Dina Pathak

In Bollywood/Hollywood, a fun loving romp of a movie, the unpredictable is the only constant. After all, life isn't about what's right or wrong. It's about following your heart. (Mongrel Media)

The son of Zamindar Narayan Mukherjee, Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in the lush village of Taj Sonapur, where he spent his childhood, indulged by his lovely playmate Paro (Aishwarya). They grew up sharing a special relationship, in which they existed only to each other. Oblivious of all the differences of status and background, a bond that would never break grew between them... (imdb)

Nirmala Gupta runs her household and family in a very strick and authoritarian manner. While most of her family resent this, they do obey her and carry out her instructions, so as to be on her good side. Things start to change after her second son gets married to Anju... (imdb)

Mohit, a young man raised into beliving in fairy tales, comes to Bombay to find Manisha, a young woman whom he saved from drowning in a lake near his village, whom he belives to be an actual mermaid princess... (imdb)

Shekhar, a businessman, accidentally kills his associate Amar, and ridden with guilt, decides to watch over Amar's company and take care of his family and friends. However, he falls in love with Amar's fiancé Piya - who is to marry tycoon Abhi Gyan to save the company... (imdb)

Lalita (Madhuri Dixit) is married under duress from her maternal uncle, Madhi (Tej Sapru) to a cruel and possessive man, JB (Raj Babbar). He loves Lalita, but keeps her like a bird in a cage, hovering over and dominating her. Lalita runs away and enters the lives of Raj (Rishi Kapoor), his grandfather (Kader Khan), and Kaki (Dina Pathak)... (imdb)

Renowned Indian astrologer Jyotibhaskar Pandit Satyanarayan Chaturvedi, wishes a doctor, who is about to perform surgery on a woman, good luck, but also tells him that his patient is going to die. The doctor scoffs at this, and proceeds to the operation theatre. The patient dies, and the doctor is humbled before the astrologer... (imdb)

Ramprasad (Amol Palekar) is a recent college graduate who finds a job with Bhavani Shankar (Utpal Dutt), who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job. When Bhavani's daughter falls in love with the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, and insists on marrying him, and Bhavani insists she should marry Ramprasad, things take a whacky turn. (imdb)

Coming from a poor and destitute family, Urvashi is encouraged by her mother, Shanta to be on more than friendly terms with a much older male, Keshav Dalvi. (imdb)

Two petty thieves Hari (Amol Palekar) & Ramu (Asrani), find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping when they break into the home of rich businessman Lekhraj Malhotra (Navin Nischol) on the same night that a gang of thugs planned to abduct Lekhraj's young son Vinnie. Hari & Ramu makes off with Vinnie & seek refuge with Rani (Moushumi Chatterjee), Ramu's sister. Soon news of Vinnie being there leaks & various characters surface, trying to grab Vinnie, to claim the prize money offered by his parents.

In Faizabad, British India, Daroga Dilawar is sentenced to several years in prison after Amiran's dad testifies against him (imdb)

Amitabh Bachchan's first film. A Muslim poet Anwar Ali (Amitabh Bachchan), along with five other men who are all of different religions and are from different parts of the country, join Maria (Shenaaz), a native of Portuguese-occupied Goa, to raise nationalist sentiment in that state by hoisting Indian flags on Portuguese forts and buildings. In the process, they find unity and abandon their religious and regional differences. (apunkachoice.com)

Pardes, is about Kishorilal who lives in America but has not forgotten his motherland India. His attachment with the country is deep and he hopes to find a daughter-in-law for his westernized, American son, Rajiv. (imdb)

For 20 years, intrepid police detective Vijay (Akshay Kumar) has believed the malicious Amar Singh (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) murdered Vijay's twin brother, Lallu. Vijay eventually dredges up enough evidence to put the crafty Amar in the slammer, but he walks on a technicality. Events take a surprising turn, however, when Lallu (also played by Kumar) suddenly shows up in director Umesh Mehra's action-packed film. (Netflix)

Sibling rivalry erupts when outspoken Roma and her timid younger sister, Reema, develop feelings for the same man, Ravi, who in turn falls for Roma -- until she leaves him at the altar. But when Ravi romances Reema, Roma returns to cause more grief. (Netflix)

