Connection
Ek Thi Ladki is a film of genre Drama with I. S. Johar
Ek Thi Ladki (1949)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listEk Thi Ladki (There Was A Girl) is a 1949 Hindi action comedy film by director Roop K. Shorey. It had the famous Punjabi song "Laara Lappa Laara Lappa Layi Rakhda" by Lata Mangeshkar, G. M. Durrani and Mohammad Rafi. The music director was Vinod, with lyrics by Aziz Kashmiri and story by I. S. Johar. The film starred Meena Shorey (as Meena) who became famously known as the "Larra Lappa" girl following the release of the film, and Motilal (as Ranjeet). Other co-stars were Bharat Bhushan, I. S. Johar, Agha, Shakuntala, and Kuldip Kaur.
Synopsis
The movie is based on Meena (Meena Shorey) who is running away from two men, who are blackmailing her for a crime she did not commit. Along the way she meets Ranjeet (Motilal), who is engaged to be married to the daughter of his boss but falls in love with Meena.Actors
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Ek Thi Ladki
There are 140 films with the same actors, 61608 with the same cinematographic genres, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Ek Thi Ladki, you will probably like those similar films :
Roop Tera Mastana (1972)
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Pran Krishan Sikand, I. S. Johar, Leela Mishra, Jankidas
Rating62%
Ajit, Personal assistant to Princess Usha, does away with her, and brings along a look-alike, Kiran, to pose as her for a few days. Kiran, although poor, refuses to do so, and Ajit threatens her and her family, and she reluctantly agrees. She meets with Kiran's fiance, a Prince himself, and falls in love with him, not realizing that her feelings will soon be history when those few days come to an end, and she must then give up her wealthy life-style and go back to being poor again.
Big Boss (1957)
, 1h34Directed by Kishore Sahu
Genres Drama
Actors Kamini Kaushal, Durga Khote, Kishore Sahu, Agha, Gope, K. N. Singh (Krishan Niranjan Singh)
An elderly lady Rashmi (Kamini Kaushal), starts telling her story to a newly married couple she's giving shelter to as their car has broken down. The story in flashback, is set twenty years earlier. The wealthy landowner, Zamindar Mansingh, is oppressive and demanding of the people in his state. Rashmi and her family have just arrived in Gangapur as guests of Mansingh. Rashmi is captured by the dreaded dacoit Black Bandit. The Bandit releases Rashmi but keeps her jewellery. She notices a mark on the bandit's hand, which is also present on Pratap's hand. Pratap is the oldest son of Mansingh, and Rashmi realises that he's the bandit. Pratap also suffers from a heart problem unknown to the others. It's soon revealed that Pratap is the bandit and his father asks him to leave the house. When Pratap has a heart attack, his father relents and hands over the running of the property to him. Rashmi stays by his side and they get married. The flashback ends with the couple asking about Pratap's fate. Pratap is shown opening the gate of the house, returning from a fishing trip, having managed to survive the doctor's prognosis given twenty years back.
Kathputli (1971)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Jeetendra, Mumtaz, Helen Khan, Agha, Bhagwan Dada, Leela Mishra
Rating66%
Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957)
Genres Drama
Actors Motilal, Sulochana, Yakub, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Amjad Khan, Nana Palsikar
Rating76%
Ab Dilli Dur Nahin is the story of a journey in search of justice. Hariram, a poor labourer, loved his wife and son Rattan so much that he lavished them with all the comforts of life even though it meant he was constantly in debt. Hariram's life fell apart when he lost his wife. So grief-stricken was he that he even lost his job due to poor attendance. Misery drove him to seek solace in alcohol. When drunken Hariram reached home he found his son crying as an evil loan shark Sethji had beaten him up.
Maya (1961)
, 2h37Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dev Anand, Mala Sinha, Agha, Helen Khan, Amjad Khan, Tabassum
Rating74%
Kathputli (1957)
Directed by Nitin Bose, Amiya Chakravarty
Genres Drama
Actors Vyjayanthimala, Balraj Sahni, Agha
Rating67%
Pushpa comes from a poor family, and is a good dancer and singer. She would like to assist a puppeteer with his makeshift dolls and puppet act. Unfortunately, he meets with an accident, and is hospitalized. Some of his puppets were also damaged during this accident. Pushpa approaches Loknath for work, and he gets her to work on stage, and would like her to become a movie star. Will Pushpa give up her simple life, and take on the glamorous route?
Sharada (1957)
Directed by L. V. Prasad
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Raj Kapoor, Meena Kumari, Shyama, Anita Guha, Aachi Manorama, Agha
Rating60%
Chiranjeev (Raj Kapoor) lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his father, Kashiram (Raj Mehra), and three siblings: two sisters, one of whom is dumb, and a younger brother. While on a trip, his friend, Mohan (Om Prakash), falls ill due to alcohol, and gets treated at an Ashram. This is where Chiranjeev meets with an employee, Sharada (Meena Kumari), who lives a poor lifestyle with her father, Ram Sharan. Chiranjeev and Sharada fall in love with each other, and he promises to get his father's permission and return to get married to her. On his way home he has an accident, and though he does survive after being treated by tribal people, he returns to the Ashram several days later and is informed that Sharada is now married to a wealthy and much older man. Heart-broken and devastated, Chiranjeev returns home only to get another shock: the male Sharada has married is none other than his very own father. Depressed and deeply frustrated, he takes to alcohol in a big way. Sharada talks him out of this, he repents and on her insistence, marries Chanchal (Shyama), who come from a reputed family background. Things then get complicated when Chanchal finds that her husband and his stepmother had been in love before and may not have got over their feelings for each other.
Harry Black and the Tiger (1958)
, 1h50Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Barbara Rush, Stewart Granger, I. S. Johar, Anthony Steel, Martin Stephens, Kamala Devi
Rating61%
Professional hunter Harry Black is off to India. He wants to bag a tiger in the Indian jungles that is threatening a nearby village. As he proceeds on his journey, he encounters numerous people, including the young, and maybe too smart, Desmond Tanner and his wife Chris, who was Harry's first wife.
Anari (1959)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Motilal, Lalita Pawar, Shubha Khote, Sulochana
Rating75%
Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome and intelligent young man. He works as a sole trader and being a painter trade, he is unable to earn a living and unable to pay rent to his kind-hearted but talkative landlady Mrs. D'sa. One day Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the owner Mr Ramnath. Ramnath admires Raj and pleased with his honesty, employs him to work in his office as a clerk. Raj meets with Ramnath's maidservant Asha and soon both fall in love. This all ends when Raj finds out that Asha is really Aarti, the niece of his employer. Unfortunately, his landlady dies consuming medicine manufactured by his employer Mr Ramnath and she passes away suddenly leaving Raj Kumar alone. The police conducts a post-mortem and as a result find out that Mrs. D'sa was poisoned. Raj became the prime suspect and is subsequently taken for questioning and is arrested and held in a cell. In the trial that he faces, however, Ramnath reveals the truth and thus Raj is saved.