trip he falls in love with Malti, not realizing she is one of the girls his family has chosen.
- DirectorP. MadhavanStarsHema MaliniParikshit SahniJagdeepBeautiful Radha lives in a small hill-station in India. One day, Mahesh comes for sight-seeing, both meet, fall in love with each other, get intimate, and Mahesh promises to return, marry her and take her with him to live in Bombay. He does not return, Radha continues to search for him in every train that stops at Shampur, in vain. She eventually gives birth to a baby girl, Laxmi, and both are looked after by Shampur's kind-hearted Station Master. Radha does come across Mahesh, but he refuses to recognize her, and she kills herself. The Station Master takes Laxmi to her next of kin, in all two families, but all reject Laxmi, consider her inauspicious, and will have nothing to do with her. He leaves Laxmi with her maternal grand-parent, Bhagwanti and her husband, but Laxmi is abused and she runs away to Bombay, where she is befriended and looked after by a blind beggar, Anwar. One day Laxmi and Anwar find that they have won a lottery worth 2.5 lakh rupees, are delighted, and look forward to the positive change in their lives. Laxmi is happy as she feels that she will be able to find her parents with her new-found wealth. Then all of Laxmi's relatives descend on them, their neighbors show their greed by severely beating up Anwar, and Laxmi runs away, followed closely by people with only one motive - steal the lottery ticket from her. Laxmi seeks the help of the police, and Inspector James is asked to look after her. Then a man claiming to be her father comes to take possession of her, but Laxmi remembers him as the man who had refused to recognize Radha and refuses to go with him. Subsequently, Mahesh returns with Radha, much to Laxmi's delight - which only turns to sorrow and heartbreak when she finds out that it is not Radha but a prostitute by the name of Girja - who is assisting Mahesh to get the lottery ticket. Looks like Laxmi is headed for heartbreak upon heartbreak, and may not find the happiness that she is looking for.
- DirectorA. BhimsinghStarsMehmoodBharathiKishore KumarSher Khan robs a bank and the blame is put on Sadhuram. Sher Khan alias Dilawar Khan gets killed and his body is found in Bajrang's taxi. Both Sadhuram and Bajrang are on the run from the police.
- DirectorKishore KumarStarsKishore KumarSupriya ChoudhuryAmit KumarAn impoverished ex-army officer faces obstacles and challenges when he seeks a cure for his mute son.