Meena Kumar

Parineeta - Ashok Kumar|
1953
Parineeta - Ashok Kumar
1953 | 106 min
Set in the beautiful Kolkata of the sixties, Parineeta follows the love-story of the talented but emotionally high-strung Shekhar and Lalita an orphan with a heart of gold. Shekhar s ambitious and conniving father, Navin Rai is against their match as Lalita has no money and has been raised by a middle-class family. Matters come to a head when Lalita decides to take the young and enterprising businessman, Girish s help to save the fortunes of her adoptive family. But this act of selflessness leads to a crack in her relationship with Shekhar. Based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay s 1914 novella by the same name, Parineeta portrays Bengali culture and the ethos of a bygone era with great perfection.
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Majhli Didi|
1967
Majhli Didi
1967 | 122 min
Kishen a small village boy, finds himself with his stepsister Kadambini after his widowed mother's death. Kadambini takes her brother's responsibility with the intention of possessing his small village properties. Her husband, Nobin, accepts this arrangement and turns a blind eye to the ill-treatment that Kishen suffers. Kishen now has to stand up for his equal place amongst his family.
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Paalayathu Amman|
2000
Paalayathu Amman
2000 | 126 min
The film starts with a saint in a gurukulam announcing to his students that Devi's birth to kill the evil shall come soon. The Satan (Charan Raj) kills the saint, but Devi's birth is not stopped. It grows up as a child for Ramki and Divya Unni. The child gets all kinds of harm from the Satan, but the Goddess Palayathu Amman (Meena) saves it every time. At the same time, Divya Unni thinks that Palayathu Amman wants to take away her child, so she tries to save it from her. At last, the child is kidnapped and about to be killed when Palayathu Amman kills the Satan and returns the child to her parents.
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Namma Veetu Kalyanam|
2002
Bandish|
1955
Bandish
1955 | 107 min
Mahender has been responsible for the upbringing of Tomato, a young child. Now Mahender's health is getting worse, and he is afraid that his sickness may be contagious and may jeopardize Tomato s health. So, Mahender decides to leave Tomato in a park near Kamal Roy s house. He instructs Tomato to call Kamal his father. Tomato does as being told and this leads to utter chaos in Kamal s life! His lady love refuse to believe Tomato is not his child and his parents keep pressurizing him to get married. Kamal tries his best to get rid of Tomato but fails. What will Kamal do?
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Subtitles:English, ArabicHello Sundari|
2001