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Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.
Mohanlal made his acting debut in Thiranottam (1978) but the film was never released due to censorship issues. He followed that by a role as the lead antagonist in his first release Manjil Virinja Pookkal (1980) at the age of 20. Antagonistic parts in several movies followed before Mohanlal established himself as a lead actor playing a wide variety of character types in comedy and action films amongst others. He was labelled a superstar of Malayalam cinema in 1986 after the success of Rajavinte Makan, in which he played an underworld don. Mohanlal became a film producer with the 1990 musical hit His Highness Abdullah and has also acted in a number of Tamil and Bollywood films. Of these, his notable roles were in Iruvar, directed by Mani Ratnam, and Company, directed by Ram Gopal Varma. As well as being an actor and producer, Mohanlal also owns businesses involved in film distribution, restaurants and packaged spices.
Actors: Farida Jalal (actress), Alok Nath (actor), Urmila Matondkar (actress), Dina Pathak (actress), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (actor), Urmila Matondkar (actress), Rekha Prakash (miscellaneous crew), Manoj Bajpayee (actor), Seema Biswas (actress), Isha Koppikar (actress), Lillete Dubey (actress), Sanjay Suri (actor), Pratima Kazmi (actress), Bhushan Lakandri (miscellaneous crew), Ballu Saluja (editor),
Plot: Hindustan (Urdu name for India) used to a vast territory and countries' like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangla Desh, and Bhutan were all it's provinces. All this changed when the British established their rule over India, and promoted their policy of hatred, and division - mainly between the Hindus and the Muslims. After their departure in 1947, the celebrations of a independent India were short-lived, and the divisions created by the British stayed on and flourished with extremists from both sides ready to kill anyone from the other side. While the Muslims under Jinnah wanted a separate country, which they would like to call Pakistan, the Hindus wanted the Muslims to leave this country and go to Pakistan. Clashes followed, millions fled, millions more were killed, Very little is known of mankind's heinous behavior in this circumstances, such as looting, raping, and kidnapping. Lajjo was one such woman who was recently married to Ramchand, and then abducted by a man named Rashid, who gets her to Pakistan, where she is to be second wife of an abusive and controlling male. Her sister-in-law, Puro, distraught at losing her Bhabhi in such short a time, sets out to search for her, encouraged by her brother, but cautioned by her parents, who would not prefer to lose another child. Puro begins her task of locating Lajjo and calls herself Hamida, ironically assisted by none other than a much changed and remorseful Rashid, and goes from door to door as a petty saleswoman and cleaner. Then one day she finds Lajjo. Not quite the fun-loving and exuberant Lajjo she knew, but a much subdued one - trapped and under the 24/7 control of "Amma" and her alcoholic husband. Puro does get to speak to her in private, and both conspire to escape, hopefully back to her husband and their family. The question remains will Puro be successful in getting Lajjo to escape, or will she herself be entrapped in a hopeless situation.
Keywords: based-on-novel, hindu, india, muslim, pakistan, partitionActors: Tinnu Anand (actor), Madhuri Dixit (actress), Dinesh Hingoo (actor), Rumi Jaffery (actor), Sudha Chandran (actress), Kamaldeep (actor), Shah Rukh Khan (actor), Kiran Kumar (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Ghanshyam Rohera (actor), Jugnu (actor), Birbal (actor), Deepak Tijori (actor), Beena Banerjee (actress), Kalpana Iyer (actress),
Plot: Vijay Agnihotri is a wealthy, spoilt man who lives with his mother in the city of Mumbai. His mother has allowed him everything and more than that he wants. One day on a mishap Vijay manages to reach up with an air-hostess named Shivani Chopra, he immediately falls head over heels in love with Shivani. He tells his mother about his love, and his mother agrees to get him married, on there way to Shivani's house they get a nasty shock for Shivani had get married to Ashok Chopra, an air-line pilot. Vijay is unable to accept this proposal and continues to persuade Shivani to marry him. He even destroys Shivani's family and has her sent to jail. When Shivani is released from jail she plans to take revenge from Vijay and to make him account for all his sins.
