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Chhaya or Chaya (Sanskrit: छाया, Chāyā) means shadow or shade. Chhaya is also personified as the goddess of shadow, the consort of Surya, the Hindu sun god. She is the shadow-image or reflection of Saranyu (Sanjna), the first wife of Surya. Chhaya was born from the shadow of Sanjna and replaced Sanjna in her house, after the latter abandoned her husband.
Chhaya is usually described as the mother of Shani, the god of the planet Saturn and a feared graha; goddess Tapti, the personification of river Tapti and a son Savarni Manu, who is destined to be the next and eighth Manu (progenitor of mankind) - the ruler of the next Manvantara period.
In the Rigveda (c. 1200-1000 BCE), which is the earliest narrative about the Chhaya-prototype. After the birth of twins to Vivasvan (Surya), his consort Saranyu - the daughter of Vishwakarma - abandons him and flews in form of a mare. The woman the divine Saranyu places in her place is called Savarna ("same-kind"): similar to Saranyu, but mortal. Savarna has no children by Surya. A later (500 BCE) addition to the Rigveda by Yaska in his Nikuta says that Manu (the progenitor of mankind, called Savarni Manu in later Puranic text) was born to Savarna. While the original text says "they" (interpreted as the gods) substituted Savarna for Saranyu, Yaksa's Nikuta tells that Saranyu created Savarna and substituted her. Brhad devata calls the prototype of Chhaya as Sadrisha ("look-alike"), a woman who looked like Saranyu. Sadrsha begot Manu by Surya, who became a royal sage.
Actors: Taha Rafi Ahmed (writer), Taha Rafi Ahmed (editor), Taha Rafi Ahmed (director), Arjun Mpn (producer), Sudeep Dev (producer), Harikrishnan Unnikrishnan (composer), Ayyub Abdurrahman (actor), Pooja Vishwanath (actress), Akshata Palekar (actress), Ritika Gogia (actress),
Genres: Romance, Short,Actors: Shaan Vyas (producer), Rasika Dugal (actress), Karan Gour (editor), Karan Gour (director), Karan Gour (composer), Karan Gour (writer), Karan Gour (producer), Alekh Sangal (actor), Adityavikram Gupta (producer), Siddharth Bhatia (producer), Siddharth Bhatia (actor), Siddharth Bhatia (composer), Quasar Hamirani (producer), Nitika Anand (actress), Shazeb Shaikh (actor),
Plot: When Chhaya's eyes catch sight of an unfinished sculpture, her mind catches an infection. Gradually sucking at the fabric of her life, it turns her harmless need for the sculpture into an uncontrollable craving. Like any infection, it affects whatever it touches - her home, her dreams, her childless condition and Arvind, the only family she's got. Chhaya has to have that sculpture, no matter what the price.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jeetendra (actor), Ekta Kapoor (producer), Mohnish Bahl (actor), Aruna Irani (actress), Mita Vasisht (actress), Roopali Ganguly (actress), Rocky Verma (actor), Neelam Mehra (actress), Tusshar Kapoor (actor), Shobha Kapoor (producer), Ali Asghar (actor), Sampurn Anand (writer), Rajeshwari Sachdev (actress), Tisca Chopra (actress), Anup Soni (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Shri Vallabh Vyas (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Raghuvir Yadav (actor), Raj Babbar (actor), Rajesh Vivek (actor), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Om Puri (actor), Paresh Rawal (actor), Farooq Shaikh (actor), Paul Saadoun (producer), Ketan Mehta (writer), Ketan Mehta (producer), Ketan Mehta (director), Renu Saluja (editor), Gustave Flaubert (writer),
Plot: Young, beautiful, and intelligent Maya lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers a stroke, she calls for the local Dr. Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her dad. He comes often, more on the pretext of seeing her, than her dad, and eventually both get married. Years pass by, and Charu is busy engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to ponder her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life, and an affair follows. This affair does not last long, as a much younger man, Lalit, now enters Maya's life, and thence begins another passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satiated. She longs for more than bodily needs, and it is perhaps this that leads to her sudden death, leaving two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.
Keywords: adultery, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bored-housewife, character-name-in-title, doctor, extramarital-affair, female-nudity, foreign-language-adaptation, husband-wife-relationshipActors: Agha (actor), C.S. Dubey (actor), Gopi Krishna (actor), Gopi Krishna (actor), Raaj Kumar (actor), Raja (actor), Shivraj (actor), Jeevan Kala (actress), Jeevan Kala (actress), Durga Khote (actress), Shubha Khote (actress), Meena Kumari (actress), Kumari Naaz (actress), Praveen Paul (actress), Vasant Desai (composer),
Plot: At the very moment of her birth, ill-fated Chhaya's mother passes away, her dad loses his job, and their house burns down. She is shunned since then by children her age as well as their parents. Her dad brings her up with a lot of love, and even arranges her marriage with a young man, whose mother, uncle and nephew approve of Chhaya. But when the uncle finds out about Chhaya's past, they reject her. This news kills her dad, and Chhaya re-locates to live with her friend, Leela Lal, who lives a middle-class lifestyle with her husband, Murari, and her mother-in-law, who is very superstitious and never lets Leela out of her sight. Murari and Leela introduce her to Prakash, an airline pilot, and both eventually fall in love with each other. When Prakash takes her with him to meet his mom, Chhaya finds out that she is the same woman who rejected her and abruptly leaves without meeting anyone. Prakash manages to convince her to marry him despite of her background, and she does. Both go to live with Prakash's family, but Chhaya is treated as an outcast and every possible mishap is blamed on her presence. Will Chhaya's presence continue to cause problems in this household also - especially when Prakash's plane goes missing?
