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Anand (Hindi: आनंद, Urdu: آنند) is a Hindi film written and directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and released in 1971. It starred Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan in lead roles; Khanna played the title role. The dialogues were written by Gulzar. They have a lyrical and poetic touch as the characters of Dr. Bhaskar Banerjee (played by Bachchan) and the dialogue writer of film, Gulzar, are poets in the film and in reality.
Indiatimes Movies ranks the movie amongst the "Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films". It is listed in "Hrishikesh Mukherjee's best films" compiled by rediff.com.
The story is about Anand Sehgal (Rajesh Khanna), a cancer (lymphosarcoma of the intestine) patient who believes in living his life to the fullest. He comes to Mumbai to live his last days there and to meet his friend Kulkarni (Ramesh Dev). Contrasting Anand is Bhaskar Banerjee (Amitabh Bachchan), a sober doctor, upset with life and the dark reality of his nation. Bhaskar's tête-à-tête with Anand makes him notice the colours behind all the despair and complexity in one's life and teaches him a lesson. After spreading happiness everywhere around himself and changing the lives of many, Anand, as destined, leaves them all, which inspires Bhaskar to write a book on his life.
Actors: Venkateswara Rao Paruchuri (writer), Gopalakrishna Paruchuri (writer), Martand K. Venkatesh (editor), Ravi Babu (writer), Ravi Babu (actor), Ravi Babu (producer), Ravi Babu (director), Bhoomika Chawla (actress), Abbas (actor), Ankita (actress), Nikitha (actress), Shekhar Chandra (composer), Nivas (writer),
Plot: In her very first assignment as a tv investigative reporter, an intrepid young woman named Anasuya uncovers child slave labour exploitation by a prominent politician. An orphan herself, Anasuya adopts the young victim, a little girl named Lakshmi. Anasuya is now assigned to unearth the true facts behind a series of bizarre murders about which the police have oddly refused to reveal details to the public. She cleverly outfoxes Anand, a would-be amorous police inspector assigned to the special task force, into inadvertently revealing that some wacko has been murdering women -- removing one, always different, body part from each corpse before leaving behind a single red rose. The police belief that the killer only targets women is abruptly shattered when Anasuya's elderly male landlord is killed ... and Anasuya witnesses the killer fleeing the scene. Anasuya and Anand must work together to identify the suspect and prevent him from killing more people. But nothing is quite as it seems! Will Anasuya and Anand succeed in finding the killer before he kills them? Why is the serial killer on this peculiar path? And what is the unexpected connection with young Lakshmi?
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Sneha (actress), Sukumari (actress), Reza Shariffi (costume designer), Kamal Hassan (actor), Manivannan (actor), Kalpana (actress), Simran (actress), Deva (composer), Ramesh Khanna (actor), Mouli (writer), Mouli (director), Crazy Mohan (writer), Crazy Mohan (actor), Abbas (actor), Vaiyapuri (actor),
Plot: A bachelor and a movie stuntman, Tamilian Pammal K. Sambandham, reprimands his brother, Anand, for hastily getting married to Malathi. He finds out that Malathi is being instigated by her single, male-hating friend, Janaki, who instructs her not to get intimate with Anand. Things only get worse after Pammal falls in love with Janaki, who not only dislikes him but also his profession, and is determined to ensure that this marriage ends in a divorce.
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,Actors: Guna Singh (composer), Prema (actress), Sunil Kumar Desai (editor), Sunil Kumar Desai (writer), Sunil Kumar Desai (director), Arun Sagar (actor), M.I. Qureshi (producer), Anand (actor),
Plot: Recently engaged to Anand, tall and attractive Sudha, heads out to his farmhouse near Pune for a celebration, and goes missing for about 3 days. She contacts them, seriously injured, from a hospital bed, they bring her home, and she informs them of getting lost, ending up in a wooden house, where she saw the lifeless of a woman, and a crazed killer, who attacked and wounder her, and for proof she shows them a button that she managed to snatch from the killer's jean jacket. Anand accompanies her to the location, but they are unable to locate the house. Then the entire family's life is turned upside down when Sudha claims that she has been sexually molested by the very same killer. They install alarms, hire a watchman, and virtually fortify the house. Despite of this Sudha claims that she is being watched, and the killer enters the house at will. Their attempts to cure her with the assistance of a Tantrik is of no avail, and she refuses to co-operate with Dr. Rao, a Psychiatrist, leaving the question open whether she has a mental illness or the killer is an entity from another unknown dimension.
