Vyjayanthimala

Baby Vijay lives in an orphanage run by Savitri (Paro), after being abandoned there by her biological mother Yashoda (Sulochana Latkar). Yashoda was forced to do this since the man who married her in a temple, refused to acknowledge her as a wife. At the orphanage, Vijay is cared for by a widowed mother, Laxmi (Sulochana Chatterjee). Many months later, a wealthy man, Kailashnath Gupta (Raj Mehra), identifies him as his lost son and takes him home. Kailashnath comes to the orphanage and tells Savitri that he is the man who married Yashoda, and then did not have the courage to accept her in front of his father. Savitri hands over the baby Vijay to Kailashnath. After Kailashnath leaves, Savitri realizes that she handed over Laxmi's son to Kailashnath by mistake, and his real son is still at the orphanage. Years pass and Vijay (Dharmendra) grows up into a fine young man. He decides to find employment as a police constable much to Kailashnath's displeasure. He gets Rs 300 per month as salary, which embarrasses Kailashnath. Gogo 'RamMilan' (Mehmood) is Kailashnath's driver. Gogo loves Chham Chham (Helen), who is a rich socialite. To impress her, Gogo acts like a rich businessman and Vijay helps him by posing as a driver. Chham Chaam is the daughter of trader Jatadhari (Dhumal). Dindayal (Madan Puri) also has his eyes on Chham Chham. When she brings Gogo home, Dindayal tries to convince Jatadhari that he looks like Kailashnath's driver and not his son. So Jatadhari insists that Gogo invite them to his house and introduce to his father. Gogo blackmails all the house servants (who have misdeeds of their own) to serve him as Kailashnath's son for the time Jata and his daughter are at the house. Vijay pretends to be Gogo's dad to convince Jatadhari. They both carry out an expansive charade and convince Jatadhari, before Kailashnath arrives and unravels their game. Amongst Vijay's first assignment is to locate a beautiful young woman, Kavita's (Vyjayanthimala), who he falls head-over-heels in love with, missing father (missing for 2 yrs). Vijay's boss is Kewal Mehra (Krishan Dhawan). Kavita finds out that her uncle Diwaan Saab (D.K. Sapru) had received a phone call a few days after her father's disappearance. A man named Ashok (Pran) threatened Diwan that Shyam Kumar (Manmohan) has the knowledge of what happened to Diwan's business partner and Step brother. Diwan promised to meet Ashok in Bombay. She feels that Diwan & Ashok conspired together to betray her father, and Shyam Kumar knows where her father is. Kavita travels to Bombay and meets Diwan Saab, where Shyam Kumar is a regular visitor. When Vijay announces himself as the CID officer to Diwan, Diwan meets Ashok. Ashok says he only fears Shyam as he saw many things. Shyam is blackmailing Diwan and needs Rs 5000 to keep his mouth shut. It is revealed that Diwan and Ashok buried Kavita's father in the jungle, where Shyam took a photo of their dastardly act. Meanwhile Shyam also lusts after Kavita. Vijay and Kavita start off on the wrong foot, when Kavita mistakes Vijay for Shyam and spends an entire day in picnic with him. Later, Vijay attends Kavita's birthday party and Kavita asks Shyam to teach Vijay a lesson, but Vijay easily defeats Shyam and makes a joke out of him. Kavita is mad with jealousy. She writes a love letter to Vijay inviting him to a lake, while planning with the boatman to drop Vijay in the middle of the lake, since she knows that Vijay doesn't know how to swim. The boatman is good friends with Gogo and reveals Kavita's plan to him and the news reaches Vijay. Vijay sends the letter to Shyam Kumar and thus Kavita's joke is played out on Shyam. Shyam ends up in the water and this further infuriates