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  • Naseeb
  • Naseeb review by A customer from Essex, UK
    Rated - 3 stars A good movie to see 11 August 2005
    ...As useuall,Manmohan Desai's masala movie. It’s again a story on lost and found theme. Amitabh's acting is good. Songs Jaan Jani Janardan.., Chal Mere Bhai & Mere Naseeb Main...  
  • Coolie
  • Coolie review by from Liverpool, UK
    Rated - 3 stars amitabh all the way 11 July 2005
    ... is the politically correct - friend/brother - a symbol of religious unity, and Manmohan Desai delivers this potboiler with lots of melodrama. Amitabhs fatal injury was conve...  
  • Sacha Jhuta
  • Sacha Jhuta review by Paresh from Leeds
    Rated - 3 stars Saccha-Jhootha: Making of super-star out of Rajesh Khanna 24 October 2008
    ...leaving no scope for the comedy of errors. Barring some unrealistic ideas which Manmohan Desai (film director) employs to create a thrill as always, the storyline is interest...  

Manmohan Desai - filmography


  • Mard on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Amrita Singh,  Dara Singh
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A young child, brought up in an orphanage, grows up to be held as a martyr amongst the poor. While he is known simply as 'Mard', it is revealed that he is actually the son of Raja Azad Singh, a major figure in India's struggle for freedom.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 270 members
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  • Desh Premee on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Hema Malini,  Pem Nath
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Desh Premi is a patriotic movie about Master Dinanath and his family. Soon after India's independence, people's love for their country seemed to diminish and the corruption replaced honesty. People formed different ethnic neighborhoods based on cast. In the midst of this chaos Master Dinanath tries ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 29 members
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  • Suhaag (1979)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shashi Kapoor,  Jeevan
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A wayward husband (Amjad Khan) leaves his wife (Nirupa Roy) and their two sons. The boys are separated due to tragic circumstances and grow up in very different environments. One of them, Vijay, (Amitabh Bachchan) becomes a street-wise, small-time gangster, while the other, Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 5 members
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  • Parvarish on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Vinod Khanna,  Shaban Azmi
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Following an encounter with police officer Shamsher Singh, Mangal Singh is imprisoned for fourteen years. Shortly after his arrest, his wife dies during childbirth, leaving Shamsher to bring up the child within his family. When Mangal is released from prison and learns of his son's existence, he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 104 members
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  • Roti on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Rajesh Khanna,  Rajesh khanna,  Mumtaz
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The story of Mangal, a notorious criminal with a good heart. Mangal flees away from jail where he is to be hanged. While escaping in a train he accidentally kills a man who finds out that Mangal is a fugitive. Mangal flles to a mountainous area where he feels he is far from the hands of police. He ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 22 members
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  • Budtameez on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Shammi Kapoor,  Sadhana Shivdasani,  Laxmi Chhaya
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Fed up the torturings of his step mother, Shyam, the scion of a late pleader, comes down to Bombay from Allahabad. He never stoops down before the difficulties of finding out service as well as living facilities, except before his step sister Beena who has been crippled due to a minor fault of ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 7 members
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  • Bluff Master on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Shammi Kapoor,  Saira Banu,  Pran
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Ashok (Shammi Kapoor), is on the lookout for a job. But that does not stop him from putting on airs and bluffing, pretending that he is from a rich family. AS luck would have it, he gets a job as a photographer for a tabloid, only to lose it because he has the misfortune to snap the owner's ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 98 members
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  • Chhalia on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Nutan,  Rehman,  Pran
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The tragic-comic and complex story of Chhalia, who falls in love with a young woman named Shanti, only to discover that she is married but separated from her husband, Kewal, and has a son by his arch enemy, who now threatens to kidnap Shanti. After a fight the two men resolve their differences and ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 31% from 6 members
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  • Chhali on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Raj Kapoor,  Nutan,  Pran
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    On the eve of partition, Shanti and Kewal are married in Lahore. When Kewal and family head to Delhi, Shanti is left behind. Seeking refuge in the home of an Afghan bandit, Abdul Rehman, she bears a son. When she returns to India she is disowned by Kewal and goes to live with the criminal Chhalia, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 51 members
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Manmohan Desai facts

5 most recent films

Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi - 3.0 stars
Mard - 3.5 stars
Coolie - 3.5 stars
Desh Premee - 3.5 stars
Naseeb - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Amar Akbar Anthony - 3.5 stars
Naseeb - 3.5 stars
Coolie - 3.5 stars
Mard - 3.5 stars
Parvarish - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Chhalia - 1.5 stars
Suhaag - 2.0 stars
Sacha Jhuta - 2.0 stars
Budtameez - 2.5 stars
Roti - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Amitabh Bachchan - 8 times - show films
Vinod Khanna - 4 times - show films
Rajesh Khanna - 3 times - show films
Rajesh khanna - 3 times - show films
Shammi Kapoor - 3 times - show films