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Rukmini Swayamvar is a film directed by Baburao Painter with Durga Khote
Rukmini Swayamvar (1946)
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Lokshahir Ram Joshi (1947)
, 2h3Directed by V. Shantaram, Baburao Painter
Genres Drama
Actors Hansa Wadkar, Manmohan Krishna Chadha
Rating62%
Ram Joshi is a Brahmin poet, who through his love of poetry and dance starts associating with the tamasha artists. He falls in love with the tamasha dancer Baya (Hansa Wadkar). The artists are of low-caste, and Joshi's interacting with them brings censure and he is out-lawed by the other members of his caste. The film follows his descent into alcoholism and his redemption from it through poetry.
Patrani (1956)
Directed by Vijay Bhatt
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Vyjayanthimala, Pradeep Kumar, Shashikala, Durga Khote, Om Prakash, Jeevan
The story is about King Karma Dev who gives a lot of importance to physical beauty. His mother the Rajmata requests Mahamantri Munjal to find him a nice wife. Karma Dev often dreams of marrying an unknown beautiful woman he had once seen in the Somnath temple. Meanwhile Mrinalla is the princess of Karnataka who also dreams of marrying a king she had once seen in the Somnath temple. When Munjal happens to see the beautiful woman Mrinalla, he shows the King's portrait to her and she is happy to finally find the man of her dreams. So she runs away from the palace and searches for Karma Dev to marry him. Soon after, Munjal shows Mrinalla's painting to Karma Dev, who agrees to marry her. On the day of the marriage, the King finds out she is dark and refuses to marry her. After several incidents Karma Dev realizes his mistake and at last he happily accepts Mrinalla as his Patrani.
Bhabhi (1957)
Genres Drama
Actors Balraj Sahni, Nanda, Pandari Bai, Om Prakash, Daisy Irani, Durga Khote
Rating66%
Musafir (1957)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama
Actors Dilip Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Bipin Gupta, Durga Khote, Nirupa Roy
Rating76%
For any young married couple, moving into their new house is a very special feeling. The feeling gets more special if the young couple has eloped and married. Something similar happened with Shakuntala (Suchitra Sen) and her husband. The landlord (David) helps the couple move to the rented house. The young couple moves to this house which incidentally is the main protagonist of the film. While Shakuntala makes the house into a beautiful home, her husband gets busy with work. She meets the neighboring tea vendor (Mohan Choti) and meets the next door auntie whose favourite pastime is to gossip about developments in others' homes. The couple experiences the sound of violin in the night and ask the tea-stall-owner about it in the morning, who tells that it is being played by a mad man-Pagla Babu.Since, the couple had eloped Shakuntala wanted that her parents-in-law accept her as their daughter-in-law. This is what happens and her in laws somehow search the young couple and they are more than happy to meet Shakuntala. Finally, Shakuntala and her husband go with them and vacate the house. In between Shakuntala grows some seeds in the garden.
Mughal-e-Azam (1960)
, 2h53Directed by K. Asif
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana, Ajit Khan
Rating80%
Emperor Akbar (Prithviraj Kapoor), who does not have a male heir, undertakes a pilgrimage to a shrine to pray that his wife Jodhabai (Durga Khote) give birth to a son. Later, a maid brings the emperor news of his son's birth. Overjoyed at his prayers being answered Akbar gives the maid his ring, and promises to grant her anything she desires.
The Test (1960)
Directed by Bimal Roy
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Sadhana Shivdasani, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis, Asit Sen
Rating72%
The central character is the Post Master who is given a mysterious cheque for ₹500,000 to be given to anyone who will use it to benefit the people of the village. There is a postman who pretends to be lame and is secretly rich and may have sent the cheque. Then there is the postmaster's wife, who is sick and would rather use the money to cure her illness, and his beautiful daughter Seema (played by Sadhana), who has a crush on the village school master. Meanwhile all the greedy and influential people of the village are busy trying to convince everybody why they are most deserving of the money; they include the village priest, the land lord, the money lender, the village doctor and the school master, who is by far the most respected. They all decide democracy is the best means and decide to hold an election where the winner gets the money. The movie is a satirical look at democracy through various twists and turns in the plot, interweaved with a simple love story.
Mirza Ghalib (1954)
, 2h25Directed by Sohrab Merwanji Modi
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical, Romance
Actors Bharat Bhushan, Suraiya, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana, Kumkum, Iftekhar
Rating70%
The film depicts the life of one-time wealthy and noble poet Mirza Ghalib. The story revolves around his trials, successes and failures and his ultimate descent into poverty. Ghalib falls in love with a beautiful courtesan named Chaudvin; however, tragedy befalls their ill-fated relationship. Set in a historical background, the film deals with the eternal psychological and social problems in the career of a genius poet. This film portrays one aspect of life of Mirza Ghalib (born 27 December 1797; died 15 February 1869, at age 73) in which the conflict between love and loyalty had deeply affected a sensitive artist. Mirza Ghalib fails to make an impression at the Royal Court 'Mushaira' of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar but at the same time, unknowingly wins the heart of Chaudvin, an accomplished court dancer.
Usne Kaha Tha (1960)
Directed by Moni Bhattacharjee
Actors Sunil Dutt, Nanda, Rajendra Nath, Durga Khote, Tarun Bose, Asit Sen
Rating64%
Nandu lives in a small town with his widowed mother. He is friendly with a young girl, Kamli. Kamli's father falls ill and hence her family relocates to a bigger town, Ambala. Years later, Kamli's father passes away and they return. Nandu and Kamli fall in love and want to marry. When Nandu's mother goes to meet Kamli's uncle, she is humiliated because of their poverty. Nandu then decides to join the army, with the hope that her uncle will consider him suitable enough to get Kamli married to him. But when he returns, Kamli is set to marry someone else. He then goes back to the army to try to forget Kamli. He is surprised to find that his superior officer, Ram Singh, is Kamli's husband. Disappointed with his fate, he knows not what to do. The war starts and he is called for it. But before going on war, Kamli takes a promise from him to protect her husband, which he does. And when Ram Singh asks a dying Nandu why he risked his life to save him, his last words are, "Usne Kaha Tha" [she had commanded so], giving the raison d'etre of the name of the film.