Kavita. Eventually Kavita falls for Vijay's charms and the 2 fall in love. Kavita tells Vijay how her father disappeared 2 yrs ago and only Shyam knows where he is. Kavita finds Vijay is a CID officer assigned to her father's case. Vijay asks Kavita to write a love letter to Shyam. Shyam agrees to divulge everything to Kavita and calls her for a meeting, alone. Ashok overhears this and decides to kill Shyam. He calls Diwan, but the call is received by Kavita. When Kavita goes to meet Shyam, she finds him dead. Meanwhile Savirti runs into Kailashnath, but doesn't reveal the switch that happened several yrs ago. Kailashnath meets Kavita and wants to meet her parents for her wedding. Kavita says she only has an aunt, and her name is Yashoda. Even her husband left her and since then she stays with them. Kailashnath meets the aunt and figures out that it is his wife. Kailashnath begs her to come home to meet Vijay. Now Ashok starts calling Kailashnath, saying that his name is Satish Raj. Satish claims to be Kailashnath's son and says when Kailash came to the orphanage to pick his son, he was handed another kid by mistake. Kailash decides to confirm the truth with Savitri. Savitri admits her mistake. Kailash goes home and tells the whole story to Yashoda. Kailash takes Yashoda to meet Satish Raj, their son. Kailash wants to stay together with Vijay, but this is not acceptable to Satish. When Vijay finds out, he reaches out to Satish. He brings Satish home and decides to leave himself. It is revealed that Satish is not Kailashnath's son, but the real son of Savitri, who decided to insert Satish as Kailash's son to lay a claim to his wealth. Meanwhile, on the streets, Vijay runs into his real mother Laxmi, while saving her from a bunch of goons. Laxmi lives her son, Gogo. Gogo has a friend named Mehmood Ali (Mehmood Jr.). Yashoda introduces Kavita to her son Satish. But Kavita recognizes his voice as Ashok, the man she heard speaking on the phone with her uncle. The news reaches Vijay who is convinced that Satish and Ashok are the same guy. Vijay goes to meet Savitri, whose testimony was crucial to the whole issue. Savitri gets scared and calls Ashok to meet her, without knowing that Vijay was keeping an eye on her. Now it is confirmed that Savitri and Ashok know each other and are conspiring. One day, Savitri runs into Yashoda at a doctor's clinic and follows her home. Meanwhile a blackmailer (Shatrughan Sinha) calls Satish and says that Shyam had left evidence with him with instructions to go to the police if he died. the Blackmailer wants a deal of Rs 1 Lakhs with Satish, in exchange for the evidence. Vijay was tapping Satish's phone and heard the entire conversation. Satish calls Diwan and asks him to go for the money delivery, since Vijay has his eyes on Satish. Vijay hears this also Now, Vijay and Kewal have captured the blackmailer and Kewal poses as the blackmailer in front of Diwan, when he comes for the drop. Diwan admits to killing Kavita's father and is arrested by Kewal's forces. Meanwhile Gogo is talking to Yashoda and mentions how Satish came into the Kailashnath household, and became his son, displacing Vijay. and the whole thing was due to Savitri's mistake. Yashoda says that Vijay is her son, whom Kailashnath brought from the Orphanage and in reality Gogo is Kailashnath's real son. Satish and Savitri overhear the whole conversation and kidnap Yashoda. Gogo had gone to fetch Vijay. Muhammad Ali sees the kidnapping and alerts Gogo and Vijay. Vijay attacks with Gogo, but Satish manages to overpower him. Satish starts a fire to kill everyone, but Vijay fights back and saves Yashoda and Gogo. The police arrives and arrests Satish Kailashnath accepts both Vijay and Gogo as his sons.