Genres: Family, Romance,Actors: Kamini Kaushal (actress), Sohrab Modi (producer), Abhi Bhattacharya (actor), Uma Dutt (actor), Moolchand (actor), Madan Mohan (composer), Nana Palsikar (actor), Geeta Bali (actress), Pratima Devi (actress), Daisy Irani (actress), Sohrab Modi (director), Sohrab Modi (actor), Maqbool (actor), O.P. Dutta (writer), Munshi Munakka (actor),
Plot: Jailor Dilip lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his wife, Kamal, and a daughter, Bali. He is disfigured, is compassionate and dedicated to his work, which results in Kamal feeling neglected and ends up in the company of Dr. Ramesh much to Dilip's displeasure, and he instructs her to remain indoors. In retaliation, she elopes with Ramesh, compelling Dilip to inform Bali that her mother has passed away. The couple are blacklisted in the community and then end up in a vehicular accident, resulting in Ramesh losing his sight and Kamal with a discoloration on her right cheek. Dilip finds out, brings her home, and keeps her under lock and key and prevents her from seeing Bali. His attitude changes towards everyone, and he becomes oppressive and tyrannical. Watch what happens when Bali comes to know that her mother is still alive and insists on seeing her.
Keywords: remakeActors: Krishna Kumari (actress), Lalita Pawar (actress), Cuckoo (actress), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Babubhai Mistri (director), Uma Dutt (actor), Habib (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Kalyanji Veerji Shah (composer), Nirupa Roy (writer), Nirupa Roy (actress), Ulhas (actor), B.M. Vyas (actor), Kammo (actress), Muzaffar Adeeb (actor),
Plot: This movie depicts the personal life of Samrat Chandragupt, his trials, tribulations, and frustrations, as well as the challenges he faces to reclaim his kingdom; face-off the threat from Sikander; enlist the assistance of the Yunani Greeks; his love for Helena; and be forced to make a decision of beheading his own mother as per the laws of the land.
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History,Actors: Prithviraj Kapoor (actor), Trilok Kapoor (actor), Abdul Rashid Kardar (writer), Abdul Rashid Kardar (director), Khemchand Prakash (composer), Noor Mohammad Charlie (actor), Khatun (actress), Sitara Devi (actress), Madhuri (actress), Lala Yakub (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Master Vinayak (director), Baburao Pendharkar (actor), Master Vinayak (actor), Leela Chitnis (actress), Anant Marathe (actor), V.S. Khandekar (writer), Ratnaprabha (actor), R.S. Junnarkar (writer), Indira Wadkar (actress), Annasaheb Mainkar (composer), Dhamman Khan (composer), Hardikar (actor), Vaishampayan (actor), N.G. Pandit Rao (actor),
Plot: A celebrated melodrama. A bank employee who steals money to buy medicine for his dying wife is caught, jailed and dies of shame. His eldest son Prakash (Vinayak) publishes a poem in the very newspaper that publicized his father's crime. The judge (Hardikar) who convicted Prakash's father gives him a poetry prize and the judge's daughter Chhaya (Chitnis) happens to fall in love with him. But when she learnsof Prakash's family history, Chhaya allows her father and her suitor, Dr. Atul (Pendharkar), to accuse Prakash of molesting her and sends him to prison. Prakash's destitute sister Kala (Ratnaprabha) becomes a prostitute to pay for the younger brother Suman's (Marathe) medical bills levied by the ambitious Dr. Atul. Kala bears a child and has to kill it.
Genres: ,Actors: Master Vinayak (director), Baburao Pendharkar (actor), Master Vinayak (actor), Leela Chitnis (actress), Anant Marathe (actor), Pandit Indra (writer), Ratnaprabha (actor), R.S. Junnarkar (writer), Indira Wadkar (actress), Annasaheb Mainkar (composer), Dhamman Khan (composer), Hardikar (actor), Vaishampayan (actor), N.G. Pandit Rao (actor),
Plot: A celebrated melodrama. A bank employee who steals money to buy medicine for his dying wife is caught, jailed and dies of shame. His eldest son Prakash (Vinayak) publishes a poem in the very newspaper that publicized his father's crime. The judge (Hardikar) who convicted Prakash's father gives him a poetry prize and the judge's daughter Chhaya (Chitnis) happens to fall in love with him. But when she learnsof Prakash's family history, Chhaya allows her father and her suitor, Dr. Atul (Pendharkar), to accuse Prakash of molesting her and sends him to prison. Prakash's destitute sister Kala (Ratnaprabha) becomes a prostitute to pay for the younger brother Suman's (Marathe) medical bills levied by the ambitious Dr. Atul. Kala bears a child and has to kill it.
Genres: ,Milk and honey
Your lips are milk and honey oh oh
Overflowing
You get my juices going
Sweet and tasty
Your love is sweet and tasty oh oh
Skin so creamy
Your body's soft and dreamy
Food for thought
You give me food for thought
Filling me up with your love
I can't control my hands
Champagne kisses
You give me champagne kisses oh oh
Cool my passion
Slow down my fast reaction
Hot and spicy
Your love is hot and spicy oh oh
Something's burning
Down in your life I'm turning
Food for thought
You give me food for thought
Filling me up with your love
I can't control my hands
Food for thought
You give me food for thought
Oh don't let me down
I'll starve without your love
Starve without your love
Starve without your love
Starve without your love
Starve without your love
Starve without your love
Something's cooking
I know that something's cooking oh oh
In your kitchen
I feel my hunger rising
So feed my senses
Come on and feed my senses oh oh
I'm not starving
I need a second helping
Food for thought
You give me food for thought
Filling me up with your love
I can't control my hands
Food for thought
You give me food for thought
Oh don't let me down
I'll starve without your love