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A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1944:
Highest-grossing films
[edit]The seven highest-grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1944:[1]
| 1944 Rank |
Title | Notes | |
| 1. | Rattan | ||
| 2. | Dost | ||
| 3. | Bhanwara | ||
| 4. | Meri Bahen | ||
| 5. | Bharthari | ||
| 6. | Mumtaz Mahal | ||
| 7. | Chal Chal Re Naujawan |
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[edit]| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaina | S. M. Yusuf | Trilok Kapoor, Sulochana Chatterjee, Yakub, Gope, Kaushalya, Yashodhra Katju, Husn Banu, Mirza Musharraf, Leela Mishra | Social | Music: Fateh Ali Khan, Gulshan Sufi Lyrics: Pandit Phani, Tanveer Naqvi |
| Anban | Niren Lahiri | Nargis, Pahari Sanyal, Shah Nawaz, Shobhana Samarth, Gajanan Jagirdar, Mubarak | Social Drama | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: Pandit Madhur |
| Bade Nawab Saheb | B. D. Vedi | Chandra Mohan, Pramila, Pahari Sanyal, Bibbo, Kumar, Leela Mishra, Sushil Kumar, Shanta Patel, Ghory | Social | Music: Bashir Dehlvi Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi |
| Badi Baat | Mazhar Khan | Swarnalata, Mazhar Khan, Ulhas, Yakub, Zarina, Kumar, Gulab, Madhusudan | Social | Music: Firoz Nizami Lyrics: Swami Ramanand Saraswati, Roopbani, Saraswati Kumar Deepak |
| Badmash | A. Karim | Anil Kumar, Shantarin, Benjamin, Leela Pawar, Sadiq, Jehangir | Action | Music: Khan Mastana Lyrics: A. Karim |
| Bahadur | Bhagwan | Bhagwan, Shanta Patel, Baburao Pendharkar, Surekha, Samson, Bibijan, Gharpure | Action | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi |
| Bahar | M. Sadiq | Mehtab, Wasti, Nirmala Devi, Badri Prasad | Social | Music: Naushad Lyrics: |
| Bandukwali | K. Amarnath | S. Nazir, Romila, Anil Kumar, Rekha Pawar, Prakash, Mehar Banu | Action | Music: Ram Gopal Pandey Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi |
| Beda Paar | Tara Harish | Sulochana Chatterjee, Dalpat, Bibìjan, Baburao Pehalwan, Nazira, Fazlu, M. Sandow | Action | Music: Vasant Kumar Naidu Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi |
| Bhagya Laxmi | Sarvottam Badami | Shanta Apte, Prem Adib, Vasanti, Jagdish Sethi, Agha, Rajkumari Shukla, Moni Chatterjee | Family Drama | Music: G. M. Durrani Lyrics: |
| Bhai | Krishna Dev Mehra | Zahur Raja, Asha, Satish, Radharani, Manorama, Sabir | Family Drama | Music: Ghulam Haider Lyrics: Shatir Ghaznavi |
| Bhanvara | Kidar Sharma | K. L. Saigal, Monica Desai, Yakub, Kamla Chatterjee, Arun Kumar, Kesari, Brijmala | Romance Comedy | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Kidar Sharma, Swami Ramanand Saraswati, Pandit Indra |
| Bhartrahari | Chaturbhuj Doshi | Mumtaz Shanti, Surendra, Sulochana Chatterjee, Arun Kumar, Yashwant Dave, Jehanara Kajjan, Nagendra | Fantasy Devotional | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Pandit Indra |
| Caravan | Aspi Irani | Arun Kumar, Kamla Chatterjee, Kesari, Sylvie St. Clair, Premlata | Action | Music: Bulo C. Rani Lyrics: Swami Ramanand Saraswati, Pandit Indra, Munshi Aziz, Sharma |
| Chal Chal Re Naujawan | Gyan Mukherjee | Ashok Kumar, Naseem Banu, Rafiq Ghaznvi, V. H. Desai, Jagdish Sethi, Motibai, Navin Yagnik | Social | Music: Ghulam Haider Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep |
