Sohrab Modi

Jailor

Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi, Leela Chitnis

Modi's first psychodramatic role as a liberal man becoming a tyrannical jailer. He loses his wife to a lover who then goes blind. The jailer locks up his wife, Kanwal, in their own home, forbidding any contact with their child, Bali. Later the jailer himself falls in love with a blind woman.

Prithvi Vallabh

Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi, Durga Khote

The story revolves around two kings, Prithvi Vallabh (Munj) of Avantipur who is kind and just, and Tailap, a neighboring king who is cruel. With the help of his sister Mrinalvati (Durga Khote) and another neighbouring king Bhillam (K. N. Singh), Tailap manages to capture Prithvi Vallabh. The rest of the film follows incidents following his captivity.

Kundan

Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi, Nimmi

Classic Bollywood film about a young man whose poverty leads him to commit crimes which, in turn, lead him to harsher and harsher punishments.

Pukar

Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi, Naseem Banu

A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.

Sikandar

Sohrab Modi

Prithviraj Kapoor, Sohrab Modi

The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks). The story goes that when Sikander defeated Porus and imprisoned him, he asked Porus how would he like to be treated. Porus replied the same way a defeated king is treated by the winner (meaning killed).

Yahudi

Bimal Roy

Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari

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. Years later, she falls in love with a Roman prince.

Mirza Ghalib

Sohrab Modi

Bharat Bhushan, Suraiya

This movie depicts the life of once wealthy poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib. This story portrays his trials, tribulations, triumphs, and ultimate descent to poverty, and then to prison; and his tragic and ill-fated love with a beautiful courtesan named Chaudvin.

झांसी की रानी

Sohrab Modi

Mehtab, Sohrab Modi

Set in the 19th century against the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857, the film is about the bravery of queen Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, who took up arms and led her army against the British.

Raj Hath

Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi, Madhubala

A stubborn emperor plans to wage war against another who had humiliated him and his daughter.

Jailor

Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi, Kamini Kaushal

A jailor is abandoned by his wife which leads to great changes in his life

Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari

Kotayya Pratyagatma

Jeetendra, Birbal

Raisaheb Surajbhan Chaudhary has two sons - Rajkumar who has not produced an heir to his family and other is Mohan, a devout worshiper of Lord Bajrangbali and refuses to get married. Things change dramatically when a young woman named Neena, along with her son, enters the Chaudhary household claiming that Mohan had married and abandoned her.

Bharosa

Sohrab Modi

Bollywood 1940