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Shabnam (Urdu/Persian: شبنم) from the word meaning dew drops on the flowers) (real name: Jharna Basak) is a Pakistani stage and film actress. Shabnam was active in the Pakistani film industry, Lollywood in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and in the Bangladeshi film industry in the 1990s. Born in Dhaka, formerly a part of Pakistan called East Pakistan, she was considered a versatile, romantic and most popular actress in both West Pakistan and East Pakistan in her time.
Shabnam is actually her film-name. Her real name is Jharna Basak (Bengali: ঝর্ণা বসাক) born August 17, in the 1944s. Her father is Nani Basak, the well known Scout master and football referee from Dhaka. Shabnam is married to Robin Ghosh, a well known music composer.
She shot to fame with the hit Bengali film "Harano Din" 1961 and attained all Pakistan stardom with the box office Urdu hit "Chanda" 1962. Both the films were produced from Dhaka, East Pakistan.
"Talaash" was an even bigger than all Pakistan hit that followed next year. By mid sixties she became one of the most popular actresses of Pakistan. Professional commitments eventually took her to Karachi, Pakistan where she settled down in 1968. By early 1970s Shabnam established her position in Lollywood (Lahore) to ultimately become the most popular heroine in the history of Pakistan films. She reigned supreme as an actress in Pakistan until the lull in the Pakistan film industry in the late 1980s. She is probably the only film actress in the world to have continuously and successfully played the romantic lead in films for almost three decades, from the early 1960s to the late 1980s.
Actors: Farah Khan (producer), Hari Nandamuri (editor), Aziz Naser (actor), Aziz Naser (director), Aziz Naser (actor), Aziz Naser (writer), Adnan Sajid Khan (actor), Akbar Bin Tabar (actor), Adnan Sajid Khan (producer), Aziz Rizwan (actor), Zarine Ali (actress), Salman Hyder (writer), Anil Boyidapu (writer), Shiva (actor), Amjad (actor),
Plot: After witnessing the grand wedding party of his U.S.-based friend, Abdul, Hyderabad-based Aziz, who runs a computer-based business, wishes to also have a grand celebration. With the help of Sharma, his parents arrange his wedding with Zaara, and Aziz takes a no-surety interest-bearing loan of Rs.4 Lakhs from a gangster, Gullu Dada. The wedding does take place and after a few days Aziz returns to work and find the place under lock and key. Upon entering the premise he finds everything gone and a note from his employee clarifying that the latter had sold everything in order to re-locate to Dubai. With no income being generated, Aziz will soon find his life turned upside down when Gullu and his goons, Advance and Mogambo, come looking for him.
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: David Aubrey (editor), Saad Azhar (actor), Ayesha I. Khan (producer), Rasheed Naz (actor), Ayesha I. Khan (director), Ayesha I. Khan (writer), Sasha Nasir (miscellaneous crew), Jia Ali (actress), Nasir Khan (producer), Rizwan Saeed (editor), Ali Sher (composer), Shahnawaz (actor), Bilal Zaman (actor), Hina Khan (actress), Durdana Malik (actress),
Plot: A young man, Armaghan, returns to Pakistan after 25 years to search out his Sufi master. During his journey through the alluring yet dangerous city of Lahore said to be guarded by Sufi Saints, the physical and material worlds uneasily blur, diverting him from his original quest. He pursues a mysterious woman through the streets of Lahore, but her changing forms make her impossible to possess. Will he find what he seeks or remain lost? His cousin, Ali, seeks his own calling in the sensual and violent world of Lollywood and becomes engulfed by fantastical musical hallucinations -- has he found peace or lost his hold on reality? "KASHF - The Lifting of the Veil" explores the pursuit of spirituality and the inevitable intrusions of the material on those who seek out a different reality.
Keywords: independent-film, magical-realism, mystical-quest, pakistan, spirituality, sufismActors: Kiran Kumar (actor), Mohan Joshi (actor), Anil Nagrath (actor), Dev Malhotra (actor), Satnam Kaur (actress), Vinod Tripathi (actor), Tittu Singh (actor), Rani Sinha (actress), Neena Arora (producer), Prem Kumar Sharma (writer), Raj Arora (producer), Sunny Kapoor (director), Ali Khan (actor), Shazad Khan (actor), Amon Sagar (actor),
Plot: Thakur Singh discovers that his four sons, Shamsher, Ajay, Vikram and Vijay, are vile womanizers and drunkards. He changes his will to include his devoted servant Karan Singh. When his sons learn this, they kill him and chase down Karan to his home, where he is slaughtered and his wife Sharla is viciously raped and murdered by them. Their two children, Shabnam and Rahul are witnesses, and run away. They are separated, Shabnam taking refuge with the dreaded dacoit Mahadev, and Rahul being raised by a loving family. As an adult, Shabnam becomes a feared vigilante, hunting down the four men that killed her family. Rahul has grown to be an equally feared policeman, hunting down (unknown to him) his own sister.
