The best Madhubala’s movies

Madhubala

Madhubala

14/02/1933- 23/02/1969
We present our ranking of the best Madhubala’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Madhubala.
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Mughal-e-Azam

Mughal-e-Azam
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 05/08/1960
  • Character: Anarkali
Set in the 16th century AD, the movie brings to life the tale of the doomed love affair between the Mughal Crown Prince Saleem and the beautiful, ill-fated court dancer, whose fervor and intensity perpetrates a war between the prince and his father the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, and threatens to bring an empire to its knees.

Mr. & Mrs. '55

Mr. & Mrs. '55
7.1/10
A young, naive heiress is forced into a 'marriage of convenience' with an unemployed cartoonist in an attempt to save her millions - a move orchestrated by the scheming aunt.

Neel Kamal

Neel Kamal
7.8/10
A military coup leads to two outcast princesses falling for the same rakish artist.

Sangdil

Sangdil
6.8/10
  • Release: 01/01/1952
A loose adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic, Jane Eyre. In this version childhood sweethearts are separated and grow up in different worlds. The girl is brought up to be a 'pujaaran' (priestess) while the boy grows up to be a dejected 'thakur', turned vindictive by life's injustices. Fate inevitably brings them together at a later juncture, and all seems happy and perfect for the young couple, until she discovers his deep, dark secret.

Ek Saal

Ek Saal
7.7/10
  • Release: 01/01/1957
The father of a dying woman pays a con artist to make his daughter's final year a happy one.

Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi

Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
7.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/02/1958
  • Character: Renu
Three woman-hating brothers face changes in their respective lifestyles when two of them fall in love.

Kalapani

Kalapani
7/10
  • Release: 23/02/1958
  • Character: Asha
Based on A.J.Cronin's 'Beyond This Place', this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. A young man, learning about his father's wrongful implication in a fifteen-year-old murder, vows to bring the true criminals to justice and release his innocent father from 'kaala paani' (life imprisonment), for which he enlists the help of a press reporter, a retired police inspector and an unwitting prostitute who happens to possess some key evidence.

Sharabi

Sharabi
7.6/10
Keshav, an alcoholic, swears off alcohol after his father's death. He loves Kamala, whose father gets him a job and fixes a marriage date. But, the marriage is cancelled when he starts drinking again.

Badal

Badal
7.1/10
  • Release: 06/09/1951
A peasant and his followers take up banditry and rebellion in response to unjust taxation from wicked deputies of the King. Robin Hood style.

Howrah Bridge

Howrah Bridge
6.8/10
Rakesh lives with his brother, Madan, and his dad in Rangoon. Madan has fallen into bad company and steals the family heirloom, in the shape of a dragon, some cash and runs away to India. Shortly thereafter, his dead body is found under Calcutta's Howrah Bridge. Rakesh travels to Calcutta in order to find out the mystery behind Madan's death, and also try to recover the family heirloom.

Jaali Note

Jaali Note
6.8/10
  • Release: 01/01/1960
  • Character: Renu
High-minded and hardworking Inspector Dinesh Kumar (Dev Anand) is assigned to crack the case of a notorious band of counterfeiters. Risking life and limb in pursuit of the criminals, he goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and bring them to justice. Along the way, he finds romance with a beautiful journalist (Madhubala) and makes a shocking discovery that resonates with personal meaning.

Half Ticket

Half Ticket
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1962
  • Character: Asha/Rajni Devi
A diamond thief hides his loot on an innocent child, but the child turns out to be an adult posing as a youngster to purchase a half-priced train ticket. Now, the thief will have to outwit the eccentric in a series of wacky misadventures.

Boy Friend

Boy Friend
7.8/10
  • Release: 01/01/1961
A young lad, separated at a young age from his parents takes on the life of petty crime and ends up in jail. On his release he comes across a friend in a train, and at the friend's request sets upon to trace his two daughters; he meets them and falls in love with one of them. But the police are on his trail due to a stolen necklace belonging to none other than his birth mother.

Beqasoor

Beqasoor
4.6/10
When Brijmohan moves out with his ailing mother due to a family dispute, he comes across a runaway woman on his quest for a new job. What follows is the journey and trials and tribulations of these two strangers as they traverse, courtship, marriage and family politics.

Aparadhi

Aparadhi
6.6/10
  • Release: 25/02/1949
  • Character: Sheela Rani
The film is set during the Pre-Independence days and revolves around a husband who suspects his wife of having an affair with a freedom fighter sheltering with them.

Do Ustad

Do Ustad
7.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/01/1959
  • Character: Madhu Sharma
Two rival career-criminal brothers recollect their lives in a Courtroom in which one is about to be convicted for murder.

Mehlon Ke Khwaab

Mehlon Ke Khwaab
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 09/03/1960
  • Character: Asha
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.

Insaan Jaag Utha

Insaan Jaag Utha
6.9/10
Musical - Gauri lives with her crippled ex-army dad and brother. One day she notices a man calling himself Ranjeet lurking around their house. What she doesn't know is that Ranjeet is here for a reason--the suitcase of gold he had buried in Gauri's front yard. Sunil Dutt, Madhubala, Nasir Hussain

Dark Brandon

Dark Brandon
  • Release: 01/03/2008
Poetry. Multimedia. This follow-up to Downing's 2005 collection DARK BRANDON is the filmic flip-side of that book's dizzying convergence of visual culture and syntactic shock. Drawing on 1960s Bollywood, 1980s Public Access poetry television, poorly rendered nature-documentary graphics, and other heights (and depths) of the moving image, these films, collected here, remain nothing less than poetry.

Basant

Basant
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 02/01/1942
  • Character: Manju
Uma (Mumtaz Shanti) and Babul (Suresh) are poor and homeless siblings. Both of them have got singing talent but are unable to find any job. Then they meet Nirmal who is younger brother of theater owner Janki Babu. Nirmal persuades his brother to give them a chance. After seeing their talent, Janki Babu also admires Uma and gives her leading role at his theater. Then Nirmal and Uma fall in love with each other and get married. However, Nirmal has a misunderstanding that his elder brother also likes Uma and wanted to marry her. He does not approve of Uma's job in theater but himself is struggling to find a job. Uma leaves the job and they also also leave Janki babu's house. Now they have a small baby daughter, Manju. But soon they see the true face of poverty and struggle to cope with it.

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