| Chand | D.D. Kashyap | Sitara Devi, Prem Adib, Begum Para, Sapru, Shashikala, Balakram, Guru Dutt, Ram Singh | Social | Music: Lyrics: |
| Char Aankhen | Sushil Majumdar | Leela Chitnis, P. Jairaj, P. F. Peethawala, Ashalata, Paul Mahendra, Nand Kishore | Social | Music: Anil Biswas Lyrics: Narendra Sharma |
D-K
[edit]| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daasi | Hiren Bose | Najam,Ragini,Khairati, Kalavati, Om Prakash, Gyani, Pran | Social | Najmul Hassan with Ragini were the top film heroines from Lahore in the 1940s. Some scenes shot in the movie Punjab Assembly building and Mall Road Lahore, Music: Pandit Amarnath Lyrics: D. N. Madhok song sang by Shamshad Begum,S. D. Batish,Zeenat Begum |
| Dil Ki Baat | Pralhad Keshav Atre | Ishwarlal, Vanmala, Durga Khote, Leela Mishra, Dixit, Baburao, Sheela, Mirajkar | Romantic Drama | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi |
| Do or Die a.k.a. Zindagi Ya Maut | Harbans Singh | Sheela, Baburao, Mirajkar, Samson | Action | Music: Mushtaq Hussain, Kelkar Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi |
| Dost | Shaukat Hussain Rizvi | Motilal, Noor Jehan, Maya Banerjee, Himalayawala, Husn Banu, Vatsala Kumtekar, Kanhaiyalal, Agha, Mirza Musharraf | Social Drama | Music: Sajjad Hussain Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi |
| Dr. Kumar | Kishore Sharma | Paresh Bannerjee, Latika, Sankatha Prasad, Rajkumari Shukla, Khurshid Jr, Nazma | Drama | Music: Saraswati Devi Lyrics: Gafil Harnalvi |
| Draupadi | Baburao Patel | Sushila Rani Patel, Chandra Mohan, Mazhar Khan, David, Badri Prasad, Dixit, K. N. Singh, Leela Mishra | Fantasy | Music: Hanuman Prasad Lyrics: Pandit Indra |
| Gaali | R. S. Choudhury | Karan Dewan, Nirmala Devi, Yakub, Manju Dewan, Sunalini Devi, Kanhaiyalal, Jilloo, Kamta Prasad, Mehndi Raza | Social Drama | Music: Hanuman Prasad, Sajjad Hussain Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi |
| Geet a.k.a. The Song | S. U. Sunny | Shahu Modak, Nirmala Devi, Amir Ali, Shakir, Chandabai, Zahid Ali | Social | Music: Naushad Lyrics: D. N. Madhok |
| Ghar Ki Shobha | Harshadrai Sakerlal Mehta Ramesh Saigal | Karan Dewan, Swarnalata, Yashodhra Katju, Dixit, Jagdish Sethi, Fazlu | Family Drama | Music: Allah Rakha Lyrics: Roopbani |
| Insaan | Babubhai Jani | Kishore Sahu, Shobhana Samarth, Pahari Sanyal, David, Maya Banerjee, Krishna Chandra Dey, Nand Kishore | Social | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: Pandit Indra |
| Irada | M. Shamsuddin | Dhiraj Bhattacharya, Patience Cooper, Shaida Keoravi, Purnima, Shyam Laha, Pushpa Rani | Social | Music: Pandit Amarnath Lyrics: Aziz Kashmiri |
| Ismat | Sibtain Fazli | Mehtab, Nargis, Nandrekar, Pratima Devi, Bhudo Advani, Irshad Ghory, Jani Babu | Social | Music: Pandit Govardhan Prasad Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi |
| Jadui Kismat | A. M. Khan | Shanta Patel, Shiraz, Mehar Bano, Nawaz, Anwaribai, Sultan Baba | Action | Music: Behram Irani Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi |
| Jeevan | M. Sadiq | Mehtab, Wasti, Nirmala Devi, Badri Prasad, Misra, Shyam Kumar | Social | Music: Naushad Lyrics: D. N. Madhok, Mahir Ul Qadri |
| Jwar Bhata | Amiya Chakravarty | Dilip Kumar, Mridula Rani, Shamim Bano, Agha, Bikram Kapoor, K. N. Singh, Khalil, Mumtaz Ali | Drama | Debut of Dilip Kumar. Music: Anil Biswas Lyrics: Narendra Sharma |