Genres: Action,Actors: Shivraj (actor), Madan Puri (actor), Bharat Bhushan (actor), Vijay Arora (actor), Pran (actor), Habib (actor), Jagdeep (actor), Jankidas (actor), Rishi Kapoor (actor), Rishi Kapoor (actor), Dhumal (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Roopesh Kumar (actor), Bhushan Tiwari (actor),
Plot: Widower businessman Mr. Sinha lives a very wealthy lifestyle along with two daughters, Juhi and Reshmi. Both are of marriageable age and he wants them to get married to equally wealthy families. Juhi ends up falling in love with a middle-classed young man named Vijay Kumar Gupta much to the chagrin of Sinha, who refuses to bless the couple, compelling them to elope. Years later Vijay and Juhi become parents to a young boy, Munna, Sinha forgives them and asks them to return home. The train they were traveling in meets with an accident and amongst the survivors are Vijay and his son. A grieving Sinha welcomes Munna and Vijay, treats Vijay as his son, lets him run the business as well as decides to make him the heir to his wealth and estate. When Reshmi returns home, she is apprehensive of Vijay, at first, then falls in love with him. Watch what happens when a man named Dr. Joshi brings an amnesiac Juhi home, and the impact this will have on everyone, especially when they find out that Dr. Joshi knows a dark secret about Vijay - as he is an ex-convict, jailed for Theft, and who is now on the run from the Police for murder.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance,Actors: Brahm Bhardwaj (actor), Prem Sagar (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Rajan Kapoor (actor), Roopesh Kumar (actor), Sujit Kumar (actor), Utpal Dutt (actor), Madan Puri (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Keshav Rana (actor), M.B. Shetty (actor),
Plot: Jai (Amitabh Bachchan) is an expert gambler, and has been so as long as he can remember, and has never lost a game. These skills bring him to the attention of the underworld don Saxena (Utpal Dutt), who is interested in hiring him for winning large amounts of money from rich people and then influencing them into doing whatever he wants. Jai agrees to do so, and plays successfully, though unknowingly to entrap a patriotic Indian named Nath (Jagdish Raj) who works for the government. After losing large amounts of money, he is blackmailed into revealing the blueprints of a top-secret military laser weapon that hit any target within 50 miles. When the Indian police come to know of this, they assign the case to Inspector Vijay, who is asked to apprehend Jai at any cost. The only problem is that Inspector Vijay is Jai's look-alike, and is not at all a good gambler. After this Jai and Vijay's professional and personal lives get confusingly mixed up as Jai and Vijay both coincidentally are sent to Rome where Vijay is sent to retrieve evidence against underworld don Saxena and Jai is onto a money-making scheme where he would marry his rich girlfriend Mala (Neetu Singh) to inherit her money. Mala however mistakens Vijay for Jai and Vijay decides to go along with this to find out who his double is. Jai meanwhile meets Shabnam (Zeenat Aman), a club dancer who mistakens Jai for Vijay and is working for a spy ring. She has been sent to seduce Vijay and stop him on his mission to retrieve evidence against the underworld don Saxena and Jai is only more willing to have a little fun before he sets about on his latest money-making scheme.
Keywords: based-on-novel, blackmail, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, dual-role, gambler, gangster, love, murder, venice-italyActors: Anandji Veerji Shah (composer), Moolchand (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Aruna Irani (actress), Aruna Irani (actress), Kalyanji Veerji Shah (composer), Mridula Rani (actress), Master Bhagwan (actor), Jankidas (actor), Kanhaiyalal (actor), Kiran Kumar (actor), Paro (actress), Sanjana (actress), Brij Katyal (writer), Ashwani Kumar (director),
Plot: Collegian Ram Khanna lives a wealthy lifestyle in India along with his widowed mother, a brother, Gopi, and sister, Roopa. He has a sweetheart in fellow-collegian, Jaya, and when their term gets over, he brings her to his palatial home to introduce to his mother. To his surprise he finds out their home has been sold in an auction, their assets have been embezzled, and his mother and siblings have moved to a room in a Chawl. He goes there, meets them, finds out that Gopi is seriously ill, and goes to find money to get him admitted in a hospital. He returns with the money, but Gopi passes away. Shortly thereafter the Police arrive and arrest him for killing Hiralal, their former Munim, and stealing money from him. In Court, he is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. He attempts to escape but is prevented by a prison guard, Mohan. It is here that he will find out that his mother has passed away in an accident, and Roopa is missing. Ten years later, he gets into a physical confrontation with another prison guard, assaults him, manages to escape, with the police hot on his tail. He goes to confront his late father's business partners, Ghanshamdas and Shyamlal, and this is where he will find that his girlfriend is now married to Ghanshamdas. Watch what impact this has on Ram, and what action he takes to first of all hide from the police, survive and feed himself, and at the same time try and locate his missing sister.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,Actors: Aruna Irani (actress), Sulochana Latkar (actress), Rahul Dev Burman (composer), Indrani Mukherjee (actress), Bindu (actress), Anil Dhawan (actor), Padma Khanna (actress), D.K. Sapru (actor), Tun Tun (actress), Shatrughan Sinha (actor), Sharmila Tagore (actress), Jagdeep (actor), Raj Kumar (actor), Surendra (actor), K.A. Narayan (writer),
