Sandhya Shantaram
Actor · b. 1938 · Kochi, Kerala, India
Movies13
Movie9.5DramaA respected village schoolteacher falls for a travelling dancer and faces a moral dilemma.
Movie9.0ComedyDramaRamesh, the youngest son of a well-to-do family, falls in love with a woman he hears singing on the radio -- even though he's never seen her. When he finds out his mystery woman is Ksama, a servant in his parents' house, everything is thrown into turmoil. Will Ramesh accept Ksama? Will they get married? Love may just conquer all in this classic Bollywood melodrama.
Teen Batti Char Raasta
1953 · 1 votes
Movie5.4DramaRomanceDiwakar is a poet and loves his wife Jamuna on everything. But Jamuna does not agree that Diwakar lives out of sheer poetry in a fantasy world and the real world less and less responsible. Diwakar goes so far that he is a fantasy woman in his wife's body creates what he calls Mohini. Diwakar will soon become a recognized poet and Jamuna gives birth to a boy. Unfortunately, the happiness does not last long: Diwakar loses his job because of a critical songs against the British. Now he can no longer feed his sickly father nor his son, who is starving. All this makes Jamuna angry, but above all Diwakars growing obsession with Mohini. As Jamuna decides to live apart from Diwakar, it is destroyed internally and no longer capable of proof. Jamuna slowly realizes that she can not live without Diwakar and forgives him.
Navrang
1959 · 8 votes
Movie7.6ThrillerCrimeProgressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to dilapidated country farm, to rehabilitate it and themselves through hard work and kindly guidance.
Do Ankhen Barah Haath
1960 · 10 votes
Movie7.0CrimeThrillerOne day, a landlord belonging to a rich family gets murdered and the crime is imposed on Anandar, his innocent brother, and his lovely wife Karpagavalli.
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Film about a young woman who enjoys singing and dancing, but is not thrilled about her impending arranged marriage.
Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli
1971 · 1 votes
Movie8.0HistoryDramaThe story of the complete Ramayana, from the birth of Lord Rama to his Pattabhisheka after completing his exile.
Movie6.3RomanceDramaDancer maestro Mangal Maharaj wants his son, Girdhar, who is a dancer par excellence, to enter the once-in-ten-years Nateshwar Utsav dance competition, win it, and be crowned the Bharat Natraj. While Girdhar can do a solo dance number, he is also required to dance the Shiv-Parvati Tandav dance with a female partner. Mangal Maharaj would like Roopkala to be his partner, but ends up being disappointed with her. Now with only a year left for the Utsav, he chances upon talented dancer and singer, Neeladevi, and recruits her. He subjects her to strenuous training and he is pleased with her performance. Then he finds out that Girdhar and Neela have fallen in love with each other, and their involvement is interfering with their performance. Unhappy with Neeladevi, he dismisses her, and sets forth to look for another dancer. The question remains: Will he be able to find another one, train her, and make her compete just in time for the Utsav, or will he lose this opportunity altogether and ...
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
1955 · 3 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaAngara and Vikram fall in love despite their family being from different clans and having a feud.
Sehra
1963 · 2 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaVeteran director V. Shantaram spins this bio-pic about poet and musician Honaji Bala, best know for popularizing the Lavani dance form and for writing the classic raga Ghanashyam Sundara Shirdhara.
Movie9.0DramaTired of his life, a boat man gets hit in the eye by a bullet, blinding him by a young lady. They soon fall in love each other, but this is not liked by the older lady as she wants young to marry another man.
Movie7.0DramaThrillerLadki Sahyadri Ki is a 1966 bilingual social drama starring Shalini Abhyankar, Sandhya, Vatsala Deshmukh and others. Rani is asked to join a theatre troupe but her family does not allow girls to work. The village temple needs to be repaired and to help pay for it, she takes it on. She gets into trouble when the stage-owner makes advances towards her and she snubs him. This man is responsible for the temple repair work and he stops it out of spite. Can she make sure the temple is restored?
Movie7.0DramaVasudeo Deshmukh gets married on his mother's insistence without seeing the girl. Gaura, a famous dancer is on the same train as Vasudeo's. As fate has it, Gaura becomes Vasudeo's wife.