| Kadambari | Nandlal Jaswantlal | Vanmala, Shanta Apte, Pahari Sanyal, Harish, Jeevan, Jagdish Sethi | Costume | Music: Hari Prasanna Das Lyrics: Miss Kamal |
| Kaliyan | Kidar Sharma | Motilal, Leela Desai, Ramola, Amarnath, Sulochana Chatterjee, Leela Mishra, Rajinder Singh | Social | Music: G.A. Chishti Lyrics: Kidar Sharma |
| Kavita | K. J. Parmar, Mahesh Chander | Ratnamala, Umakant, Jeevan, Kanta Kumari, Badri Prasad, Athavale | Social | Music: Shankar Rao Vyas Lyrics: Ramesh Gupta |
| Kiran | Gajanan Jagirdar | Ashok Kumar, Leela Chitnis, Jagirdar, Kanhaiyalal, Kusum Deshpande, Rama Shukal, Rajkumari Shukla, Nand Kishore | Social | Music: Ninu Majumdar Lyrics: |
| Kismatwala | Nanubhai Vakil | Prakash, Urmila, Navin Yagnik, Himalayawala, Vatsala Kumtekar, Narmada Shankar, Geeta Sardesai | Action | Music: Shanti Kumar, Master Ratanlal Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi |
| Krishna Bhakta Bodana | JBH Wadia | Sheikh Mukhtar, Ranjit Kumari, Gope, Badri Prasad, Meera, Rani Premlata, Gulab, S.B. Nayampalli | Devotional | Music: Avinash Vyas, Shankar Rao Vyas Lyrics: Pandit Indra |
L-M
[edit]| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lady Doctor | Wali Saheb | Mumtaz Shanti, Sajjan, Ulhas, Mubarak, Maya Bannerjee, David, Nandrekar | Social | Music: Lyrics: Wali Saheb |
| Laheri Badmash | Nari Ghadiali | Husnara, Yusuf Effendi, Bibijan, Mannan, Putlibai, Mohammed Hussain, Mohammed Sandow | Action | Music: Avinash Vyas Lyrics: Sadiq Lakhnavi |
| Laheri Cameraman | Nari Ghadiali | Benjamin, Shantarin, Agha, Bibijan, Nazira, Sadiq, Munchi Tuthi | Action | Music: K. Narayana Rao Lyrics: Waheed Qureshi |
| Lal Haveli | K.B. Lall | Noor Jehan, Surendra, Yakub, Ulhas, Baby Meena Kumari, Maya Bannerjee, Kanhaiyalal, Vatsala Kumtekar, Ghory, Badri Prasad | Social Family Drama | Music: Mir Saheb Lyrics: Shams Lucknavi |
| Lalkar | Jayant Desai | Ramola, Ishwarlal, Maya Bannerjee, Mubarak | Social | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: Pandit Madhur |
| Lieutenant | Nari Ghadiali | Sharda, Benjamin, Bibijan, Sandow, Nazira, Putlibai, Shahzadi | Action | Music: Lyrics: Mustafa |
| Maa Baap | V. M. Vyas | Veena, Nazir, Yakub, Majeed, Amirbai Karnataki, Dixit, Jagdish, Rajkumari Shukla | Social Family Drama | Music: Allah Rakha Lyrics: Roopbani |
| Maharathi Karna | Bhalji Pendharkar | Prithviraj Kapoor, Swarnalata, Durga Khote, Shahu Modak, Kamalakar Torne, K. N. Singh, Nimbalkar, Vasantrao Pehalwan | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | Music: Datta Korgaonkar Lyrics: Pandit Shivkumar |
| Mali | V. Shantaram | Mahipal, Nana Palsikar, Amirbai Karnataki | Devotional | Music: Master Krishnarao Lyrics: Deewan Sharar, Ratan Piya, Bekal, Mahipal |
| Man Ki Jeet | Wahid-ud-din Zia-ud-din Ahmed (W. Z. Ahmed) | Nina, Shyam, Tiwari, Rajkumari Shukla, Prakash, Saroj Borkar, Gulab | Social | Music: S. K. Pal Lyrics: Josh Malihabadi, Bharat Vyas |
| Manorama | Jayant Desai | Ishwarlal, Leela Chitnis, Maya Banerjee, Mubarak, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Alaknanda, Naseem Jr. | Social | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: Anjum Pilibhiti |