Keywords: airplane, falling-to-death, false-accusation, hospital, imprisonment, murder, obsession, paraplegic, psychopath, revengeActors: Sudha Chandran (actress), Sudhir Dalvi (actor), Utpal Dutt (actor), Birbal (actor), Satish Shah (actor), Asha Sharma (actress), Shekhar Suman (actor), Sushmita Mukherjee (actress), Lilliput (actor), Arun Mathur (actor), Mayur Verma (actor), Kamal Saigal (director), Mayur (actor), Meera Madhuri (actress), Manju Mishra (actress),
Plot: Jagmohan (Utpal Dutt) wants his womanizing son, Raja (Shekar Suman) to marry and settle down. He asks Raja to go and see Hema (Sudha Chandran), and if he finds her compatible, they can get married. But Raja asks his servant and confidante, Abdul Malik (Satish Shah) to switch places with him, and both attend to see the girl in question, not knowing that their prank will result in Pinky (Meera Madhuri) getting pregnant, and the finger pointing at Abdul Malik.
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Raj Babbar (actor), Vijay Arora (actor), Chandrashekhar (actor), Suresh Chatwal (actor), Arun Bakshi (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Shafi Inamdar (actor), Puneet Issar (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Rajesh Khanna (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Shreeram Lagoo (actor), Ram Mohan (actor), Deepak Parashar (actor), Yunus Parvez (actor),
Plot: Indian Army Captain Amar Kumar lives with his father, Ram, and mother, Saraswati. Ram has been associated with top freedom fighters during India's struggle for independence from the British. Almost all of these freedom fighters had taken advantage of their involvement and have taken up important positions in India's administration, and these include Jagrathan, and Mohanlal. While others like Vaisakh Ansari and Ram have chosen not to. Amar goes to Delhi and meets Mohanlal, who offers him a position of personal secretary with Jagrathan. Then a chain of events lead to the death of Jagrathan's pilot son, Surender, resulting in Jagrathan threatening to expose the powers that-be unless they come clean and admit their involvement. Then Jagrathan is killed in a vehicle accident. Before dying he asks Dr. Shabnam to hand-over a key to Amar. Before Shabnam could do so, she is attacked by two unknown men, and wounded. Together with Amar and Rafiq Sayed Jaffrey, they locate the key - but do not know where to locate the lock. Then Shabnam is attacked again, but Amar rescues her. Amar's world is turned upside down when he is accused of treason, court-martial-ed, and dishonorably discharged from the army. Disillusioned by this, he decides to join the very forces that are involved in treason. And when he does he finds out that he is not amongst strangers at all.
Keywords: corruption, delhi-india, murder, police, shootout, trialActors: Mala Aravindan (actor), Adoor Bhasi (actor), Kunchan (actor), Mammootty (actor), Mohanlal (actor), Manian Pillai Raju (actor), Raghu (actor), Pujappura Ravi (actor), Shankar (actor), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), Santhakumari (actress), Sukumari (actress), Shyam (composer), G. Venkitaraman (editor), Ramu (actor),
Genres: Action, Comedy,Actors: Surya Kumar (miscellaneous crew), Birbal (actor), Iftekhar (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Manmauji (actor), Mac Mohan (actor), Murad (actor), Raza Murad (actor), Pran (actor), Chaman Puri (actor), Shatrughan Sinha (actor), Sudhir (actor), Deven Verma (actor), Zeenat Aman (actress),
Plot: Ordered to stay away from Delhi's border for several years, two convicts, Kishan and Kanhaiya, decide to hitch a ride through a goods train to Bombay. While on this train, they come to the rescue of an elderly male with a female child, Munni. On his last breath, the elderly male asks them to take care of Munni as millions of rupees are involved. Greed overtakes both and they take the child with them in order to locate her next of kin. Unable to find anyone they advertise in the newspapers, and demand a hefty sum from Veer Singh, who answered the advertisement. What Kishan and Kanhaiya don't know that is that officially Munni is already dead, along with her mother, and brother, purportedly killed by their father, Ranvir Singh, when he suspected his wife's fidelity. Kishan and Kanhaiya find themselves immersed in a web of lies and deceit as they try to fathom what the truth really is. But before they could get to the bottom of this matter, their lives themselves are under threat - by a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Genres: Action, Comedy,Actors: Mridula Rani (actress), Akhtar-Ul-Iman (writer), Iftekhar (actor), Rajesh Khanna (actor), Akhtar-Ul-Iman (writer), Jayshree T. (actress), Moolchand (actor), Nana Palsikar (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Narbada Shankar (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Achala Sachdev (actress), Ramesh Deo (actor), Nanda (actress), Anandji Veerji Shah (composer),
Plot: Kalpana and Rajesh have a chance encounter, which eventually leads to love. While Rajesh is poor, and lives all by himself, Kalpana comes from a wealthy family, and her dad, Shyamlal wants her to marry the son of Girdharilal. Opposed to this marriage, Kalpana runs away to Rajesh, and soon both get married at the Registrar of Marriages. This engrages her dad all the more, and he refuses to have to do anything with his daughter, disowning her. Kalpana and Rajesh settle down, and soon are proud parents of a boy. Kalpana has kept in touch with her mother, and has bragged to her that they are both well-off, her husband is now in a supervisory position, and they own a large bunglow and a car. Shyamlal and his wife decide to visit their grandson, throwing Kalpana in a chaos, as she must now attempt to live up the high expectations that she has created for her family.
