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- A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built.
- A period fantasy that told of the ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two rival queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir. Dilbahar unsuccessfully tries to seduce the army chief Adil (Vithal) and vengefully destroys his family, leaving his daughter Alam Ara (Zubeida) to be raised by nomads. Eventually, Alam Ara's nomad friends invade the palace, expose Dilbahar's schemes, release Adil from the dungeon and she marries the prince of the realm.
- A wealthy mill owner, Durgadas Prasad, hires a secretary to handle his office work. She falls in love with Billoo, who incidentally happens to be Durgadas' estranged grandson.
- Living a poor lifestyle with his widowed mother, Shankar sells toys for a living, but is addicted to alcohol. He is attracted to Parvati, who also lives a poor lifestyle along with her step-brother, Jagat Narayan, his wife, and their daughter, Pushpa. After an argument with his mother, Shankar departs to the city, gives up drinking, earns a lot of money, and returns home just to time to pay off his mortgage. But his world will soon be shattered after he goes to ask for the hand of a now wealthy Parvati. This is where he will be forced to face his past, and ultimately be told that Parvati's marriage has been arranged elsewhere. Unable to live without Parvati, he takes up drinking again and heads on to a path of self-destruction.
- Rich guy Puran is not allowed to marry poor girl Asha. Will his Zid (stubbornness) win over the family forms the plot of this film
- When Shekhar comes to know that Rani became disabled because of him, he decides to help her by hiding his real identity.
- Radha earns a living begging in order to support herself and her crippled and ailing father. They live in a small tenament, under the constant threat of eviction by their landlord for unpaid rent for several months. One day, while begging, Radha meets a young man, Nirmal Chander, who would like to see her improve her status by getting employment, he even goes to the extent of assisting her find work in a mill. He subsequently invites her over to meet his mother, and asks her to marry him, to which she agrees. Nirmal also seeks the permission of her dad. When he goes to get her to make arrangements for their marriage, he finds her and her dad gone. His attempts to locate her are in vain. Then after several months he finds her living in a small dilapidated hut with a young man named Mastram and a child - she calls her own - but claims that she is unmarried. Who is the biological father of this child? Where is he located?
- This adaptation of Arnold's 1861 Orientalist epic opens with documentary shots of tourists in Bombay watching street performers. Then a white-bearded old man sitting under the bodhi tree tells the tourists the story of Gautama (Rai), son of King Suddodhana (Ukil) and Queen Maya (Bala), who left his consort Gopa (Seeta) and became a wandering teacher credited with founding Buddhism. The religious epic, with its idealized figures, takes up the narrative in flashback and ends with Gopa kneeling before Gautama asking to become his disciple.
- In the royal court of Janakgarh Mangal Singh revolts against his sisters husband Maharana Pragat Singh they escape in a temple to save their lives.The prince and his wife is killed by Mangal while his elder daughter manages to escape to her uncle Maharana Kharak Singh for help while the youngest manages to escape the temple and is taken care by a untouchable family and named Ganga (Kamal) .Kharak Singh kills Mangal Singh and gives to his niece.Ganga meets Madhusudan a stone craft artist and falls in love while her sister whose ruling the throne calls Madhusudan for art craft work in palace and also falls in love with him.
- Two poor homeless siblings have singing talent but are unable to find a job. When they meet the brother of a theatre owner, things start to change a lot.
- A romantic crime thriller. Kamala elopes on her wedding day with her childhood friend Ratanlal. Her father Manganlal chases the couple and catches them on a train. His furious exchanges with Ratanlal are interrupted by gunfire and in the mysterious gloom of the evening a body is thrown off the train. The suspects are Ratanlal, who cannot furnish an alibi, Kamala, who insists on being the murderess, ex-convict Sukhdev, who confesses to the murder claiming robbery to be the motive, and the lunatic Tarachand, who also admits his guilt.
- A heartwarming tale of good-samaritanism: A poor but large-hearted young man gives shelter to three helpless, forlorn people in his home--an abandoned railway coach. However, tensions arise in the group when he marries one of the inmates, a destitute young girl, since one of the other inmates loves her too.The group breaks up and the coach is abandoned. Time passes, fortunes turn, and penitence brings the group back together.
- After the death of his wife, a policeman fails to up-bring his only son in a good way and spoils him. This creates serious repercussions once the child becomes an adult.
- Nirmala (Devika Rani) is a modern girl - young, beautiful, dressed in the latest fashions, attends college, and is even the only female in an all-male class. She doesn't take second place to the men, besting all but one in the annual exams. She tied with Ramdas (Ashok Kumar). But, at the same time she is tied to the age-old culture, traditions and religion. She yearns for a husband and for motherhood. And this conflict forms the crux of the story.
- Based on Bankimchandra's novel Rajani (1877), this romance addresses property rights. Samar (Kumar) and Tarangini (Sumitra Devi) are childhood lovers. Samar feels betrayed when she obeys her father's decision and marries a wealthy zamindar. When Samar becomes a successful lawyer, he tries to take revenge on Tarangini and marries a blind flower-girl who, he discovers, owns the property on which the zamindar has built his fortune. The plot is complicated by the fact that the blind girl loves Jatin, the zamindar's son.
- The story revolves around Ramesh's life, a law student who is forced into an arranged marriage though he is in love with somebody else. Following the wedding, story focuses on the bride's mistaken identity and the search for her husband.
- Rural melodrama about Durga, an adolescent child of nature, living with her aged mother Heera. Unable to get the medicine required to prevent her mother's death, one misfortune after another befalls the heroine in spite of the sympathies of the newly arrived village doctor, Jawahar.
