Movies: Maya Banerjee

A cruel uncle usurps his niece's inheritance, but a kind doctor and his wife help her reclaim it. Their lives intertwine with betrayal, a scheming dancer, and ultimate vindication, proving that providence always intervenes....

A rebellious young woman defies her conservative surroundings and falls in love, setting off a sequence of emotional and social complications. Along the way, she crosses paths with an idealistic doctor suffering from consumption, whose romantic ideal...

The follow-up to Manmohan (1936) again starred Surendra and Bibbo. She is Neela, he plays Jagirdar Surendra. They secretly marry and have a child. When Jagirdar is presumed dead in a shipwreck, the child is considered illegitimate. The poor peasant S...

Mehboob presents the autonomous passion of Leela (Rose) for Moti (Motilal) who is promised to another woman, Bina (Maya). Leela is portrayed as irresponsible and impulsive as she acknowledges her desire for Moti and has a child by him. Bina then rele...

Ostensibly a Central Asian war fantasy about a conflict between the Cossacks and the Tartars, Mehboob’s film proposes a tale advocating national independence. The Cossacks are oppressed by the despotic Russian king (Siddiqui) and his minister Jabir (...

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Mukta and Anand are childhood friends and love each other. But Mukta belongs to higher social class than Anand and her family wants to arrange her marriage with Jawahar, son of a rich man....

Kokila (transl. Nightingale) is a 1937 Hindi social family drama film directed by Sarvottam Badami...

A great drama of life & humanity that's exploring profound human experiences and societal themes...

A flamboyant film producer Ramesh dotes on his glamorous star, Kishori, while avoiding a return to his village — and the wife he married in childhood, Rajni, whom he hasn’t seen since. When Rajni shows up in the city after a quarrel, unaware she’s co...