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- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsRajesh KhannaHema MaliniPrem ChopraA singer by profession, Suraj (Rajesh Khanna) gets stranded in resthouse in the coutnryside during a rainstorm. While there he experiences ununsual feelings, as if he has been there before. He feels himself transported to another time and era, to another birth, and drawn to a woman named Ratna (Hema Malini). He is unable to leave this experience behind him, and decides to find out what this means. He discovers that in his past life he was a Chief Singer in the emperor's court, his name was Prakash and he had fallen in love with a courtesan named Ratna, much to the chargin and anger of his family and the emperor's and his officials. They are tragically separated. He subsequently comes across a portrait of Ratna, and shortly after he meets a gypsy, Jhumri (also Hema Malini) who looks exactly like Ratna. Soon Jhumri is also able to recollect her past life, and her love for Prakash. This does not auger well with Rita Malhotra (Asha Sachdev) who loves Suraj, and Appa (Prem Chopra), the son of the leader of the gypsies (Madan Puri), who will not stop at anything to make Jhumri his wife. Appa steals the portrait, and instigates the gypsies against Suraj, so that he can marry Jhumri, and perhaps separate the two lovers again in this birth also.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiAnnu KapoorPankaj KapurSubhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsJaya BachchanAmitabh BachchanUsha KiranA reclusive, depressed man and a bubbly young woman fall in love but then find out that she has cancer.
- DirectorSatyen BoseStarsDharmendraRakhee GulzarAjit KhanA bank manager is unjustly framed for robbery by his colleagues and imprisoned. After his release, he assumes another identity to exact vengeance.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsAmitabh BachchanMoushumi ChatterjeeRakesh PandeyAjay Chandra, a hard working and ambitious young man, who dreams of bigger things than a small job. He has dreams of starting his own business. One day he meets Aruna at a friends wedding and slowly fall in love. Aruna is daughter of a very successful lawyer. Ajay uses his rich friend's car, apartment etc. to impress Aruna's family, in the hope that he will succeed in his own business before they are married. However, Ajay falls prey to the cut throat competion in business and loses all his investment. He discloses everything to Aruna. Aruna is sympathetic to Ajay and loves him for what he is. However, Aruna's lawyer dad turns down the marriage proposal and starts to prosecute Ajay for business fraud. Through his hard work and support from Aruna and his mother, Ajay is able to correct the wrong doings and is able to win over Aruna's father.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsAshok KumarRakesh RoshanBindiya GoswamiTwo old people get married and their children from their previous marriages now have to live together under the same roof. Clashes and hilarity ensue.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsAmol PalekarTina AmbaniGovardhan AsraniNancy and Tony meet regularly on their daily commute to work and gradually fall in love. But when Tony shows reluctance toward marriage, Nancy's mother starts looking for a groom for her daughter.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRakhee GulzarAmitabh BachchanShreeram LagooInder, a contractor who believes in the power of money, places a bet with his friend Prakash to woo Rama, a simple girl. Rama is charmed by Inder but an event forces her to leave the city.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsFarooq ShaikhDeepti NavalUtpal DuttKailashnath is a widower, and father of an only son, Ramesh. He feels that his son has come of age, and must get married. He goes to see a number of young ladies for him, but is disappointed with them, as he feels they are too modern, speak English, and listen to foreign music. He feels that Ramesh will be better off marrying a non-English speaking lady, preferably from a small village. But the predicament of Ramesh is that he is already in love with Ramola, a very well qualified, English speaking Doctor, and he knows fully well that she will not be approved by his dad. So Ramesh, Ramola and Lalaji concoct a plot, making Ramola masquerade as a naive, non-English speaking village belle, with hilarious and unpredictable results.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsVidya SinhaAmol PalekarDinesh ThakurA Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsMithun ChakrabortyMoon Moon SenVijayendra GhatgeThe wife of a senior executive must deal with his arrest for attempted rape.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsMithun ChakrabortyRati AgnihotriUtpal DuttSandeep Anand is a wealthy industrialist. He runs an organization, and falls in love with one of his employees named Geeta, who comes from a lower middle class family, and wants to marry a man in the same class. Sandeep convinces her that he works for Mr. Anand, and both fall in love. When Geeta and her family find out that Sandeep has been lying to them, they have him arrested for impersonation. When Sandeep convinces the police that he is indeed the real Sandeep Anand, he is released. When Sandeep attempts to woo Geeta back, she will have nothing to do with him, as he lied to her. Sandeep will now have to prove his love for Geeta all over again.
- DirectorSujoy GhoshStarsVidya BalanParambrata ChattopadhyayIndraneil SenguptaA pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met him.
- DirectorAnurag BasuStarsHrithik RoshanBárbara MoriNicholas BrownA wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.
