Best Hindi Films of 1972
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- DirectorRamesh SippyStarsDharmendraSanjeev KumarHema MaliniLong-suffering heiress Seeta is treated worse than a servant by her abusive money-grubbing aunt. Meanwhile, her long-lost twin sister Geeta grows up to be a gutsy street performer. One day, the girls unintentionally swap places.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRajesh KhannaJaya BachchanUsha KiranA dysfunctional middle-class family is transformed due to the influence of their new multi-talented household servant - but he might be too good to be true.
- DirectorMehmoodS. RamanathanStarsMehmoodAruna IraniAmitabh BachchanCollege student Mala has dreams of becoming a Bollywood movie actress; her dreams began materializing into reality when she is approached by Mr. Sharma and his assistant Mr. Verma who promises to take her to the way of stardom. Unfortunately when her parents learn about this they oppose to this and decide to arrange her marriage so that she will be restricted to go above her limits forcing her to approach Sharma for advice who asks her to run-away with huge sums of cash. Greed over comes the duo resulting in Sharma killing Verma; Mala who witness this is on the run for her life; she then board a bus that run between Bombay to Goa without realizing where this journey will end. But her life remains threaten as Sharma has not given up his searches for her.
- DirectorA. BhimsinghStarsNanda KarnatakiRajesh KhannaSharad KumarKalpana, the daughter of Shyamlal is brought up in the lap of wealth and luxury. As an University student she falls in love with a struggling artist, Rajesh. When news arrives back home of this improbable romance her dad arranges a marriage with a wealthy man. Unwilling, Kalpana runs away from home and moves in with Rajesh. Incensed, Shyamlal disowns and disinherits Kalpana. Living with Rajesh, in straitened circumstances Kalpana maintains a correspondence with her mother. Shyamlal maintains his position doggedly that Rajesh is only after his wealth and does not truly love his foolish daughter. Piqued, Kalpana constructs a fantasy tale of Rajesh's financial success and the wonderful and opulent lifestyle she enjoys. All is well till she announces the birth of her son. Now, eager, willing and transformed by love for his newborn grandson he announces that he will visit his daughter. Thrown into a quandary, Kalpana casts about for a solution founded on deceit. The arrival of Shyamlal and his wife sets off a pyramid of lies, where to avoid the consequences of one lie, Kalpana is enmeshed in a web of lies.
- DirectorGulzarStarsSanjeev KumarJaya BachchanGovardhan AsraniA speech and hearing-impaired couple persists through unforgiving obstacles to be accepted by society and live a life of dignity.
- DirectorGulzarStarsJeetendraJaya BachchanPran SikandIn desperate need of a job, unemployed Ravi (Jeetendra) goes to his maternal uncle (A.K. Hangal) and aunt (Leela Mishra) in their village for a few days. His uncle decides that he can be a suitable teacher for five obstinate and spoiled grand-children of the wealthy Rai Saheb (Pran). Ravi accepts this offer, and goes to work as a tutor with them. He soon realizes that it is not upto him to keep his employment there, but rather to the children themselves, who have never tolerated any tutor beyond a few days.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsAnil DhawanJaya BachchanGovardhan AsraniMalti Shankar lives in a fairly large house in a small town in India with her mom and dad, while her paternal uncle, Gauri Shankar, who has literally brought Malti up, lives in the house next door. Malti's marriage is being arranged with a young man named Ram G. Sharma, who lives in Bombay with his dad, Girdharilal; mom; elder brother, Shiri and his wife, Shobha; and a cricket-crazy school-going brother, Hari. The Pandit, arranging the marriage, describes the Sharma family, who originate from the nearby Bayana town, as a good family, living near the seashore, in a big building called "Bharat Mahal". The wedding party arrives, the bride and groom approve of each other, get married, and Malti re-locates to Ram's house. She is shocked and surprised to find that it is nowhere near the seashore, is a shanty room, divided two ways, and a kitchen - that is now her bedroom. Malti always had lots of space to live and grow up in, will this obscure, noisy, overcrowded, with virtually no privacy for herself and Ram - be her fate for this lifetime? What will Gauri Shankar's reaction be when he finds out the reality of the Sharma family?
- DirectorSohanlal KanwarStarsManoj KumarRakhee GulzarNazimaMohan has abandoned his love, on the eve of his engagement. On the run, he turns into a safe-breaker and thief. Beimaan means untrustworthy. Mohan lives up to the moniker through his actions. In saving Meena from a bunch of thugs, her father, Thakur Ram Singh in gratitude, adopts the fugitive and calls him Lala, with affection. During a chance encounter with Seema, Mohan pretends to be someone else.Why did Mohan turn into a thief and safe breaker? The reasons involve two police officers, who are forced to make hard choices between their lives, their child's life and the call of duty.
- DirectorBasu BhattacharyaStarsSanjeev KumarTanuja SamarthDinesh ThakurMeeta Sen (Tanuja) and Amar Sen (Sanjeev Kumar) have been married for several years. Due to Amar's hectic work schedule, the couple have not had children, as there was no time for intimacy. Meeta decides to take matters into her own hands, gets rid of the servants, save for Hari (A.K. Hangal), and decides to run the household on her own. This gets the couple to be closer, and eventually they do get intimate. And then Meeta's old flame Shashi Bhushan (Dinesh Thakur) not only re-enters Meeta's life, but also gets employed in the same organization as Amar, throwing their marriage again in jeopardy.
- DirectorKamal AmrohiStarsAshok KumarMeena KumariRaaj KumarIn Lucknow at the turn of the century, a dancer and courtesan believes that her pure soul and body will enable her to find true love and honor.
- DirectorManoj KumarStarsManoj KumarJaya BachchanPremnath MalhotraShankar (Manoj Kumar), his lovely wife Geeta (Nanda) and Deepak (Master Satyajeet) are a poor but happy family. Tragedy strikes one day, when Deepak wonders over to the railway tracks. When Geeta rushes in to warn and rescue him, she is run over by the train and is instantly killed. Deepak loses his vocal chords and cannot speak. Shankar takes Deepak to see a doctor (Raj Mehra), who examines Deepak, and tells Shankar that Deepak can recover his voice after a surgerical operation, which may cost around 1000 to 1500 rupees. Shankar is unable to afford this but is determined to find the money to cure his son. Shankar's mom (Kamini Kaushal), sister (Naaz), Khan Badshan (Prem Nath), Rani alias Raat ki Rani (Jaya Bhaduri) offer support. And Shankar takes part in a grueling tournament that puts his very life at risk.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsRajesh KhannaSharmila TagoreSujit KumarA village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.
- DirectorKumar ShahaniStarsAditiIqbalnath KaulAnil PandyaTaran, the daughter of a wealthy landlord, finds herself on the horns of a dilemma when she has to choose between being with her lover and protecting her father's public image.