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D. K. Sapru, commonly known as Sapru, (16 March 1916 – 1979) was an Indian film actor who worked as a character actor in Hindi cinema, noted for films like Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Heer Raanjha (1970) and Pakeezah (1975). Also some of his other famous movies are Kala Pani, Dooj Ka Chand, Tere Mere Sapne, Humjoli, Taj Mahal, Jewel Thief and a brief role in Deewar. Born in Kashmir, he rose to prominence as a villain in the thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s, but by and large he performed a variety of character roles in the Indian cinema.
His son Tej Sapru and daughter Preeti Sapru are both actors in Punjabi and Hindi films.
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Sapru
D. K. Sapru, commonly known as Sapru, (16 March 1916 – 1979) was an Indian film actor who worked as a character actor in Hindi cinema, noted for films like Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Heer Raanjha (1970) and Pakeezah (1975). Also some of his other famous movies are Kala Pani, Dooj Ka Chand, Tere Mere Sapne, Humjoli, Taj Mahal, Jewel Thief and a brief role in Deewar. Born in Kashmir, he rose to prominence as a villain in the thrillers of the 1960s and 1970s, but by and large he performed a variety of character roles in the Indian cinema.
His son Tej Sapru and daughter Preeti Sapru are both actors in Punjabi and Hindi films.
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Haseena Maan Jayegi (1999)
Directed by Prakash Mehra
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Babita, Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Johnny Walker
Rating67%
Archana (Babita) moves to a new city along with her widowed father. In college, she meets Rakesh (Shashi Kapoor), son of her father's friend who always teases her. She wants to complain about him to the principal but by mistake she complains about Kamal (Shashi Kapoor) who looks exactly like Rakesh. Kamal was an orphan and is a very decent fellow. Later she realizes her mistake and Kamal and Archana grow close. But Rakesh wants to marry Archana and always tries to come between them. At last Archana takes her father's consent to marry Kamal.
Krodhi (1981)
, 2h41Directed by Subhash Ghai
Actors Dharmendra, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Hema Malini, Pran Krishan Sikand, Sachin
Rating65%
Kudrat (1981)
Directed by Chetan Anand
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion
Actors Raaj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Priya Rajvansh, Aruna Irani
Rating70%
Chandramukhi (Hema Malini), accompanied by her parents, visits the hill resort of Shimla for the first time in her life. She senses some familiarity with the place and gets strange feelings for which she does not know the reason. Chandramukhi and her family meet Dr. Naresh Gupta (Vinod Khanna). Naresh is attracted towards Chandramukhi and their families talk about getting them married to each other. Mohan Kapur (Rajesh Khanna), an upcoming lawyer, comes to Shimla to meet his patron and godfather, Janak Singh (Raaj Kumar). Mohan owes his education and career to Janak Singh's generosity. Janak Singh wants his daughter Karuna, also a lawyer, to marry Mohan. Mohan agrees out of gratitude to his patron and gets engaged to Karuna.
Jyoti Bane Jwala (1980)
Directed by Dasari Narayana Rao
Actors Jeetendra, Vinod Mehra, Ashok Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Iftekhar, Moushumi Chatterjee
Rating51%
Suraj and Malti are in love and get very intimate. They are introduced to their respective families, and there is approval all round, and their marriage is to be finalized soon. Before that could happen, Suraj meets with an accident and is killed instantly, leaving Malti devastated. Malti's dad, Charandas, is shocked to find that Malti is pregnant, and both of them re-locate to a secluded area, where Malti's gives birth to a baby boy. Charandas has the child disposed off in a garbage can, and tells Malti that the child died. Malti recovers and subsequently marries Mr. O.P. Bakshi, and settles down. Years later, while watching a dance show with her husband, Malti sees a young man who resembles her husband in every shape and form. She attempts to make inquiries, but is afraid of what her husband will think when he finds out that the young man is her son, born out of marriage. The young man is Jyoti, who was left in a garbage can at the time of his birth, but is now a dreaded, ruthless, and much feared criminal don, going by the name of Jwala.
Chor Ke Ghar Chor (1978)
Actors Ashok Kumar, Sapru, Zeenat Aman, Randhir Kapoor, Bindu, Preeti Ganguly
Rating66%
The film tells of the pains undergone when the head of the family shifts the jewel-studded idol, which is Chor Ke Ghar Chor which is a secret treasure from the temple to his house. 'Chor Ke Ghar Chor' deals with the thieves who are in search of a very ancient and costly idol, very lucky to its owner. But no single thief gets the valuable possession for a long time and it keeps on changing hands so much so that this leads to two stately families into tragic disintegration. This lucky idol suddenly disappears for one full generation.