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Shabina Khan (costume designer), Saurabh Shukla (actor), M.M. Keeravani (composer), Ajay Devgn (actor), Mahesh Bhatt (writer), Mahesh Bhatt (writer), Mukesh Bhatt (producer), Anupam Shyam (actor), Vishwajeet Pradhan (actor), Nagarjuna Akkineni (actor), Avtar Gill (actor), Ashutosh Rana (actor), Sharat Saxena (actor), Sanjay Sankla (editor), Mahesh Bhatt (director),
Plot: Mrs. Desai is a Bombay-based widow and lives with her singer son, Ajay, his pregnant wife Sonia, and a second son, Anand, who is currently involved in a right-wing organization run by Subodh Malgaonkar. Things take a turn for the worst when militants storm the Babri Masjid in Uttar Pradesh and demolish it. Anger runs high amongst the Muslim community which lead to riots, even in far-off Bombay. The Bombay police move quickly and a curfew is imposed in the more sensitive parts such as Mohammed Ali Road, Jogeshwari, and Dharavi. It is on this day that Mrs. Desai goes to offer prayers at her usual place of worship, and it is here that she will be attacked by militants, set ablaze, admitted to the Holy Family Hospital with more than 80% burns, and virtually no chance of surviving. Ajay must now deal with conflicts with Sonia, who wants to leave India, and re-locate to England, where she wants to give birth to her child without any constraints as to religion and caste, on one hand, and on another attempt to cool a vengeful Anand into attacking other innocent Muslims. But the main thing Ajay has to do is carry out his mother's last request - to bury her - which is consistent with the Christian and Muslim religions. Ajay is the only one who knows the answer to this and must ensure that her last request is fulfilled despite of Subodh Malgaonkar's increasing pressure that his mother be cremated according to Hindu Rites.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, critically-acclaimed, film-director, hindu, illegitimate-child, loss-of-mother, mother-son-relationship, muslim, one-word-title, politicianActors: Hema Malini (director), Ravindra Jain (composer), Mohan Agashe (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Madhoo (actress), Rituparna Sengupta (actress), Hema Malini (producer), Sudesh Berry (actor), Gajendra Chouhan (actor),
Plot: A professor who lives lonely life researching about vampires.He meets Ragini and both get married soon.After their marriage he gets suspicious that his wife is not a human being but vampire whose come to drink his blood so is Ragini vampire
Keywords: acid-burningActors: Chinni Prakash (miscellaneous crew), Rekha Prakash (miscellaneous crew), Babu (miscellaneous crew), Gopal Pandey (miscellaneous crew), Neeta Lulla (costume designer), Tej Sapru (actor), Danny Denzongpa (actor), Moushumi Chatterjee (actress), Govinda (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Rajesh Roshan (composer), Vinod Mehra (actor), Ramesh (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Laxmi (Moushumi Chatterjee) was a heart-breaker during her college days, and one of her jilted suitors was Dinesh Khanna (Danny Denzongpa), who never quite got over her rejecting him, not even when Laxmi married singer Vijay Kumar(Jeetendra) and gave birth to a son, Raja (Master Bunty). When his attempts to lure Vijay Kumar abroad fail, Dinesh ends up killing him, seriously crippling his best friend, Tom Dacosta (Vinod Mehra), and then setting-up Laxmi as the killer, and getting her sentenced to 14 years in prison. Years later, Raja (Govinda)has grown up and Laxmi has been discharged from prison. Raja follows in his dad's footsteps, and meets with Renu (Shilpa Shirodkar), both eventually fall in love. Renu is introduced to Laxmi, who approves of her instantly. Then Laxmi comes to know that Renu is really Dinesh's daughter, and he may be using her to get close to Laxmi again.
