Películas de Leela Chitnis

A love triangle, the story revolves around two brothers (Ajit and Sajjan), both in love with an orphan girl (Madhubala), who is given shelter by...

Beena falls in love with Rajan after he rescues her from some goons. Soon they marry and she is pregnant. The trouble starts when Beena spends the...

Film starring Waheeda Rehman, Dharmendra and Sujit Kumar

Calcutta-based Naval Officer Shankar Choudhry lives a wealthy lifestyle with his doctor dad, and mom. One day while returning home in a cab home from...

Anmol and Sunita are living a happy married life. But Sunita is suffering from a serious heart condition and has to go for a dangerous operation or...

A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer,...

When mistaken to be a sage by some villagers, an ex-tour guide reflects on his past and lost love to search for spiritual wisdom to guide the...

Reeta Mehra gets a job at a department store to support her ailing mother. After she refuses sexual favours to an important business partner, her...

The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.

In this loose adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, childhood sweethearts Kamla and Shankar are separated and grow up in different worlds....

Bandhan is a 1940 Indian Bollywood film directed by N.R. Acharya. It stars Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar and Suresh. It was the second highest grossing...

The story of an abandoned Hindu child who is found and raised by a Muslim man.

Rajeev falls in love with Roopa, a beautiful singer who hides the fact that half her face is disfigured. However, he soon discovers her secret after...

Mohan lives a middle-class life with his ailing mother, and works as a college professor. His mother would like him to get married, but he asks her...

Mr. Gupta passes away after an accident while on duty, leaving behind his ailing wife and school-going son, Ramnath. Both await for some...

When Pratap learns that his fiancee is in love with his younger brother, Gopal, he steps aside and arranges for them to get married. However, he soon...

A lawyer holds the eyewitness evidence to catch a killer, but the identified criminal is the lawyer's own mentor, prospective father-in-law, and also...

Ram goes crazy after death of his mother and sister, once released from mental hospital comes across Mr Kirorimal who insures him and wants him dead...

After Partition, Dhaniram and his family moves to Dehradoon. He has three sons: Pran, Kundan, and Madan. Dhaniram runs a chemist shop, when he...

Belonging to a family that has a grandfather addicted to alcohol, Mohan Khanna (Raj Kapoor) too is addicted to alcohol, compounded by the fact that...

Children are exchanged by greedy aunt and uncle in childhood and they live undeserved lives.

Ram is a bright but destitute law student. Out of love for an even poorer girl, he commits a crime that starts chasing him like a ghost. He is torn...

The story follows a brave man who rescues a sweet girl from criminals, and they fall in love. An incident causes trouble, leading to consequences for...

Renu lives a poor lifestyle with her family. Shattered and devastated with the deaths of her father and brother, Renu decides to take up the mantle...

Widowed Govindi lives a poor lifestyle in Haripur along with two sons, Gungaram and Jumna. While Jumna is studious, Gungaram is the opposite, but has...

A drunkard falls in love with a girl, who takes on the responsibility of making him better.

Deep Sharma lives a very poor lifestyle with his widowed mom, Radha, and a younger brother, Ashok, who he would like to become a Judge. Unable to...

Modi's first psychodramatic role as a liberal man becoming a tyrannical jailer. He loses his wife to a lover who then goes blind. The jailer locks up...

Film starring Rajesh Khanna, Ashok Kumar and Yogeeta Bali

Sunil leads a poor lifestyle along with his widowed mother, and two school-going siblings, Anu and Tikku. He gets married to Lakshmi, who soon gets...

Bipinchandra breaks family tradition by marrying a city girl, Hemangini, much to the chagrin of his sister-in-law, Kadambini, and her husband,...

Rajan "Raju" Khanna lives with his elderly father Nihalchand, his mom, and his younger sister. He studies Arts in college, and has a sweetheart,...

A man sells movie tickets on the black market, but starts to have a change of heart after he falls in love.

The story of two families — one Muslim and one Hindu — living together in India under British rule.

Ajit is a poor farmer who has mortgaged his land with Zamindar Haridas. Ajit gets in the bad books of Haridas, and as a result he loses his house and...

Shankar lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse-carriage for a living. The main employer in...

Classic Bollywood film starring Leela Chitnis and Ashok Kumar.

A family drama with a special focus on two generations of the Chopra family. Dinanath Chopra lives in a small tenement with his wife, and two sons...

The story centres on three college friends: the liberal Vijay, the conservative Loknath and Jagdish.

An honest man dreams of a better life for his family, but a childhood friend leads him into a world of crime that keeps happiness just out of reach.

An Indian army captain must break bad news to a sick woman.

A businessman's family is torn apart by an earthquake and reunited years later in a courtroom where father and sons stand opposed in the roles of...

Childhood sweethearts Vijay and Rajni are separated when Rajni moves to Calcutta with her grandmother.

Story of Military commitment by a military wife, Shobha (Calcutta, 1942) played by Nirupa Roy, who in spite of losing her husband to the Air Force...

Balraj (Dharmendra), affectionately called Raj, by his elder brother (Nana Palsikar) and sister Vija (Madhumati), is a student in college in the arts...

An honest bank manager is arrested for embezzlement on the eve of his marriage. After his release, he seeks out his fiancee and decides to take...

Mr. Bhatnagar alias Masterji comes from a poor family, and lives on a day to day basis. He has a daughter and a son, alongwith his wife, who he has...

The only son of the Royal Astrologer, Narsin (Om Prakash) namely Gopal (Bharat Bhushan) is not interested in astrology but in music and songs, much...

An adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's 1906 Bengali story Noukadubi (The Wreck).

Chanderbabu (Nazir Hussain), a retired postmaster, lives in the village with his wife and two sons, Rajan (Paul Mahendra) and Bhanu (Bharat Bhushan)....

Directed by D.D. Kashyap. With Shekhar, Geeta Bali, Begum Para, Leela Chitnis.

A freedom fighter faces opposition from both his father and an ambitious police officer.

Hindi film from 1941

Sharda, a college student and the daughter of a wealthy educationist, marries Vijay, a college professor, against her father's wishes. Things take a...

To better himself, a spoiled prince temporarily assumes a commoner's identity. But he soon learns his palace has been gifted to his father's new wife.

Due to his preconceived notions about educated women, a man refuses to accept this graduate wife. With no other options left, she turns her life...

A woman responsible for her mother and 7 siblings faces challenges after marrying a widower with 6 children.

Bollywood family drama from director Narendra Suri and featuring music from Ravi.

Circumstances have made Shaka a career criminal. When plague empties a town of its inhabitants, he takes the opportunity to burgle a house. He finds...

Kal Hamara Hai is a 1959 Indian Hindi film, directed by S.K. Prabhakar and produced by K. Amarnath. The film stars Madhubala, Bharat Bhushan, and...

After winning a lottery, Asha and Bela round up a holiday to find suitable husbands. But they end up being framed for stealing a precious necklace.