Plot: After the brutal deaths of Kanta Mirchandani and Sabrina, Bombay's Police Commissioner concludes it to be the work of a serial killer and assigns this case to Inspector Ashok, who lives with his widowed mother, Radha, and is in love with Nisha, a Journalist, and the sister of Advocate Munish. Evidence leads Ashok to suspect that Munish is the killer, and he is all set to arrest him. Then Shabnam, a Courtesan, comes forward and claims that she was attacked by a maniac, but managed to escape and assists the police to prepare a hand-drawn sketch. Hoping to have her positively identify Munish as the killer, Ashok finds the tables turned against him when Shabnam identifies him, not Munish, as her assailant.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller,Actors: Jaya Bhaduri (actress), Nadira (actress), Suman (actor), Johnny Whisky (actor), Asit Sen (actor), Dulari (actress), Sudhir (actor), Ranvir Raj (actor), Rashid Khan (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Manmohan (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Raza Murad (actor), B.R. Ishara (writer), Sudhir (actor),
Plot: Leading lawyer and public prosecutor, Raghunath Tyagi, lives an upper middle- class life in India with his only son, Akash Manmohan. Raghunath would like his son to take an interest in law or a business, but all Akash is interested in is poems. One day Akash overhears one of his poems being sung by a woman. He is attracted to this woman, whose name is Shabnam, and would like to marry her. The only problem is his dad, who is strongly opposed to his son marrying a woman of questionable character and means - a prostitute. But Akash is adamant, leaves his dad's house and continues his affair with Shabnam. Shabnam wants to break free from the brothel madame, Aminabai, and does so, only to find that Aminabai has sold her to a man named Nawab for Rs.20,000/-. Angered at Aminabai, Shabnam goes to confront her, and as a result Amina is killed, and Shabnam is arrested and charged with first degree murder - the punishment for which, under Section 302 of the Indian Pencal Code is Life Imprisonment or Death. And it is the death sentence that the Public Prosecutor Tyagi would like to see carried out on Shabnam, who he considers a problem for himself and his son.
Genres: Romance,Actors: Allauddin (actor), Rangeela (actor), Bram Stoker (writer), Habibur Rehman (actor), Agha Talish (actor), Munawar Zarif (actor), Sheela (actress), Nazar (actor), Deeba Begum (actress), Asad Bukhari (actor), Tassadaque Hussain (composer), Nasreen (actress), Yasmeen Shaukat (actress), Rehan (actor), Rehan (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror,Actors: Tun Tun (actress), Nanda (actress), Tabassum (actress), Helen (actress), Ramesh Deo (actor), David Abraham (actor), Leela Chitnis (actress), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Mukhtar Ahmed (actor), Laxmi Chhaya (actress), Madan Puri (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Shashi Kapoor (actor), Badri Prasad (miscellaneous crew), Rashid Khan (actor),
Plot: Vijay and Rajni have been childhood sweethearts in a small town called Rajgarh. They did separate for a few years when Rajni and her maternal grandma, Leela, went to live in Calcutta. When Rajni returns, fully matured, both rekindle their romance, much to the chagrin of Kundan and his mom. Kundan's mom creates all kinds of misunderstandings between Vijay and Rajni, and Vijay's conduct, especially gambling, lying, and telling tall stories, does not help. Then Vijay is arrested by the police and held in jail. When he is discharged, he swears to turn his life around and be worthy of Rajni, leaves Rajgarh, finds employment in Durgapur as a truck driver. When he returns home he finds that Rajni and Leela have re-located to Calcutta where Rajni is to be married to a man named Ravi Shankar. A heartbroken Vijay goes to Calcutta to locate Rajni, but is unable to locate her. He falls into bad company, takes to alcohol, and then one day one of his new-found friends' abducts a woman - who turns out to be Rajni. When Vijay and Rajni come face to face there is nothing but hatred between them. Rajni walks out of Vijay's life. When they meet again in Dhanbad, Rajni is married to Ravi Shankar, who lives there with his sister, Manju. Watch what happens when Vijay re-enters Rajni's life and the reaction it has on Ravi and Manju.
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