'Acharya' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Mafia (1996)
Actors:
Anand Chitragupth (composer),
Charan Raj (actor),
Ishrat Ali (actor),
Dharmendra (actor),
Arun Bakshi (actor),
Mohan Joshi (actor),
Subbiraj (actor),
Mehmood Jr. (actor),
Ramesh Goyal (actor),
Pramod Moutho (actor),
Raza Murad (actor),
Gulshan Grover (actor),
Aditya Pancholi (actor),
Harish Patel (actor),
Milind Chitragupth (composer),
Plot: Police Inspector Bhagat Singh has been assigned to investigate the death of a gangster named Moosa, and the brutal killing of his daughter in broad daylight by setting her afire. His investigation concludes that the person responsible for this is notorious gangster Gawda, and he arrests him and his son, and holds them in prison. The next day, both Gawda and his brother are released by Court orders, and a few days later Bhagat Singh is killed. His brothers, Fauji Ajit and Jai Singh, decide to find out who was behind his killing, as the police have been unable to apprehend anyone. They find out that Bhagat's murder was sponsored by the police themselves, and now their very lives are in danger.
Genres:
Action,
Solah Shukrawar (1977)
Actors:
Ravindra Jain (writer),
Anita Guha (actress),
Leelavathi (actress),
Prema Narayan (actress),
Bela Bose (actress),
Abhi Bhattacharya (actor),
Bharat Bhushan (actor),
Indira Bansal (actress),
Ramesh Deo (actor),
B.M. Vyas (actor),
Manher Desai (actor),
Rajni Bala (actress),
Polson (actor),
Ravindra Jain (composer),
Master Ravi (actor),
Plot: Mohan attempts to secure a loan from his employer on the occasion of Diwali as well as his Munna, his son's birthday; is not only refused but also fired from his job. He returns home to find his house burning, manages to rescue his son, but succumbs to severe burn injuries. His devastated wife, Kaushalya, rendered homeless, is sexually molested by a wealthy male, and ends up killing him while defending her honor. On the run from the police, she leaves her son with Bhola Bhagat, is subsequently arrested, found guilty, and imprisoned. Years later, her son, now renamed Heera, has grown up, is in love with gorgeous Roopkumari. Both plan to marry soon but the village Jagirdar, Vijay, who lusts after Roopkumari, refuses to permit them until and unless Heera proves that he has one biological parent. With Devi Maa Santoshi's help, Heera locates Kaushalya, who has been discharged from prison due to good behavior, but passes away. Will the Jagirdar accept a dead body as proof of Heera's parentage?
Genres:
Drama,
Family,
Fantasy,
Leader (1964)
Actors:
D.K. Sapru (actor),
Jagdish Sethi (actor),
Polson (actor),
Moolchand (actor),
Ram Avtar (actor),
Chaman Puri (actor),
Motilal (actor),
Amar (actor),
Rajan Haksar (actor),
Hiralal (actor),
Nasir Hussain (actor),
Jankidas (actor),
Jayant (actor),
Dilip Kumar (actor),
Narbada Shankar (actor),
Plot: Meet Vijay Khanna, educated law graduate; publisher of "Leader"; mischief monger; trouble-maker; maker of revolutionary and hilarious speeches; contemptuous of politicians; attracted to the princess of Shah Garh, Sunita; masquerades as the son of an industrialist; and who is wanted by the police for the brutal and daring murder of one of India's leading politicians'.
Genres:
Drama,
Family,
Musical,
Angulimaal (1960)
Actors:
Achala Sachdev (actress),
Anil Biswas (composer),
Bharat Bhushan (actor),
Chandrashekhar (actor),
Helen (actress),
Bharat Bhushan (actor),
Nimmi (actress),
Manmohan Krishna (actor),
Vinod Mehra (actor),
Ram Mohan (actor),
Ulhas (actor),
Anita Guha (actress),
Helen (actress),
Pratap Dave (editor),
Vijay Bhatt (director),
Plot: Born on an inauspicious occasion in the household of Rajpurohit and his wife, the Rajjyotish predicts that this child will grow up to be a brutal killer. The region's Maharaja is asked to have the child killed but he cannot do so until and unless a crime has been committed. A number of elders, including Archarya, decide to impart positive thoughts and learning in him, as well name him Ahinsak (non-violent). He then departs to live in the Gurukool along with three other children, Maruti, Dhanpal, and Krishna. Ahinsak impresses everyone both in studies and sports. Years later, Archarya may be forced to take back his words when he finds Ahinsak has broken rules to stay away overnight with Rajkumari Mayadevi, without permission. The Archarya misgivings will gather more ground when Ahinsak gets into a fight with Maruti and injures him badly. As if that were not enough, he again breaks the rules and is punished. But the worst is yet to come when Archaya will be told that his wife, Gurumata, may be having an affair with his pupil, as well the discovery of the dead body of Dhanpal - the first of many victims that are fated to be slain by Ahinsak - who will now acquire a new name - Angulimaal - a man who first slays his victims then cuts their fingers off and wears them around his neck.