- DirectorAnurag BasuStarsRanbir KapoorPriyanka Chopra JonasIleana D'CruzThree young people learn that love can neither be defined nor contained by society's definition of normal and abnormal.
- DirectorShoojit SircarStarsAyushmann KhurranaYami GautamAnnu KapoorA man is brought in by an infertility doctor to supply him with his sperm, where he becomes the biggest sperm donor for his clinic.
- DirectorAnurag BasuStarsDharmendraGautam KapurIrrfan KhanSix different stories, about nine people, each with different issues and problems, all occurring within one place: the METRO.
- DirectorDibakar BanerjeeStarsAbhay DeolParesh RawalNitu ChandraLovinder Singh, a thief now in custody and facing trial, reflects on his life of crime while the press reflect on how he managed to get away with so much before being arrested.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsAshok KumarA.K. HangalUtpal DuttThree friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives.
- DirectorDulal GuhaStarsAmitabh BachchanRekhaPrem ChopraA man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later he is living with a wealthy couple and is now named Naresh Dutt. One day he begins to regain his memory when he watches a film and realizes that the actress in the film is related to him somehow. It is then that he discovers the actress in the film is none other than his wife Rekha Roy (Rekha). He finds out that she is now a very successful film actress changing her name to Sunita Devi and her manager is none other than Ranjeet Malik (Prem Chopra) who used to be his best friend. In flashbacks he remembers that his real name is Amit Roy and Ranjit was the one who attempted to kill him six years earlier by throwing him off the train he was traveling on with Rekha. Amit also discovers that his young son who is now 10 years old has been sent to a boarding school and sets out a plan to regain custody of his son. First however he plans on taking revenge against Ranjit. Amit comes up with a plan to re-enter Rekha and Ranjit's lives by disguising himself as a film producer. He meets with Rekha and Ranjit and offers Rekha the opportunity to act in his new film titled Do Anjaane. Rekha and Ranjit grow suspicious of Naresh Dutt as they start to realize that he bears a striking resemblance to Rekha's supposedly deceased husband Amit Roy and the storyline of his film eerily mirrors Rekha's past life. Will she discover the true identity of Naresh Dutt? and what revenge has Amit/Naresh got planned for Ranjit?
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmol PalekarSwaroop SampatUtpal DuttAn impoverished employee tries to prevent his superiors and employers from marrying his sweetheart.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmol PalekarBindiya GoswamiDeven VermaA man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss gets suspicious.
- DirectorAnil GangulyStarsRakhee GulzarParikshit SahniGovardhan AsraniThe oldest daughter of an old and ailing man falls in love with the doctor treating her father, but the mother of the doctor insists that the girl must leave everything she does and stay with them.
- DirectorSushil MajumdarStarsRaaj KumarHema MaliniRakhee GulzarA vain, self-righteous nobleman falls in love with a village girl and tries to transform her into his version of the ideal woman.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsMithun ChakrabortyMandakiniSadashiv AmrapurkarRakesh (a nickname "Bullet"), appeared the tool in hands of experienced gangsters, rises, not knowing that, on a way of the father which has decided to take justice in own hands and to revenge for family tragedy.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRajesh KhannaAmitabh BachchanSimi GarewalSomnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take bed-rest for two months, Vicky fills in his father's shoes, has a confrontation with a senior employee and union leader, Bipinlal Pandey, which results in a strike. His father intervenes, asks Vicky to apologize to Bipinlal, which Vicky does, and everything returns to normal. Vicky confides about his humiliation with Somu, and both conspire to teach Bipinlal a lesson. As a result, Somu accompanies Vicky to Calcutta, gets a job as a laborer in his mill, befriends his fellow-workers, gets some monetary relief to injured workers, amongst other benefits, is elected as the union leader replacing Bipinlal. With Somu as the union leader and Vicky as the boss there is no stopping these two - until Damodar finds out and decides to put a stop to Vicky being influenced by Somu's middle-class ideas and ideals. Damodar starts a chain of events that get out of control, events that may well see the death of one of the friends at the hands of the other. Will Vicky's and Somu's friendship see them through or will it also be a casualty?
- DirectorBasu BhattacharyaStarsSanjeev KumarSharmila TagoreSarika ThakurAmar and Mansi meet through their respective families and have an arranged marriage. Amar, a book-keeper, is very thrifty, intends to save money so that they can buy their very own flat, and both to live as frugally as possible. Mansi soon gives birth to a baby boy, Bablu. Then Sapna joins Amar's firm and is asked to sit in this room, as her youth and beauty has led to distraction in the workplace. Amar reluctantly agrees to share his room with her, and is soon drawn toward her and they often go out together after work. Sapna would like to marry Amar, and asks him to tell his wife, so that the couple can separate. Amar does so, and Mansi agrees to separate on the condition that he introduces Sapna to her, and Amar agrees to do so. Watch how a pensive Mansi goes through the rest of the day - which may well culminate in her losing out to a much younger and attractive woman - a day that may change her life forever.
