Manmohan Desai

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Manmohan Desai - what members say

Naseeb review by A customer from Essex, UK

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... Read customer review

Coolie review by from Liverpool, UK

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... Read customer review

Sacha Jhuta review by Paresh from Leeds

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... Read customer review

Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi on DVD (1988)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Mitchun Chakraborty, Meenakshi Sheshadri
Director: Manmohan Desai
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This is the story of three lives that converge and diverge as destiny directs the course of their lives...

58% from 106 members

Mard on DVD (1985)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Dara Singh
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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.

65% from 290 members

Coolie on DVD (1983)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Rati Agnihotri, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Manmohan Desai
Certificate:
The story of a coolie working in a railway station who was separated from his parents as a child during a flood.

69% from 532 members

Desh Premee on DVD (1982)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Pem Nath
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

68% from 41 members

Naseeb on DVD (1981)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Manmohan Desai
Certificate:
Bollywood drama

70% from 550 members

Suhaag on DVD (1979)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Jeevan
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

62% from 27 members

Amar Akbar Anthony on DVD (1977)
Starring: Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan
Director: Manmohan Desai
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The story of three brothers, Amar, Akbar and Anthony who are raised separately after being abandoned by their father. They do not know of each other and their lives become intertwined when they meet and fall in love with the same woman.

72% from 1,010 member

Parvarish on DVD (1977)
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Shaban Azmi
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

64% from 120 members

Roti on DVD (1974)
Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Rajesh khanna, Mumtaz
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

57% from 30 members

Sacha Jhuta on DVD (1970)
Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Rajesh khanna, Vinod Khanna
Director: Manmohan Desai
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A penniless musician is unwittingly forced to trade places with a look-alike diamond merchant / thief causing a comedy of errors by everyone involved.

48% from 17 members

Sachha Jhutha on DVD (1970)
Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Rajesh khanna, Mumtaz
Director: Manmohan Desai
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A simple musician becomes part of the evil plans of his lookalike, a rich diamond thief.

47% from 55 members

Budtameez on DVD (1966)
Starring: Shammi Kapoor, Sadhana Shivdasani, Laxmi Chhaya
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

44% from 15 members

Bluff Master on DVD (1963)
Starring: Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu, Pran
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

50% from 109 members

Chhalia on DVD (1960)
Starring: Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Pran
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

40% from 59 members

Chhalia on DVD (1960)
Starring: Nutan, Rehman, Pran
Director: Manmohan Desai
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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 »

30% from 11 members

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

Amar Akbar Anthony - 3.5 stars
Naseeb - 3.5 stars
Coolie - 3.5 stars
Mard - 3.5 stars
Parvarish - 3.0 stars

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

Amitabh Bachchan - 8 times - show films
Vinod Khanna - 4 times - show films
Shammi Kapoor - 3 times - show films
Rishi Kapoor - 3 times - show films
Mumtaz - 3 times - show films