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  • Footpath review by A customer from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Avoid 27 June 2006
    ...This movie was for my mum who loves watching both Meena Kumari and Dilip Kumar and even she gave up on the movie as it dragged on so much. The quality of the movie was pret...   Read customer review

Meena Kumari - filmography


  • Pakeezah on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Raaj Kumar,  Meena Kumari
    Director: Kamal Amrohi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    For her to fall in love was forbidden - It was a sin she was told - "A nautch-girl is born to delight others; such is her destiny" - She preferred to die a thousand deaths than to live as a body without soul.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 404 members
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  • Phool Aur Patthar on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Dharmendra,  Meena Kumari,  O.P Ralhan
    Director: O.P Ralhan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Circumstances have made Shaka a career criminal. When plague empties a town of its inhabitants, he takes the opportunity to burgle a house. He finds nothing except Shanti, a widowed daughter-in-law who has been left to die by her cruel relatives. Shaka nurses her back to health. When her relatives ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 6 members
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  • Kaajal on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Meena Kumari,  Dharmendra Deol,  Raj Kumar
    Director: Ram Maheshwari
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Munim in Ranimaa's family lives with his son, Kaushal and daughter, Madhavi. After his death, Ranimaa brings up the children as her own, along with her only son, Rajesh. Many years later, Rajesh has grown up and meets the beautiful Bhanu Saxena and they fall in love. Kaushal then dies in a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 89 members
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  • Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Meena Kumari,  Guru Dutt,  Waheeda Rehman
    Director: Guru Dutt
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Chhoti Bahu's (Meena Kumari) beauty charmed everybody expect her husband. He dumps her and spends his time with another woman so Choti seeks support from Bhootnath (Guru Dott), a young rustic, who has come to Calcutta looking for work.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 194 members
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  • Gazal on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Meena Kumari,  Sunil Dutt,  Rehman
    Director: Ved Mohan
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    gra-based atheist and revolutionary poet/editor of Inquilab, Ejaz, falls head-over-heels in love with Naaz Ara Begum after he hears her sing, and then ends up losing his job. With the assistance of his lovely sister, Kausar Ara Begum, Ejaz and Naaz meet secretly. This does not auger well with ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 16% from 3 members
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  • Yahudi on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Meena Kumari,  Dilip Kumar,  Sohrab Modi
    Director: Bimal Roy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Late 1950s Bollywood drama set in ancient Rome. When the son of Jewish jeweller Ezra (Sohrab Modi) accidentally injures Roman govenor Brutus (Nasir Hussain), he is given a death sentence. In retaliation, Brutus's daughter Lydia (Meena Kumari) is kidnapped and brought to Ezra by his servant Emmanuel ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 81 members
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  • Ek Hi Rasta on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Sunil Dutt,  Meena Kumari,  Ashok Kumar
    Director: B R Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ek Hi Rasta was the first movie independently produced by B.R.Chopra, under his own banner B.R.Films. It covered the bold subject of widow remarriage, which won it wide accolades. Malti (Meena Kumari) and Amar (Sunil Dutt) are happily married to each other, with a loving child Raja. Amar works for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 18 members
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  • Parineeta on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Ashok Kumar,  Meena Kumari,  Nasir Hussain
    Director: Bimal Roy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young girl, Lolita. Orphaned at an early age, she is sent to live with her uncle's family where destiny introduces her to a young boy: Shekhar, a budding musician, a son of an affluent businessman. Together, through childhood and adolescence, Shekhar and Lolita share joys and sorrows, fond ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 83 members
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  • Footpath on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Dilip Kumar,  Meena Kumari,  Kuldip Kaur
    Director: Zia Sarhadi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Tired of being poor, Noshu, a newspaperman abandons his scruples and starts to make money as a black marketeer. He gains his fortune but ruins his brother's life causing him to lose his job, his home and his wife whilst simultaneously losing his own self-respect and that of his former neighbours ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 27 members
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  • Baiju Bawra on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Meena Kumari,  Bharat Bhushan,  B.M. Vyas
    Director: Vijay Bhatt
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Bollywood classic. Baiju (Bharat Bhushan) is a young musician who travels from his humble home to the court of the Emperor Akbar (Bipin Gupta). Many years before, the Emperor's court singer Tansen (Surendra) was responsible for ordering the execution of Baiju's father. Baiju has come seeking ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 111 members
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  • Bahu Begum on DVD
    Starring: Ashok Kumar,  Helen,  Lalita Pawar
    Director: M Sadiq
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Zeenat (Meena Kumari) is the lovely daughter of a minor dignitary in Lucknow. She is secretly in love with a neighbour, Nawab Yusuf (Pradeep Kumar). Due to a series of tragic mistakes, Zeenat is married off to Nawab Sikandar Mirza (Ashok Kumar), who has fallen passionately in love with her. Zeenat ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 23 members
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  • Ardhangini on DVD
    Starring: Agha,  Durga Khote,  Meena Kumari
    Director: Ajit Chakrabarty
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Bollywood classic ARDHANGINI is a vintage tearjerker of epic proportions. Meena Kumari stars as the luckless heroine Chhaya, whose unhappy life is further complicated by the death of her father and the rejection of her prospective mother-in-law (Durga Khote). Fleeing to Bombay, Chhaya finds ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 9 members
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  • Azaad on DVD
    Starring: Meena Kumari,  Pran,  OM Prakash
    Director: S.M. Sreeramulu Naidu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A Bollywood comedy directed by S.M.S. Naidu. Dilip Kumar takes on the twin roles of Khan Saheb: an urban businessman by day and a vigilante by night.
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 63 members
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Meena Kumari facts

5 most recent films

Phool Aur Patthar - 2.5 stars
Pakeezah - 3.5 stars
Phool Aur Patthar - 2.0 stars
Kaajal - 2.5 stars
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Pakeezah - 3.5 stars
Parineeta - 3.5 stars
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam - 3.0 stars
Baiju Bawra - 3.0 stars
Yahudi - 2.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Naya Andaz - 0.5 stars
Gazal - 1.0 stars
Phool Aur Patthar - 2.0 stars
Pyaar Ka Saagar - 2.0 stars
Ardhangini - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ashok Kumar - 3 times - show films
Dilip Kumar - 3 times - show films
Madan Puri - 2 times - show films
Jeevan - 2 times - show films
Rajendra Kumar - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Devendra Goel - 2 times - show films
Bimal Roy - 2 times - show films
Vijay Bhatt - 1 times - show films
S.U. Sunny - 1 times - show films
M Sadiq - 1 times - show films