
Birthday:
11-02-1897
Deathday:
01-28-1984 (86 years)
Birthplace:
Not available
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Pukar
Act like Sardar Sangram Singh
event1939 star_border 6.5
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A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.
Jailor
event1938
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Modi's first psychodramatic role as a liberal man becoming a tyrannical jailer. He loses his wife to a lover who then goes blind. The jailer locks up his wife, Kanwal, in their own home, forbidding any contact with their child, Bali. Later the jailer himself falls in love with a blind woman.
Jhansi Ki Rani
Act like Raj Guru
event1953 star_border 6.5
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Set in the 19th century against the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857, the film is about the bravery of queen Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, who took up arms and led her army against the British.
Sikandar
Act like King Porus
event1941
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The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks). The story goes that when Sikander defeated Porus and imprisoned him, he asked Porus how would he like to be treated. Porus replied the same way a defeated king is treated by the winner (meaning killed).
Nausherwan-E-Adil
Act like Sultan-e-Iran Nausherwan bin Kavad
event1957 star_border 6
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A fair-minded emperor improves and introduces new laws, but ends up facing challenges when his son violates them.
Raj Hath
event1956 star_border 6
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A stubborn emperor plans to wage war against another who had humiliated him and his daughter.
Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari
Act like Raisaheb Surajbhan Chaudhary
event1971 star_border 5.5
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Raisaheb Surajbhan Chaudhary has two sons - Rajkumar who has not produced an heir to his family and other is Mohan, a devout worshiper of Lord Bajrangbali and refuses to get married. Things change dramatically when a young woman named Neena, along with her son, enters the Chaudhary household claiming that Mohan had married and abandoned her.
Kundan
Act like Kundan
event1955 star_border 4
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Classic Bollywood film about a young man whose poverty leads him to commit crimes which, in turn, lead him to harsher and harsher punishments.
Yahudi
Act like Ezra
event1958 star_border 5.7
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In ancient Rome, a mourning Jewish man raises the kidnapped daughter of Roman royalty as his own - and she grows up without learning her true identity. Years later, she falls in love with a Roman prince.
Prithvi Vallabh
Act like Prithvi Vallabh
event1943
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The story revolves around two kings, Prithvi Vallabh (Munj) of Avantipur who is kind and just, and Tailap, a neighboring king who is cruel. With the help of his sister Mrinalvati (Durga Khote) and another neighbouring king Bhillam (K. N. Singh), Tailap manages to capture Prithvi Vallabh. The rest of the film follows incidents following his captivity.
Jailor
event1958 star_border 6
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A jailor is abandoned by his wife which leads to great changes in his life
Bharosa
Director
event1940
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Bollywood 1940
Ek Din Ka Sultan
Director
event1945
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Film starring Mehtab and Wasti.
Shama
Producer
event1946
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Film starring Mehtab and Wasti.
Mirza Ghalib
Director
event1954 star_border 6.5
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A fictionalized account of the life of poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib during the reign of the last Mughal Emperor, told through the lens of his ill-fated love for a beautiful courtesan he called Chaudhvin.
Waris
Producer
event1954
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An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunmar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcing him to join the army during WW2. When he is reported missing and presumed dead, a repentant Rana invites Shobha to stay with him. However, it is Kanta (Nadira), a young woman betrayed by Rana's villainous secretary Kailash (Yakub), who arrives at the house and his mistaken for Shobha. Masquerading as Shobha, who lives nearby in absolute poverty, Kanta moves in, causing a moral dilemma and generating suspense since she could be caught at any moment.
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