- Dilip, spoilt and careless grandson of wealthy Rai Bahadur, is in love with film actress Nayantara and wants to marry her. However, Nayantara wants to marry him only for his wealth. Rai Bahadur totally disapproves this. However, film actor Ashok Kumar knows the truth as he also loves Nayantara. Dilip, unaware of Nayantara's ulterior motives, deceives Rai Bahadur time & again. On a day, Rai Bahadur with the help of his doctor friend, plays a trick. He pretends to be on his death bed and asks Dilip to change his ways. Dilip tries to assure him that he is out of the alliance with Nayantara and is in love with a nice girl who he plans to marry with. Rai Bahadur asks him to bring that girl in. Helpless Dilip ropes in Kiran. Rai Bahadur likes Kiran and hires her to take care of his house and himself until Dilip marries her. Unwillingly, Dilip co-op with the situation but falls in love with Kiran as he is now aware of what Nayantara wants. But he cannot marry Kiran as Nayantara starts blackmailing him at the pretext of some photographs she has in her possession. She threatens to sue Dilip but Ashok Kumar comes in and saves Dilip.
- A nationalist rural drama- Janmabhoomi was the first patriotic Hindi movie. The plot has Dr. Ajay Ghosh and his girl friend Protima working to improve the lives of Indian villagers, incurring the enmity of the local zamindar and his vicious, scheming henchman Sanatan. Ajay's relentless goodness eventually persuades the zamindar to bequeath his property to the hero, and general well-being reigns as class conflict is transmuted into class collaboration. The film includes the nationalist song 'Jai jai janani janmabhoomi' and other choruses with a similar thrust.
- The love story between between the beautiful village belle Radha and Kamal, the son of the village zamindar who wants to be a great poet. The zamindar sends his son to the city where Kamal becomes a noted novelist and playwright while Radha is persecuted by the zamindar and his henchmen Banwari. She feigns suicide but in fact goes to join her beloved in the city (on the same train as the now repentant father). When she eventually reaches Kamal's house, she hears him declaring his love to a woman. Unaware that he is merely reading lines from his latest play.
- Based in Central India, a story about struggle of a young man belonging to Bheel (an adivasi) tribe against the exploitation of his people by stronger Maratha tribe.
- Lata (Devika Rani), daughter of a dancing girl, is brought up by social worker Mathuradas (Prasad) and is engaged to marry the rich Ranjit (Ashok Kumar) when the villain Chand (S.N. Tripathi) arrives to blackmail her with her undisclosed ancestry. Lata is forced to disclose the truth to Ranjit and the assembled wedding guests. Ranjit disowns her but they are reunited when Ranjit, blinded by an explosion, is nursed back to health by a devoted woman who turns out to be his wife.
- Beena, a young village girl and Nirmal love each other. When Suresh decides to create rift between them, things begin to challenge both Beena and Nirmal.
- In this tale of rural caste divisions, polygamy is added to the theme in this story of Uma, born in an orthodox Brahmin family. To the despair of her parents she values her friendship with low-caste potters. Especially with Ranu. When she marries Nandlal, a man from her own caste, her potter friends are happy for her - until they learn that Nandlal is taking a second wife, Padma, with Uma's consent. The problem is that Uma is thought to be infertile. Uma returns to her parents' home mainly because Nandlal is paying no attention to his new wife, and when she returns she meets Ramu again. Nandlal overhears a conversation between Ramu and Uma and, when Uma suddenly discovers that she is pregnant after all, he doubts her fidelity.
- The story centers on three college friends: the liberal Vijay, the conservative Loknath and Jagdish.
- The hero Ramesh (Kumar/Bhattacharya) agrees to marry a woman he has never met, unknown to his real lover Hemnalini (Ranjana/Sarkar). The wedding party is hit by a storm when travelling across a river; the hero's father and the bride are drowned while the hero survives. He later meets Kamala (Meera Mishra), whose husband (likes Ramesh's wife had died shortly after their marriage. Their respective bereavements bring the two closer until Kamala's husband is discovered to be still alive. Eventually Ramesh marries Hemnalini. The classic Tagore novel was Nitin Bose's debut at Bombay Talkies, and his most ambitious Hindi film to date. Reviews attacked it for its slow pace, but generally commended its extensive night shooting.
- Two widowed sisters thwart a love match when they try to arrange marriages for their respective children.
- Grieved at the death of his sister because they can't afford a doctor, a young boy vows to be a doctor.
- Unusual mythological. The love story from the 'Mahabharata', features Devika Rani as the heroine born through divine benediction to Ashwapati, and Ashok Kumar as Satyavan, son of an exiled and blinded hermit. Although Satyavan is scheduled to die soon, Savitri marries him and eventually propitiates Yama, the god of death, to return Satyavan's life and to restore her father-in-law's sight.
- A young blind girl is the only witness to the murder of a greedy, but repentant, landlord.
- A musical fantasy. Although Mahendra (Shukul), belongs to a clan of proud warriors, he is a hypochondriac. This poses a problem when he woos Menaka (Wadkar) who is fixated on swash-buckling heroics and appears more impressed with Mahendra's rival Jeevan. The 'hero' overcomes his cowardice by taking a magic pill and dreaming that he is his own ancestor, overthrowing a band of robbers (led by Jeevan) and rescuing the damsel (Menaka). The enacted dream, which occupies most of the film's 2nd half, transforms the hero.