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Bhai Bahen
Raja Saheb (Ashok Kumar) is a rich man, strict father to sons Virendra (Sunil Dutt) and Mahendra. One day, Mahendra has a big fight with his father and dies of shock afterwards. Virendra leaves home and falls in bad company with Pran. Later, Virendra falls in love with a poor girl (Nutan), eventually deciding to marry her. At home, a lonely Raja Saheb falls ill. When Virendra tells his father about his love, his father reveals his own past: He was in love with a poor girl, who died leaving a daughter (Padmini) behind, who dances on the roads to earn a living. Virendra decides to bring his sister home.
Lakshadheeshwara
One illiterate villager forcibly purchases a lottery ticket which fetches him one lakh rupees. By the time results announced, he loses His ticket somewhere in the house. Story revolves around finding the ticket, getting the money and spending of that huge money.
Hannele Chiguridaga
Based on Triveni's novel. An orthodox patriarch (Nagendra Rao) is upset when one of his five sons (Arun Kumar) wants to marry a theatre actress (Premalatha). The old man’s daughter Malathi (Kalpana) is widowed and her friend Prasad (Rajkumar), who had arranged Malathi’s marriage, also loses his wife. The patriarch refuses to let Malathi marry Prasad, leading to extensive debate and a revolt within the family before he relents. The original novel, working within a social reform tradition, strongly advocated widow remarriage
Teen Bahuraniyan
Teen Bahuraniyan (English: Three Daughters-In-Law) is a 1968 family comedy movie. The film is a remake of 1967 Tamil movie Bama Vijayam (Bama's Visit). The film's three lead ladies reprise their roles from the original movie. Teen Bahuraniyan is family story of 3 daughter in laws and their husbands. The movie shows how their relations takes different colour at various situations and how the father Prithviraj Kapoor plays vital role in the family to keep things going.
Duniya
An advocate faces heavy odds defending the brother of his sweetheart.
Etotuku Asha
Alam (Anowar Hussain), a young man from a rural background, is forced to leave his family just after the marriage when his wife Luchi (Rosy Samad) feels uncomfortable at his poor home. This makes his father go for earning even at the old age, his lame brother is forced to sell newspapers on the streets, and eventually his younger sister (Sujata) is forced to marry a mentally-challenged person, sacrificing her true love for Kabir (Abdur Razzak), who is again Alam's brother-in-law, to cover up the loan once taken by his father from a village landlord.
Dhana Pishachi
Dhana Pishachi is a 1967 Indian Kannada-language film directed and produced by S. N. Singh. The film stars Sampath, K. S. Ashwath, Dikki Madhavarao and Kalpana. The film has musical score by Satyam
Beedi Basavanna
Beedi Basavanna is a 1967 Indian Kannada language film, directed and produced by B. R. Panthulu. The film stars Rajkumar, Bharathi, Vandana (B. Vijayalakshmi) and Narasimharaju. The film has musical score by T. G. Lingappa. B. R. Panthulu remade the movie in Tamil in 1970 as Thedi Vandha Mappillai with minor changes.
Baharon Ke Sapne
In a small industrial town near Bombay lives Bholanath, who works at the local mill, and is the proud husband of Gauri, a daughter, Champa, and above all his son, Ramaiya, who is a graduate in the arts faculty, - the only one in this town who has attained this degree. But times are hard, and jobs are difficult to come by. When Bholanath loses his job, Ramaiya decides to find employment, and does so as a menial worker in the same mill his dad used to work. Ramaiya is very popular with his co-workers and they soon elect him as their new union leader. This puts Ramaiya in conflict with the Management of the Mill, headed by the owner, Kapoor, who has ordered that Ramaiya be eliminated post haste. But Ramaiya is determined to address the workers' grievances, and he gets himself framed for theft; has the police on the lookout for him, and so Ramaiya goes into hiding.
Mehrban
Mehrban is a 1967 Hindi language film written and directed by A. Bhimsingh. It is a remake of Bhimsingh's own Tamil film Padikkadha Medhai (1960) which itself was a remake of the 1953 Bengali film Jog Biyog, based on the novel of the same name by Ashapoorna Devi.
Nakkare Ade Swarga
Nakkare Ade Swarga is a 1967 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by M. R. Vittal and produced by Srikanth Nahatha and Srikanth Patel. The film stars Narasimharaju, along with Jayanthi, Shailashree, Jr. Revathi and Thara. The film has a musical score by M. Ranga Rao. This film introduced singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam to the Kannada film industry.
Upkar
Widowed Radha lives in rural India in the 1960s, along with two sons: Bharat and Puran. While she would like to educate her sons and ensure that they lead good lives, she cannot do so on her own, and must sacrifice the career of one son so that the second can achieve this goal. Bharat sacrifices everything to educate his brother Puran. However, Puran turns into a greedy man and gets involved in drug trafficking in order to make money.
Nai Roshni
The film is a social drama, with its plot around university professor Dr. Kumar (Ashok Kumar), who lives with his wife Padma (Bhanumati), his drunkard son Jyoti (Raaj Kumar), outgoing daughter Chitra (Tanuja) and his friend's daughter Rekha (Mala Sinha). Dr. Kumar and his wife have a different outlook towards life, with him preferring books and philosophy, while his wife Padma prefers social gatherings and society clubs. Padma never considered Jyoti her son, who works as a mill designer, a profession she considers too poor to acknowledge. Chitra is encouraged by her mother to mingle freely in high society, much to the disappointment of her worried father.
Ram Aur Shyam
Abused by an oppressive brother-in-law Gajendra (Pran), Ramchandra (Dilip Kumar) runs away from home, and ends up in a small village where he is mistaken for Shyamrao (also Dilip Kumar), and must accept Ganga (Leela Mishra) and his new name or face severe exorcism. Meanwhile, Shyamrao is mistaken for Ramchandra by Anjana (Waheeda Rehman) and her dad (Nazir Hussain). When Gajendra finds out, he is enraged and attempts to beat the stuffing out of the person he thinks is his brother-in-law, but Shyamrao refuses to be abused or beaten, and all of a sudden things start changing in the household as well as in the community. It is not long before Gajendra finds out about the truth, and plans an ugly death for Shyamrao, and all those opposed to him.
Mamta
The son of a wealthy family, Monish falls in love with Deviyani, a girl from a considerably less privileged background. When Monish leaves to study abroad, the lovers plan to reunite, but desperate financial straits force Deviyani into a marriage with a philandering drunk instead. Deeply unhappy, she flees, taking her infant daughter with her and vanishing into thin air. Does fate have more than misery in store for the unfortunate Deviyani?
13 Number Feku Ostagar Lane
In a home, hassle was a daily routine between homeowners and lodgers. The lodgers & their servant was determined that they wouldn't pay their rent. Both of them separately called in their brother & sister to rise courage in quarrel.
Suryatapa
Another call on "I Married a Dead Man" but with a change- the family hated the DIL and didn't want her, but wanted the child, the heir. The woman and the child had been attacked and couldn't live apart. Aditya's grandparents mistake Kanak for being the other woman in his life and blame her for his death. Kanak develops a strong bond with Aditya's son and everyone accepts her in the family.
Oonche Log
A blind, principled Major Chandrakant takes in a stranger on the run, unaware the man murdered his younger, irresponsible son who had abandoned a pregnant woman, leading to her suicide. The Major's elder son, a police inspector, is investigating the murder, creating a dramatic conflict of duty, family, and justice.