| Mauji Jeevan | Poonawala | Sulochana Chatterjee, Harishchandra, Nazira, Ghory, Bibijan, Dalpat, Habib, Devaskar | Action | Music: Gulshan Sufi Lyrics: Baba Paagal |
| Maya Nagari | Dhirubhai Desai | Prakash, Rajkumari, Yashwant Dave, Shahzadi, Samson, Fazlu | Fantasy | Music: Veer Singh Lyrics: |
| Meena | Phani Majumdar | Hansa Wadkar, Vasanti, Dixit, Shashi Kapoor, Shakir, Ratan Piya | Social | Music: Hari Prasanna Das Lyrics: Pandit Phani |
| Meri Bahen a.k.a. My Sister | Hemchandra Chunder | K. L. Saigal, Tulsi Chakraborty, Chandrabati Devi, Sumitra Devi, Nawab, Akhtar Jehan, Hiralal, Tandon | Family Social | Music: Pankaj Mullick Lyrics: Pandit Bhushan |
| Miss Devi | C. M. Trivedi | Surendra, Leela Desai, Nazir, Moni Chatterjee, Jagdish, Agha | Social | Music: Ashok Ghosh Lyrics: |
| Mujrim | Nitin Bose | Motilal, Leela Desai, Yakub, Jagdish Sethi, Veena, Sunalini Devi, S. Nazir, Cuckoo | Social | Music: Gyan Prakash Ghosh Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi, Kailash Matwala |
| Mumtaz Mahal | Kidar Nath Sharma | Khursheed Bano, Chandra Mohan, Yakub, Madhubala, Sulochana Chatterjee, Brijmala, Rajinder Singh | Historical Romance | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Wali Saheb |
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[edit]| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O Panchhi | Zahur Raja | Zahur Raja, Radharani, Durrani, Mumtaz, Kalyani Das, Ghory, Durrani, Arif, Motibai | Social | Music: V. A. Balsara Lyrics: |
| Pagli Duniya | Aspi Irani | Mumtaz Shanti, Motilal, Sheikh Mukhtar, Pratima Devi, Kanhaiyalal, Kesri | Social | Music: Bulo C. Rani Lyrics: Swami Ramanand Saraswati, Pandit Indra, Wali Sahab, B. R. Sharma |
| Panchhi | Barkat Mehra | Manorama, Radha, Zahur Raja, Ajmal, Hari Shivdasani, Ghulam Qadir | Social | Music: Pandit Amarnath Lyrics: Manohar Sehrai, Akhtar Chughtai |
| Panna | Najam Naqvi | Geeta Nizami, P. Jairaj, David, Raja Paranjpe, Kusum Deshpande | Drama, War | Music: Amir Ali Lyrics: Wali Sahab |
| Parakh | Sohrab Modi | Mehtab, Balwant Singh, Latika, Yakub, Kaushalya, Shah Nawaz, Pratima Devi, Sadiq Ali | Social Drama | Music: Khurshid Anwar, Saraswati Devi Lyrics: Gafil Harnalvi, Arzu Lakhnavi, Pandit Sudarshan |
| Parbat Pe Apna Dera | V. Shantaram | Vanamala, Ulhas, Madan Mohan, Kanta Kumari, Shantarin, Kamal, Baby Nalini | Romance | Music: Vasant Desai Lyrics: Deewan Sharar |
| Paristan | Mahesh Kaul | Pahari Sanyal, Anjali Devi, Kamal Zamindar, Sunalini Devi, Moni Chatterjee, Padma Bannerjee, Ranjit Kumari, Anwaribai | Fantasy | Music: Ninu Majumdar Lyrics: Roopdas and Ninu Majumdar |
| Pattharon Ka Saudagar | Shorey Daulatvi | Paresh Bannerjee, Sheela, Meena Shorey, Al Nisar, K. N. Singh, Sankatha Prasad, Jilloo, Abu Bakar | Music: Mir Sahib Lyrics: Gafil Harnalvi, Pandit Sudarshan | |
| Pehle Aap | Abdul Rashid Kardar | Wasti, Shamim, Chandabai, Dixit, Jeevan, Vidya, Anwar Hussain | Music: Naushad Lyrics: D. N. Madhok | |
| Police | Shanti Kumar | Prem Adib, Ratnamala, Ranjana, Shah Nawaz, Jeevan | Social | Music: Pannalal Ghosh Lyrics: Ramesh Gupta |
| Qatil | K. L. Khan | E. Billimoria, Shantarin, Baburao, Dilawar, Asharani, Razi, Mannan, Badri Prasad, Fazlu | Action | Music: K. Narayana Rao Lyrics: Shewan Rizvi |
| Rajkumar | Phani Majumdar | Chetan Anand, Nargis | Music: Lyrics: | |
