Dev Anand

Manmohan alias Moni lives a dual life. One as a magician, and the other as a thief with the name of Bhagula Bhagat, whose prime agenda is to rob the rich, and spread the wealth with the poor. He meets with a young woman named Sunita alias Soni, and both fall in love with each other. Things change for the better for Soni, when she meets her wealthy long-lost father, Daulatram, and goes to live with him. She decides not to have to do anything with Moni. When Moni attempts to meet Soni to find out why she has rejected him, she refuses to meet him. Then Moni finds out that Soni is not who she claims she is, and definitely not the daughter of Daulatram, but the daughter of another wealthy man named Nandlal, who had died under mysterious and destitute circumstance. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captive daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself. The two of them spend beautiful moments together and finds themselves attracted to each other. Shalini wants to find out why Amar is in jail. She is told in no uncertain terms that Amar is in jail for murder - for killing the brother of his former lover, Sapna. She also found out that this is not true and would strive to the best of her merit to get Amar release from jail because she is in love with him and would like to marry him. —gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com Amar is jailed after he accidentally kills a villainous man who is trying to harm a girl. The jailer's daughter's friend Shalini comes to meet them and gets acquainted with Amar. After Amar is released from jail he meets his friend Madan who tells him he has received a job offer letter from a certain Mrs. Thakur to manage the estate of Mr. Thakur. Madan is killed in a brawl. Amar takes the letter and, impersonating Madan, enters the service of Mr. Thakur. He finds that Shalini is the daughter of Mr. Thakur. Soon Amar comes to know that Madan was called to the estate by Mrs. Thakur, not to mind their estate but to kill Mr. Thakur. Shalini, the daughter of a jailer comes to visit her father, who is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. Shalini is a poet and one while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself. Shalini and Amar are attracted to each other, and Shalini wants to find out why Amar is in jail. She is told in no uncertain terms that Amar is in jail for murder - for killing the brother of his former lover, Sapna. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

When Heeralal, a gangster, gets arrested, he befriends a petty thief in prison named Johny. With Johny`s help, he executes his mission of smuggling a few diamonds.

Dev Anand plays an out of work youth, who agrees to impersonate a rich mans' brother in law supposed to be ailing in an lonely mansion. He seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong as he gets implicated in the murder of the same man. Asha Parekh plays his love interest. How he unravels the mystery forms the rest of the plot.

When Devdutt publishes his poetry, three women fall in love with him. A steno-typist, a glamourous actress and an intelligent socialite. Who will become his life partner?

An ailing woman unknowingly falls for an escaped convict. Risking his life and separating from his family from the events of 1947 partition in post-independent India, Puran rescues Neelu and her widower father, Bhairavdas. In turn, the later hires him on his farm in Shikhpur not knowing that Puran is deeply in love with his daughter. Then Neelu finds an injured male, who is later identified as Kamal, and they permit him to live with them. He recuperates and both Neelu and he fall in love much to the chagrin of Thakur Manohar who wants to wed her, and attempts to kill Kamal on two occasions. Bhairavdas wants the police to arrest Manohar, but before that could happen Kamal departs for Bombay, leaving a note for Neelu - clarifying that he is a convicted killer who is on the run from the law, but Neelu does not get to read this note, as Puran suppresses it. Neelu's health suffers, and she is diagnosed with thrombosis of the heart and must avoid any emotional involvement. Puran is then sent to Bombay to locate Kamal, and he does so. It is here that the latter will come to know of Neelu's ailment and her refusal to marry him as she knows she is going to die soon. Kamal counsels her to change her mind, and she goes for treatment to Switzerland. After recovering she is all set to return to Bombay and get married to Kamal - little knowing that soon the latter will be arrested by the police on the day of the wedding; Puran will be suspected of turning her husband in - but nothing will prepare for the shocks and trauma that are yet to enter her life. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Anand, the grandson of a rich man, leaves home to avoid an arranged marriage. He ends up falling for a girl in Mumbai, but his grandfather will do anything to bring him back home.

