Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Thriller • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Ketan Mehta
Writer
Shafi Hakim, Hriday Lani, Ketan Mehta
Cast
Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri
Plot
In colonial India, subedars (tax collectors) went from village to village with soldiers, often demanding more than taxes. A subedar commands Sonbai, a beautiful and confident woman whose husband is away in the city, to sleep with ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Govind Nihalani
Writer
Satyadev Dubey, Vijay Tendulkar
Cast
Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil
Plot
A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Mahesh Bhatt
Writer
Mahesh Bhatt, Sujit Sen
Cast
Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil
Plot
A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Shyam Benegal
Writer
Kaifi Azmi, Shyam Benegal, V. Kurien
Cast
Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah
Plot
A young veterinary surgeon, Dr. Rao, who makes a visit to a village, where he intends to commence a co-operative society dairy for the betterment of the rural people.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Munshi Premchand, Amrit Rai, Satyajit Ray
Cast
Om Puri, Smita Patil, Mohan Agashe
Plot
Untouchable shoemender Dukhi comes to the Brahmin's and asks him to arrange his daughter's engagement. The Brahmin belongs to a higher caste. He wants Dukhi to work for him (and for free) before agreeing... A plea against the indi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Shyam Benegal
Writer
Hansa Wadkar, Girish Karnad, Satyadev Dubey
Cast
Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Naseeruddin Shah
Plot
A girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Muzaffar Ali
Writer
Muzaffar Ali, Hriday Lani, Asghar Wajahat
Cast
Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Geeta Kak
Plot
In order to improve their lifestyle, Lucknow based Ghulam Hussain decides to re-locate to Bombay, leaving his ailing mother and wife, Khairun, behind. He arrives in Bombay, and looks up his close friend, Lalulal Tiwari, who gets h...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: India • Language: Marathi
Director
Jabbar Patel
Writer
Jagdish Khebudkar, Jabbar Patel, Aarti Prabhu
Cast
Nilu Phule, Shreeram Lagoo, Smita Patil
Plot
Wealthy and influential Hindurao Dhonde Patil finds a homeless drunk, brings him home, looks after him, feeds him, finds a room for him, gets him employed, calls him Master, and even finds a woman to look after him. In return, thi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Jabbar Patel
Writer
Vasant Dev, Shanta Nisal, Vijay Tendulkar
Cast
Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Shrikant Moghe
Plot
After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comfortable lifestyle with her two sons - Dr. Mohan and his wife, Maya; and Advocate Subhash Mahajan, his wife, Savitri, and their daughte...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Family • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Mohan Kumar
Writer
Mohan Kumar, V.K. Sharma
Cast
Rajesh Khanna, Smita Patil, Aruna Irani
Plot
Widowed Amrit and Kamala are ill-treated by their respective children and find solace in each other's company. As their bond strengthens, the two decide to separate from their families and spend their lives together.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Malayalam
Director
Govindan Aravindan
Writer
Govindan Aravindan
Cast
Mohan Das, Bharat Gopy, Smita Patil
Plot
Muniyandi (Sreenivasan), a laborer in the farm, believes and respects Shivakami (Smita Patil). Muniyandi brings Shivakami to the farm after marrying her. She soon befriends Shankaran (Gopi). But one day Muniyandi catches Shankaran...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Ketan Mehta
Writer
Hriday Lani, Ketan Mehta
Cast
Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Gokhale
Plot
The atrocities on lower caste people displayed using folklore and ancient kingdom story. The digging of a step well in drought prone area and the exploitation of its lower caste people by the kingdom in a satirical manner.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Ravindra Peepat
Writer
Baldev Gill, Sohan Singh Hans
Cast
Smita Patil, Amrita Singh, Raj Babbar
Plot
Multi-millionaire widower Kishan Singh prepare a will which states that his ancestral property is equally divided among his two sons, Gajjan and Dulla while the son of Gajjan, Shravan shall inherit the farm land. Enraged at not wi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
J. Om Prakash
Writer
Achala Nagar
Cast
Rajesh Khanna, Smita Patil, Rakesh Roshan
Plot
Nisha believes she is happily married until she discovers that her successful businessman husband, Kabir, has been having an affair with her cousin, Indu. Distraught, Nisha abandons her husband and newborn daughter and leaves for ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
Sunil Dutt
Writer
na
Cast
Sunil Dutt, Reena Roy, Smita Patil
Plot
Time is running out for Khushbu, Ravi Sharma(Sunil Dutt)'s daughter. Her leukemia can be cured only if someone's bone marrow matches her daughter .So, he goes abroad and gets in touch with her former wife (Smita Patil).
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: India • Language: Hindi
Director
T.S. Ranga
Writer
na
Cast
Om Puri, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar
Plot
In a remote rural town in India, live a young woman named Ahnami and her husband, Bhashya. Bhashya is a laborer who earns a daily wage, drinks alcohol with part of it, and gives the rest to his wife for their livelihood. On some d...
