Meena Kumari
Birthday: 1933-08-01
Place of Birth: Solapur, Bombay Presidency, British India
Biography: Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; August 1, 1933 – March 31, 1972) was an Indian actress, as well as an occasional poet, playback singer and model. She was described by critics as a historically incomparable actress of Hindi Cinema. Though best known for her sensitive portrayals of struggling women, earning her the title "The Tragedy Queen", she starred in over 90 films that varied in genres, from traditional melodramas, mythological adventures, comedies, historicals and Muslim socials. At the peak of her career, she was the highest-paid actress, and set fashion trends for women in the 1950s.
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Dawn
Kundan is a medical student but just before getting the degree he got implicated in a murder charge ...
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Purnima
A woman named Purnima (Meena Kumari) is forced to marry a wealthy man, leaving her true love Prakash...
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Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
A debauchee Zamindar greatly neglects his wife. The decadence of the Bengali Zamindar milieu in the ...
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Mere Apne
Old woman Anandi moves to the city with her relatives and finds out their material side. She develo...
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Pakeezah
A beautiful courtesan is unable to break away from the cycle of prostitution until a forest ranger f...
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Chandan Ka Palna
Ajit lives with his mother, and comes from a very wealthy family. He meets with beautiful Shobha and...
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Aarti
An unemployed young man named Deepak (Pradeep Kumar) saves Aarti Gupta (Meena Kumari), a hardworking...
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Leatherface
In this stunt-film, Hero Samar (Jairaj) singlehandedly takes on the might of the oppressive state le...
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Azaad
After her widower dad, Kedarnath, passes away, Shobha goes to live with his friend, Charandas, and h...
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Viruthan Shanku
When Vikraman returns home after completing his studies, he finds out that his brother has illegally...
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Gazal
Agra-based atheist and revolutionary poet/editor of Inquilab, Ejaz, falls head-over-heels in love wi...
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Chandni Chowk
A Nawab belonging to the Chandni Chowk area of Delhi gets tricked into marrying his daughter to the ...
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Pyaar Ka Saagar
Bishen raises his brother Kishen, who falls in love with Radham but loses vision after learning abou...
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Sahira
Intelligent and sensitive, Meena Kumari found solace in reading and writing poetry in her private li...
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Akeli Mat Jaiyo
A prince disguises himself as a common man to win the love of Seema, a middle-class woman. Complicat...
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Baiju Bawra
During the reign of Akbar the Great, a young singer sets out to avenge his father's death and challe...
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Pinjre Ke Panchhi
Businessman Sonu Sharma belongs to a wealthy family and lives with his widowed mother. He suddenly b...
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Sharada
After Shekhar (Raj Kapoor) falls for beautiful Sharada (Meena Kumari), he makes her promise that she...
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Main Bhi Ladki Hoon
Rajni, a dusky, uneducated girl, is deceptively married off to Ram, son of a wealthy father. Althoug...
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Majhli Didi
Bipinchandra breaks family tradition by marrying a city girl, Hemangini, much to the chagrin of his ...
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Ek-Hi-Rasta
Amar and Malti live an idyllic, loving life with their son Raja. However, Amar makes enemies in his ...
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Daaera
The narrative deals with the dreams and aspiration of a 16-old-girl, Sheetal (Meena Kumari) caught i...
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Two Acres of Land
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money t...
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Bahu Begum
On the day of her marriage, the bride goes missing. She ends up in a brothel, compelling her wealthy...
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Yahudi
In ancient Rome, a mourning Jewish man raises the kidnapped daughter of Roman royalty as his own - a...
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Phool Aur Patthar
Circumstances have made Shaka a career criminal. When plague empties a town of its inhabitants, he t...
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Jawab
Raja (Jeetendra) lives with his widowed sister Divya (Meena Kumari) in a small village. He is consta...
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Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
A rich girl marries a doctor. Differences crop up between the two and starts to snowball wherein she...
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Kinare Kinare
After losing his family during partiton Puran is taken in by a landowner and he falls in love with t...
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Parineeta
In Calcutta at the turn of the century, two families (one wealthier than the other but both belongin...
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Chitralekha
Chitralekha is a 1964 historical-philosophical Hindi film, directed by Kidar Sharma, starring Ashok ...