Inspector Dinesh goes undercover in order to infiltrate a gang that is counterfeiting banknotes. In the course of his investigation he becomes romantically entangled with a female reporter and makes a discovery of shocking personal significance. —van Goethem Dinesh lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his mother in Bombay. On his 5th birthday his father leaves them never to return. Now Dinesh has grown up, is working for the Criminal Investigations Department and has been assigned to stop the circulation of fake currency notes. His investigations take him to Sunderdas, who gets killed. He then masquerades as Social Worker Abdul Rashid to try and get some information from a jailed convict, Banwarilal, to no avail. Finally, he dons the disguise of wealthy Kunver Vijay Bahadur, rents a suite in Hotel Paris and befriends Manohar and several other gangsters. He gets himself arrested and lodged in the same cell as Banwarilal. From there both men break out and join Manohar and the rest of the gang. It is here Dinesh will find out the king-pin behind this racket but before he can do anything he will not only find himself confronting his past, but will be trapped in an underwater fortress along with his sweetheart, Press Report Renu. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

An embittered music composer, estranged from his family, self-destructs after learning his sweetheart has married another male. Simla-based foreign-returned Rajkumar Mehta lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his father, mother, and sister, Shobha. His father would like him to join the family business, but he is only interested in music, and spending time with his childhood sweetheart, Jalandhar-based Pushpa. Fed-up of taunts, Rajkumar is compelled to leave for Bombay when his enraged father decides to dispose off the piano, and apparently refuses to communicate with anyone for several months. Pushpa's mother asks her brother, Mangal, to check up on him, and the latter finds him living with a prostitute named Titlibai. Refusing to believe her uncle, Pushpa herself travels there and does see the duo together. Convinced that she has lost him for good, she then gets married to Ambala-based Captain Prem Nath - leaving an embittered but now successful music composer, Rajkumar, who claims that he was never involved in any relationship, to take to alcohol, alienate himself from everyone, and heads towards self-destruction. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) From Simla, India; Rajkumar Mehta alias Raju takes an enrollment into a music institute located in London, England. After his graduate in music; two years later Raju returns home in Delhi to re-join his family consisting of his mother, father and a sister, Shobha. Raju's dad would like him to be a part of the family's business but he expresses his dissatisfaction and instead shows an interest towards his music and spending considerable times with his childhood, Jalandhar-based, girlfriend, Pushpa, which brings him into loggerheads with his father on numerous occasions. Situations comes to a boil when Raju's dad discard of his piano forcing him to leave home for Mumbai. Upon his arrival in Mumbai; Raju is robbed of his valuables and as a total stranger he is forced to take up lodging on the footpath until a ray of hope comes along when he finds a singing partner in a prostitute called Titlibai. Now a music director; word reaches Pushpa that Raju is involved with Titlibai. Pushpa; on one occasion even manages to see the two together and convinced of their involvement; Pushpa gets marry to Ambala based, Captain Prem Nath. This then not only surprises but shocked Raju which leads him to take to alcohol in a big way thus leading him to a path of suicide. —gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)

Aruna lives a wealthy lifestyle with her paternal grandfather. She has come of marriageable age and he wants her to get married to a young man named Pran. But Aruna finds him possessive, controlling, and hot-tempered, and will not have anything to do with him, so she decides to run away. Her grandfather asks Pran to search everywhere for her, and Pran takes a oath that he will not return home until he finds her. He does find her and brings her back home. Shortly thereafter, her grandpa develops complications and passes away, leaving her in the care of Pran and a servant named Harriya. When Pran offers to marry her, she refuses and tells him that she loves another man, Ashok, she met when she ran away, the one who lives in an abandoned bus in the country. When they locate Ashok, he is unable to recognize her, and is in the company of a beautiful street dancer, Roopa, who he hopes to get married to soon. Was her romance with Ashok all a dream for Aruna, or is there some other reason why Ashok is refusing to recognize her? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