Brij Mohan leaves his village home and settles down in Bombay, India. His mother refuses to go with him and remains alone in their palatial home. Brij gets married, his wife gives birth and shortly thereafter tragically passes away. Years later, Brij is now an established businessman, his son, Montu, is studying in the final year in school. He asks Montu to visit his grandma, and he reluctantly agrees to do so on the condition that his friends also accompany him. (imdb)

On discovery of his spouse's infertility, a man starts a search for a new wife. (imdb)

After a chance, pre-arranged meeting, Nisha and Sunil meet, fall in love, marry and move in with Sunil's wealthy family. Sunil's older brother Anand, is a shady business executive whose 'partners' want to control his business tactics. (imdb)

In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose husband is away in the city, to sleep with him. She slaps him and flees for safety to a spice factory where women grind chillies into fine powder. (imdb)

A pregnant woman is abandoned by her truck-driver lover. (imdb)

Aarti (Smita Patil) is an educated girl living with her young brother Sanjay Verma (Alankar Joshi) and her mother. She joins as the personal secretary to Jolly (Shakti Kapoor). Meanwhile Vijay (Raj Babbar) develops a desire that he should marry Aarthi, although he does not propose to her directly. One day Vijay finds that Aarti's brother is a drug addict and promptly informs Aarti. She convinces her brother to join the army so that he becomes a disciplined person in his life. (imdb)

A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity. (imdb)

Ishwar Acharya lives a wealthy lifestyle with his widowed mom, a sister, brother Kishan and his wife, Janki; and another brother, Prakash who is also married. Janki would like Ishwar to get married to her cousin, but Ishwar loves his childhood sweetheart, Shanti, and wants to marry her. When he is unable to convince his mom and Janki to chance their minds, he marries Shanti at the Registrar's office and brings her home, where they are not welcome and they leave. (imdb)

Vijay (Shatrughan Sinha) and Anand (Rajesh Khanna) are two friends who are brought up by their mom (Dina Pathak). Anand is an orphan who was adopted by the family as a child and he has never been given the impression that he was an outsider. Both work for the same organization & love the same woman, Asha (Jaya Pradha). But Asha has already given her heart to Anand. One night while giving his secretary, Sheela (Smita Patil), a widow, ride home, Vijay has sexual intercourse with her. (imdb)

The story begins with a group of Harijans migrating to a city and pausing for a night. An elderly (Om Puri) starts narrating the story of King Chakrasen. (imdb)

A dramatized account of the Naxalite movement, focusing on the average Indians who join the movement from various walks of life and from various regions, backgrounds, faiths, etc. (imdb)

A penniless musician is unwittingly forced to trade places with a look-alike diamond merchant/thief causing a comedy of errors by everyone involved. (imdb)

This is a BBC documentary made on Rajesh Khanna, who had become a phenomenon of Indian cinema and his immense popularity had earned him the title of Superstar. (imdb)

Amar and Mansi are in love, and decide to get married. They do so, and still continue to be in love. They get to their first wedding anniversary, and decide to hire a taxi-cab for a day, just to drive around and have fun. Thereafter, to their joy they are blessed with a child. But then their bliss is cut short, when Amar starts work with his advertising agency, which grooms beautiful young women, to further their careers as models, and both cannot stand each other anymore. (imdb)

Rajesh Khanna plays Mumtaz's jealous husband who begins to doubt her fidelity when his best friend Sanjeev Kumar enters their lives. She is unable to convince Rajesh Khanna that she loves only him. He leaves her, not knowing that she is pregnant with his child. Depressed and confused, Rajesh Khanna becomes a homeless wanderer, while Mumtaz remarries to provide a secure home for her child. Many years later, the truth dawns on him as he turns up, a broken man, at his own daughter's wedding. (imdb)

Mr. Choudhary does not approve of his son, Arun, indulging in singing songs and music. He wants him to be a businessman like himself. Out of fear of his father finding out about his continued indulgence, Arun changes his name to Sanjay Kumar. He soon becomes a popular singer, and is even hired by the local radio station to sing songs. (imdb)

A young man fights spies to defend his country. (imdb)

Debut film by the director, produced by the famous G.P.Sippy, is a Rajesh Khanna classic renovating the Kannada language rural melodrama Bangaarada Manushya (1972) in Hindi.