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Drama,
Ujala (1959)
Actors:
Shyam Kumar (actor),
Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer),
Kumkum (actress),
Leela Chitnis (actress),
Mala Sinha (actress),
Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer),
Tun Tun (actress),
Dhumal (actor),
Radheshyam (actor),
Rajan Kapoor (actor),
Shammi Kapoor (actor),
Shivraj (actor),
Raaj Kumar (actor),
Sohanlal (miscellaneous crew),
Prakash Mehra (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Bombay-based Ramu lives an impoverished lifestyle in a Chawl in Parel along with his widowed mother; sister Sandhya; & three much younger siblings, and makes a living using a wooden pushcart. One day his sister, Munni, is run over by a car, gets hospitalized and passes away. Unable to obtain wood for her cremation, he uses his pushcart, and then joins hands with a Chembur-based gangster, Kalu, and picks pockets. He is able to get some money to feed the family as well as pay for Sandhya's engagement. He then gets into an altercation with one of his associates, Chandu, and the latter gets killed. Guilt-ridden he decides to give up on crime and gets a job sharpening knives. It is is here he will be plagued by the arrival of the police who are investigating Chandu's death - as well as become a suspect when a silver knife goes missing.
Keywords: car-accident, hospital, hunger, loss-of-sister
Genres:
Action,
Crime,
Drama,
Hum Log (1951)
Actors:
Shyama (actress),
Sajjan (actor),
Cuckoo (actress),
Durga Khote (actress),
Nutan (actress),
Kanhaiyalal (actor),
Kanhaiyalal (actor),
Rashid Khan (actor),
Manmohan Krishna (actor),
Anwar Hussain (actor),
Balraj Sahni (actor),
Roshan (composer),
Zia Sarhadi (director),
Ramesh Thakur (actor),
Kamalakant (actor),
Plot: Lala Haricharandas lives an impoverished lifestyle along with his wife; an unemployed slacker son, Raj; an ill daughter, Paro, who dreams of being a writer; and a younger son, Chota. He makes just Rs.80/- per month working for a Marwari employer, and after paying for Paro's medication, has barely enough to make ends meet. One day he brings home Rs.1000/- from his office, Raj finds it, and gives it to his friend, Kundan. When the former's employer arrives to take the cash back, Raj ridicules him, and he has Haricharandas arrested and sent to prison. With no money coming in, Haricharandas' wife is forced to sell her belongings but nothing will prepare her for the shock when she will be told by Dr. G. Ghosh that Paro's illness is very serious and she must be quarantined before it spreads to the rest of the family.
Genres:
Drama,
Chandidas (1934)
Actors:
Nitin Bose (director),
Pahadi Sanyal (actor),
Nawab (actor),
Rai Chand Boral (composer),
K.L. Saigal (actor),
Ahi Sanyal (actor),
Umasashi (actress),
Aga Hashr Kashmiri (writer),
H. Siddiqui (actor),
Ansaribai (actress),
M. Ansari (actor),
Parvathi (actress),
Plot: K.L. Saigal stars as Chandidas and Umasashi as Rami, featuring several of their popular duets (e.g. Prem nagar mein banaongi ghar main) and other songs with Sanyal. This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend. The film stressed the poet's teachings through the love story between Chandidas and a low-caste washerwoman, Rami. The conventional villain of the saint film genre, who represents the established order threatened by the outsider's revolutionary influence on common people, is the rapacious upper-caste merchant Bijoynarayan. When Rami rejects his advances, he persuades the high priest to insist that Chandidas must repent or be punished for associating with a low-caste woman. Chandidas agrees to repent but when he sees the injuries Rami has suffered at the hands of the merchant's goons, he rejects institutionalized religion in favor of the higher Vaishnavite call for a more democratic god and leaves the village with Rami.
Genres:
,
Chandidas (1932)
Actors:
Debaki Bose (director),
Amar Mullick (actor),
Debaki Bose (writer),
Rai Chand Boral (composer),
Manoranjan Bhattacharya (actor),
Durgadas Bannerjee (actor),
Krishna Chandra Dey (actor),
Umasashi (actress),
Chani Dutta (actor),
Sunila (actress),
Chandra Mukherjee (writer),
Dhirendranath Banerjee (actor),
Plot: This film is about Chandidas, a legendary 15th-C. Bengali Vaishnavite poet whose biography remains obscure but was an influence on the better documented Chaitanya (1486-1533), a school teacher who promoted the Vaishnavite ideology in Bengal, mostly through hymns about the Radha-Krishna legend. The film stressed the poet's teachings through the love story between Chandidas and a low-caste washerwoman, Rami. The conventional villain of the saint film genre, who represents the established order threatened by the outsider's revolutionary influence on common people, is the rapacious upper-caste merchant Bijoynarayan. When Rami rejects his advances, he persuades the high priest to insist that Chandidas must repent or be punished for associating with a low-caste woman. Chandidas agrees to repent but when he sees the injuries Rami has suffered at the hands of the merchant's goons, he rejects institutionalized religion in favor of the higher Vaishnavite call for a more democratic god and leaves the village with Rami.
Keywords: based-on-play
Genres:
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