- DirectorManik ChatterjeeGulzarStarsVinod MehraRekhaPrema NarayanVikas and Aarti's happy life is ruined by a gruesome incident causing a psychological distance between them. Will they be able to overcome the stigma and rekindle their love?
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAshok KumarRekhaRakesh RoshanA strict matriarch's regimented household is upended by the arrival of a spunky relative who challenges the rules.
- DirectorPradeep SarkarStarsVidya BalanSaif Ali KhanSanjay DuttThe lifelong romance between Lolita (Balan) and Shekar (Khan) is upset by the arrival of another man.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRekhaRaj BabbarAmol PalekarKalpana pranks on everyone by lying even after getting frequent warnings from her brother Inspector Kamal who has warned her that someday she might land in trouble.Kalpana plays vital part in getting Kamal and her neighbor Seema close who love each other Alpana's marriage gets fixed with Seema's brother Dr Anil but Alpana is in love with Rasik.Kalpana lies to her mother that Anil is not of good character and breaks the marriage but ends up falling in love with him.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsRajesh KhannaAsha ParekhPrem ChopraA runaway bride promises her dying widowed friend that she will assume her identity and look after her infant child.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsRajesh KhannaAmitabh BachchanSumita SanyalThe story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the fullest before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmitabh BachchanJaya BachchanGovardhan AsraniA popular singer convinces his new wife to enter show-business, but his pride is wounded when she outshines him.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMithun ChakrabortyMamata ShankarRobert WrightIn the 1930s, a group of tribals live in a small village in a forest in Odisha. A British administrator arrives at the village who is passionate about hunting. He befriends Ghinua, an exceptional archer.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsDharmendraSharmila TagoreAmitabh BachchanA newly wedded husband plays a practical joke on his wife's family with full support from his wife and friends.
- DirectorBasu ChatterjeeStarsAmol PalekarZarina WahabVijayendra GhatgeGeeta ends up with two suitors after her father goes to bring home a prospective groom and mistakenly picks up the wrong man.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAmitabh BachchanRakhee GulzarVinod Mehra'Bemisal' is the story of noble orphan Sudhir, who sacrifices everything he has, from the love of his life to his profession and reputation, to save his foster family.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsVijay AroraAshwaniUtpal DuttUnsuccessful film-maker (Vijay Arora) chronicles the story of two orphaned children, Shibu (Ashwani), and his elder sister, Rani (Gayetri Sharma), who live with their abusive maternal uncle (Sadhu Meher), and aunt (Mala Jaggi). Things take a turn for the better when Shibu befriends an albino elephant in the nearby forest, and through this elephant, named Airawat, finds a pot full of gold coins. Unfortunately, the uncle and his wife come to know of this, and inform the Emperor (Shatrughan Sinha), who undertakes to capture the elephant at any cost, leaving the uncle and aunt to keep the gold coins for themselves.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsDharmendraJaya BachchanSumita SanyalA teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsRajesh KhannaSharmila TagoreSujit KumarA village woman abandoned by her husband is forced into prostitution in Kolkata and forms nameless yet strong relations with a wealthy patron as well as an abused boy in the neighbourhood.
- DirectorHrishikesh MukherjeeStarsAshok KumarDharmendraSharmila TagoreThe tale begins in the final days of the British Raj in India. A cohort of engineering students graduate a few months before Independence. Satyapriya and Naren are among the graduate engineers. The principality of Bhawanigarh is run by a cruel, dissolute man, Vikram Singh, who knows his days of absolute power are numbered. Satyapriya Acharya finds employment in Bhawanigarh, the meets and marries Ranjana under peculiar circumstances. This creates huge issues in his family, particular his grandfather who raised him. Orthodoxy of the teacher clan of the Acharyas precludes admission of Ranjana into the household. Satyapriya is the epitome of integrity, refuses to utter any untruth; as a consequence, he and his family face difficulties. It takes a death in the family to bring a reinterpretation of tradition and relationships.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsRajesh KhannaSharmila TagoreSujit KumarArun meets Vandana during a vacation and very soon they secretly get married. Arun is an Air Force pilot and dies in a crash, leaving pregnant Vandana heartbroken--and unable to prove that she is a married mother-to-be. As her marriage was never formalized she decides not to keep the child, and her own father dies around this time. She gives birth to her son, Suraj, and when a wealthy couple adopts him, she decides to be the nanny. All goes well until Shyam, a relative, starts to eye her, and one day he tries to molest her. Suraj stabs him, and she takes the blame and goes to jail for it. Years later when she is released from jail, the jailer takes her to his house to take care of her daughter Renu. Renu starts bonding well with Vandana and introduces her to her lover--who is none other than Suraj. The moment she sees him, she knows he is her son because he is his father's exact replica. But she decides not to reveal this truth that might embarrass Suraj.