Shankar, a country fellow, lives with his widowed step mother and two step brothers Balwant and Birju. Shankar loves his step mother and brothers as his own. After Shankar's marriage, his wife Savitri takes care of Balwant and Birju as her own sons. Shankar sends Balwant to the city for higher studies by selling all his property. However, when Shankar returns, he brings his wife along with him, much to the shock of Shankar and Savitri. (Youtube)

Arvind Kumar Choudhary is widowed, respectable and wealthy businessman, who lives with his only son, Arun, in a palatial house. He re-marries another woman, Sujata, who is a widow, with two daughters, Veena and Seema. Arun does not respect her and refuses to even speak with her. Arun meets Neema Deshmukh and both of fall in love. With approval of their respective families they get married. (imdb)

Deepak, a young music player, learns that his late father has a second wife and daughter that no one knew existed. Soon, the same fate befalls Deepak when he falls for and marries Jyoti, a young artist and dancer who loves his music. But after Deepak mistakenly thinks Jyoti dies in an accident, he begins courting and marries Asha, a wealthy society girl. (imdb)

Vijeta (The Victor) is the coming of age story of Angad (Kunal Kapoor). Confused like any other teenager trying to find himself and caught in between the marital problems of his mother Neelima (Rekha) and father Nihal (Shashi Kapoor). It is time for him to decide what he wants to do with his life. To select a profession and be someone, Angad chooses to become a fighter pilot with the Indian Air Force. What follows is his struggle to become a victor both with his self and the outer world. (imdb)

Bhima, a strong and brave youth, according to an oath given to his mother renounces violence. This makes him suffer humiliation and indignity at the hands of Sambha - a gang leader. Finding that Sambha killed his child at the hands of his henchmen, Bhima takes up to arms to bring down Sambha. (imdb)

Circa Mughal rule in India, the Rajputs get together to discuss the ouster of Badshah Akbar, who is now the Emperor of Hindustan (India). Prominent amongst the Rajputs are Virendev Rathod, and Rana Vikramjit Singh Sesodia. In order to cement their relationship, Vikramjit would like his brother Rana Bhojraj to get married to Krishna Rathod, to which Virendev agrees. But unknown to Virendev, his son, Jaimal, has already arranged Krishna's wedding with another Rajput family from Ajmer. (imdb)

A collegian becomes embittered after being forced to marry.

This TV miniseries ("Darkness" in English) became famous in India in the mid/late 80s for its realistic depiction of the partition of the Indian subcontinent. In 1947, the sub continent became India, East (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistan (today's Pakistan). The series pretended to keep memories and truths about the partition alive, at a time when many Indians and Pakistanis seemed to be forgetting this historical tragedy. (imdb)

Circa 18th century India, the beauty of Shamajaan is widely known all over the region. This gets the interest of notorious Shahbaaz Khan, who decides to make her one more wife in his harem. He goes to her residence to woo her, but she indicates her unwillingness. Shahbaaz abducts her, killing her dad in the process, and takes him to his palace. (imdb)

When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with Yadav's own daughter, Gauri (Farha). (imdb)

Veeru Singh and Rajeshwar Singh are sworn enemies, their clans and villagers have taken sides in a blood feud. Guns, and goons galore in both their fiefdoms. Military grade training for their cadres. How did all this come to pass when they were inseparable as friends while they were children. Their blood feud extends to their children. When one of their sons, Kunal gets a girl from the opposite camp pregnant, and she is raped and killed by someone from the other side, tensions escalate... (imdb)

Believing his wife to be dead, a man lets a woman, who has lost her child, nurse and bring up his infant son - until he finds out that his wife is still alive, and wants the baby back at any cost. (imdb)

Storyline Mehna is a beautiful village girl aspiring to be a teacher when a Vet come sin village she falls in love with him and sacrifices her dream of being a teacher to spend more time with the Vet.her mentally retreated cousin is secretly in love with her who takes care of her after the Vet leaves the village to marry another women.But soon her cousin will be jailed for killing a rowdy villager who tried to rape Mehna. (imdb)

Satyapti lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Lajpat Nagar, Delhi, along with his wife, Kaushalya, three sons: Ram, Bharat, Balram, and a daughter, Tulsi. He used to be a soldier in Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Fauj, and after India attained independence served in the army, and is now retired, receiving a meager pension. (imdb)

This is the story of a young woman named Sita, who is engaged to a college professor. Rakesh, a spoilt rich brat comes across Sita one day and falls in love with her but Sita does not love him. In jealousy Rakesh gets Sita's fiancé murdered. In agony, Sita leaves the city and gets married to a rich old aged man and surrenders with the situations she has come across her life only to find out later that Rakesh is her husband's previous son from his previous marriage. (imdb)