An incompetent lawyer gets evicted, dons the guise of an old man to gain accommodation, falls for the owner's daughter, then faces numerous life-changing challenges. Based in Hazratganj, Advocate Ramesh Kumar gets evicted for not paying his rent, finds accommodation with a Nawab, but is subsequently evicted from there also after forcing a tenant of 20-years, Digambernath, to move out. Ramesh then falls for the latter's daughter, Shanti, dons a guise of an old man, calls himself Mirza, and becomes their paying guest. He is able to win her heart, convinces her dad to let him live there, as well as finds employment next door with Public Prosecutor Dayal. He will soon face challenges when Shanti's sister, Uma, and her alcoholic husband, Prakash, move in; he will not only take to alcohol but also frequent the company of Dayal's attractive wife, Chanchal, and estrange himself from Shanti - but nothing will prepare him for the chain of events that will follow after two sudden deaths and an apparent homicide - shattering and changing everyone's lives forever. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com) Dev Anand, goes looking out for rented accommodation in the metropolis, but nobody was prepared to entertain a young bachelor. Dev disguises himself as an old bearded man, shoulders drooping with age, and manages to land himself as a paying guest in the apartment of a retired man, who has a young daughter, played by Nutan. And of course, the secret is out before long, and both fall in love. Dev starts working with a very renowned advocate, played by Jagirdar, whom Nutan's friend, played by Shobha Khote, had married as he was immensely wealthy. In no time, she starts feeling lonely as the old man was oblivious of the needs of the young woman. Shobha starts wooing Dev. Yaqub, Nutan's good for nothing and drunkard brother-in-law, starts blackmailing Dev and Shobha, and in the process, Jagirdar is killed —Rehan Seerat

City-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal-dada asks him to go to the village and look after his mother, and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After he comes to know both mother and daughter, they decide to re-locate to the big city to be with Gopal. In the process, Ramu and Chanda fall in love with each other. Chanda wants Ramu to give up his life of crime; Ramu agrees to do so, but will his crime partners allow Ramu to lead a normal life? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

The story revolves around a CID inspector who is handed over the case of an editor who is killed. During the investigation, he finds a lead towards a suspect. But due to a sudden twist, he falls in the trap of the suspect.

Dev Anand had become a superstar with Baazi(1951) and Jaal(1952) but his company Navketan was not in good financial health. The commercial gains of Baazi were undone by the failure of Aandhiyan and Humsafar.The company needed a big commercial hit for which the entire Anand family got together and produced a blockbuster hit in 35 days continuous shooting with an éclair camera strapped to a car.They shot in the daytime on the roads of Mumbai City and dubbed in the evenings.There were just two sets- one of the café, and the other of the room in which the hero lives.Uma Anand and Goldie( who is also credited for the dialogues) co-wrote the story and Chetan Saab directed the movie- he had to modify his usual style to suit the requirements of the commercial cinema.The movie had so many strong areas- first, the plot- a village girl comes to Mumbai to become a singer, gets lost, and meets a bindaas taxi driver who protects her from the evil world. They are so different from each other but the opposites attract and they become friends and then lovers; second, the great chemistry between the handsome hero Dev Anand and his soon to be wife-gorgeous Kalpana Kartik ( In fact, one fine morning, they vanished from the sets and got married);third, the driver and cleaner friends of the hero-particularly-Johny Walker; fourth the latest beauty queen from Shimla- Sheila Ramani- who played the bar girl Sylvie to the perfection ( Do you recall her low shoulder dresses in Dil Se Milake Dil song); and last but not the least- the music by SD Burman (who can be regarded as an extension of Anand family),the golden voice of Talat in Jayen To Jaye Kahan and that of Kishore in Chahe Koi Khush Ho , and the lyrics by the prince of poetry Sahir- particularly the carefree socialistic mood in the lines like- Bhav Agar Badha Bhi Dale Sethia To Gum Na Kar, Khaye Ja Maje Ke Saath Jab Talak Udhar De.

Dilip, spoilt and careless grandson of wealthy Rai Bahadur, is in love with film actress Nayantara and wants to marry her. However, Nayantara wants to marry him only for his wealth. Rai Bahadur totally disapproves this. However, film actor Ashok Kumar knows the truth as he also loves Nayantara. Dilip, unaware of Nayantaras ulterior motives, deceives Rai Bahadur time & again. On a day, Rai Bahadur with the help of his doctor friend, plays a trick. He pretends to be on his death bed and asks Dilip to change his ways. Dilip tries to assure him that he is out of the alliance with Nayantara and is in love with a nice girl who he plans to marry with. Rai Bahadur asks him to bring that girl in. Helpless Dilip ropes in Kiran. Rai Bahadur likes Kiran and hires her to take care of his house and himself until Dilip marries her. Unwillingly, Dilip co-op with the situation but falls in love with Kiran as he is now aware of what Nayantara wants. But he cannot marry Kiran as Nayantara starts blackmailing him at the pretext of some photographs she has in her possession. She threatens to sue Dilip but Ashok Kumar comes in and saves Dilip.