Darwaza (1978)
Genres Horror
Actors Anil Dhawan, Anju Mahendru, Shakti Kapoor, Sapru, Bhagwan Dada, Satyen Kappu
Rating54%
Ram Kasam (1978)
Genres Action
Actors Sunil Dutt, Rekha, Bindiya Goswami, Sudhir, Sapru, Nirupa Roy
Rating57%
Vishwanath (1978)
Directed by Subhash Ghai
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Shatrughan Sinha, Iftekhar, Reena Roy, Rita Bhaduri, Parikshit Sahni, Prem Nath
Rating61%
Alibaba Marjinaa (1977)
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Urmila Bhatt, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Shakti Kapoor, Javed Khan Amrohi, Javed Khan, Viju Khote
Rating68%
Dharam Veer (1977)
, 2h43Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Jeetendra, Neetu Kapoor, Pran Krishan Sikand, Jeevan
Rating66%
Maharani Meenakshi is a princess who one day while out hunting is rescued from a handful of attackers by a hunter-warrior Jwala Singh (Pran) who lives alone in the jungle, accompanied only by his pet falcon, Sheroo.
Dream Girl (1977)
Directed by Pramod Chakravorty
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Hema Malini, Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Prem Chopra, Asrani, Lalita Pawar
Roles Sindhi Groom's Dad
Rating59%
The story revolves around a young woman (Hema Malini), who plays five different characters in the film – Sapna, Padma, Champabai, Dream girl, and Rajkumari, to steal money in order to maintain a home for orphans.
Gayatri Mahima (1977)
Directed by Harsukh Bhatt
Genres Fantasy
Actors Bharat Bhushan, Jayshree Gadkar, Padma Khanna, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri), Abhi Bhattacharya, Sapru
Mukti (1977)
, 2h5Genres Drama
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Mithun Chakraborty, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Varma
Roles Mr. Verma
Rating70%
Kailash Sharma is found guilty of sexually molesting Shanno and killing Dheeraj Kumar Verma, and sentenced to be hanged by the Jammu & Kashmir Sessions Court. After his appeals at both High and Supreme Courts fail, he asks his wife, Seema, to take their daughter, Pinky, and re-locate elsewhere. Seema and Pinky re-locate to Bombay where she takes up sewing to make a living. She befriends their neighbour, Ratan, and both get married. 14 years later Pinky has grown up and has a boyfriend, Vikram, who she wants to marry. Meanwhile, Kailash, who is still alive, as his sentence was changed to life imprisonment, arrives in Bombay to look for his family. After sometime he does find them but decides not to interfere in their lives as they appear to be happy. But when Seema finds out she goes to meet him secretly - a visit that will set off a chain of events that will end up drastically changing their lives forever.
Adalat (1976)
Directed by Narender Bedi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman, Neetu Kapoor, Kader Khan, Viju Khote, Sujit Dhungana
Roles Judge
Rating62%
Dharam Chand (Amitabh Bachchan), an ameniable village farmer is thrilled when his wife, Radha (Waheeda Rehman) gives birth to a baby boy, whom they decide to name Raju. Dharma heroically saves the lives of Ajit (Anwar Hussain), and Sujit (Sujit Kumar) and Suresh when they are being attacked by a tiger and they graciously offer him a job in Bombay (now Mumbai) whenever he decides to visit. When the village experiences economic crisis and drought, the family migrate to Bombay, where Ajit makes Dharma the manager of his warehouse in the city. Dharma succeeds in the job until he is arrested by the police. His cries of innocence are ignored by the authorities and he is sentenced to 18 months in jail plus an additional six months for contempt of court. When he eventually returns home, everything has changed. His wife and Raju are near destitution. Laxmi (Heena Kausar) has been raped by Sujit and has killed herself. Dharma decides to avenge her death and kills all the three of them. He then joins forces with another gang where he is rewarded for his loyalty and soon makes his way to the very top. He sends Raju for further education to Britain and moves into a palatial home. Years later, Raju (also Amitabh Bachchan) returns home and would like to marry Geeta Verma (Neetu Singh) whom he met in Britain but is unable to meet his father's approval and comes into conflict. Unknown to Dharma, Ajit is still alive and has returned and it is time to avenge the past by trying to murder Dharma at any price.
Charas (1976)
Directed by Ramanand Sagar
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Ajit Khan, Aruna Irani, Asrani
Rating63%
Ramniklal was a NRI living in Uganda with his son Vijay (Dharmendra) and daughter Radha (Aruna Irani). They are planning to move back to India because of a civil war in the country. The night they were about to move, their home is attacked by rebels and set on fire. Vijay jumps in the fire to save his sister. He carries a woman out, but she turns out to be the housemaid in his sister's clothes (Radha asked the maid to choose the clothes she liked before she left and the maid asked her for the clothes she was wearing). Vijay's father dies from the trauma of losing his daughter. Vijay too believes that Champa burned with the house, but when no body is found he feels that there is something fishy. Nevertheless, he leaves for India alone as the country is embroiled in civil war.