| Ramshastri | Vishram Bedekar, Gajanan Jagirdar | Master Vithal, Gajanan Jagirdar, Anant Marathe, Shakuntala Paranjpye, Shanta Apte, Minakshi, Lalita Pawar, Madhu Apte, Hansa Wadkar | Biopic Drama | Music: G. Damle Lyrics: Qamar Jalalabadi |
| Rangile Dost | Ramanlal Desai | Benjamin, Sulochana Chatterjee, Agha, Rekha, Munshi Khanjar, Sadiq Ali, Bibijan | Action | Music: Ninu Majumdar Lyrics: A. G. Badar |
| Rattan | M. Sadiq | Karan Dewan, Swarnlata, Amir Banu, Wasti, Chandabai, Manju, Rajkumari Shukla, Badri Prasad, Gulab, Azurie | Social Romance | Music: Naushad Lyrics: D. N. Madhok |
| Raunaq | Dwarka Khosla | Motilal, Chandra Mohan, Chandraprabha, Noor Mohammed Charlie | Social | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: I. C. Kapoor |
S-Z
[edit]| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandhi | Apurba Kumar Mitra | Jamuna Devi, Manorama, Ahindra Choudhury, Bipin Gupta, Ranjit Roy, Devbala, Biman Bandyopadhyay, Hiralal, Mrinalkanti Ghosh | Social | It won three BFJA Awards: Best Film, Best Music Director and Best Screenplay in 1945. Music: Anil Bagchi Lyrics: Pt. Narottam Vyas |
| Shahenshah Babar | Wajahat Mirza | Khurshid, Sheikh Mukhtar, Yakub, Agha Jan, Anwari, Sulochana Chatterjee | Historical | Music: Khemchad Prakash Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi, Munshi Aziz, Pandit Indra |
| Shararat | Kishore Sahu | Kishore Sahu, Protima Dasgupta, Maya Bannerjee, Ramesh Gupta, Moni Chatterjee, Sushil Sahu, Gulab | Social | Music: S. N. Tripathi, Khan Mastana Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi, A Karim, Ambikesh Kuntal |
| Shukriya | Harnam Singh Rawail | Amar, Ramola, Zahur Shah, Manorama, Sunder | Social | Music: G.A. Chishti Lyrics: Shanti Swaroop Madhukar, G A Chishti |
| Stunt King | Keshav Talpade | John Cawas, Khurshid Jr., Kamala, Dalpat, S. Nazir, Boman Shroff, Putlibai, Agha Jan | Action | Music: Afzal Lahori Lyrics: Azm Wazidpuri |
| Subah Shyam | P.C. Barua | P.C. Barua, Jamuna, Tulsi Chakraborty, Devbala, Indu Mukherjee, Ramesh Sinha, Munir, Ravikant | Social Drama | Music: Subal Dasgupta Lyrics: Faiyyaz Hashmi, Munir Lakhnavi |
| Suno Sunata Hoon | Raj Kumar | Vanmala, Ulhas, K. C. Dey, Mirza Musharraf, Chandabai, N. A. Ansari | Social | Music: K. C. Dey Lyrics: Rashid Gorakhpuri |
| Swarna Bhoomi | Bhalji Pendharkar | Leela, Chandrakant Desai, Swarnalata, Ashalata Kashmiri, Sudha Apte, Nandrekar | Social | Music: Pandit Tripathi Lyrics: Saraswati Kumar Deepak |
| Taqrar | Hemen Gupta | Motilal, Jamuna, Molina, Nawab, Tulsi Chakraborty, Devbala, Iftekhar, Tandon | Family Social | Music: Sachin Das Lyrics: Azad, Shanti Swaroop Madhukar |
| Taxi Driver | S. M. Raza | Sulochana Chatterjee, Dilawar, Rekha Pawar, Baburao, Agha, Shobha, Arvind Kumar, Nazira | Action | Music: Khan Mastana Lyrics: Shewan Rizvi |
| Umang | K. M. Multani | Motilal, Chandra Prabha, Sunalini Devi, E. Billimoria, Tara Harish, Sheikh, Geeta Sardesai | Social | Music: Feroz Nizami Lyrics: Ratan Piya, Sharma |
| Uss Paar | Chimanlal Luhar | Ishwarlal, Swarnalata, Chandra Mohan, Sulochana Chatterjee, Kanhaiyalal, Noor Mohammed Charlie | Drama | Music: Feroz Nizami Lyrics: Pandit Madhur |
References
[edit]- ^ Box Office India. "Top Earners 1944". boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2008.
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