Movies by Manmohan Krishna

Aaram

Aaram

Leela is a beautiful young lady who wishes to marry her sweetheart and poor artist Shyam. By chance, Leela meets Sita, a Rani whose son falls instantly in love with Leela, leaving the young lady with a life-changing dilemma.

Kanoon

Kanoon

A lawyer holds the eyewitness evidence to catch a killer, but the identified criminal is the lawyer's own mentor, prospective father-in-law, and also the judge who presides over the case.

Dastak

Dastak

Tells the story of newly weds Hamid and Salma. They move into a rental flat next door to the local red light district. The flat had been the former home of a well known mujra and qawali singer, Shamshad. Men still come to the door in the hope of seeing Shamshad and do not seem too put out by seeing Salma despite her protestations. The couple struggle to live within the bounds of their own moral code while the earnings of prostitution seem to be flaunted around them. Hamid gets more and more angry and seemingly unable to reconcile his moralit...

Sehra

Sehra

Angara and Vikram fall in love despite their family being from different clans and having a feud.

Nai Duniya Naye Log

Nai Duniya Naye Log

Sophistication is the dominant factor in the present day life of the people belonging to upper strata of Society. Parents belonging to upper strata of Society have their own lives to lead. They hardly have time to attend to their children. Children are left to the care of the servants. Bonds of relationship between parents and children, when they grow up, do not exist at all.

Khandan

Khandan

An ancestral property is distributed between two brothers, then a couple of years later, bitterness divides their families. An outsider in the younger brother's family tries to kill the others, which is resisted in time, and they reunite.

Daku Aur Mahatma

Daku Aur Mahatma

This is about a boy brought up among bandits - can he have a change of heart? It is about rule of law, humanity, sacrifice, and bravery. A band of orphans come together helped by a doctor and a policeman to take revenge.

Alaap

Alaap

Dedicated to the memory of the great singers K. L. Saigal and Mukesh, this charming and unpretentious film offers a palate-cleansing change from the spicy “masala” epics that dominated its era, and features their superstar Amitabh Bachchan in a decidedly offbeat role.

Zaroorat

Zaroorat

When Anju comes to the city for a job, she is entrapped by Badal who offers her work in return of sexual favours. Things escalate when she tells her lover about her escape from the clutches of Badal.

Apna Desh

Apna Desh

When it's discovered that four prominent members of the community are crooks and black marketeers, young Akash (Rajesh Khanna) -- posing as an expatriate smuggler -- teams with his girlfriend, Chanda (Mumtaz), to expose them. But to nail the quartet -- a tradesman, a doctor and a builder, all led by a wealthy industrialist (Madan Puri) -- Akash must get them to confess their misdeeds while Chanda surreptitiously captures everything on film.

Sweekar Kiya Maine

Sweekar Kiya Maine

Gopika Sharma lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with her widowed mother in Bangalore. She expresses a desire to sing and is encouraged by her maternal uncle, Dubey, who takes her with him to Bombay along with her maid, Lajjo. Once there, they are molested and Dubey goes missing. They then attempt to find a decent place to live, and after many frustrations make an agreement with a single male, Kishankumar Shukla, who poses as Gopika's husband, and move into an apartment owned by Lala Dhaniram.

Aulad

Aulad

Believing his wife to be dead, a man lets a woman, who has lost her child, nurse and bring up his infant son - until he finds out that his wife is still alive, and wants the baby back at any cost.

Maa Beta

Maa Beta

Dependent on his elder brother, Bishan, Ganga and his wife, Rameshwari, are abused and asked to leave. They work hard, set up their own business, and soon become wealthy enough to even support Bishan and his wife. A pregnant Rameshwari gets the news that her husband has been killed. She subsequently gives birth to a boy, who goes missing. Will Rameshwari be ever reunited with her son?

Jhoola

Jhoola

Dr. Arun lives with his brother, Madhu; dad Judge Ramkrishan; and mom Kamla in a palatial house. He decides to help the poor and the needy and in order to do this he re-locates to a small town, where he meets with a young nurse named Sumati and both fall in love with each other. Sumati lives with her mom, Laxmi, and has no father. When Kamla starts looking for a prospective bride for Arun, he informs her that he has given his heart to Sumati. Ramkrishan sends for Laxmi, who gladly accepts the invitation. After her meeting, Arun inquires abou...

Raahee

Raahee

A pregnant woman is abandoned by her truck-driver lover.