An adultery drama in which a young woman, ignored by her husband, decides to spend time with the young man who had previously wooed her. (imdb)

On a chilly foggy night two men alight from a train at an isolated railway station, and stay for a night at the Dak Bangla. One of these men is Ajay Sachdev, and the other is Prem Kumar Chopra. Shortly after their arrival, a series of brutal murders shake up the region. The mysteries behind these murders are compounded by the appearance of a white Saree-clad female apparition, which appears and disappears at will. And ghostly cries are heard from a nearby graveyard. (imdb)

Chitchor is one of the cult classic movie of Indian Cinema. Vinod, mistaken for someone else by Geeta's family, falls in love with Geeta. When the misunderstanding about Vinod's identity is cleared, it seems that he may have to lose Geeta through no fault of his. (amazon.com)

Lekha marries Shekhar, who doesn't belong to her caste, and lives happily with him in Mumbai. When they visit his village, she learns that his sister is in love but is forced to marry someone else. (sonyliv.com)

A speech and hearing-impaired couple persists through unforgiving obstacles to be accepted by society and live a life of dignity. (netflix.com)

When a young Dr. Amarnath and Chanda fall in love in the idyllic surroundings of a blooming Darjeeling, love, and marriage are promised, but Amarnath is unable to keep his promise. A heartbroken Chanda ends up being married off to a cripple and delivers a baby girl. Chanda slowly starts losing her grip on reality, pining for Amarnath. (tv.apple.com)

Aarti, a dancer, is grieving over the death of her lover, Chandan. She is befriended by Inder who eventually falls in love with her. But a revelation about their connected past leaves them in shock. (imdb)

A young boy lives with his sister away from his mother to study in school. However, he is neither fond of the school nor his new home and decides to run away to be with his mother. (imdb)

Reema lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed businessman dad, Dinkar, and her grandma. Her dad wants her to marry Vicky, but she dislikes him. On the day of the marriage, while fully dressed as a Hindu bride, Reema plans to run away. It is at this time that she sees a stranger in her house, thinking it is her dad's employee, she tries to run from him, but he catches up with her. He tells her that his name is Suraj alias Surya, an ex-convict, who has just been released from prison...

The story depicts the vulnerability of a man who is victimized by his wife who plots to prove his husband mentally insane. She is in disagreement with his husband on how her daughter should be raised and what she should become. She thinks that if she declares his husband insane she would be able to decide for her daughters future. She knowingly creates confusion and tells his husband that he cannot be sure that he is the father of their daughter... (imdb)

Rani, a loving wife, lives a peaceful life with her husband Trilok, a horse carriage driver. However, Rani's life takes a new turn when Trilok is killed. (imdb)

Singer Chandermohan is born in a well-off family and is the only child. Since he is of marriageable age, both he and his parents want him to get married. But since he was born with a strong & adverse influence of Mars (Mangalik) during his birth his horoscope has not been compatible with any suitable woman. On his friend's Gafoor's, who has two wives, advice he re-locates to Bombay, sings at the Tejpal Auditorium, meets and falls in love with wealthy Asha, who lives with her widower... (imdb)

Sagar Singh is a businessman who lives in scenic Simla with his widowed mom; brother, Bipin, his wife, Urmila; sister, Prema; and brother, Kishan. When he returns from USA, he meets with Prema's music teacher, Savitri C. Thakur, and falls head over heels in love with her. The Singhs approve of Savitri and soon the couple are married. What Sagar does not know is that Savitiri loves another man by the name of Manohar Dhani, who is the local tourist guide, but cannot marry him... (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Sharad belongs to a middle-class family and lives with his brother and sister-in-law. Sharad gets a job in Malavli in which he is not interested. He however does go for the job where he meets Mr. Rodrigues and Mr. Choudhury who are initially rude to him, but afterwards mellow down. Both these men are on the look-out for grooms for their daughters. On the first day Sharad's boss takes him to his house for lunch where he is introduced to Heena, the Boss' daughter who falls in love with... (imdb)

A terminally ill and depressed young man falls in love with a mischievous young woman who, it turns out, is also suffering from a fatal disease. (imdb)

Two friends who, in the greed of money, get involved with the underworld and live a life full of luxuries. The story takes a turn when one of them realizes its adverse consequences and wants to pursue a normal life. (imdb)