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- A Princess is tricked into marrying a naive and illiterate youth.
- Successful adventure film. Young, bored millionaire (Motilal) has a bet with his doctor that he will go out into the world without taking any money and survive for 300 days. The film mainly revolves around the millionaire and how he survives out on his own. The story of his adventures was a big hit, including two songs by Motilal himself: 'Ghar apna yeh kursi apni' and 'Ik tum na hui to kay hua'.
- Ostensibly a Central Asian war storh about the Decossackization policy, a conflict between the Cossack and the Bolsheviks, a tale that advocates national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin, a grandson of a Tatar man, and Jabir, a commander of a Tatar Red Army military unit. Murad, a Bolshevik intellectual and revolutionary, becomes sympathetic to the Cossacks' plight, and gets arrested for treason and escapes. He meets the wild Gulnar and gets her to spy as a maid of Nigar, the scion of a wealthy Cossack family. Nigar falls for Murad and Gulnar withdraws from the scene for the sake of her nation.
- Heiress Shobhana Devi (Bannerjee) starts a campaign, with the help of three trustees of her fortune, to capture the crook Jagmohandas (Yakub). They start a detective agency, Service Ltd, and take clients who have all been victims of Jagmohandas' criminal endeavours.
- The role of Rambha was enacted by Shobhan Samartha (Shobhana) the is a slip of pen in the summary wherein instead of Shobhana Sulochna is written in the brackets.
- A social woman-centered film interrogating aspects of feudal patriarchy. The painter Ashok (Surendra) who loves the orphaned Vimala (Bibbo) is distressed to learn that she is due to marry Jagdish (Yakub). He paints Vimala's portraits with a frenzied obsession and becomes a famous artist. Paralleling this love story is the decline in Ashok's family fortunes.
- A period adventure with Motilal in a famous dual role. Judhajit (Sankatha), the outlawed brother of the king of Udayanagar, wants revenge on the royal family. He had left the palace with one of the king's twin sons who grew up as Indrajit, the twin of the drunken and debauched Prince Shatrujit (both Motilal) due to marry Princess Chanda (Sabita Devi). Indrajit is sent to kindnap her as part of the vendetta but the two fall in love. Shatrujit is too drunk to go through the marriage procedure and the dewan (Ansari) asks Indrajit to impersonate his brother.
- Well-known social film with a coincidence-ridden plot around the studio's star Sabita Devi. Hero Kumar (Surendra) studies at university with money borrowed by his poor father from Dinanath (Kayamali) who in return expects Kumar to marry his daughter Bansari (Sabita). Although he makes a city girl, Vilas (Aruna), pregnant, Kumar is forced to wed Bansari, which leaves Vilas at the mercy of the villainous Vinod (Yakub).
- This musical tells of a love triangle involving the famous gramaphone singer Sundardas (Surendra) who is happily married to Mohini (Prabha), and the even more popular singer Tilottama (Bibbo). Tilottama falls in love with Sundardas' voice and wants them to sing a duet and have an affair. Ghosh Babu (Advani) is the manager of the record label.
- Postman Shishir is obsessed by the desire to own a car. He meets the crook Vinod who promises him a car if he will become his accomplice. The film includes a character named Devdas obsessed with violins, who provokes the failure of Vinod's plot to have Shishir framed for the murder of Sushila.
- Bibbo is Neela and Surendra plays Jagirdar Surendra. They secretly marry and have a child. When Jagirdar is presumed dead in a shipwreck, the child is considered illegitimate. The poor peasant Shripat (Pande) helps Neela by marrying her and raising her son Ramesh (Motilal). The husband eventually returns and violently quarrels with Shripat about who 'owns' Neela. When the villain Banwarilal kills Shripat, the husband is framed for the killing. The real problem, however, is the son's rejection of his father, solved when together they face the gangsters in Narayanlal's (Yakub) den.
- Dr. Madhurika (Sabita) is a 'modern' young woman dedicated to her profession who advocates birth control to limit population growth. She marries Narendra (Motilal) on condition that he foregoes children, and does not interfere with her practice or with her choice of friends. The film then presents her as neglecting her home and provoking her husband's jealousy with her relationship with a smarmy colleague, Dr. Gaurish (Patel). When Narendra attends to Dr. Gaurish's suffering wife and then to a starving stranger, Indu (Shaligram), Madhurika gets jealous and agrees to become a dutifully domesticated wife.
- Three close friends, Pandurang, Kashinath, and Baburao, are employed in the same workplace, and live with their wives, Saraswati, Yamuna, and Ganga respectively. Each has his own faith, while Kashinath is a believer in Vastu Shastra and is always choosing the correct direction, Baburao is a believer in a voodoo-like priest, Baba Ajabnath, and Kashinath is a pious Hindu. All three search for a suitable male for their adopted sister, Anita, but she rejects their respective choices and gets married to Abhijit. Then things get complicated when Kashinath and Baburao get arrested by the Police for embezzling money from their place of employment, and may face time in jail.