Genres: Comedy, Family,Actors: Keshav Rana (actor), Ravikant (actor), Pran (actor), Birbal (actor), Polson (actor), Mehmood Jr. (actor), Madan Puri (actor), C.S. Dubey (actor), Manoj Kumar (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Brahm Bhardwaj (actor), Manmohan (actor), Raj Kishore (actor), Prem Chopra (actor), Asit Sen (actor),
Plot: An honest and patriotic young man learns that politicians, and the wealthy, are not. Notable songs: "Jish path peh chala, us path peh mujhe pas to aane de, saathi na samaj, koi baat nahin, mujhe saath to aane deh..."; "Ik tara bhole, tun tun, kya kahey yeh tumse..."; :Baharon ka hai mela, hai mera dil akeyla..."; "Woh khet me milega, kalyan me milega, Bhagwan, toh eh bandhey, insaan me milega...".
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical,Actors: Biswajeet (actor), Gajanan Jagirdar (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Lalita Kumari (actress), Praveen Paul (actress), Shashikala (actress), Mala Sinha (actress), Tanuja (actress), Tanuja (actress), K.S. Gopalakrishnan (writer), Abhimanyu Sharma (actor), Ashim Kumar (actor), Mukhram Sharma (writer), Sarita Devi (actress), Sitara Devi (actress),
Plot: Bombay-based Lakshmi is the Chair of the Women's Syndicate as well as an aspiring politician, and lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her husband, Mohanlal; a pampered daughter, Shanti; and unemployed slacker son, Deepak. Mohanlal runs the 'Lakshmi Match Factory' and was born in a middle-classed background. Lakshmi hopes to get Shanti and Deepak married to a Rajkumar and Rajkumari respectively - but her hopes begin to fade when Shanti decides to marry an unemployed painting artist, Shekhar, the son of their factory watchman, Shankarlal. She then arranges Deepak's wedding with Dhanwati, the only child of a wealthy Singapore couple - little knowing the shock that await her when she will find out the background of her daughter-in-law.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Indira Bansal (actress), Nasir Hussain (actor), Mehmood (actor), Brahm Bhardwaj (actor), Shakila (actress), Raj Kapoor (actor), Satyanarayan (miscellaneous crew), Haroon (actor), Radhakrishan (actor), Kumud Tripathi (actor), Arun (actor), Raja Nene (miscellaneous crew), Raja Nene (actor), Moni Chatterjee (actor), S.M. Abbas (director),
Plot: Vijaykumar lives a poor lifestyle along with his honest store-owner widower father, Mohanlal, in a small town. The latter sells his merchandise at a reasonable price much to the chagrin of his competitor, Lalchand, who plants drugs in his store and has him arrested. Unable to bear the shock and humiliation, he passes away, leaving Vijaykumar in the care of his doctor. The latter grows up, becomes a graduate in Science, and re-locates to Bombay to be employed and live with wealthy Champalal and his daughter, Geeta. Vijaykumar does not know that Champalal's partner is none other than Lalchand, who wants his son, Kishore, to wed Geeta, and is all set to create obstacles and challenges for him by marketing untested creams and painkillers.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance,