Meena Kumari
Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; August 1, 1933 – March 31, 1972) was an Indian actress, as well as an occasional poet, playback singer and model. She was described by critics as a historically incomparable actress of Hindi Cinema. Though best known for her sensitive portrayals of struggling women, earning her the title "The Tragedy Queen", she starred in over 90 films that varied in genres, from traditional melodramas, mythological adventures, comedies, historicals and Muslim socials. At the peak of her career, she was the highest-paid actress, and set fashion trends for women in the 1950s.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.366 |
| Birthday | 1933-08-01 |
| Place of Birth | Solapur, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Also Known As | Meenakumari, मीना कुमारी, Мина Кумари, |
1962
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
6.7/9
A debauchee Zamindar greatly neglects his wife. The decadence of the Bengali Zamindar milieu in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a youn...
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Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
1971
Mere Apne
5.6/5
Old woman Anandi moves to the city with her relatives and finds out their material side. She develops fondness for two rival street gangs of unemplo...
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Mere Apne
1958
Yahudi
5.7/3
In ancient Rome, a mourning Jewish man raises the kidnapped daughter of Roman royalty as his own - and she grows up without learning her true identity...
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Yahudi
1972
Pakeezah
6.7/23
A beautiful courtesan is unable to break away from the cycle of prostitution until a forest ranger falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his wealthy...
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Pakeezah
1967
Chandan Ka Palna
10/1
Ajit lives with his mother, and comes from a very wealthy family. He meets with beautiful Shobha and both fall in love with each other. Ajit's mom is...
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Chandan Ka Palna
1962
Aarti
0/0
An unemployed young man named Deepak (Pradeep Kumar) saves Aarti Gupta (Meena Kumari), a hardworking and dedicated doctor, from drowning, and the two...
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Aarti
1955
Azaad
0/0
After her widower dad, Kedarnath, passes away, Shobha goes to live with his friend, Charandas, and his wife, Shanta, who had their son go missing as a...
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Azaad
1964
Gazal
6/1
Agra-based atheist and revolutionary poet/editor of Inquilab, Ejaz, falls head-over-heels in love with Naaz Ara Begum after he hears her sing, and the...
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Gazal
1963
Akeli Mat Jaiyo
6/1
Directed by Nandlal Jaswantlal.
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Akeli Mat Jaiyo
1952
Baiju Bawra
5.7/6
During the reign of Akbar the Great, a young singer sets out to avenge his father's death and challenges the killer to a musical duel.
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Baiju Bawra
1957
Sharada
5.5/4
After Shekhar (Raj Kapoor) falls for beautiful Sharada (Meena Kumari), he makes her promise that she'll wait for him while he goes abroad on a busines...
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Sharada
1956
Bond
0/0
A Hindi family drama.
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Bond
1967
Majhli Didi
6/2
Bipinchandra breaks family tradition by marrying a city girl, Hemangini, much to the chagrin of his sister-in-law, Kadambini, and her husband, Navinch...
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Majhli Didi
1956
Ek-Hi-Rasta
6/1
Amar and Malti live an idyllic, loving life with their son Raja. However, Amar makes enemies in his job and is killed, forcing Malti to remarry.
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Ek-Hi-Rasta
1953
Daaera
5.5/2
The narrative deals with the dreams and aspiration of a 16-old-girl, Sheetal (Meena Kumari) caught in the vortex of uncertainty and morality. Desperat...
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Daaera
1953
Two Acres of Land
7.9/20
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized...
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Two Acres of Land
1959
Shararat
0/0
1959 Bollywood Drama Comedy
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Shararat
1967
Bahu Begum
6/1
On the day of her marriage, the bride goes missing. She ends up in a brothel, compelling her wealthy husband to pretend that all is well to keep the f...
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Bahu Begum
1966
Phool Aur Patthar
6/2
Circumstances have made Shaka a career criminal. When plague empties a town of its inhabitants, he takes the opportunity to burgle a house. He finds n...
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Phool Aur Patthar
1960
Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
4.5/2
A rich girl marries a doctor. Differences crop up between the two and starts to snowball wherein she returns to her father's house. Months later she r...
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Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
1963
Kinare Kinare
6/1
After losing his family during partiton Puran is taken in by a landowner and he falls in love with the daughter, Neelu, but is unable to declare his l...
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Kinare Kinare
1953
Parineeta
6.5/2
In Calcutta at the turn of the century, two families (one wealthier than the other but both belonging to the same caste) live in adjoining properties....
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Parineeta
1964
Chitralekha
0/0
Chitralekha is a 1964 historical-philosophical Hindi film, directed by Kidar Sharma, starring Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari and Pradeep Kumar. It was base...
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Chitralekha
1967
Ramanan
0/0
Ramanan and Madanan are the two shepherds who are bosom pals. Meek and handsome, Ramanan used to sing and play the flute as he led the flock to the...
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Ramanan
1968
Baharon Ki Manzil
7/2
Meena Kumari wakes up thinking she is Radha. Everyone around her, Subodh Rai, daughter Nalini, friends, and society believe she is Nanda. 16 years bef...
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Baharon Ki Manzil
1963
Dil Ek Mandir
0/0
Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar) and Sita (Meena Kumari) are in love, and hope to marry on Dharmesh's return from abroad. When Dharmesh returns, he is de...
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Dil Ek Mandir
1955
The Justice of Jehangir
0/0
A 1955 black and white Urdu language historical drama film directed by G.P. Sippy.
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The Justice of Jehangir
1956
Halaku
9/1
Halaku (Pran), the powerful emperor of Iran, rules the country wisely and with an iron hand. When he comes upon one of his subjects, Niloufer (Meena K...
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Halaku
1963
Bandipotu
0/0
Sathyasena (Gummadi), the king of Gandhara, suffering from paralytic legs leaves the rule to his vicious brother-in-law Soorasimha (Rajanala), the arm...
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Bandipotu
1972
Dushman
3/1
Surjit Singh is forced to take care of Ram Din's family after he accidentally kills him while driving under the influence of alcohol. However, he is t...
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Dushman
1960
Kohinoor
4.5/2
Rajkumar Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur is the new king. Veer Singh's wife, who raised Dhivendra, wants him to marry Rajkumari Chandramukhi of Rajgarh, and...
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Kohinoor
1958
Sahara
7/1
Sahara is a 1958 Indian Bollywood film directed by Lekhraj Bhakri. The film stars Meena Kumari in the lead role of Leela and relates her life story.
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Sahara
1959
Char Dil Char Rahen
6/1
1959 film starring Raj Kapoor, Ajit and Shammi Kapoor
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Char Dil Char Rahen
1964
Benazir
0/0
Sibling rivalry abounds in this film about two privileged brothers, Anwar and Nawab, and the women who come between them. Nawab, although a married ma...
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Benazir
1964
Sanjh Aur Savera
0/0
Shankar Chaudhry, a wealthy man gets married to Maya assuming she is the daughter of Ambala-based Advocate Madhusudan. He is shocked to realize that M...
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Sanjh Aur Savera
1965
Bheegi Raat
6/1
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Bheegi Raat
1967
Noorjehan
6/1
Noor Jahan, the empress of the Mughal empire, becomes the favourite wife of Emperor Jahangir and steadily begins to exert more influence on the throne...
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Noorjehan
1965
Kaajal
3/1
The Munim (Clerk) in Ranimaa's family lives with his son, Kaushal and daughter, Madhavi. After he passes away, Ranimaa brings up both children as her...
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Kaajal
1956
Mem Sahib
7/1
Meena, a wealthy, educated girl, has been promised in marriage to Sunder, a sheltered young man who has received an extremely traditional religious ed...
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Mem Sahib
1953
Footpath
0/0
Tired of poverty, Noshu takes to black-marketing. Soon, he realises that his act has hurt everyone around him, including his brother and his sweethear...
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Footpath
1972
Gomti Ke Kinare
0/0
After his father's death, young Sameer runs away to search for his mother and is adopted by the tawaif Ganga.
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Gomti Ke Kinare
1952
Tamasha
0/0
Fed up of Dilip's involvement with gold digging actress Nayantara, Dilip's uncle pretends to be gravely ill in hopes of guilting him into marrying a d...
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Tamasha
1957
Miss Mary
0/0
R.K. Raju, a private investigator is assigned the task of locating the missing daughter of a wealthy Hindu couple. His investigation take him to diffe...
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Miss Mary
1956
Naya Andaz
0/0
Film starring Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari and Kumkum
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Naya Andaz
1959
Ardhangini
0/0
At the very moment of her birth, ill-fated Chhaya's mother passes away, her dad loses his job, and their house burns down. She is shunned since then b...
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Ardhangini
1951
Sanam
0/0
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Sanam
1962
Main Chup Rahungi
3/1
When Kamal Kumar meets the young, beautiful Gayatri on a train he instantly falls in love, and despite the fact that he is the son of a wealthy landow...
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Main Chup Rahungi
1959
Where is the lamp? Where is the light?
0/0
A pregnant Ratna loses her husband, eventually gives birth to a son, Raju, in a hospital where she is treated by renowned Dr. Anand.
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Where is the lamp? Where is the light?
1951
Madhosh
4/1
Loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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Madhosh
1975
Characterless
0/0
Choritrohin (Bengali: চরিত্রহীন;English: Characterless) is a 1975 Bangladeshi film directed by Baby Islam. It stars Meena Kumari and Prabir Mitra. It...
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Characterless
1958
Dawn
0/0
Kundan is a medical student but just before getting the degree he got implicated in a murder charge and cannot finish his degree and takes the wrong p...
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Dawn
1939
Leatherface
0/0
In this stunt-film, Hero Samar (Jairaj) singlehandedly takes on the might of the oppressive state led by the warlord chief (M. Zahoor). He falls in lo...
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Leatherface
1954
Chandni Chowk
0/0
Chandni Chowk is a 1954 classic Muslim social drama film directed by B. R. Chopra.Produced by Prince Hira Sinh of Baria and Goverdhandas Aggarwal unde...
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Chandni Chowk
1966
Pinjre Ke Panchhi
0/0
Businessman Sonu Sharma belongs to a wealthy family and lives with his widowed mother. He suddenly becomes ill, is hospitalized and looked after by a...
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Pinjre Ke Panchhi
1964
Main Bhi Ladki Hoon
0/0
Rajni, a dusky, uneducated girl, is deceptively married off to Ram, son of a wealthy father. Although loved by all, a conniving relative sows the seed...
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Main Bhi Ladki Hoon
1965
Purnima
0/0
Indian film greats Meena Kumari, Dharmendra, Anita Guha and Mehmood take the leads in this classic tale of star-crossed lovers forced to marry others....
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Purnima
1968
Viruthan Shanku
0/0
When Vikraman returns home after completing his studies, he finds out that his brother has illegally acquired all the property leaving his widowed sis...
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Viruthan Shanku
1980
Sahira
0/0
Intelligent and sensitive, Meena Kumari found solace in reading and writing poetry in her private life. She found freedom and utmost self-expression i...
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Sahira
1961
Pyaar Ka Saagar
10/1
Bishen raises his brother Kishen, who falls in love with Radham but loses vision after learning about her marriage. Bishen convinces Radha to undergo...
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