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Ramanan
Ramanan and Madanan are the two shepherds who are bosom pals. Meek and handsome, Ramanan used to s...
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Baharon Ki Manzil
Meena Kumari wakes up thinking she is Radha. Everyone around her, Subodh Rai, daughter Nalini, frien...
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Dil Ek Mandir
Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar) and Sita (Meena Kumari) are in love, and hope to marry on Dharmesh's r...
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Adl-e-Jehangir
A 1955 black and white Urdu language historical drama film directed by G.P. Sippy....
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Halaku
Halaku (Pran), the powerful emperor of Iran, rules the country wisely and with an iron hand. When he...
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Bandipotu
Sathyasena (Gummadi), the king of Gandhara, suffering from paralytic legs leaves the rule to his vic...
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Dushman
Surjit Singh is forced to take care of Ram Din's family after he accidentally kills him while drivin...
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Kohinoor
Rajkumar Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur is the new king. Veer Singh's wife, who raised Dhivendra, wants hi...
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Sahara
Sahara is a 1958 Indian Bollywood film directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The film stars Meena Kumari in th...
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Char Dil Char Rahen
Three love stories that take place simultaneously but do not intersect, because the characters do no...
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Benazir
Sibling rivalry abounds in this film about two privileged brothers, Anwar and Nawab, and the women w...
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Sanjh Aur Savera
Shankar Chaudhry, a wealthy man gets married to Maya assuming she is the daughter of Ambala-based Ad...
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Bheegi Raat
A struggling artist accidentally kills a man on a "wet night." Unbeknownst to him, a wealthy witness...
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Noorjehan
Noor Jahan, the empress of the Mughal empire, becomes the favourite wife of Emperor Jahangir and ste...
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Kaajal
Raised by a kind matriarch, Madhavi (Meena Kumari) shares a close bond with her foster brother Rajes...
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Mem Sahib
Meena, a wealthy, educated girl, has been promised in marriage to Sunder, a sheltered young man who ...
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Footpath
Tired of poverty, Noshu takes to black-marketing. Soon, he realises that his act has hurt everyone a...
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Gomti Ke Kinare
After his father's death, young Sameer runs away to search for his mother and is adopted by the tawa...
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Tamasha
Fed up of Dilip's involvement with gold digging actress Nayantara, Dilip's uncle pretends to be grav...
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Miss Mary
R.K. Raju, a private investigator is assigned the task of locating the missing daughter of a wealthy...
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Naya Andaz
Chand, a poet and lyricist who leaves home due to differences with his father, finds great success a...
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Ardhangini
At the very moment of her birth, ill-fated Chhaya's mother passes away, her dad loses his job, and t...
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Sanam
An honest but unemployed young man, Yogen, falls for the wealthy, independent Sadhana after a chance...
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Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
A pregnant Ratna loses her husband, eventually gives birth to a son, Raju, in a hospital where she i...
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Main Chup Rahungi
When Kamal Kumar meets the young, beautiful Gayatri on a train he instantly falls in love, and despi...
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Madhosh
Two warring families in the town of Sajalpur find their generational conflict tested when the arroga...
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Characterless
Choritrohin (Bengali: চরিত্রহীন;English: Characterless) is a 1975 Bangladeshi film directed by Baby ...
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Bandish
Mahender has been responsible for the upbringing of Tomato, a young child at a very early age. Now M...
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Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan
Geeta (Meena Kumari) is married to Shyam (Balraj Sahni) but is unable to bear children. Orphaned as ...
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Pooja
A. R. Kardar’s Pooja tells a disturbing story of two estranged sisters whose lives are fractured by ...
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Veer Ghatotkach
The epic starts with the mighty illusionist Ghatotkach, son of Bhim, accidentally clashing with and ...
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Hamara Ghar
The story is of a family consisting of a mother and her five sons. A relative causes discord. The mo...
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Hanumaan Pataal Vijay
When the demon king Ahiravan kidnaps Lord Ram and Lakshman and holds them captive in his underground...
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Lakshmi Narayan
The eternal saga unfolds as Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Narayan descend to Earth in various avatars to ...
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
The film follows the adventures of Aladdin and his finding a magical lamp which helps him in attaini...
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Baadbaan
An orphaned boy from a fishing village, adopted and educated by a wealthy family, must choose betwee...
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