Shashi Puri

Glamour Girl|
2000
Glamour Girl
2000 | 123 min
Sapna Aggarwal lives a middle-class life in Delhi with her parents. She leaves home to re-locate to Bombay to purse a career as a Bollywood actress. She meets with several film producers, most want to either make her their mistress or have a sexual relationship with her. She starts to attend movie shoots and that's where she meets with photographer Sunil Verma, falls in love with him, and moves in with him in his apartment, much to the chagrin of her parents who refuse to have to do anything with her. Through Sunil she meets Film Producer, Saxena, who offers to sign her as a leading lady with Bollywood leading man, Karan, which Sapna accepts. Shortly thereafter Sunil telephones Bandra Police Station and informs Inspector Tyagi that Sapna has killed herself. Inspector Tyagi and the Police Commissioner arrive to investigate, find the dead body, as well as a suicide note indicating that Sapna was pregnant, was depressed, and had killed herself. The Police refuse to believe this, start their investigation and question a number of suspects including Ranjeet Hiranand, who had attempted to molest Sapna; Saxena who wanted a sexual relationship with her; Karan who wanted her to get intimate with him; Karan's Agent, Bindoo, who wanted Sapna to sleep with Financer, Kishan; Sunil Verma himself; Actress Kalpana who felt threatened that Sapna was going to take over her place with Karan and other film projects; Dolly, a Prostitute, who is now trying to make it big in Bollywood. The question remains will the Police make any headway or will they be forced to close this file as a 'suicide death'.
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Bezubaan|
1982
Bezubaan
1982 | 135 min
Bezubaan, as the name suggests, is the story of a woman (Reena Roy) who suffers silently; society and family pressures effectively stifling any protest she might have voiced. In the process, she gets blackmailed by an unscruplous photographer who has pictures of her and her lover (Raj Kiran) taken before her marriage. Reena's husband (Shashi Kapoor) is a trusting, humane person who loves his wife very much and can't understand why she needs as much money as she does. But the truth is eventually revealed and even the meek turn violent under pressure when emotions suppressed become uncontrollable. What will Reena do?
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Swayamvar|
1980
Swayamvar
1980 | 157 min
The second wife of kind-hearted and generous Amirchand Bhargav is Durgadevi Bhargav (Nadira), who is exactly the opposite of her late husband. She rules over her household, along with her brother, Makhanlal (Madan Puri), with an iron hand, and also over her step-daughter, Shanti (Vidya Sinha), who she treats worse than her servants. Due to her brutality, there is always a dearth of servants in her household, and hence most of the work must be done by Shanti. Her other daughter is Roopa (Moushumi Chatterjee), who is bad-tempered and spoiled. When a former employee of Amirchand, Ratanlal (Shreeram Lagoo) approaches Durgadevi for marrying her two sons to her two daughters, she humiliates him and turns him away. Unperturbed by this, he asks the assistance of his two sons, Ram (Sanjeev Kumar) and Laxman (Shashi Kapoor), so that the marriages can take place, and at the same time, Durgadevi and Makhanlal be taught a lesson. Both the sons readily agree to do this, and Ram goes to Durgadevi household as a servant to woo Shanti; while Laxman poses as a wealthy playboy to woo Roopa. But Makhanlal and his wife, Jwala (Shashikala) want Roopa to marry their jailbird son, Chander (Ranjeet), and will not stop at anything, including abducting Durgadevi herself, to pave their way to wealth.
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Jazbaat|
1980
Jazbaat
1980 | 124 min
When Sapna, the senational stage singer of national fame, comes to perform in her small native town, everyone is thrilled and excited. Inspector Kumar personally supervises all the arrangements of the show. Sapna's phenomenal success is his personal triumph. It was he who had persuaded Sapna - then a pick-pocket - to give up the path of crime and be a "Good Girl". Few people knew the burden of guilt that he carried within his heart : How one evening Sapna had asked him whether he would agree to marry her and how he had hesitated. She had gone away, determined to be somebody and today she had returned as a successful, renowned singer.But in the meantime, Inspector Kumar had spent innumerable sleepless nights thinking over his hesitation and now that he had come to love her, the gulf between the two appears unbridgeable. Today Sapna was wealthy, famous and successful star-singer while he remained only a humble police officer! What happens when the two protagonists meet face to face "Jazbaat" is the answer!
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Mutthanna|
1994

Maan Abhiman|
1980
Maan Abhiman
1980 | 113 min
Young and enthusiastic Ajay Choudhary returns home to his widowed father, Mathuraprasad, sister, Rekha, and her fianc , Dr. Ravikant. His father instructs him to take over the business as he no longer keeps good health. Ajay is overwhelmed by this but agrees to look after all affairs. One of his first assignment is to secure a palatial house in a remote rural community. He travels there, and meets with his father's Munim, and they visit the said house. It is here that Ajay first sets his eyes on a young, embittered woman named Mallika Singh, the daughter of Mathura's deceased partner Thakur Sumer Singh. Ajay is attracted to her, but she shuns him at every meeting. Ajay gets friendly with her brother, Sumo, but this does not auger well her either, and she forbids him from seeing Ajay. It is then Ajay decides to find out why she is so bitter and angry with him, and he will soon find out that it was his dad who embezzled monies and properties from a trusting Sumer Singh, leaving the later penniless, with a house that is heavily mortgaged. Sumer and Mallika had both sworn to distrust the evil Mathura and his kin throughout their lives. The question remains what will Ajay do to make amends, especially when their Munim has already filed papers in the local Courthouse seeking possession of the house that Mallika and her live brother live in.
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