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Diwana is a film of genre Drama with Raj Kapoor
Diwana (1967)
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Add to a movie listDiwana is a 1968 Indian Bollywood film directed by Mahesh Kaul. The film stars Raj Kapoor, Saira Banu, Lalita Pawar in pivotal roles.
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Pyarelal (Raj Kapoor), a simple-minded and extremely naive young man, who was orphaned at birth, and now lives with Fatima (Lalita Pawar), a Muslim landlady who treats him like her son. Once, he sets on a journey and meets a young woman with whom he falls in love, Kamini Gupta (Saira Banu). Sarmoyadhar (Kamal Kapoor), the person who brought her up happens to be Pyarelal's real father. All of a sudden, Pyarelal is arrested on the charge of murder. No one believes that a harmless man like him could commit a crime, let alone kill. However, Pyarelal openly admits in court that he is indeed guilty, and demands capital punishment for it. The reason he does that unveild several secrets later on.Actors
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Genres Drama, Romance
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Rating72%
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Shree 420 (1955)
, 2h48Directed by Raj Kapoor
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
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Bluff Master (1963)
, 2h15Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu, Pran Krishan Sikand, Lalita Pawar, Mohan Choti, Tun tun (Uma Devi Khatri)
Rating59%
Ashok (Shammi Kapoor), is on the lookout for a job. But that does not stop him from putting on airs and bluffing, pretending that he is from a rich family. As luck would have it, he gets the job of a photographer for a fictitious tabloid - Bhukump, only to lose it, because he had the misfortune to click the photograph of the owner's daughter Seema (Saira Banu) slapping an eve teaser.
Aag (1948)
, 2h10Directed by Raj Kapoor
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Kamini Kaushal, Prem Nath, Shashi Kapoor, Kamal Kapoor
Rating69%
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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.
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, 3h58Directed by Raj Kapoor
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Rating72%
Sundar (Raj Kapoor), Gopal (Rajendra Kumar) and Radha (Vyjayantimala) have been friends since childhood. As they grow into adults, Sundar develops an obsessive romantic attraction to Radha, but she prefers Gopal, who is also in love with her. Yet, as Sundar has confided his feelings for Radha to him, Gopal decides to sacrifice his love for his friend's sake. Radha systematically resists Sundar's overtures, but to no avail. For him, she is the only woman in the world. Matching Sundar's great love for Radha is his unswerving devotion to his friendship with Gopal.
Junglee (1961)
, 2h30Directed by Subodh Mukherjee
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu, Shashikala, Anoop Kumar, Lalita Pawar, Asit Sen
Rating69%
Chandrashekhar (Shammi Kapoor), or Shekhar as he is called now, belongs to an aristocratic family, who believe laughter is a sign of belonging to the lower class, and as a result laughter is not encouraged in the household, run by Shekhar's domineering mother (Lalita Pawar). In this household the only one who dares to laugh and enjoy life is Shekhar's sister Mala (Shashikala), who also dares to love Jeevan (Anoop Kumar). Things change when their mother finds out about Mala's indiscretions, and asks Shekhar to take her away from their home, to distant and scenic Kashmir, for a while. She instructs Shekhar to get married to a girl from a princely family. When Shekhar and Mala go to Kashmir, they meet with beautiful Rajkumari (Saira Banu). And after being stranded with her for a few nights during a snowstorm, he realizes what he has been missing, and becomes a care-free man in love. This change is welcomed by Mala, but not by their mother. To make matters worse, Rajkumari does not belong to a princely family, and Shekhar knows that his mother will never approve of his marrying her.
Parvarish (1958)
Genres Drama
Actors Raj Kapoor, Mala Sinha, Lalita Pawar, Mehmood Ali
Rating68%
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Directed by Dara Singh
Genres Drama
Actors Raj Kapoor, Dara Singh, Kamal Kapoor, Abhi Bhattacharya
Rating61%
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