A doctor doing research on cancer treatment faces challenges when he first loses his wife, and then his vision. Dr. Ravi returns from abroad and takes up position as Chief Surgeon in a hospital. He then meets with Nurse Shanti, who lives an impoverished lifestyle with her ailing mother, and decides to perform surgery, but she passes away, and a guilt-ridden Ravi marries Shanti much to the chagrin of his mentor, Kaka, who had hoped that he would marry his daughter, Rajni. The couple then travel to Kashmir for their honey-moon, and then settle down to a harmonious relationship. Hoping to travel even more, their plans are interrupted by the hospital's head doctor, who wants Ravi to focus on cancer research. The couple drop all travel plans and immerse themselves in research so much so that Shanti herself becomes ill, and not wanting to become a burden, leaves. A frantic Ravi searches high and low in vain, and is subsequently devastated to learn that she has perished in a train accident. Kaka then becomes very ill and Kaki tells Ravi that the cause of his illness is Rajni's insistence that she not marry anyone except Ravi. As a result, Ravi marries her but is unable to get Shanti out of his mind. An embittered Rajni feels neglected and decides to confront him - resulting in his losing his vision - perhaps never to see again - and unable to do any further cancer research.

Maharaja Vikram decides to marry his daughter Anuradha to his commander's son, Pratap. However, years later, Anuradha is abducted by bandit Suraj while on her way to Pratap's coronation. Vikram Singh is the Maharaja of Pratap Nagar and is very impressed with his Senapati Sangram Singh for years of loyal service. He decides to make him a Maharaja and agrees to marry his daughter, Anuradha, with his son, Pratap. Years later, Vikram sends his now grown-up Anuradha to visit the coronation of Rajkumar Pratap Singh and approve of him as her husband, and she sets off without any escort with just her maid-servant, Kalavati, for company. Shortly thereafter, Vikram is informed that Kalavati has been abducted by a bandit named Suraj Singh, he accordingly rushes over to Sangram's and this is where he discovers to his shock that Kalavati is posing as Anuradha, and it is his daughter that has been abducted by Suraj. Watch what happens when Suraj is arrested and lodged in a dungeon, and preparations are set forth for the coronation of Pratap and his subsequently marriage with Anuradha. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Beena works as a stage actress and lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed mother. One day while returning home she is molested by Bankhe and two other men, but Rajan comes to her rescue. He escorts her home and soon both of them fall in love with each other. Rajan's dad, Rai Bahadur Gangasaran, is wealthy and does not approve of Beena at all. But when Rajan threatens to leave him, he changes his mind and permits them to get married. After the marriage they settle down to a harmonious life and soon Beena becomes pregnant. One night while driving, Rajan gets a flat tire, he leaves Beena in the car in order to get help. When he returns Beena has disappeared. She returns home the next day, and everyone is relieved to have her back. A few days later they get the news that Gopal, the Manager of the Theatre that Beena used to work with, has been arrested and charged with killing a man named Ratanlal. Gangasaran is on the jury and would like Gopal to get a fair trial. The police find out that a woman was present with Gopal at the night of the murder, but Gopal refuses to divulge her name. As a result of this refusal, he is found guilty. When the sentence is about to be passed, Beena suddenly appears in Court and testifies that she was with Gopal the night of the murder. Gopal is set free, but Beena is shunned by Rajan and Gangasaran and not only driven out of the house, but also from the town. The question does remain - what compelled Beena to spend the night with Gopal, and why was Gopal accused of killing Ratanlal? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Dr.Arun lives with his brother, Madhu; dad Judge Ramkrishan; and mom Kamla in a palatial house. He decides to help the poor and the needy and in order to do this he re-locates to a small town, where he meets with a young nurse named Sumati and both fall in love with each other. Sumati lives with her mom, Laxmi, and has no father. When Kamla starts looking for a prospective bride for Arun, he informs her that he has given his heart to Sumati. Ramkrishan sends for Laxmi, who gladly accepts the invitation. After her meeting, Arun inquires about the results with his mom and dad, and is told to forget about Sumati and marry someone else. When Arun asks for a reason behind their refusal, they refuse to divulge any information. The question remains, why did his parents turn down Sumati's mom, and what exactly happened during that meeting with her? —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

On a stormy night, Deven takes shelter in an old mansion. He finds it eerily familiar and soon begins to recall memories from a past life.

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)

Naya Daur a classic directed by B R Chopra released in the year 1957 which is re releasing 50 years later in colour by the previous makers of the film. The story is of two friends, Shankar and Krishna, one is a tangawala and the other being a wood cutter who resides in the content village of Karanpur. The villagers being content with what they have because of Seth Maganlal for whom the whole village works, because of belief being that all he owned was because of the villages hard work therefore he took care that they are happy. All is fine till the Seths greedy and money centric son Kundan appears who installs machines in the wood cutting business putting half of the village to hunger and misery. Along with Kundan a girl named Rajni for whom both the friends fall. Which later leads to bitterness and enemity to their friend ship. Krishna and Kundan tie hands to remove the entire charioteer out of business by introducing bus services for the village. By much request Kundan agrees to withdraw the bus service if the chariot can beat them at a race to the mandir. Shankar ascertains a shorter route to the mandir for the chariot and takes help in making the route. The film is a story of Man v/s Machine, bourgeoisie v/s proletariats and the have v/s have not.

Pratap (Sunil Dutt) is accused of murdering the wealthy Seth Maganbhai Mehta. As a fugitive on the run, he meets Anokhi (Vyjayantimala) and her assorted group who make their living by any means, begging, stealing, or deceit. At first, Pratap is derisive of Anokhi and her friends. He soon realizes the camaraderie they share and their inherent goodness. He slowly wins them over and changes their erring ways. Anokhi and her friends then help Pratap find the real murderer.

Devdas`s childhood sweetheart is married off as his father opposes the alliance. Heartbroken, Devdas starts drinking, spending his days in the arms of Chandramukhi, a prostitute.

Meenakshi, an unwed mother, leaves her baby in Nathan's car after her lover, Moorthy, abandons her. Though Nathan takes care of the child, his girlfriend, Mohana, becomes suspicious of him.