Genres: Action, Crime,Actors: Deven Verma (actor), Bindiya Goswami (actress), Anjan Srivastav (actor), Bhola (actor), Chandramohan (actor), Zeenat Aman (actress), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), David Abraham (actor), Moolchand (actor), Keshto Mukherjee (actor), Amol Palekar (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Utpal Dutt (actor), Aruna Irani (actress),
Plot: Ramprasad is a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. Bhavani Shankar is also against any of his employees indulging in recreation of any kind. 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. A fake mother and a hilarious chase are other enjoyable features involved in this comedy.
Keywords: comedy-of-errors, dual-role, fake-moustache, film-actor, film-actress, football-game, identical-twins, job-interview, lipstick, marriageActors: Dev Anand (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Nasir Hussain (actor), Keshto Mukherjee (actor), Mukri (actor), Polson (actor), Hari Shivdasani (actor), Leela Chitnis (actress), Sandhya Roy (actress), Sova Sen (actress), Inder Raj Anand (writer), Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer), Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer), Hrishikesh Mukherjee (director), Satyanarayan (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Renu lives a poor lifestyle with her mom, dad and a brother. Her dad decides to travel to Africa so that he can earn enough money to send his son to study engineering, so that he can find employment abroad. But fate has other plans when one day Renu's brother returns home sick from college, and shortly thereafter passes away. His shocked father books a seat on a plane to attend his son's funeral, but the plane crashes killing everyone on board. Shattered and devastated, Renu decides to hide her dad's death from her ill and fragile mom, and goes along pretending that her father is still alive. She obtains employment and through her earnings convinces her mom that her dad is regularly sending money. Then things brighten up when a homeless young man, Anand, enters her life, both fall in love with each other and want to get married. But once again fate plays a cruel joke on Renu as she subsequently finds out that Anand is not who he claims to be, but is in fact, a playboy, the grandson, nicknamed 'Prince", of one of the wealthiest man in town, Dwarkadas, and Anand is scheduled to get married to Rekha - the only heir to a multi-million rupee estate. Watch as events unfold and the effect this news has on the townspeople and Renu's mom.
Genres: Drama, Musical,Actors: D.R. Bhosle (miscellaneous crew), Agha (actor), Chitra Gupta (composer), Radhika Sarathkumar (actress), Chandrashekhar (actor), Sheikh Mukhtar (actor), Amar (actor), Madan Puri (actor), Jankidas (actor), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Ravikant (actor), M.B. Shetty (actor), Jeevan Kala (actress), Kumkum (actress), Surya Kumar (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: After his upper-caste father marries a low-caste woman, their community shuns them, and shortly thereafter they become parents of Santa and Raja. After they pass away, Santa shines shoes on the sidewalks of Bombay, as well as massages heads. He hopes to make enough money to ensure Raja gets a good education and gets a chance in improving their lifestyle. Raja does pass his matriculation but is unable to get employment as even graduates and post-graduates are unemployed. He then decides to follow in his brother's foot-steps much to the latter's chagrin, and ends up working as a mechanic in a garage. He then dramatically meets with upper-caste Brahman Sheel Pandey and both fall in love - much to the chagrin of Girdhari, the garage-owner, who wants to wed her. He threatens to fire Raja, who desperately needs money for an ailing Santa, until the former rejects Sheel. Raja agrees to all conditions - but Sheel refuses to marry Girdhari - prompting the latter to complain that Raja is a low-caste Mochi, and thus paving a successful path for his marriage with her.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: Agha (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Sunil Dutt (actor), Gajanan Jagirdar (actor), Sanjeev Kumar (actor), Mubarak (actor), Helen (actress), Asha Parekh (actress), Usha Khanna (composer), D.K. Sapru (actor), Joginder Shelly (actor), Hari Shivdasani (actor), Leela Chitnis (actress), Joy Mukherjee (actor), Ram Mukherjee (director),
Plot: Surendra Nath and Satyendra Nath are two brothers who live in an old palatial home with their dad, mom, and sister. The Nath family is undergoing hard times as their property is under dispute, and a unfavorable decision by the courts, causes the family to lose face in the community. To make matters worse, Satyendra is arrested by the police for theft of Rs.10,000/- from his workplace. Satyendra thinks his brother stole the money, and is covering up for him, while the rest of the family is shocked and dismayed at this turn of events. All eyes and ears are now on the decision of the Court, which will decide who is guilty in the eyes of the law.
Keywords: remake