- DirectorBimal RoyStarsDilip KumarVyjayanthimalaJohnny WalkerA young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsMithun ChakrabortyNandana SenPran SikandJohnny, a musician, belongs to the itinerent troupe of Hameed the ventriloquist. The star attraction of their show is the talking doll Urvashi - seductress, eternal child-woman, one who cannot age or die. When Hameed's voice fails, he sells Urvashi to Johnny, who returns to his small neighbourhood in suburban Mumbai. He reunites with his childhood sweetheart Rosemary and plans to resume his stage performances with Urvashi. To Rosemary who is eager to help Johnny, Urvashi almost seems like the other woman. Johnny's music and his talking doll are a hit with audiences which only fuels Rosemary's insane jealousy. Communal riots break out in the city and Johnny's songs unveil the true culprits behind the controversy. They hit back and Urvashi is destroyed. Johnny is silenced because his medium of expression is gone. Now Rosemary draws him out of his despair, brings him back on the stage and dances in place of Urvashi - the woman becomes the doll.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsNaseeruddin ShahShabana AzmiUtpal DuttThis is Goutam Ghose's speculative commentary on poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, based on Bengali story Paathi.
- DirectorShonali BoseNilesh ManiyarStarsKalki KoechlinRevathiSayani GuptaA rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York, unexpectedly falls in love, and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery.
- DirectorDibakar BanerjeeStarsSushant Singh RajputAnand TiwariNeeraj KabiDetective Byomkesh Bakshy is set in the 2nd World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s. Enter a magical world of nostalgia and 'Expect the Unexpected'.
- DirectorRibhu DasguptaStarsAmitabh BachchanNawazuddin SiddiquiVidya BalanA grandfather, a priest and a police officer investigate the case of a kidnapped child.
- DirectorAniruddha Roy ChowdhuryStarsAmitabh BachchanTaapsee PannuKirti KulhariWhen three young women are implicated in a crime, a retired lawyer steps forward to help them clear their names.
- DirectorSanjoy NagStarsDeepti NavalRaima SenRituparno GhoshA mother finds out that her recently deceased son had a secret life.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsJackie ShroffAbhishek BachchanRoopa GangulyIn late 19th Century, Bengal Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a wealthy and tyrannical Zamidar (Squire). He has two main obsessions: his desperate attempts for an heir, which even his new second wife Jashomati seems unable to deliver; and competing with his regional rivals to produce the most magnificent effigy of a goddess for the annual Durga Puja ceremony. This year he concocts a master plan - why not change the face of the goddess for the most powerful woman on Earth - Queen Victoria. Meantime his two wives Mahomaya and Jashomati try to look out for one another especially as Bhubeneshwar begins to sexually assault his younger wife each night. Traumatised and lonely, Jashomati is dangerously drawn towards the youthful sculptor who has been employed to create the great effigy of Durga, Goddess of destruction.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAjay DevgnAishwarya Rai BachchanAnnu KapoorAll he wanted was to see her just once. Manu was from a village in the backwoods. Neeru was the girl next door, his lost love.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsAmitabh BachchanZeenat AmanNeetu SinghAfter unwittingly using his skills to obtain military secrets, a gambler is pursued by a police officer who happens to be his doppelganger.
- DirectorSujoy GhoshStarsVidya BalanArjun RampalJugal HansrajA woman with a mysterious past is charged with kidnapping and murder.
- DirectorManmohan MalikSubodh MukherjiStarsShashi KapoorHema MaliniDeb MukherjeeA chance meeting between an Assistant Scientist, Shekar, and an established stage dancer and singer, Anjana, results in love. While Shekar has a mother who lives separately, Anjana has been orphaned at an early age. Shekar's mom approves of Anjana, and both get married. Anjana stops her involvement in dancig and singing, and both spent the next several months on relative harmony. Then Anjana finds that Shekar is spending more and more time in the laboratory than with her, and she decides to take up dancing and singing, which does not auger well with Shekar. Arguments ensue, and both decide to live separately. When Shekar's mom comes to visit Shekar, both he and Anjana compromise to live together to fool his mother. Will they succeed in pulling wool over her eyes?
- DirectorAnurag BasuShubzzStarsRanbir KapoorKatrina KaifSaswata ChatterjeeJoin Jagga, a gifted teenage detective, who along with a female companion, is on a quest to find his missing father.
- DirectorShakti SamantaStarsMithun ChakrabortyRozinaUtpal DuttGhonsyam,a troubled fisherman meets a twistic tale which surrounds agony and love