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- Based on Nandan, a low caste farmer's deep devotion towards Shiva.
- Usha lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed father, Parmanand, who is the Station Master of Rangpur Railway Station in India. She is smart, intelligent and educated, and is expected to marry someone of equal status. A railway employee, (Pointsman), Kalicharan, would like Usha to get married to Niranjan, who is the DTS of Indian Railways, and this will ensure that Kalicharan's son will also get employed with the Railway. Both Kalicharan and Parmanand approach Manikbabu, another Railway employee, who wants his semi-senile daughter, Shyama, to marry Arun, a Guard with the Railway. Soon Niranjan's sister comes to see Usha, approves of her, and goes home to make preparations for a marriage. But Usha has fallen in love with Arun, wants to marry him, and refuses to marry Niranjan, who is twice as old as her and a widower as well. Usha's decision has an adverse effect on all the local rail employees, and as a result no one is able to avert an accident that takes place between an express and a goods train. Watch what happens when the Government orders an Inquiry into this incident, and the effect this will have on the lives of all railway employees - some or all of whom may be found guilty and may face imprisonment.
- Roti made in the early 1940s inspired by the German Expressionism, is a real critique of Indian society with prophetic insight. It deals with two models - one of a millionaire, possessed by money and power in an industrial civilisation, the other of a tribal couple living in a primeval state of nature. The millionaire is saved by the couple after an air crash, the tribal couple emigrate to the city, do not find happiness and return. The millionaire is ruined in the city, tries futilely to find salvation among the tribal. (Not my own synopsis, taken from a website on the history of Indian Cinema which Imdb wouldn't let me include because it doesn't accept links or htmls in plot synopses)
- A young man gets jailed for killing a woman who seduces him. When he gets released, he tries to stop his employer's son from committing the same kind of crime he did.
- The wealthy, self-obsessed, and possibly crazed Manoj (Barua) is sent by his concerned family to the rural estate of his future father-in-law. Along the way, however, he gets lost and soon finds himself taking shelter in the abode of railroad stationmaster whose beautiful, down-to-earth daughter, Meena (Kenan Devi), Manoj finds irresistible. When his haughty, progressive-minded fiancee gets wind of this, she freaks out and soon there is a showdown between the two women. In the aftermath, Manoj finds reason to go with his heart and marry Meena.
- When a young man discovers that his mother was kidnapped by a wicked wizard, he decides to save her.
- Chronicling the upheaval created by Maharani Kekaiyi, on the behest of her maid, Manthra, into coercing her husband, Maharaj Dashrath, to grant her two boons. The first, to let her son, Rajkumar Bharat, be crowned as Ayodhya's Maharaja, and the second, and more fatal and drastic, to impose a fourteen year exile for Maharani Kaushalya's son, Bhagwan Shri Ram.
- A millionaire's daughter (Rose) falls in love with a jobless college grad (Surendranath), but their love story is interrupted by the girl's scheming fiance (Ansari) who creates mistrust between the two lovers.
- Suspicion and Mistaken Identity blend well into this plot line; first pair is Dr. Vembu Iyer (K. Sarangapani) and his wife, Chellam (Chellam) and the second is, Mr. Dhanabal Gupta (K.Mahadevan) and wife Ravathi (M.K.Meenalochani). Vembu iyer is having a free dispensary, helping his patients. One day, Revathi goes unconscious in front Dr. Vembu iyer's clinic and the suspicion gets into the pairs. Mistaken identity gets in as Chellam looks over the balcony the pair in the street and Dhanabal Gupta's photo in the street, left behind by Revathi. Sequence of comedies comes in and finally, Revathi's mother straightens the estranged pairs; ends well in light of laughter of their own suspicion.
- Two poor homeless siblings have singing talent but are unable to find a job. When they meet the brother of a theatre owner, things start to change a lot.
- Asha lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her widower dad, Shyamrao Dhaneshwar, studies in an arts college, and adores the college's most brilliant yet poor student, Ashok Deshmukh. Both continue to meet every week at 10 O' Clock at night, and he even introduces her to his family, which consists of his widowed mother and younger sister, Usha. Asha will soon realize that being wealthy does have it's disadvantages when she will be forbidden to see Ashok anymore and must obey her dad's wishes and get married to equally wealthy Dr. Ramesh.
- Madhuri and Rani (Baby Madhuri) are twin sisters whose parents, Seth Dinanath and Radha, are shot in front of them by their mother's rejected suitor Shivnath (Dalpat). The mother dies and the father is kept prisoner by Shivnath who also kidnaps Rani. Madhuri is found wandering by a rich man Rai Bahadur, who takes her home and adopts her. Several years pass and Madhuri (Fearless Nadia) is enjoying her life in luxury. She has a dog called Gunboat who accompanies her everywhere. She finds out about her parents and sees Rani dance at a nightclub. She vows vengeance and soon the sisters along with two friends (Yakub and Agha) fight their way to the gangster and free their father.
- Chronicling the life as well many challenges faced by Sanskrit poet Kalidas.
- College students Dilip and Asha are in love, but Asha's father insists she marry a certain Dr. Ramesh. When Dilip is seriously injured in a road accident, Dr. Ramesh is faced with the prospect of operating on, and thus saving the life of, his romantic rival.