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Abrar Alvi is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 1 july 1927
Abrar Alvi (Hindi: अबरार अलवी; Urdu: ابرار علوی; 1927 – 18 November 2009) was an Indian film writer, director and actor. Most of his notable works are from the 1950s, 1960s done with Guru Dutt. He wrote some of the most respected works of Indian cinema, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, Kaagaz Ke Phool, and Pyaasa which have an avid following world over. Pyaasa is included in the All-Time 100 Movies by Time magazine, as chosen by Times movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel.
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In Search of Guru Dutt (1989)
, 1h24Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Abrar Alvi, Kaifi Azmi alias Tun Party, Waheeda Rehman, Raj Khosla, Shyam Benegal, V.K. Murthy
Roles Self - Screenwriter, Director
Rating72%
Laila Majnu (1976)
, 2h21Genres Romance
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur, Danny Denzongpa, Iftekhar, Abrar Alvi, Aruna Irani
Rating65%
HS Rawail's cinematic version of this moving tale of the original star-crossed lovers, Laila Majnu, starring Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta, does full justice to this enduring tale. It has the intense pangs of love, the painful obstacles that lie in its path and a soul-stirring performance by its lead actors as they bring Laila and Majnu alive. The musical score was composed by maestro Madan Mohan, who died before completing the film, and hence the baton was carried forward by Jaidev, seamlessly.
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Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam (1962)
, 2h35Directed by Abrar Alvi
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Meena Kumari, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, Minoo Mumtaz, Nazir Hussain
Rating80%
The film opens at the ruins of an old haveli in Calcutta, where a group of labourers are busy pulling down what remains. When the workers break off for lunch, the overseer (Guru Dutt) wanders through the haveli. As he sits at a place there begins a flashback to the end of the 19th century.
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Guddu (1995)
, 2h48Directed by Prem Lalwani
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Mehmood Ali, Deepti Naval, Mukesh Khanna, Ashok Saraf
Roles Concepteur de dialogues
Rating41%
Guddu Bahadur (Shah Rukh Khan) is the only child in the Bahadur family, consisting of Advocate Vikram (Mukesh Khanna) and his wife, Kavita (Deepti Naval). While Kavita is a devout and a religious Hindu, Vikram is an atheist. Guddu and Salina Gupta (Manisha Koirala) are in love. One day while driving, they meet with an accident and Salina loses her sight. Guddu blames himself and so do Salina's parents. Guddu is asked to keep away from Salina. Salina herself knows that the accident was not Guddu's fault, but would not like to meet Guddu and be a burden on him. Guddu overhears a conversation between their family doctor and his dad and he comes to know that he has brain tumor. He has only a few more months to live. He wants to donate his eyes to the hospital so Salina can benefit from them, but his dad will not even consider this. Things take a turn for the worse, when Guddu decides to go to court to assert his right to donate his eyes, his dad ends in the hospital and so does Guddu. Kavita couldn't bear the trauma of her husband's illness and her son's disease, thus she decides to devote herself to god for five days without drinking a sip of water. Her prayers get answered and her husband's life is saved and her son's operation is successful. She dies in the feet of god while praying and her eyes get donated to Salina. Salina and Guddu get married and are blessed with twins and they live happily ever after.
Khuda Kasam (1981)
Directed by Lekh Tandon
Actors Vinod Khanna, Tina Ambani, Pran Krishan Sikand, Madan Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Dharmendra
Rating55%
Janta Hawaldar (1979)
Directed by Mehmood Ali
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Ashok Kumar, Hema Malini, Mehmood Ali, Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Lalita Pawar
Roles Writer
Rating62%
Janta, a beautiful naive simple minded young man who wants to join the police force in the following of both his grandfather and his father after getting refused then accepted him with the support of his new friends police commissure and his daughter Deepo. Janta unintentionally become very successful in his work, meets blind florist Sonana and falls in love with her. Janta gets some enemies including Sonana's uncle who is hiding a secret and scared from Janta that he will explore it will Janta escape evil plans from his enemies who want to get him fired from police? will he explore Sonana uncle secret marry Sonana? or will things turn against him?
Hamare Tumhare (1979)
Directed by Umesh Mehra
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Rakhee Gulzar, Amrish Puri, Anil Kapoor, Lucky Ali, Rakesh Bedi
Rating66%
Widower Jairaj Verma lives with his four sons in a small apartment. Three of his sons are in their teens, while his youngest son is around 12 years. On the other hand there is Maya Sinha, a widow, who also lives in a small apartment with three children, two sons and a daughter, Komal, who is about to get married. Then rumors spread abound that Maya and Jairaj are having an affair, and this adversely affects Komal's marriage, leaving her angry and confused. Jairaj and Maya's attempts to pacify their respective children that they are husband and wife, is of no avail, as they are convinced that Maya and Jairaj are having an illicit affair. The only solution to end this dilemma is for Jairaj and Maya to get married, and live together as a family, but will their children and the community accept them as husband and wife?
Laila Majnu (1976)
, 2h21Genres Romance
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur, Danny Denzongpa, Iftekhar, Abrar Alvi, Aruna Irani
Roles Dialogue
Rating65%
HS Rawail's cinematic version of this moving tale of the original star-crossed lovers, Laila Majnu, starring Rishi Kapoor and Ranjeeta, does full justice to this enduring tale. It has the intense pangs of love, the painful obstacles that lie in its path and a soul-stirring performance by its lead actors as they bring Laila and Majnu alive. The musical score was composed by maestro Madan Mohan, who died before completing the film, and hence the baton was carried forward by Jaidev, seamlessly.
