'Ferry' Widower Vikas lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle along with son, Raju, on an island off of Bombay's Gateway of India. Raju has not been told of his mother's demise, and believes that she will return home by the next boat. He is look ...
Hindi
1954
Jagriti The film is centered on a rich boy who is badly behaved. He goes to a boarding school and his life turns around due to a caring teacher and a cripple friend.
Hindi
1954
Adhikar (1954) Shekhar, Lata and their child Shashi live in a small town and have just received news that he will be transferred to Bombay. The couple leaves Shashi with their maid and attends a party--but return home to find the building in fla ...
Hindi
1954
Pather Panchali The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. His parents are quite poor - his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family's fruit orchard to settle his brother's debts. His sister Durga and an o ...
Bengali
1955
Amanat A dying man entrusts his lives earnings to Purshotam, a stranger he just met, and asks him to promise to take this money to his wife, and son, Pradeep, in a remote village in India, to which Purshotam agrees. The man passes away, ...
The Savage Princess A Royal Indian family consists of the Emperor Maharaj (Murad, his brother Shamsher Singh (Premnath) and sister Rajshree (Nadira). A poor villager named Jai Tilak (Dilip Kumar) enters a contest to tame Princess Rajshree's horse and ...
Hindi
1956
Funtoosh Ramlal was brought to an asylum after witnessing the death of his mother and sister. Losing his sanity, he calls himself Funtoosh.
When the doctors find they could do no more for him, they release him. Funtoosh soon finds the w ...
Hindi
1956
Aji Bas Shukriya Geeta belongs to a poor family and lives with her mother in a small one room apartment. She is employed as a typist with an organization. She likes to dance and sing, and does so also at work, which ends up in her losing her job. ...
Adalat Nirmala lives with her maternal uncle, his wife, and her widowed mom, studies in an Arts College, has a sweetheart in wealthy Rajinder R. Singh, who she plans to marry. Disagreements flare up at home when her aunt wants her to get ...
Hindi
1958
12 O'Clock (1958) Bani Chowdhury and solicitor Ajoy Kumar are deeply in love with each other. But their world comes crashing down when Bani's cousin, Maya is found dead in the first class compartment at a railway terminus in Bombay. Bani who had go ...
Chhoti Bahen Chhoti Bahen is the poignant story about the delicate but powerful bond of filial love. Rajendra (Balraj Sahni) and Shekhar (Rehman) lose both their parents and the only family left is each other and their younger sister Meena (Na ...
Hindi
1959
Ardhangini Unlucky........these heart breaking words were to echo and re-echo through-out an innocent girl's whole life casting a deep and menacing shadow across the days to come. Chhaya (Meena Kumari) was a very charming child, pristine pur ...
Hindi
1959
Main Nashe Main Hoon Shut down the club-haunts of colourful corruption-no more wine-no more woman’...... This was the voice of the son-same of his father and the same of his grand father too.The city magistrate Kundanlal hated his father, who was a ...
Hindi
1959
Ek Phool Chaar Kaante Sanjiv(Sunil Dutt) is a carefree, fun loving, exu-berant young man with a passion for living the exciting modern way, with no thought for the morrow. His mother (Mumtaz begum) dotes on him and nothing that her son does is ever wro ...
Hindi
1960
The World of Apu Liberated from any form of attachment that was holding him back from immersing himself into Kolkata's urban lifestyle after Sarbojaya's death in Aparajito (1956), Apu, now an optimistic, 23-year-old idealist and struggling author, ...
Bengali
1960
Parivar "PARIVAR" is not the story of just one family, but it is the story of every such family in India, which believes that children are the blessed gifts of God, little realising that as the size of family increases year by year, so do ...