Sabse Bada Rupaiya (1976)
Actors Mehmood Ali, Vinod Mehra, Moushumi Chatterjee, Farida Jalal, Sulochana, Jeevan
Rating66%
Bairaag (1976)
Directed by Asit Sen
Genres Drama
Actors Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Leena Chandavarkar, Prem Chopra, Sujit Dhungana
Rating62%
Kailash (Dilip Kumar) loses his eyesight after a car accident. His wife gives birth to twin boys, one of them blind. Before his wife gains consciousness, he asks the doctor to get rid of the blind baby, because he doesn't want his son to live a life where he can't see at all. The doctor's wife leaves the blind baby in a Hindu temple, where he is discovered by the temple priest who raises the boy, now called Bholenath (Dilip Kumar). Kailash feels guilty about what he did to the blind baby and confesses it to his wife several years later, who becomes so distraught that she dies. Kailash raises his other son Sanjay (Dilip Kumar), who turns into a spoiled rich boy. Although Sanjay is engaged to Sonia (Leena Chandavarkar), he continues to have an affair with Lucy (Helen), who has a rich dangerous boyfriend Grasco (Madan Puri). Sonia's greedy brother Kunwal (Prem Chopra) agrees to marry a country girl Tara (Saira Banu) but wants a Rs. 300,000 dowry. She doesn't want to marry him, because she is in love with Bholenath, even though he is poor and blind. Bholenath thinks that his status is beneath hers and that she deserves a rich suitor and steals the money from the Hindu temple to give to Kunwal for her dowry. His pet snake tries to stop him from giving the money by biting him. He regains his sight and vows to the temple priest(Nazir Hussain) and Tara to bring the money back from Kunwal. Once he reaches the city, people mistook him for Sanjay, who in turn, is hiding out with Lucy after she leaves Grasco along with Rs. 15,000,000. She is found dead with the money missing. Sanjay is the suspect. The film is resolved with the real culprit getting caught, and the two brothers reunited with their father, and then marrying their sweethearts.
Manoranjan (1974)
Directed by Shammi Kapoor
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Zeenat Aman, Faryal, Devaraj, Madan Puri
Roles Writer
Rating64%
Havaldar Ratan is a rookie at the local police station, and is assigned duty on foot patrol on Manoranjan Street, a notorious red-light area, on the very first day of his job. He strikes up a conversation with a good-looking young woman named Nisha, and tells her that there is a possible violation of Suppression of Immoral Trafficking Act taking place on this street. He witnesses several women soliciting men, and decides to call in the paddy wagon, and get them arrested. Alas, one of the men frequenting the prostitutes is none other than Ratan's superior officer, who immediately summons Ratan, and has him removed from service on corruption charges. Nisha takes pity on a homeless and unemployed Ratan, and asks him to live with her. He does not want her to sell her body, and so he decides to work at night, and during the day he takes on the guise of a rich Nawab and spends time with her. Things go along smoothly, until Ratan decides that it is now time to get rid of the "Nawab", and he does so, only to find out that the police have been informed that he has killed the Nawab, and they are out to arrest him. What follows is hilarious chaos that will change Ratan and Nisha's lives forever.
Do Phool (1973)
Actors Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Mehmood Ali, Aruna Irani, Anjana Mumtaz, Lalita Pawar
Rating69%
Diwan Bahadur Atal Rai lives a wealthy lifestyle in a mansion 'Gulistan' in Malabar Hills, Bombay, along with his wife, Malti, and two sons, Pavitra and Charitra. Pavitra was adopted while Charitra is his biological son. They are irresponsible, spoiled, Matric-failed, and refuse to do any work. They humiliate their father when he decides to get Charitra married to Shaila, the daughter of Advocate Vardhraj, and he asks them to leave. Shortly thereafter Charitra returns home claiming that he had an altercation with his Pavitra, and knifed him to death. Subsequently Police Inspector Madhusudan Apte, gets enough evidence to arrest Charitra. He is let go with a warning after admitting that this was a practical prank. Then Charitra goes on the run after the Mahabaleshwar Police find a dead body and identify it as that of Pavitra. A frantic Atal and Malti attempt to make sense of this homicide, and are eventually relieved when Pavitra is brought home by Shaila and her friend, Poonam Apte. Hilarious chaos will soon prevail when Pavitra claims that his real name is Mani and he lives in Cochin with his widowed mother.
Prince (1969)
Directed by Lekh Tandon
Genres Drama
Actors Vyjayanthimala, Shammi Kapoor, Ajit Khan, Rajendra Nath, Helen Khan, Leela Chitnis
Rating70%
Rajkumar Shamsher Singh is the only son of the local Maharaja, and has been brought up as a brat, and now he is an irresponsible, alcoholic, and womanizing adult, who wants everyone to bow down before him and his princely rank. One priest refuses to do so, and Shamsher pummels him mercilessly, in vain though. Frustrated, he asks the priest what he should do with his mundane life, and the priest tells him that he should repent, sacrifice all his palatial pleasures, and live the life of a simple and ordinary man, and hence learn the true meaning of life, for at least six months. Shamsher agrees to do so, and arranges an accident with his car, which plummets down a mountain, explodes and is blown to smithereens. Everyone in the palace believes that Shamsher is dead. He goes to a nearby village, and a blind woman there mistakes him for her long-lost son and starts calling him Sajjan Singh. Shamsher decides to play along as Sajjan.
Jahan Pyar Miley (1969)
Directed by Lekh Tandon
Genres Drama
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Jeevan, Nazir Hussain, Helen Khan
Roles Dialogue
Rating65%